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Online tool to improve perineal repair

Description
Scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Staffordshire have jointly led the development of an online training package to assist midwives and obstetricians to carry out medical procedures to help women who have sustained a perineal injury during childbirth.
Date:
Tuesday 19th February 2013
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

A class act: empathetic robot tutors in classrooms to facilitate teaching and learning

Description
A European project to develop robotic tutors that will support teachers and motivate students in secondary schools is being led by University of Birmingham engineers and computer scientists, in collaboration with Heriot-Watt University and other European partners.
Date:
Monday 18th February 2013
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

Renewable energy targets unachievable in an independent Scotland experts warn

Description
The Scottish government's ambitious targets for renewable energy would become "politically unachievable" in an independent Scotland, experts have warned.
Date:
Monday 11th February 2013
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Social Sciences

Mystery bleeding disorders could be unravelled by new research efforts at University of Birmingham

Description
Platelet disorders are heavily underdiagnosed, little understood and cannot be cured. University of Birmingham researchers and the Birmingham Platelet Group are running a UK-wide clinical trial 'Genotyping and platelet phenotyping' (GAPP) (1) funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF). The trial includes lab research by BHF-funded scientist Dr Yotis Senis in an effort to better identify patients and potentially to develop new treatments.
Date:
Friday 8th February 2013
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences

Students convene in Delhi to explore international security challenges

Description
The evolving international security agenda, with particular reference to South Asia, is the focus of an exciting joint module for students from the Universities of Delhi, Birmingham and Melbourne next week.
Date:
Thursday 7th February 2013
Categories:
International, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching

Cormorants cannot capture the benefits of global warming

Description
Even though cormorants seem ideally placed to benefit from global warming, by expanding their breeding range into the far north, the darkness of the polar night is likely to keep them firmly in their place, according to research published this week by scientists at the University of Birmingham in the Journal of Zoology.
Date:
Monday 4th February 2013
Categories:
Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Birmingham and Nottingham projects to strengthen UK-Brazil research links

Description
The Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham have strengthened their collaborations with Brazilian institutions after securing funding for a number of country-specific research projects. Academics from both universities have won funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) to undertake research into priority areas spanning the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Date:
Monday 4th February 2013
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences

Britain's first Professor of Morality appointed by the University of Birmingham

Description
The University of Birmingham is proud to announce the appointment of Professor Randall Curren as Professor of Moral and Virtue Education to the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values, in the School of Education.
Date:
Friday 1st February 2013
Categories:
Social Sciences
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