New #coffee shop in the #DundeeUni area!
#DunDeCofaidh
Halò
Opens Mon-Sat 8am (Sun 10am)
#FlatWhite £3.50
#Espresso £3.00
Just on the limit of #EarlyCoffee.
When I returned today, the barista remembered my order 👍
Chan eil mi cinnteach a bheil iad a' bruidhinn Gàidhlig ge-tà.*
#Cofaidh #DundeeCoffee #Dundee
* Shop name is "Hello" in Gaelic, seems a fair question?
We looked at the Contributor Roles Taxonomy ( #CRediT ), covering contributions typically made to research outputs:
https://credit.niso.org/
@tenzingContrib
Designed to look at contributions instead of #authorships, it is much more inclusive.
Brief guide by #DundeeUni colleagues:
https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/credit-taxonomy-recognising-research-contributions/
In our new paper we were synthesised primary research into the experiences of adolescents concerning their #diabetes #SelfManagement after participating in a diabetes education program
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26350106261422691
- We only found papers relating to T1DM (and only n=4)
- Experiences split into (i) general experience of self management, and (ii) barriers/facilitators in their environment
- All studies were conducted in Western/ #HIC countries
#LMIC #GlobalHealth
The recent Guardian headline* about the world being short a million midwives connected to our School's history in leading the Lancet Series on Midwifery**
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2014-lancet-series-midwifery-midwife-shortages-jan-r-b%C3%B6hnke-itd9e
"[...] #midwifery is an essential intervention that can substantively improve survival, health, and well-being in low-, middle-, and high-income countries" ***
#DundeeUni #BanasGluine #GlobalHealth #MaternalHealth
** https://www.thelancet.com/series-do/midwifery
*** Taken from https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/impact/dac997a2-328f-4fba-9be1-78052a32c38d?page=1
#REF2021
Looking for a #WeekendRead?
How about my colleague's umbrella concept analysis of #loneliness identifying one necessary and sufficient characteristic:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17437199.2025.2528822
Brief comment from me on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7416424211079995394/
Press release from #DundeeUni
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/press-release/loneliness-definition-could-transform-support-millions
Funding to build #HealthResearch capacity in #Scotland for clinical and non–clinical researchers to continue their research following completion of a PhD:
Early Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/fellowship-funding/early-postdoctoral-fellowship/
🔥📆 10th March 2026
❗3 years of salary and consumable support
...and maybe spending this time in the Living Well with Long-term Conditions Research Group at #DundeeUni could be the right context?
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/lwltc/research
#NCD #LTC
Great day at our Postgraduate Research Symposium at the School of #HealthSciences #DundeeUni !
21 presentations across such diverse topics as breastfeeding, the Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex, #MentalHealth literacy, stigma of mental illness, the nursing curriculum, #PPIE in #RCTs, skin to skin care, traumatic birth and... and... 👏
Great opportunity to welcome new students, and to see projects develop over the years.
Reading the "University of Dundee Section 25 Conditions of Funding as at 26 November 2025"* by #SFC I learned a new word:
timeous
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/timeous
* available here:
https://www.sfc.ac.uk/assurance-accountability/institutional-sustainability-and-governance/institutional-governance/university-of-dundee/
The Candidates' responses in the #DundeeUni “Chair of Court election hustings” gave interesting perspectives on the problems of #HEI and #Dundee in particular.
One quote by Esther Roberton (minutes ago confirmed as the Chair of UoD Court): “When I discovered what principals earn, I was taken aback. […] I had a Chief Exec running a health board with nearly £2bn of a budget, 22.5 thousand staff, and he earned half of what some of our University Principals earn.”
Three things I found interesting to delve into the UK #HEI crisis, case example #DundeeUni (bit more detail: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7399752039225831424/).
The session of the “Education, Children and Young People Committee” of the #ScottishParliament with Professor Nigel Seaton, Interim Principal and Vice-Chancellor and Lee Hamill, Interim Finance Director covered a wide range of concrete challenges and topics in university management.
https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/education-children-and-young-people-committee-october-29-2025
Three things I found quite interesting to listen to about the crisis at the University of Dundee that illustrate the various crises in the UK #HigherEducation sector well and could therefore also be interesting to others. The session of the “Education, Children and Young People Committee” of the #ScottishParliament with Professor Nigel Seaton, Interim Principal and Vice-Chancellor and Lee Hamill, Interim Finance Director (University of Dundee) covered a wide range of concrete challenges and topics in university management.** One example: “There is always cross-subsidy involved in research activities, and there is a bigger cross-subsidy for activities that are more expensive, including science and engineering activities. All British universities lose money on research—it is a structural question. We recover about 69 per cent of the cost of doing research across the university, which is a very normal figure for a university.” https://lnkd.in/eDgxJQUb Full session available here, starting at 10:08am, https://lnkd.in/em_Vbk3Z #ParlamaidNaHAlba And the “Chair of Court election hustings” have been recorded and published here: https://lnkd.in/eEMNBYyD The candidates’ responses give interesting perspectives, in part from other sectors, on the problems of #HEI and Dundee in particular. Once again just one quote to whet the appetite, by Esther Roberton (minutes ago confirmed as the new Chair of UoD Court) on pay levels for University leadership in the UK: “When I discovered what principals earn, I was taken aback. […] I had a Chief Exec running a health board with nearly £2bn of a budget, 22.5 thousand staff, and he earned half of what some of our University Principals earn.” (but she acknowledged that pay offered still had an influence on whom one would be able to recruit) [Due to word count limits, third point added in the first comment 👇 ] I’d say “Enjoy!”, but I am not so sure * Don’t forget The Guardian’s headline “Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told” https://lnkd.in/eFXxEKjm ** Fun quote for my German colleagues: “To people who have not worked in universities, this might seem like an odd thing to say, but it takes nearly a year to appoint a university principal. It is a complex process that involves senate and court” Well, that is still fast. One can be happy if after a year a professor is appointed…
Jan R. Boehnke
