#dundeeuni — Public Fediverse posts

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.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/20/world-shortage-million-midwives-icm-healthcare-mothers-babies-intervention

** https://www.thelancet.com/series-do/midwifery

*** Taken from https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/impact/dac997a2-328f-4fba-9be1-78052a32c38d?page=1
#REF2021

All the best to our graduates who graduated last week!

Some stories can be found in #DundeeUni LinkedIn feed:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/universityofdundee_two-of-todays-nursing-grads-have-already-activity-7397624579411828736-bnOG
#Nursing

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/universityofdundee_one-of-our-graduates-crossing-the-caird-hall-activity-7397656121622044672-haGx

Personally, I am surprised each time how the same degree information leads to very different hoods being picked for me.

As I have no clue (evident by how I wear some 😅), any pointers to what they are, are welcome!

#Gown #EdeRavenscroft #AcademicDress #BurgonSociety

New #AcademicYear - New #introduction

I am a researcher at #DundeeUni and interested in health-related quality of life
#HRQoL #Psychometrics

I teach #ResearchMethodology and #ResearchMethods with a focus on #Quantitative methods.

I worked for 7yrs as a #NightshiftEditor and I am still mulling over roles in and sense of #AcademicPublishing

This is mainly a work account, but I also post #Dundee stuff such as #DunDeCofaidh and occasional #Deutsch #Svenska #Gaidhlig (👉 pure work account at BSky)

With a new #AcademicYear starting a pointer to a great resource aimed at #postgraduate research students, but likely useful for others as well:
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/projects/wellbeing-postgraduate-researcher-narratives

This #comic shares stories of postgraduate researchers to highlight how, where, and when to ask for support.

#AcademicChatter #DundeeUni #PGRSupport

Edit: Typo corrected

New #AcademicYear - New #introduction

I am interested in health-related quality of life
#HRQL #Psychometrics

I teach #ResearchMethods modules in the #DundeeUni #ProfDoc
#Interdisciplinary #RD62001 #RD62002

I convene our School's #ResearchEthics committee

My terms as academic editor of 'Quality of Life Research' come to an end, and I am mulling over roles and sense in #AcademicPublishing
#NightshiftEditor

There may be some occasional #Deutsch #Svenska #Gaidhlig and local stuff in my feed.