Acknowledgements

Curious Edinburgh is a University of Edinburgh project, developed by Niki Vermeulen and team based at Science, Technology and Innovation Studies of the School of Social and Political Science. Inspired by the history of science walking tours conducted for many years by emeritus Professor in the history of science John Henry, Niki established the project in collaboration with Dominic Berry and Bill Jenkins, Kate Bowell and numerous collaborators listed below. Niki is now working with Alli Spring and Matjaz Vidmar, with technical support from Stratos Filalithis (LTW) and Ian Fieldhouse (EDINA). You can get in contact with us via email at Niki.Vermeulen@ed.ac.uk

We are grateful to Melissa Highton, director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services (LTW) for valuing our project and giving it a place in the UoE infrastructure. The EDINA team’s technical wizardry made this project possible, and especially Nicola Osborne (now working with Creative Informatics). Cate Sutton is responsible for the logo design.

Curious Edinburgh is part of the Center for Data, Culture and Society’s Digital Cultural Heritage cluster and won the 2017 Tam Dalyell Prize for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science. You can watch the prize lecture about the development of the project here.

We would like to thank the following individuals and organisations for their invaluable help with this project:

• John Henry, for providing information and advice and for kindly agreeing to let us use video recordings of his history of science walking tour.
• Clare Button of Edinburgh University Library for the ‘history of genetics and biotechnology’ tour.
• Alasdair McLean, who gave us a great deal of help with the ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ tour.
• John Martin and the Scottish Brewing Archive Association for the Brewing History tour.
• Hannah Holtschneider of the Research Network in Jewish Studies for the Jewish History tour.
• Roger Jeffery and Hauke Wiebes of the Edinburgh India Institute for the India tours.
• The granton:hub and Gina Fierlafijn Reddie for the Granton tour.
• Lucy Ridley and EVOC for the the tour on the history of charity and civic action.
• Ellen Stewart, Sophie Buijssen, Lothian Health Services Archives (LHSA) and the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) for the hospital tour.  
• UncoverED and Daisy Chamberlain for the UncoverED tour.
• Wezi Mhura and artists and Nasar Meer from RACE.ED for the BLM mural trail.
• Anna Kuslits, Thoko Kamwendo, Raj Bhopal and colleagues of the Usher Institute for the Public Health tour.
• Dr Wendy Ugolini, Professor Tobias Kelly, and Emma Forth for the Second World War tour.
• Eleanor Whitehead, Ewan McAndrew, Prof. Julian Goodare, and Dr. Louise Yeoman for the witchcraft tour in connection to ‘The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft’: https://witches.hca.ed.ac.uk/.
• Cari Romans, Magda Dundas, Katie Grieve and Shivani Rao from Learning, Technology and Web (LTW) for the Women in STEM tour. This followed the Woman in STEM street art trail which was developed with the Edinburgh Science Festival, but many artworks are not in place anymore so we kept the tour as an archival record.
• Mayline Strouk and the Ornithological Society (BirdSoc) for the birding trail.
• Freya Bromley for the tidal pool tour.
• Graeme Cruickshanck for the Edinburgh & America tour.

We have enjoyed working together with the following organisations:

• Tacye Phillipson, Rebekah Higgitt, Klaus Staubermann, Geoff Swinney and Sam Alberti of the National Museums of Scotland.
• Daisy Cunynghame and Iain Milne of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
• Anna Downie of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
• The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the RSE Young Academy of Scotland.
• Simon Gage, Amanda Tyndall, Sarah Thomas and team at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, and their colleagues, collaborators and volunteers for Moments In Time.

From the University of Edinburgh we would like to thank: Thomas Ahnert, Bill Aird, Lawrence Dritsas, Julian Goodare, Miguel Garcia-Sancho, Anna Groundwater, Zubin Mistry, Dmitriy Myelnikov, Alasdair Raffe, Richard Rogers, Rick Sowerby, Steve Sturdy, and others from the history of science and medicine network who generously shared their knowledge with us; Patricia Erskine from the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; James Smith, Professor of African and Development Studies and Vice-Principal International; Principals Timothy O’Shea and Peter Mathieson; Chris Speed, Ed Hollis and Karen Forbes of Edinburgh College of Art; Jo Spiller and Susan Greig from Information Services at the University of Edinburgh; Lorna Brain and the University Festival’s team who organised the Tam Dalyell Prize lecture.

Full information on images used on this site and in the app are listed on our Image Credits page

Funding

This project is supported by a variety of funding sources, including an Innovation Initiative Grant from the Edinburgh Fund, an AHRC cultural engagement project (with James Loxley, Richard Roger, Jonathan Silvertown and Morna Findlay), the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) of the Institute for Academic Development, as well as support from Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) and the School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) of the University of Edinburgh.

We would like to especially thank Anne Valentine (STIS) for help keeping track of all our funding sources, and Anne-Sofie Laegran (Knowledge exchange manager) for helping us to acquire funding.