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Jeannie!
Sunday 12 November 2000, 7.30 p.m.The Lemon Tree, AberdeenDate: 30 October 2000Jeannie Robertson MBE (1908-1978), of the travelling folk, was a traditional singer of unique ability. Her songs and her singing have had a profound influence over the folksong revival in Scotland and beyond from the 1950s to the present...
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New Directions in Sport at the University
Photocall – Monday, 30th October 7:00 p.m.The University will celebrate new advances in its sporting programme as it announces its Millennium winners of sports bursaries on Monday, 30th October at a reception in the University’s newly refurbished sports centre, attended by student athletes as well as elite local athletes who...
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Record-Breaking Careers Fair - 1st November
This year’s Careers Fair will be attended by a record breaking 52 employers from across the UK. The event takes place on November 1 2000 from 10.30 to 15.30 in Elphinstone Hall, King’s College, with a special attempt being made this year to represent a real cross-section of vocational sectors.Employers...
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Juggling Work and Family Life
The effect of work on different generations and members of the modern family, the influence of social class on family life and the development of ‘family friendly’ policies will be among the topics to be discussed at a meeting of the British Sociological Association's (BSA) Family Studies Group on Thursday...
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Famous Two from Home and Abroad to be Honoured
The University of Aberdeen’s November 2000 graduations will honour one of the North East of Scotland’s most famous sons and a best-selling Spanish writer.Jack Webster, one of Scotland’s best known journalists, will receive the Honorary Degree of Master of the University (MUniv) at 3:00 on Friday 24 November.Lucia Etxebarria, Novelist,...
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WORD FESTIVAL 2001 GOES HIGH TECH TO REACH ACROSS THE SEA
The first Word Festival took place in Aberdeen in May, 1999, and was “the largest, and most impressive literary event ever held in Aberdeen” according to The Scotsman. This week will see the first event leading up to an even bigger and better Word 2001: the launch of the online...
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“It’s Your Building But Our City”
Key urban design issues which face cities today and the impact of these issues on land economy and property is the theme of the annual Ryden Lecture to be given at the University of Aberdeen, King’s College Conference Centre on Wednesday 25 October at 7.00pm. The event is organised jointly...
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Opening Museum Doors to Learning
Thousands of items from the University’s Marischal Museum and Natural Philosophy Collection are to be made available for higher education in the UK through a prestigious grant to create a database of digital images and information. The project, LEMUR (LEarning with MUseum Resources), will run for three years and is...
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The role of Government in Sport: is there a special case for intervention?
“Government attitudes towards sports seem to vacillate between regarding them as no different from other economic activities and regarding them as a special case. However, the degree of intervention is considerable both in relation to amateur and professional sporting activity”This is one of the major conclusions of a paper to...
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Singing for Young Singers
During the day, participants will be introduced to songs from the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, which is housed in Historic Collections at the University of Aberdeen. This is an extraordinarily rich resource of North-East material, arguably the largest of its kind in Europe. It was collected by Gavin Greig and...
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ABERDEEN RESEARCHER SCOOPS CAREER SCIENTIST AWARD
The Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Executive Department of Health is pleased to announce that one of the six awards made nationally each year to further the careers of high flyers working within primary care research has gone to Dr Blair Smith, a General Practitioner and Senior Lecturer in...
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UNIVERSITY RECEIVES NEW ASSET IN FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER
The University of Aberdeen has received a valuable new asset in the fight against breast cancer during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the UK.A new magnet weighing 4 metric tonnes for the MRI scanner at the MRI Research Centre will be brought in by crane on Wednesday, 11th October at...
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University receives funding boost from RARARI for rural patient morbidity recording
University receives funding boost from RARARI for rural patient morbidity researchA grant totalling over £140,000 from the Remote and Rural Area Resources Initiative (RARARI), a Scottish Executive Health Department Scheme, is set to extend knowledge about health in rural areas and has been successfully secured by a collaboration based at...
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PROSPECT CPD AT WORLD CONFERENCE
Prospect CPD, the University’s centre providing Continuing Professional Development (CPD), has been invited to speak today at the World Open Learning Conference and Exhibition in Birmingham, the largest and most prestigious conference of this sort in the world. The list of 82 companies attending the presentation include senior training and...
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OIL AND GAS LIVES RECORDED
The lives and work of the people who were involved in the UK’s North Sea oil and gas industry will bedocumented in the world’s biggest ever oral history project devoted to the industry. The project, a unique partnership between the British Library and The University of Aberdeen, is launched today...
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"There's a lot of it about - but does it matter?"
'There's a lot of it about - but does it matter?'Service relevance of primary care researchProfessor Philip Hannaford holds the Grampian Health Board Chair of Primary Care in the Department of General Practice & Primary Care, University of Aberdeen and will be hosting a lecture, which is open to the...