In this following video for #WellTogether week, University Archivist Jan Merchant talks us through the Big Back Garden Project. The Big Back Garden Project is a project run by the Archive Services at the University of Dundee with Morgan Academy S3 pupils. It looks at the history of Baxter Park and its role on the…Continue Reading #WellTogether: Big Back Garden Project
Since 2016 the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies has produced a number of public information comics, many of them dealing with healthcare issues and science communication. When the Coronavirus pandemic took hold in early 2020, sending the world into lockdown, communities and individuals have done amazing things to help themselves and others, from observing social…Continue Reading #WellTogether: Pandemic Tales: Responses to COVID-19 and Lockdown Comics
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 #WellTogether: Public Art Tour of Broughty Ferry, Dundee
As part of #WellTogether Week, we wanted to share with you ‘Dundee Isolation Film Festival’, a night for collectively enjoying the best of Dundee’s own moving image work, even while stuck in quarantine! University of Dundee PhD Researcher and Filmmaker Christopher Gerrard will be hosting this fantastic online event in association with Creative Dundee on…Continue Reading #WellTogether: Dundee Isolation Film Festival
Next up for #WellTogether week, we are sharing the amazing online art project created and shared online by CollaborACES, which has provided our community with weekly projects to inspire us to get crafty and creative during this difficult time! CollaborACES is a collaborative online creative project between ACES Tayside at the University of Dundee and…Continue Reading #WellTogether: CollaborACES Weekly Art Projects
For #WellTogether Week, University Archivist Caroline Brown has created some short talks which explore how archives relate to mental well-being. Today we share the first of her short talks, in which she discusses collections that relate to mental health in the University Archives; the University Archives hold the archives of NHS Tayside, including information about…Continue Reading #WellTogether: University of Dundee Archives and Mental Health Part 1 (Video)
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 #WellTogether: Public Art Tour of Blackness, Dundee
Getting out in nature can be a great way to relax and practice mindfulness. We know that it’s not possible for everyone to get out as much as we would normally like, so the Botanic Gardens here at University of Dundee have been posting regular updates from the garden so we have a way to…Continue Reading #WellTogether: Mindfulness in the Botanic Gardens
We can all often feel overwhelmed by one thing or another. Whether it’s coursework, problems in our personal life or we’re just having a bad day, sometimes we need to escape from the outside world for a while. One of the best ways to find that escape is through music. Music is all around us…Continue Reading #WellTogether: TradSoc on How Music Helps Our Wellbeing & A 30 Day Music Challenge
Our very own Colin from IT has written a song and directed a video during the lockdown, and we’re sure this will ring true for all those working from home in this difficult period. We know working from home brings its own challenges, but this is a lovely reminder that our university community are all…Continue Reading #WellTogether: ‘Let’s All Have a Teams Meeting’ – A Song by Colin Reid from IT
This week the #DundeeUniCulture blog is holding a ‘Well Together’ week-long event starting from today. Throughout the week, all blog posts will focus on mindfulness and well-being activities that our staff and students have been doing in order to look after themselves and the community during this difficult time. Our first ‘Well Together’ post comes…Continue Reading #WellTogether: These Are The Hands – Poems from the Heart of the NHS
“This was created for my PhD chapter on noir comics and has been adopted onto the film noir course. It is a silly anthropomorphic romp in a sci-fi/ noir world. It has suggestions for films to watch in order to understand the references in the comic, so that could be good boredom busting during lockdown…Continue Reading The Big Sheep: A Philip Merlot Thriller – A Comic by PhD student Hailey Austin