31 Mar 2015
Dundee students bring fresh insights to improving NHS outpatient care
Five design students from the University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design have been attending an exclusive two-day event in Edinburgh focusing on revolutionising the outpatient experience in NHS Scotland with the support of digital technology. This is the result of a pilot initiative between the college and the Digital Health Institute (DHI) to involve students in one of their innovation calls and benefit from their fresh thinking. The Scottish Institute for Enterprise (SIE) has been driving student involvement in this important project. SIE ran a workshop on 27 Februa...
31 Mar 2015
DUSA TV named NaSTA Best Broadcaster
Dundee University Students’ Association’s DUSA TV has been crowned Best Broadcaster of 2015 at the 42nd National Student Television Association (NaSTA) awards conference in Preston. Up against 44 other stations, DUSA TV won the most prestigious award of the conference, recognising it for the standard of content produced over the past year. The Best Broadcaster prize was judged by Shoshana Wilson, Global Acquisitions Director at Fox International Channels, who said that DUSA TV “showcased not just the club nights, but overall brilliance.” This year DUSA TV produced its 300th ...
31 Mar 2015
D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum Easter openings
The University of Dundee’s D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum will open to the public over the Easter weekend, with a particular focus on family visits in light of its recent accreditation as a learning destination for the Children’s University. The Children’s University seeks to “cultivate the imagination of pupils, as well as motivating them and building their self-confidence” by providing children aged between 7 and 14 with the opportunity to take part in voluntary, out-of-school-hours learning. The D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum aims to provide children involved ...
30 Mar 2015
Anthology Five to be launched at DeeCon
Anthology Five, the newest collection of work by comics studies students at the University of Dundee, will be launched this weekend at Dee-Con, Scotland’s largest free anime and comics convention. DeeCon 2015 will be held at Dundee University Students’ Association (DUSA) on Saturday, 4th April, with doors opening at 12pm. The 128-page comic showcases the best work of students from the undergraduate Comics Art & Graphic Novels Module at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, part of the University, and also the postgraduate degree in Comics Studies. A wide variety of subject matt...
30 Mar 2015
Voters offered payment to give their views
Citizens eligible to vote in the UK 2015 General Election have been invited to take part in University of Dundee research that will take a `snapshot’ of people’s election campaign views. Participants from Dundee and the surrounding areas will receive £40 for taking part in the session on Thursday, 2nd April if they are selected to take part. It will be the first of 20 focus groups taking place as part of the 2015 Qualitative Election Study of Britain (QESB 2015), a project led by Politics Lecturer Dr Edzia Carvalho, to identify how the various party campaigns are resonating with the pub...
