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Congratulations to Dr Aravinda Guntupalli who won two awards at Friday’s Principal's Excellence Awards ceremony! Aravinda is this year’s winner of the Excellence in Inclusive Education Award and one of the two winners in the Outstanding Postgraduate Research Supervisors Award category. Fantastic and well-deserved recognition, Aravinda! Congratulations to everyone in the team who...

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian have developed a new, practical approach to help NHS Health Boards plan and implement innovation more effectively- in spite of increasing pressures on time, workforce and finances.

A major new study from the University of Aberdeen has revealed the most comprehensive national picture to date of the number of babies with Down's syndrome in Scotland.

Thanks so much to Bea Dawkins and Fionnuala Cousins of the Health Determinants Research Collaboration Aberdeen (HDRC Aberdeen) and everyone who attended the IAHS seminar today. It was really great and generated a lot of discussion. Bea and Fionnuala’s presentation was entitled: “Bridging the Gap: A How-to Guide for Academics looking...

29 September - 2 October 2025 University of Aberdeen

Great to see Charlotte Branson presenting her work at the 16th Meeting of the International Academy of Health Preference Research today. Charlotte’s talk was entitled: User Preferences for the Use of AI in the National Breast Screening Programme: A Discrete Choice Experiment Early findings suggest that women prefer breast screening services where...

We're very happy to present The elective care waiting list: insights from linked data, published this morning on The Health Foundation website. The Networked Data Lab team in Grampian Jessica E Butler, Frank Popham, Corri Black, Raul Berrocal-Martin, Sharon Gordon and Irmina Zborowska, the Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) Team, and...

Last year Research Data Scotland along with colleagues at EPCC at the University of Edinburgh, ran a user survey as part of the Connect 4 project to help understand researcher requirements around metadata when applying to access secure data. Responses to this survey provided useful insights about metadata catalogues and...

Today we were delighted to host a launch event for our British Academy ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening 2024 award: INSPERation: Advancing Research Management Capacity for International Data Science Excellence. This collaboration brings together teams at the University of Aberdeen and Insper University, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Katie Wilde Interim Head of Applications,...

Fantastic to hear from Kelvin Jordan, Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Medicine at Keele University, talking as part of the Aberdeen Curtin Calgary International Alliance Speaker Series. Today’s session was hosted by the Centre for Health Informatics, with the help of the University of Calgary Department of Global...