Event listings

Look Club

08 Jan

Date: Wednesday 08 January 2025 - Wednesday 03 December 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

At Look Club we'll be encountering artworks together and will experience art in a way we haven't before. No prior or historical context is necessary and there are no right or wrong answers, only opinions and perspectives. Enjoy this unique session to think deeply and share a space for listening. Come along and meet new people, increase your own sense of confidence and take time to be culturally curious!

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Glasgow 850 at The Hunterian

01 Feb

Date: Saturday 01 February 2025 - Wednesday 31 December 2025
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Hunterian, Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery and Kelvin Hall

Glasgow 850 marks Glasgow’s 850th anniversary with a year-long programme of events that reflect on how the city has transformed.

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Re:reading

24 Feb

Date: Monday 24 February 2025 - Wednesday 31 December 2025
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: University Library, Level 2 exhibition space

Exhibition exploring libraries as dynamic, collaborative spaces, where fresh insights can by uncovered by re-interpreting collections.

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Building Memories

29 Mar

Date: Saturday 29 March 2025 - Sunday 18 January 2026
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Hunterian, Exhibitions
Venue: Kelvin Hall

As part of Glasgow 850, 'Building Memories' looks at three demolished Glasgow buildings, each of which lives on in surprising ways in The Hunterian collections.

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Geo-Natter

04 Jun

Date: Wednesday 04 June 2025 - Wednesday 03 December 2025
Time: 13:30 - 15:30
Categories: Hunterian, Social events
Venue: Kelvin Hall

Come along to Kelvin Hall on the first Wednesday of each month for Geo-Natter!

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It Wisnae Us: The Truth About Glasgow and Slavery

01 Oct

Date: Wednesday 01 October 2025 - Sunday 30 November 2025
Time: 10:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Museum

‘It Wisnae Us’ — an exhibition by the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER) — is now on display at the Hunterian Museum.

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Phenomenal Bodies: The Erskine Hospital Archive

20 Oct

Date: Monday 20 October 2025 - Tuesday 23 December 2025
Categories: Student events
Venue: Archives & Special Collections foyer, Level 12, University Library

This display explores the intertwined history of war, disability, medical innovation and social care in Scotland in the 20th century through archival material from the University of Glasgow. Centred on the pioneering work of Erskine Hospital, it traces the profound impact of technology, institutional care and public narratives of resilience on the experience of disability.

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Geological Society of Glasgow Lecture Series

13 Nov

Date: Thursday 13 November 2025 - Thursday 14 May 2026
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Categories: Public lectures, Hunterian
Venue: Kelvin Hall

Join the Geological Society of Glasgow for a free, public lecture series. The lectures take place on the second Thursday of every month in Kelvin Hall and are open to all to attend!

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Carol we now - Glasgow Madrigirls Advent 2025

30 Nov

Date: Sunday 30 November 2025
Time: 18:00
Categories: Community events, Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Music & readings for Advent.

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Byres Community Hub - Hub Monday

01 Dec

Date: Monday 01 December 2025
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Community events, Social events, Open days and visits
Venue: Byres Community Hub, Clarice Pears building

Visit Byres Community Hub to see our public spaces, try our interactive exhibits, and meet volunteers, researchers and community groups.

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Peace in a Changing World: A Fireside Chat with Mark Muller Stuart KC

02 Dec

Date: Tuesday 02 December 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School
Speaker: Mark Muller Stuart KC

An engaging dialogue on armed conflicts and peacemaking in the 21st century, presented as a fireside chat with Mark Muller Stuart KC.

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Advent Carol Service

02 Dec

Date: Tuesday 02 December 2025
Time: 18:10 - 19:10
Categories: Community events, Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

An Anglican carol service for Advent.

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Approaches to Active Learning: Peer Learning

03 Dec

Date: Wednesday 03 December 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Aleix Tura Vecino

This session introduces staff to peer learning as a dynamic and inclusive form of active learning. Designed for educators seeking to enhance student engagement and collaboration, the session explores key principles, benefits, and practical applications of peer learning across disciplines.

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Seminar on Disability and Migration with Dr Rebecca Yeo, from University of Exeter.

03 Dec

Date: Wednesday 03 December 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Community events, Staff workshops and seminars, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Room 734, James McCune Smith with online option
Speaker: Dr Rebecca Yeo from University of Exeter.

Dr Rebecca Yeo (University of Exeter), author of Disabling Migration Controls, highlights how asylum restrictions actively disable and how insights from the disabled people’s movement support justice. The seminar, held on the International Day of Disabled People, explores overlapping injustices in migration, disability, and climate crises. Drawing on the Sensing Climate project and research in Glasgow, the presentation promotes cross-movement collaboration. The project invites Disabled and d/Deaf people with chronic conditions to contribute through conversation or mural ideas. Interpreters and expenses covered.

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Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences Postgraduate Open Evening

03 Dec

Date: Wednesday 03 December 2025
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: Wolfson Medical School Atrium

Discover postgraduate taught and research opportunities, explore campus and speak with academic staff at a World Top 50 University for Life Sciences & Medicine. Explore programmes, student insights, support services and postgraduate funding options

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Lunchtime Concert: Scottish Opera Emerging Artists

04 Dec

Date: Thursday 04 December 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Lunchtime listening: Scottish Opera's Emerging Artists present a varied programme of works. This event is free and open to all!

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Views of Glasgow: A Window into Communities

05 Dec

Date: Friday 05 December 2025 - Sunday 26 April 2026
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Hunterian, Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

Co-curated by members from the Woodlands community, 'Views of Glasgow' combines iconic paintings of the city with objects, artworks and archival material.

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CinemARC: Print to Screen at the Winter Warmer

05 Dec

Date: Friday 05 December 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Come to the ARC for a festive double feature of the Snowman and Mog's Christmas. You'll also hear from Scotland's Printing Heritage.

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Seasonal Storytelling

06 Dec

Date: Saturday 06 December 2025
Time: 12:00 - 14:30
Categories: Social events, Community events
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane
Speaker: Anna Lehr

Join storyteller Anna Lehr for wonderful seasonal storytelling all about light.

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Light Up: Winter Warmer Family Day

06 Dec

Date: Saturday 06 December 2025
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Categories: Social events, Ceremonial events
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Light up your imagination at our FREE Winter Warmer Family Day.

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Winter Fun with the Robot Dog

06 Dec

Date: Saturday 06 December 2025
Time: 12:30 - 14:45
Categories: Open days and visits, Academic events, Social events
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Join us to see Benji the robot dog in action and learn more about researchers working in robotics.

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University Service of Nine Lessons and Carols

07 Dec

Date: Sunday 07 December 2025
Time: 18:00
Categories: Community events, Ceremonial events, Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Join the University Chaplains, Chapel Choir and members of the University community for readings and carols.

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Carols in the Cloisters

09 Dec

Date: Tuesday 09 December 2025
Time: 19:00 - 19:45
Categories: Community events, Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Cloisters

Join us among the stunning fairy lights in the university's iconic cloisters for festive, family-friendly carols and readings. All welcome!

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The 2026 Scottish Election: Housing Evidence Priorities for a New Government

10 Dec

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Student events, Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Prof Kenneth Gibb, Dr Gareth James

Join the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence as we launch our report setting out the cross-cutting housing priorities for the next Scottish Government in 2026

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The Tlaxcala Codex: Bridging Indigenous worlds and colonial transformations

10 Dec

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:35
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Library, Level 2 Exhibition Space
Speaker: Dr Julia McClure

The University of Glasgow Library presents, "The Tlaxcala Codex: Bridging Indigenous worlds and colonial transformations", a talk by Dr Julia McClure is a senior lecturer in History at University of Glasgow, and a global historian specialising in the histories of poverty, inequality, imperialism, capitalism and the environment (especially focused upon Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Spanish Empire).

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Reclaiming Spatial Justice: The Emancipatory Power of Commoning

10 Dec

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events, Public lectures, Conferences
Venue: Adam Smith Building - Room 386AB
Speaker: Stavros Stavrides

The seminar will discuss the role of urban commons in producing just urban futures through community action. Prof Stavros Stavrides will be joined by Prof Andy Inch (Urban Studies and Social Policy, University of Glasgow) as the discussant. The seminar will be chaired by Prof David Featherstone (Human Geography Research Group, University of Glasgow), and is co-organised with the recently launched research network Just City by the Med.

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Twilight Tour: Glasgow Coins and Medals

10 Dec

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025
Time: 17:15 - 17:45
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Kelvin Hall
Speaker: Jesper Ericsson

Join Hunterian Curator of Numismatics, Jesper Ericsson for a behind-the-scenes session exploring Glasgow coins and medals from The Hunterian collections.

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SHW Christmas lecture

17 Dec

Date: Wednesday 17 December 2025
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Categories: Community events, Public lectures
Venue: Clarice Pears building
Speaker: Professor Naveed Sattar

This year's School of Health & Wellbeing Christmas lecture will be given by Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow: "Obesity and weight loss drugs: why all the fuss?"

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UofG London Burns Supper

09 Jan

Date: Friday 09 January 2026
Time: 18:30 - 23:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: The Caledonian Club

Join us for a celebration of Scottish culture and heritage at our London Burns Supper, with a night of great entertainment, whisky and food!

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UofG Glasgow Burns Supper

17 Jan

Date: Saturday 17 January 2026
Time: 18:30 - 23:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: The University of Glasgow

Join the University of Glasgow as they host a Glasgow Burns Supper in the Bute Hall on the Gilmorehill campus! This event offers alumni, friends and students the opportunity to celebrate the life, works and spirit of the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, in a night that highlights and embraces Scottish culture and heritage.

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Byres Community Hub - Hub Monday on Mental Health and Dementia

19 Jan

Date: Monday 19 January 2026
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Community events, Open days and visits, Social events, Public lectures
Venue: Byres Community Hub, Clarice Pears building

Visit Byres Community Hub to see our public spaces, try our interactive exhibits, and meet volunteers, researchers and community groups.

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Learn Together: Launch & Information Session

22 Jan

Date: Thursday 22 January 2026
Time: 09:30 - 12:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Join us for the launch of ‘Learn Together’, a new initiative that aims to foster ethical collaboration with communities.

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University of Glasgow Prison Projects Exchange

23 Jan

Date: Friday 23 January 2026
Time: 09:30 - 17:00
Categories: Community events, Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events, Social events
Venue: Senate Room, Gilbert Scott Building
Speaker: Various

Join us at the GU Prison Projects Exchange, to express interest, share experiences, foster new relationships, and build collaborations.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Design

28 Jan

Date: Wednesday 28 January 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

We begin the new year by looking at how best to design a SoTL project. Whether we are contemplating embarking on a literature review, designing a learning and teaching intervention or undertaking an evaluation of a previous intervention, it is vital to spend time planning at the outset. In this session we will consider the main methodologies that we might use for a SoTL project, and the methods associated with each.

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Investigating Social Change: Migratory Stratifications as a Fresh Analytical Tool

28 Jan

Date: Wednesday 28 January 2026
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Francesco Della Puppa (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice); Dr Giuliana Sanò (University of Messina); Dr Giulia Storato (University of Padua); Dr Chi

Identities Special Issue Panel Event in collaboration with University of Glasgow Social Anthropology & Migration. This event draws on a Special Issue published by Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power: Investigating Social Change: 'Migratory Stratifications' as a Fresh Analytical Tool, Vol 32 No 6.

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UofG Chicago Burns Celebration

04 Feb

Date: Wednesday 04 February 2026
Time: 18:30 - 22:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: theWit Chicago

Join us for a celebration of Scottish culture and heritage at our Chicago Burns Celebration!

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UofG Boston Burns Supper

06 Feb

Date: Friday 06 February 2026
Time: 18:30 - 23:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: Hampshire House

Join us for a celebration of Scottish culture and heritage at our Boston Burns Supper.

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Humanities Lecture Series 2025-26: Dr Sim Innes

11 Feb

Date: Wednesday 11 February 2026
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building
Speaker: Dr Sim Innes

Dr Sim Innes - Gaelic song poetry and British Empire conflicts 1874-1930.

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Applying for the SoTL Funding Scheme

17 Feb

Date: Tuesday 17 February 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Sarah Honeychurch and Dr Nathalie Tasler

This session is aimed at colleagues who would like to know more about the SoTL Funding Scheme and are interested in applying. We will look through the call for bids for 2025-26 and consider which types of project might be eligible. Members of the network who have been successful in their bids will be available to talk about their projects and offer advice.

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From Design to Dialogue: Building Feedback Literacy for Staff and Students

18 Feb

Date: Wednesday 18 February 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis

This session will equip participants with the knowledge, strategies, and tools to enhance their own feedback literacy and to foster feedback literacy in their students. It emphasizes feedback as a dialogic, developmental process embedded in assessment design and everyday teaching practice.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Investigate

25 Feb

Date: Wednesday 25 February 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The focus of our SoTL journey this month is investigation. Once we have identified a possible SoTL project and decided on a project design, how do we begin our investigation? In this session we ask questions about how to establish which resources we might need, how much time we have to dedicate to our project and who else might be available to support us.

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Scottish Ensemble: Between Light and Shadow

11 Mar

Date: Wednesday 11 March 2026
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Join a quartet of Scottish Ensemble musicians for a performance of emotional contrasts, bold imagination, and luminous soundscapes.

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From Silos to Synergy: Supporting Student Learning Through a Programme Focused Approach to Assessment and Feedback

12 Mar

Date: Thursday 12 March 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis

Programmatic assessment implies that assessment is organised across a programme, rather than for individual courses. This programme structure allows for iterative assessment practices to flourish, and for students to engage with the assessment process more meaningfully. This session will help participants think about how to map their courses programmatically and make meaningful links between courses on a programme.

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People & Excellence 2026: Celebrating Achievements in Knowledge Exchange & Innovation

23 Mar

Date: Monday 23 March 2026
Time: 14:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures, Exhibitions, Social events, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Celebration of staff and students delivering meaningful engagement, innovation and impact. Awards presentations.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Write

25 Mar

Date: Wednesday 25 March 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The focus of this month’s stage of the SoTL journey is writing. Of course, this is an activity that occurs throughout the whole process, from reflection all the way through to implementation. In this session we look at how to identify ways in which to build in writing into your regular practices, whether those be daily, weekly, or less often. As well as looking at strategies for developing regular writing practices, we will also consider which tools you might use to help you to take and make notes.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Disseminate

29 Apr

Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

This month we consider how to develop a dissemination strategy for SoTL practitioners. We will begin with a series of questions which are designed to help us to build our personal plan for dissemination before looking at some of the pathways for publication which are available for UofG colleagues internally and externally. Examples of successful SoTL publications will be provided in order to help us to plan for our own publications.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Reflect

27 May

Date: Wednesday 27 May 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

We end our SoTL journey this year as we began, with reflection. In this session we each take time to look back at our previous learning, teaching and SoTL activities and celebrate any successes we have had, however large or small these might be. We also reflect on any challenges we have faced and consider how we might overcome any such barriers in the future. Then we look forward and consider how we would like to engage in SoTL over the summer months – and even begin planning for the next academic year.

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