News tagged with: research
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University awarded funding to support health research in Plymouth
The ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ has been awarded funding to support health research with partners across the city into factors that create inequalities.
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Study links cold water shock to catastrophic coral collapse in the Eastern Pacific
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ news: An international team of scientists has used 25 years of reef survey and sea surface temperature data to dermine that cold water shock has led to catastrophic coral collapse in the Eastern Pacific.
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New study finds care home residents benefit from robot pets
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ news: Robot pets help the wellbeing of care home residents and those with dementia.
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University helps to show how residents and businesses can achieve net-zero
Academics from the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ are part of a consortium that led the development of the Devon Carbon Plan, which aims to enable the county to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest
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University works on £1.9million project to evaluate asthma monitoring phone apps
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ news: digital health experts from across the UK are joining forces to study the potential for new monitoring technologies to support children with asthma in a £1.9million project.
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Study unlocks hidden secrets of how ultra-hard diamonds formed in rare meteorites
Dr Natasha Stephen from the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ is part of an international team of scientists who have discovered how lonsdaleite - a rare hexagonal form of diamond - forms in ureilite meteorites
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Plymouth shortlisted as University of the Year in the Times Higher Education Awards 2022
A place on the University of the Year shortlist acknowledges the University’s international reputation for marine research and teaching, as well as decades of focus, investment, and impact.
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Could shipworms be destroying the wreck of Captain Cook’s Endeavour?
Dr Reuben Shipway, Lecturer in Marine Biology at the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, has just returned from Rhode Island having been able to dive to the submerged wreck where it was scuttled in 1778
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Research recommends safer approach to removing casualties from car accidents
Professor Tim Nutbeam has led research calling for a revised approach to how emergency services respond to patients in motor vehicle collisions.
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World-renowned health expert to become our new Deputy Vice-Chancellor for research and innovation
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ news: Professor Archie Clements, a world-leading expert on the control and elimination of infectious diseases, will join the University in September as the new Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation.
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Nurses and midwives ‘forever altered’ by COVID-19 pandemic
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ news - Nurses and midwives ‘forever altered’ by COVID-19 pandemic
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Survey assesses impact of organised crime on Devon and Cornwall’s farming communities
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ news: Survey assesses impact of organised crime on Devon and Cornwall’s farming communities. Researchers from the University are working to identify and map the impacts of organised crime in rural areas.
