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While the coronavirus pandemic represents the most immediate, and very significant challenge to the world, the impact of climate change on the planet arguably represents a bigger long-term challenge for humanity. Evidence of the negative impact of human activity on the planet’s ecosystem has become increasingly visible over recent years,…

The Scottish Institute for Enterprise is funded by the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Enterprise to help students in Scotland develop enterprise skills, discover their entrepreneurial talent and start up their own ventures.

SIE’s range of activities are designed to have something for students at all levels, from those with…

As someone who has written about home working for many years, and who has practiced flexible, part time home working for over 20 years, the current need to home-work due to the coronavirus situation should come naturally. This blog is not intended as a ‘how to’ manual, but it will…

Currently a 2nd year student studying MA Accountancy and Finance, Rhonan has been actively involved with ICAS as a campus ambassador and took a 10 week internship with ICAS last year. Here he answers our questions about his experience and gives us some advice for students looking to gain valuable…

As part of our MSc Marketing Management, MBA, MBA Energy Management, International Business Management, MBA Finance and International Business and Finance students have the opportunity to take part in three Industry Weeks during their degree.

Each Industry Week gives students the opportunity to network with industry experts and take part…

University life is an exciting – and at times exhausting – combination of course work, societies, lectures, gym classes regularly being postponed, assignments, group work, Netflix-based procastination, and night study sessions. But, do you know what students find even more stressful than essay deadlines? Internships!

Spending hours and hours in…

My name is Owen Fowlie I am a fifth-year pupil at Westhill Academy and as part of my Creative Digital Media course I was required to take internships in a wide variety of organisations throughout Aberdeen, I was very please when I had been selected to take on my final…

I have just returned from my first visit to Taiwan, to give a keynote talk at a conference on Artificial Intelligence organised by the College of International Studies and Social Sciences at the National Taiwan Normal University, which is located in Taipei. I gave the opening keynote talk, on the…

The oil and gas industry currently finds itself in a situation which is far from comfortable.

On the one hand, the industry just began to recover from the 2014 downturn.

Now the industry faces perhaps an even bigger challenge: the move towards a carbon-free society, also referred to as energy…

Shifting Paradigms; a statement that makes you immediately think of fundamental change. When looking at different economic phenomena, one cannot assess current or past events based solely on mainstream economics. This is where The Aberdeen Political Economy Group (APEG) and our upcoming third annual Shifting Paradigms conference comes into play.…