Students from the University of Exeter’s English department are reading to older people in residential care homes, as part of a project that uses literature and poetry as a stimulus for senior citizens, including those with dementia and Alzheimer’s.
The Care Homes Reading Project is in its second year of operation. This year eight care homes and 160 student volunteers have signed up to participate in a programme which uses reading aloud as a basis for creating intergenerational relationships. Strengthening links between young people and the ageing population in the...
Four of Europe’s most promising scientists from the University of Exeter have received a total of more than €5 million to advance cutting-edge research which will help develop a deeper understanding of the world.
From the multilingual evolution of European law to the mechanisms of the human brain and patterns of animal behaviour, the grants will fund five-year studies which are at the forefront of research.
The four academics all warded off fierce competition to successfully bid for European Research Council grants. The scheme is designed to support a new...
If Paranormal Activity 4 isn’t enough to give you a sleepless night, maybe we can help. Is your university on the top 10 list of scariest cities in the UK? Sweet dreams!
1. Derby. This midlands city is teeming with scary movie potential. Take a trip to the Bell Inn and you might get some costume inspiration from the resident Victorian Lady in Blue or eighteenth-century chambermaid. Watch out for the poltergeist, though. Otherwise, the Jacobean House is home to the timeless headless coachman, while a ghost woman has been spotted doing a Mo Farah around former school St Helen’s...
Ok, say you don't like all that r'n'b stuff and like to tune into something most likely involving a guitar at some point, well Exeter has something for you too. It may not be London, which features the Electric Ballroom and Slime, but neither is it a desert for those with an inner goth/indie kid.
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The Cavern
A small underground bar/gig venue/daytime cafe between Queen Street and Gandy Street, the Cavern offers a pretty cool atmosphere to have a few drinks and enjoy live bands. Bar prices are...
A new partnership between Exeter Phoenix and The University of Exeter’s Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing (CALM) has enabled 30 artists to explore the possibilities offered by 3D printing. Neoreplicants , a new exhibition at Phoenix Gallery, showcases the artwork created using this incredible technology.
Given training and access to CALM’sfacilities, artists were able to create objects in computer modelling software, that were then printed through a process of laser sintering - whereby granules of a densely packed nylon powder material are welded together by laser, layer-by-...
The Student Room, the largest online student community in the world, which receives around 5.5 million unique visitors a month, launched a design update at the beginning of October as part of a brand refresh for the UK’s largest online student community. Among the elements unveiled are a new logo and a new strap line ‘where students connect’. This is accompanied on the website by a clearer and more user-friendly navigation bar.
Jamie O’Connell, Marketing Director at The Student Room, said: “Over the past few years we’ve grown from an idea in a student’s bedroom to become the...
Researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School have for the first time identified the mechanism that protects us from developing uncontrollable fear.
Our brains have the extraordinary capacity to adapt to changing environments – experts call this ‘plasticity’. Plasticity protects us from developing mental disorders as the result of stress and trauma.
Researchers found that stressful events re-programme certain receptors in the emotional centre of the brain (the amygdala), which the receptors then determine how the brain reacts to the next traumatic event.
One of the most thrilling and influential theatre companies to emerge out of the South West made a welcome return to its roots at the end of September, when internationally acclaimed Footsbarn Travelling Theatre performed the Indian Tempest at Exeter's Northcott Theatre to rave reviews.
Having studied The Tempest as part of my Drama degree at University, I was intrigued to see how this multi-cultural, rich and evocative reworking would play out, and I was not to be disappointed. The overwhelming response from the opening night audience was a feeling that we were in the...
University of Exeter scientist Dr Fiona Mathews has discovered one of Britain’s rarest mammals living in East Devon. Members of the public were treated to a surprise close encounter with the Grey long-eared bat, believed to be one of only 1,000 individuals in the country, at an event organised by East Devon District Council’s Countryside Service at the Axe Estuary Wetlands.
The bat evening was part of a regular Wet and Wild Weekend – a celebration of the wildlife of the Axe Estuary Wetlands attracting nearly 500 people. Dr Mathews and fellow bat-enthusiast Adrian Bayley...
One of the best parts of going to university is the chance to join wacky societies where you can meet like-minded peers and make friends for life.
Most universities across the country have hundreds of societies to suit everybody’s tastes, with the sole University of Birmingham featuring over 500 clubs and societies on campus.
If you’re specifically into sports and physical activity, the likes of Lancaster, Oxford, Bristol, and Nottingham University might be the perfect place to develop your skills both in class and on the pitch. But if you’re after quirkier societies that...
