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Wednesday 5 July 2017

Staff Newsletter Issue 47


 

From the editors ...

If you wish to communicate around the University, this fortnightly newsletter is just one way to do that. Please check our Methods of Internal Communication webpage, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

The next newsletter will be distributed on Wednesday 19 July - the deadline is 4 pm on Friday 14 July.

 

 

Contents

  • Announcements
  • CASTLE
  • UoD IT
  • News
  • What's On
  • Blogs
  • Get in touch

 

Announcements

 
 

DJCAD Short courses

DJCAD Summer Shortcourses
 

Interested in trying one of our Art & Design Summer Short Courses? You can try your hand at Jewellery & Silversmithing, Screen printing on fabric, Portfolio sketchbook preparation, Life Drawing, Portraits or Painting and Drawing. Find out more about the courses and how to sign up.

 

 
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Researchers have created a web app allowing you to see life through the eyes of a street child

'Growing Up on the Streets' is an app created by researchers here at Dundee, led by Professor Lorraine van Blerk and funded by the Stephen Fry Award for Public Engagement Project of the Year. The app allows the user to see images and hear sounds from Accra in Ghana and can be downloaded here.

 

 

British Council Alumni Awards – call for applications

The British Council Alumni Awards promote the benefits of an education at a UK HEI and are open to alumni from around the world (outside the UK). The awards are open to global applications for the first time ever. The awards are internationally prestigious and offer the winners recognition, publicity and acknowledgement of their success on the global scale.

If you know of any alumni who live outside the UK and graduated in the last 15 years please encourage them to apply and let us know at alumni@dundee.ac.uk


 

Neuroimaging Study

A study by medical students on the avoidance in anxiety and avoidance learning, are looking for people who are cool, calm and collected. The study involves a decision-making task and a brain scan and you will receive £20-30 for taking part. If you are interested in volunteering contact at avoidancestudy@gmail.com


 

On Social Media

Social Media this month
 

Just because graduation is over doesn't mean it's quiet on social media. Last week Dundee Dental Insights took over Snapchat as they showed us the life of a dental student here at the number one dental school in the UK. You can watch the full takeover here. On Instagram the Medicine Marketing Officers visited the Assisted Conception Unit - learning about what students are exposed to on our MSc course. On Twitter staff shared their delight at receiving their Student Led Teaching Awards 2017 mugs, and on Facebook we were featured twice on Buzzfeed's '19 Things Dundee Has That The Rest Of The World Needs Urgently Needs'.

 

 

CASTLE

 
 
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Congratulations to Dr Lorraine Anderson, Principal Fellow of the HEA

CASTLE is delighted to announce that their Head, Dr Lorraine Anderson, has achieved the status of Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (PFHEA). She is the first member of University staff to receive this accolade, in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and support in Higher Education.

Apply for HEA Fellowship – CASTLE can support you in the application process. Read more

 

 

Student Transitions Symposium

Over 70 members of staff joined together for an inspiring day to hear about our institutional activities in this area over the last three years. Keynote speaker, Professor Sally Brown, was fantastic, and there was an impromptu workshop from Sally’s husband, Professor Phil Race. All of the presentations and posters from the day are now available to view online.


 

Open Badges in HE – What, Why and How?

As part of a QAA Scotland-funded project looking at the use of Open Badges through a transition lens, CASTLE hosted a dissemination event on Monday 19 June. Our project partners from the Universities of Aberdeen and Abertay and 49 colleagues from a range of HE and FE institutions joined us for keynotes by Grainne Hamilton and Doug Belshaw. The programme of events prompted several interesting discussions. All of the presentations from the day are now available to view online.


 

Defining Scholarship – Challenges and Perspectives (Fri 1 Sep)

Save the date for the CASTLE and the School of Social Sciences Symposium around scholarships. More details to follow soon.


 

UoD IT

 
 

My Dundee upgrade: update (Mon 17- Fri 21 Jul)

A wee reminder that My Dundee will be offline during the week starting 17 of July to facilitate an upgrade of the underlying Blackboard platform. It will be switched back on by the 21. We’re also taking this opportunity to give the platform a fresh new look with a new theme and new UoD branding. To read more about these changes and the upgrade week, have a look at our blog post.


 

Teaching into Calendar

This new service is set to launch in July and will benefit academic staff whose teaching forms part of Central Timetabling. It will automatically add your centrally scheduled teaching activities to your work email calendar for you. Read more.


 

Contacting IT Buying

All requests and queries should go through Help4U or the online form to be actioned. The IT-Buying@dundee.ac.uk email address is no longer in operation and will be retired on Mon 31 July.


 

News

More news stories and press releases at www.dundee.ac.uk/news

 
 
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New Designers Sainsbury’s Award for Daisy

A textile design graduate has been named the winner of a prestigious New Designers Award. Daisy Stott, who exhibited her work at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design Degree Show, won the Sainsbury’s Home Award at the New Designers exhibition in London for her tableware collection `Foraged Findings’, inspired by edible plant and foodstuffs found throughout Scotland. Read the story.

 

 
Janet Xuanli Liao

China is planning ahead for life after coal

China’s remarkable growth over the past three decades has elevated it to global superpower status. But its economic miracle has also attracted attention for the wrong reasons: the country is now the world’s largest energy consumer, oil importer, and CO₂ emitter. Read Janet Xuanli Liao's article in The Conversation.

 

 
James B. Procter

Data visualisation isn’t just for communication, it’s also a research tool

At the heart of the scientific method lies the ability to make sense from data. However, this is a challenge in the fast-moving field of biotechnology, where new experimental methods are creating huge amounts of complex data. Read Seán I. O'Donoghue and James B. Procter's article in The Conversation.

 

 

What's On

For all University events, visit www.dundee.ac.uk/events

 
 

Outer Space I Inner Space: Wednesday Wonders (Wed 12 Jul)

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Find out about the amazing research work taking place into diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Get involved with science experiments and discover the tools scientists use to help them learn more about the wonders of the world of biomedical research. Please contact the Mills Observatory to inform them you are coming, for more information please see the events page.

 

 

Blogs

A round up of our blogs

 
 
Student blogger Catherine

Student Blog: That's a wrap!

For Catherine, one of our student bloggers from NYC, her time at the University of Dundee is coming to an end. Read her blog about her time here and what she will be getting up to over her last few months.

 

 
Stephen Fry

One Dundee Blog: Stephen Fry on his time at Dundee

Stephen Fry first arrived in Dundee early on the morning of his induction as University Rector in 1992, stepping off the sleeper service from London Euston to begin a relationship that lasts to this day. Here the acclaimed writer and broadcaster tells us how it all started. Read the full Bridge article here.

The Bridge, the University alumni magazine, is available now across campus.

 

 

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