Event listings

Revisiting consumption for a climate friendly future. In conversation with Professor Tim Jackson

Date: Wednesday 18 August 2021 - Thursday 18 August 2022
Time: 09:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Available on Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, Anchor, Pocketcasts, Radio Public and Youtube
Speaker: Professor Tim Jackson

Join Deirdre Shaw, Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainable Solutions and Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research, University of Glasgow as she discusses this important topic with Tim Jackson*, Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity and Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey.. Over three “bite-size” Podcasts they will explore key questions, including: How can we transform current consumption behaviours? What do climate friendly consumption lifestyles look like? How can we support and embed behavioural transformation?

The LGBTQ+ Fabric of the University - Monthly Lunchtime Drop-Ins

Date: Wednesday 30 March 2022 - Wednesday 25 January 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: The Hunterian Museum (Main Building)

Drop in to one or many of our monthly gatherings seeking to share stories & weave more LGBTQ+ stories into the University Collections.

Demon Drink

Date: Friday 20 May 2022 - Sunday 18 September 2022
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This fascinating new exhibition explores the theme of alcohol in art and the contradiction of the positive and negative consequences of the ‘demon drink’.

Alasdair Gray's Lanark: A Life Made on Paper

Date: Friday 10 June 2022 - Sunday 02 October 2022
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This new Hunterian exhibition is dedicated to the work of renowned Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray (1934–2019).

Charlie Hammond: Workaround

Date: Friday 24 June 2022 - Sunday 16 October 2022
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

'Workaround' is a solo exhibition featuring new and existing work by Glasgow-based artist Charlie Hammond.

Introduction to R Workshops

Date: Tuesday 09 August 2022 - Thursday 18 August 2022
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Boyd Orr, room 517
Speaker: Emily Nordmann, School of Psychology and Neuroscience

In this workshop you will learn how use R and RStudio to summarise and visualise data. The session runs over two days with the second session building on learning from session 1. Attendees will need to commit to attending both sessions (9 and 18 August).

Neurodiversity Network Presents: Michelle Blake discussing the experiences of being a neurodivergent parent

Date: Thursday 25 August 2022
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online (Zoom)

The Neurodiversity Network presents a seminar with Michelle Blake discussing her experience as a neurodivergent parent as well as supporting other neurodivergent families.

August Undergraduate Open Day

Date: Wednesday 31 August 2022
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Main Campus

The University of Glasgow's Undergraduate Open Day taking place on Wednesday 31 August.

Communicating Sustainability 2022

Date: Tuesday 06 September 2022 - Wednesday 07 September 2022
Time: 09:00 - 18:00
Categories: Conferences, COP26 Physical
Venue: Glasgow University

Glasgow University, in conjunction with Sergipe University, Brasil, and Goucher College, USA, is organising a two-day event on the theme of Communicating Sustainability on 6th and 7th September 2022. What does ‘sustainability’ mean to you and people you work with? How does your view of ‘sustainability’ inform your practice? Are your views and practices properly represented and respected in public policy, the media and education? What are your challenges and successes in discussing issues of ‘sustainability’ with other sectors, with different views and priorities? 

Creativity, Authenticity and Sustainability in Knitted Textiles

Date: Thursday 08 September 2022 - Friday 09 September 2022
Time: 09:00 - 17:30
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Hybrid event: Sir Charles Wilson Building and/or via zoom
Speaker: 2 Keynote Speakers: Thursday 8th September, Stana Nenadic, Professor of Social and Cultural History, University of Edinburgh; Friday 9th September, Na

This 2 day, hybrid conference brings together academics and creatives to present and discuss historical and contemporary knitwear processes and practices.

Fleece to Fashion Markethall

Date: Thursday 08 September 2022 - Friday 09 September 2022
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences, Exhibitions, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Seminar Room 101B, Sir Charles Wilson Building

Fleece to Fashion Market Hall running in tandem with the Fleece to Fashion Research Conference. Come and visit our market hall of wonderful vendors and replenish your stash with beautiful new yarns for your next knitting project. Free entry, all welcome.

Neurodiversity Network Presents: Hannah Hayward discussing moving beyond typical approaches to diagnosis and support

Date: Thursday 22 September 2022
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Speaker: Neurodiveristy Network

The University of Glasgow's Neurodiversity Network is delighted to present a talk by Hannah Hayward. In this talk Hannah will discuss how we can broaden our understanding of what it is to be autistic and how we can think beyond typical approaches to diagnosis and support.

UofG London Alumni Drinks September 2022

Date: Tuesday 27 September 2022
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: One Birdcage Walk, Westminster, London, SW1H 9JJ
Speaker: Professor Andrew Tobin

Join us in London

The Carrolup Exhibition

Date: Wednesday 05 October 2022 - Friday 11 November 2022
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

The Carrolup Exhibition features works of art produced during the 1940s and 1950s by young Aboriginal people in Western Australia, Noongar children forcibly removed from their families and communities and detained in the Carrolup Native Settlement. It reprises a tour of their work in the early 1950s

The Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots

Date: Friday 14 October 2022 - Sunday 05 February 2023
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This major new exhibition explores the legend of Mary Queen of Scots and her cultural afterlife.

October Undergraduate Open Day

Date: Saturday 22 October 2022
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Main Campus

The University of Glasgow's Undergraduate Open Day taking place on Wednesday 31 August 2022.

Professor James McCall Memorial Lecture

Date: Friday 28 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures, Social events, Alumni events
Venue: McCall Lecture Theatre, Garscube Campus
Speaker: Professor Quintin McKellar

The biennial Professor James McCall Memorial Lecture will be delivered on Friday 28 October at 6:00pm. The lecture, ‘Universities in the crosshairs’, will be delivered by Professor Quintin McKellar, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Hertfordshire.