4 Jun 2015
‘Understanding Teenage Mental Health’ – Café Science Extra on 10th June
Kirsty Miller, from the University of Dundee, will discuss her research into teenage mental health at the next Café Science Extra event in the city. Kirsty, a PhD student in the University’s School of Psychology, will lead the event at Dundee Science Centre at 6pm on Wednesday, 10th June. She will reveal how a study she and her colleagues conducted identified the social factors that can impact mental wellbeing in teenagers and young adults. “Adolescents account for around a quarter of the world’s population and are at high risk from mental disorders and participation in risky beh...
4 Jun 2015
PhD students head to Summer School
International postgraduate students exploring security and justice in Europe will next week visit the University of Dundee for an week of intensive research. The Jean Monnet PhD Summer School on Security and Justice in Europe is organised with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) of the European Union and takes place from Monday, 8th– Sunday, 14th June. Over 20 attendees from 15 countries will be taking part. It offers an intensive, interactive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the complex issues of security and justice in Europe, with a specific emphasis on the Area of...
3 Jun 2015
Dundee experts recreate face of Saxon man at Lincoln Castle
Facial reconstruction experts at the University of Dundee have recreated the face of a Saxon man whose skeleton was discovered on the site of an old church at Lincoln Castle. On Monday 8th June, the new-look castle will be officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal. On that day, a new exhibition will be revealed in the Victorian Prison, sharing some of the archaeological finds unearthed during the Lincoln Castle Revealed project. As part of the exhibition, experts at the University of Dundee have recreated the face of an Anglo Scandinavian man whose skeleton was discovered on the site of an old church w...
3 Jun 2015
Dundee shares in new arts research funding
Three University of Dundee projects, looking at whaling, rural planning and 18th century reading habits, will share in a new £380,000 round of arts research funding. The funding comes from Applied Research Collaboration Studentships (ARCS), supported by the Scottish Funding Council and universities themselves. Seven projects across Scotland have been granted £54,000 each under the ARCS initiative. The funding covers two joint projects with the University of Stirling. The first will examine library records dating back to 1747 to gauge how reading habits and book borrowing could affect pe...
3 Jun 2015
Consultants critical of NHS managerialism and bureaucracy in new report
The commitment of senior doctors working in NHS Scotland enables a healthcare system under severe strain to fulfil its necessary obligations to patients, according to new research carried out by the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow. The BMA Scottish Consultants Committee commissioned this research to determine the extent to which consultants felt their traditional authority and leadership role in clinical matters had been eroded, otherwise known as de-professionalisation. They also wanted to understand the implications of this process for patient care. The research team found that many consultants expe...
