12 Oct 2017

BBC-University collaboration explores how machines can help us argue

Eight simple ways to win an argument Moral Maze: Test Your Argument Moral Maze: Argument Analytics Computing researchers from the University of Dundee are working with the BBC to devise computer software that challenges people to improve their arguing skills. Professor Chris Reed and his colleagues from the Centre for Argument Technology (ARG-tech) have signed an agreement for a suite of technology to be piloted in conjunction with BBC programming. The partnership builds on many years of collaboration between Professor Reed and the makers of the popular Radio 4 live discussion programme, The Moral ...

9 Oct 2017

Dundee Literary Festival adds all-inclusive storytelling session to festival line-up

The organisers of Dundee Literary Festival have worked with local disability charity PAMIS to ensure this year’s programme is as open and inclusive as possible. PAMIS, who support people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, have worked with organisers on a multi-sensory storytelling event for families. The free event, which will be held at Bonar Hall from 10am to 12pm on Friday 20October, will also see PAMIS launch one of their new stories, ‘Oona and the Giant’. The new stories, inspired by the work of the charity’s founder Loretto Lambe, have been devised to connect ...

5 Oct 2017

Dundee scientists make Parkinson’s breakthrough

Scientists at the University of Dundee have identified the structure of a key enzyme that protects the brain against Parkinson’s disease. The result of a decade of work, the research team said that solving the 3D structure and inner workings of the PINK1 enzyme represented a major breakthrough. “Solving the structure and workings of PINK1 gives us crucial insights in to how it exerts a protective role in Parkinson’s,” said Dr Miratul Muqit, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow and Consultant Neurologist at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC-PPU) in the S...

4 Oct 2017

Careers Service rated amongst country’s best

Students at the University of Dundee have ranked their Careers Service as among the best in the UK. Dundee came 3rd in the Career Services 2017 Awards operated by StudentCrowd, an online platform for students to review all aspects of their university experience. More than 7,000 students from across the UK were surveyed over the past year. The University’s Careers Service offers a range of employability modules which students can take alongside their degree subjects. The latest accolade comes on the back of Dundee’s success at the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services awards earli...

3 Oct 2017

Centenary celebrations for seminal ‘On Growth and Form’

The University of Dundee will pay tribute to the hugely influential biologist and mathematician D’Arcy Thompson with a packed programme of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of his seminal book, ‘On Growth and Form’. The book has inspired scientists, artists and thinkers as diverse as Alan Turing, Richard Dawkins and Claude Lévi Strauss. The evolutionary biologist, Stephen Jay Gould, referred to the book as being “the greatest work of prose in twentieth century science.” To mark the centenary there will be a number of events taking place at Dundee and also at th...