The Devon Winter School Games will take place on Tuesday 1 April, at the Sports Park on the University of Exeter campus.
The event will provide over 1,000 young people from across Devon the chance to compete in a range of sports. These include netball, rugby, volleyball and hockey to name a few. In addition there will be opportunities for young people with pan-disabilities to take part in boccia and goalball events.
The event is part of the national Sainsbury’s School Games programme and for the first time, the event will also give children from primary schools in Devon the...
People decide to lose weight for many different reasons. They may be concerned about their health, or want to change their appearance, or improve their quality of life. Many are initially successful losing the weight but then struggle to stop it piling back on.
Researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School are developing and testing a programme to help people keep off the weight they have lost. They want to hear from people who have successfully lost weight and are trying to maintain their weight loss (successfully or unsuccessfully!). By hearing their views and...
Running from Wednesday 29th January to Saturday 1st February at Exeter Northcott Theatre, the University of Exeter's musical theatre society, Footlights, presents a fantastic performance of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.
A modern-day take on the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet, this is one of the most well-loved and well-known musicals of all time. Footlights handles the atmosphere, accents and tension of Upper West Side New York beautifully, bringing it to the Northcott stage in a completely believable performance.
The musical tells the immortal story of two star-...
Diabetes research led by the University of Exeter Medical School has underlined the importance of people with diabetes achieving their blood sugar goals, to reduce the risk of complications.
The team analysed people with a specific genetic change (Glucokinase Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, or MODY), which means they have elevated blood glucose levels from birth. These higher levels mimic guidelines issued to people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
International guidelines have proposed that patients with diabetes should keep their HbA1c (a measure of long term...
The University of Exeter Students’ Guild is delighted to invite Exeter residents to its open lecture series, Research Uncovered.
The series opens on Monday 13 January 2014 when Professor David Boughey will present ‘Adventurous Capitalists and the Forging of Multinational Enterprise’.
Research Uncovered has been developed by the Students' Guild from the FRUNI scheme which invites students to nominate the best research field in which they have been lectured. Students are then called upon to vote for the lecture topics that they believe should be shared again with a wider...
A budding Mathematician from the University of Exeter has been crowned the UK’s best and brightest student after winning a prestigious national competition.
Second-year student Emily Burton, 19, saw off competition from more than 4,000 students from 149 universities nationwide to win the National Student Challenge 2013.
Her prize for winning the coveted accolade is a paid internship with leading global engineering and technology services company, Siemens.
For the competition, Emily had to take part in a variety of practical tests which included individual and group...
Running from Tuesday 3rd to Saturday 7th December 2013, The Recruiting Officer is a true delight for theatre-lovers, with everything from swashbuckling soldiers to women dressed as men. The play is a Salisbury Playhouse Production, originally written by George Farquahar and produced by Gareth Minchin, also a member of the cast.
Described as “a regional theatre with all guns blazing” by the Daily Telegraph, the Salisbury Playhouse puts on a raucous and wonderfully English comedy of bawdiness, disastrous sexual exploits and meddling servants. As well as a beautifully designed and...
The strong working partnership that exists between the Students’ Guild and the University of Exeter has been recognised by the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
In 2013 the HEA launched its first round of Partnership Awards to celebrate successful partnership working in UK higher education. The strong links between the Guild and University have been highly commended by HEA in the category jointly awarded by the National Union of Students: Joint Students’ Union and Institution Partnership.
A nomination was submitted to the awards scheme by VP Academic Affairs Alex Louch and...
The University of Exeter’s Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre has announced its involvement in a three-year project to investigate the effects of exercise on children with congenital heart disease - one of the most common types of birth defects that affects up to nine in every 1,000 children born in the UK today.
The project is the first research study of its kind in the UK and involves a partnership between Toshiba Medical Systems Ltd, the University of Bristol, the University Hospital Bristols NHS Foundation Trust‘s Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (CRICBristol)...
Scientists from The University of Exeter and the RSPB have captured incredible footage of what it’s like to fly with the UK’s largest seabird. Researchers working on the island nature reserve of RSPB Grassholm in Pembrokeshire, Wales, attached miniature cameras to some of the gannets that nest there with fascinating results (see video). The ‘gannet cam’ footage shows a bird flying high above the stunning Pembrokeshire coastline while ships pass below. The footage also shows the bird landing in the bustling colony, skimming low over the water and spectacularly plunging in to the sea at...
