7 Sep 2017
Careers Service in double award win
The University of Dundee’s Careers Service has taken home two awards at one of the sector’s major awards ceremonies. The team from Dundee was triumphant at this year’s Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services awards in Nottingham last night (Wednesday, 8th September). They won the Research Informed Practice Award for their study into how their modules help to increase graduate success. They also received the award for Technology. This was for introducing blogs into their careers modules that allowed students to build up an online portfolio on WordPress. Shona Johnston, Head ...
7 Sep 2017
‘Nursing in the 21st Century’ Café Science on 11th September
A University of Dundee lecturer will talk about how 21st century pressures have led to changes within the nursing profession at the next Café Science event. Tom McConnachie, from the University of Dundee’s School of Nursing and Health Sciences, will be at Avery & Co, South Tay Street, on Monday, 11th September. He will explain how the University is helping to create a generation of resilient and flexible nurses. As well as sharing his experiences from his own time as a nurse, he will also talk about how his current students are working with the army, school pupils and local communities t...
6 Sep 2017
Dundee shortlisted as University of the Year in Times Higher Education Awards
The University of Dundee has been shortlisted as the `University of the Year’ for the Times Higher Education Awards 2017. The shortlisting recognises the University’s remarkable progress over the academic year 2015-16. Following a realignment of the University’s academic and professional structure, which took effect in August 2015, we have: twice been named Scottish University of the Year achieved an average rise of 20 places across the three main league tables in the UK achieved record scores in the National Student Survey, in the top ten in the UK been given a Gold Award in the T...
6 Sep 2017
Coastal potential to be explored
The economic, cultural, social and ecological potential of Scotland’s coastline will be examined at a conference at the University of Dundee next week. Rather than holding separate annual conferences for 2017, the Tay Estuary Forum and Forth Estuary Forum will host a joint event exploring social drivers for change along the nation’s coast, alongside current major economic and cultural developments such as the newly opened Queensferry Crossing. The one-day event, sponsored by Red Rock Power Limited, takes place at the West Park Conference Centre from 10am-4pm on Friday, 15th September. Topics ...
4 Sep 2017
CURRENT Phase Three set for Shanghai
The next instalment of the biggest showcase of Scottish contemporary art to ever take place in China, led by the University of Dundee’s Cooper Gallery, opens later this month. Phase Three of ‘CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland’ opens at Shanghai Himalayas Museum on Saturday, 22nd September. It comprises solo exhibitions from leading Scottish artists Bruce McLean and Ross Sinclair that illuminate how different experiences of ‘the contemporary’ are constituted in time. CURRENT comprises exhibitions and other events featuring more than 50 artists over four phases and is co...
