A unique move to develop research collaboration between the University's Dental School, the Dental School at Cardiff University and the Peninsula Dental School in Plymouth is to be launched and discussed at a research symposium in Devon on Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 November. It is the first time in the UK that three dental schools will come together formally to discuss being proactive about joint research opportunities.
France’s historically difficult relationship with issues of immigration, class and sexuality is viewed through the lens of contemporary film in a new book that takes a fresh look at the country’s socio-political development.
In recent years, the notion of a world-class university has become a concept much invoked by governments and by universities themselves.
Deciphering the very early history of life on Earth is difficult. In the darkest recesses of the first billion years there are no ‘body’ fossils – no physical remains. Instead scientists use chemical signals left behind in the rock record.
Medieval England’s view of its relationship with the East and the comparison with the 21st-century relationship between the West and Islam is a key strand of a new joint research project between the universities of Bristol and Reading.
Doctors and lawyers are more likely to come from wealthy backgrounds according to new research that indicates that the ‘social gap’ that prevents poorer people from entering the top professions is becoming more pronounced over time.
James Marshall of the Department of Computer Science explains how mathematical modelling has both confirmed and improved Darwin’s ideas on evolution.
Choosing a child’s school based on league tables is inadvisable because the tables ignore the uncertainty that arises from predicting a school’s future performance based on its past performance, according to new research from Dr George Leckie and Professor Harvey Goldstein of the University of Bristol’s Centre for Multilevel Modelling.
Men abuse more than women do but women are three times more likely to be arrested according to a new report into gender and domestic violence conducted by Professor Marianne Hester of the University’s School for Policy Studies on behalf of the Northern Rock Foundation.
How easy is it to walk, talk and remember what was said? Dr Dee Way studied how actors learn a script and whether walking affects their memory performance.
