Discovery Days 2012 - 12th and 13th January 2012

You can now view videos of the Discovery Days event on our YouTube page.

The University's most recently appointed professors joined forces with its award winning teachers and communicators in January 2012 to share their passion for their subject in the ninth annual Discovery Days series of 15 minute talks.

Sixteen new professors from a wide variety of disciplines took part in the annual showcase of academic talent and cutting edge research alongside two of the winners of this year's teaching awards.

The University was also delighted to announce the winners of the first Stephen Fry Award for Excellence in Public Engagement with Research.

The Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification were awarded the 2012 Stephen Fry Award for Excellence in Public Engagement with Research.

Prof. Charles McKean, from the School of Humanities was awarded an Honorary Stephen Fry Award for his life time achievements in engaging the public with his research in Scottish architectural history.

At this public event presenter had just 15 minutes to captivate, inform and entertain the audience in the University of Dundee's Dalhousie Building. The final 15 minutes of each session was the audience's chance to put their questions to the speakers and I would like to thank everyone who put forward their questions.

The programme and abstracts of the talks will be available as a pdf before April 2012. If you would like us to send you a copy please contact Jon Urch, Public Outreach Co-ordinator, University of Dundee at RevealingResearch@dundee.ac.uk Phone: 01382 386669.

A Wide Variety of Topics

Discovery Days 2012 began on Thursday 12 January with talks on medical education, transitions and accountancy and concluded with a talk from Prof. Steve Parkes on how Dundee research has putting and keeping rockets in space and vehicles on planets.

Friday 13th January brought a further feast of academic excellence covering a diverse range of subjects including climate change, forensics, law, medicine, physics, dentistry, civil engineering and computing.

Discovery Days continued to showcase our outstanding teaching practice as winners of this year's teaching awards discuss their work. Speakers include teams from Teaching Qualification for Further Education and Design Studies at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, winners and highly-commended respectively, of the University's Honorary Graduates Award for Innovative Teaching.

Discovery Days 2013

Discovery Days will return on Friday 11th January 2013. The event may also run on Thursday 10th January, this decision is depends on the number of newly appointed professors.

The programme and tickets for Discovery Days 2013 will be available from October 2012.

*Everyone is welcome to this free event, which will be hosted at the University of Dundee. We welcome members of the public, colleagues and professionals and we encourage enquiries from secondary school teachers who might consider supervising a class visit to one of the one hour sessions.*

For more information on the event, please contact Jon Urch, Public Outreach Co-ordinator, University of Dundee at RevealingResearch@dundee.ac.uk Phone: 01382 386669.