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Meet our graduates: Harry Richards (Spanish and History)

24 March, 2023European Languages and Cultures Meet our graduates Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Undergraduate

Harry is a filmmaker whose short film SANTI was selected for the BFI Future Film Festival 2022.

The School of Scottish Studies Archives at 70

11 March, 2023Celtic and Scottish Studies Research

It’s 70 years since the University began collecting images, stories and voices of unheard Scottish…

Festive festschrifts – graduates edit books in honour of PhD mentors

08 December, 2022European Languages and Cultures Meet our graduates Scandinavian Studies

We sit down with Scandinavian Studies graduates Christian Cooijmans and Ian Giles, editors of two…

Meet our graduates: Becky Waterton (German and Scandinavian Studies)

07 December, 2022European Languages and Cultures German Meet our graduates Scandinavian Studies Undergraduate

Deputy Editor of The Local in Sweden, Becky graduated with an MA (Hons) in German and Scandinavian…

Experiencing the Edinburgh festivals as an intern

20 October, 2022English and Scottish Literature Life at LLC

English Literature student Susanna Demelas tells us about spending the summer working on some of…

The Film Dispatch: The story continues

26 August, 2022

We sat down with online student-run magazine The Film Dispatch to catch up on their first six…

Lifting the veil on poetry

29 June, 2022English and Scottish Literature Teaching

Patrick Errington talks about his Emerging Writers Award win and helping his students find their…

From Arthur's Seat – encouraging diverse voices

21 June, 2022English and Scottish Literature Life at LLC Postgraduate

Vidisha Ghosh and Olivia Thomakos, Editors-in-Chief of Volume Seven of our Creative Writing…

English Literature research rated world-leading and internationally excellent

12 May, 2022

Over 90 per cent of our English Literature research has been classed as world-leading and…

Modern languages research ranked 3rd in the UK

12 May, 2022

We have been rated 3rd in the UK by Times Higher Education for the quality and breadth of our…