Month: May 2020

#WellTogether: University of Dundee Archives and Mental Health Part 1 (Video)

For #WellTogether Week, University Archivist Caroline Brown has created some short talks which explore how archives relate to mental well-being. Today we share the first of her short talks, in which she discusses collections that relate to mental health in the University Archives; the University Archives hold the archives of NHS Tayside, including information about…Continue Reading #WellTogether: University of Dundee Archives and Mental Health Part 1 (Video)

#WellTogether: TradSoc on How Music Helps Our Wellbeing & A 30 Day Music Challenge

We can all often feel overwhelmed by one thing or another. Whether it’s coursework, problems in our personal life or we’re just having a bad day, sometimes we need to escape from the outside world for a while. One of the best ways to find that escape is through music. Music is all around us…Continue Reading #WellTogether: TradSoc on How Music Helps Our Wellbeing & A 30 Day Music Challenge

#WellTogether: ‘Let’s All Have a Teams Meeting’ – A Song by Colin Reid from IT

Our very own Colin from IT has written a song and directed a video during the lockdown, and we’re sure this will ring true for all those working from home in this difficult period. We know working from home brings its own challenges, but this is a lovely reminder that our university community are all…Continue Reading #WellTogether: ‘Let’s All Have a Teams Meeting’ – A Song by Colin Reid from IT

#WellTogether: These Are The Hands – Poems from the Heart of the NHS

This week the #DundeeUniCulture blog is holding a ‘Well Together’ week-long event starting from today. Throughout the week, all blog posts will focus on mindfulness and well-being activities that our staff and students have been doing in order to look after themselves and the community during this difficult time. Our first ‘Well Together’ post comes…Continue Reading #WellTogether: These Are The Hands – Poems from the Heart of the NHS

The Big Sheep: A Philip Merlot Thriller – A Comic by PhD student Hailey Austin

“This was created for my PhD chapter on noir comics and has been adopted onto the film noir course. It is a silly anthropomorphic romp in a sci-fi/ noir world. It has suggestions for films to watch in order to understand the references in the comic, so that could be good boredom busting during lockdown…Continue Reading The Big Sheep: A Philip Merlot Thriller – A Comic by PhD student Hailey Austin

These Windows: a collaborative project between UoD and the V&A Dundee

‘These Windows’ is a collaborative publishing project between the University of Dundee and the V&A Dundee. The online gallery, gathered on DURA, pairs with a forthcoming printed publication to showcase the creative dexterity of DJCAD Illustration BDes students and School of Humanities Creative Writing & Practice MLitt students. The first instalment of the project comes in the form of…Continue Reading These Windows: a collaborative project between UoD and the V&A Dundee

Festival of the Future: University of Dundee’s celebration of science, arts and culture

Festival of the Future is the University of Dundee’s annual event which celebrates science, arts and culture. In 2019 we had 60 events across 5 days in Bonar Hall and other venues around the city. We collaborated with a range of partners including Dundee Science Festival, DCA and Dundee Rep Theatre, we journeyed to Mars,…Continue Reading Festival of the Future: University of Dundee’s celebration of science, arts and culture

The Peto Collection – Barcelona Streetlife, June 1959

This vibrant picture, taken in June 1959, was one of a series Peto photographed for the ‘Observer’ which did a feature of Spanish life under Franco’s regime. In the 1950s Franco implemented some reforms of Spain’s isolationist self-sufficiency policies which led to massive economic growth and a move away from its totalitarian repressive regime. Photo-journalist…Continue Reading The Peto Collection – Barcelona Streetlife, June 1959

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