Scottish Parliament candidates react to Aberdeen University crisis
MSP candidates struggled to commit to tackling Scotland's higher education funding crisis at a panel debate.
An Aberdeen University hustings event for Scottish Parliament hopefuls was held by Prosper, a business group whose membership includes the likes of Shell, Royal Bank of Scotland and University of Aberdeen.
Principal Edwards welcomed attendees,...
Withheld university survey reveals staff morale plummeted by 35%
A 2024 staff survey has revealed a 35% decline in a staff satisfaction metric. The results of the survey were excluded from the latest...
St Fittick’s Park industrialisation “fundamentally not about just energy transition,” say campaigners
by Hannah-Rose Lloyd & Innes Paton.
St Fittick’s Park, the last greenspace in Torry, will be reduced in size by a third this summer. This...
Nuart street art festival returns to the Granite City
by Hannah-Rose Lloyd.
The award-winning Nuart Street Art Festival returns to Aberdeen from April 22nd to 26th, bringing a programme of murals and installations to...
Police investigate hate crime as antisemitic leaflets distributed in Aberdeen
Antisemitic flyers were distributed near a park last week in the latest incident of racist material distributed in Aberdeen.
Flyers...
City centre ambassador scheme criticised for employing only two people
by Hannah-Rose Lloyd.
Aberdeen City Council has introduced only two city centre ambassadors under a 12-month trial, in partnership with...
Compulsory redundancies possible in next months as 21 PhD courses axed
By Amelia Boag, Fred Byrne & Innes Paton.
Senior management yesterday rejected a deal that would have seen a pause...
University highlights support services after student death
The University of Aberdeen and Police Scotland have confirmed that a student has died at Hillhead Student Accommodation.
In an...
Reform UK poster boy calls out party for denying climate change
by Innes Paton, Fred Byrne & Elle Douglas-Brown.
A poster boy for Reform UK has spoken out against the party’s...
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International
“Even though I’m far from Ukraine, I still feel everything that happens there”
Sofiia, soon to take on the role as UoA Ukrainian Society president, is a third year computer science student. Originally from the eastern city...
UK reveals Russian submarine surveillance operation in the North Atlantic
During a press conference in April 2026, UK Defence Secretary John Healey announced the UK Armed Forces had monitored a month-long Russian spying mission...
Viktor Orbán faces landslide defeat
After a controversial 16 years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán conceded defeat on April 13th 2026.
Orbán was...
Kirsty Blackman MP rails against UK government ban on student visas...
By Fred Byrne and Emily Reid
An Aberdeen politician has spoken out against the UK government’s ban on student visas...
Hidden in plain sight
The city of Aberdeen has a long and torrid history of involvement in the Atlantic Slave Trade. This was...
President delivers State of the Union amid historic low approval rating
The Capitol building in Washington D.C. was the host of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union (SOTU) on...
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Criomagan
Scottish Parliament candidates react to Aberdeen University crisis
MSP candidates struggled to commit to tackling Scotland's higher education funding crisis at a panel debate.
An Aberdeen University hustings event for Scottish Parliament hopefuls...
Helping Our Pollinators This Spring: Easy, student-friendly ways to support bees, butterflies, and biodiversity
Spring has sprung! The birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and the butterflies and bees are flying around. Pollinators are so important to our...
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What is food in a changing world? – Review
By Zinat Moslemzadeh
At Aberdeen’s Music Hall, the room was already alive with quiet conversation as a group of women...
We’ve had pain all wrong!
In English, ‘pain’ is simply ‘pain’. Whether we’re trying to describe the sharp sting of a paper cut, surgery,...
Withheld university survey reveals staff morale plummeted by 35%
A 2024 staff survey has revealed a 35% decline in a staff satisfaction metric. The results of the survey...
St Fittick’s Park industrialisation “fundamentally not about just energy transition,” say...
by Hannah-Rose Lloyd & Innes Paton.
St Fittick’s Park, the last greenspace in Torry, will be reduced in size by...
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Features
“Make Aberdeen a 9tease city”
The Gaudie sat down with a new Aberdeen original Band to discuss how their band was formed and how they find creativity whilst studying....
‘Ramadan Mubarak’, Aberdeen!
Ramadan celebrations began Tuesday 17th February and will conclude either on Wednesday 16th or Thursday 19th March, depending on...
Aberdeen ushers in the Chinese New Year
University of Aberdeen’s Confucius Institute hosted a dazzling Spring Festival Gala Show to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The...
Finding meaning in ordinary days
By Arya Patel
At university, most of my time is not spent doing anything remarkable. I move between New...
Year of the Rat by Harry Shukman
Year of the rat follows former journalist Harry Shukman as he goes undercover with Hope not hate. Shukman works...
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Opine
AI-thor Unknown
Attention all crime novel enthusiasts! Freida McFadden has recently revealed her true identity… in part due to rumours that she was using AI.
In case...
First Past The Post: Does it Work?
Everyone has the right to vote in the UK. Therefore, everyone should have the right to be represented. However, this does not happen. The...
ChatGPT… please give me an opinion!
Last weekend I went down to the Warwick Economics Summit, a student-run conference looking to present to students the...
Get them out of their island
There comes a point in the life of any system that is falling apart when corruption stops being greed,...
Efficiency: In defence of “young hoes”
If you’ve perhaps graced a certain side of the internet this last month, you may have noticed the emergence...
Accepting the Grey Area
Situationship is a term every young person knows, but what does it actually mean? The idea of a situationship...
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Arts
What is food in a changing world? – Review
By Zinat Moslemzadeh
At Aberdeen’s Music Hall, the room was already alive with quiet conversation as a group of women gathered in one corner, their...
AD- Centre Stage presents: ‘For the Love of Vanya’
“Being alive is kissing a tree going 293 miles-per-hour through a windshield and then waking up to take your first baby steps again.” -...
North City Signal
The term ‘Aberdeen’s creative industry’ has often felt as if it was an oxymoron in recent years. With less...
Sex and the Necessity
By Amelia Boag McGlynn
And just like that, hit HBO show ‘Sex and the City’ has experienced a booming resurgence...
How the Louvre lost £76 million in seven minutes
By Georgie Burns
On the morning of October 19th, the art world watched in horror as four professional thieves, disguised...
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Life & Style
Runways, Revival and Raising for a Reason
Saturday the 21st of February saw the annual Aberdeen University Charity Fashion Show take on the Beach Ballroom. The catwalk transformed students into works...
A Stylish Tribute to the Witches of Scotland
Are you a woman with strong opinions on political or cultural issues? Do you have noticeable scars, moles, or disabilities that your community might...
Uisge Beatha: The Water of Life in Aberdeen
‘Uisge beatha’ is a Scottish Gaelic term meaning ‘water of life’. The word itself travelled through tongues and centuries,...
Don’t let the cold freeze you
Since winter is officially upon us, the sun abandons us earlier and leaves us among the darkness to finish...
First find it, then wrap it
With Aberdeen well and truly decked out in its Christmas attire, we’ve all got one thing on our minds:...
It’s beginning to look a lot like the Christmas Market
Since it’s that time of the year again, Aberdeen is currently going through the wonderful journey of being overwhelmed...
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Gaming & Technology
The Machine That Found What No One Was Looking For
Barbara felt completely fine. No lump. No pain. No nagging feeling that something could be wrong. So, like most women, she squeezed in a...
Could Gut Bacteria be the Cure to Dementia?
The pathology of neurodegenerative diseases like dementia is highly complex and multifaceted. Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, affects almost a million people...
Cutting-Edge Ultrasound Helmet Aspires to Treat Parkinson’s Disease Without Surgery
Millions of people around the globe are currently living with Parkinson’s disease, a multifactorial and incurable neurodegenerative condition that...
Stay Safe: A student’s guide to Strutsafe and other safety services
Going anywhere alone at night can be frightening; it doesn't matter who you are or where you’re going. Whether...
Introducing AVATAR: NASA’s pioneering organ chip experiment
In early September 2025, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the launch of an innovative experiment called...
The Past, Present and Future of Neuralink
Neuralink, a company founded by Elon Musk, has successfully implanted their device (an implantable, brain-computer interface) into three human...
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Science & Environment
Helping Our Pollinators This Spring: Easy, student-friendly ways to support bees, butterflies, and biodiversity
Spring has sprung! The birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and the butterflies and bees are flying around. Pollinators are so important to our...
We’ve had pain all wrong!
In English, ‘pain’ is simply ‘pain’. Whether we’re trying to describe the sharp sting of a paper cut, surgery, or the deep ache after...
The Machine That Found What No One Was Looking For
Barbara felt completely fine. No lump. No pain. No nagging feeling that something could be wrong. So, like most...
Aberdeen 2040 Strategy and AUSA’s Climate Emergency: Aligning Campus Action with...
Responsibility for climate change is often placed on individuals, while the systems shaping our choices remain the same.
Aberdeen University...
(Re)-Introducing Old-New Marsupials to the Modern World
The pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were dead to begin with. It’s incredibly important that we establish this...
GLP-1s: Miracle weight loss drugs or a tool to combat the...
Weight loss drugs have become increasingly popular in recent years for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes,...
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Satire
Diary of a Wimpy Principal
By: 'Pious Pete'
1 November 2025
FINALLY been appointed as Principal. Sure, it’s only for two years, but I’m the boss. Thirty-eight years here, who would...
UK cities ranked by if Hector Boys was formed there
By Marlee Silverman
Loughborough: Don’t be an idiot, they are probably living in the dark ages, all Hector Boys-less and everything.
London: While...
Planet of the Seagulls
By Khreshnee Thayabaran
This just in: Aberdeen residents woke Thursday morning to a terrifying political announcement. The city’s seagull population has...
Looking for love on campus
By Hannah Fortune
In the run up to Valentine’s Day this year, the Aberdeen University Students’ Association (AUSA) offered a...
Interview with one of the good ones
By Marlee Silverman
John Flesh, 22, is an ideal role model for feminist men. He tells us he likes to...
Winter Olympics to bring back nudity in honour of Heated Rivalry
By Marlee Silverman
With all the hot press over the Canadian TV show Heated Rivalry, The 2026 Winter Olympics has...
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Sports
UoA rowers triumph over RGU
By Glen Lumsden
On Saturday the 21st March 2026, Aberdeen University and Robert Gordon University clashed for the 31st time in the Aberdeen Boat Race....
Match report: Aberdeen Vs Motherwell
By Glen Lumsden
Following several postponements due to the extreme weather the city of Aberdeen had faced in the past few weeks, Aberdeen faced Motherwell...
How Are UoA’s Top Teams Performing This Semester?
Looking towards the end of the semester, where do Aberdeen’s major sports teams currently stand?
Aberdeen Men’s Tennis 1s sit...
Aberdeen Sports Societies Raising Money for Movember
The university’s Movember events and fundraising have begun. The uni’s sports teams have started their fundraising pushes, combining team...
This Week In Sports: New Sports Societies and Women in Sport...
From the 6th-12th October 2025, Scotland and Aberdeen University celebrated Women in Sport Week. The theme of this year...
Aberdeen F.C.’s First Win of the Season
Aberdeen F.C. decisively secured their first league win away at Dundee with a 4-0 victory. Prior to this they...
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