News
Tuesday 28 October 2025
Talented students from Gray’s School of Art are celebrating success following an awards ceremony at the historic North-East Aberdeen Weaver Incorporation.
Monday 27 October 2025
Shetland’s first Innovation Challenge Day, as part of the Islands Entrepreneurial Network (IEN) led by RGU, brought together 19 participants from across the community on 7 October, with local businesses, community groups and public sector partners teaming up to tackle real challenges facing the islands.
Thursday 23 October 2025
As severe floods once again impact parts of Spain, RGU is leading an ambitious international project to support the recovery and long-term transformation of the areas of Paiporta in Valencia and Letur in Castilla La Mancha in collaboration with local councils and other UK and international institutions.
Wednesday 22 October 2025
Gray’s School of Art and the Denis Law Legacy Trust (DLLT), the children’s charity based at RGU SPORT, have officially revealed a commemorative kit designed as part of a collaboration with Macron, the global sports brand headquartered in Bologna, Italy.
Wednesday 22 October 2025
RGU has landed a major funding boost to accelerate low-carbon energy solutions through the production of hydrogen by capturing the waste steam that comes from nuclear energy facilities with a view to scaling it up.
 
        Callum Duguid, a Contract Support Engineer at Aberdeen-based EnerMech, has continually strived for professional development and this has been most recently achieved through his Graduate Apprenticeship (GA) with RGU.
 
        Writing for the Press and Journal, Donella Beaton, Robert Gordon University's Vice Principal for Economic Development, says a broad approach to skills is critical if we are to get close to a just transition, create true equality of opportunity and generate the skills, knowledge and enterprise that Scotland needs.
 
        For University Mental Health Day, the theme is "no student should ever feel alone with their mental health". RGU's Academic Strategic Lead for Engineering, Jo-Anne Tait, details why a new strategy for supporting the students in Scotland least likely to reach out is not only needed but being created at the University.
 
        Iconic British designer, Dame Zandra Rhodes, inspires a group from Gray's School of Art at Robert Gordon University (RGU), for an exclusive tour of '50 Years of Fabulous' at Aberdeen Art Gallery.
 
        RGU will host a former BP Vice President as its Entrepreneur in Residence through participation in a prestigious Royal Society scheme to increase knowledge of cutting-edge industrial science, research, and innovation.
 
        A new post-graduate course to improve the energy efficiency of buildings has been given the go-ahead at The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment, at Robert Gordon University (RGU), as the university successfully joins the UK Green Building Council.
 
        Robert Gordon University (RGU) will act as a regional hub for Google’s Hash Code programming competition, supporting college and university students from across Aberdeenshire to test their programming skills in a live global contest on 24 February.
 
        Robert Gordon University (RGU) is launching the world’s first cross-sector Energy Data Management course. The new online short course is targeted at Data Managers within the energy sector, and in particular for wind, oil and gas and nuclear, but will also be of interest to anyone considering a career in Data Management.
 
        A vibrant exhibition celebrating colour, takes centre stage at Grays School of Art’s Look Again project space this week, as part of Aberdeen’s festival of light, SPECTRA which runs from 10 – 13 February.
 
        After recent and contentious changes to the Highway Code, Dr Paul Arnell writes for The Scotsman to show why cycling is good for us all—but particularly—motorists.
 
        Robert Gordon University’s Orkney Project has welcomed a major funding boost to create a co-housing development for older people in Orkney.
 
        Writing for the Fintech Times, RGU's Lecturer in human-centred security Dr Christopher D. McDermott expresses the duality of the individual’s right to privacy, and control of their biometric data, and the moral responsibility individuals and organisations have to protect the security of society.
