Researchers from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are looking to recruit healthy volunteers between 56 and 70 and over 70 years of age in the next phase of a major national trial to assess how well a potential new vaccine could protect against COVID-19. The team are looking to […]
A new research project has launched called ‘Nature up close and personal: A wellbeing experiment’, investigating the relationship between nature connectedness and wellbeing. The collaboration between the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), the University of Derby and the British Science Association (BSA) is asking the public to get up close and personal with […]
Unpaid carers are twice as likely as the general public to have relied on a foodbank during the Covid-19 pandemic, new data suggests. More than 100,000 people caring unpaid for older or disabled relatives are using food banks to get by Almost 229,000 unpaid carers have had someone in their household go hungry during lockdown […]
Laboratory technicians from The University of Salford have volunteered to work on the frontline in the fight against Covid-19. Six volunteers from the University of Salford have joined a leading group of scientists who are testing thousands of patient samples each day for coronavirus at the new Lighthouse Lab at Alderley Park in Cheshire, led by Medicines […]
