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The spies who loved him – what do real intelligence officers think of James Bond?
As a new art exhibition opens at Bletchley Park celebrating the James Bond series and exploring Bond creator Ian Fleming’s links to the secret world of intelligence and espionage, two ¹û¶³´«Ã½ academics reveal what real spies think of Fleming’s famous creation.
Parents, researchers and charities join forces to create new resource for parents of children with learning disabilities.
The ¹û¶³´«Ã½, Mencap, Cerebra, and the Challenging Behaviour Foundation have teamed up with parents of children with learning disabilities to produce a new Parents Guide, launched today in Belfast. The new guide presents hints and tips, backed up by research, for parents to use in their family lives to promote the well-being of their children and to develop positive family relationships.
Improved financial regulation deters misconduct, study finds
Improved regulation has deterred a greater amount of financial misconduct in the UK since the global financial crisis, according to a new study by researchers at UEA, Bangor University, and the Universities of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and Otago. The authors applied a new method of quantifying the detection and deterrence effect of financial regulation on financial misconduct, using a statistical approach employed in biological, ecological and demographic research.
New Shakespeare exhibition featuring ¹û¶³´«Ã½ research opens in Stratford
A new exhibition, Hear the Ambassadors: The Performance of Diplomacy in the Age of Shakespeare, opened this week in Stratford. A collaboration between the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, it is based on the work of Carol Chillington Rutter, Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at ¹û¶³´«Ã½.
Hotter bodies fight infections and tumours better – researchers show how
The hotter our body temperature, the more our bodies speed up a key defence system that fights against tumours, wounds or infections, new research by a multidisciplinary team of mathematicians and biologists from the Universities of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and Manchester has found.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ delighted at Coventry’s European City of Sport win
The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ is celebrating Coventry’s latest accolade - European City of Sport.