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  1. Project STEAMhouse at Birmingham City University gets a new home

    Birmingham City University plan to re-house their STEAMhouse project in a disused landmark in the city, refurbishing the building ready to be opened in 2022. THE STEAMHOUSE BUILDING Opening early 2022, at c.100,000 square feet, the STEAMhouse building boasts five storeys of state-of-the-art facilities delivering office space and business support activities to a community of […]

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  2. Turning Preston Barracks into a home for Brighton’s most innovative start-ups

    The University of Brighton with Brighton and Hove City Council, Coast to Capital, the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and U and I Group PLC, are currently  delivering a pilot scheme for the disused Preston Barracks, named FIELD, which offers a temporary home to some of the most innovative start-ups in Brighton. Creating a Northern gateway in to the city, […]

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  3. A Nursing academic at the University of South Wales has helped develop a new tool to support people with a learning disability in Wales.

    Professor Ruth Northway, who specialises in Learning Disability Nursing, worked with Improvement Cymru – part of Public Health Wales – to shape the Once for Wales health profile, which aims to provide people with a learning disability to receive consistent, safe and timely healthcare. It provides people with a learning disability with a personalised document […]

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  4. ARU to deliver world’s largest healthcare entrepreneurship programme

    Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has been chosen as the official partner of NHS England and NHS Improvement to nurture healthcare innovators from across the country and help them gain the commercial skills, knowledge and experience to make their ideas become a reality. The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme was founded in 2016 and has become the world’s largest […]

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  5. Hope For The Community supporting the mental health of those with long-term conditions

    A company founded by a Coventry University professor which has been supporting people with long-term health problems during the COVID-19 outbreak is foremost among the university’s mental health outreach programmes. One of its projects is the Hope Programme, which helps people living with a long-term condition, including those living with cancer, to cope with anxiety […]

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  6. Network exploring how robots can support people living with frailty

    A network of universities, led by UWE Bristol, has come together to explore how robots can be used to support people to better self-manage the conditions that result from frailty, providing information and data to healthcare practitioners, and enabling more timely interventions. Professor Praminda Caleb-Solly, Professor of Assistive Robotics and Intelligent Health Technologies at UWE Bristol, […]

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  7. University Alliance responds to Innovation Strategy

    University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wilson said: “We welcome today’s publication of the Innovation strategy. Alliance universities are a longstanding, stable presence in their regions and are well-placed to support the strategy’s ambitions, through unleashing innovation to deliver economic opportunity and drive growth. Sitting at the nexus of higher education and industry, our members can utilise […]

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  8. Collaboration including University of Hertfordshire and Leeds Beckett University works to improve hospital care for people with dementia

    A team of researchers from the University of Hertfordshire, Leeds Beckett University and the University of Nottingham have been awarded over £300,000 of funding from the Alzheimer’s Society to co-design resources to improve dementia care in hospital. People with dementia are admitted to hospital for many health reasons, often not directly related to their dementia. […]

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  9. Coventry University expert helps devise rapid test to assess thousands of PPE masks

    A Coventry University researcher was part of a team that devised a rapid test to assess the usefulness of a huge stockpile of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) masks and helped Manchester City Council to respond to an emergency COVID-19 situation. In March this year, Manchester City Council needed to decide within days whether to use […]

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  10. University Alliance submission to Higher Education Commission’s University Research and Regional Levelling-Up Inquiry

    Working in partnership to support the growth of the economy and our towns and cities is central to our mission. Many of our member universities trace their origins to Britain’s Industrial Revolution and have worked closely with commercial and professional partners for more than 150 years. Alliance universities are a longstanding, stable presence in their […]

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