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Cliff Hughes, Untitled Comics

Two businesses from ºìÐÓÊÓƵ’s startup accelerator programme have reached the final of Converge 2019, Scotland’s leading entrepreneurial development programme for Higher Education. In announcing the finalists, Converge noted that this is a recognition of ºìÐÓÊÓƵ’s longstanding reputation for innovation and creativity.

Science on a Postcard

A chance encounter at an airport provided the impetus for a new business which would help break down the stereotypes associated with scientists and see creativity and science join forces.

Prolong bag

Prolong is a fashion brand with sustainability at its core. It is the idea that existing items of clothing, which are no longer in use, can be transformed into completely new products and provides a solution to a major problem of sustainability in the fashion industry.

Lynn Shaw

Dancing Along the Borderline is a creative business, run by Lynn Shaw, which was founded to act as a representative for those with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), primarily using the arts as a catalyst to contribute to changing the often-stigmatised misrepresentations of the disorder.

Creative Accelerator

A group of ten creatives, who have spent the last 12 weeks on ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Creative Accelerator, will mark the end of the programme with a special exposition, showcasing their enhanced businesses to the public.

Working to widen access

Writing in the Scotsman, Professor Liz Hancock, Vice-Principal for Academic Development and the Student Experience, discusses the importance of equal access to Higher Education in Scotland.

Nippon Foundation Summer School

A group of 10 Japanese students will spend a month studying at ºìÐÓÊÓƵ as part of a respected international development programme.

ºìÐÓÊÓƵ ANUT MoU

ºìÐÓÊÓƵ has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Mexican National Association of Technological Universities (ANUT), strengthening the university’s ties in Mexico.

Professor Elizabeth Gammie

ºìÐÓÊÓƵ’s (ºìÐÓÊÓƵ) Aberdeen Business School has been shortlisted for ‘Business School of the Year’ in the Times Higher Education Awards 2019.

Dr Ruby Roberts

Writing for Energy by the Press and Journal, Dr Ruby Roberts, a research fellow and organisational psychologist from ºìÐÓÊÓƵ's Aberdeen Business School discusses her research collaboration with the Oil and Gas Technology Centre.

EuroAgeism event

Acknowledging 50 years since the coinage of the term ‘ageism’, ºìÐÓÊÓƵ (ºìÐÓÊÓƵ) organised a three-day training conference to share transferable research skills with 15 international PhD students as part of EuroAgeism’s bid to tackle the issue in Europe.

Piotr Teodorowski

Writing for the Scotsman, Piotr Teodorowski, an early career researcher from ºìÐÓÊÓƵ's School of Nursing and Midwifery comments on the success of the EU Settlement Scheme, connecting the scheme to the School's research into the impact of Brexit on the mental health of EU citizens.

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