Oldies but goodies: fashion staples you need to have
In an age of fast fashion it’s easy to be enticed by the consumer culture of cheap clothes in vast quantities, but it’s important for us to be environmentally minded…
Transitional Fashion: for whatever the weather
Spring blossom, airy skirts, bright trenches and leaving the house without 17 layers on, seem but a dream in these dreary stormy days. But there have been glimpses of lighter…
Defining the Decade
Unsurprisingly when you google ‘biggest events of the decade’ you will be plagued with frankly terrifying articles about nuclear tensions, missing planes, political anarchy and heart-breaking stories about world poverty,…
Rhona McLeod: interview with award-winning sports journalist
Can you tell me a bit about your sporting background and how that led you into journalism? I was a junior and then senior international athlete, and I’d been competing…
Markets and mulled wine
It’s arrived. Christmas in Edinburgh is simply the best time of the year, (differing opinions not welcome) and its time to get out and enjoy what the city has to…
Beating the burnout: how to partake in self-care with deadline week coming up
It’s official. Deadlines are fast approaching, or for many of us already here. The remnants of summer have finally left us. It seems the time to procrastinate has finally passed,…
Sion Pickering discusses travelling sustainably in Edinburgh
Sion is the Project Coordinator at the Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability, focusing on the University’s business travel. What sort of work do you do on a daily basis?…
‘Overtourism’: sustainable tourism for modern day travellers
Today we live in a world obsessed with the idea of travel and exploration. Our social media feeds are constantly reminding us of the wonders of the world we need…