Lifestyle

Three services at Plymouth City Council are to get awards for their dementia work.

Joint Commissioning and Adult Social Care, the Library Service and the Arts and Heritage Service will be presented with certificates by the Plymouth Dementia Action Alliance at an event on Friday 2 August in recognition of the work carried out in Plymouth towards making the city ‘dementia friendly’....

Nature has beneficial effects that help us cope with stress at work, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The research, conducted by Dr Valerie Gladwell at the University of Essex, highlights the power of the 'great outdoors' to improve both physiological and psychological wellbeing.

"The modern era has brought a decline in levels of...

There’s a spine-tingling treat in store for families visiting the Central Library on Tuesday 6 August, with super spooky performances from the Second Hand Dance Company.

Dancers will be touring 16 libraries across the South West as part of this year’s ‘Creepy House’ Summer Reading Challenge, thanks to funding from The Arts Council. Pavilion Dance South West have composed music...

Plymouth University’s Cognition Institute is taking the lead in a four million euro project to explore how creative thinking underpins cognitive processes.

Funded by the European Union Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) programme and Plymouth University, ‘CogNovo’ will involve a consortium of 23 academic and industrial partners from around the world studying the role of novelty...