Dundee is all about encouraging collaboration and cross discipline working and this ethos is embodied in the SSC (student selected component) offered by the School of Medicine called the Art of Medicine. The module explores how a study of the arts can lead to a greater understanding of what it means to be a good…Continue Reading The Art of Medicine
“Through Our Eyes, In Our Words” is more than an exhibition — it’s the culmination of collaboration, creativity, and community. Built from the lived experiences of middle to older aged LGBT+ people and people with learning disabilities, the exhibition transforms rich research data into a visual and emotional journey. But what brought this project to…Continue Reading From Research to Reality: How Collaboration Turned IncludeAge Data into an Exhibition
Between February-March 2025, six University of Dundee Humanities students were selected to be writers-in-residence at the V&A Dundee. The residents each spent one week working in a dedicated space in the museum, making creative responses to A Fragile Correspondence, a major international exhibition looking at intersections of land, language and architecture in the Scottish Highlands,…Continue Reading A Fragile Correspondence: Creative Writing Residency at V&A Dundee
The Global Room is a social space on City Campus for all students to relax, meet new people and celebrate cultural events. Their drop-in sessions include DUSA Advice, Immigration Compliance, International Advice Team and other student services. The Go Abroad drop in sessions with student ambassadors, promote the value of mobility, encouraging students to work,…Continue Reading Cultural offerings from the Global Room
The latest exhibition in the Tower Foyer Gallery celebrates the life and work of painter and art teacher Peter Flynn and marks two significant milestones – the artist’s recent 70th birthday and 50 years since he began his formal study of painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. The exhibition features recent…Continue Reading Peter Flynn – Crossings
A project which is a unique collaboration between the University of Dundee, DCA, NHS Tayside and Dundee City Council has been shortlisted in the Partnership of the Year category of the Scottish Charity Awards. The project produced a book which aims to support expectant parents in bonding with their babies during pregnancy. Through illustrations, questions,…Continue Reading Hello in There Wee One: finalist in Scottish Charity Awards
Did you know that there is a figure who played a key role in both VE Day and the history of the University of Dundee? In this blog Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives explains how Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, went from accepting the German surrender to shaping the future of the University. Arthur…Continue Reading 80th anniversary of VE Day
Breaking the Chains is a map and walking tour exploring Dundee’s links to transatlantic slavery that was co-created by the University of Dundee Museums and Dundee Libraries in 2022 (see Breaking the Chains – University Culture Online ). The response to the trail has been hugely positive and it has been widely used by schools…Continue Reading Breaking the Chains: Making Connections
This update covers some of the fantastic work done by the Cooper Gallery over the past few months. We start with their ongoing project What I am Reading Now… a monthly digital publication, and critical platform dedicated to celebrating and disseminating current ideas and discussions by invited Black practitioners and practitioners of colour. December 2024…Continue Reading Recent Activity from the Cooper Gallery
Museum volunteer Delaney Brown (an art history student at the University of St Andrews) tells us about the current exhibition in the Tower Foyer Gallery which she curated in association with the University of Dundee Museums. The female body has long been a powerful tool for storytelling in art, embodying themes of beauty, morality, identity,…Continue Reading Reframing the Muse
The Archive’s Alive and if you need any convincing get yourself along to the Entrance Galleries in the Matthew building at DJCAD. The current exhibition of newly created artwork by the incredibly talented students of Level 3 Communication Design studying illustration under the tutelage of Senior Lecturer, Natalie Russell, is open until 14 March 2025….Continue Reading Archive collections brought to life!
For international women’s day, Kenneth from the Archives takes a look at some of the notable women in the early history of the University, a reminder of how important understanding our past is in shaping who we are today, and who we want to be in future. . University College was founded at the end…Continue Reading The contribution of women to the first years of the University