An award-winning inventor has unveiled a cheap and easy to use medical device , which he believes could save more than one million lives each year.
Oliver Blackwell has designed a simple addition to the needles used for collecting blood, which would substantially reduce the risks for healthcare professionals.
His design involves using an automatic needle sheath that prevents...
A brave graduate who overcame a brain tumour while studying for her degree has set up a hardship fund for use in emergency situations where a student suddenly falls ill.
April Watkins, 22, graduated from Plymouth University last week with a 2:1 in Sociology after she was forced to miss most of her first year as she battled the life-threatening condition.
Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise, established by Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry to bring its successful Dental Education Facilities and community activity under one umbrella, is now up and running and already making its mark.
When it was announced earlier this year it was already a world first, because it was the first clinical entity to be...
An innovative statistics project run through a partnership led by Plymouth University has received a prestigious global award.
CensusAtSchool, run by the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE), was named Best Cooperative Project in Statistical Literacy by the International Association of Statistical Education and the International Statistical Literacy...
A significant appointment made by Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry is set to boost still further the institution’s growing international reputation for neuroscience.
New arrival Professor Robert Fern’s work investigates how the brain is damaged by any loss of blood supply, such as that which happens during stroke in adults and cerebral palsy in babies....
Academics from Plymouth University are conducting a study to assess the level of public confidence in a pioneering addition to the legal system.
Plymouth is one of only a handful of cities in the country to have a Community Justice Court, a project run by the city’s Magistrates Court with the specific brief to try to reduce reoffending.
An aspiring racing driver is preparing for his biggest test yet as he lines up alongside some of the country’s top talents at the home of British motor sport.
Ashley Crossey, a third year 3D Product Design student at Plymouth University, has been signed up to race in the final rounds of the Protyre Formula Renault Championship at Silverstone later this month.
The Secret Millionaire Dominic List, and one of the most recognised and popular scientists in the country, Professor Iain Stewart MBE, were among this year’s winners at the Vice-Chancellor’s Enterprise Awards.
Now in their fifth year, the awards run by Plymouth University, showcase and celebrate enterprise in the region across teaching, research, community and business engagement, and...
Plymouth University has invested in a new state-of-the-art sonar system that will enable students to map the underwater world and visualise in detail features such as shipwrecks.
The Multi-Beam Echo Sounder (MBES) will be used on board the University’s teaching and research vessels and has already been tested off the coast of Devon and Cornwall over wrecks such as HMS Scylla and the SS...
