November 2022

Collaboration as a PhD student: My experience of a Collaborative Studentship (so far!)

A blog post from PhD student Charlotte Zealley Arguably, the biggest challenge of a PhD is its solitary nature. Only I can write my thesis, and only I will lie awake at night fretting over how to wrangle my research into a coherent narrative. On the face of it there isn’t much space or time […]

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Creative Evaluation Practice: Putting evaluation at the core of your activity

A blog post from Marianna Hay, Co-Director at Take Note and Founding Director of Orchestras for All What is the difference we’re trying to make with this project? How do we know our project is having a positive impact on people’s lives? What evaluation techniques can we use to measure this change?  Questions like this

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Academic Involvement in the Edinburgh International Book Festival

A blog post from Claire Wu As a third year Sociology with Quantitative Methods student, I undertook the 2022 Q-step Summer Work Placement at the Binks Hub under the supervision of Dr Jimmy Turner. During this six-week placement, I conducted a small social research project investigating the participation of academics in the Edinburgh International Book

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