The Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC), an internationally recognised paediatric research department at the University of Exeter, are celebrating seven years of collaboration with Exmouth Community College.
The partnership, which began in 2014, has enabled pupils to be engaged in a wide variety of research, enabling them to learn first-hand about healthy living.
Thanks to the relationship with the college, the research team at CHERC have been able to better understand how physical activity and diet can influence health in youth. This is important, as...
Lord Myners of Truro will retire as Chancellor of the University of Exeter after five years in the role.
Paul Myners CBE, who will be 73 in April and a former Government Minister who has led some of the UK’s best known businesses, will relinquish the role at the end of 2021.
Cornishman Lord Myners, who was brought up in Truro by his adoptive parents, took over the mantle of Chancellor from Baroness Floella Benjamin in July 2016.
Speaking of his retirement from the position, Lord Myners said: “It has been a pleasure and an honour to have served as Chancellor and...
The University of Exeter's carbon reduction targets are among the most ambitious set by UK universities and colleges, according to rankings published by Students Organising for Sustainability UK (SOS-UK).
The rankings – which place Exeter third among Russell Group universities and 14th in the higher education sector – suggest the University is one of those "leading the way".
Since declaring an environment and climate emergency in 2019, the University has created a comprehensive plan to cut carbon emissions and improve the environment on its campuses and beyond.
A largescale analysis led by the University of Exeter and funded by Diabetes UK, has found a disproportionately higher COVID-19 death risk in middle-aged people with type 2 diabetes, raising questions over vaccination strategies across Europe.
The study, accepted for publication in Diabetologia , found that compared to people of a similar age without type 2 diabetes, the additional COVID-19 mortality risk from having type 2 diabetes increases the younger someone is. Although the risk is low in absolute terms, the increase has a significant potential to impact middle-aged people...
A new research hub led by the University of Exeter will spearhead national efforts to create a 'circular economy' where fewer resources are used and more waste materials reused – delivering huge benefits to the environment and UK economy.
The National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub is supported with £3.5 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
It will work with the five circular economy centres that were announced last November to explore how reusing waste materials in a wide range of industries, including textiles, construction, chemical and metals,...
The University of Exeter Business School has launched a new research centre focusing on sustainability in finance, an area experiencing huge growth within the financial sector.
Professor Chendi Zhang will be heading up the new Exeter Sustainable Finance Centre (ESF), which will draw on the University of Exeter Business School’s vast expertise in the areas of sustainability, finance, accounting, economics and management.
Sustainability was once considered a niche area in finance, but its growing importance has seen it catapulted into the mainstream as is now one of the...
Big bumblebees take time to learn the locations of the best flowers, new research shows.
Meanwhile smaller bumblebees – which have a shorter flight range and less carrying capacity – don't pay special attention to flowers with the richest nectar.
University of Exeter scientists examined the "learning flights" which most bees perform after leaving flowers.
Honeybees are known to perform such flights – and the study shows bumblebees do the same, repeatedly looking back to memorise a flower's location.
"It might not be widely known that pollinating insects...
An innovative hip stem developed in Exeter 50 years ago today has now been implanted in more than two million patients across the globe.
The Exeter hip stem was developed in a collaboration between NHS surgeon Professor Robin Ling and University of Exeter engineer Dr Clive Lee, and is globally manufactured by Stryker. Their ground-breaking design overcame a problem of previous hip implants – that they eventually became slightly loose, requiring further surgery.
Previous prosthetic hips had been designed with the idea that the implant should remain rigidly fixed to the...
Dr Valentina Mosienko from the University of Exeter Medical School has won one of 15 highly competitive fellowships from the Medical Research Council Career Development Award .
The award, covering five years, will allow Dr Mosienko to study star-shaped brain cells – known as astrocytes – and their role in depression etiology.
Dr Mosienko said “I’m honoured to receive the fellowship to investigate this important area of research. Depression is a devastating illness affecting one in four people in the UK. It is not fully understood still, with antidepressants commonly...
A blood test already available to GPs in the UK is more predictive of ovarian cancer than previously thought and could also help pick up other forms of cancer, according to new research published in PLOS Medicine today (Wednesday) and funded by Cancer Research UK and NIHR.
This study involving the University of Exeter was led by Dr Garth Funston at the University of Cambridge as part of the CanTest collaborative, and studied more than 50,000 women who had a specific type of blood test with their GP in England.
The test is for women with symptoms possibly caused by...
