Page 8 of 30Results 71 to 80 of 299, 21 November 2023 - 06 February 2024
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Seinn Spioradail exhibition and website launched in Stornoway this week.
The exhibition, Seinn Spioradal: Sacred Soundscapes of the Highlands and Islands, was launched at Museum nan Eilean at the weekend and will be touring Highland and Island communities throughout 2024 and 2025.
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National media coverage of Exhibition and Website launch to promote Gaelic singing traditions
There has been widespread media coverage to promote the recent launch of an interaction exhibition and website, Seinn Spioradail: Sacred Soundscapes of the Highlands and Islands, which highlights important research by Dr Frances Wilkins, Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicoloy at The Elphinstone Institute.
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Linguistics Code-breaking at St Machar Academy
Linguistics staff visited St. Machar Academy on 17th January to challenge S1 pupils to a series of linguistics-themed puzzles.
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Book explores the rereading of childhood
A memoir written by an Aberdeen academic which explores grief through children's books has been released for e-readers, after its hardcover release in 2022.
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The Most Popular Tune in Victorian Britain
New essay by lecturer in music Jo Hicks on a globetrotting psalm tune.
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Three wins for University of Aberdeen at 2023 National Book Awards
University of Aberdeen staff and graduates took home three of the twelve 2023 Saltire Literary Awards, widely known as Scotland's National Book Awards.
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Paula Sledzinska Awarded the Ross Roy Medal
At the annual Scottish Literary Awards hosted by The Saltire Society on 7 December, Dr Paula Sledzinska was awarded the Ross Roy Medal, a prestigious prize which is awarded to the best PhD thesis submitted on a subject relating to Scottish literature.
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Aberdeen rises to 37th globally in sustainability ranking
The University of Aberdeen has continued to build on its strong performance in the QS World University Sustainability rankings, rising 27 places in the 2024 league table to an overall position of joint 37th in the world, and two places to 15th in the UK.
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Old Meldrum Academy Discover the Benefits of Learning about Languages, Cultures and Societies
On Wednesday 22nd November a group of more than twenty senior pupils from Meldrum Academy participated in a languages day organised jointly by LLMVC and the Confucius Institute.
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University of Aberdeen Lecturer Invited to Talk on Nineteenth-Century Musical Networks
Lecturer in Music, Dr Jo Hicks, was invited to speak at a conference in Milan on Spaces of Musical Production/Production of Musical Spaces.