1 Sep 2016

10,000th user signs up to ‘My Diabetes My Way’ website.

Over 10,000 people across Scotland are now using the ‘My Diabetes My Way’ website to access their medical records online. Developed at the University of Dundee, in collaboration with NHS Scotland, the website allows patients to have online access to test results, clinic letters and their very own treatment plan. It also contains multimedia resources aimed at improving self-management, including traditional information leaflets, interactive educational tools, videos describing diabetes-related complications and testimonials from people with diabetes talking about their experiences. Dr Scott C...

1 Sep 2016

‘Identifying the Dead’ shortlisted for Times Higher Education Award

An online course which enabled more than 20,000 crime fiction fans to play the role of forensic investigator in a Val McDermid murder mystery has seen the University of Dundee nominated for a prestigious Times Higher Education Award. The University’s internationally renowned Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) has been shortlisted in the ‘Outstanding Digital Innovation in Teaching or Research’ category of the THE Awards 2016. ‘Identifying the Dead’ was launched in conjunction with social learning platform FutureLearn last year. FutureLearn enables millions of...