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Art History Prize Winners
Congratulations to our undergraduate winners in Art History for the 2023-24 academic year!
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Arctic Art History: A Research Assistant's Experience
Williams College/Clark Art Institute graduate student Nora Høegh has made some fascinating discoveries undertaking archival work to assist DHPA's Interdisciplinary Research Fellow Dr Isabelle Gapp.
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Art History Postgraduate Student's Outstanding Award
Congratulations to Art History PhD student Freya Juul Jensen, who has been awarded a Foundation Grant from Funds for Women Graduates. FfWG provides grants, bursaries and fellowships to women graduates to help with living expenses.
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"From the Floe Edge": British Academy funding success for Dr Isabelle Gapp
Isabelle Gapp, Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Art History, has received British Academy funding for her collaborative project on coastal sea ice, working with Sarah Cooley (University of Oregon) and the West Baffin Co-operative in Kinngait, Nunavut.
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Aberdeen Art History ranks #1 in the UK in the 2023 National Student Survey
The department of Art History at the University of Aberdeen has been ranked 1st in the UK for positive responses in questions across the 2023 National Student Survey, and 1st for overall student satisfaction (Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales).* Head of Discipline, Dr Joanne Anderson, welcomed the news saying “I am thrilled...
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Art History ranked #1 in UK for overall student satisfaction in this year's NSS
The department of Art History has been ranked first in the UK for overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey (NSS) 2022. The survey asks final year students to look back on their degree studies and speak out on everything from the teaching on their courses, access to resources and...
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Art History 50th-anniversary celebrations
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for our 50th-anniversary celebrations on the 19th of May, on campus and virtually! Attendees included staff from the past and present, students and graduates. It was great to be able to mark the occasion with an event in-person and to meet alumni who'd travelled...
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50 Years of Art History at Aberdeen
2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the department of Art History at our University. In 1970, the University of Aberdeen appointed David G. Irwin to a lectureship in “Fine Art”. The following year, Aberdeen offered for the first time an ‘ordinary’ (first year) course in History of Art – thus...
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Principal's Scholar Award for Art History Student
Allie Glew - MA History of Art, was named as a winner of the Principal's Scholar Award at a ceremony held at the University’s Kings College campus on Monday evening. The awards honour University of Aberdeen students who have excelled during their first year of study. Further information.
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Wellcome Trust awards funding for the Menstruation Research Network UK at Aberdeen University
The Wellcome Trust has awarded funding to the Menstruation Research Network UK, led by PI Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik in Art History. The funding will continue the work done to establish the network as place for interdisciplinary collaboration for menstrual scholars in Britain since 2018. It will cover four years...