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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
Today we announce @NinaParish as new Head of @UofGSMLC, starting August 2025
Professor Parish joins us from Stirling University where she leads the Division of Literature & Languages and has driven major EU research projects.
https://gla.ac/42afA2y
Experience ‘A Waiting Game’, a powerful new play by UofG PhD student Lori Delaney, exploring the disruptive, often unheard realities of breast cancer.
Drawn from nearly 40 interviews, community workshops, and Lori’s own lived experience, the play reveals the messy, complex, and…
The @UofGLaw GO Justice Centre is a key partner in an innovative new research centre led by @LivUni
The Centre for People’s Justice will respond to the public’s need and desire for fairer, safer and more inclusive societies.
More: https://gla.ac/3EeaysA
Exciting news! UofG's @RachelSandison has been appointed @scotgov's Trade and Investment Envoy for International Education! 🌍 With her expertise, she’ll promote Scotland’s academic institutions globally and attract more international talent.
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Before visiting the China-UK Low-Carbon College, Business Minister @RichardLochhead appointed @UofGlasgow's @RachelSandison as International Education Envoy.
She'll drive foreign investment in Scottish research & attract international students and staff.
https://ow.ly/S9yI50Vy0Yp
I’m delighted to have the opportunity to support @RichardLochhead and @GraemeDeyMSP to deliver the International Education Strategy and advocate for Scotland’s further and higher education institutions both at home and overseas at this pivotal time for the sector. @UofGlasgow
With research funding taking centre-stage of the political debate in Brussels, @UofGVC argues that closer European collaboration around innovation must include universities.
Read more: https://gla.ac/3XS4pch
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#JMSConference2025 is around the corner, and we couldn't be more excited to welcome you! 📩 Join the JMS Network mailing list to receive your official conference invite and future updates straight to your mailbox! #ScholarsInAction #BlackScholarship #ConferenceSeason
Braw, patter, dreich, tatties...
Glaswegian student Danielle quizzes international UofG students Chandra & Moyo on their knowledge of Scottish words! 🏴 🌎
How many did you get right?
#OneTeamUofG
In 2023, we spoke to Richard after he co-led the UK's first womb transplant.
In what must be an incredible moment for Richard & team, it's been announced today that the transplant recipient Grace, has given birth to a healthy baby girl ❤️
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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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