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The Start Making Sense research project at University of Edinburgh is recruiting research participants to take part in an 1hour research experiment about AI. Participants will receive a £10 Amazon voucher for completing the experiment. Please read below and get in contact if interested.

£10 Amazon voucher for less than 1-hour online experiment. 

Requirements: 

To take part in this study from the comfort of your own home, you will need to: 

 

1.       Have a PC (it will not work on a tablet or phone), ideally using Firefox and Google Chrome (other browsers may work but are not guaranteed). You can use Windows, Mac or Linux operating system.  

2.                   Have a working webcam and microphone, as you will be video and audio recorded during the experiment. 

3.                   Have access to a working mouse (not a trackpad) and keyboard for selecting responses and answering questions. 

4.                   You (and anyone who appears on the video recorded during the study) must be over the age of 18, otherwise we cannot use you. 

5.                   Have normal or corrected to normal vision and be able to hear and understand spoken instructions. 

6.                   Have a good level of English comprehension – it is not necessary to be a native speaker but you must be able to understand and follow the simple instructions. 

 

The study involves you following simple verbal instructions to locate items on a map on the screen then answer questions related to the interactions. 

You will receive a £10 Amazon voucher following successful completion of the experiment. You will be asked for your email address at the end of the study. 

 

Application procedure: 

Please email hfried2@exseed.ed.ac.uk for more details and confirm you meet the requirements above.

Click here for more information and links: Butterfly Baby Club Flyer

 

The Butterfly Baby Clinic is led by a team of Clinical and Developmental Psychologists within
the Centre for Applied Developmental Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. In
response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are launching the Butterfly Baby Club to share a
special collection of free digital resources with parents and their babies worldwide through
the virtual Playroom, Knowledge Hub, Quiet Space and Wellbeing Garden.
With the kind support of a Student Experience Grant, we are delivering an exciting project
this summer (May-August) to co-create the first resources for the Club with teams of student
‘Changemakers’ from across the University in collaboration with parents worldwide. Our
teams of student volunteers will be supported to develop a wide range of resources for the
Club including fun play-based activities, knowledge bites and educational videos about
foetal-infant development, audio storybooks about Flutterfly (the butterfly) and Friends, baby
massage tutorial videos, nature-inspired mindfulness meditation podcasts, relaxation music
and exercise videos. We are also piloting a virtual ‘Butterfly Choir’ to promote parent-infant
wellbeing through lullabies and creating a documentary to follow the journey of families.
Whether you are a budding health professional, musician, sound engineer, artist, voiceover
actor, fitness instructor, filmmaker, writer, media influencer or blue-sky-thinker we need you
on our team! This is a student-led project, so you will have a hands-on role in co-designing
innovative resources with your peers which will be shared with families around the world
during the pandemic and beyond. We will also be inviting parents to share their ideas with
teams through social media and involving parents in product development in the spirit of
Citizen Science.

Upcoming Online IAD UG Workshops:

 

TITLE: Managing your Exams: Strategies and Tips

DATE: 21^st April 2021

TIME: 16:10 – 17:00 (UK Time)
BOOKING LINK: https://edin.ac/3scYGLn
DESCRIPTION: This online workshop will be an hour session focusing on how to manage your exams by improving your exam technique. The session will focus on issues raised by participants and so could cover, for example, exam preparation and participation; i.e. how to cope with stress, practicing your exam technique and a review of exam strategies.

 

TITLE: Managing your Exams: Strategies and Tips

DATE: 28^th April 2021

TIME: 14:10 – 15:00 (UK Time)

BOOKING LINK: https://edin.ac/3scYGLn
DESCRIPTION: This online workshop will be an hour session focusing on how to manage your exams by improving your exam technique. The session will focus on issues raised by participants and so could cover, for example, exam preparation and participation; i.e. how to cope with stress, practicing your exam technique and a review of exam strategies.

TITLE: Essays in Exams

DATE: 28^th April 2021

TIME: 15:30 – 17:00 (UK Time)

BOOKING LINK: https://edin.ac/3s7VjW0
DESCRIPTION: Do you want to improve your writing under pressure?  Are you prepared for your exams?  This trouble-shooting session will help you develop strategies to write more effective long answers in your exams.

 

More Workshop Information:

A list of upcoming semester two IAD UG Workshops can be found here: https://edin.ac/2FFIptL.

Follow @IAD_StudyHub on Twitter for notifications when workshops open for booking.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-private-law-conference-2021-tickets-143426062213

 

Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies (University of Tartu) is launching its free, English-based MOOC course “ Common Challenges of Competing Regionalisms ” (2 ECTS), which will begin from 26th of April till 6^th of June.

 

What will I learn during the course?  

You will learn about the dimensions of comparative regionalism in the European and Eurasian context in the light of emergence, transformation, and consolidation of integration processes in the EU and in the former Soviet and Socialist space; what regionalism is, how it can be defined conceptually and theoretically and many more! A key part of the course will imply a comparative assessment of the institutional settings of the EU and EaEU.

 

Who is this course for? 

The course is open to everyone interested in comparative regionalism and integration processes in Europe and Eurasia, especially master degree and bachelor students in European and Russian studies, international relations and political science.

Why should I take this course?  

By enrolling to the course, you will have access to video lectures from academicians and practitioners, specialising in the integration processes and comparative regionalism

between the EU and EEU. There will also be guest interviews from academic representatives from the region aimed at providing specific perspectives on different case studies in competing regional integration projects. The participants will also be able to benefit from a wide variety of readings, course supporting and interactive materials as well as a vibrant and international online community of peers with whom you can learn together and interact throughout the course. Upon successful completion of the MOOC, the participants will also receive a free digital certificate from the University of Tartu.

Register here: https://www.is.ut.ee/pls/ois/tere.tulemast?viit=4772839 (by April 22^nd, 2021) 

Course information: https://www.ut.ee/en/mooc/common-challenges-competing-regionalisms

Course Trailer: https://youtu.be/98OIGbbAZV8

Should you need additional information, please contact Anna Beitane at anna.beitane@ut.ee

The course is developed within the framework of the Jean Monnet Module ‘Neighbourhood, Enlargement, and Regionalism in Europe’ (NearEU) with the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Start on the road from campus to the boardroom at our new online event

If you’re an aspiring future business leader who would like to work for one of the biggest organisations in the world, then Aspire is here to start you on your path.

TARGETjobs has partnered with leading employers to help you connect with recruiters, graduates and senior business leaders and develop the applications skills you’ll need to succeed.

Friday 23 April

12.30 pm – 5 pm

Register for your place today

Over the course of the day you will:

• Have unrivalled facetime with 12 employers in fields such as law and finance
• Be inspired by talks from senior leaders and graduates with Black Heritage
• Upskill yourself through a series of workshops on applications, online tests, interviews and assessment centres
• Feel empowered and confident ready to apply for your dream role and take the first steps towards the boardroom!

 

Who can attend?

• Pre-final year students at a UK university
• Studying any undergraduate degree
• Students from a Black Heritage background

Spaces for this event are limited, so register today and one of the TARGETjobs events team will be in touch.

Aspire | TARGETjobs

 

The Legal Cheek Spring Virtual Vacation Scheme, run in partnership with The University of Law (ULaw), takes place from Monday 12 April until Friday 16 April 2021. It features a series of short talks, workshops and Q&As with lawyers from leading firms, corresponding written exercises set by ULaw, as well as an Employability Expo and various socials.

The Scheme is open to all students. Its aim is to help those whose employability preparations have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic gain insights into life as a lawyer across a range of practice areas. The Scheme is not part of the participating firms’ recruitment processes. Applications are now open.

For more information: The Legal Cheek Spring 2021 Virtual Vacation Scheme – Legal Cheek

All students are invited to a free online lecture by Thomas Grant QC on The Politics of Judging on Monday 29 Mar, 6pm-7pm (or watch later).

In this lecture Grant, who’s a Visiting Professor at Gresham College, will discuss proposals to abolish or reform the Supreme Court: “My own view is that the Supreme Court, and before it the House of Lords, is one of, if not the most, respected courts in the world. It sits at the apex of a court system which attracts business from across the world. Foreign companies chose to have their disputes decided by English judges because they know they will get independent justice dispensed by high-quality legal minds. And so when one reads about proposals to rename the Supreme Court the Upper Court of Appeal, or to convert its membership so that it includes a rolling list of Court of Appeal judges, one does wonder why such an act of national self-harm could even be contemplated.”

“It is one thing to criticize particular judgments of the court and quite another to suggest that the judiciary is engaged in some form of concerted project to expand the reach of judicial power,” he will say

It is easy to register for this lecture via the webpage below using an email address; you’ll get a reminder by email 10 mins before the lecture starts with the link. You can also watch later on replay.

The Politics of Judging
Thomas Grant QC, Visiting Professor of Politics and Law at Gresham College
Mon 29 Mar 2021, 6pm-7pm
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/political-judges

In the wake of the decision in the parliamentary prorogation case Miller (No.2), the question of the politics of the judiciary has been thrust into the public eye. Was it “a constitutional coup” as some have claimed? The Government has promised to “update the Human Rights Act” and review the “relationship between the government, parliament and the courts”.
Will this limit the power of the judiciary to do justice? Do British judges have too much “power” and are they over-politicised?
Read more about Thomas Grant QC