The quest to discover why friendship plays such a pivotal role in social and mental well-being has been given a significant boost, it has been announced.
Professor Lauren Brent, an expert in animal behaviour from the University of Exeter has been awarded substantial funding to help uncover the evolutionary origins of friendship and social bonds.
Prof Brent has received a €2 million grant to conduct ground-breaking new research to investigate not only social bonds are so important to the health and longevity of so many species, but also why evolution allows social...
Exeter City Football Club’s Grecian Archive has been gathering ‘memories for the future’ with the help of the University of Exeter.
Researchers at the University of Exeter are asking ‘what is the heritage of now?’ to ensure that current events and items are correctly documented and preserved for people to look back on in the future.
Gabriella Giannachi, Professor in Performance and New Media, initially led the creation of the archive to catalogue historic items and try trace their history. Now, she is using those historic documents to engage fans with the history of the...
University of Exeter scientists have developed a revolutionary new device that could allow health professionals to test patients’ antibody response to COVID-19 in as little as seven minutes.
The pioneering new COVID-19 Triple Antibody Test, has been produced by the University of Exeter spin-out company Attomarker Ltd and is set to spearhead the next-generation of rapid and accurate antibody testing.
While traditional tests that require laboratory analysis can take up to 72 hours to get results, the device is able to deliver quick and accurate quantitative results in just...
The University of Exeter has joined a national project designed to offer pivotal support to disadvantaged students, who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, to enter higher education.
The new online hub, called ‘Uni4Me’, will see 50 organisations from the higher education sector across the country provide around 250 free, interactive online activities for the students.
The activities include virtual courses in a range of subjects led by university academics; online tuition and support in core GCSE/A Level academic subjects; live events involving leading academics...
The University of Exeter has leapt into the top five institutions in the world for research output on the links between green space and public health.
Exeter is currently number four in a list of the most productive institutions globally to study how exposure to green space can improve public health, according to a review of the field in the journal Environmental Research Letters .
The review found that Exeter has published 148 research papers between 2010 and 2019. Environmental research is a priority area across the University, and in 2010, the European Centre for...
Urgent research has begun to find a way for small and mid-sized theatre companies threatened with closure due to coronavirus to keep operating.
The study will investigate if audiences are willing to pay for remote performances and how actors can take their work online and continue to be paid.
Theatres and companies around the country are making staff redundant and the future of many is in jeopardy. The research will be conducted rapidly so the findings are reported and can be of use before the Government’s furlough scheme – which has supported many in the industry – ends...
An award of almost £1 million will help scientists at the University of Exeter unravel the genetics mysteries of a rare form of diabetes, and could help identify a new form of the condition.
Dr Kash Patel, of the University of Exeter Medical School, has secured the funding under the Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship.
Over five years, Dr Patel will study Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY), a rare genetic form of diabetes which can be passed down through families. It is caused by a defect in one of 14 genes, many of them discovered at the...
While children and young people appear less likely to get COVID-19 than older adults, new research suggests there may be substantial indirect adverse effects of the disease on their physical and mental health.
An analysis published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) , co-led by the University of Exeter Medical School with the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids, Canada) has found factors caused by the pandemic, such as delayed medical appointments, forced isolation and reduction in support, have negatively impacted children’s health.
David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, is headlining an online panel discussion that is examining the impacts of COVID-19 on developing countries. BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet is hosting the event on 2 July, that also features Waad al-Kateab, Dr Hamza al-Kateab, and Dr Weeda Mehran of the University of Exeter.
Waad al-Kateab made the film For Sama, which documented the life of her family during the siege of Aleppo. The film was nominated for BAFTAs and an OSCAR, and she now reports for Channel 4 News on COVID-19.
An acclaimed playwright will collaborate with University of Exeter experts on a new production exploring how LGBTQ+ communities have experienced loneliness and isolation in the past and present, including during the coronavirus pandemic.
Natalie McGrath will work with researchers at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health and Exeter’s Northcott Theatre to create the new piece of work. It will explore the loss of hard won social and emotional spaces which LGBTQ+ people have created to share with one another, and think about experiences of lockdown as part of a...
