Drug-Testing Technology Saves Millions of Pounds and Lives – Coventry University
…injury in cancer patients, further driving health sector innovation, productivity gains and benefitting patient outcomes.…
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Ensuring the sustainability of coffee using history
Read more of: Ensuring the sustainability of coffee using history…story of coffee, Professor Jonathan Morris is working with the industry to understand its heritage and ensure its sustainability. “I knew that if we were going to tell the story of coffee then we needed to include its rich history. Jonathan was able to provide the broader social and human perspective to why we, as an industry, are where we are today.” When Nestlé Nespresso looked to generate a debate on how the international coffee industry could…
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Facilities at Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences – Birmingham City University
Read more of: Facilities at Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences – Birmingham City University…atal and post-natal care. Students will be able to use these facilities to understand the health situations associated with pregnancy and the care of the baby and mother after birth. Laboratories BCU have recently installed new laboratory facilities to help students explore and understand the scientific principles underpinning many of their courses. The physiology laboratory is equipped to help students learn about the way the human body works by…
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Local Impact
Read more of: Local Impact…herapy Research (CIMTR) is a research institute dedicated to advancing the understanding of music therapy and its ability to affect positive change on health and wellbeing in both policy and practice. Based in Anglia Ruskin University’s state of the art music therapy centre, CIMTR launched a partnership, Together in Sound, providing group music therapy to dementia sufferers. Led by researchers and music therapists within the institute, and the Saf…
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We need more than workshops to support the wellbeing of PhD researchers
Read more of: We need more than workshops to support the wellbeing of PhD researchers…SUs) cover postgraduate representation, I know from my own experience that undergraduate-focused SUs are not the best place for PhD issues to be actively listened to. PhD students need dedicated representation systems and the issues they raise need to be prioritised by their institutions. We need to see more initiatives like at the University of Brighton, where postgraduate research representatives regularly meet with the Doctoral College so conce…
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Regional Investment, European Funding and Defining Value: The Future Challenges for Research
Read more of: Regional Investment, European Funding and Defining Value: The Future Challenges for Research…s on the table. There is much to digest as we prepare to help shape the outcomes for universities and post-compulsory education in the coming years. June 2019 marked five years since then-chancellor George Osborne introduced the concept of the Northern Powerhouse, with promises of more science and innovation funding. There has been some progress, but the thinktank IPPR North concluded in November that the initiative has been held back by austerity…
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Vocation, Vocation, Vocation – foreword by Professor Edward Peck
Read more of: Vocation, Vocation, Vocation – foreword by Professor Edward Peck…n broadening access to higher education in recent years, particularly from underrepresented groups and low-participation regions. In my view BTECs complement A levels and, of course, many applicants combine both qualifications. BTEC courses develop knowledge and skills whilst applying these to real-world tasks, scenarios, and challenges reflecting the world of work. All students require a personalised programme of study and support whilst at unive…
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Alliance universities’ impact in research and employer engagement leads to prestigious awards
Read more of: Alliance universities’ impact in research and employer engagement leads to prestigious awards…ty of Salford for an international collaboration that has hugely increased understanding of how nuclear radiation affects animal life. Thirty years on since the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone around the accident site is still heavily contaminated. Despite this massive challenge, Dr Mike Wood, a Reader in Applied Ecology at the University of Salford, working with academics from the UK’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Ukraine’s Chernob…
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Supporting arts, culture and the creative economy across our cities and regions
Read more of: Supporting arts, culture and the creative economy across our cities and regions…ersities, the arts & creative industries. University Alliance will also be undertaking a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to map knowledge exchange partnerships in universities with the creative economy. The project will use existing data held by funding bodies, universities and other external organisations to develop a clearer picture of the activities that are less formalised such as consultancy, ad hoc…
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Closing the Gap: unlocking opportunity through higher education
Read more of: Closing the Gap: unlocking opportunity through higher education…support this activity is just 2% of the total HE budget and is constantly under threat. We need to maintain or even increase this funding (known currently as Student Opportunity funding). 3. Graduate careers are changing all the time but public discourse is not keeping pace. The result is a mismatch of aspiration and labour market opportunities. For example, one third of teenagers want to do just 10 highly competitive jobs, while the 10 least pop…
