by Grant Hill | Dec 3, 2019 | Also on the blog, Student news
Visitors to Moncreiffe Hill Wood just outside Perth are now able to gain a new perspective of their surroundings thanks to the creative endeavours of two Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design students. Célia El Hadrati and Ian Young were this year’s...
by Grant Hill | Oct 7, 2019 | Also on the blog, Public Engagement Stories
“Oh dear me, the world is ill-divided, Them that works the hardest are the least provided.” So wrote Dundee poet, songwriter and activist Mary Brooksbank in The Jute Mill Song, her most celebrated work. The words are a fitting epitaph to this fearless champion of the...
by Grant Hill | Aug 21, 2019 | Home page feature
For Amanda Styles, data science is not just an occupation but a vocation. She passionately believes that it can be used to make the world a better place and matriculating at the University of Dundee gave her the opportunity to prove just that. Amanda graduated in MSc...
by Grant Hill | Jan 24, 2019 | Home page feature, Staff news
It has been dubbed ‘Scotland’s silent killer’ and urgent action needs to be taken to help the 1.3 million adults in the country estimated to be living with the condition, according to a major new report.High blood pressure is a major cause of heart attack and stroke,...
by Grant Hill | Jan 22, 2019 | Home page feature, Public Engagement Stories, Staff news
Like all archaeologists, Dr Alice Watterson spends her days with one foot in the past but when she was asked to join an excavation in the Alaskan tundra it was the start of a journey into a lost world of war, peace and dance. As well as being an archaeologist, Alice...