News – Birmingham Partners

Quantum technology offers improved planning for epilepsy surgery

26th May 2020
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Engineering and Physical Sciences, Partner Posts

A new project to harness quantum technology to enable better planning for patients undergoing epilepsy surgery has been funded by the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing.

Vice Chancellor’s debate to discuss trolls, flat-earthers and fake news purveyors

26th May 2020
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Alice Roberts, Partner Posts, Vice Chancellor

The University of Birmingham's Vice Chancellor's Great Debate will be discussing "trolls, flat-earthers and fake news purveyors."

Education project launched to understand Birmingham learning at home during COVID-19

22nd May 2020
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Birmingham City council, education, Partner Posts, School of Education

The University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council are working together to study the implications of the shutdown on schools, teachers, pupils and parents due to COVID-19 pandemic.

New gravitational-wave model can bring neutron stars into even sharper focus

21st May 2020
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Engineering and Physical Sciences, Partner Posts

Gravitational-wave researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new model that promises to yield fresh insights into the structure and composition of neutron stars.

Chemical recycling makes useful product from waste bioplastic

21st May 2020
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Engineering and Physical Sciences, Partner Posts

A faster, more efficient way of recycling plant-based "bioplastics" has been developed by a team of scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Bath.

University of Birmingham secures funding for critical UK clinical trial for children diagnosed with rare childhood cancer

21st May 2020
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Partner Posts

A team from the University of Birmingham will coordinate the UK arm of a critical European clinical trial into a rare childhood cancer.

High doses of vitamin D supplementation has no benefit in preventing or treating COVID-19

Scientists from the UK, Europe and the USA, including experts from the University of Birmingham, have published a vitamin D consensus paper warning against high doses of vitamin D supplementation.

Global webinar launch – ‘Living with the Pandemic in LMICs’

University of Birmingham experts will discuss how research can help people living in Low- and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) to stay safe during the current coronavirus pandemic in the first of a new webinar series.

Brexit changed people’s perception of immigrants for the better

19th May 2020
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College of Social Sciences, Partner Posts, University of Birmingham

New research has found that anti-immigrant attitudes in the UK softened immediately following the Brexit referendum of 2016, among both Leave and Remain supporters.

Birmingham epilepsy researcher secures prestigious fellowship

19th May 2020
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Medical and Dental Sciences, Partner Posts

Dr Wessel Woldman, Research Fellow from the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine at the University of Birmingham has been appointed an Emerging Leader Fellowship from Epilepsy Research UK.