Passionate about palaeobotany
What does the female orgasm have to do with fossil plants? The answer is, of course, Marie Stopes.
Research
History and the pensions crisis
The problem of security in old age is amongst the most urgent political issues in Britain today.
Missing links: Of myths, monkeys and men
How Darwinian words, Darwinian plots and Darwinian myths necessarily inform our understanding of the world and our place within it
Performing knowledge exchange
Knowledge transfer, especially between academic research and the needs of industry, is currently high on the agenda of bodies that fund research in universities.
Marxian Perspectives on Democracy
How Karl Marx’s account of democratic politics, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, is potentially defining for our view of dictatorship today.
Human factors affect bees’ communication, researchers find
Human influences have the potential to reduce the effectivity of communication in bees adding further stress to struggling colonies, according to new analysis.
Online Safety Bill undermines privacy online, say UK’s top cyber security experts
The National Research Centre on Protecting Citizens Online has called on Parliament to consider independent scientific evaluation before voting through the online safety bill, which could inadvertently enable surveillance technologies and erode online protection.
New five-year funding award continues world-leading integrative epidemiology research
The Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit (MRC IEU) at the University of Bristol has been awarded funding to enable a further five years of world-leading research.
The energy line
Looking at how people interact with technology
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Alcohol dependency in adolescence, but not consumption, linked with later depression risk
Adolescents who show signs of alcohol dependence are more likely to develop depression by their mid-20s, according to a new study led by University of Bristol and UCL researchers.