Understanding the World | Research Impact

16 research impact case studies

Students demonstrate bilingual exchange in English and Japanese.

Bilingualism Matters

Digital biomedical imaging reveals the Rhind mummy's skeleton.

Uncovering the secrets of the Rhind mummy

Professor Stana Nenadic researches the history of the Scottish textile industry.

Colouring the nation: Scottish ‘Turkey red’ textiles

Tillmann Vierkant worked with the Church of Scotland.

Neuroscience and the Church of Scotland

Edward Hollis's research demonstrates the value of derelict historic buildings.

The secret lives of buildings and the future life of Cardross

Tudor drama performed in the royal palace at Linlithgow in 2013.

Staging the Henrician court

Gary West and Kath Campbell recovered lost Scottish music from the archives.

Reinvigorating traditional arts in Scotland

Professor Ian Deary is Director of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology.

Understanding the brain in old age: the Lothian Birth Cohorts

Frances Fowle worked with the National Galleries of Scotland to produce the exhibition.

Impressionism, Scotland and the art market

Climate change explored from a Christian faith perspective.

The ethics and theology of climate change

Shedding new light on Northern Scottish islands literature

Professor Andy Clark

The extended mind in science and society

World map with coloured outlining differentiating between continents.

Innovating in digital and open education

Photograph of the 'Hands in Solidarity, Hands of Freedom' mural on the walls of a trade union building in Chicago, U.S.A.

Minority women, activism and austerity

Gun and cap with a communist badge laid on a flag of the Second Spanish Republic

Helping modern Spain understand the meaning and legacy of its Civil War

Graffiti on a ruined wall in Nairobi, Kenya

Making human rights meaningful: documenting and protecting survivors of everyday torture and ill-treatment in low income countries