New research reveals that just 12% of children in the South West are doing physical activity every day, with 50% of parents thinking that children should be properly fitness tested in schools.
Over half of the parents questioned are worried about obesity levels in children and think their children would benefit from more education around fitness in school. According to the research, by Premier Sport, 85% of parents think their children would benefit from more education around fitness and half of parents agree that children should be properly fitness tested in schools. Other key...
Retired holidaymakers are needed to take part in new research which aims to discover how giving up work has affected their tourism choices.
Academics from the University of Exeter Business School want to collect data on how people holidayed before and after retirement. They hope this will allow experts to better understand how tourism affects the wellbeing of older people, and how retirement leads to changes in the choice of location and holiday type.
The researchers are working with the charity Age UK Exeter to carry out the survey, which can also be completed online ....
A major new independent study¹ commissioned by The Prince’s Countryside Fund into the future of small family farms across the UK, has revealed a steep decline in numbers since the beginning of the century.
Over the last two or three decades, small family farms have experienced profound change. The report set out to explore the future for these farms by identifying the pace of change, investigating ways in which they might improve performance and viability as well as putting forward proposals for improvements to farm management, adjusting policies and bringing in new blood.
Scientists at the University of Exeter have developed a pioneering new technique that could revolutionise the surgical treatment of epilepsy.
The team of scientists, led by Dr Marc Goodfellow and Professor John Terry, have developed the ground-breaking new method that can identify the specific regions of the brain that trigger seizures in people with epilepsy.
The new technique is designed to help surgeons and neurologists measure the relative contribution to the occurrence of seizures made by different brain regions, and so determine the brain regions to remove that will...
Human use of artificial light is causing Spring to come at least a week early in the UK, researchers at the University of Exeter in Cornwall have found.
New research led by a team of biologists based at the University’s Penryn campus highlights for the first time and at a national scale the relationship between the amount of artificial night-time light and the date of budburst in woodland trees.
The study, the result of a long term collaboration with independent environmental consultants Spalding Associates, in Truro, made use of data collected by citizen scientists from...
A GP in Exeter has a new role championing health research and encouraging doctors to increase the opportunities for their patients to take part in clinical research studies conducted in the county.
Dr Lisa Gibbons – a GP and partner at St Thomas Health Centre - has been appointed as the Clinical Research Specialty Lead for primary care in the South West peninsula.
Lisa, who has practised at the health centre in Cowick Street for almost two years, has been involved in health research throughout her medical training and she says she has seen the positive impact of research...
PEOPLE in the South West suffering from high blood pressure are being given the chance to take part in a major clinical research trial which could herald a ‘new era’ in the treatment of the life-threatening condition.
The ‘WAVE IV’ trial at the Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust is testing a new one-hour, one-off non-invasive treatment which aims to reduce blood pressure permanently, cutting the patient’s risk of stroke and heart attacks and eliminating the need for on-going medication.
Principal investigator for the study, Dr Andrew Sharp, Consultant Cardiologist and...
Researchers from the University of Exeter have pioneered an innovative new technique to make flexible screens more effective and efficient.
A team of Engineers and Physicists from Exeter have discovered that GraphExeter – a material adapted from the ‘wonder material’ graphene - can substantially improve the effectiveness of large, flat, flexible lighting.
By using GraphExeter, the most transparent, lightweight and flexible material for conducting electricity, instead of pure graphene, the team have increased the brightness of flexible lights by up to almost 50 per cent....
The rising concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has passed a symbolic threshold early due to the fastest annual increase on record
The human-caused rise in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is being given an extra boost this year by the natural climate phenomena of El Niño, say climate scientists in a paper published in yesterday's edition of the journal Nature Climate Change. As a result, 2016 will be the first year with concentrations above 400 parts per million all year round in the iconic Mauna Loa carbon dioxide record.
Researchers at the University of Exeter who are working on an initiative to curb traffic congestion in and around the city are issuing a final call for help from commuters.
Over 2,000 people have already responded to an online survey at www.commute-exeter.com which is aimed at anyone over the age of 17 who commute into or within Exeter to work or for study.
Experts from the University’s Geography department are now leading a last push to get as many people as possible to complete the 10-minute survey which closes at 5pm on Sunday June 19. As an added incentive participants...
