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Political marketing is key to electoral success
British politics is now consumer-led, with the main parties acting like businesses, designing their ‘product’ to suit what voters want, according to a new book written by an Aberdeen political scientist.The real story will be what happens after the election on June 7, claims author Dr Jennifer Lees-Marshment, of the...
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Aberdeen University students to benefit from integrated interpretation technology
Aberdeen University students to benefit from integrated interpretation technologyThe University of Aberdeen has been awarded $1.4million to expose students to the latest integrated interpretation technology in the oil industry, and bring them to the forefront in technology in preparation for their geoscience careers.The Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology has...
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University of Aberdeen Department of Divinity Tops in Scotland
The Department of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen has been given a boost with the publication of a UK-wide university league table in yesterday’s Guardian (Tuesday, May 22).Aberdeen was placed third in the newspaper’s Top 20 departments of divinity in the UK, just below Cambridge, which was second, and...
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The North Atlantic Fiddle Convention, 25-29 July 2001
A major international fiddle convention, which will focus on traditional fiddling, exploring its past and future, will take place in Aberdeen in July.The North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo), organised by the University of Aberdeen’s Elphinstone Institute, will feature musicians from countries bordering the northern seas and is open to anyone...
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New fish immunology centre for Scotland
The Universities of Aberdeen and Stirling have been awarded £830,000 to set up a new research centre for fish immunology.The new state-of-the-art centre, which will have facilities at both the University of Aberdeen’s Department of Zoology and the Institute of Aquaculture at Stirling, has been funded by the Scottish Higher...
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Aberdeen enters top twenty UK universities
The University of Aberdeen’s ambition to become one of the country’s leading universities was given a massive boost today with the publication of UK-wide university league tables.Aberdeen has been ranked nineteenth in the UK and third in Scotland in The Times Good University Guide.Principal C Duncan Rice said that this...
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Finalists announced in Word Festival online writing competition
The creative literary talents of youngsters from throughout Scotland and Ireland will be rewarded tonight during an awards ceremony at the University of Aberdeen, as the winners of the WORD Festival online writing competition received their prizes.The online writing competition for secondary school pupils across the whole of Scotland and...
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Aberdeen academic explores Jessie Kesson’s literary legacy
Award-winning writer and academic Dr Isobel Murray will deliver the distinguished Linklater Lecture at the University of Aberdeen on Friday, May 18, as part of its second WORD 2001 writers festival.Dr Murray, a Reader in the Department of English at Aberdeen University, won this year’s National Library of Scotland Saltire...
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Oscar-winning film producer Lord Puttnam launches University CPD enterprise
The celebrated British film producer David Puttnam CBE today () officially launched the University of Aberdeen’s continuing professional development enterprise, Prospect CPD.Around 150 business leaders and academics from throughout Scotland attended the prestigious event at King’s College Conference Centre. Grampian Television news anchor Chris Harvey presented the event as part...
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University literary festival closes with a bang
Some of Scotland’s finest writers and poets will be in Aberdeen this weekend to round off the University of Aberdeen’s literary extravaganza, WORD 2001.William McIlvanney, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Andrew O’Hagan, Tom Leonard, Bernard MacLaverty and Ali Smith are just some of the names which will be performing at venues...
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