Largo – Francesco Maria Veracini Today Mareth, a member of our cello section in the Dundee University Orchestra 2019-2020 is playing the very beautiful Largo by Veracini. Mareth is in second year and studying English and Creative Writing at the…
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not…
For the first of our Flashback Friday Film Festival from the University Archives we’re going back nearly 90 years. The film has been set to music by Steven Gellatly, with many thanks to him, In the early 1930s Professor Alexander…
DJCAD students often propose to take over exhibition spaces in the DJCAD Matthew and Crawford buildings. The ‘Capture’ photography competition curated by our level two Contemporary Art Student, Katie Nelis, was due to ‘pop up’ in the Matthew Lower Foyer,…
‘Localising Philosophy, Democratising Technology’ is an educational project developed by Dr Dominic Smith (Philosophy) and Dr Anna Robb (Education). The aim of the project is to engage school pupils in sessions that foster critical literacy about the roles of technologies…
While the University’s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind…
In this video created by Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives team, you can learn about the early years of one of the University of Dundee’s most enduring student publications: Annasach. Annasach was the first University of Dundee student…
The University of Dundee Book Club Podcast has just posted its fourth episode! In this podcast you will have the opportunity to learn out about the books and ideas that have inspired and influenced the many different and wonderful people…
Join University Archivist Caroline Brown in this fantastic video as she talks about the role of women in the early years of the institution, which at that time was called University College, Dundee. This is the first of two videos…
In January we eased gently into 2020, honoured that the World Health Organisation had identified this year as Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Given that many nurses have started their career doing nursing programmes at the University of Dundee…