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Students keep audiences up to date at the Port Eliot Festival
Audiences at the Port Eliot Festival this summer will be kept up to date with the latest news and views thanks to a project involving students at the University of Plymouth and publishing company Guillemot Press
Schools work with University to create installation for the Port Eliot Festival
Pupils from Lipson Co-operative Academy and Liskeard School and Community College have worked with the University of Plymouth to create an eye-catching installation for this year’s Port Eliot Festival
Come Together – Lennon and McCartney transformed for 60th anniversary performance
The works of John Lennon and Paul McCartney have been reconfigured by Dr Alexis Kirke, a composer at the University of Plymouth, into a new performance that will be showcase to audiences at the Port Eliot Festival this summer
National neurodegeneration role for Plymouth academic and clinician
Plymouth University news: A clinical neuroscientist and consultant neurologist from Plymouth will play a lead role in the development and future of research into neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and Parkinson's disease
New data network for Huntington's disease research
Plymouth University news: The first data network for Huntington's disease research is now available thanks to an international project group including the University of Plymouth, with a blueprint which could be used for data networks in other conditions
Guidance for metrics to improve patient care
Plymouth University news: A team from Plymouth have led the work to produce the first guidelines for commissioners to develop and individualise patient care, especially for those with long term and multiple conditions, and at end of life
Plymouth academic first nurse appointed by Chinese Government programme
Jos Latour, Professor in Clinical Nursing at the University of Plymouth has been invited to develop research in China’s largest children’s hospital – making him the first nurse to be appointed through a Chinese Government programme.
New research offers hope to neuro-tumour patients
Plymouth University news: Plymouth scientists have for the first time identified a key element in the development of Neurofibromatosis 2 tumours and their findings could be applied to other cancers, resulting in potential drug therapies
From earthquakes to engineering – students take part in fourth Girls into Geoscience
The University of Plymouth has hosted its fourth Girls into Geoscience, with 80 students from across the UK attending the two-day event
Plymouth academic appointed to lead UK-wide consortium on offshore renewables
A University of Plymouth academic has been appointed to lead Supergen ORE Hub, a new consortium programme supported by both government and industry which will draw together the UK’s expertise in marine renewable energy
Nurse’s research to help older people live healthier lives
Helen Lyndon, a nurse consultant whose work centres on caring for older people, has begun a four-year fellowship at the University of Plymouth to develop and test a nurse-led intervention to improve healthy living in older people with frailty.
Academic reveals possible new date for Cattewater Wreck amid attempts to bring story to life for future generations
Research by an academic at the University of Plymouth has yielded new information about the Cattewater Wreck, which sits beneath the waves of Plymouth Sound. Now efforts are being made to raise awareness through a competition for local children.