When I saw the place for the first time, I just felt in love with the place
Within about ten minutes of being in my interview, I knew I was going to come
if I was offered the job
It has a fantastic reputation
It's a very prestigious university, and it's a large university
I knew that there is great research going on in Glasgow, and that brought me
here
It's very demanding, intellectually challenging, but it's a fun place to work
as well
Full of young people, particularly the west end where the university is
Glaswegians surely set the standard when it comes to friendliness, it's a great
place for a young family
It is a vibrant place, there's no doubt about that
Glasgow is a very well connected city, both within the UK, but also for
international travel and that's very important
We've got an international airport that flies you pretty much anywhere in the
world
Some tremendous outdoor facilities, lakes, lochs
Scotland's first national park, Loch Lomond and the Trossacks
It's very easy to escape to some really wild places
Glasgow is striving to be one of the best universities in the world
From the outside you have lovely facades that make you feel that you are part
of something ancient and quite profound in a way
I think it is indeed the best university I've taught at
We've got the nicest surgery facilities I've ever seen in Europe
Our education facilities are wonderful, huge investment in our researching
facilities
There's an excellent infrastructure, many scientific departments who can
collaborate in an interdisciplinary way
The University of Glasgow also has a field station on Loch Lomond site
The new facility contains mostly research laboratories, but also access to some
of the most fantastic field sites that we have in Scotland
People work extremely hard, and there is very much a feeling of a team working
together
Very stimulating classroom situations to be teaching in
Because it's big, and because it's prestigious, and because it's international,
you can develop in a whole number of different directions
The career opportunities are excellent. The reason for that I think is because
it's such a large comprehensive institution, with a strong sense of direction
about where it's going
Well the great thing about being an academic is you have control over your time
and in many ways no one day is like the other
And that can only really come with a top 20 university
Most of the students are getting taught by people who really know their subject
who are well respected about
it
It's nice to be a part of it
A fantastic place, in short
You've seen the range of people that we've got here, and the calibre of the
people, and I think you've got some idea of the atmosphere at work
Glasgow University in one word…
Ambitious
Thriving
Enterprising
Fantastic
Dynamic
Scholarly
Vibrant
It's a great place
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