scholarly journals Hacking History: Redressing Gender Inequities on Wikipedia Through an Editathon

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Hood ◽  
Allison Littlejohn
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
New Type ◽  
Gender Inequities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Information Consumers ◽  
The University

Editathons are a relatively new type of learning event, which enable participants to create or edit Wikipedia content on a particular topic. This paper explores the experiences of nine participants of an editathon at the University of Edinburgh on the topic of the Edinburgh Seven, who were the first women to attend medical school in 19th century United Kingdom. This study draws on the critical approach to learning technology to position and explore an editathon as a learning opportunity to increase participants’ critical awareness of how the Internet, open resources, and Wikipedia are shaping how we engage with information and construct knowledge. Within this, there is a particular focus on recognising persisting gender inequities and biases online. The qualitative interviews captured rich narrative learning stories, which traced the journey participants took during the editathon. Participants transformed from being online information consumers to active contributors (editors), prompting new critical understandings and an evolving sense of agency. The participants’ learning was focused in three primary areas: (1) a rewriting of history that redresses gender inequities and the championing of the female voice on Wikipedia (both as editors and subject matter); (2) the role of Wikipedia in shaping society’s access to and engagement with information, particularly information on traditionally marginalised subjects, and the interplay of the individual and the collective in developing and owning that knowledge; and (3) the positioning of traditional media in the digital age.

scholarly journals X.—The Aborigines of Tasmania. Part III. The Hair of the Head compared with that of other Ulotrichi and with Australians and Polynesians

1915 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Turner
Keyword(s):  
New Guinea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

A number of years ago I began to form and arrange in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh a collection of the hair of the head to illustrate the varieties in colour and character which exist in the Races of Men. In a classification of the races based on the colour and characters of the hair, anthropologists have usually adopted the suggestion made by Bory de St Vincent, and have divided them into two groups: Leiotrichi, with straight, smooth hair; and Ulotrichi, with woolly or frizzly hair. Each of these again is capable of subdivision.In this memoir I intend especially to examine the Ulotrichi, which comprise two well-marked subdivisions. In one the hair is very short, and is arranged in small spiral tufts, the individual hairs in which are twisted on each other, a mat-like arrangement of compact spiral locks closely set together being the result. In the other the hair is moderately long, the locks are slender, curled or spirally twisted in a part of their length and terminate at the free end in a frizzly bush-like arrangement. Ulotrichous hair is found in various African races, in the aborigines of Tasmania, New Guinea, the Melanesian Islands in the Pacific, in the Negritos of the Malay Peninsula and of some of the islands of the Asiatic Archipelago. The Leiotrichi are Australians, Polynesians, Mongols, Malays, Indians, Arabs, Esquimaux and Europeans.

scholarly journals The constants of the magnetic dispersion of light

1927 ◽  
Vol 114 (768) ◽  
pp. 474-490 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Wave Length ◽  
Spectroscopic Behaviour ◽  
Optical Effects ◽  
Other Substances ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Right Order

1. The rotation of the plane of polarisation of light by a magnetic field provides perhaps one of the easiest approaches to a study of the spectroscopic behaviour of ordinary substances. The present work is an analysis of the available measures of the dispersion of this magnetic gyration. Several formulæ have been proposed for it, and these will be reviewed below, but it has proved most convenient to take one of them and use that; afterwards testing, to the rather limited extent possible, how far others would fit the facts. The test is made with the formula given by Becquerel in 1897, V = e /2 mc 2 λ dn/d λ , (1.1) where n is the refractive index, λ the wave-length and V is Verdet’s constant, the rotation of the plane of polarisation per centimetre per gauss. If this formula fits, and we shall find that it does, it should give the value of e/m . A few values were worked out by Becquerel himself on the rather meagre data available at that time, and later Siertsema obtained more accurate values for some other substances. All these gave e/m roughly of the right order of magnitude, and this fact was duly noted in the text-books and has been copied from one to another ever since, but usually without giving any numerical values at all. Since Larmor’s theorem fails to hold for molecules we should hardly expect to find the ordinary value, but nevertheless it seemed useful to analyse all the experimental measures available, so as to discover if any regularity would emerge. In the physical journals there are several results of this type for particular substances, but they are very much scattered, and it should prove convenient to collect together an analysis of all the substances for which the gyration has been measured. We are not attempting any deep theory of the matter, but merely a convenient summary which may prove useful when the time comes for a proper theory of the spectroscopic behaviour of ordinary substances of the type that has been so successful for monatomic gases and vapours. It is outside the scope of the present work to discuss the behaviour of the gyration of light of frequency very close to opaque bands ; this has been the subject of many experiments, but they are not by any means concordant, and take us deeper into the unknown theory than it is possible at present to go. To avoid this trouble we have limited ourselves to transparent substances, that is, to regions of the spectrum far from the bands which cause the optical effects. The data have been extracted from Landolt and Bornstein’s tables (edition 1921), in some cases supplemented from the original sources, and it has not, of course, been possible to assess the merit of each of the individual measures recorded. In a few cases there are measures of the gyration but not of the refraction; and we are greatly indebted to Dr. I. C. Somerville of the Chemical Department of the University of Edinburgh for measuring some of these refractive indices for us.

scholarly journals Repensando la enseñanza de la sustentabilidad.

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Martha Virginia Gonzalez Medina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Joint Actions ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
Interpersonal Barriers ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

The social commitment to educate and teach under the approach of sustainability requires a change: to stop reducing Nature to a simple commodity and what changes, strategies and resources to use to train future professionals under a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and critical approach . The University of Guadalajara faces a great challenge, as an institution it must assume commitments and joint actions as an institution of higher education to train a new type of professionals; carry out modifications in all the study plans of the different careers; train their professors, which implies facing institutional and interpersonal barriers relying on collaborative work with other universities, companies, government and NGOs under a social commitment. Although the need for these changes is recognized and it is desired to do so, it is necessary to design the course of action to carry them out.

2. On the Musculus Sternalis

1869 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 65-66
Author(s):  
William Turner
Keyword(s):  
Pectoral Muscle ◽  
Oblique Muscle ◽  
Middle Line ◽  
General Statement ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
External Oblique ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

In this paper the author described the results of his observations on the presence of the musculus sternalis in upwards of six hundred bodies dissected in the anatomical rooms of the University of Edinburgh. He had found it in nineteen individuals, i.e., in about 3 per cent of the bodies examined. It occurred nearly equally in the two sexes. It bore no relation to the general muscularity of the individual. In eleven subjects the muscle was single, in eight double, making together twenty-seven specimens of the muscle. The variations which it exhibited in its attachments, size, and shape, were then described. In no case were its fibres continuous with those of the rectus abdominis, or were tendinous intersections found in it, but it mostly arose either from the flattened tendon of the external oblique muscle of the abdomen, or from the cartilages of the lower true ribs, and in many instances it was continuous at its upper end with the sternal tendon of one or both sterno-mastoids, whilst in others it was inserted into the aponeurosis covering the pectoralis major. It was always superficial to the great pectoral muscle. Of the single specimens, four occurred on the right side, two on the left; whilst in the remaining five it arose on one side of the middle line, and was inserted either altogether or in part on the opposite side. It formed an excellent illustration of the truth of the general statement, that occasional and rudimentary structures are especially liable to variations in arrangement.

The Shadows and the Rush of Light: Ewan MacColl and Expressionist Drama

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Altree Warden
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Political Position ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

It has generally been assumed that the Expressionist movement had little noticeable impact on British theatre. Claire Altree Warden here suggests that in the plays of Ewan MacColl (and in particular his The Other Animals of 1948) there is a discernible challenge to this assumption. In order to advocate a specific political position, MacColl took the conventions of Expressionism and developed a highly engaged, artistically innovative theatrical aesthetic that could tackle socio-political inequalities and the suppression of the dissident voice. Through linguistic experiment, episodic structure, representational characters, and a focus on the individual mind, the playwright challenges the audience to confront class injustice and hegemonic tyranny. Claire Altree Warden is based at the University of Edinburgh, where she teaches English Literature. She also teaches Critical Theory and Theatre History at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and is currently preparing a new critical study of Ewan MacColl's plays.

John Robertson Henderson (1863–1925): Scotland, India and anomuran taxonomy

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Christian College ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
The University ◽  
Crustacean Taxonomy

John Robertson Henderson was born in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he qualified as a doctor. His interest in marine natural history was fostered at the Scottish Marine Station for Scientific Research at Granton (near Edinburgh) where his focus on anomuran crustaceans emerged, to the extent that he was eventually invited to compile the anomuran volume of the Challenger expedition reports. He left Scotland for India in autumn 1885 to take up the Chair of Zoology at Madras Christian College, shortly after its establishment. He continued working on crustacean taxonomy, producing substantial contributions to the field; returning to Scotland in retirement in 1919. The apparent absence of communication with Alfred William Alcock, a surgeon-naturalist with overlapping interests in India, is highlighted but not resolved.

The training of a polar scientist: Patrick Geddes and the student career of William Speirs Bruce

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. SWINNEY
Keyword(s):  
Future Career ◽  
New Information ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT: The university career of the polar scientist William Speirs Bruce (1867–is examined in relation to new information, discovered amongst the Bruce papers in the University of Edinburgh, which elucidates the role played by Patrick Geddes in shaping Bruce's future career. Previous accounts of Bruce's university years, based mainly on the biography by Rudmose Brown (1923), are shown to be in error in several details.

Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Smith
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

Adam Ferguson was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment. A friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, Ferguson was among the leading exponents of the Scottish Enlightenment’s attempts to develop a science of man and was among the first in the English speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society, and political science. This book challenges many of the prevailing assumptions about Ferguson’s thinking. It explores how Ferguson sought to create a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising with a view to supporting the virtuous education of the British elite. The Ferguson that emerges is far from the stereotyped image of a nostalgic republican sceptical about modernity, and instead is one much closer to the mainstream Scottish Enlightenment’s defence of eighteenth century British commercial society.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

Teaching Computer Based Historical Data Analysis

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Anderson ◽  
Robert J. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social History ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Historical Data Analysis ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The University

A case study ofa third year course in the Department of Economic and Social History in the University of Edinburgh isusedto considerandhighlightaspects of good practice in the teaching of computer-assisted historical data analysis.

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