Professor Petra Meier brings expertise to UKRI’s new £35m Population Health Improvement UK
University of Glasgow researchers will play a leading role in Population Health Improvement UK (PHI-UK), a new network to improve population-wide health.
Macquarie University climbs world university rankings to join Australia’s top ten
Macquarie University has placed 175 in the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings announced today, and is now in Australia's top ten.
Spleen function discovery could lead to better treatments for infectious diseases
Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) have discovered a new gene that plays an important role in the way the spleen functions, potentially leading to new treatments for infectious diseases.
UOW to conduct study on the pandemic experience of essential workers
Researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW) Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities are seeking people who worked in supermarkets and quarantine hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Canterbury youth mentoring researcher wins national award
A University of Canterbury researcher has received a prestigious fellowship to study the relationships between young people and their adult mentors.
Travel emissions show promising drop
Findings by the department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability (SRS) suggest that total CO2 emissions from business travel have fallen from 18,600 to 12,159 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) in 2018/19 compared with 2022/23.
Turning the heat up on how to decarbonise energy-intensive industries
Experts from around the world will meet at the University of Adelaide to discuss ways to tackle the on-going challenge to help decarbonise energy intensive industries like iron, steel, cement and aluminium.
Better targeted prediabetes care needed
A more targeted approach to the screening and treatment of prediabetes is likely to be more effective at preventing type 2 diabetes and to reduce strain on primary health care sector resources...
New research shows socioeconomic status shapes access to cataract surgery
Queen’s professor Robert Campbell is part of a team that has discovered an association between patient socioeconomic status and access to cataract surgery in for-profit centres that have received public funding in Ontario.
University of Bristol stem cell spinout secures £7.6m seed funding
CellVoyant, an AI-first biotechnology spin-out from the University of Bristol accelerating the development of new stem cell therapies, has announced a £7.6 million seed round.















































