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University Alliance board takes on new leadership
Read more of: University Alliance board takes on new leadershipThe new leadership team for the University Alliance board take up their roles today, following their election earlier this year. They will guide the Alliance group as they develop and carry out a new strategic vision over the next three years. Due to the restrictions of the pandemic on her role, having only been elected […]
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University Alliance responds to the BEIS ‘Plan B’ announcement, on an alternative to Horizon Europe
Read more of: University Alliance responds to the BEIS ‘Plan B’ announcement, on an alternative to Horizon EuropeResponding to the BEIS announcement yesterday on a ‘Plan B’ alternative to Horizon Europe, University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wilson said: “University Alliance welcomes yesterday’s announcement from government which provides some assurance that plans are finally forming to ensure that researchers and universities alike are not facing a possible funding cliff edge at the end of the […]
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DTA Summer School 2022 begins this week, with an emphasis on community
Read more of: DTA Summer School 2022 begins this week, with an emphasis on communityThis week, on Wednesday 6th July, the Doctoral Training Alliance will be setting up shop at the University of Brighton for their annual Summer School event. This will be the first in-person Summer School for two years. Researchers from across the DTA’s four interdisciplinary programmes (Applied Biosciences for Health, Social Policy, Energy and Future […]
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Alliance Awards winners announced during ceremony hosted at Kingston University Town House
Read more of: Alliance Awards winners announced during ceremony hosted at Kingston University Town HouseWinners of the University Alliance’s ‘Alliance Awards’ were announced on Tuesday during a ceremony hosted by Kingston University. The awards celebrate excellence in higher education and recognise achievements across all parts of Alliance universities. The winning individuals, teams and projects were selected for their hard work, dedication and commitment to the University Alliance core values. […]
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Socially Engaged Photography Driving Positive Change for the Homeless – Coventry University
Read more of: Socially Engaged Photography Driving Positive Change for the Homeless – Coventry UniversityAnthony Luvera from the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University has conducted socially engaged photographic research that has looked to influence attitudes towards homelessness with various audiences, with his work being exhibited at a national and international level, in world-renowned galleries. One of Luvera’s works, the Assembly exhibition was co-created with over 50 people who […]
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Dance, Digitisation and Intangible Cultural Heritage – Coventry University
Read more of: Dance, Digitisation and Intangible Cultural Heritage – Coventry UniversityCoventry University researchers, Professor Sarah Whatley, Dr Rosamaria Cisneros and Dr Karen Wood from the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) have worked with IT developers, custodians of cultural content, renowned dance artists, and marginalised dance communities to educate the public and preserve Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) for the future. ICH is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or […]
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Drug-Testing Technology Saves Millions of Pounds and Lives – Coventry University
Read more of: Drug-Testing Technology Saves Millions of Pounds and Lives – Coventry UniversityEach year an estimated $15bn of pharmaceuticals are sold which unintentionally cause or worsen heart disease. From 2002, a team of researchers from the Centre for Sport, Exercise and Life Sciences at Coventry University have been working to address this issue by using novel techniques and scientific methods to improve the early detection of adverse drug […]
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The Newham Plays – Middlesex University
Read more of: The Newham Plays – Middlesex UniversityThe impact achieved Created, produced and written by Dr James Kenworth, and directed by Dr James Martin Charlton, both long-term residents of Newham, the Newham Plays are a series of localist-focused plays rooted in Newham’s history, culture and people. Performed in site-sympathetic locations in Newham, East London, they feature a ‘mixed economy’ casting of young […]
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Electrical Impedance Tomography – Middlesex University
Read more of: Electrical Impedance Tomography – Middlesex UniversityThe impact achieved This research project has pioneered the use of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), which can be used to image organ function in real time (100 images/second). Compared with existing technology it is highly portable, inexpensive and lends itself readily to remote imaging to save lives. The project’s key impacts are: Provision of imaging […]