The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden
Callum Egan explains how his academic community transformed The Lions’ Gate at Napier University, Edinburgh, into a series of permaculture gardens to create a healthier, nature-focused form of educational workplace.
Professor Cathal Breen* hosted the Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network (scot.nhs.uk) (CSMEN) at Edinburgh Napier for a review meeting in May.
CSMEN was established in 2007 to support excellence in clinical skills education. The Network connects people and organisations involved in health and social care to enable collaboration for a “Once for Scotland” approach to skills and simulation-based learning. Their vision is “world-leading facilitation of skills and simulation training”, and members of the network have found visits to be helpful in exploring how academic educational institutions and centres of clinical excellence can work better together; building relationships; and discovering how CSMEN support Scotland’s centres.
A newly initiated project, Simulation Resources in Scotland | Clinical Skills Managed E. is developing a detailed inventory of the simulation equipment resources available in Scotland. It aligns to several of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, and is currently recruiting academic education institutions.
Professor Cathal Breen, one of the first invited participants for the new project, said: “The current project builds upon the success of the original, produced to outline the current equipment and course availability in the Scottish territorial health boards. That work was seen as a first step to providing a detailed inventory of the resources available in Scotland.”
I developed, hosted and led An Afternoon of Science 2024 at The Royal Society of Edinburgh. This sell-out event was attended by over 120 people. It included talks from leading academics, exhibits from our researchers and posters from our UG and PG students.
