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Open Days 2014

This year's days for applicants and prospective applicants are now in the planning phase. Dates are set for April and June. These include a series of open days, applicant visit days, and campus tours, where prospective applicants/students can explore the campus, learn more about their academic interests, get a taste of student life at Glasgow, and check out our facilities.  You can get more information and find out how you can help here: www.gla.ac.uk/about/visit/opendays/

Culture interview for Debbie

Dr. Debbie Lewer, Senior Lecturer in History of Art, was a guest of Janice Forsyth on BBC Radio Scotland's Culture Show earlier this month. Debbie was invited on to the programme to talk about an exhibition on women photographers in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Debbie's current research interests lie in the field of the German-speaking avant-garde of the period ca. 1910-1933. Her work covers many aspects of Zurich Dada, Dada in Germany, Expressionism, ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’ and the wider literary and visual culture of the Weimar Republic. The focus of her research and teaching is on the relationship between art and politics. Most recently, she has been developing her interest in the left-wing avant-garde’s engagement with German history during the First World War and inter-war period.

Commonwealth Voices: Glasgow 2014   

Call for submissions. FICTION; CREATIVE NON-FICTION; ESSAYS; POETRY; FLASH FICTION; DRAMA

Commonwealth Voices: Glasgow 2014 is an exciting chance to have your work broadcast on Glasgow University’s SubCity Radio.  As Glasgow prepares for the Commonwealth games to be held here, I am looking for work inspired by the notion of Commonwealth Voices: Glasgow 2014.  

There are no eligibility criteria except that work must be previously unpublished. I am looking for as diverse a range of writing as possible. If you have something to say, inspired by the idea of the Commonwealth or of Glasgow, I would love to hear from you. I’d especially like to hear from people from Commonwealth countries. Commonwealth Voices: Glasgow 2014 is looking for:

• Short stories, up to 3000 words.
• Creative non-fiction up to 3000 words
• Essays up to 3000 words
• Poetry up to three poems, max 30 lines in total
• Flash fiction/non-fiction up to 800 words
• Micro fiction/non-fiction up to 300 words.
• Short plays and dialogues up to 2000 words.

This is partly a collaborative project with Glasgow University’s creative writing journal, From Glasgow to Saturn. If you are a student, member of staff or alumnus  of Glasgow University your work can also be considered for the Commonwealth Voices: Glasgow 2014 edition of  From Glasgow to Saturn to be published in May 2014. http://glasgowtosaturn.com

Deadline: Monday 24 March 2014.

We aim to respond by mid April and to broadcast late April / early May.

Please submit your work as an attachment with a cover note giving the name of the work, its genre, word count, your name and a biography of up to 300 words. Please also state if you would like to read the work yourself for radio (this can be done remotely) or for an actor to read your work. If you are eligible to have your work considered for From Glasgow To Saturn please make this clear. 

Please submit to commonwealthvoicesglasgow2014@outlook.com

Veterinary Diagnostic Service - Histopathology Unit

The Veterinary Diagnostic Service provides a complete service for all research needs on an in-house basis.  They say their prices are very competitive and will provide rapid pricing and technical advice for research grant applications. See: www.glasgow.ac.uk/vds

Ticket to better public transport?

Third year students of Product Design Engineering at the University are working on a project that tackles ways to improve public transport. They are examining "ticketing" and have produced a short survey (multiple choice) they hope will give them an insight into what people think about public transport in the council areas of:

• East & West Dunbartonshire
• East, North and South Ayrshire
• East Renfrewshire
• Glasgow City
• Inverclyde
• North and South Lanarkshire
• Renfrewshire
• Argyll and Bute

All staff contributions will be welcome: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XBML2HP

 

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First published: 17 February 2014