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The Online Etymology Dictionary defines resilience as with the following timelines “1620s, "act of rebounding or springing back," often of immaterial things, from Latin resiliens, present participle of resilire "to rebound, recoil," from re- "back" (see re-) + salire "to jump, leap" (see salient (adj.)). By 1824, the physical sciences field defined resilience as "elasticity, power of returning to original…

According to the Universities UK, in 2020, 20.7% of the student population in the UK will be international. The figure below shows that international postgraduate students outnumber their undergraduate counterparts by three times. Since then, the numbers have grown to the largest ever recorded; the Universities UK opine that this…

The University of Aberdeen Annual Academic Development Symposium ‘Global Communities: Building Communities and Improving Collaboration’ in May 2022 was once again a huge success. This year, it was a genuinely hybrid event, with speakers and participants on-line and in person, with excellent colleague support to ensure that all were involved. …

As part of the greater Contemporary Spirituality umbrella, I ask if holding a space for the spiritually questing within an extremely inclusive Shamanic practice would be welcomed?

In the spirit of celebrating diversity, I believe that the answer is YES.

Shamanism – a rose with many names

I believe Shamanism…

In commemoration of this year’s black history month, I have been invited to write this blogpost and I am pleased to do so.  I am a qualified barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and an Energy Law Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. The focus of this…

As the new academic year is now underway, Student Progression & Transition Manager from the Language Centre, Alison McBoyle, reflects on a perceived need to welcome, & acknowledge, the diverse range of educational & cultural experiences of non-native English speakers studying at Aberdeen University.

Reflecting on studying in a second…

As a recently appointed Race Equality Champion within The School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, Dr Sadaf Ashraf, a research scientist at the Centre for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Health, reflects on what encouraged her to apply for the role.

My dad came to Britain from South-Asia as…

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”…