As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not been possible, so here is a virtual tour using Google Streetview and photos from Public…Continue Reading Public Art Tour of the Hilltown, Dundee Part 1
For the first of our Flashback Friday Film Festival from the University Archives we’re going back nearly 90 years. The film has been set to music by Steven Gellatly, with many thanks to him, https://www.stevengellatly.com/. In the early 1930s Professor Alexander David Peacock, University College Dundee’s Professor of Natural History from 1926-1956, led a number of…Continue Reading Flashback Friday Film Festival: Rona and Raasay
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
‘Localising Philosophy, Democratising Technology’ is an educational project developed by Dr Dominic Smith (Philosophy) and Dr Anna Robb (Education). The aim of the project is to engage school pupils in sessions that foster critical literacy about the roles of technologies in everyday life. The inspiration behind the project is a radio piece by the German…Continue Reading Localising Philosophy, Democratising Technology
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 an…Continue Reading The Moira Macgregor Bequest – Biba and Beyond
In this video created by Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives team, you can learn about the early years of one of the University of Dundee’s most enduring student publications: Annasach. Annasach was the first University of Dundee student publication and, as you will learn in the following video, played an important role in…Continue Reading The University Archives: Annasach (Video)
The University of Dundee Book Club Podcast has just posted its fourth 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 4, Erin Hardee on ‘Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning’
Join University Archivist Caroline Brown in this fantastic video as she talks about the role of women in the early years of the institution, which at that time was called University College, Dundee. This is the first of two videos and includes Doris MacKinnon , Mary Ann Baxter and Mary Lily Walker….Continue Reading Early Women at University College, Dundee
In January we eased gently into 2020, honoured that the World Health Organisation had identified this year as Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Given that many nurses have started their career doing nursing programmes at the University of Dundee and several thriving nursing programmes in the School of Health Sciences today we decided to…Continue Reading 2020 Year of the Nurse – Time Capsule Project
The Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures have shared a trace of what we they up to before these strange times, with a number of recent publications from staff members. Until we can gather in a less virtual way to celebrate this in the future, we would like to join them in celebrating these fantastic…Continue Reading Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures: New Publications from Colleagues
Today on the #DundeeUniCulture blog we are sharing this fantastic review of a recent TV adaptation of H.G. Wells’s classic novel The War of the Worlds, written by University of Dundee’s very own Dr Keith Williams. Keith teaches Wells at Level 4 UG and on our Science Fiction Master’s – find out more about the course…Continue Reading Review of ‘The War of the Worlds’, first transmitted on BBC 1 November 2019
After receiving a question about how to grow the Sensitive plant from seed, the team at the Botanics have created this tutorial video with hints and tips for you to try yourself at home….Continue Reading Botanics Tutorial: How to grow Sensitive plant from seed