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New report offers recommendations to help ease pressure on prisons 19 February 2025
Sunscreen's potential impact on marine life needs urgent investigation 18 February 2025
How can we forecast climate tipping points? By capturing our ocean’s pulse 17 February 2025
Disabled students to shape national guidance on disability support 13 February 2025
Researchers connect with policy makers and advisers at Evidence Week 30 January 2025

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Upcoming academic and research events

Smart Sound Connect Subsurface – a subsea testing environment in the heart of the South West 20 February 2025 19:15 - 20:30
B4 2-day Honey Bee Symposium 2025 22 February 2025 12:00 - 15:00
B4 2-day Honey Bee Symposium 2025 23 February 2025 09:00 - 15:00
Linking life and landscape: How geomorphology and ecology rule the world 24 February 2025
2nd International Conference on Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) 24 February 2025 - 25 February 2025

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Virtual technology aims to help young people feel more comfortable during hospital visits

Kyra Boyle has worked with Torbay & South Devon NHS Foundation Trust on a new tool that gives young visitors an awareness of the hospital environment

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University researcher helps to recover first meteorite found in UK for 30 years

Dr Natasha Stephen was part of a collaborative effort to locate and analyse fragments of the Winchcombe meteorite

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Changing the world in 20 projects

“Sea birds washing up on the shoreline covered in a mysterious oily substance; young people in Ethiopia, suffering from discrimination because of their disability; families facing life-changing decisions without specialist genetic counsellor support...”

Three completely different scenarios but all tied by a common cord: University of Plymouth research.

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Research - changing the world in 20 projects

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At a glance...

University of Plymouth submitted 49 impact case studies to REF2021
our case studies demonstrated impact on the environment, politics, health, culture, technology, society and the economy
reaching far and wide, Plymouth's global impact locations included Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North and South America.

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REF2021 University of Plymouth submission highlights

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