3 Jul 2014
CASTLE the key to academic and career success
The University of Dundee has launched a new collaborative centre to improve skills and development opportunities for students and staff. The Centre for the enhancement of Academic Skills, Teaching, Learning & Employability (CASTLE) will be led by Dr Lorraine Anderson, Assistant Director in the Library & Learning Centre (LLC) and brings together a number of areas of inter-related activity from across the institution together. Staff from the LLC, Student Services and the School of Education, Social Work & Community Education will provide a more focused approach to academic support, digital lite...
2 Jul 2014
DUSA Achieves Volunteer Friendly Status
Dundee University Students’ Association (DUSA) has received official accreditation through the Volunteer Friendly Award Scheme. This will enable DUSA to officially recognise and reward its volunteers, enhancing students’ CVs and employability as a result. Working towards the Volunteer Friendly Award has taken around five months and has involved gathering and presenting a robust portfolio of evidence that demonstrates how DUSA recruits, supports, protects, rewards and celebrates each volunteer. The preparation was done with the support of the staff from Dundee Volunteer Centre before the final ...
1 Jul 2014
International academics to witness Dundee’s cultural regeneration
Dozens of experts in housing and urban development from around the world will today visit Dundee to witness the city’s cultural regeneration for themselves. The fieldtrip will be led by academics at the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews as part of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference 2014 taking place in Edinburgh. Fifty of the 500 conference delegates will visit Dundee on Tuesday, 1st July as part of one of a number of fieldtrips organised to showcase different aspects of regeneration across Scotland. The trip will be led by Dr Beverley Searle, Senior Lecturer in Human G...
1 Jul 2014
Scotland’s Young Academy welcomes three new members from Dundee
The University of Dundee is strongly represented in the new intake of members to the RSE Young Academy of Scotland (YAS). Dr Annie Tindley, a Senior Lecturer in History, and Dr Maria Ana Cataluna, Senior Lecturer in Physics and RAEng/EPSRC Research Fellow, currently work at the University while Dr Mhairi Towler, CEO & Director of Vivomotion, founded her company while working towards her PhD at Dundee. The three are among 43 new members of YAS. They make up the third intake of the organisation and join the existing membership of 113 in realising the central YAS mission of addressing the most challengi...
27 Jun 2014
Prostate Cancer UK, Movember and Scottish Government pump £500,000 into search for answers over killer disease
Dundee researchers handed key role in battle against most common male cancer Prostate Cancer UK, The Movember Foundation and the Scottish Government have today (Friday 27 June) handed researchers at Dundee University a six figure sum to investigate unanswered questions surrounding prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men in Scotland. Prostate Cancer UK and Movember are adding £275,000 to a £225,000 contribution from the Scottish Government’s Chief Scientist Office, creating a grand total of £500,000 being pumped into the exciting new project. The money will be used to fund ...