A fascinating 3D sculpture has been installed at the University of Exeter’s Living Systems Institute, helping to raise awareness of its research on microsporidia.
Microsporidia are important pathogens infecting a diversity of animals including humans, honeybees, and farmed fish and shrimp, causing disease and, in some cases, death. Microsporidia parasites are found as dormant spores in the environment, which when eaten by a host “germinate”. Despite their importance, these parasites are not well-known by the general public, with most people never having heard of them.
A leading researcher at the University of Exeter has been awarded £1.5 million that will fund ground-breaking research into type 1 diabetes. Professor Sarah Richardson at the University of Exeter has been awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge – a partnership between the Steve Morgan Foundation, Diabetes UK and JDRF.
Professor Richardson is one of three researchers across the UK to receive the prestigious Fellowship, made possible by the generous £50 million donation from the Steve Morgan Foundation in the race towards a cure for type 1...
A University of Exeter student who won multiple awards for her AI start-up is also making waves in academia with an invitation to present a research paper at the World Congress of Undergraduate Research .
Elizabeth Chandler, a 22-year-old final year undergraduate based in Cornwall, recently won a Women in Tech Award as well as Innovate UK’s Young Innovators Award for her budding start-up The Good Robot Company , which helps businesses become more inclusive by detecting and minimising bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems.
A University of Exeter Business School student who as a child experienced controlling and coercive behaviour from a family member is running the London Marathon for the domestic abuse charity Refuge.
Emily Smith, 22, a final year MSc Business student based in Cornwall, will be raising money to support women and children experiencing domestic abuse and to mark the “end of a chapter” in her life.
“From the age of six to about 18 I lived in a household in which my stepfather was quite abusive, controlling wherever me, my mum and brother went, and what we did,” Emily said...
Four experts across The University of Exeter are set to speak at THE Digital Universities UK event from 17th to 20th April.
Digital Universities UK will bring together higher education, industry and policy leaders working at the intersection of academic innovation and technology and will present the latest challenges and opportunities of digital-first higher education along with cutting-edge start-ups and ideas that will reshape the future.
Experts from The University of Exeter speaking at the event are:
University of Exeter academics will be able to use new £1.25m funding to support their work to improve society and the economy.
The prestigious grant is part of a £40 million investment from the Economic and Social Research Council and will enable academics to influence policy, create and safeguard jobs and develop new, improved products and services.
The five-year Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAAs) have been awarded to 32 institutions across the UK. IAAs enable research organisations to support a wide range of social, economic and behavioural science impact activities...
The University of Exeter and South West Water have marked the highest point of construction on a pioneering new facility, the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW) , at a Topping Out ceremony on Streatham Campus.
Due to be complete by Autumn 2023, the new centre brings together academics from the university with industry experts in South West Water to explore and co-design solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the water and waste sector in the South West, the UK and the world.
Part funded by a £10.5m UKRPIF grant from Research England...
A University of Exeter leading social mobility expert has been honoured for her research to promote access to education.
Professor Anna Mountford-Zimdars has been made a Fellow of the prestigious Academy of Social Sciences, a privilege given to those making exceptional efforts to tackle the urgent issues currently facing the UK.
Professor Mountford-Zimdars investigates access to and progression within higher education as well as inequality, social reproduction and skills development as well as interventions that work in supporting individuals out of cycles of...
Exeter University is providing a free online teaching resource on climate change and sustainability for Key Stage 2 pupils across the county, recorded by the university’s neurodivergent geographers, aiming to raise awareness of neurodiversity.
Neurodiversity refers to diversity in the human brain and cognition, and recognises that we all think, move, process information and communicate differently. It is estimated that around 1 in 10 people across the UK are neurodivergent , however, all humans vary in terms of our neurocognitive ability. Neurodivergent can be used as a term to...
Stuart Brocklehurst has been appointed to the newly created role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Business Engagement and Innovation at the University of Exeter
The University of Exeter’s 2030 Strategy sets out to use the power of education and research to create a greener, healthier and fairer future, and that requires effective partnerships across sectors and businesses now more than ever. The University has therefore established a brand new role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Business Engagement and Innovation to lead even greater collaboration between academic teams and industry partners...
