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Trains of Thought: How Railways Helped Ideas to Travel
The role of rail transport in driving economic change is now widely recognised – but its role in enabling the spread of grass-roots social and political activism is equally significant, according to new research from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ economics researcher Eric Melander which uses Sweden as a case study to investigate how technology influences the spread of political ideas.
‘Unleashing the popular will’ to combat climate change
How can we harness the collective will of the people to avert disaster? Experts are to meet with students and members of the public at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ to share their insights.
Autonomous Vehicle testing Simulator wins gold
Researchers from WMG at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have won gold at National Instruments Engineering Impact Awards 2018 for the WMG 3xD Simulator project. WMG’s 3xD Simulator is a world’s first-of-its-kind facility that enables autonomous vehicles to drive around in a virtual environment– accelerating testing before they are road ready.
Preterm Children’s lives are to be improved by new standards of child care advised by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Academic.
European Standards of Care for New-born Health are being launched at the European Parliament in Brussels on the 28th November. The ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s Department of Psychology’s Professor Dieter Wolke will be there as he chaired the set of standards for pre-term babies when they’ve been discharged from Hospital – he stresses they are key to reducing morbidity rates and quality of life for families.
Self-assessing back pain by app just as effective as traditional methods, study shows
Patients can assess their own back pain using an app on their phone or tablet as effectively as current paper methods, a new study from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has shown.
‘Lost’ Duke Ellington concert film found after over 50 years.
A filmed concert by legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington, considered by him to be his most important, has been found after being unseen and thought lost for over fifty years and will be shown to an audience for the first time since originally broadcast thanks to a project led by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.