The University of Dundee Book Club Podcast has just posted its seventh episode! In this podcast you will have the opportunity to learn out about the books and ideas that have inspired and influenced the many different and wonderful people that we have here on campus. You can access the podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Buzzsprout. This is…Continue Reading The UoD Book Club Podcast, Episode 7: Dr Daniel Cook on ‘Frankenstein’
We are pleased to share that the University of Dundee Botanic Gardens are now open to the public once more after so many weeks of lockdown. You can find out all about the re-opening and how to visit by watching this information video. If you are still unable to visit in person, then the Botanics…Continue Reading Botanic Gardens: Plants Thriving in Summer Weather (Video)
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the Archives team in another video delving into Dundee’s past. In many of the previous Archives videos, we have explored many old buildings and structures which have now disappeared from Dundee. In this video, we will explore what may be the most iconic and famous lost Dundee building: Dundee Town…Continue Reading The University Archives: Dundee Town House (Video)
Enjoy this virtual performance of ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’ by Howard Goodall created by the University of Dundee ‘Virtual Choir’. Music Director Graeme Stevenson has been posting regular virtual performances featuring many different University of Dundee staff members and students over lockdown. You can find all of the performances over on…Continue Reading University of Dundee Virtual Choir perform ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’
While the University’s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some of our most interesting objects and artworks. In this video we look at the…Continue Reading Recent Fine Art Acquisitions for the Duncan of Jordanstone College Collection (Video)
Our Architecture students in partnership with Wuhan University, China, across all year groups, worked with tutors from University of Dundee via Zoom. Together they designed museums, galleries, community centres, city designs and more in a space of 8 weeks during a global pandemic 2020. See the architecture projects from the students at Wuhan University in…Continue Reading Architecture students in partnership with Wuhan University design projects via Zoom
Although the lockdown is now easing, the need for social distancing means that face-to-face guided tours are still not possible, so museum curator Matthew Jarron is continuing his virtual public art and design tours using Google Streetview and photos from Public Art Dundee volunteers. This tour is the fourth and final one in the city…Continue Reading Public Art Tour of Dundee City Centre – Part 4 (Video)
This short MP4 was created in collaboration with the PGDE 19-20 (Postgraduate Diploma in Education) students from the school of Education and Social Work at University of Dundee. It comprises materials and images from their art and design workshops as well as their photographs of their primary children’s art and design work, from three placements…Continue Reading PGDE 19-20 Art & Design Workshops (Video)
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives in another video delving into Dundee’s past. This video looks again at the development of Dundee City Centre, but this time with a twist; we explore the development of Dundee as it didn’t happen! Even after the radical architectural changes of the city centre in the 1870s…Continue Reading The University Archives: Thomson’s Vision of Dundee (Video)
While the University’s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some of our most interesting objects and artworks. In this video we look at eleven…Continue Reading Dundee’s Pioneers of Medicine (Video)
The University of Dundee Book Club Podcast has just posted its sixth episode! In this podcast you will have the opportunity to learn out about the books and ideas that have inspired and influenced the many different and wonderful people that we have here on campus. You can access the podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Buzzsprout. This is…Continue Reading The UoD Book Club Podcast, Episode 6: Dr. Karen Petrie on ‘Invisible Women’
Archives relating to the whaling industry inspired Alice Millar-Thompson’s illustrated essay, ‘In the Belly of a Whale’, for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition. The photograph is part of the David Henderson collection. In the Belly of a Whale by Alice Millar-Thompson Creative essay “The legacy of Dundee’s involvement in the retrospectively barbaric, yet highly…Continue Reading RDMH – In the Belly of a Whale by Alice Millar-Thompson