One Health Academic Engagement My role in the Wellcome Trust One Health archival project has involved identifying research topics that can be found in archival records, undertaking research AND academic engagement.   We have …Continue reading →

The new Library Wellbeing Collection Looking for ways to look after yourself during your studies and exams? The Library’s new Wellbeing Collection provides resources on all aspects of wellbeing, including but not limited to anxiety, …Continue reading →

Identifying research topics across the One Health archival collections This week, I’m presenting viable research topics that span at least two of the archival collections and could be developed into projects in the One Health space. Here’s a list …Continue reading →

A big welcome to our new Student Collections Care Assistants We are delighted to welcome three new people to the Conservation and Collections Management Team this month. Abigail Miskin, Ella Joyce and Isabela Tapia Hernandez will be joining us as …Continue reading →

Women and the politics of care in zoo, animal advocacy and veterinary archival records, 1910-1930  Welcome to this series on research for the One Health archival project!   This week, I will present a bit about my current research project with Dr. Alette Willis, Chancellor’s Fellow …Continue reading →

Archival Research on Bacterial Infections, Part 2: Responses to TB in Dick Vet, RZSS and OneKind Archival Records Now for the next part in this series on bacterial infections, sharing some findings from archival research! The Dick Vet, RZSS and OneKind, or SSPV (Scottish Society for the Prevention …Continue reading →

Archival Research on Bacterial Infections, Part 1: One Health, One Welfare and Tuberculosis This week, I introduce my short research project on bacterial infections, with specific focus on tuberculosis (TB) as a zoonotic disease; these are diseases that can move from one animal …Continue reading →

Research and the One Health Archival Collections Hello, I’m Elizabeth, the postdoctoral researcher on the One Health archival project! During the Wellcome Trust grant, I was employed for five months from October 2023 to the start of …Continue reading →

Call for papers: Esther Inglis in contexts and culture, 19th-20th October 2024 The University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite proposals for a colloquium on the contexts and cultures surrounding the work of Esther Inglis (c.1570-1624), which will be held at the …Continue reading →

Meet the manuscripts — and what to do with an “Inglis manuscript” which is not by Esther Inglis This blog post introduces the six manuscripts written by and associated with Esther Inglis which are held at Edinburgh University Library. The cataloguing, conservation, and digitisation of this manuscript group …Continue reading →