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Vivek Santayana

Researcher: postcolonial writing and epistemic justice.
Trade unionist: Vice President of UCU Edinburgh
Table-Top Gaming enthusiast and writer.

  • © Vivek Santayana 2025
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    2021
      Talking About How We Work
      20 Aug 21
      Getting the Hang of LaTeX
      8 Aug 21
      Moving Away from a Manual Workflow
      3 Aug 21
      The Viva
      23 Apr 21
    2020
      What Table-Top Gaming Taught Me About Teaching
      20 Nov 20
    2019
      The Uncritical Whiteness of Edinburgh Activism
      1 Sep 19
      Back on Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe
      2 Aug 19
      A Natural 20 Performance: When a Dungeons & Dragons Session Becomes Sheer Brilliance
      20 Feb 19
      A Year of Volunteering in the Mental Health Sector
      9 Jan 19
    2018
      The Grand Finale of ‘Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion’ at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018
      27 Aug 18
      Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
      12 Aug 18
      ‘I Want to Tell You’: Beatles Songs for Talking About Mental Wellbeing
      29 Jul 18
      Hailsham Dark: Turning Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ into a Table-Top Role Playing Game
      24 Jul 18
      Whose ‘Home’ is it Coming to?: Supporting England in the World Cup
      7 Jul 18
      Volunteers’ Week
      6 Jun 18
      Conpulsion Conspiracy 2018
      16 Apr 18
      Firbush, Because it’s Okay to Have Fun Once in a While
      12 Apr 18
      A World of One’s Making: Table-Top Roleplaying Games and Nerd Culture
      16 Mar 18
    2017
      How Korfball Has Helped My PhD
      1 Dec 17
      Mental Health: Let’s Listen, Too
      24 Nov 17
      Love’s Labour: Work-Life Balance in Academia
      20 Oct 17
      The Stress of Research
      6 Oct 17
      A Day in the (Academic) Life
      18 Aug 17
      Female Doctor? Academia Needs More of Them.
      16 Jul 17
      Working with Undergraduates: Why it Keeps Me Sane
      9 Jul 17
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