News
Thursday 03 July 2025
Dr Bouziane Kies, who helped secure large numbers of international staff for Algerian Universities after the departure of French teachers in 1972 and thereby helped to keep Algeria’s universities open, has received an honorary degree from Robert Gordon University (RGU). Dr Kies has also championed RGU in Algeria for the last twenty years.
Thursday 03 July 2025
A technology entrepreneur who is committed to strengthening links between the United Kingdom and Pakistan through business innovation, education and strategic collaboration has been awarded an honorary degree by Robert Gordon University (RGU).
Monday 23 June 2025
Robert Gordon University (RGU) is proud to announce that Dr Jo-Anne Tait, Principal Lecturer, Digital Living and Design in the School of Computing, Engineering and Technology, has been named one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES).
Thursday 12 June 2025
A new institute based at Robert Gordon University (RGU) will be dedicated to the vast sporting legacy of the only Scottish footballer to win the prestigious Ballon d'Or award.
Monday 09 June 2025
Students from Gray’s School of Art are celebrating their astounding achievements at the opening night of the Gray’s Degree Show.

OPINION: writing for the Press & Journal, Dr Graham Grant articulates how the creative design process employed by artists can be used by businesses across the region to unlock their potential and find new avenues for profit and success.

For World Art Day, RGU is sharing free access to a series of practical online arts workshops to help spread the development and enjoyment of art in the North-East.

Writing for the Press and Journal on World Health Day, Dr Flora Douglas, RGU's Professor in Public Health, highlights the growing food insecurity affecting people with long term health conditions amid the cost-of-living crisis.

Students from RGU are organising a host of spring fundraising events to raise awareness and funds for four Aberdeen based charities.

Writing for The Scotsman, Professor Lynn Kilbride highlights the value of close partnership between students and staff.

The crews for the 2022 Aberdeen Boat Race, which will see Aberdeen's two universities go head-to-head in the hotly anticipated competition, have been revealed.

An ambitious research portfolio beyond the visible spectrum of light has set course for the depths of our oceans to make them completely transparent to us for safer, clearer, and more environmentally calm waters.

Students from The Scott’s School of Architecture & Built Environment (SSS) at Robert Gordon University (RGU) are working on a new design project to revitalise Seaton in Aberdeen.

The artist behind ‘The House in the Woods’, James Rigler, is to inspire an audience at a ‘Guest at Gray’s’ event taking place at Aberdeen Art Gallery on Friday 25 March.

Final preparations are underway for Robert Gordon University’s, 'Creative Entrepreneurship Showcase', which launches at Gray’s School of Art’s, Look Again, Project Space, on Thursday 24 March.

Robert Gordon University (RGU)’s event management students are organising the Aberdeen student festival which will run from 31 March to 2 April 2022. The event is now in its seventh year and this is the first time it will be held live since 2019.

RGU’s largest programming event of the year is back—made by students for students of all ages—inviting coding enthusiasts from any college or university to complete its 24-hour challenge in hopes of winning a prize from the event’s swathe of generous and renown sponsors.