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Rachel SandisonExecutive Director and Vice Principal, External Relations
Rachel Sandison is the Executive Director of External Relations at the University of Glasgow, UK, where she has responsibility for leading an integrated service covering Marketing, Recruitment & Admissions, International Affairs and Development & Alumni Relations. Rachel is also the University’s Universitas 21 network Senior Leader.
Rachel is a Chartered Marketer and Chair of the Glasgow Economic Leadership HE/FE Marketing group and a member of CASE’s US Commission in addition to sitting on a number of sector advisory boards. She is also a member of Faculty at the CASE Europe Strategic Marketing Institute and a current School Governor.
Previously, Rachel was the Director of Marketing, Student Recruitment and Alumni Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow has been inspiring great minds for over 560 years. Our alumni include world changers from economist Adam Smith and engineer James Watt to the inventor of television, John Logie Baird and the writer and producer of Doctor Who and Sherlock, Steven Moffat. In addition, the University has fostered the talents of one Prime Minister, seven Nobel Laureates and Scotland’s current First Minister. We have a diverse and growing student population with more than 27,000 students from almost 140 different countries.
The Latest from University of Glasgow
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How did tea transform Glasgow's social scene? Our Scottish Food Heritage Symposium explores tea's journey from luxury to cultural cornerstone.
Organised by @UofGArtsHums @lindsmiddleton @Tenementkitch & Glasgow's @N_T_S Mackintosh at the Willow.
➡️https://gla.ac/41UNh6L
O my Luve is like a red,red rose
That’s newly sprung in June
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune
So fair art thou,my bonnie lass
So deep in luve am I
And I will luve thee still,my dear
Till a’ the seas gang dry
-Robert Burns 1759-96
Glasgow University,1451
A Glasgow sunset ❤
Beautiful shot captured by Zirui Zhang, a PhD student from our School of Psychology & Neuroscience.
#TeamUofG
@UofGMVLS
From 25 to 29 March, there will be no main entrance access to the Sir Charles Wilson Building or Gilmorehill Centre due to work being carried out by the council to the pavement
Access will be available through the side doors on Gibson Street and University Avenue.
Gibson St…
Come along to a seminar series on the latest breakthroughs in neurotechnology, featuring experts across different fields.
First up: "Brain Stimulation & Neural Response Analysis"
📅 3 April, 4 - 5.30pm
📍 @UofGARC , Studio 2, drinks & nibbles after
http://gla.ac.uk/research/az/neurotechnology
Happy National Flower Day! 🪻🌺🌷🌼🌸🌻
Interested in staying with #TeamUofG for postgrad study?
Pop along to the James McCune Smith Foyer area for our Stay with Team UofG pop-up to find out about programmes, finance and admission.
🗓️Come along on 24 March between 11am – 1pm
http://gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/continueyourstudies
This was a brilliant experience. The work being done by @UofGMiM is going to revolutionise cultural heritage and will have a major impact on the U.K. culture and creative sector.
Student Teaching Awards 🏆 Nominees announced! 🎉
We're delighted to share the nominations for the 15th Annual Student Teaching Awards @uofglasgow 👏
The #STAs2025 help celebrate the efforts of staff and reps who have gone above and beyond for students this year.
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Our roots are in Glasgow,our reach is worldwide
As a globally connected university with deep civic roots, for over 560 years Glasgow has established creative and vibrant partnerships with communities, colleagues and students across the world. We have over 300 formal agreements with universities overseas covering a wide range of activities from research collaborations through to joint degrees and international student mobility arrangements. As well as developing innovative international partnerships, we have developed a significant overseas presence, building on well-established links in Asia to achieve a range of transnational education provision in Singapore (Engineering and Computing Studies), and with two top-ranked ‘985’ Universities in China – UESTC in Chengdu (Engineering) and with Nankai University in Tianjin.
Mission and vision
- To be a world-class, world-changing university.
- To bring inspiring people together and create a world-class environment for learning and research, empowering staff and students alike to discover and share knowledge that can change the world.
Ranked in the top 1% of world universities
2,000
Active researchers
£180m
Annual research income
The University is ranked in the top 1% of world universities and is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive UK universities. It enjoys a long-standing reputation as a research powerhouse with a focus on research excellence. It is one of the UK’s top 10 earners of research income with total earnings over £180m per year and has a base of over 2000 active researchers. Our priority themes and multidisciplinary research networks bring these researchers together with practitioners, policy makers and NGOs to create academic communities which focus on key issues and challenges, including: precision medicine; quantum technologies; nanotechnology; sensor systems; space; future cities; water; digital humanities; global security; international development; refugee, asylum and migration; human rights and sustainable development. Find out more at www.glasgow.ac.uk/research/infocus
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