The countdown to the Celebrating Our Public Engagement event is on. The University hopes you can join them tomorrow, the 28th of April, at 11am to find out more about the Public Engagement work around campus, what it involves, why the University does it and what it means for staff as well as students. The…Continue Reading Celebrating our Public Engagement
Join Kevin Frediani as he talks about his role as curator at the Dundee Botanic Gardens, about his Gorilla exhibit at Chelsea flower show and about how gardeners work for the benefit of future generation in the Unfinished/Unpublished podcast. Listen to it here:…Continue Reading Unfinished / Unpublished podcast
In a follow up to Dr Daniel Cook’s event celebrating the 250th birthday of James Hogg, Dr Cook, Reader in English recently featured in The Conversation with his article on James Hogg. The article is titled James Hogg at 250: the farmhand who becomes one of Scotland’s greatest storytellers and details his life, career and…Continue Reading James Hogg at 250: the farmhand who becomes one of Scotland’s greatest storytellers
This past month Dr Martine Van Ittersum, Senior Lecturer in History took part in an International Roundtable discussion on the Banadanese Massacre of 1621. Dr Ittersum will also be appearing in a series of two programmes written and presented by Billy Kay which celebrate Scotland’s historic links with the Flemish and Dutch people. They aired on…Continue Reading Bandanese Massacre of 1621
A congratulations is in order for Emily Cassidy, Art & Design student as Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, for winning Scottish Nature Photography Award’s, Student Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year 2020. Entrants were asked to submit a portfolio of three images on the theme of natural light and Emily’s winning entry…Continue Reading Scottish Nature Photography Awards
Elysia Greenway and Viviana Conti, graduate students from the Forensic Art MSc course at Dundee University, have used special 3D scanners to build up digital versions of skulls discovered during excavations to create lifelike facial reconstructions to reveal what people living in Leith up to seven hundred years ago may have looked like. These will…Continue Reading Facial Reconstruction breakthrough
In the final instalment of this year’s Saturday Series, the hosts will take a look at the impact of the current Covid-19 pandemic. With every single corner of society having been affected we have all had to change the way we do things and live within new restrictions, but what have we learnt and what…Continue Reading Saturday Series 2021: Escaping to a Post Covid World
In this post, the first of a series from the University Archives, we look at how parts of the campus and Dundee have changed over the years. We start by looking at the Belmont area of campus, where the Belmont Halls are now. This image taken in 2017 will be familiar to many. Belmont doesn’t…Continue Reading Then and now: changing Dundee – Belmont
Jade Montserrat takes us through her top five books in the newest instalment of “What I am Reading Now…”. Jade Montserrat is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD at IBAR UCLan, and the development of her work from her Black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She works…Continue Reading What I am Reading Now: Jade Montserrat
OpSoc proudly presents the showcase of “We are made in Dagenham, the Musical”. After such a strange year, OpSoc have been lifting our spirits by putting their performances online. Check out their newest showcase here: They have also found a way to bring the show to you live! As they had to cancel this year’s…Continue Reading “We are made in Dagenham”: An OpSoc production
The Botanic Gardens would like to encourage you to take part in this simple idea which has a huge impact. They are asking each garden in Dundee to adopt a wildlife friendly approach to maintain their patch, allowing the community to take part in a larger project “Rewild Dundee”. This project was started by @russaveryconsulting…Continue Reading Rewilding Dundee
We’re excited to share with you this plan of Dundee’s underground from 1908. Dr Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives explains how this ambitious plan was finally realised in 1908 with funding from the Baxter family, who also donated the money to found University College Dundee. Designed by the then city architect Joseph King, the…Continue Reading Dundee’s Hidden History: City’s underground route revealed