The University’s School of Business can trace its origins back to 1931 making it 90 years old this year. Founded by textile magnate George Bonar, the Dundee School of Economics and Commerce was housed in Bonar House, Bell Street which…
Congratulations go to Heather Yeung for her poem ‘Song of the Sevens’ which has been included in the Best Scottish Poems 2020. Listen to it at The sound recording of the poem, is a joint performance between herself and Johanna…
“Calm down, they’re just having lunch” University of Dundee Museums partnered with Breast Buddies Dundee for World Breastfeeding Week 2021. The Museum Engagement team edited images from their Fine Art collections in an effort to catch your eye and share…
A new online exhibition curated by Museum Services is now available to view here. Dundee ‘Picturing the City’ explores how artists have depicted the city’s natural and built environment throughout the years. From gloriously gloomy oil paintings of the Seagate…
DJCAD Level 3 Illustration students have been working on an Archive project each year since 2017. Normally, they use boxes of plans, diaries, photographs and other archival material from the collections, but with lock-down we turned to online oral history…
Writing History was an innovative School of Humanities module which encouraged students to explore different approaches to research and writing through the medium of the University’s archive collections. Students used records of Dundee’s jute industry, case books and other material…
It’s fair to say that community festivals across Dundee have struggled over the past year. Both the Stobswell Forum and the University’s own Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) were determined to make Stobfest, Stobswell’s annual festival, happen in 2021. Ali Floyd, from WCAIR…
Enjoy delving into the digital copy of Lifedown Lockdrawing! Accessible here this open, generously spirited, and intimate publication marks a snapshot of DJCAD art and design students’ experience of life drawing and creating a drawing community during the recent sensibilities…
Although now associated with the eponymous shopping centre, the Overgate was once one of Dundee’s main roads, running from the West Port to the High Street. Known in earlier times as Argyllgait, a name later recycled for a nearby road,…
Our amazing staff and students are nearing the end of their challenges to raise money for Parkinson’s research. There is still time to donate so we thought we should remind you of some of the creative things they have been…