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 OneDundee | Jul 31, 2019 | Campus News, Public Engagement Stories
By Matthew Jarron, Curator of Museum Services Dundee has an exceptional collection of over 500 sculptures, murals, mosaics and other forms of public art. The latest exhibition in the Lamb Gallery showcases photographs of artworks past and present as well as unique...
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...
by Cara Longmuir | Sep 5, 2018 | Home page feature, Public Engagement Stories
To many people in Dundee, V&A Dundee is a new feature to the city’s waterfront. But to alumna Tara Wainwright it has been a project that started a decade ago. Tara joined the V&A Dundee project 10 years ago, while seconded from the University. She graduated...