University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde has published a report which reveals how its 18th century antecedent institution had connections to the profits of slaveryThis link opens a PDF document. and to a number of merchants who had benefited from…

Glasgow City Council has announced the approval of £900,000 of funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) that will be awarded to the Glasgow City Innovation District (GCID) in 2023-5. The funding will support innovation and the…

Maureen Robinson, one of the first women in the whisky industry to hold the prestigious title of Master Blender, is one of five people to receive an honorary degree from the University of Strathclyde. Ms Robinson, who studied pharmacy at…

Scottish poet and writer Professor Jackie Kay has officially opened a plaza named in her honour at the University of Strathclyde. The Jackie Kay Plaza forms part of the Learning & Teaching Building on the University’s John Anderson…

The University of Strathclyde is part of a project that has secured £10.6 million in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to establish SUSTAIN, a transformative Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT). SUSTAIN will provide a…

A project involving Strathclyde to deliver the UK’s first national medical distribution network using drones has taken a step forward by conducting live flight trials. Live flying took place between Glasgow Airport and NHS Golden Jubilee…

The Director of the University of Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics has been elected as a Fellow of an international organisation dedicated to promoting the science of light. Professor Jennifer Hastie has been elected to the…

Zara Mohammed, the secretary-general of The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), has been named as the University of Strathclyde’s Alumna of the Year 2023. Glasgow-born Ms Mohammed is the first woman leader of the MCB, an organisation that…

Zoe Shipton, Professor of Geological Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Strathclyde, is the recipient of the annual Fletcher of Saltoun Award for Science. The prestigious award is given in recognition…

A new method of creating laser pulses, more than 1,000 times as powerful as those currently in existence, has been proposed by scientists in the UK and South Korea. The scientists have used computer simulations in joint research to…