A Cookbook for Students by Students
This semester, the Living Lab has set out to produce a cookbook that acts as a snapshot of student food cultures in 2023. From Tiktok food trends of cube croissants…
Living Lab: Burns Night
‘But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed, / The trembling earth resounds his tread.’ – ‘An Address to a Haggis’ (1786). With words from the heart and enchanting melodies, Robert Burns’ renowned…
Big Garden Birdwatch: help the Grounds team’s work for wildlife
In this post, Martin Ammann, new gardener in the Estates Management & Development team, invites students and staff to get involved with a citizen science project to help monitor and…
Introducing the Living Lab core student team!
The Living Lab is blessed with a truly wonderful team of student interns and student researchers from five different departments of the university. We realised we hadn’t introduced them yet.…
Sustenance: A Fine Art exhibition as part of the Living Lab
This semester, a group of seven Fine Art students opted to join the Living Lab and make a collaborative response to issues around the food system, together with their lecturer…
Learning Outside the Classroom – and through the Living Lab
The Living Lab gives the core team chances to go visiting other departments and their activities – to give talks about the project, or support teaching. It’s a brilliant chance…
Psychology students in the Living Lab
Psychology lecturer Maria Fernandes-Jesus gives an insight into how her second year ‘Qualitative Research Methods’ students are getting involved in Living Lab: Feeding the Campus. The entire group of 105…
Introducing LIVING LAB: Feeding the Campus
The LIVING LAB is a network of students and staff from different subjects and departments, all collaborating to investigate a real-life, local, social and ecological justice issue, and work together…
Living Lab: Language(s) at the Junction
Linguistics has clearly demonstrated that multilingualism expands what it is possible to imagine and languages provide rich insight into underlying processes that drive patterns of biodiversity (Trisos et al, 2021)…
Living Lab: Festival Success
‘To see that the choices facing us are simple and stark: reduce car use!’ What is the most striking thing you have seen, heard, or experienced today? (Anonymous) Last week,…