People with a history of positive social interactions with Chinese people were less likely to support discriminatory anti-Chinese policies as Covid-19 reached the UK – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers studied how UK residents felt towards the Chinese community as Covid-19 reached our shores, and how these feelings might […]
The University of East Anglia (UEA) has today (28 September) launched in-house Covid-19 testing for its staff and students to help limit asymptomatic transmission on campus and in the community. The University is offering staff and students a free swab test for Covid-19 at the start of the academic year with the aim of limiting […]
A partnership between City Year UK and Coventry University has supported more than 200 Coventry school pupils identified as being most at risk of not fulfilling their potential. Coventry University partnered with City Year UK in 2019 to expand the charity’s UK programme to Coventry. Twenty young people, including Coventry University students, spent a year […]
Popular Saturday Clubs designed to excite local school pupils about Art and Science are due to launch online It is the second year that Higher Horizons+ in collaboration with Staffordshire University is running the national Saturday Clubs for Year 10 pupils across Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and Cheshire. This year, the Saturday Clubs will have a ‘blended […]
Students in the city of Leicester have pledged to help protect themselves and others in the community from COVID-19 infection, by signing up to a shared commitment created by De Montfort University and the University of Leicester. The new pledge has been created in time for the new autumn term, when new and returning students […]
Imperial Lates Online are free after-hours adult events exploring cutting-edge science and engineering at Imperial in creative ways. Be inspired and join Imperial College London for a week of discovery as their researchers share the wonder of what they do. Hear personal stories from those who are working on the pandemic frontline and those who […]
Major producers of alcohol, junk food and soft drinks have used Covid-19 to promote products at the expense of public health, research suggests. A new report involving Edinburgh researchres details hundreds of examples of leading brands leveraging the coronavirus pandemic to further their corporate interests. Manufacturers of unhealthy food and drinks – and producers of alcohol […]
The International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC), based at Oxford University, in collaboration with Dr Janet Scott, of the MRC-University of Glasgow’s Centre for Virus Research, has launched a longitudinal observational study to measure prevalence and risk factors of long-term health and psychosocial consequences of COVID-19. The researchers are inviting hospitals and […]
