LINCS is now offering two School of Management and Languages (SML) Scholarships and one Professorial Scholarship for the next academic year, commencing September 2015! SML scholarships available: 2 The term of the Scholarships is three years. Successful candidates will be expected to make a contribution to activities in the Department in return for a fee-waiver, a maintenance […]
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Upcoming EdSign Lectures
Tuesday, 3rd March 2015, 6.30pm – 8.00pm [Title to be confirmed] Frankie McLean Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House, School of Education, University of Edinburgh Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 6.30pm – 8.00pm Toward Normative Ethics in Community Interpreting: Moral Reasoning and Moral Discourse Robyn Dean Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House, School of Education, University of Edinburgh […]
LINCS research officially declared 'pure dead brilliant'
by Graham Turner If you’re a wee bit geeky about higher education, like some of the staff of LINCS, you will have been holding your breath just after midnight on the morning of 18th December. You weren’t? What can I say? I guess you just had to be there. What was the fuss about? It […]
Ethnology Crossroads
Reporting back from Ethnology Crossroads Conference by Prof. Máiread Nic Craith, Anna Koryczan and Cristina Clopot Ethnology Crossroads was a two-day conference organized by the European Ethnological Research Centre in collaboration with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, held on December 5-6th in Edinburgh. The aim was to assess the current state of ethnology in Scotland but […]
Welcome to the new LINCS blog!
Well, it’s not exactly new, but it’s had a bit of a face-lift. We may change a few more pictures and make minor aesthetic changes, but the content and purpose of the blog will still remain the same. The most important change that will take place next week is the change of our domain name. […]
New project: RADAR – Regulating Anti-discrimination and Anti-Racism
The RADAR project has officially started! Funded by the European Commission Directorate General for Justice, RADAR (RADAR – Regulating AntiDiscrimination and AntiRacism – JUST/2013/FRAC/AG/6271) involves 9 partners including Heriot-Watt and it will be conducted over 24 months (November 2014 – October 2016). The aim is to provide law enforcement officials and legal professionals with the necessary […]
Does culture make any money?
by Ullrich Kockel “Sculpture, poetry, theatre – tell me,” says Didzis Meḷḳis, “does culture make any money?” We are sitting in an office in the Latvian Academy of Culture: the International Editor of Dienas bizness, the business section of Latvia’s leading daily broadsheet, and I, Professor of Culture and Economy at Heriot-Watt, having just delivered […]
Introducing our new PhD students
Our vibrant PhD cohort is growing! Yanmei Wu has joined LINCS as a PhD student in Heritage and Performance. Her study will look into Chinese Kunqu Opera as intangible heritage, as well as its recent revival in 21st century China. Her supervisors are Dr Chris Tinker and Dr Kerstin Pfeiffer. Yanmei studied ethnomusicology at SOAS, […]
Back to School ?
by Katerina Strani The new Academic Year has started and LINCS is full of students again. It’s good to see enthusiastic freshers, new MSc and PhD students as well as old familiar faces. But even though undergraduate students get a break from uni during the summer, staff and postgraduate students are busier than ever. So what […]
LifeinLINCS up for Three International Awards
Authors: Bernadette O’Rourke, Jemina Napier, Graham Turner, Jonathan Downie It is great to see that, despite a recent hiatus, readers of LifeinLINCS really appreciate the blog. In fact, it seems like you appreciate the blog so much, you think it should receive awards. Thank you so much for nominating LifeinLINCS for three Proz.com Community Choice […]