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Interactive Thriving Lives Toolkit set to help schools support children and young people in Armed Forces families
A new interactive platform offering schools an online framework to support children from Armed Forces families to thrive has been launched today (Monday 25 April 2022). Read more
Blog
April 2022 at the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ
The launch of a new global health partnership, an important research study on healthy diets for pet dogs and student and staff success stories all featured in a busy month of April. We also marked Earth Day and celebrated the holy month of Ramandan and the spring harvest festival of Vaisakhi. Find out what's been happening over the last month. Read more
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ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ invites visitors to create 'open sanctuary' for contemplation and reflection
A striking art installation will be created in the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's West Downs Gallery this summer, with visitors invited to work closely with the artists on a new sculptural work representing sanctuary. Read more
Blog
To fly or not to fly? Climate change education visit to the Farthest North
Where better to consider the place of climate and environmental education in the experience of young people than in Longyearbyen, the globe's northernmost civilian settlement and the fastest heating town in the world? Dr Simon Boxley, and Head of the University's Centre for Climate Change Action and Education, discusses his new study in the blog. Read more
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Attorney General shares words of wisdom with ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Law students
Attorney General for England and Wales, the Right Honorable Suella Braverman QC MP shared details of her life growing up, her legal education and her historic career with undergraduate Law students at the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ and answered their questions at a special event. Read more
The Conversation
Why Seventh-day Adventists are so often vegan or vegetarian
In a new article for The Conversation, Dr Tamas Lestar, Lecturer in the Department of Responsible Management and an Adventist community member, explains why Seventh Day Adventists came to be often entirely plant-based or vegetarian, and what others might be able to learn from them. Read more
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Powerful new documentary explores the church's involvement in the trafficking of enslaved Africans
A new documentary by award-winning programme maker Professor Robert Beckford, Director of the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's Centre for Climate and Social Justice, unearths the Christian ideas that supported the trafficking of enslaved Africans Read more
Blog
Hares of Hampshire Art Trail: Q&A with artist Jenny Muncaster
The University is excited to be a part of the Hares of Hampshire Art Trail, which starts today across ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ and Southampton to raise funds for Southampton Children's Hospital. The University is sponsoring its own giant hare sculpture for the Trail, which has been designed and decorated by ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ-based professional artist Jenny Muncaster. Read more
The Conversation
London's Olympic legacy: research reveals why £2.2 billion investment in primary school PE has failed teachers
As the tenth anniversary of the London Olympics approaches, Dr Vicky Randall, Senior Fellow in the Institute of Education at the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, and Gerald Griggs, Dean and Head of Academics, University Campus of Football Business (Etihad Campus), explore the Games' legacy of improved PE teaching within England’s primary school sector. Read more
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Survey assesses impact of organised crime on Devon and Cornwall's farming communities
A ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ criminologist is lending expertise to a new project led by the University of Plymouth to assess the precise effects of organised crime on farmers, and their families, in Devon and Cornwall. Read more
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ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ lecturer lends expertise to new podcast series on Old Norse mythology
New podcast series Echoes of History: Ragnarök, which takes a 'deep dive' into the fascinating imaginary world which guided the Vikings of the past, features Dr Eric Lacey, senior lecturer in English at the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, who shares his expertise in Old Norse literature, language and myth Read more
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Over three-quarters of boys in state-funded secondary schools are compelled to play contact rugby, despite high risk of injury
Contact rugby has a high risk of injury and concussion, yet new research led by the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, Oxford Brookes University and the University of Newcastle has shown boys in state-funded secondary schools are compelled to play it within the physical education curriculum. Read more
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It's in the bag: ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ students support city charities through donations
Over a tonne of clothing, bedding, kitchen and homewares, and store cupboard essentials have been donated by ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ students to help people in need in the city, as part of the University's annual Bag It Up campaign. Read more
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