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  1. Enterprise Stars: Meet the student entrepreneurs – part 2

    …l familiar with grabbing a drink from the vending machine. Joseph wants to install a milk vending machine on his family’s farm to enhance the milk buying experience and offer the general public the choice of buying their fresh milk straight from the farm. Morley’s Milk would enable customers to support their local farm and farming communities. By putting the farmer first, it would allow them to sell their milk direct to the public for a sensible a…

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  2. International Day of Happiness: reflecting on what makes us happy

    …ositive changes in our lives that are likely to enhance our happiness. For instance, while it is a truism that money doesn’t buy happiness, it has been shown that money can buy experiences (like holidays, music concerts, nights out), which in turn can promote happiness. Interestingly, however, it has recently been shown that it is not the experiences per se that promote happiness, but the fact that we are able to share the experiences with others….

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  3. Universities and cities: Building stronger communities

    …nnovative Medical Technology at the University of the West of England, for instance, includes an indoor assisted living facility that enables robotics researchers, people with assistive needs, and those supporting them, to work together to devise and test new robotic solutions in a realistic home environment. Reflecting the cross-cutting nature of health and wellbeing challenges, there is an increasing volume of interdisciplinary research at UK un…

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  4. Spaces that inspire

    …rsonnel involved and keeping a strong nerve on the choice of technology to install, as obsolescence is only ever around the corner. The Forum at Exeter University is such an example. Developed over a four-year period the university worked hard to maintain the knowledge base built up amongst staff working on the project, so that when people did move on, it did not have a detrimental effect on progress. The inspirational mix of indoor and outdoor sp…

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  5. The employer perspective

    …tions between industry and academia. Liverpool John Moores University, for instance, has helped in the development and delivery of 13 Quantity Surveying Degree Apprentices in partnership with eight different companies, including three SMEs. The responsibility of making Degree Apprenticeships a success is shared by universities and businesses. Although the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy has helped to accelerate their adoption by making a d…

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  6. Gaining fresh energy for PhD studies

    …velopment. Factors contributing to the property developer’s decisions, for instance costs, availability and marketability, will be explored to determine the developer’s value proposition of sustainable development and whether strategic decision making can encourage greater adoption of low carbon initiatives. The wider significance of this research is to challenge the perceptions and realities in the development value chain that may result in barri…

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  7. How thinking differently helped to win prestigious award

    …nd innovation categories, and after speaking to the other finalists I knew instantly that it would be a tough final as there were contestants from the likes of Oxford and Cambridge universities. Going into the final presentation, I was surprisingly more relaxed than when I went into the semi-finals at Rolls Royce, as I had already presented I felt I was more prepared for what was to come and also excited by the possibilities. I was told afterwards…

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  8. Transformative knowledge: Bringing the humble emergency exit sign into the 21st century

    …lite, to develop the signage system. Evaclite is currently quoting for the installation of thousands of the dynamic signs in several landmark buildings in the USA, Australia, UK and other parts of the world. Professor Ed Galea, Director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group, says: “Having demonstrated its ability to improve safety in complex buildings, the system is now attracting significant interest from a growing number of potential customers, w…

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  9. Health networks & partnerships: Teaming up in the community

    …or us to come together, combining resources to work more closely with, for instance, schools, hospitals and community groups,” she says. “Sport plays a really important role at the university, too. We run degree programmes in sports science, sports event management, sports marketing and sports psychology, and we train PE teachers, so there is plenty of scope here to enrich our teaching and research, and for both sides to learn from each other’s ex…

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