News
Wednesday 17 December 2025
Robert Gordon University (RGU) and its Sri Lankan partner, the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) celebrated the success of over 200 graduates at its recent graduation ceremony in Colombo.
Wednesday 17 December 2025
A graduate physiotherapist from Robert Gordon University (RGU) is part of an intrepid trio of women who will be taking on the World’s Toughest Row in 2026.
Thursday 11 December 2025
Sandy Bremner, an environmental advocate with an unquestionable passion for the North East of Scotland, has been awarded an Honorary Degree from Robert Gordon University (RGU) during the final graduation ceremony of 2025.
Thursday 04 December 2025
Robert Gordon University (RGU) is among six universities that have joined forces to launch a pioneering initiative that will strengthen commercialisation and innovation across Scotland’s modern and smaller universities and the college sector.
Thursday 27 November 2025
The positive legacy of the late honorary graduate and Denis Law Legacy Trust trustee Lynne Smith will continue with the launch of a new scholarship in her name at RGU.
RGU graduate Lucy Fisher who created Knit It – an innovative platform which offers digital knitting patterns, tools, tutorials and more – has won £10,000 of funding from Scottish EDGE.
Sarah Pedersen, Professor of Communication and Media at RGU's School of Creative and Cultural Business, explores how social media has been used during lockdown – and has its use been problematic or helpful?
Streetsport, which is run in partnership with RGU and the Denis Law Legacy Trust, has been recognised for its community work in the first ever Evening Express Champion Awards.
RGU has been named Scottish University of the Year in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021.
Kevin Andrew Morris graduated with a BA (Hons) in Ceramic Design in 2010 and has gone on to exhibit his work nationally and internationally as well as working with a range of artists, institutions and on various public projects.
Originally from Finland and now based in Edinburgh, Maija Nygren is a children’s clothing designer with sustainability at the heart of her work.
Nina Stanger is an Aberdeen-based artist and designer whose creative practice explores sensory experience through digital animation, sound and sculpture.
Professor Steve Olivier, Principal at RGU, writes about joining the university as it has been named Scottish University of the Year 2021 by the Times and Sunday Times and how this accolade recognises RGU’s outstanding record for teaching quality, student satisfaction, graduate employability and industry engagement.
Associate Vice Principal of Business and Economic Development at RGU, Donella Beaton, writes about how universities and colleges play a pivotal role in the recovery of the economy post Covid-19 and how these approaches must reflect regional priorities.
The work of talented creative practitioners and emerging entrepreneurs is to be featured in the first virtual ‘Postgraduate Showcase’, hosted by Gray’s School of Art at RGU.
Robert Gordon University (RGU), working with two well-known North East food and drink names, Dean’s of Huntly and Sutherland’s of Portsoy, have won funding from Innovate UK to set up two Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) to improve access to markets and develop new products.
Robert Gordon University (RGU) has been shortlisted for a hat-trick of Times Higher Education (THE) 2020 awards, having made it as a finalist for Outstanding Entrepreneurial University of the Year, Business School of the Year and Innovative Teacher of the Year.