News
Tuesday 15 July 2025
Robert Gordon University (ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ) is to launch a new BSc (Hons) Clinical Practice for Pharmacy Technicians, the first of its kind in the UK.
Friday 11 July 2025
Robert Gordon University (ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ) has today announced the team that will spearhead the Islands Entrepreneurship Network, an initiative led by the University designed to energise local economies and empower communities to launch and grow successful enterprises across Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.
Tuesday 08 July 2025
ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ and McAlpha Inc. have developed an advanced Catalytic Membrane Reactor (CMR) technology, poised to revolutionise ammonia production.
Friday 04 July 2025
Keith Brymer Jones, a leading figure in contemporary British ceramics and expert judge on Channel 4’s hit show, The Great Pottery Throw Down, has been awarded an Honorary Degree from Robert Gordon University (ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ).
Friday 04 July 2025
Jane Akadiri graduated with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ in 2016. She went on to found Touch of Love Outreach in Aberdeen, which helps to build strong, more inclusive communities.

Dr Rachael Ironside, course leader of Events Management at ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ's School of Creative and Cultural Business, writes about the history and traditions of Halloween and how it might be slightly different this year.

ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ alumnus Ivor Ferguson has gifted £10,000 to the university to provide access to higher education for traditionally under-represented students.

Local charity Friends of ANCHOR has bolstered a grant from Robert Gordon University to provide top-of-the-range equipment that will drive forward pivotal studies into cancer treatment.

Fiona Roberts, Teaching Excellence Fellow at ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ, writes how the pandemic has made us more aware of the important role of healthcare professionals in treating patients in intensive care and how ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ has a long history of preparing such graduates.

ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ won the Imaginative Educator Awards’ team category for planning and delivering multiple programmes during the pandemic which prepare students for the future needs of industry and the economy by developing their entrepreneurial skills, knowledge and mindsets.

ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ graduate Lucy Fisher who created Knit It – an innovative platform which offers digital knitting patterns, tools, tutorials and more – has won £10,000 of funding from Scottish EDGE.

Sarah Pedersen, Professor of Communication and Media at ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ's School of Creative and Cultural Business, explores how social media has been used during lockdown – and has its use been problematic or helpful?

Streetsport, which is run in partnership with ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ and the Denis Law Legacy Trust, has been recognised for its community work in the first ever Evening Express Champion Awards.

ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ has been named Scottish University of the Year in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021.

Kevin Andrew Morris graduated with a BA (Hons) in Ceramic Design in 2010 and has gone on to exhibit his work nationally and internationally as well as working with a range of artists, institutions and on various public projects.

Originally from Finland and now based in Edinburgh, Maija Nygren is a children’s clothing designer with sustainability at the heart of her work.

Nina Stanger is an Aberdeen-based artist and designer whose creative practice explores sensory experience through digital animation, sound and sculpture.