A report by Professor Andy Ness and his ‘Children of the 90s’ team at Bristol, together with Professor Chris Riddoch from Bath University, suggests that making even small increases to a child’s daily exercise routine, such as walking them to school instead of taking the car, could have dramatic long-term results.
João Zilhão, Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology, puts the case for our badly misunderstood cousins.
Sarah Smith, Senior Research Fellow in the the University’s Centre for Market and Public Organisation, was interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam about her work on pension policy in the UK.
Man’s role in causing climate change has been a topic of much interest over the past 30 years. Dr Rich Pancost, Professor Paul Valdes and Ian Ross, on behalf of the University’s Global Change Initiative, put their side of the argument.
Dr Matt Jones, an RCUK Academic Fellow in the Department of Physiology, tells us about how our brains function.
Exploring the relationship between fatherhood and employment.
A new book discusses how women who leave an abusive relationship go through a process of recovery similar to that following bereavement.
A possible way to prevent heart-beat irregularities
A new research project on European adventurers in Colombia and Venezuela between 1810 and 1860 took Dr Matthew Brown to the European University Institute in Florence.
The University has been awarded funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to set up a new Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology.
