Welcome to our new VC Fellows19 October 2017We are pleased to announce that VC Fellows, Anya Skatova and Emma Williams, will be joining the School in November.
Welcome to our new VC Fellows19 October 2017We are pleased to announce that VC Fellows, Anya Skatova and Emma Williams, will be joining the School in November.
Guess who? Facial expressions can cause confusion20 September 2017Photos of the same person can look substantially different. For example, your passport photo may look quite different from your driving licence, or your face in holiday photos.
International patent application published for StopWatch smartwatch-based system for smoking detection. 14 September 2017An international patent application has recently been published for StopWatch - a smartwatch-based system for automatically detecting cigarette smoking, developed by Andy Skinner, Chris Stone and Marcus Munafò from TARG and the MRC IEU, and Hazel Doughty from the Faculty of Engineering. The patent protects the novel design aspects of the system that allow it to work using just a smartwatch, without the need for additional sensors, a smartphone or a data connection. Having a patent will help us develop industry partnerships to fully realise the potential of the system in measuring and helping to change smoking behaviours.
Olivia Maynard awarded ESRC New Investigator Grant 8 September 2017Olivia Maynard has been awarded an ESRC New Investigator Grant for a two-year project entitled ‘Smoking kills, but you can quit: Threat and efficacy messaging to prevent tobacco smoking among adults and adolescents’.
David Turk nominated for STEM Inspiration award 6 September 2017The STEM Inspiration Awards recognise the UK’s most dedicated and inspirational people motivating young people in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
The Biology of Colour4 August 2017In a wide-ranging and comprehensive review, published in Science last week, a group of evolutionary biologists, behavioural ecologists, psychologists, optical physicists, visual physiologists, geneticists and anthropologists turn their attention to this diverse area of science, daunting to the outsider, and set out what they believe are the key questions for the future.
BILT Educational Enhancement Fund (EEF)1 August 2017Chris Kent and Jess Fielding have been awarded a BILT Educational Enhancement Fund (EEF) for a Teaching Innovation Grant.
