Communicating with you

Build your social network and find your community!

The University of Aberdeen has a presence across all major social media channels for current students. We use these channels to keep you up to date with all things related and of interest to current students, make sure you follow these channels - there may even be a competition or two!

School Social Channels

Listed below are School specific channels which you may want to join, along with some related societies. For a full list of all Clubs and Societies visit the Students' Union website.

University e-newsletter

During term-time, every week a Student Update email is sent. See below for distribution dates, and how clubs and societies can submit content for the Students' Union.

• Watch these short videos on Toolkit to find out how to access your email on Desktop, Android or iOS.

The University of Aberdeen will contact its students by email with important:

• Updates on your academic experience
• Institutional updates from the University’s management teams
• Incident response communications e.g. a flood in a building

University of Aberdeen email accounts can not unsubscribe from these essential communications. However, it is possible to tailor the content you receive in other communications such as the Student Update.

Within MyAberdeen, you will find the Student Experience organisation. You will find a whole array of information, updates, news, events and promotions here.

Ensure you check this regularly for any opportunities that have been announced.

The Student Hub is the place to visit if you want to find out:

• Exam results
• Timetables
• Your academic progress
• Academic information, for example how many credits you have, your degree title etc.
• Non-academic information

'MyAberdeen' is your very own virtual learning environment.

This is where you will find learning materials and resources associated with your courses and where you will be notified of any announcements about your courses or the University.

Guidance on using MyAberdeen is also available on the Toolkit web pages.

Too many emails from Blackboard?
Watch this video to find out how to manage the notifications you receive.

Our creative, passionate and enthusiastic student content creators share their experiences of student life at the University of Aberdeen through blogs, vlogs, podcasts and social media platforms.

You can follow their student journey and interest as they develop within the University of Aberdeen community as they introduce you to all that student life has to offer, as well as key social media campaigns. Check out what our students have been up to here.

Your ideas, expertise and feedback is a key part of driving change at the University of Aberdeen. We provide you with a number of opportunities to feedback and shape the University and your future.

If you want to find out more about forthcoming surveys or other feedback opportunities or to find out the results of previous surveys please visit the Feedback pages of the website.

Communication from the Careers and Employability Service

All student and graduates have access to MyCareerHub, a platform used by the Careers and Employability Service which allows you to connect with part-time work, internships, graduate jobs and book careers events and appointments.

It is important that students keep their MyCareerHub profile up-to-date so that you can receive personalised communications, general news and information and register for additional job alerts.

The Careers and Employability Service will send the following emails to you from MyCareerHub:

• Career Readiness updates: Current students will be sent targeted information based what you have said you would like to take part in over the next 12 months and what areas of support you require. You told us this information as part of the online registration process at enrolment and you can update it at re-enrolment each year. We will send these updates weekly but it will depend on your answers as to how often you receive one. Make sure you have ticked the box for personalised communications to receive these.
  
  
• Job and event alerts: When you search for a job on MyCareerHub, you can opt in to receiving targeted job alerts for that search. You can unsubscribe from these alerts at any time but will be automatically unsubscribed if you do not engage with them for over 30 days.
  
  
• Appointment and event information: You will be sent automated confirmation, reminder and update emails based on your engagement with the platform, e.g. confirmation of booking an appointment or an updated location of an event.

These communications will be sent directly to your student email account. Emails will be sent from careers@abdn.ac.uk so please add this address to your safe senders.