The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards are a testament to excellence and innovation, and are a University-wide celebration of outstanding people. They recognise the achievements and celebrate success across the collegiate University, from academics and researchers to professional, technical and support staff.
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Celebrating Excellence: Vice-Chancellor’s Awards Honour Outstanding Achievements in SoGE
The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards are a testament to excellence and innovation, and are a University-wide celebration of outstanding people. They recognise the achievements and celebrate success across the collegiate University, from academics and researchers to professional, technical and support staff.
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MASIKA: A field campaign to understand the rains in East Africa
Following devastating floods in 2020, five successive failed rainy seasons caused drought which exposed millions of people to acute food shortages in East Africa. The field project, MASIKA, is the first of its kind and aims to understand the atmospheric processes operating at the start the rainy season.
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Kelsey Monteith wins the Alfred Steers Dissertation Prize
2023 undergraduate Kelsey Monteith has won the Alfred Steers Dissertation Prize for her dissertation titled, 'Time is not our master. I will not bow to time on this fair.' Examining practices of cultural resistance in the Gypsy-Traveller community. The prize is awarded once per year by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) for the best undergraduate dissertation in a UK geography department.
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Dust storms are becoming ‘more frequent and severe’ – so are we prepared?
As a haze from the Sahara envelops Athens, Professor David Thomas, speaks to The Telegraph to explain why dust storms are becoming a worrying global trend.
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Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding – the storm was far too big to be human-made
Parts of the Arabian Peninsula received 18 months of rainfall in 24 hours on the 16 April. In an article for The Conversation, Professor Richard Washington, Professor of Climate Science, explains why Dubai's recent unprecedented rainfall was not caused by cloud seeding.
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New study on Amazonia's fire crises urges action ahead of the next burning season
In response to the escalating fire crises in the Amazon, a timely study has revealed alarming shortcomings in the emergency fire bans implemented by the Brazilian Government. Initially seen as a promising solution in 2019, these bans have consistently fallen short in subsequent years, revealing a pressing need for strategies that address the underlying causes of each type of fire.
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How the NHS and the whole of society must act on social determinants of health for a healthier future
In a new BMJ Commission report, Dr Lucinda Hiam and colleagues describe how health is deteriorating from the cradle to the grave in all four nations of the UK, linked to over a decade of austerity and a failure of government to provide enough money for people to live healthily, and provides solutions on how to address it.
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Fair Water? exhibition reaches out to schools
What I love about working with the REACH programme team is their commitment both to education and to using research to address some of the most challenging problems faced by people around the world. These two aspects came together perfectly when the team had the opportunity to share what they are working on with secondary school students at the Fair Water? Exhibition Schools Day last month.
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Turning camels into cows: megafarms are being set up to produce camel milk on industrial scales
Dr Ariell Ahearn highlights the shift towards industrialized camel farming due to climate change and increased demand for camel milk. Despite camels' resilience to climate challenges, they are now confined to large dairy farms, posing environmental and cultural risks.
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Sensitive interventions to catalyse China’s net-zero transition in energy and transport
The global energy transition could happen sooner than anticipated if sensitive intervention points are used to deliver China’s carbon neutrality policy at the city-level, researchers from the University of Oxford and The Chinese University of Hong Kong have outlined today.
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