Event listings

Wee World Changers: Family Fun

28 Jun

Date: Friday 28 June 2024 - Friday 31 October 2025
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Museum

Enjoy our free, self-led activities for families at the Hunterian Museum. Daily drop-in, no booking required.

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Wee World Changers: Art Explorers Trail

28 Jun

Date: Friday 28 June 2024 - Friday 31 October 2025
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

Enjoy our free, family-friendly trail at the Hunterian Art Gallery. Daily drop-in, no booking required.

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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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Little Look Club

12 Apr

Date: Saturday 12 April 2025 - Saturday 13 December 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

Come and explore artworks together with your wee ones and let their imaginations flow! At Little Look Club we'll be encountering artworks together by starting from scratch with no artistic knowledge. We'll open up space for children to be curious, building stronger connections to art and developing their confidence to interpret the world around them.

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Geo-Natter

04 Jun

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

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

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Hunterian Tours

16 Jun

Date: Monday 16 June 2025 - Sunday 21 September 2025
Time: 11:00 - 16:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Museum and Hunterian Art Gallery

Join a tour at The Hunterian, delivered in both the Museum and the Art Gallery. Each tour lasts approximately 25 minutes and is led by our volunteer student guides.

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Bird, Tree, Bell, Fish, Ring

20 Jun

Date: Friday 20 June 2025 - Sunday 28 September 2025
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Hunterian, Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

'Bird, Tree, Bell, Fish, Ring' combines a fascinating selection of items from The Hunterian collections which represent the symbols on the Glasgow coat of arms.

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Museum of Things

21 Jun

Date: Saturday 21 June 2025 - Sunday 19 October 2025
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Hunterian, Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Museum

Through a process of artistic reclamation, Museum of Things delves critically and creatively into The Hunterian’s spaces and artefacts, reimagining their significance in contemporary contexts.

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Margaret Salmon: Assembly

27 Jun

Date: Friday 27 June 2025 - Sunday 19 October 2025
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Hunterian, Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

'Assembly' is a solo exhibition of new work by acclaimed artist-filmmaker Margaret Salmon. Resulting from and reflecting upon a process of community outreach, story counselling and cinematic experimentation, the exhibition encompasses a film, photographs, and sculptures in an installation that will expand over time, inviting local audiences to return to The Hunterian’s galleries as materials shift and evolve. An intimate enquiry made by a socially-committed, locally-engaged artist, 'Assembly' highlights the voices of a diverse range of residents within the areas of Kelvinside and Maryhill, Glasgow.

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'Hidden Histories' - The LGBTQIA+ Tour

09 Jul

Date: Wednesday 09 July 2025 - Saturday 23 August 2025
Time: 14:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

Join our 'Hidden Histories' tour at the Hunterian Art Gallery which explores LGBTQIA+ histories and celebrates queer identities. The 'Hidden Histories' tour uses artworks from The Hunterian collections to share untold stories and bring queer identities into the spotlight.

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Languages open evening

19 Aug

Date: Tuesday 19 August 2025
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (ARC)

Come along to the Short Courses' Languages open evening where you will be able to meet our tutors and ask them questions about course content, format and levels. All are welcome!

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Living Lab Webinar: Access the Spatial Ecosystem - Enhancing Innovation

20 Aug

Date: Wednesday 20 August 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events
Venue: Via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Nigel Jamieson

Join us for this insightful session exploring how the Living Laboratory connects academics, industry, and healthcare partners to The University of Glasgow's growing spatial ecosystem. Rather than focusing on the science behind spatial transcriptomics, we’ll highlight real-world applications, collaborative opportunities, and how this technology is accelerating innovation across sectors.

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Twilight Tour: Seeing Glasgow through the artist’s eye

20 Aug

Date: Wednesday 20 August 2025
Time: 17:15 - 18:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Kelvin Hall
Speaker: Anne Dulau

Join Hunterian Curator of Art Collections, Anne Dulau in a behind-the-scenes session exploring Glasgow’s changing identity.

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Festival of Politics - Gen Z and Politics

21 Aug

Date: Thursday 21 August 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Categories: Student events, Conferences, Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: The Scottish Parliament
Speaker: Prof Danny Dorling, Dr Elisabeth Loose, Ellie Craig MSYP

What and how do young people really think and engage with politics? Are they engaged, disillusioned, or redefining what political participation looks like? And how important is trust in the conventional political system compared to what community activism offers instead? Join the discussion on the priorities for the future, and what needs to change to restore trust in democracy and address Gen Z’s vocal financial anxieties when it comes to housing, debt and opportunities. And what does it all mean for the future of the political system?

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Apocalyptic climate optimism (Festival of Politics 2025)

21 Aug

Date: Thursday 21 August 2025
Time: 16:45 - 18:15
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

Scientists believe that people will only mobilise on the climate crisis when they personally experience climate shock. Are communities united enough to make the shift to activism based on personal pain of the climate crisis? Join us at the 2025 Scottish Parliament Festival of Politics on 21 August.

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Culture of Care Day

22 Aug

Date: Friday 22 August 2025
Time: 09:30 - 16:30
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (ARC), room 237ABC
Speaker: A range of expert speakers and posters

The University of Glasgow AWERB Culture of Care Committee are delighted to announce that we will be holding our annual Culture of Care day on Friday 22nd August 2025

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Holyrood 2026: The big issues (Festival of Politics 2025)

22 Aug

Date: Friday 22 August 2025
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

With the Scottish Parliament elections in May 2026, join the Centre for Public Policy at the 2025 Festival of Politics on 22 August, as we set out the demographic, fiscal, technological and social policy challenges that lie ahead for Scotland.

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Barkcloth Making from Niue

23 Aug

Date: Saturday 23 August 2025
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Kelvin Hall

Join artist Cora-Allan to learn about hiapo (barkcloth) from the island of Niue in the South Pacific, and learn to make your own!

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Unfinished Business - 25 Years of Devolution

27 Aug

Date: Wednesday 27 August 2025
Time: 18:30
Categories: Academic events, Social events, Public lectures, Conferences
Venue: Glasgow University Union
Speaker: Henry McLeish, Prof James Mitchell, Johann Lamont, Annemarie Ward

In their new book Unfinished Business, Henry McLeish and Professor James Mitchell dissect the record of the first 25 years of devolution and, ahead of the Scottish elections in 2026, set out their ideas on how to improve Scottish democracy over the coming decade. It examines successes as well as failures but concludes that while Scotland has talked a great game on its “progressive values”, real change has proven to be elusive.

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Snake Summer: Cryptids and Lost Worlds!

29 Aug

Date: Friday 29 August 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Zoology Museum
Speaker: Darren Naish and Will Tattersdill

It's the year of the snake, and we're celebrating with cryptids! Join us after hours to learn about the snakes of fact and fiction!

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September Open Day

03 Sep

Date: Wednesday 03 September 2025
Time: 09:00 - 15:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Main Gilmorehill Campus

We invite you to our September Open Day at our main campus in Glasgow, where you can meet academics, explore the campus, and discover all that UofG has to offer!

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Snake Summer: Movie Night in the Museum!

05 Sep

Date: Friday 05 September 2025
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Zoology Museum

It's the year of the snake, and we're celebrating with cryptids! Join us after hours to learn about the snakes of fact and fiction!

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Colour Your World with Jo Sunshine

07 Sep

Date: Sunday 07 September 2025
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Museum

Get ready for a burst of colour and creativity at The Hunterian! Join brilliant local artist Jo Sunshine—whose vibrant work is featured in our latest contemporary art exhibition Assembly—for a fun, hands-on colouring workshop where you are the artist.

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“Planning without Growth” Public Lecture and Panel Discussion

08 Sep

Date: Monday 08 September 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Social events, Public lectures
Venue: The Social Hub Glasgow

Planning without Growth critically explores how planning systems are locked into growth dependence and encourage market-led development that widens social inequality and adverse environmental outcomes. Prof Rydin’s talk will be followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Prof Andy Inch from the University Glasgow, with Sarah Shaw, Chief Planner at Glasgow City Council, Stephen Jones, Director of Core Cities UK, and Clare Symonds from Planning Democracy. A drinks reception hosted by Urban Retrofit will follow the lecture and panel discussion.

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A Just Transition? Scotland's Housing Policy and Energy Future

16 Sep

Date: Tuesday 16 September 2025
Time: 09:30 - 12:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Adam Smith Business School, Room 587

Join the Centre for Public Policy and Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy on 16 September as we bring together experts and practitioners to explore how housing and energy policy can deliver a fairer path to net zero, with insights on retrofitting, energy poverty, and the Housing (Scotland) Bill.

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Lost Glasgow: Lost Buildings

17 Sep

Date: Wednesday 17 September 2025
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Categories: Films and theatre, Public lectures, Hunterian
Venue: Kelvin Hall
Speaker: Joseph Sharples, Norry Wilson and Liam Paterson

Join us at Kelvin Hall for a talk and screening looking at the lost buildings of Glasgow as part of Doors Open Day and Glasgow 850.

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Data Management

18 Sep

Date: Thursday 18 September 2025
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Matt Mahon and Mary Donaldson

As part of guaranteeing the integrity of your research, you are required to deposit the data underpinning your research in a data repository, where it can be held securely for at least ten years after the conclusion of the project. But how do you work out which parts of your data will be needed for someone to understand your work? Do you need to deposit everything, or just key parts that will allow others to reproduce your findings? And how do you work out which parts of your data are suitable for sharing?

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Language Taster: Traditional Flavours & Recipes in Catalonia, Spain & Italy

20 Sep

Date: Saturday 20 September 2025
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Join us for an interactive workshop to discover the origin & traditions around popular dishes enjoyed in Catalonia, Spain & Italy.

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Explorathon at Doors Open Day

20 Sep

Date: Saturday 20 September 2025 - Sunday 21 September 2025
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Categories: Open days and visits, Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events, Public lectures, Films and theatre, Exhibitions
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

From cutting-edge engineering to arts and humanities, dip into the fantastic research happening on your doorstep, with family-friendly activities and exhibits as part of the Scotland-wide “Explorathon” festival, in partnership with Glasgow Doors Open Days. Free, drop-in.

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Researchers at Work: Tours of the ARC

20 Sep

Date: Saturday 20 September 2025 - Sunday 21 September 2025
Time: 12:30 - 14:30
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Come along and see our researchers in action! We’re hosting small group tours showcasing the world-class research going on in the ARC.

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Superhero Science

21 Sep

Date: Sunday 21 September 2025
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Categories: Social events, Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Join our Agents of Awesome for Superhero Science to explore the amazing science behind superhuman abilities!

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Race, Gender and Misogynoir Stereotypes within the Constructions of Digital Women Footballers​​

23 Sep

Date: Tuesday 23 September 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Anika Leslie-Walker (Nottingham Trent University), Paul Ian Campbell (University of Leicester), and Marcus Maloney (Coventry University)

In this talk, Anika Leslie-Walker, Paul Ian Campbell and Marcus Maloney will discuss their recent Identities article, ‘The intersections of race and gendered stereotypes within the constructions of digital women footballers in video games’. They will explore the ways in which the numerical values which constitute FIFA22’s ‘Top 100’ Black and White digital women footballers reflect or challenge the wider social and sporting discourses that shape the experiences of Black and White female sporting athletes in the offline world.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Reflect

24 Sep

Date: Wednesday 24 September 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

We begin our SoTL journey this year with reflection. This is a ‘bigger picture’ reflection in which we each take time to look back at our previous learning and teaching and SoTL activities and consider how we would like to engage in SoTL during the upcoming semester and academic year. The session will begin with a consideration of what SoTL is, in order to remind ourselves, and will be followed by a discussion about some of the possible types of SoTL projects that practitioners might undertake, either individually or in collaboration with others. 

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Museum of Things: Printmaking Workshop

27 Sep

Date: Saturday 27 September 2025 - Sunday 05 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Museum

Join us in the Hunterian Museum for a hands-on, printmaking workshop inspired by our current exhibitions and displays! This workshop will take place on 27 September and 5 October. Suitable for children aged 7+ with an accompanying adult.

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Getting started with SoTL

02 Oct

Date: Thursday 02 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan

Are you looking to get started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? Are you interested in designing enquiries into your teaching, exploring student learning and enhancing your practice as an educator? This is the first in a series of 3 CPD sessions which will help you get started, regardless of where and when you are in your career.

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Dumfries Campus Undergraduate Open Day

04 Oct

Date: Saturday 04 October 2025
Time: 11:00 - 15:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Dumfries Campus

Join us at our stunning campus in Dumfries to find out more about the range of subjects offered at the School of Social & Environmental Sustainability.

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Use of Debate as an Authentic, Active Learning Assessment to Enhance Student Engagement and Development

09 Oct

Date: Thursday 09 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Carolyn Loveridge, Dr Susan Lindsay and Dr Lesley Graham

Debate is an authentic, active learning activity that promotes student engagement, encourages deep learning and enhances development of desirable graduate attributes, including critical thinking and communication skills. We introduced debate as a summative assessment method in a new MSc course and from our personal reflections and routine course evaluation, we noted that students engaged enthusiastically with, had positive perceptions of and performed well in this type of assessment. This interactive workshop will provide participants with an overview of our work, including a toolkit for how to run a successful debate assessment and the opportunity to engage in a mock debate.

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Open Access

09 Oct

Date: Thursday 09 October 2025
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Matt Mahon and Mary Donaldson

The University of Glasgow encourages authors to make their publications open access and has a range of support available to facilitate this. This session will introduce the University of Glasgow’s approach to open access, including funder and REF requirements, and explain what authors need to do to make sure that their outputs are open access. We will also discuss the Research Publications and Copyright Policy and options for open access for monographs and other long-form publications.

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Applying for the Learning and Teaching Conference

14 Oct

Date: Tuesday 14 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Sarah Honeychurch and Dr Nathalie Tasler

In this session we will look at what makes a good L&T conference submission. Taking the call to the 2026 conference as our starting point, we will consider how we might start to frame an abstract: from choosing a topic, aligning it to the conference themes, and writing an appealing title. We will also take some of the successful submissions from previous years in order to see what makes a successful presentation.

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October Open Day

18 Oct

Date: Saturday 18 October 2025
Time: 09:00 - 15:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Main Gilmorehill Campus

We invite you to our October Open Day at our main campus in Glasgow, where you can meet academics, explore the campus, and discover all that UofG has to offer!

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The Critical Technologies Supply Chain

20 Oct

Date: Monday 20 October 2025 - Tuesday 21 October 2025
Time: 09:30 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: tbc

Quantum, Semiconductors, Photonics, Telecommunication and more

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Approaches to Active Learning: Object Based Learning

22 Oct

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Robyne Calvert

Object-based learning (OBL) is a dynamic and engaging pedagogical approach that enriches teaching by anchoring abstract concepts in tangible (and sometimes intangible) things. It is an established practice in many arts disciplines, but has more recently been growing in use in wider fields. Through teaching with physical or digital objects like artworks, artefacts, scientific instruments, historical documents, or everyday items; OBL encourages active engagement to develop analytical, observational, and interpretive skills.

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Methods and Ethics for SoTL

23 Oct

Date: Thursday 23 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan

Are you looking to get started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? Are you interested in designing enquiries into your teaching, exploring student learning and enhancing your practice as an educator? This is the second in a series of 3 CPD sessions which will help you get started, regardless of where and when you are in your career.

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Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture 2025

24 Oct

Date: Friday 24 October 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: McCall Lecture Theatre, Garscube Campus
Speaker: Professor Andrea Nolan

The 2025 Weipers Memorial Lecture, ‘Clinics to campus: a veterinary tale of pain, pleasure and progress’, will be delivered by Professor Andrea Nolan. After four decades as a veterinary surgeon during periods of immense change, Andrea will reflect on the different but surprisingly complementary threads of her learning from work as a researcher in animal pain and a university leader to offer insights for the future.

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Festival of Data Science and AI

27 Oct

Date: Monday 27 October 2025 - Wednesday 29 October 2025
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Festival of Data Science & AI.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Identify

29 Oct

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
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 identification. How do we decide which themes and topics we would like to explore through our SoTL enquiry? Maybe the student feedback for the course has identified some issues that we would like to explore, perhaps our reflections on last year’s teaching have highlighted an area for a possible SoTL project, or alternatively we might like to consider how to redesign one of our course assessments. In this session we will consider various possibilities for identifying SoTL projects, whether individually or collaboratively.

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Dissemination and Next Steps ...

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan

Are you looking to get started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? Are you interested in designing enquiries into your teaching, exploring student learning and enhancing your practice as an educator? This is the third in a series of 3 CPD sessions which will help you get started, regardless of where and when you are in your career.

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Engaging International Students in Active Learning

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

Internationalisation brings inspiring encounters but also potential misalignments of teacher and student expectations. These misalignments apply especially to expectations around how learning should take place and the role teachers and students play in the (co-)construction of knowledge. In order to create more alignment with our students, this session will offer an overview of the specific transition challenges international students may face and introduce approaches to scaffold active learning and create an inclusive classroom community. The workshop is open to all and will be particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach diverse international student cohorts.

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The Craft of Clarity: Designing Learning Outcomes with Impact

05 Nov

Date: Wednesday 05 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis and Dr Errol Rivera

Creating intended learning outcomes (ILOs) is one of the most difficult parts of the curriculum design process. This workshop will enable participants to craft clear, inclusive, and purposeful intended learning outcomes that serve as the foundation for effective course design and assessment. This session will not only provide the anatomy of a strong ILO, but will give participants the opportunity to create their own strong ILOs for a course that they teach.

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Decolonising the Curriculum in your Discipline

11 Nov

Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

This workshop introduces the topic of Decolonising the Curriculum and outlines an approach to plan, assess and review curriculum changes. We will consider our teaching materials and practices through the lens of decoloniality and identify typical barriers. Participants will be invited to discuss – and, if time allows, workshop – decolonising strategies that are compatible with the objectives of upcoming courses. The workshop is open to all and will be particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach international and/or diverse student cohorts.

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Rubrics to the Rescue? How the Use of Rubrics Can Enhance Assessment of Student Learning and Provision of Feedback

12 Nov

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis

This session will look at how the use of rubrics can help enhance the student learning experience. It will provide an overview of how to create sustainable rubrics and how rubrics can be used to help create meaningful, criterion based assessment, and provide more focused feedback to students. You will also get the chance to see examples of rubrics from colleagues on campus, and ask them about their experience.

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Measuring the International Relevance and Cultural Inclusivity of your Course

18 Nov

Date: Tuesday 18 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

This workshop introduces the Internationally Relevant Curriculum Scales (IRCS), a tool that enables us to systematically evaluate our course materials, teaching and classroom interactions for international relevance and cultural inclusivity. By using a simplified version of the tool interactively in the workshop, it will demonstrate how the data can be analysed and translated into actionable changes to our curriculum and practice. The workshop is open to all and will be particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach international and/or diverse student cohorts.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Plan

26 Nov

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

This month the focus of our SoTL journey is planning. Once we have identified what we would like our SoTL to focus on, how are we going to put this into practice? Maybe we would like to make changes to our own teaching practices, perhaps we have questions that we would like to answer by exploring the relevant literature, maybe we are contemplating an evaluation of past or current teaching and learning in our discipline. In this session we discuss strategies for developing a successful SoTL plan.

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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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Applying for the SSPS Funding Scheme

21 Jan

Date: Wednesday 21 January 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The Learning and Teaching Development Fund (LTDF) supports developments in the practice of learning and teaching that will make significant contributions to the enhancement of learning and teaching across the University and to the delivery of the objectives of the Learning and Teaching Strategy. This call for bids is specifically targeted at partnership work between students and members of academic staff.

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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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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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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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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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