Past Digital Skills Edinburgh Award projects

Our Edinburgh Award programme attracts students from numerous disciplines across the entire University. Participants produce projects on a range of topics and learn a variety of skills along the way. Scroll down to view some examples of past project submissions.

Lorena Garcia-Reyes

Lorena Garcia-Reyes, an MSc Financial Modelling and optimisation student, decided to use her Digital Skills Edinburgh Award experience as the perfect opportunity to further develop her digital creation, learning and collaboration skills. Lorena learned how to use a wide range of digital creation and communication tools including Articulate Rise 360, Visme, Canva, Wideo, YouTube, Linkedin and Facebook effectively to create and promote her online healthy eating web-based resource, 'Food for Thought'.

Patricia Mundelius

Patricia Mundelius is a 2nd year PhD Social Anthropology student. Patricia was keen to use her Edinburgh Award experience to develop her digital innovation, creation and communication skills, in order to help her get serious about her passion for ethnographic filmmaking. She developed a wide range of skills during the award process, in particular, video editing and blogging, helping her pull together a high-quality blog on the Transnationalism and Changing Medical Practice Paradigms in South Asian Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) and the West. 

View Patricia's online blog 

Insiya Baramatiwala

Insiya Baramatiwala is an MSc Human Resource Management student on the Masters programme who was awarded the Digital Skills Specialists Edinburgh Award.  Insiya’s project was a web application project about redevelopment and remodelling of old structures and buildings with modern infrastructure using data from Indian markets.

Carrying out the project included using Insiya’s chosen digital skills including digital communication, data management and social media marketing.

View Insiya's project in Adobe XD 

Chandralekha Chandra

Chandralekha Chandra is an MSc Human Resource Management student in the business school.

Chandralekha focused on three key skills that she believes are essential in today's digital age: data literacy, digital creation, and problem-solving. Her project involved analyzing a complex COVID-19 dataset using Tableau. Coming from a non-tech background, this project allowed her to showcase her data literacy skills by analyzing and visualizing complex data sets, and enhancing her digital creation skills by creating compelling visualizations that helped to convey the information effectively.

View Chandralekha's project on GitHub 

View Chandralekha's Covid Dashboard on Tableau

Ruhina Alam 

Ruhina Alam is a postgraduate student studying for a PG Certificate in Simulation in Clinical Medicine. She chose to develop her data literacy, digital creation, and digital learning and development skills as part of the Award. She enrolled on the Developing your Data Skills Programme ), as well as learning how to use Vyond to create animated video, ThingLink to create infographics and scenarios, and Rise 360 course authoring tool. For her project, she created a prototype online module on Cardiopulmonary Bypass for early years trainees in Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Yuan Chen 

Yuan Chen is a PhD student with the Agile Tomography Group, affiliated with the Institute of Digital Communications (School of Engineering). During the award programme, Yuan focused his efforts on learning how to edit and subtitle videos, with his main aim to be able to utilise these skills to improve the quality of his supervisor's 'Climate Change and Carbon Capture and Storage' video series. By the end of the award process, Yuan had successfully added Chinese subtitles to a range of English-spoken videos on the course and hopes to continue working with his supervisor to produce additional subtitles in other languages to help the popularity of the videos grow.

View the Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage course

Zenathnara Narayanasamy 

Zenathnara is a Postgraduate Student studying Criminology and Criminal Justice. She decided to undertake the Digital Skills Specialists Edinburgh Award to refine her hobby and passion for reading and reviewing books. During the award process, Zenathnara learned the intricacies of video recording and posting on social media platforms, and for her final project, decided to produce a video book review which she posted to her CurvyExterior social media platforms.

View Zenethnara's CurvyExterior YouTube channel

Yuemiao Ma

Yuemiao Ma is a PhD student at Moray House School of Education and Sport. Her PhD research is about Citizenship Education in Model United Nations, which is a simulation activity. Yuemiao's Digital Skills Specialists Award project was to produce a WordPress blog with a blog post about the strategies and tools to advertise educational events. Having thought about building a personal blog site for a long time, Yuemiao used her award experience to learn the necessary skills to build a website to allow her to showcase her research and reflection to a wider audience.

View Yuemiao's WordPress blog

Jingying Wang

Jingying is an MSc Social Research student from the School of Social and Political Science. Her project was engendered from her own experiences, and it centred around producing digital skill guidance for other Social and Political Science (SPS) students. Although impressed by the number of resources on developing digital skills offered by the University, Jingying found it quite time-consuming to find suitable and helpful resources for SPS students, so wanted to use her Digital Skills Specialists Edinburgh Award experience to make a positive impact.

For her main project, Jingying decided to create a simple website containing links to useful resources specifically geared towards SPS students. Her project included several programmes and platforms available to UoE students, with brief introductions and access links to each resource. Describing her Edinburgh Award experience, Jingying said "It has been a fantastic experience to apply what I have learned from the Award and see the outcomes."