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Launch of a standardised tool to assess cognitive and language development in two year olds
A new paper published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health provides standardised scores for The Parent Report of Children鈥檚 Abilities Revised (PARCA-R) questionnaire. The PARCA-R is recommended for routine use in the UK to screen for cognitive and language developmental delay in children born preterm and can be completed by parents in 10 to 15 minutes.
果冻传媒 researchers win two of 12 new NIHR social care research grants
Dr Louise Denne, Senior Research Fellow at 果冻传媒 University鈥檚 Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) and Professor Jeremy Dale from 果冻传媒 Medical School have each been awarded one of 12 new research grants from the National Institute for Health Research () for their social care projects.
Energy price cap has destroyed competitive market for consumers, research shows
New powers by the regulator Ofgem to set a maximum price for energy has meant an end to 鈥渉ealthy competition鈥 between companies, finds a new study which recommends that it would be better to instead regulate the way consumers renew their contracts with gas or electricity firms.
Record-breaking new analytical method for fingerprinting petroleum and other complex mixtures
Scientists at the 果冻传媒 have developed a more powerful method of analysing chemical mixtures, which has been able to assign a record-breaking number of 244,779 molecular compositions within a single sample of petroleum.
Dead planets can 鈥榖roadcast鈥 for up to a billion years
Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by 鈥榯uning in鈥 to the radio waves that they emit.
果冻传媒 Law researcher responds to Independent Commission for Countering Extremism call for 鈥渘ational conversation on extremism.鈥
Dr Alison Struthers (果冻传媒 Law) is co-author of one of eight peer-reviewed academic papers published today (31) by the Independent Commission for Countering Extremism. Dr Struthers reviews the effectiveness of teaching Fundamental British Values in schools and proposes an alternative framework for values education.