News tagged with: news
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OfS funding extension awarded to University of Plymouth-led outreach partnership
Next Steps South West (NSSW), the University-led consortium of fourteen higher education (HE) providers has received £5.5m to continue for another two years.
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Psychiatry profession ‘must make itself more appealing to state educated non-whites’, new study suggests
Figures show doctors are more likely to apply for psychiatry training if they are older, white and privately educated with below average performance at medical school.
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Using art to foster our love of the coastline
Rosie Sherwood, artist in residence at the University of Plymouth’s Marine Institute, launches her new exhibition An Ever Moving Now at the Marine Station
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Research aims to enhance understanding of changes in polar sea ice
Professor Simon Belt from the University of Plymouth is jointly coordinating a study to develop the first ever proxy for reconstructing past changes to transmitted light through sea ice
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Cutting-edge design for visually impaired people puts graduate through to 2019 Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards semi-finals
An alumni business trying to make life easier for visually impaired people has been chosen as a semi-finalist in a national competition.
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Kirstie’s Celebrity Craft Masters – University Associate Professor named as judge on C4’s hit new show
And along came Polly. No not the Hollywood film, but an altogether different Polly is hitting the mainstream in Channel 4’s new Kirstie’s Celebrity Craft Masters, due to air from Monday 1 July at 5pm.
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Stresses from past earthquakes explain location of seismic events
A study published in Nature Communications and led by Dr Zoë Mildon, Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the University of Plymouth, could go some way to explaining both historical and modern series of earthquakes
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New international report shows more public and industry engagement, and earlier intervention, needed to prevent child sexual offending online
A new report released today (Friday 21 June), involving over 2,000 experts in online child sex offending has made strong recommendations on how to better prevent the growing problem of child sexual offending on the internet.
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University looks to create iconic new engineering and design facility
The University of Plymouth is working in conjunction with RIBA Competitions to seek possible designs for an iconic new Engineering and Design facility on the western edge of the main Plymouth campus.
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Unlocking the stories of coastal communities living under the threat of extreme storms
Waves is a sound installation developed by artistic director Kay Michael, of the international theatre company Empty Deck, and Gerd Masselink, Professor of Coastal Geomorphology at the University of Plymouth
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University among partners for new multi-million pound parks fund
University researchers are part of a new multi-million pound initiative to secure the future of the city’s parks and green spaces.
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Research highlighted in report celebrating outstanding business collaborations
The work of University of Plymouth robotics lecturer Dr Martin Stoelen, and his spinout company Fieldwork Robotics, is highlighted in the 2019 State of the Relationship Report written by the National Centre for Universities and Business
