Two lecturers from the University of Exeter have been honoured for their work in the 2022 ASLE-UKI Book Prizes.
Dr Evelyn O’Malley , Senior Lecturer in Drama , was awarded the Critical Prize for her Academic Monograph, Weathering Shakespeare and Dr Ben Smith from the English Department was awarded the Creative Prize for his debut novel, Doggerland .
The ASLE-UKI Book Prize , inaugurated in 2021, has two categories: Best Academic Monograph (Critical Prize) in ecocriticism and environmental humanities and Best Work of Creative Writing in any form or genre with an...
An unusual and thought-provoking new sculpture, created to characterize how science is confronting one of the world’s biggest threats to human health and food security, has been unveiled at the University of Exeter.
The stimulating new artwork, called Pharmakon , was created by Devon artist collective Still/Moving and is made from recycled bronze.
The sculpture was installed outside the Geoffrey Pope Building at the heart of the University’s Streatham Campus.
Guests of honour at the unveiling included Dr Jonathan Pearce, Director of Strategy and Planning for the...
Volunteers are marking a decade of innovative horticulture at Exeter’s Community Garden - where students work with their neighbours to cultivate food and friendship.
The beautiful space, at the University of Exeter’s Streatham campus, is helping people to learn new skills, meet friends and protect the local environment and biodiversity.
Volunteers are experimenting with new ways to enhance the habitat, which is also a teaching space for students studying food security and sustainability.
Professor Lisa Roberts, Vice Chancellor of the University of Exeter, and...
People can learn about Ukraine’s spectacular culture and language at a new University of Exeter course.
It will be led by Iryna Ilnytska, originally from Ukraine, and is designed to help people begin to communicate in Ukrainian.
Iryna, a trained opera singer, studied at Kyiv Linguistic University, Zurich University and Music Academy in Milan. A few years ago, she started organising and performing in classical concerts in Devon to introduce Ukrainian music to the county.
Iryna said: “I have cherished the idea of teaching the Ukrainian language in Devon for a few...
Team ‘ExeTerminators’ from The University of Exeter received £1,000 along with all 10 additional semi-finalists, and move forward to Keyloop’s grand final
March 2022: Keyloop, the global automotive technology company, has announced the individual university winners of the second annual Keyloop Dealer Tech competition. Over 1,000 students from leading universities registered their interest in the competition.
4 students; Barnaby Gill, Ryan Storey, Oskar Oramus and Isaac Cheng from The University of Exeter formed the team ‘ExeTerminators’. Their idea was to create a web...
The deterioration in people’s mental health linked to COVID-19 is showing no sign of returning to pre-pandemic levels, a new study finds.
Researchers from the University of Exeter Business School and the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to compare the mental health of more than 10,000 UK individuals.
They found that on average mental distress in the height of the pandemic in April 2020 was 11 percent higher than it was before the pandemic in 2017-19.
But in March 2021, amid the vaccine roll-out and...
Researchers at the University of Exeter have received £10 million to investigate and tackle biodiversity loss in the UK through partnerships and community action.
The ‘Renewing biodiversity through a people-in-nature approach’ (RENEW) project will work with landowners, businesses, and communities to restore woodlands, wetlands and farmland across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The project will put people at the centre of action on biodiversity renewal and build expertise across different sectors and communities to address the environment and climate...
The Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) has announced the successful applicants of its largest ever research grants round , after reviewing a record number of applications.
Half of women and one fifth of men will break a bone due to osteoporosis. The charity’s research grants programme aims to change that, by offering researchers at various stages in their careers the opportunity to apply for funding that will allow them to undertake pioneering research and improve our understanding of osteoporosis.
One of the successful applicants from this year’s research grant round, Dr...
Three University of Exeter researchers have been awarded prestigious Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Discovery Fellowships.
BBSRC awards the fellowships to early-career researchers with the "potential to become a future research leader" .
The Exeter researchers are Dr Jasmine Ono of the Environment and Sustainability Institute , Dr Luis Yanez Guerra of the Living Systems Institute , and Dr Jane Usher of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology.
Dr Usher's work focusses on the human fungal pathogen Candida glabrata , which can cause...
