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Dr Leeanne Bodkin, Coordinator of the medical humanities programme and Megan Shaw fifth year medical student and the winner of the Dr Jeannie Macleod Prize in the Diversity in medicine category share their thoughts on the opportunity to celebrate diversity through these prizes.

This month we enjoyed hearing the student…

In the wake of Black Lives Matter movement, universities are considering decolonising their curricula. Karina Chopra (5^th year Medical Student) and Sohinee Bhattacharya Senior Lecturer and course coordinator Global Health talk about what decolonising the medical curriculum means for students, staff and doctors.

As a medical graduate from India I…

As we approach the milestone of a year since the Covid-19 pandemic forced a seismic shift in the delivery of teaching in universities around the world, I reflect on our experience of blended learning here in the School of Biological Sciences.

At the beginning of 2020, the term “blended learning”…

After one of the most topical global events of 2020- the ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign, 3^rd year medical student Deborah Adepoju sheds some light on how the medical school has taken steps to diversify its curriculum and implement changes amid the pandemic!

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Before the Black Lives Matter…

As a reflection on the extent we question what we have been taught and the potentially unspoken organising frameworks behind that knowledge, Mark Whittington of University of Aberdeen Business School (UoABS) reflects on a conversation from 40 years ago…..

I am older than I would like to admit, so let’s just say…

Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor company once said, “Coming together is a Beginning, staying together is Progress, and working together is Success” 

Cheryl Dowie, a Lecturer in Business and Management Studies at the University of Aberdeen Business School, shares her experience on the benefits of working…

Mark Whittington and colleagues at the University of Aberdeen Business School (UoABS) have been developing partnership programmes with South China Normal University (SCNU) for over a decade. This is a story of one success feature of working together – academic buddying. This addresses how can we cross cultural divides and…

‘There is more that unites us than that separates us’. This is a quote from the film ’Black Panther’. Amudha Poobalan, Senior lecturer in Public Health reflects on what unites us at the University of Aberdeen: COMMITMENT.

I was born and brought up in south India and was very privileged…