26 May 2015
Medical and healthcare students report high levels of abuse and breaches of patient safety and dignity
A survey of almost 4000 medical and healthcare students from across the United Kingdom has found that more than half of those questioned indicated that they had witnessed clinicians breaching patient dignity or safety during the past year. Similar numbers also reported witnessing the abuse of workplace colleagues - with over 75 per cent reporting being victims of abuse themselves. The survey, carried out by researchers from the University of Dundee and Cardiff University, also found that medical and healthcare students experience distress during and after these events, with women reporting greater distre...
26 May 2015
Dundee on the rise in Guardian league tables
The University of Dundee is among the fastest risers in the 2016 Guardian University Rankings, released today. Dundee is placed 38th in this year’s rankings, up nine places from 47th last year. The ranking reflects strong student satisfaction scores at the University, which has been consistently rated as offering the best student experience in Scotland. The University was in the top ten in the UK in Medicine (4th), Dentistry (7th), Mechanical Engineering (7th), Fashion & Textiles (7th) and Mathematics (8th) and top 20 in several subject areas including Design & Crafts (11th), Education (11t...
25 May 2015
How medicine and other drugs changed the face of Asia
The ways in which drugs, medical, spiritual, psychoactive and recreational, impacted on the development of Asia will be explored at a University of Dundee conference this week. ‘Monitoring Markets: Medical Substances in South Asia’ takes place at Dundee Contemporary Arts on Wednesday, 27th and Thursday, 28th May. An international line-up of delegates will come together for the conference, which takes place as part of the University’s ‘Two Months of Global History’ series. Themes include histories of individual drugs and opiates, their social uses and discontents, their polit...
25 May 2015
Residency offers support for graduating artists and designers
Exhibitors at this year’s Dundee Art, Design and Architecture Degree Show will have the chance to compete for a lucrative residency at the University of Dundee. The Degree Show, which celebrates the success of graduating students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and the department of Architecture, takes place from 22nd to 31st May. Up to 12 residencies are available for Art, Craft, Design and Media graduates from the past three years and the programme aims to bridge the gap between an undergraduate degree and a flourishing career in creative practice or industry. Successful ap...
25 May 2015
Alison’s Degree Show plans to put Blairgowrie pupils outside
Pupils at Blairgowrie High School could have a new outdoor space for performance, teaching and meetings if designs by a University of Dundee student come to fruition. Alison Taylor, who is about to graduate with a degree in Interior Environmental Design, has been working with staff and pupils at the school to turn a disused space on the school grounds into a multi-purpose venue. Her designs are on display now at part of the University of Dundee Art, Design and Architecture Degree Show. “I read a statistic which said that school pupils can spend more time in one day looking at a screen than they mi...