*Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions; Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education Scotland.
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Renowned former NASA astronaut and oceanographer Kathy Sullivan made a special trip from the US in April to the University. She talks of her epic adventures, her connection to our HMS Challenger archives, and why space and ocean research is as vital as ever.
Earlier this month, more than one hundred people attended a symposium focused on accent bias at Edinburgh, across Higher Education and in wider society.
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