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Aberdeen achieves highest ever ranking in Guardian University Guide
The University of Aberdeen has achieved its highest ever ranking of 13th in the UK in the Guardian University Guide, and its seven-place rise from 20th last year also makes it the biggest climber in the top 20.
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£4m investment in 20 new research posts to solve major global challenges
The University of Aberdeen is set to invest nearly £4m to recruit 20 experts to address the key global challenges facing society.
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Dr Kathrin Thomas Held Women's Summer School in Quantitative Data Analysis
Dr Kathrin Thomas has convened the University of Aberdeen's first Women's Summer School in Quantitative Data Analysis, held between September 5-9. Funded by a British Academy's Talent Development Award, the workshop aimed to provide the 26 women attending with the opportunity to learn and apply methods of data analysis in the software package Stata 17...
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PhD Student Awarded Joint Traditional Dance Residency
Shailini Vinod, a PhD student in Creative Writing and Sociology has been awarded the competitive Traditional Dance Forum Scotland (TDFS) Join Traditional Dance Residency. After responding to an open call for submissions, Shailini partnered with her daughter, Shashwati Pattwakar Vinod, to submit an entry that draws on their expertise in professional Indian...
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Shailini Vinod Delivers Talk at the University of Duisburg Essen
Shailini Vinod, a SGSAH-AHRC funded PhD student in Creative Writing and Sociology, has participated in the Spring School at the University of Duisburg Essen, and delivered a paper drawn from her thesis. Part of the Mercator Research Training Group, the school, Openness, Tolerance and Sense of Community: Narratives and Realities of Contemporary...
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Just Transitions Lab Meets MSP Richard Lochhead
Dr John Bone and fellow researchers from the Just Transitions Lab at the University of Aberdeen have met with MSP Richard Lochhead to discuss the current energy crisis and the impact of energy transitions on communities in North-East Scotland. The Scottish Government Minister for Just Transition, Employment and Fair Work visited the Old...
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Dr John Bone Discusses Neoliberal Precarity and Primalization
Dr John Bone participated in an interview with the research platform, Faculti, discussing his 2021 paper, 'Neoliberal precarity and primalization: A biosocial perspective on the age of insecurity, injustice, and unreason'. In the article, published in The British Journal of Sociology, Bone draws a connecting line between the growing sense of...
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The University of Aberdeen stands with Ukraine
In response to the invasion of Ukraine, Professor George Boyne, the Principal of the University, published an open letter condemning the invasion as well as announcing actions taken in support of Ukraine. These actions included the University suspending its bilateral agreements with Russian organisations indefinitely and calling on international sector...
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Congratulations to the prize winners of the 2021-2022 graduating class!
The School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen would like to congratulate the prize winners of the 2021-2022 graduating class for their outstanding academic output and success. Four prizes for best subject dissertation in anthropology, international relations, politics and sociology were awarded to Annie Nichol (studying anthropology), Zuzanna...
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University represented at UArctic Assembly
An Aberdeen academic was in Portland, Maine, last week to share his thoughts on science diplomacy and the post-carbon future as the 2022 UArctic Assembly got underway.