For the first time, in 2016, the SoundCloud account for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh attracted just under 100 likes, and over 3,000 plays.
A wealth of resources
Our SoundCloud account hosts a wealth of resources. With over 200 sound tracks, this is as many opportunities to enrich your content with digital scholarship, for instance for learning and teaching.
New 2016 voices in this top 10
Three new voices made it up to the top 10 most popular tracks for the whole 2016:
- Maddie Long, a PhD student in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Maddie talks about her experience preparing for the 3-Minute-Thesis competition. Congratulations to Maddie who won the 2016 UK final of the 3-Minute-Thesis competition (12 September 2016).
- Vladimir Alpatov, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, speaks on historical attempts to replace the Cyrillic alphabet with the Latin one.
- Kenny Beaton discusses the Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches website. Kenny focuses in particular on tracks Calum Maclean collected himself. He also picks a couple where Calum is also the contributor rather than his usual role of being the collector.