New website for Edinburgh students launched

A new student website is now available as a resource for all University of Edinburgh students helping them to get involved with the community and practice social sustainability.

OurEd, which was officially launched on Monday 13 September, is a website that strives to engage students in issues of health, development, environment, and social justice both on campus and around the city Edinburgh. 

Rhys Howell, co-creator of the website, told The Journal: “OurEd is a student resource that works with all campus societies and that links with different parts of the university.”

The website serves as a rich resource that informs students of opportunities within the campus and community and that provides links to other websites within the university.

Students can visit OurEd to learn about sustainability events on campus, community initiatives, environmentally friendly shops, volunteer work and alternative transportation among others. A range of University of Edinburgh courses dealing with the environment and sustainability are also available. In addition, OurEd plans to work with University of Edinburgh societies and to link to and from the societies’ individual web pages.

Mr Howell told The Journal: “The idea came from the university itself, which is trying to embed and embrace social responsibility and sustainability in everything that it does.”

The launch of the website coincided with the first day of Fresher’s Week.

In order to promote the website, Facebook and Twitter pages that students can follow have been created. Mr Howell and his team have high expectations of OurEd gaining popularity and becoming a valuable student resource that help students enrich their university experience.

Speaking about the university’s current main portal MyEd, Mr. Howell explained: “MyEd is personal, a place where students can find out information about themselves. OurEd is a place where students can find out information about the community.”