Global Health Challenge 2022/23
The University’s award winning Global Health Challenge is restarting in 2022/23 following a break due to Covid. We are inviting students from our eight schools to work together across 6 teams to design innovative and entrepreneurial solutions for the global…
Creating personas and empathy mapping.
After conversations with the groups last week, we thought it would be useful to provide you with some helpful tools in your journey towards innovation. It is important when tackling these big challenges to approach them with fresh perspectives. In order to…
Global Health Challenge wins Herald HE Award
The Global Health Challenge (GHC) saw success at the Herald Higher Education Awards in Glasgow on 28th June when it was announced the winner of the Enhancing Student Learning Award. Members of GHC co-ordinating team were delighted to receive the…
Peer to Peer Learning – Open Ears
2016 saw the launch of the University of Dundee’s Global Health Challenge, and in 2017 as part of the Induction we invited ‘Open Ears’ to present their project and its process. Open Ears were voted the winners of 2016 by all…
Pecha Kucha
The Global Health Challenge culminates in a series of Pecha Kucha presentations given by each team, showcasing their process and idea(s) for making a change and having an impact. In this post we offer a brief introduction to the presentation…
Let’s Create a Culture of Collaboration
“Create a Collaborative Mind-set” – IDEO As GHC17 problem solvers, you’ve been tasked in identifying insights and opportunities to bring about positive change for real people experiencing very real and complex issues. Key to the success of this will be…
Global Health Challenge 2017 is Go!
Day one of 2017’s Global Health Challenge kicked off with vim and vigour this week as students, sponsors and staff considered challenges from eight innovative local organisations; The Archie Foundation; Deaf Links; Dundee International Women’s Centre; Faith in Community; Hearing…
Good to See You – Welcome to GHC!
Hello! Welcome everyone to Global Health Challenge! It is a delight to welcome you. My name is Louise and I am one of a large team across the University who have joined together to design and make happen the Global…
All set for Global Health Challenge 2017
Following the success of the 2016 Global Health Challenge (GHC) we’re ready to get started with a set of new challenges for GHC17. It’s fair to say we were overwhelmed by the creativity, energy and inspiration of our students to…
Facilitator as Learner: 3 Key Take-Aways
The Global Health Challenge 2016 brought together students from across the nine schools of University of Dundee to work together to design innovative and entrepreneurial solutions for the wicked problem of health equality, aiming to improve social, cultural and physical…
Thinking Differently
The pressing global health challenges we face today demand that we think differently, and the University of Dundee’s Global Health Challenge initiative is fuelled by this exigency, this need. Indeed, it’s one of the reasons why a process of…
Empathy Maps
“Good design is grounded in a deep understanding of the person for whom you are designing. Designers have many techniques for developing this sort of empathy. An Empathy Map is one tool to help you synthesize your observations and draw…
Using Change Cards to Consider Your Challenge
In a previous post we shared some advice and links to helpful resources on how to go out about framing the challenge your team is working on. Once you’ve done this you might find it useful to start to look at…
Loneliness and Social Isolation in Older People
Loneliness is a distressing subjective psychological experience that may arise when an individual perceives a discrepancy in the quantity and quality of their social relationships. (It is possible for some to feel ‘alone in a room full of people’). Social…
Framing the Challenge
This first week is about exploring and one of the first tasks is to frame your team’s challenge. A number of questions were created during last week’s Barcamp which should help you to do this. We encourage all of the…
Curious Minds
Venturing into the unknown Wednesday 16th October 2016 was an auspicious day at Dundee University. All nine Schools from across the campus came together for the first time, committed to looking at new ways of working to solve some of the most pressing…
Welcome to the Global Health Challenge
Welcome to the University of Dundee Global Health Challenge (GHC). Over at 5-week period (18th October – 15th November 2017) we will be running our first set of GHC projects as students from across our academic schools come together to…