30 Apr 2014
‘Whose transition is it anyway?’ – Dundee Arts Café on 6th May
Starting school, moving classes or moving schools are exciting progressions for every child, but some find these educational transitions difficult and an expert from the University of Dundee will next week explain some of the reasons why. Professor Divya Jindal-Snape, from the University’s Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) Research Centre, will discuss the impact of such developments on both the child and ‘significant others’ in their life at the next Dundee Arts Café event. ‘Whose transition is it anyway?’ takes place at The McManus: Dund...
29 Apr 2014
Stagecoach backs spare blood project to help fight disease
Stagecoach Chairman and co-founder Sir Brian Souter is backing world-leading medical research in Scotland, as hundreds of posters promoting the GoSHARE spare blood project are displayed on Stagecoach buses across Tayside, Fife and Grampian. The posters encourage people who give blood samples – either to their GP or while in hospital - to allow the leftover samples to be used for medical research. Every day in Scotland, many thousands of samples of blood are discarded after use. Now researchers are asking the public to let them use that blood to boost research into diseases such as cancer, diabetes ...
24 Apr 2014
Labour Forecasting Tool grabs innovation award
A unique tool developed by a Dundee company to forecast labour needs for construction projects has been awarded a prestigious prize by the Chartered Institute of Building. The Labour Forecasting Tool developed by Whole Life Consultants Ltd and commissioned by the Construction Industry Training Board is a web-based application for forecasting labour needs on a whole range of construction projects, including housing, schools, infrastructure, and commercial buildings. The labour needs are predicted throughout the entire course of a project on a month-by-month basis, given no more than the value of the proje...
24 Apr 2014
Students to consider what they want to do ‘Before I die’
Photo opportunity: 12-1pm on Monday, 28th April. Students will be adding their exhibits to the wall. With more and more people compiling bucket lists – personal ambitions to fulfil before shuffling off this mortal coil – nursing students from the University of Dundee will take part in a global art project encouraging them to reflect on the nature of life and death. Wall space at the University’s Dalhousie Building will be used to allow the third-year adult nursing students to share their own ambitions for life as part of a module exploring nursing care in the community at the Da...
23 Apr 2014
Home debut for graduate screenwriters
A movie written by University of Dundee graduates Jill Mannion and Kevin McComiskie will receive its Dundee premiere next month after winning acclaim overseas. ‘Random Acts of Romance’ was written by Jill and Kevin at Vancouver Film School in 2006 after they received scholarships to attend the prestigious Canadian institution. The resulting film, starring Amanda Tapping from the TV series ‘Stargate’, will be screened at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) on Saturday, 10th May, followed by a Q&A session with the screenwriting team. Jill graduated in 2004 with an MA in English while...