15 Oct 2014
Page-turners for children and young adults at Literary Festival
The Dundee Literary Festival later this month will show how reading is child’s play with a series of events aimed at young booklovers. Babies up to their first birthday are invited to bring their parents, carers and older siblings along for a ‘Bounce and Tickle’ party at 11am on Friday, 24th October when rhyme, songs and stories are guaranteed to keep little ones, and not so little ones, amused. A Family Fun Morning of storytelling, face-painting, teddy bears picnics and other activities will take place from 9.30am-12pm the following morning. From 10am, storyteller, scientist and poet E...
13 Oct 2014
New voices to be heard loud and clear at Literary Festival
The 2014 Dundee Literary Festival will feature more debut and emerging writers than ever before, bolstering its reputation for championing new voices and literature. Carys Bray, Hannah Engelkamp, Kirsty Logan, Uuganaa Ramsay, Neil Broadfoot and Nicola White, winner of last year’s Dundee International Book Prize, are among those appearing at the Festival to promote their first books and pass on the benefit of their experiences. Finalists Rachel Fenton, a writer and artist living in New Zealand, and English writer and performer Amy Mason will be hoping to follow in Nicola’s footsteps when this ...
13 Oct 2014
‘Between Tides - Riddles of Tentsmuir’ – new Lamb Gallery exhibition
Tentsmuir National Nature Reserve is the inspiration for a new exhibition of work by award-winning artist Derek Robertson in collaboration with scientists and creative practitioners. ‘Between Tides - Riddles of Tentsmuir’ opens at the Lamb Gallery, University of Dundee, on Saturday, 18th October. It features work arising from Derek’s appointment as Artist-In-Residence at Tentsmuir by Scottish Natural Heritage as part of Year of Creative Scotland 2013. He began a series of innovative projects to explore and celebrate the reserve and its wildlife, bringing together scientists and creative...
13 Oct 2014
Scotland to host largest gathering for Information Commissioners
Scotland will play host to the largest ever gathering of Information Commissioners from across Europe next month, at a conference organised by the University of Dundee’s Centre for Freedom of Information. The Centre’s European Conference will take place in Edinburgh on November 4th and will address the challenges for practitioners, from Scotland as well as the rest of Europe, in interpreting and implementing access to information laws which derive from European legislation. “This is the largest gathering of Information Commissioners there has been in Europe and comes in response to our ...
10 Oct 2014
Embalming tank named after retired professor
A long-standing member of the Centre for Human Anatomy and Identification (CAHID) at the University of Dundee has received an unusual retiral gift – an embalming tank named in his honour. Professor Roger Soames joined authors such as Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver and Jeff Lindsay in having a Thiel embalming tank name after him in the Val McDermid Mortuary. CAHID is recognised around the world for its innovative use of the Thiel embalming method, which preserves cadavers with life-like flexibility and tissue quality. Professor Soames, who retired at the end of September, had been a member of the CAHID ...
