…May | Higher education | The Guardian The Daily Mail – 13/04/21 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9467119/Covid-lockdown-UK-university-students-allowed-campus-17.html BBC News – 13/04/21 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-56731330 LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari – 14/04/21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gsY2kSNpSI The Telegraph – 14/04/21 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/13/students-hopes-early-return-campus-dashed/ Research Profess…
…l for the automatic identification and classification of illegal pharmacies- online malicious websites that prey on vulnerable people with the promise of cheap medicines. FAST uses a sophisticated algorithm and rapid method to identify illegal online pharmacies, discouraging visitors from buying pharmaceuticals online and providing valuable information for Interpol and other national bodies in identifying and classifying illegal activity. The rese…
…’s equality, disability and youth disadvantage (e.g. https://www.boingboing.org.uk/economic-impact-covid-19-young-people/). Prof Hart has built a highly successful social enterprise Boingboing (www.boingboing.org.uk/), which is a key vehicle for her co-productive research, dissemination, and knowledge transfer. Prof Hart takes overall responsibility for the strategic direction, financial accountability and development of Boingbong as a collaborati…
…our understanding of why patients are often malnourished whilst in hospital. Buyanga explored how the way mealtimes are managed within an acute ward might explain the ongoing challenge of malnutrition in hospital (Buyanga 2023). Buyanga identified a culture where management of meal times is largely delegated to unqualified staff and indicates that where nurses do not provide leadership and role modelling at mealtimes, inadequate nutritional intake…
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…e, should support fair trade – and of the benefit to future generations of buying sustainably-produced fair trade products. Participants also mentioned empathy – being mindful of the situations of others and the impact their purchasing choices could have on those people. A circular economy aims to reduce consumption and encourage consumers to reuse as much as possible so, for example, wearing new clothes more than a few times and giving them to fa…
…f South Wales Research Team-who developed a rapid diagnostic test for Covid-19. Within weeks of the start of the awareness of an on-coming pandemic the team had adapted their LAMP approach for detecting urinary tract infections (UTIs) to the Covid-19 virus. By the spring of 2020 they had made successful bids to the Welsh Government for resources to determine the sensitivity and specificity of the test, together with a partnership with a local engi…
…hould turn to how different city-regions within wider key agglomerations (e.g. the ‘Northern Powerhouse’) should both specialize and integrate. The relationship to major infrastructure projects such as high-speed rail links, as well as investment in housing and cultural facilities, all become crucial. The aim must be for high-skill talent accumulation across broad economic regions in all parts of the UK – to help realize the vision of a more balan…
…ic. They are using robotic drones to map and quantify ice loss within a 125-year-old section of buried glacier ice in Svalbard – a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. They team used 2,000 aerial images to create a 3D model of the landscape and compare it against a model of the landscape produced from archive aerial imagery from 2003. Stroke sufferers could learn to walk again with the CORBYS robotic exoskeleton developed by the University o…
…ledge exchange events with civic and industry partners evidenced through, e.g. a project to catalogue and showcase 170 key pieces of technical equipment and facilities that are accessible by external partners, including social enterprises and community groups. The Innovation Award, Supported by Duolingo English Test Dr. Edward McCaffrey, Middlesex University, Senior Lecturer in Film at Middlesex University (MDX) Through the Creative Campus Netwo…