Announcements from the University of Dundee
Student and staff announcements, University statements, and service updates
Student messages
Information about the Covid-19 testing scheme for students who wish to return home around Christmas
Conferences
The third PhD-Staff seminar of the semester was held on 11 November with presentations from Prof Raphael Heffron and PhD student Haruna Isallah.
The global economy is experiencing a transition from high-carbon energy resources to low-carbon resources
Part of our Visiting Speaker Series
Public engagement
The University of Dundee has become the first academic institution in Scotland to sign-up to a new pledge, to help promote diversity in engineering
As part of his visiting professorship at the University of Gothenburg’s Centre for Global HR, Graeme Martin is presenting three online seminars in November and December in Sweden
Dr Norin Arshed has been appointed to a highly competitive Scottish Parliament Fellowship
Dr Sudhu Paramati, Professor Bill Russell and colleagues, have organised the School’s first inaugural research conference during 24-26 November 2020.
The 2nd PhD – Staff seminar of this academic year was held on 28th October 2020 with two presentations.
Dr Michael Crabb from the University of Dundee’s Computing department has been appointed to the role of Human Computer Interaction Theme Lead of The Scottish Informatic and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA).
What is ‘R’ and why does it need to be less than one? How many people need to take a vaccine for it to be effective? How much social distancing is needed to flatten the curve? And what does mathematics have to do with any of this?
Awards and accolades
Yi Ou, a current student on the Energy Finance dual degree program with CUP-B, has just been awarded a National Excellence Scholarship by her school on behalf of the Ministry of Education of China.
Abdullah Yusuf (Politics), Carlo Morelli (Economic Studies) and Omar Feraboli (Economic Studies) organised the 3rd Post-Crash Economics Conference which took place online on 1-2 October
The Norman K Harrison medal is presented annually at the discretion of the chairman to a member of the institution in recognition of their work and services to medical illustration
Public engagement
The School of Science and Engineering are delighted to announce our Equate Student Network champions 2020
The University of Dundee and Northeastern University (NEU) in China have welcomed their second cohort of students on to the double degree in Biomedical Engineering which is delivered as part of a Joint Educational Partnership (JEP) between the two institutions
We are exploring the possibility of re-opening inbound and outbound student mobility for semester 2
Civil Engineering lecturer and Director of Public Engagement and Outreach for the School of Science and Engineering, Dr Margi Vilnay has been elected vice-chair of the Executive Board of the Council of Military Education Committees (COMEC)
Staff messages
Latest staff announcement from Dr Jim McGeorge, University Secretary & Chief Operating Officer
For the first time in its history, the School of Business at the University of Dundee has formally established an Industry Advisory Board