11 Dec 2014
£2000 boost for healthy bodies and minds
The University of Dundee’s Alumni Fund has raised £2000 to help promote the role that diet and exercise can play in enhancing mental wellbeing. The money was raised as part of this year’s Alumni Fund telephone campaign and has been donated to ‘Creating Healthy Bodies and Healthy Minds’, a partnership between Dundee University Students’ Union (DUSA), the Sports Union and the University’s Student Services team. The project seeks to raise awareness of the importance of sport and exercise as a means of students’ maintaining good mental health. Exercise has been...
10 Dec 2014
Food security group wins major funding for world-leading food and land research
The Scottish Food Security Alliance-Crops (SFSA-C), a collaboration between the Universities of Aberdeen and Dundee and The James Hutton Institute has been awarded €2million funding to research the global links between food security and land use change. The funding will allow the group to work towards tackling one of society’s biggest challenges of the 21st century - feeding a global population of 9-10 billion people by 2050. The project, entitled Delivering Food Security on Limited Land (DEVIL), fought off stiff competition from proposals from around the world to be selected for funding under ...
10 Dec 2014
Post-referendum, pre-election views sought for project
Campaign activists and voters in the 2014 Scottish referendum are being asked to take part in a project at the University of Dundee which will take a `snapshot’ of people’s views on the referendum and the forthcoming General Election. The `Referendum Stories: From Polls to the Personal’ project aims to capture people’s opinions, experiences and assessments of current politics and campaigns. “This has been a dynamic year in Scottish politics in particular and we are now looking towards a General Election in 2015,” said Dr Edzia Carvalho, from the University’...
9 Dec 2014
BT Murrayfield's Changing Places toilet helps cater for all
BT Murrayfield today (December 9th) welcomed the official opening of Scotland's 100th Changing Places toilet, a facility which will improve the provision for disabled fans at the stadium.The newly-installed toilet, launched in conjunction with charity Profound and Multiple Impairment Service (PAMIS) and their Changing Places campaign, is larger than a standard disabled toilet and includes a height-adjustable changing bench, a hoist, and enough room for a wheelchair, its user and two carers. Changing Places toilets allow people with profound and multiple learning disabilities – as well as ...
8 Dec 2014
Carols by Candlelight offers foodbank support
The University of Dundee’s annual service of Carols by Candlelight, which will take place at 5pm on Sunday, 14th December at St Paul’s Cathedral, will help support the work of Dundee Foodbank this year. All money collected at the service, which takes the form of the traditional nine Lessons and Carols, will be donated to the local charity which offers emergency food supplies to people in need. There will also be an opportunity to donate non-perishable food items for the foodbank at the service. “We should remember those in need throughout the year – but Christmas, the time of plen...