News tagged with: research
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Academic’s evidence highlighted in new report on preventing mass atrocities
Ben Willis, Associate Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the the Ƶ's School of Society and Culture, is cited extensively within a new report by the International Development Select Committee
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Helping smallholder cotton farmers to sow the seeds of sustainable cotton production
The Ƶ is working with partners in Pakistan to develop machine learning and AI for the early disease detection of major cotton disease.
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Behaviour change is essential to address the climate emergency
Professor of Sociology Alison Anderson contributes to a House of Lords report highlighting some of the steps needed to help meet climate change and net-zero targets
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Research explores the potential for mechanical devices to clear the ocean of plastics
New research led by the Ƶ suggests that while mechanical devices do remove plastics and other items of marine litter, the quantities removed can be comparatively low and they can also trap marine organisms.
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Study explores links between people taking multiple medications and dementia
New research led by the Ƶ shows that people with dementia are likely to have taken more than three medications for other health conditions in the five years directly before their diagnosis
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University awarded funding to support health research in Plymouth
The Ƶ 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
Ƶ 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
Ƶ 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 Ƶ 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
Ƶ 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 Ƶ 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.
