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  1. Embedding the arts with STEM subjects to support businesses and economic growth

    March 26, 2021

    STEAMhouse is Birmingham City University’s innovation centre aimed at encouraging co-working, collaboration and knowledge exchange between the arts, science, technology, engineering and maths (STEAM) sectors as a platform for supporting long-term sustainable economic growth, productivity and job creation. Created in collaboration with local arts organisation Eastside Projects, and supported by the ERDF and Arts Council […]

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  2. Using AI to ‘see through clouds’

    March 18, 2021

    University of Hertfordshire uses Goonhilly’s deep learning hub for AI venture that ‘sees through’ clouds The University of Hertfordshire has partnered  with satellite communications innovator and space gateway Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd to provide regular satellite mapping of the UK free from cloud cover, for the first time. More information: The University of Hertfordshire team […]

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  3. Kingston University research into communicating with BAME communities

    March 10, 2021

    The Faculty of Business and Social Science’s Dr Tushna Vandrevala, received award funding from the National Institute for Health Research. Her project is studying how to improve health communication strategies to mitigate the risk of Covid-19 among UK black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. Insights will be shared with community leaders and policy makers including […]

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  5. The University of Greenwich have developed drug treatments targetting fatal cytokine storm symptom of Covid-19.

    March 10, 2021

    Dr Mike Leach has developed compounds, known as UoG-alpha and UoG-beta, that can inhibit the multiple cytokine proteins that can cause death by respiratory collapse, following Covid 19 infection. These compounds can be used within a drug therapy to prevent our immune system from disabling the body’s lung function during a cytokine storm; one of […]

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  6. Anglia Ruskin University (ARU)- New test can detect COVID-19 in 20 minutes

    March 10, 2021

    ARU’s Professor Stephen Bustin, with colleagues at Chelmsford hospital, have developed a robust, reliable assay, or test, for COVID-19 which returns results in less than 20 minutes. The test, called Cov2-ID, detects three viral targets, making it more reliable than other tests that look at just one, and was 100% accurate in almost 30 patient […]

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  7. Teesside University support the manufacture of a vaccine

    March 10, 2021

    Teesside University will support the manufacture of a Teesside vaccine by building the skills capacity of the region’s life science industry. The university’s National Horizons Centre will lead the work to develop the skills capacity within the Stockton-on-Tees region, working in partnership with industry delivering expertise, facilities and training potential to upskill the vaccine manufacturing workforce. Sixty-million doses […]

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  8. Bimingham City University UKRI Newton Fund project to boost emergency nursing provision in the Zambia amidst Covid-19 pandemic

    March 10, 2021

    Academics at Birmingham City University were recently awarded £173,000 from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Newton Fund, funding projects across the globe to support communities hit by the coronavirus. The project will see nurse academics and researchers work alongside nurses, local healthcare workers and officials to increase provision for trauma and emergency care within […]

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  9. Covid-19 research and enterprise

    March 9, 2021

    Bimingham City University UKRI Newton Fund project to boost emergency nursing provision in the Zambia amidst Covid-19 pandemic Academics at Birmingham City University were recently awarded £173,000 from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Newton Fund, funding projects across the globe to support communities hit by the coronavirus. The project will see nurse academics and […]

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  10. Working with partners

    March 9, 2021

    University of South Wales- Working with Tata Steel The University of South Wales is working with industry giant Tata Steel to help them reduce their energy use and make their business more environmentally and economically sustainable. The University has researched and helped implement a system which takes hydrogen gas produced using electricity and waste carbon […]

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