by Jonathan Urch | Mar 16, 2020 | Also on the blog, Public Engagement Stories
Hi Everyone! My name is Laura and I am the President of the Dundee Dental Wikipedia Editing Project. My team and I were given the honour and privilege to organize the 4th Annual Wikipedia Collaboration of Dental Schools Conference that took place on Saturday 7 March....
by Jonathan Urch | Feb 14, 2020 | Public Engagement Stories
It’s been over ten years since I was bitten by the public engagement bug and moved from research to my current job. Back then I’ll admit that as a postdoc I hadn’t heard of the term ‘public engagement’ and had absolutely no idea of the ways in which it would change my...
by Jonathan Urch | Jan 10, 2020 | Campus News, Home page feature, Public Engagement Stories
Stephen Fry has lavished praise on University of Dundee staff and students who have won awards, named after the University’s former rector, for their success in sharing their work with the public. The Stephen Fry Awards for Excellence in Public Engagement celebrate...
by Christina Miller | Dec 4, 2019 | Also on the blog, Public Engagement Stories, Student news
Dental students Laura Tan and Su Min Lai represented Dundee Dental School’s Wikipedia Editing Team at the British Association of the Study of Community Dentistry Conference (BASCD) last month, on Thursday 21 November 2019. Their poster was titled “The Wikipedia...
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...
