Awards

Devon project ‘The Devon Active Villages’ are urging locals to give them their support and help them win this year’s National Lottery Awards. The Devon Active Villages project, by Active Devon, is a finalist in this year’s award’s Sport category; one of seven categories that will recognise the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects.

The Devon Active Villages works with people to discover what sports they enjoy, and once they have gained this information they try to arrange for these sports to take place in local communities and villages. So far the group has helped around 10,000...

Students studying as part of the Exeter College Reach Academy have been celebrating their achievements in a special awards ceremony.

Joining the students were key sponsors and contributors of the Academy from the Met Office, Michelmores LLP and the Exeter University Model United Nations group.

The Academy, launched in 2009 with an aim to support the most academically able students to reach top university destinations, has had another busy year. 60 students on the programme commit to an additional 60 hours of extra-curricular activity each week in order to boost their skills...

Research carried out at the University of Exeter Medical School on the monitoring of blood pressure has received the Royal College of General Practitioners Research Paper of the Year Award in the stroke category.

The research has contributed to national and international guidelines.

Dr Christopher Clark, a GP at the Mid Devon Medical Practice and a Clinical Academic Fellow at the University of Exeter Medical School, led on a systematic review published in The Lancet in January last year which found that differences in systolic blood pressure between arms could be a useful...

Exeter-based world-leading software and services provider Simpleware has added another national accolade to its collection after scooping an IOP Innovation Award.

The award recognises Simpleware’s achievements in developing a computer modelling package that can be used in medical imaging technologies, advance engineering and component design.

It follows hot on the heels of the of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, which the University of Exeter spin-out business, based in Castle Street, recently won for the second year running.

Simpleware recently launched an updated...