Induction & Transitions Team
We create, develop and coordinate provision to help enable students to transition effectively into, through and out of their degree programmes.
We are responsible for the Glasgow Essentials offer holders’ resource and we facilitate both the Transition to Glasgow (T2G) course and Transition to Glasgow: Postgraduate Edition programme for incoming undergraduate and postgraduate taught students respectively. We also deliver a range of transitions-oriented provision throughout the semester, including classes, workshops, drop-in sessions, and Q&A panels.
You can find the timetable for all the sessions, including all the relevant details, on the Class Timetables page.

Dr Stuart Purcell
Induction & Transitions Manager
Stuart has extensive experience in learning development and academic literacies within the UK Higher Education sector, having taught widely in these areas at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has worked in various roles across the University of Glasgow and in his current role focuses on key points of student transition into, through, and out of Higher Education, developing programmes and resources to help students make these transitions successfully. While he now concentrates on the aforementioned areas in his research, Stuart’s research background is primarily in literature and media studies, the latter of which continues to inform a great deal of his work.

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McMillan Reading Room
University Avenue
University of Glasgow
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Dr Clare Brown
Induction & Transitions Adviser
Clare has substantial experience as a learning developer in Scottish Higher Education, with a particular interest in working with students entering university from ‘non-traditional’ backgrounds and entry routes. In previous lives, she worked in the third sector as an adviser on money and housing issues, and conducted research on colonialism and missionary visual culture; both are surprisingly relevant to her current role.

Room 319
McMillan Reading Room
University Avenue
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Lucy McCormick
Induction & Transitions Adviser
Lucy has worked extensively with diverse student groups transitioning into, through and out of UK Higher Education. Her career encompasses ESL teaching in the UK and overseas as well as teaching, student engagement and learning development roles across Further and Higher Education. Lucy’s academic background is in French and Religious Studies, with postgraduate research focused on the influence of Buddhist traditions in the French interwar avant-garde.

Room 319
McMillan Reading Room
University Avenue
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ