Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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Bonus #photos from my husband's lunch break on Tuesday, sitting at #Seabraes near the University of #Dundee. A #dunnock and a #magpie. #Scotland #Photography #Birds #Birding #Birdstodon #BirdPhotography #BirdingPhotography #Dunnocks #Magpies #CityWildlife #UrbanNature #Countryside #Wildlife #Nature #DundeeUniversity
#dundeeuniversity #nature #wildlife #countryside #urbannature #citywildlife #magpies #dunnocks #birdingphotography #birdphotography #birdstodon #birding #birds #photography #scotland #magpie #dunnock #dundee #seabraes #photos
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
911 followers · 1329 posts · Server mastodon.scotHidden #Manuscripts in #DundeeUniversity Special Collections https://learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk/dundeeuniculture/2023/07/24/hidden-manuscripts-in-dundee-special-collections/ #BookHistory #RareBooks #Dundee #Scotland #PaperHistory #Books #Bookstodon #Histodon
#histodon #bookstodon #books #paperhistory #scotland #dundee #rarebooks #bookhistory #dundeeuniversity #manuscripts
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
797 followers · 1109 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Here are some lunchtime #photos from my husband today in #Dundee, #Scotland. He was working in his office below #DundeeUniversity Tower Building today, and went for a #walk. #RiverTay #Rivers #TayRailwayBridge #TayBridge #kayaking #kayakers #OutdoorSports #gulls #BlackHeadedGulls #Birds #Birding #BirdingPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birdstodon #Goldfinch #Goldfinches #Photography #Seaside #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography
#wildlifephotography #wildlife #seaside #photography #goldfinches #goldfinch #birdstodon #birdphotography #birdingphotography #birding #birds #blackheadedgulls #gulls #outdoorsports #kayakers #kayaking #taybridge #tayrailwaybridge #rivers #rivertay #walk #dundeeuniversity #scotland #dundee #photos
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
795 followers · 1085 posts · Server mastodon.scotAnd a local historian who I often chatted with has just appeared on screen in the programme. I spent a year 2003-4 working half time as a #ResearchAssistant on Bob Harris’s Small Towns project. And a huge part of my job was spent researching in the #Angus #Archives, which at that time was located in the top floor of #Montrose Library. #UrbanHistory #HistoricalResearch #DundeeUniversity #ScottishHistory #ScottishTowns #Towns #AngusArchives
#angusarchives #towns #scottishtowns #ScottishHistory #dundeeuniversity #historicalresearch #urbanhistory #Montrose #archives #angus #researchassistant
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
775 followers · 943 posts · Server mastodon.scot#DundeeUniversity students try Scottish food https://youtu.be/pGz_Vncr9DY #Dundee #Scotland #Food #ScottishCuisine #Haggis #IrnBru #Tunnocks #Shortbread #Tablet #ScottishFood #TasteTest
#tastetest #scottishfood #tablet #shortbread #tunnocks #irnbru #haggis #scottishcuisine #food #scotland #dundee #dundeeuniversity
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
757 followers · 867 posts · Server mastodon.scotJust heard that my honorary research fellowship in History (now in School of Humanities, Social Sciences & Law) at #DundeeUniversity has been renewed again to summer 2025. Huge thanks to Dundee University for this. It helps me continue to be an active academic, publishing new research, despite my progressive neurological disease. I've held this fellowship continuously since 2010. #Academia #History #Fellowship #Neuro #ChronicIllness #DisabledAcademic
#disabledacademic #chronicillness #neuro #fellowship #history #academia #dundeeuniversity
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
752 followers · 808 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Facebook reminded me 5 years ago today I started investigating the 200 year history of 166 #Nethergate, #Dundee where my husband works. Former Dundee Uni Careers building, now HQ of spinoff company STAR-Dundee. 49 page report. Print copies with Dundee Uni Archives, Dundee City Archives & Historic Environment Scotland. #HouseHistory #BuildingHistory #ScottishHistory #DundeeUniversity #Architecture #Space #SpaceIndustry #SpaceResearch #StarDundee
#stardundee #spaceresearch #spaceindustry #space #architecture #dundeeuniversity #ScottishHistory #buildinghistory #househistory #dundee #nethergate
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
742 followers · 787 posts · Server mastodon.scotFacebook reminded me 13 years ago today I passed my #PhD #viva at #DundeeUniversity. Happy PhD birthday to me! I haven't been able to work in a paid capacity in #academia since due to my #progressive MS-like #illness. But I'm still active as an #academic. Here's a blog post about my activities since then. https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/ten-years-since-phd-viva/ #Dundee #Research #University #Postgrad
#postgrad #university #research #dundee #academic #illness #progressive #academia #dundeeuniversity #viva #phd
Androo · @Androo
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My Daughter's latest efforts. She intends to apply to #DundeeUniversity #DuncanOfJordanstone Fingers crossed!
#duncanofjordanstone #dundeeuniversity
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
707 followers · 653 posts · Server mastodon.scotJust been trying a couple more of the #ScottishHistory #quizzes by Allan Kennedy linked from the Centre for #ScottishCulture at the #University of #Dundee website. Relieved to get 47% and 53% on the “super hard” 16th and 17thC ones! https://dundeescottishculture.org/scottish-history-quizzes/ #Scotland #History #DundeeUniversity #SixteenthCentury #SeventeenthCentury #16thCentury #17thCentury
#17thcentury #16thcentury #seventeenthcentury #sixteenthcentury #dundeeuniversity #history #scotland #dundee #university #ScottishCulture #quizzes #ScottishHistory
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
665 followers · 535 posts · Server mastodon.scot
And here is the result for the favoured books by all the female borrowers recorded in the Haddington Gray Library borrowing records between 1732 and 1816. A much stronger preference for novels and poetry, though this library had relatively few novels. #SQL #MySQL #History #ScottishHistory #Libraries #EastLothian #PhD #DundeeUniversity #Dundee #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #HistoricalResearch #Mac #MacBookPro #SQLPro #Books #Reading #Women #Female
#female #women #reading #books #sqlpro #macbookpro #mac #historicalresearch #eighteenthcentury #18thcentury #dundee #dundeeuniversity #phd #eastlothian #libraries #ScottishHistory #history #mysql #sql
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
665 followers · 534 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Reinstalled MySQL on my new Mac laptop and imported my old library borrowings etc. databases from my Dundee University history PhD. Pleased to see the SQL queries in my thesis appendix still worked! Tweaked one here to show most popular books borrowed by teenage boys 1732-1816. #databases #SQL #MySQL #History #ScottishHistory #Libraries #EastLothian #PhD #DundeeUniversity #Dundee #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #HistoricalResearch
#historicalresearch #eighteenthcentury #18thcentury #dundee #dundeeuniversity #phd #eastlothian #libraries #ScottishHistory #history #mysql #sql #databases
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
651 followers · 487 posts · Server mastodon.scotFacebook reminded me that 13 years ago today I put in alternative/disability arrangements request for my upcoming history #PhD #viva at #DundeeUniversity. Worked well: a #wheelchair accessible room and time limited viva cos of how confused & slurred speech I get after a while. Loved my viva. #neuro #disabledAcademic
#disabledacademic #neuro #wheelchair #dundeeuniversity #viva #phd
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
557 followers · 310 posts · Server mastodon.scotI haven’t watched this but in the Guardian review it says only 1300 people a year donate their body to train medics. Dundee University has a particularly high donation rate, about 90 per year. Dad wanted his donated. It was an enormous comfort on the day he died when his body was deemed suitable and #DundeeUniversity formally accepted it. I hope mine is too. But I can’t watch this.
My Dead Body review https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/05/my-dead-body-review-the-skull-crack-makes-even-the-medical-students-wince
#Medicine #Anatomy #Dundee
#dundee #anatomy #medicine #dundeeuniversity