The Doctoral Academy’s first Images of Research competition received 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase research profiles and get creative all at the same time. Each entrant was…Continue Reading The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research – ‘Innovating technological solutions to tomorrow’s problems’
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The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research – ‘Life-enhancing creativity and design’
The Doctoral Academy’s first Images of Research competition received 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase research profiles and get creative all at the same time. Each entrant was…Continue Reading The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research – ‘Life-enhancing creativity and design’
The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research – ‘Understanding and improving health and wellbeing’
The Doctoral Academy’s first Images of Research competition received 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase research profiles and get creative all at the same time. Each entrant was…Continue Reading The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research – ‘Understanding and improving health and wellbeing’
The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research Competition Winners
The Doctoral Academy’s first Images of Research competition has now come to a close, with 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase research profiles and get…Continue Reading The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research Competition Winners
Dundee Museum of Memory Digital Exhibition: ‘Love From, Elie’ by Mollie Stevenson
The Digital Exhibition 2020 of the Dundee Museum of Memory showcases student work on the new interdisciplinary Humanities module Making Memory. For their final assignment, students selected a ‘site of memory’ from Dundee and beyond and created a digital exhibit choosing forms such as a photo-essay, video, podcast, piece of creative writing, or comic strip,…Continue Reading Dundee Museum of Memory Digital Exhibition: ‘Love From, Elie’ by Mollie Stevenson
Capture: DJCAD Student photography exhibition
DJCAD students often propose to take over exhibition spaces in the DJCAD Matthew and Crawford buildings. The ‘Capture’ photography competition curated by our level two Contemporary Art Student, Katie Nelis, was due to ‘pop up’ in the Matthew Lower Foyer, earlier this year in April. Unfortunately due to the current lock down and closure of…Continue Reading Capture: DJCAD Student photography exhibition
The Peto Collection – Kerala, India, 1967
Peto worked overseas on Save the Children Fund assignments, capturing the poverty and hardships of what was known then as ‘third world countries’. This photograph from 1967, taken in Kerala, is one of many featured in the Peto Collection from his time overseas with Save the Children. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during…Continue Reading The Peto Collection – Kerala, India, 1967
The Peto Collection – Nuns on Deckchairs, 1960s
Peto’s passion for photographing the ordinary often led him to capturing the more eccentric aspects of British life – and this capture of a group nuns sleeping in deckchairs from the ’60s is a quintessential example. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during the 1950s and ‘60s. His collection is a chronicle of an…Continue Reading The Peto Collection – Nuns on Deckchairs, 1960s
Dundee through Professor George Howard Bell’s Lens: Part 2
George Howard Bell was Symers Professor of Physiology in the University of Dundee, 1947-1975. He was a keen photographer and took photographs of the University, Dundee and its surrounding area. We are lucky enough to hold his collection in the University Archives. This video, created by Kenneth Baxter from the Archive Services at the University,…Continue Reading Dundee through Professor George Howard Bell’s Lens: Part 2
Dundee through Professor George Howard Bell’s Lens: Part 1
George Howard Bell was Symers Professor of Physiology in the University of Dundee, 1947-1975. He was a keen photographer and took photographs of the University, Dundee and its surrounding area. We are lucky enough to hold his collection in the University Archives. This video, created by Kenneth Baxter from the Archive Services at the University,…Continue Reading Dundee through Professor George Howard Bell’s Lens: Part 1
The Peto Collection – A Foggy Day in Dundee
Peto regularly visited Dundee, photographing the city’s streets and people. ‘Foggy Day’ was taken at Whorterbank, Lochee, features one of the women wearing the famous jute ‘baffies’ and won a European award in 1960. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during the 1950s and ‘60s. His collection is a chronicle of an age –…Continue Reading The Peto Collection – A Foggy Day in Dundee
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