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Festival of Social Science Success: Screening of Land's End, a film about Barney Page who rode almost 1,000 miles from John o’Groats to Land’s End after his friend took his own life. Read More>>
Academic, civic and industry partners will work together to unlock the huge potential of our region’s hydrogen ecosystem providing solutions for storage and distribution, transport, and the energy sector. Read more >>
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The University of Exeter has been awarded more than £1.8 million to accelerate University of Exeter bright ideas into global opportunities! Read more >> See what's available >>
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The Penryn Creativity Collaboratives project, which tests a range of innovative approaches to teaching for creativity, has produced their year one report, 'Inspiring Teaching and Learning'. Read more >>
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Led by Professor Stewart Barr the 'Environmental Education at a Time of Emergency' project, works with educational practitioners to encourage engaged citizenship and pro-environmental behaviours. Read more >> Watch here >>
Dr Sharon Dixon teamed up with shoemaker Cosyfeet for an EPSRC IAA funded project, where they created a new shoe collection, Acitve Sport, designed to help older women stay active and keep playing sport. Read more >>
Prof John Heathershaw's report, The UK’s Kleptocracy Problem, shows how the UK is exposed to money laundering. It's featured in the press, been the subject of a Guardian editorial, and has been cited in parliament. Read more >>
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Dr Sarah Bell's project 'Re-Storying Landscape for Social Inclusion' has launched new guidance that brings together a series of resources to support disability-inclusive, multisensory nature experiences. Read more >>
This immersive outdoor art installation explores multisensory histories, ecologies and places of Westonbirt Arboretum. It stemmed from Dr Sarah Bell's work with Forestry England. Read more >>
Dr Ben Temperton's Citizen Phage Library project, funded by the MRC CiC, was featured in a Daily Mail article around discovering life-saving phages (viruses that kill bacteria). Read more >>
Prof José Iriarte has been working with Lastjourney, a Colombian-English research collaboration, to showcase ancient rock art from the western Amazon area. Read more >>
Professor Mark Kelson has been involved in the PSF funded Violence Reduction Unit End of Year Evaluation for the Home Office, which was commented on by the Home Secretary Priti Patel. Read more >>
Dr Sarah Bell has been working with Forestry England for 'Sensing Nature' walks, led by visually impaired guides. Walks take place between April and September 2022 from Westonbirt. Sign up >> Meet the guides >>
Professor Richard Moorhead and Dr Rebecca Helm wrote a piece for The Times, 'The Post Office Scandal: Plea Deals, Lawyers’ Ethics, and Corporate Failure', where they examine issues and deepen evidence around cases from the scandal. Read more >>
A kayaking sensory story has been created as a result of Dr Sarah Bell's project 'Re-Storying Landscape for Social Inclusion', an ESRC IAA project which interprets how lanscapes are used and valued by people. Read more >>