News tagged with: research
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Fellowship to further international research links in Huntington’s disease
Dr Shouqing Luo will be working alongside overseas lead Professor Boun Lu from Fudan University in Shanghai after receiving the Newton Advanced Fellowship from the Royal Society.
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University spinout awarded £550,000 to speed development of harvesting robots
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ spinout company Fieldwork Robotics has received a grant from the Innovate UK Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund to create a multi-armed mobile robot prototype
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Research aims to enhance negotiating capacity in the wake of Brexit
Through a year-long project at the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, coinciding with the UK’s scheduled exit from the European Union, researchers hope to understand how organisations are currently preparing for Brexit and their major questions and concerns
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A lesson from Brexit? We need to develop our negotiating skills
Professor Richard Saundry from the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ suggests political division isn’t the only national issue to have been highlighted through the ongoing Brexit process
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Combating lung disease worldwide – event to showcase University’s leading work in rehab and education
Free event open to the public on Thursday 4 April will show how the University is helping to tackle lung conditions in Africa and beyond
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New fund to remember local businessman who died from brain tumour
The Roger Harris Fund will support the leading work at the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ’s Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence
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Scientists use a blender to reveal what’s in our smartphones
Scientists at the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ blended an entire smartphone to dust before conducting a chemical analysis of the dissolved results to demonstrate why we should all take a keener interest in what is contained within everyday electrical items.
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University scientists contribute to international report on microplastic risk
Scientists from the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ have contributed to a major European report summarising the current science on risks to humans and environment posed by microplastics
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‘A gift from the city to itself’ – study creates a blueprint for city marine parks
Researchers from the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, writing in Marine Policy, have detailed how other cities – in both developed and developing countries across the world – can follow in Plymouth's footsteps by creating a Marine Park.
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Scientists help secure Government inquiry into impact of funding policy on diversity
Scientists from the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ have played a key role in securing a new Government inquiry into the impact of science funding policy on equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility
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University leads first UK-wide assessment of changes in plankton community
Scientists led by the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ have completed the first ever assessment of how plankton communities are changing in coastal waters and shelf seas around the UK
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University spinout to play key role in research to protect US military from deadly viruses
The Vaccine Group, a ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ spinout company, is to play a central role in a multi-million-dollar project to protect US military forces from Ebola, Lassa fever and other deadly zoonotic viruses
