Event listings

Postgraduate Online Event

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: Online

Chat to staff, students and academics to discover what it's like to study at our world changing campus as a postgraduate student at UofG! Join us for sessions from university service teams and academic information sessions.

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UofG Online: Distance Learning Event

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025
Time: 09:00 - 17:30
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: Online

Join us to find out how you can earn a University of Glasgow degree from anywhere in the world. This event is designed for prospective online learners. Explore our postgraduate programmes, connect with staff and students and learn how we support you to succeed, wherever you study from.

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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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Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland 2025: Encounter Taiwan and the World

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025 - Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 18:00
Categories: Student events, Social events, Films and theatre
Venue: Centre of Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT)

A selection of contemporary Taiwanese cinema that delves into the intricate tapestry of identity, memory, and societal transformation. This festival serves as a luminous platform of encounter, where Taiwan's cinematic imagination dialogues with Scotland's cultural landscape, and where local stories refract global questions of belonging, resilience, and renewal, to bridge Taiwan and Scotland, fostering a lasting cultural exchange that celebrates cinema's power to connect inward truths with outward visions, creating a shared space for reflection and inspiration. We invite you to join us in these marvellous encounters - where Taiwan meets the world, and where Scotland, in turn, encounters Taiwan.

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Reflections on 26 years of devolution in the Scottish Parliament

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events, Public lectures
Venue: Humanities Lecture Theatre, The Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Online
Speaker: David McGill, Clerk and Chief Executive of the Scottish Parliament

David McGill, Clerk and Chief Executive of the Scottish Parliament, reflects on its past and looks ahead to the election in May 2026.

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Choral Contemplations II: Mythical Beasts

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025
Time: 18:10 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Join us for a free twilight concert of choral and organ music exploring mythical beasts!

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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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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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Festival of Social Science- "Our working Lives"

18 Oct

Date: Saturday 18 October 2025 - Saturday 08 November 2025
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events, Public lectures, Films and theatre, Exhibitions
Venue: Multiple venues across campus

The 23rd ESRC Festival of Social Science will run from 18 October to 8th November. This year’s central theme is "Our Working Lives", exploring how digital technology is reshaping the way we work and interact.

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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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Free Pilates Classes for Staff and Students with AMGPilates

03 Nov

Date: Monday 03 November 2025 - Monday 24 November 2025
Time: 11:30 - 12:30
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

Sign up now for Pilates classes taking place on Monday lunchtimes at the Hunterian Art Gallery! Classes are for University of Glasgow staff and students. Please use your University of Glasgow email address to book.

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The Living Lab: Healthcare Innovation Symposium

05 Nov

Date: Wednesday 05 November 2025
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Teaching and Learning Centre

Join the Living Laboratory for a full day designed to equip delegates with the insights, strategies, and connections needed to transform pioneering ideas into impactful healthcare solutions - delivering real-world value within the NHS and on a global stage.

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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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Explosive history: fireworks and how-to books in the seventeenth century

05 Nov

Date: Wednesday 05 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:35
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Library, Level 2 Exhibition Space
Speaker: Dr James Fox

The University of Glasgow Library presents, "Explosive history: fireworks and how-to books in the seventeenth century ", a talk by Dr James Fox. James Fox is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow working on the AHRC- and DFG-funded project, ‘Take Me and Make it Happen! How-to Books from the Ferguson Collection, Glasgow, and Corresponding Holdings from the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel’

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Angelique Po (Vancouver)

05 Nov

Date: Wednesday 05 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A short, free, lunchtime organ recital - come and hear this beautiful instrument played live.

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Postgraduate Study On-Campus Finance & Funding Event

05 Nov

Date: Wednesday 05 November 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (ARC)

Come along to our stunning Gilmorehill Campus and chat with staff to find out all about life as a postgraduate student at UofG!

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Book Tales

06 Nov

Date: Thursday 06 November 2025
Time: 16:30 - 18:30
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events
Venue: The University of Glasgow Library, Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QE

Linking readers old and new, the University of Glasgow's Book Tales: Storytelling Between Text and Object events series reveals heritage collections and emotional connections, using books to tell stories beyond their text.

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Future Creatives

06 Nov

Date: Thursday 06 November 2025
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events, Films and theatre, Exhibitions, Concerts and music
Venue: Queen Margaret Union

Join us for Future Creatives, a celebration of student work, projects and performances from the School of Culture & Creative Arts!

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Lunchtime Concert: Dopey Monkey

06 Nov

Date: Thursday 06 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Lunchtime listening: Dopey Monkey (Martin Lee Thomson and Danielle Price) present a programme of genre-defying new and arranged music for euphonium and tuba. This event is free of charge and open to all!

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Explore a Career in Teaching

06 Nov

Date: Thursday 06 November 2025
Time: 17:00 - 19:30
Categories: Student events, Academic events
Venue: St Andrews Building, Gilmorehill Campus

Ever been curious about a career in teaching? Have a real passion for your subject area? Ready to take your first step towards inspiring the next generation? By attending this event, you'll gain an understanding of what it's like to work in teaching and have the chance to network with local teachers and fellow students.

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World-Changing Glasgow 850 Games Jam - Prizegiving

06 Nov

Date: Thursday 06 November 2025
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Categories: Student events
Venue: Wolfson Building, Atrium

To mark the city’s 850th anniversary, we’re inviting students to take part in the World-Changing Glasgow Games Jam — a celebration of creativity, risk-taking, and bold new visions.

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Working 9-5: How does childcare fit?

07 Nov

Date: Friday 07 November 2025
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Join the UofG Centre for Public Policy and Pregnant Then Screwed, for a public event showcasing new research on the challenges and opportunities in early learning and childcare provision, bringing together academics, policymakers, practitioners, and advocates to reflect on the role of childcare policy in shaping socio-economic outcomes for families and communities.

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Make Your Own Book!

08 Nov

Date: Saturday 08 November 2025
Time: 13:30 - 16:30
Categories: Community events, Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events
Venue: Mitchell Library, Granville Street, Glasgow

Linking readers old and new, the University of Glasgow's Book Tales: Storytelling Between Text and Object events series reveals heritage collections and emotional connections, using books to tell stories beyond their text.

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Annual Remembrance Service

09 Nov

Date: Sunday 09 November 2025
Time: 10:45
Categories: Ceremonial events
Venue: Bute Hall

The University’s Annual Remembrance Service will be on Sunday 9 November 2025. All are welcome to attend. Events will begin at the South Front of the University from 10.45am, where the silence will be observed at 11.00am. This will be followed by the Service of Remembrance in the Bute Hall.

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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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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Michael Bawtree (Glasgow)

12 Nov

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A short, free, lunchtime organ recital - come and hear this beautiful instrument played live.

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Professor Sarah Cook’s inaugural lecture

12 Nov

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building
Speaker: Professor Sarah Cook

Professor Sarah Cook’s inaugural lecture - Curating art and technology from the Internet to AI.

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Psychopathology of the Self: Implications for Philosophy

12 Nov

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building LT 201
Speaker: Professor Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham

Abnormalities of the self are complex, intriguing cases in psychopathology. 1 will briefly introduce the formal characteristics of the self from a psychopathologist’s perspective plus examples of how these present in patients, such as phantom limbs, loss of body experience, and others that reveal the relationship between the body and the self. I will then focus on autoscopy, a rare phenomenon where a person experiences a duplicate of themselves. I will discuss neurological underpinnings and how the underlying self is a product of multiple sensory representations of the body. I will end by briefly discussing philosophical implications of these phenomena.

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Books "Antiques" Roadshow

13 Nov

Date: Thursday 13 November 2025
Time: 16:30 - 19:30
Categories: Community events, Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events
Venue: The Old Glasgow Room, The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN.

Linking readers old and new, the University of Glasgow's Book Tales: Storytelling Between Text and Object free events series reveals heritage collections and emotional connections, using books to tell stories beyond their text.

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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: Hunterian, Public lectures
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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Friday Focus - Glasgow on Paper

14 Nov

Date: Friday 14 November 2025
Time: 13:00 - 13:30
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Online
Speaker: Anne Dulau

Join Hunterian Curator, Anne Dulau, in this online talk exploring views of Glasgow from The Hunterian's works on paper collection.

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Exploring Physiology: A Public Celebration at the University of Glasgow

15 Nov

Date: Saturday 15 November 2025
Time: 10:00 - 15:00
Categories: Community events, Exhibitions
Venue: Advanced Research Centre, Seminar Rooms

Discover the science of life at our free Physiology Week event! Hands-on demos, VR, and experiments for all ages — just drop in!

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The Human Biology Story Lab

15 Nov

Date: Saturday 15 November 2025
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Categories: Community events, Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre, Seminar Rooms

Join this Being Human Festival workshop and explore your body’s hidden processes through creative writing. No experience needed.

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Byres Community Hub - Hub Monday

17 Nov

Date: Monday 17 November 2025
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Community events, Open days and visits, Social events
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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Glasgow 850 – The Evolving City

17 Nov

Date: Monday 17 November 2025 - Friday 28 November 2025
Time: 17:30 - 20:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: The ARC

The School of Education warmly invites you to the opening of Glasgow 850: The Evolving City, a photography exhibition celebrating creativity, collaboration, and the evolving built and urban environments of Glasgow. Developed in partnership with 10 Glasgow schools, the exhibition showcases the work of young photographers who took part in a range of creative workshops. Join us in celebrating these emerging talents and the vibrant partnership between Glasgow’s schools and the School of Education.

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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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Alasdair & Others: Willy Maley

18 Nov

Date: Tuesday 18 November 2025
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Categories: Community events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Willy Maley

The first event in a new themed programme from The Alasdair Gray Archive celebrates the contribution of Professor Willy Maley

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Mark Browne (Glasgow)

19 Nov

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A short, free, lunchtime organ recital - come and hear this beautiful instrument played live.

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Eastern Europe’s ‘Peripheral Whiteness’: Class and Gender Racialization among Polish Migrants and Returnees

19 Nov

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek and Dr Sylwia Urbańska

In this talk, Dr Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek and Dr Sylwia Urbańska will develop the concept of peripheral Whiteness in the context of Eastern Europeans, arguing that their position is characterized by conditional access to the privileges associated with Whiteness. Focusing on the example of Polish migrants in Western European labour markets and Polish returnees at Poland’s eastern borders, the talk will demonstrate how processes of racialization are deeply intertwined with dimensions of class and gender.

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CinemARC: The Social Network

19 Nov

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 17:30 - 20:00
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

The ARC presents this special screening of Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s 2010 hit, The Social Network.

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Lunchtime Concert: Aref Ghorbani and Amir Hossein Feyzi

20 Nov

Date: Thursday 20 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Lunchtime listening: Aref Ghorbani and Amir Hossein Feyzi present an exciting programme of music. This event is free of charge and open to all!

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Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology of Glasgow for 850: Part 1

20 Nov

Date: Thursday 20 November 2025
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre , Sir Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow, 1 University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Speaker: Professor Stephen Driscoll

This year’s Dalrymple Lecture Series will mark Glasgow 850 with a pair of lectures by leading archaeologist Professor Stephen Driscoll exploring the contribution of archaeology to telling the story of Glasgow’s first 850 years – and what came before Glasgow.

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Election 2026: Predictions and Consequences - Live Podcast Recording

21 Nov

Date: Friday 21 November 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events, Public lectures
Venue: Senate Room, The Gilbert Scott Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Bernard Ponsonby (former STV Political Editor) and Alex Massie (The Times)

Join two of Scotland’s most respected political journalists, Bernard Ponsonby (former STV Political Editor) and Alex Massie (The Times), for a special live recording of their acclaimed podcast at the University of Glasgow on 21 November 2025.

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Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology of Glasgow for 850: Part 2

21 Nov

Date: Friday 21 November 2025
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre , Sir Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow, 1 University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Speaker: Professor Stephen Driscoll

This year’s Dalrymple lecture series will mark Glasgow 850 with a pair of lectures by leading archaeologist Professor Stephen Driscoll exploring the contribution of archaeology to telling the story of Glasgow’s first 850 years – and what came before Glasgow.

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HESPA Autumn ‘All-In’ Conference

25 Nov

Date: Tuesday 25 November 2025 - Thursday 27 November 2025
Time: 09:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Virtual
Speaker: Vivienne Stern (UUK), Chris Hale (University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand) and Amanda Oliver (Committee of University Chairs

Free place for the HESPA Autumn ‘All-In’ Conference – Planners Power Up

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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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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Kevin Bowyer

26 Nov

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

A short, free, lunchtime organ recital - come and hear this beautiful instrument played live.

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Beyond Efficiency: Automating Marking to Improve Feedback, Moderation, and Programme Design

26 Nov

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teams
Speaker: Rebekah Marangon

This session explores how low-code automation tools, such as Microsoft Forms and Power Automate, can be used to transform marking and feedback in higher education. Based on practical experience within undergraduate law modules, the talk highlights how automation can enhance feedback quality, improve consistency, and significantly reduce marking time - while preserving academic integrity and pedagogical depth.

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Lunchtime Concert: The Stone Combo

27 Nov

Date: Thursday 27 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Lunchtime listening: Come along to hear a programme of music by dynamic jazz trio The Stone Combo. This event is free of charge and open to all!

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Byres Community Hub - Hub Monday

01 Dec

Date: Monday 01 December 2025
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Community events, Open days and visits, Social events
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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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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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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SHW Christmas lecture

12 Dec

Date: Friday 12 December 2025
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
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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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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UofG Chicago Burns Celebration

04 Feb

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

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: TBC

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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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: Student events, Academic events, Social events, Public lectures, Exhibitions
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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