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Researchers look for public opinions on geothermal project in Cornwall

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/researchers-look-for-public-opinions-on-geothermal-project-in-cornwall

Researchers at the University of Plymouth are looking for people and organisations in West Cornwall willing to offer their opinions on the United Downs Deep Geothermal Power project, funded by the European Regional Development Fund and Cornwall Council

Denis makes it home – successful charity cycle for life-saving medical research

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/denis-makes-it-home

Seventy-six year-old Denis Wilkins, Chair of Peninsula Medical Foundation, cycled from Land's End to John O'Groats in aid of PMF and its work fundraising for life-saving medical research at the University of Plymouth

University helps to inspire teachers at regional computing conference

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/university-helps-to-inspire-teachers-at-regional-computing-conference

The Computing at School (CAS) Regional Conference, held at the University of Plymouth, featured presentations and workshops on topics including digital literacy, e-safety and artificial intelligence.

Screentime, sexting and pornography | Research Festival 2020

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/research-festival/2020/research-festival-online-safety

University of Plymouth Research Festival 2020. Screentime, sexting and pornography, why technology can’t solve the dangers of the internet. Wednesday 22 January 2020.

Nancy Astor, Plymouth and the Power of Women | Research Festival 2020

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/research-festival/2020/research-festival-nancy-astor

University of Plymouth Research Festival 2020. Nancy Astor, Plymouth and the Power of Women. Celebrating 100 years of Nancy Astor and the influential female figures of Plymouth’s past. Tuesday 21 January 2020.

Documentary aims to reveal the human side of earthquake science

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/documentary-aims-to-reveal-the-human-side-of-earthquake-science

The 60-minute documentary Pseudotachylyte, by Associate Professor in Photography Heidi Morstang, focuses on a University of Plymouth research project examining the mechanisms which cause earthquake cycles to begin up to 40km below the earth’s surface.

Student receives national award to boost robotics studies

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/student-receives-national-award-to-boost-robotics-studies

Daisy-Rose Davies is studying on the MEng (Hons) Robotics programme at the University of Plymouth and has been awarded a prestigious bursary by the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET)

Featured module: Ethics and Ethnography

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-anthropology/featured-module-ethics-and-ethnography

Anthropology

BA (Hons) Anthropology featured module: Collecting and exhibiting cultures. ANTH504 compares moral behaviour across many different cultures.

New funding to link health students with global counterparts

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/new-funding-to-link-health-students-with-global-counterparts

Academics from the University of Plymouth’s Global Health team have secured funding for a new digital global classroom that will link up medical and dental students with their counterparts in Rwanda.

National award for postgraduates’ mental health toolkit

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/national-award-for-postgraduates-mental-health-toolkit

The Researcher Toolkit has won the FindAUniversity Award for the best Postgrad Wellbeing Initiative