An experienced fundraiser has joined a national charity which is funding scientific research in the South West searching for a cure for brain tumours.
Susan Turnock has been appointed as Regional Fundraising Manager by Brain Tumour Research. She will be responsible for the charity’s fundraising activities in the region, working closely with the team at the Brain Tumour Research Centre...
Researchers and innovators from across the world will be travelling to Plymouth this month for a major global conference on the potential impacts of computer music.
The 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) – carrying the title Music, Mind, and Embodiment – will take place from June 16-19.
Dr. Mona Nasser, Clinical Lecturer in Evidence Based Dentistry at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, is to present a lecture at an international conference in Barcelona which links the writings of a 10th-century medical philosopher to the use of computer simulation as an alternative to using animals in medical research.
A research project looking at how children with Asperger syndrome regulate their emotions is one of more than 20 from Plymouth University to receive funding through a global education initiative.
Post-doctoral psychology student Belen Lopez Perez will be funded to look at the link between empathy and emotion regulation thanks to the Santander Universities Scholarship programme, which...
The varying scale and force of certain volcanic eruptions are directly influenced by the distribution of gases within magma inside a volcano’s conduit, according to a new study.
Using state of the art equipment including UV cameras and electron microscopes, researchers from Plymouth University led a project to analyse the eruptive plumes and ash generated by Volcán de Colima, the most...
A Plymouth University lecturer is one of three scientists to have discovered a new glass frog in Costa Rica – the first in the country since 1973.
Dr Robert Puschendorf, Lecturer in Conversation Biology, along with researchers Brian Kubicki, founder of the Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center (CRARC), and Stanley Salazar, Costa Rican naturalist, made the discovery after collecting...
The greatest challenges to sustainability in the surfing world have been laid bare in a new book featuring contributions from the industry’s global elite.
Sustainable Stoke – Transitions to Sustainability in the Surfing World includes the views and opinions of more than 40 recognised global experts, including former world champions, environmental campaigners and the directors, CEOs and...
Tim O’Brien is the first the first speciality registrar in restorative dentistry to pass the Intercollegiate Speciality Fellowship Examination (Exit Speciality Training Examination) in Restorative Dentistry at Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry.
Tim’s achievement firmly marks the School and the Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise as a speciality training centre in...
From a sustainable grass roots project in South East Asia to working with psychiatric patients in Sri Lanka, more than a dozen students at Plymouth University have been offered life-changing opportunities through an awards fund.
Thirteen undergraduates have been chosen to receive this year’s Roland Levinsky Memorial Fund, which means they can use up to £1,500 to undertake personal...
Plymouth University geologist and BBC television presenter Professor Iain Stewart will be among a host of scientists, policymakers and business leaders who will be speaking at a conference devoted to some of the most pressing issues in sustainability-related research.
‘Cracking Earth 2015: Building Sustainability Research with Foundations’, is the fourth annual conference organised by...
