Blue Monday and Happiness Hacks With the festive season having come to a swift end, many of us are now returning to school, work or university. We may also be looking back fondly on memories made with family, friends and partners over Christmas and the New Year. With cold and dark weather, financial worries, and […]
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Trimester Two It’s cold, dark, and the Christmas lights are down, which means one thing. January is here. And January means the start of the second trimester two and honestly, we can’t wait. For some, it means returning from a break, while for others, it means embarking on their journey at Edinburgh Napier. You might […]
International Day of Persons with Disabilities Within the UK alone, approximately 16.8 million individuals were recorded as having a disability in a research briefing published on the House of Commons Library webpages. This makes up a quarter of the UK population. This is also a 41% increase from the number of persons reporting a […]
World Television Day World Television Day 2025 is a global observance which celebrates the impact and importance of television as a medium for communication, information, entertainment and shaping our global society. Background The day was established by the UN in 1996 and highlights how television has acted as a tool for fostering peace and cultural […]
International Students Day As well as promoting diversity, inclusion, and multiculturalism, International Students’ Day also acknowledges and commemorates the students who organised a peaceful protest at the University of Prague on 17 November 1939 against Germany’s occupation of Czechoslovakia (now known as the Czech Republic and Slovakia ). On that day, Nazi forces stormed the university; […]
Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War 5.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University (hybrid) What did the First World War do to poetry? What did poetry do during the First World War? In this lecture, Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz will explore a brand new corpus of war poets to interrogate not what is […]
Make online reading easier: three accessibility tools worth trying Accessing eresources can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially when dealing with dense text or distracting layouts. To help, the library has created tutorial videos that walk you through some excellent accessibility tools. Here’s a quick overview of three tools that can make reading online resources much easier. […]
Open access in practice It is the Open Access Week, a perfect time to have a closer look at what open access is in practice, how we can benefit from it and what Edinburgh Napier does to support open research. What is open access and why is it important? Open access means research is published […]
World Statistics Day Librarians love statistics almost as much as we love spreadsheets and shelving books – and today we celebrate World Statistics Day! Unlike the other World Awareness Days that we covered on the blog, which have spanned decades. World Statistics Day is relatively new to the global calendar, starting in 2010 and is […]
Dyslexia Awareness Week This week is Dyslexia Awareness Week What is Dyslexia? Dyslexia is a learning difficulty which affects millions of people all over the world. It is a life-long neurological condition which often runs in families and affects people’s abilities with reading, writing and spelling. People with dyslexia may have difficulty processing and remembering […]
