Event listings

2nd Scottish Behavioural Sciences Conference 2025

16 May

Date: Friday 16 May 2025
Time: 09:00 - 17:45
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Harvard Teaching Room, Level 6, Adam Smith Business School, 2 Discovery Place G11 6EY

Join us for the 2nd Scottish Behavioural Sciences Conference 2025, where we will dive deep into the fascinating world of human behaviour!

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ECS - 9th Annual Conference: Beyond private law? The regulatory aims of copyright law; hosted by CREATe

16 May

Date: Friday 16 May 2025
Time: 09:15 - 18:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (Room 237 A + B)

We are delighted to announce that CREATe  will be hosting the ninth annual conference of the European Copyright Society in Glasgow on 16 May 2025. Leading copyright scholars will assemble in Glasgow under the theme: Beyond private law? The regulatory aims of copyright law. You can find the full programme, the speakers list, as well as all the practical information about Glasgow, on our ECS conference website.

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Wee World Changers: Art Explorers Trail

28 Jun

Date: Friday 28 June 2024 - Thursday 31 July 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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Wee World Changers: Family Fun

28 Jun

Date: Friday 28 June 2024 - Thursday 31 July 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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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: Exhibitions, Hunterian
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: Exhibitions, Hunterian
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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Glasgow through the Looking-Glass (exhibition)

01 May

Date: Thursday 01 May 2025 - Thursday 31 July 2025
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events, Open days and visits
Venue: Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow, G3 7DN

An exhibition at the Mitchell Library (Glasgow), to mark the publication of reputedly the world's first comics in Glasgow, in 1825. Coincides with a series of parallel talks and family-friendly events (see separate website).

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For a’ that: Michael Clark in conversation

17 May

Date: Saturday 17 May 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery
Speaker: Michael Clark

A radical presence in contemporary culture, the choreographer and artist Michael Clark reflects on 40 years of dance making and artistic collaborations.

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Wee World Changers: Student Parents and Kids at The Hunterian with the SRC

18 May

Date: Sunday 18 May 2025
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Museum

Come along to an informal, free drop-in session open to all student parents and their kids, hosted by the SRC in the Hunterian Museum.

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JUST TOUR Seminar Series: Unsettling the Human: More-than-human Provocations for Justice in Tourism

20 May

Date: Tuesday 20 May 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online Webinar

Our next seminar in the Just Tour series will be Tuesday 20 May 2025, at 3.00pm (BST / UK Time). We will consider the various theoretical underpinnings that serve to unsettle justice discourse (e.g. posthumanism, new materialism and theories of affect), as well as the methodological complexities in attending to more-than-human framings in just ways. Speakers will articulate how such framings allow an unsettling of justice discourse, with the impetus to advocate for cross-species justice and the rights of non-humans in the spaces and places of tourism.

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Creative Methods in Youth Research: The Politics of Making and Sharing

22 May

Date: Thursday 22 May 2025
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online

Explore creative youth research! Learn how media-making, craft, and zines empower marginalised voices. Online event: 22 May, 14:00.

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Mask We Wear

26 May

Date: Monday 26 May 2025 - Friday 30 May 2025
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Join us in celebrating the creative work young people from Hyndland Secondary School produced inspired by SMLC research, visits to the Scottish Masks and Puppet Centre, the Hunterian museum and Sharmanka Kinetic theatre.

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Book Launch: G.D.H. Cole and British Sociology by Matt Dawson

27 May

Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Room 916, 42 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS
Speaker: Reflections and responses from Robert Gibb (University of Glasgow) and Lise Butler (City University, London). Chair: Kristina Saunders

We're delighted to invite you to celebrate the launch of Matt Dawson’s recently published book G.D.H. Cole and British Sociology: A Study in Semi-Alienation.

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McEwen Bequest Concert 2024-25

27 May

Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Join the UofG Chapel Choir for the premiere of Cairn by Emily Doolittle, the 2024-25 McEwen Commission recipient

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Reflect

28 May

Date: Wednesday 28 May 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
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

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Body searches and Europe’s struggle with degradation

28 May

Date: Wednesday 28 May 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Professor Tom Daems

The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research is delighted to welcome Professor Tom Daems, who will give a presentation that aims to shed some light on the paradoxical observation that body searches are both deeply contested and yet also a normal routine part of everyday life.

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Induction & Transitions Symposium

29 May

Date: Thursday 29 May 2025
Time: 09:30 - 16:30
Categories: Conferences
Venue: James McCune Smith Building

Join us for the inaugural Induction & Transitions (I&T) Symposium, where staff across services and academic subjects will share innovative practices to support student transitions. This event offers hands-on workshops, insightful presentations, and engaging discussions on how to bridge gaps between students' starting points and institutional expectations. Register to present your work, learn from colleagues across the University, and contribute to a more cohesive approach to student transitions.

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Postgraduate On-Campus Finance & Funding Event

29 May

Date: Thursday 29 May 2025
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
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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GCILS Public Lecture: The Political Universes of International Courts

29 May

Date: Thursday 29 May 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Senate Room, Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Sally Langrish (Legal Adviser, UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Sally Langrish (Legal Adviser, UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) will deliver a lecture on the topic of 'The Political Universes of International Courts'.

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The Henry Dyer Symposium 2025

30 May

Date: Friday 30 May 2025
Time: 10:00 - 16:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: The Fergusson Room, One A the Square, Gilbert Scott Building

The Henry Dyer Symposium is a one-day research symposium that will be held to mark the visit by our colleagues from University of Tokyo to the James Watt School of Engineering on Friday 30th May 2025, and to celebrate the historic, 150-year relationship in engineering between UofG and UTokyo. The symposium will be held across three sessions containing 15 min conference-style research talks by presenters from both UofG and UTokyo, as well as a number of presentations on the cultural and historical links between the two Institutions. Lunch and morning & afternoon coffee breaks will be provided.

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Life After UofG

03 Jun

Date: Tuesday 03 June 2025 - Thursday 05 June 2025
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: James McCune Smith Learning Hub and Online

This series of careers events is designed to help recent and soon-to-be UofG graduates figure out their next steps after University.

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Southern Green Criminology

03 Jun

Date: Tuesday 03 June 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr David R. Goyes, University of Oslo.

Join us for our eighth webinar as part of the Security and Justice Futures series which aims to confront the dilemmas, re-imaginings and futures of security and justice from a cross-regional perspective.

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Transforming Science Learning with Virtual Technologies

04 Jun

Date: Wednesday 04 June 2025
Time: 10:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Professor Silvia Wen-Yu Lee, National Taiwan Normal University

Explore how Augmented Reality (AR) and Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) enhance science education. Discover key AR design strategies and how IVR supports engagement and cognitive load management for effective learning.

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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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Social and Political Sciences at Two Degrees

05 Jun

Date: Thursday 05 June 2025 - Friday 06 June 2025
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: James McCune Smith Learning Hub, Room 743 University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QW

Social and Political Science at Two Degrees is a workshop for staff and research students within Social and Political Sciences and colleagues from the wider university community looking at how social science and its affiliated subjects can respond to climate change. The workshop is part of the continuing Future Directions series run in Sociology, seeking to foster an active research environment and engagement with pertinent Sociological and Cultural issues.

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Glasgow Science Festival: Ostriches are in the ARC

05 Jun

Date: Thursday 05 June 2025
Time: 10:30 - 15:30
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane
Speaker: Prof. Christina Young

Ostriches and flowers are in Professor Christina Young’s History of Art lab at the ARC - in paintings and botanical drawings on loan from Argyll & Bute and Kew Gardens. Professor Young will be streaming from her lab, using a combination of optical techniques to research the pigments and artist techniques which have produced the vivid ostriches and subtle colours of the botanical drawings.

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Margaret Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Partners in Life and Art?

05 Jun

Date: Thursday 05 June 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery
Speaker: Joseph Sharples

In this talk, Joseph Sharples, Curator of Mackintosh Collections at the Hunterian, will consider the extent of their collaboration and the character of their artistic partnership, drawing on a range of evidence from their own lifetimes.

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Glasgow through the Looking-Glass (events)

07 Jun

Date: Saturday 07 June 2025
Time: 10:00 - 15:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events, Open days and visits
Venue: Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow, G3 7DN
Speaker: Various

Parallel to the exhibition at the Mitchell Library to mark the publication of reputedly the world's first comics in Glasgow, in 1825, the Stirling Maxwell Centre and Glasgow Libraries are hosting a day of talks and family-friendly events. Free, but ticketed.

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Byres Hub Community Day 2025

07 Jun

Date: Saturday 07 June 2025
Time: 12:00 - 16:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Social events, Open days and visits
Venue: Clarice Pears building

Join School of Health and Wellbeing staff, students and Byres Hub community groups between 12noon and 4pm on Saturday 7th June for our third annual community day.

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Tenements Talking: The 100 Year Old Journey of Glasgow Tenements 'Social Sciences Hub'

07 Jun

Date: Saturday 07 June 2025 - Sunday 08 June 2025
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Public lectures, Social events, Open days and visits
Venue: Hillhead Subway Station
Speaker: Bilge Serin

A walking workshop exploring the journey of Glasgow’s tenements, as part of the Architecture Fringe Festival 2025.

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Glasgow Science Festival: The Sound of Science

10 Jun

Date: Tuesday 10 June 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Social events, Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Join us for an adult-focused evening of fun activities, mini-talks and an exhibition to delve deep into the science of sound as GSF takes over the Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, Tues 10th June, 6pm - 8pm, Booking required, Free, Recommended for 16+

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Perspectives on Scotland's Third Sector Impact: Research Conference

11 Jun

Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Categories: Conferences, Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Professor Sarah Skerratt, Royal Society of Edinburgh

This will be a free interactive facilitated event promoting dialogue between academics and voluntary sector practitioners, policy makers and other stakeholders from a broad range of third sector organisations.

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Glasgow Science Festival: The Art of Science

11 Jun

Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Join us for an adult-focused evening of fun activities, mini-talks and an exhibition to explore the connection between art and science as GSF takes over the Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, Wed 11th June, 6pm - 8pm, Booking required, Free, Recommended for 16+

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Glasgow Science Festival: ARC Pub Quiz

12 Jun

Date: Thursday 12 June 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Categories: Social events
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Join us in the Western Cafe for the ARC's very first pub quiz, hosted by Eliott Simpson and featuring questions from ARC researchers. Taking place as part of the Glasgow Science Festival: Body of Science ARC takeover evening.

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Glasgow Science Festival: A Body of Science

12 Jun

Date: Thursday 12 June 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events, Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Join us for an adult-focused evening of fun activities, mini-talks and an exhibition to explore the science behind how your body works as GSF takes over the Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, Thurs 12th June, 6pm - 8pm, Booking required, Free, Recommended for 16+

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CinemARC x GSF: Song of the Sea

13 Jun

Date: Friday 13 June 2025
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Marking Glasgow’s 850th birthday, the ARC is taking inspiration from the fish on the city’s crest to present Song of the Sea for a family-friendly screening. This enchanting animation follows a sea journey across a world of legend and magic. Taking place as part of Glasgow Science Festival.

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CinemARC x GSF: The Life Aquatic

13 Jun

Date: Friday 13 June 2025
Time: 19:00 - 21:30
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Marking Glasgow’s 850th birthday, the ARC is taking inspiration from the fish on the city’s crest to present Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic for an evening screening. Starring Bill Murray, expect a colourful cast of characters in this submarine adventure. Taking place as part of the Glasgow Science Festival.

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Dear Green Music Scene Festival 2025

15 Jun

Date: Sunday 15 June 2025
Time: 12:30 - 18:30
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Welcome to the second edition of the Dear Green Music Scene Festival. Running across two stages powered by hydrogen and solar energy the mini-festival showcases a fantastic line-up of grassroots musicians, science activities and researchers discussing the clean energy transition.

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Byres Community Hub - Hub Monday shaping healthy 20 minute neighbourhoods

16 Jun

Date: Monday 16 June 2025
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Public lectures, Social events, Open days and visits
Venue: 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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June Open Day

19 Jun

Date: Thursday 19 June 2025
Time: 09:00 - 15:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Main Gilmorehill Campus

We invite you to our June 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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Bird, Tree, Bell, Fish, Ring

20 Jun

Date: Friday 20 June 2025 - Sunday 28 September 2025
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Hunterian
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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Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges - National Medical Schools' Widening Participation Conference 2025

05 Jul

Date: Saturday 05 July 2025
Time: 9:00 - 18:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre

Now in its seventh year, the National Medical Schools Widening Participation Forum (NMSWP) is proud to host its Annual National Conference—a celebration of collaboration, learning, and collective progress in widening access to medicine. This flagship event brings together students, educators, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and WP champions from across the UK. With a shared commitment to building a more inclusive medical profession, the conference provides an energising space for connection, reflection, and action.

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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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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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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 - Monday 21 July 2025
Time: 09:30 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: tbc

Quantum, Semiconductors, Photonics, Telecommunication and more

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