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We are pleased to annouce that Professor Marjory Harper has won the Royal Historical Society’s Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching. In their citation the judges write: "Marjory’s work spans over two decades and was praise because of her commitment to supporting others’ learning and progression.  However, the adjudicators are particularly...

The images of the killing of George Floyd sent a shockwave throughout the world. On July 8th, the department of Divinity and Religious Studies organised the webinar ‘Racism 2020: Pathways to Taking Its Last Breath,’ to learn more about the causes of racism, current events, and to seek pathways to...

We are very pleased to announce that Professor John Swinton has been awarded the Lanfranc award for Education and Scholarship by the Archbishop of Canterbury. This award recognises Professor Swinton's outstanding contribution to practical theology, particularly in the area of disability. Congratulations!

The subject of Divinity has been taught at the University of Aberdeen since the time of its foundation in 1495 and continues to go from strength to strength (e.g., the Aberdeen Divinity Department is currently ranked 25th in the world in the QS World Rankings by Subject). Our new scholarships...

The Development Trust is funding a prize of £100 for the best postgraduate taught (MLitt) dissertation in History for the 2019-2020 cohort of students who are in one of our four History programmes: MLitt in Modern History, MLitt in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, MLitt in Scandinavian Studies and MLitt...

Prior to holding the Regius Chair in Humanity at the University of Aberdeen, I spent twenty-five years teaching at St Vladimir’s Seminary in New York, where I also served as Dean for a decade. I have taught at other schools in the US, such as Harvard Divinity and Fordham University,...

We are delighted to announce the appointment of four new members of Philosophy staff in spring and summer 2020. Professor Michael Beaney joins Aberdeen as Regius Chair of Logic. This distinguished position was established by James IV of Scotland in 1505 just ten years after the University was founded. Prof. Beaney...

Characters, events and stories contained with Aberdeen's unique town records was enjoyed by everyone.

The journal Episteme has accepted an article by our PhD student Kevin Olivier. The title of his paper is “Agent Reliabilism and Inferential Knowledge from Gettiered Belief”.

New Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows announced Professor Frost’s research interests lie in the history of eastern Europe from the fourteenth to the ninteenth centuries; the history of Scandinavia, in particular the history of Sweden, and in the history of warfare. He has held the Burnett Fletcher Chair of History at Aberdeen...