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Student-led Zoology Museum Tours
-Wednesday lunchtimes AND new for 2025, now available for group bookings. Brought to you by the Zoology and Biological Sciences Society.
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Walk and Talk
-Join us in a Walk and Talk around the city
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Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025: Neurodiversity Natter
-This is an online, conversation style event where three panel speakers will share their experiences of being neurodivergent and help challenge some myths.
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Table tennis competition
-Test your skills at the Table tennis competition
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Civil Service Fast Stream- A Graduate Career in Government
-Discover the Civil Service Fast Stream - your gateway to a rewarding career in the UK government. Whether you're interested in policy-making, project management, or leadership roles, the Fast Stream offers unparalleled opportunities for growth and impact.
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ICAS - Opening doors into accountancy, business or finance
-Ever considered a career in chartered accountancy? Maybe you're curious about the profession and want to know more, or maybe you're holding an offer for an internship or graduate traineeship and are wondering how to make the most of the opportunity?
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CV and Cover Letter Workshop
-Come along and learn about the basics of CVs and Covering Letters. We will go over the best ways to format, order and word your CV as well as how to write a Cover Letter that grabs the attention of the recruiter.
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German Filmklub: The Edukators
-Join the German Filmklub on Tuesday 18 March to watch 'The Edukators' (Hans Weingartner, 2004, 121mins).
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Explore a Career in Healthcare: An Evening for Graduates and Mature Applicants
-Are you a graduate or mature applicant considering a career in healthcare? Or are you considering this after your current degree? Join us for an enlightening evening where you'll gain valuable insights into the admissions criteria and discover why a career in medicine, dentistry or physician associates might be the...
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Open Mic night
-Test your singing skills.
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Academic skills drop-in (writing and study skills)
-Got a question about your writing or any aspect of study? Pop into room 506 on level 5 of Sir Duncan Rice Library for help and advice. Not a workshop but an opportunity for a quick chat about a specific challenge.
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Maths & Stats drop-in session
-Weekly maths & stats support drop-in session: pop into room FN185 for help and advice on the maths and stats in your courses. Come in on your own or with peers, anytime between 12 and 2, and stay for as long or as little as you need.
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Marine Careers Talk Series
-This series will spotlight and celebrate women in ocean science who are walking a path that is, in many ways, more difficult than that of male researchers and whose achievements are all the greater for it. The talks are open to everyone, at any stage of their career and to...
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Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025: "Autism Research" talk by Alastair Meek
-Researching Autism presents unique difficulties for researchers, both in terms of the opinion of the autistic community and methodologically.
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SLS Online Workshop: Paragraphs: How to Give Them Structure and Flow
-Why do good paragraphs help your marker? How should they be organised? This online session shows you how to understand the different purposes paragraphs can have and how to construct them cohesively.
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Multi-faith Chaplaincy's Hillhead Cafe
-Doughnuts and hot drinks with the Chaplaincy. Come along for a chat. Everyone is welcome.
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Cafe Sci - Time, place and pictures: how do we improve the care of stroke patients?
-Professor Mary Joan MacLeod will discuss research which seeks to improve the care of stroke patients
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Multi-faith Chaplaincy's Hillhead Cafe
-Doughnuts and hot drinks with the Chaplaincy. Come along for a chat. Everyone is welcome.
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SLB Insight Day and Recruitment Drive, 2025
-Join SLB as a dedicated, innovative engineer and help us lead the way toward a balanced planet. We will give you the responsibility and support to make a difference to our business from day one. You'll benefit from world-class training, work on important projects straight away and play a key...
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Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025: Neurodivergent Journeys: Experiences completing a PhD
-Join us for a relaxed and insightful conversation with Dr Sarinah O'Donoghue, Dr Helen Knight and Dr Lucy Thompson as we mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week.
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Badminton Competition
-Come join us for a badminton competition
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Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025: Maximising the Potential of Neurodiversity at UoA
-In this online session, we will discuss the power of self-awareness and how we can build this and utilise it to maximise the potential of neurodivergence at University of Aberdeen.
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Chinese Calligraphy Workshop
-Chinese calligraphy is the ancient art of Chinese writing.
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University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir: Leighton's Mass for Double Choir
-Join the University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir's performance of the Edinburgh-based composer, Keith Leighton's Mass for Double Choir.
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Walk and Talk
-Join us for a walk and talk around the city
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Start Here Breakfast
-Are you a student interested in entrepreneurship and innovation? Connect with like-minded staff, students, entrepreneurs, and experts at the monthly Start Here Breakfast networking event! Start Here Breakfast events are held on the last Wednesday of every month, this is your chance to connect with the university’s enterprise community.
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Marine Careers Talk Series
-This series will spotlight and celebrate women in ocean science who are walking a path that is, in many ways, more difficult than that of male researchers and whose achievements are all the greater for it. The talks are open to everyone, at any stage of their career and to...
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Welcome and Valued: Supporting Disabled Learners in Medicine
-Join us for an empowering evening dedicated to supporting disabled learners in their journey to apply for and study medicine. This event will provide valuable insights and inspiration from doctors and students with disabilities.
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Scottish Section Conference - Undernutrition in later life: Current understanding and advances
-You can now register your interest & submit an abstract for the Nutrition Society Scottish Section Conference 2025: Undernutrition in later life: Current understanding and advances, which is taking place at The University of Dundee, from 1st - 2nd April. Please see the link below for more information about the conference:https://www.nutritionsociety.org/events/scottish-section-conference-undernutrition-later-life-current-understanding-and-advances Please...
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That's Not Real Research: Windy Crannogs (PGR)
-The 'That's Not Real Research!' series aims to break down the perceived barriers between research disciplines, fostering a sustainable and diverse PGR community. At each session, you'll hear different PhD perspectives from our Interdisciplinary Fellows and Directors, highlighting their personal experiences and differing approaches to research. The 'That's Not Real Research!'...
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Maths & Stats drop-in session
-Weekly maths & stats support drop-in session: pop into room FN185 for help and advice on the maths and stats in your courses. Come in on your own or with peers, anytime between 12 and 2, and stay for as long or as little as you need.
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SLS Workshop - Approaching and Managing your Dissertation
-Join this workshop for Postgraduate Taught students.
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Online Workshop: Writing a Literature Review for PGR Students
-This session will focus on the various considerations involved in planning, approaching and structuring a literature review.
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Maths & Stats drop-in session
-Weekly maths & stats support drop-in session: pop into room FN185 for help and advice on the maths and stats in your courses. Come in on your own or with peers, anytime between 12 and 2, and stay for as long or as little as you need.
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Online PGR Workshop: Editing for your Reader: Constructing and Punctuating Sentences
-This will be an online (Teams) interactive session which will focus on editing your work to improve sentence structure, grammar and punctuation at PGR level.
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Cafe Sci - Musical Traditions of Scotland's Northern Sailors
-Explore the music that emerged in the seventeenth century Scotland in the wake of the Scottish whaling and fishing industries
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New Insights into Scottish Deathways
-This multi-disciplinary conference aims to connect academics and practitioners to share insights and ideas across a range of topics, periods and perspectives relating to death and Scotland. It is intended to facilitate learning from recent and current research and to stimulate further research, including by supporting the development of new...
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PGR Communitea Series: From PhD to Global Impact: Unlocking the Power of Public Engagement
-The PGR CommuniTea series provides a platform for PGRs and their supervisors to engage in discussions dedicated to exploring key themes shaping the PGR experience whilst connecting and building the PGR community (2.00pm - 3.30pm)
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Launch Your Career: Navigating Your First Job with Ellen Loft
-Come along to this interactive webinar featuring international recruiter and career consultant Ellen Loft!
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Online Workshop: Thinking critically about your PhD
-This session will outline the importance of thinking critically at doctoral level. We will discuss what it means to think critically about your PhD.
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Maths & Stats drop-in session
-Weekly maths & stats support drop-in session: pop into room FN185 for help and advice on the maths and stats in your courses. Come in on your own or with peers, anytime between 12 and 2, and stay for as long or as little as you need.
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Online Workshop: Academic Integrity and how to avoid plagiarism in your PhD Thesis
-At this University, we expect all students to undertake their research with integrity. This session will provide you with an overview of academic integrity and discuss how this relates to your thesis. We will cover academic integrity, including plagiarism (and self-plagiarism); collusion; contract cheating; GenAI tools and the consequences; and data falsification....
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Maths & Stats drop-in session
-Weekly maths & stats support drop-in session: pop into room FN185 for help and advice on the maths and stats in your courses. Come in on your own or with peers, anytime between 12 and 2, and stay for as long or as little as you need.
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Online PGR Workshop: Tips and advice for more productive academic writing
-Here we will discuss 4 key themes for better writing: Habits (developing good practice); Blocks (overcoming procrastination); Protect (ensure regular academic writing time); Social (writing with others). This session aims to encapsulate these aspects and provide practical advice on how to write more productively. Hopefully, participants will also share across disciplines, their various strategies around these themes.
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Online PGR Workshop: Editing for your Reader: Spelling, Paragraph Structure, Constructing an Argument
-This will be an interactive online session (Teams) to stress the importance of writing with a reader in mind. To engage the reader, writing should be logical, coherent and clearly argued. We will explore the importance of accurate spelling, paragraph structure and construction of argument as a group.
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PGR Ethics Clinic
-If you are unsure if your project needs ethical approval or are looking for more guidance on the application process, feel free to drop in!
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Chinese Craft Corner (May)
-Join us at Ferryhill Community Centre for Chinese Craft Corner, a fun, relaxed drop-in session open to all ages and abilities! Hosted by our friendly Mandarin teachers from the Confucius Institute, you’ll explore a variety of modern and traditional Chinese crafts. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced crafter, there’s something...
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Revolutionising Research for Social Change
-Interested in equitable and inclusive research methods, but unsure where to start? Join us (in person or via Teams) for a hands-on workshop on participatory and decolonizing research methods.
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Online PGR Workshop: Dealing with Constructive Feedback and Peer Review
-The art of giving and receiving feedback well is very much an under-estimated skill, but crucial at PGR research level. Here we will discuss how to take constructive feedback e.g. from your supervisor, positively and how to act on it, the benefits of self-reflection, and also peer review.
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Digital Skills: Top Tips & Takeaways
-Join us for hot drinks in the library to celebrate the grand finale of our 'Digital Skills for the Modern Workplace' workshop series!
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Online PGR Workshop: Editing for your Reader: Writing a Summary and Paraphrasing
-In this interactive online (Teams) workshop we will examine the differences between writing a summary and writing a paraphrase. We will also consider the purposes and use of summaries and paraphrases in academic writing at PGR level.
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PGR Communitea Series: Unwritten Rules: The Hidden Curriculum in PG Research
-The PGR CommuniTea series provides a platform for PGRs and their supervisors to engage in discussions dedicated to exploring key themes shaping the PGR experience whilst connecting and building the PGR community (2.00pm - 3.30pm)
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2-day on-campus PGR Neurodiversity Academic Writing Retreat (In-person)
-We will discuss neurodiversity and overcoming executive dysfunction and aim to develop our own individual writing practices and strategies for overcoming procrastination and 'writer's block'.
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That's Not Real Research: Machine Justice (PGR)
-The 'That's Not Real Research!' series aims to break down the perceived barriers between research disciplines, fostering a sustainable and diverse PGR community. At each session, you'll hear different PhD perspectives from our Interdisciplinary Fellows and Directors, highlighting their personal experiences and differing approaches to research. The 'That's Not Real Research!'...
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Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference
-Using Science Communication to effect positive change: exploring transitions, traditions and tensions
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Chinese Craft Corner (June)
-Join us at Ferryhill Community Centre for Chinese Craft Corner, a fun, relaxed drop-in session open to all ages and abilities! Hosted by our friendly Mandarin teachers from the Confucius Institute, you’ll explore a variety of modern and traditional Chinese crafts. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced crafter, there’s something...
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Cafe Sci - Using virtual reality in eyewitness memory research
-Dr Eva Rubinova will discuss her research into criminal eyewitness memory research
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That's Not Real Research: Glacial Tropics (PGR)
-The 'That's Not Real Research!' series aims to break down the perceived barriers between research disciplines, fostering a sustainable and diverse PGR community. At each session, you'll hear different PhD perspectives from our Interdisciplinary Fellows and Directors, highlighting their personal experiences and differing approaches to research. The 'That's Not Real Research!'...
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That's Not Real Research: Mineral Evolution (PGR)
-The 'That's Not Real Research!' series aims to break down the perceived barriers between research disciplines, fostering a sustainable and diverse PGR community. At each session, you'll hear different PhD perspectives from our Interdisciplinary Fellows and Directors, highlighting their personal experiences and differing approaches to research. The 'That's Not Real Research!'...
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Society of East Asian Archaeology 10th Conference
-The 10th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology will be held next year in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Please save the date and plan for your papers and visits. The conference dates are August 19-23rd, 2025. The call for papers, posters, and sessions will open on September...