Authors: Dr Pooja Basnett, Dr Linda Percy, Dain Son Robinson, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster Educating the current generation about the impact of human society on the planet’s natural resources and empowering them to design sustainable solutions is…
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Author: Dr Cassie Hazell, Lecturer of Psychology The ‘Understanding the mental health of Doctoral Researchers’ (U-DOC) project was funded by the Office for Students as part of a funding call specifically aimed at PhD student mental health interventions. Our team took…
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Author: Prof Coral Dando Stop and search is believed to be a crucial police tactic in the fight against crime. Increased use of stop and search powers has been linked to reduced stabbings and murders in London. Conversely, decreased levels have…
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Author: Dr Bradley Elliott, Senior Lecturer in Physiology Last Monday, October 5th, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2021 was awarded to Drs David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries in sensing temperature and touch. Touch and…
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Author: Paul Breen, Senior Lecturer in the Westminster Professional Language Centre “And when you wake up, it’s a new morningThe sun is shining, it’s a new morningAnd you’re going, you’re going home” Gerry Rafferty, ‘Baker Street’ (1977). On a fresh…
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Author: Stephen Bunbury The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics are held up as a celebration of human potential and ability. As we look back on Tokyo 2020, it provides an opportunity for us to revisit what inclusion means for disabled individuals. …
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Author: Prof Mohammed Gulrez Zariwala The University of Westminster recently partnered with former Arsenal footballers Mathieu Flamini and Mesut Ozil to develop a range of nutritional supplements. The product range was created at the Centre for Nutraceuticals, University of Westminster,…
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By Tom Buchanan, University of Westminster When we come across false information on social media, it is only natural to feel the need to call it out or argue with it. But my research suggests this might do more harm than…
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Authors: Annapurna Menon, Arshita Nandan and Jo Krishnakumar “Without community there is no liberation .. but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretence that these differences do not exist” (Audre Lorde) During this period…
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Author: Prof Guy Osborn The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games offer us an opportunity to consider not only the University of Westminster’s own Olympic history, but also to celebrate our Olympians, whose achievements were key to the Polytechnic Harriers…
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