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.

Previous Events - Discovery Days 2012

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.