…c. The way we store and use fat in our muscle is linked to skeletal muscle insulin resistance. Katie’s research has used high-fat, high-calorie diets as a method to investigate how insulin resistance develops between genders and as a model to investigate the mechanisms behind how our muscle stores fat. A major part of the PhD has been developing immunofluorescence microscope techniques to detect how we store and use fat in skeletal muscle and how…
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…g waste. For example: supermarkets could have clear signage throughout the stores reminding shoppers to carefully consider whether they can use the items they purchase before they expire. Using simple and catchy slogans such as ‘Date before plate’ – which is used in our research project – will help to integrate the information into existing thinking patterns. Equally, items that have a long shelf life could be clearly marked as such, for shoppers…
…ngle, Director, Academic Liaison, GSK Amy Smith, Head of Recruitment, Framestore Michael Davis, Chief Executive, UKCES Nicola Dandridge, Chief Executive, UUK The Forging Futures report puts the spotlight on the ways in which employers and universities are working collaboratively to ensure that industry gets the talent it needs to succeed. The research draws on in-depth discussions with employers and universities, highlighting the fantastic and inn…
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…K (UUK) to reinstate maintenance grants for those who need them most and restore the unit of resource to the equivalent of 2015/16 levels as soon as practically possible. The Lords report called on the Government to “review how higher education is funded, setting long-term, sustainable funding and delivery models for the sector”. Although we acknowledge this is politically difficult, it cannot happen soon enough. Including financial sustainability…
…ing external servers, is the right answer. It’s also evident having data stored in disparate systems doesn’t help the university run more effectively, it just serves its singular purpose and clogs the arteries of insight – an integrated system is the answer. The presentation of the data itself should be consumer grade – to benefit the student and the employee experience. The system should be built for anywhere, any device with a single elegant…
…growing faster than the UK economy since 2011 with large increases seen in 2015 and 2019.[1] The GVA of creative industries has increased 5.6% between 2018 and 2019 and by 43.6% between 2010 and 2019 in real terms. The creative industries delivered £115.9bn of Gross Value Added (GVA) in 2019, 5.9% of UK GVA. Frontier Economics reported that “…firms with greater connections to the [creative industries] are more likely to produce product innovation…
…e reconstruction, parameter measurement and boundary form generation (since 2016), culminating in the first large scale study monitoring the lung function of 200 neonates (preterm, high risk) for 72 hours each Clinical system for use in neonatal intensive care units, and further developments to clinical hardware for bedside monitoring of lung gestation of pre-term neonates. The research continued to flourish and diversify throughout the coronaviru…
…the UK’s leading professional and technical universities, has today (5 May 2022) released its LLE Blueprint. The blueprint is a vision for the successful delivery of the Department for Education’s proposed Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE). The blueprint imagines the changes and new initiatives which could turbo-charge post-18 education under the LLE, making education more accessible to all learners throughout their lives and delivering the skills…
