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Go 'Behind the Scenes' with the University of Birmingham's inspirational experts

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A competition has been announced by the University of Birmingham today to give people the chance to go 'behind the scenes' with some of its most inspirational academic experts.
Date:
Tuesday 24th April 2012
Categories:
Alumni, Arts and Law, Corporate Services, Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching

Birmingham researchers look to the urban future with new book on how to design "resilient" cities

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A new book based on groundbreaking research led by academics from the University of Birmingham on how to create robustly-sustainable cities is being launched in London this month.
Date:
Wednesday 18th April 2012
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Social Sciences

University of Birmingham cements and creates new collaborations with Guangzhou

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Six months after the launch of the University's representative office in Guangzhou, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Birmingham is back in Guangzhou today to highlight the ongoing strategic partnership between the City and the University.
Date:
Monday 16th April 2012
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Vice Chancellor

Greater investment in autism research needed to give children a better start in life

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Researchers at the University of Birmingham are championing the call for increased investment into autism research on World Autism Day (Monday 2 April). Autism is a developmental condition that affects 1 in every 100 children in the UK.
Date:
Monday 2nd April 2012
Categories:
Life and Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences

University of Birmingham Sport at the BUCS Championships 2012

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Many of the University of Birmingham Sport (UBSport) teams headed to Sheffield over the 14-18 March for the annual British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Championships, held in a variety of venues across the city.
Date:
Tuesday 27th March 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Social Sciences, Sport, Students

Olympic delight for University of Birmingham torch bearers

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Two University of Birmingham students Annabel Fitzgerald a final year undergraduate and postgraduate cancer scientist Beckie Port have been selected to carry the Olympic flame when the torch relay passes through the West Midlands. They will be joined in carrying the flame by lecturers Dr Celia Taylor and Dr Matt Bridge and alumnus Mostafa Soleimani.
Date:
Wednesday 21st March 2012
Categories:
Alumni, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Social Sciences, Sport, Students

Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham celebrate first anniversary of landmark collaboration

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Against a backdrop of the most challenging time in UK higher education for a generation, a landmark collaboration agreement between the University of Birmingham and University of Nottingham is celebrating a successful first year. This innovative partnership builds on the complementary strengths of the two universities and has already enabled the institutions to secure multi-million pound research income, explore new international markets, and develop new research collaborations.
Date:
Friday 16th March 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Corporate Services, Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching, Vice Chancellor

New Health and Wellbeing Boards must focus on outcomes not structural changes

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New Health and Wellbeing Boards proposed as a key part of the Coalition's reform package for the NHS must focus on patient outcomes rather than developing unnecessary processes and structures according to a new policy paper from the University of Birmingham's leading health research unit the Health Services Management Centre.
Date:
Tuesday 13th March 2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences
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