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City College DTH students

Sneezes can travel nearly three metres - students underline NHS message of using tissue to help contain flu

Dental students ran a session at City College Plymouth for young adults with mild learning difficulties to talk about good hygiene and oral health

Exeter School of Nursing launch

Senior figures gather to celebrate Exeter School of Nursing launch

The first cohort to study at the Exeter School of Nursing has gathered to celebrate its achievements with two of the profession’s senior local figures.

Science and Technology Showcase 2018. School girls looking at a robot

Schools flock to Science and Technology Showcase

More than 1,000 children and teachers from across the South West attended the eighth annual Science and Technology Showcase, held in the Rolle Marquee at the University of Plymouth

Second hand toys

Many second hand plastic toys could pose a risk to children’s health, study suggests

Scientists at the University of Plymouth discover hazardous elements including antimony, barium, bromine, cadmium, chromium and lead in second hand plastic toys, with migratable cadmium exceeding limits set by the European Council’s Toy Safety Directive

PhD student Suhailah Ali

Student to set up cervical screening programme in Iraq

University of Plymouth news: student has dedicated her PhD study to improving women’s access to cervical screening in her home country.

PUPSMD clinical neuroscience primary care

GP shortage: study shows factors associated with choosing to apply

National figures show junior doctors are more likely to train as general practitioners (GPs) if they are female, non-white, and UK secondary educated

Duncan Lewis

Employers urged to combat worker ill-treatment

The Irish Workplace Behaviour Survey was commissioned by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, and carried out by researchers from the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway, the University of Limerick and the University of Plymouth

Jade Hedges-Stearn, Sense Aware founder; Samantha Turner, Lecturer
in Occupational Therapy; Rachel Rule, Sense Aware founder; and Alannah
Burkholder, Sense Aware volunteer

Grant to boost students’ work helping people with autism

A project set up by two University of Plymouth students to help young people with autism and additional needs has won nearly £5,000 from the Aviva Community Fund.

DM Orthotics and KTP Associate Jamie Burnett

Businesses thriving thanks to Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

A look at some of the successful KTPs of recent years and some tips as to how to make them successful

Tim Peake

City bids for a slice of space history

The University of Plymouth is part of a consortium working with Plymouth City Council and STEM Plymouth hoping to win the rights to display astronaut Tim Peake's Soyuz descent module

Forest

Europe’s lost forests – study shows coverage has halved over six millennia

Research led by the University of Plymouth shows more than half of the forests across Europe have been lost over the past 6,000 years

Research Festival 2018

Festival celebrates University’s commitment to transforming lives through research

The University of Plymouth’s rich, varied and world-leading research will be put under the microscope during the 2018 Research Festival, a week of events beginning on Monday 22 January