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How do we make sense of elections in a rapidly changing political landscape? And what can moments like Brexit, the Scottish independence referendum, and the rise of nationalist parties tell us about Britain today?
The University of Exeter is proud to be a long-standing partner of the National Trust. As featured in the Trust’s Annual Research Report 2024–2025, our collaboration delivers practical, interdisciplinary solutions to some of the UK’s most pressing environmental, social and cultural challenges.
A flagship event to help Devon businesses harness the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been announced by The University of Exeter.
Professor Lee Elliot Major OBE, the UK's first professor of social mobility, shares his advice on communicating research and connecting with communities.
Despite covering most of our planet’s surface and playing a pivotal role in the climate system, the ocean hardly features on the UK schools’ curricula and is rarely taught in primary schools.
This year a new film distribution label eXe Film was set up and run by staff and students from multiple programs in the Communications, Drama and Film departments at the University of Exeter.
Section 28 and its afterlives in the South West is a project co-led by Dr Helen Birkett, Dr Chris Sandal-Wilson, and Dr Hannah Young, with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Dr Dario Sansone, Lecturer in Economics in the Business School, is conducting quantitative analysis to measure attitudes towards LGBTQ+ individuals, to document socio-economic and health disparities by sexual orientation and gender identity, and to estimate the economic impact of LGBTQ+ policies.
The University of Exeter has signalled its commitment to supporting female entrepreneurial activity by becoming the first university and 200th organisation to sign the Investing in Women Code.
In honour of International Women's Day 2023, we're celebrating women who excel in the field of knowledge exchange at the University of Exeter.
The UK’s Kleptocracy’s Problem, led by Professor John Heathershaw, is a major report which shows how the UK has been exposed to money laundering and reputation laundering by the political elite from Russia and the post-Soviet states.
A recent report from the University of Exeter and the Mozilla Foundation has investigated the potentially harmful effects of videos suggested to people on YouTube.
Chris Morris, Professor of Child Health Research and leader of the Peninsula Childhood Disability Research Unit (PenCRU), has been working with parent carers from the Family Faculty for the ESRC-IAA funded project, Healthy Parent Carers.
Experts at the University of Exeter, Instituto Vero and Mozilla are working to discover how YouTube is influencing the Brazilian federal elections – and how the social media platform potentially contributes to a disinformation media ecosystem.
Innovation, Impact and Business’s Commercialisation Team, together with SETsquared Exeter and Student Startups, have created The Exeter Entrepreneur, a new 'one-stop-shop' handbook offering tools and guidance to students, researchers, staff, and businesses interested and involved in entrepreneurship.
In early 2022, Professor Caprotti and Dr Bobbins collaborated with the 'Low‐Income Energy Services unit' within the City of Cape Town Sustainable Energy Markets Department.
Utilising funding from Research England's Policy Support Fund, Dr David Monciardini and Dr Tiago de Melo Cartaxo aimed to develop a substantial policy framework that policymakers could use as a reference point for the development of a Cornwall Food Policy Pact and become of further...
Dr Caitlin Kight is part of the University's Academic Development and Skills team and is using her EdD study to inform how to develop and enhance the use of 'self-study'.
Utilising funding from Research England Policy Support Fund, Professor Pascale Aebischer and Professor Victoria Tischler set out to bring research regarding the pandemic to a wider audience and impact policy at a government level.
Since 2020, Dr Sarah Bell of Sensing Nature and the University of Exeter has been working with Westonbirt, the National Arboretum and Andy Shipley of Natural Inclusion, to develop sensory walks on site at Westonbirt Arboretum, led by visually impaired volunteer guides, as part of...
'Fragile with Attitude’ was an art exhibition held in the Great Oak Hall at Westonbirt Arboretum from 21st – 25th April 2022.
A network of European universities and city authorities came together in Exeter earlier this month, to discuss how cities and universities can work together to support arts and culture in their local areas.
An Exeter researcher is among the winners of the British Science Association’s Award Lecture series for his research into online misinformation.
In collaboration with Devon and Cornwall Police, a new project explores the effect of police patrolling crime hot spots in Cornwall.
Dreolin Fleischer, a University of Exeter Research Fellow embedded in Devon and Cornwall Police, is a catalyst for evidence-based practice and collaboration.
University of Exeter researchers are working with police forces in England and Wales to better understand and improve the use of digital forensics when detecting crime.
Today brings International Women’s Day 2022. To celebrate, Innovation, Impact and Business want to pay tribute to all the exceptional female academics we’ve been privileged to work with from the University of Exeter.
In 2020, the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for the South West Peninsula (PenARC) piloted the Police Service Modelling Associates (PSMA) Programme.
The unique partnership, forged ten years ago, focuses on creating initiatives to support and benefit members of the local community.
The European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH) – in partnership with Cornwall Council and a wide range of local stakeholders – is developing a tool to help local decision-makers adapt to climate change, by measuring the impact of climate interventions on population health.
Policy@Exeter are a dynamic community, working to improve and increase engagement with policy within the University and further afield.
Research led by Dr Ana Beduschi from the University of Exeter Law School, has informed policymakers of the risks that digital health passports could pose to human rights, data privacy and social equality.
The research team of Identity, Inequality and the Media in Brexit-Covid19 Britain reflect on the impact Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic are having on inequalities in Britain.
Law school PhD student Mollie Gascoigne researchers the gaps between the law and LGBTQ+ people; her research project, the Gender Recognition & Reform Project has been investigating the attitudes and experiences of non-binary people towards legal gender recognition.
Research at the University of Exeter has uncovered a previously unknown phenomenon, in which women are more likely to be appointed to risky and precarious leadership positions in times of crisis.
Apple has become the first company worth £1.7 trillion, meaning that it is now more valuable than all the companies in the FTSE 100.
Our research released today shows the process of 'In Danger' listings is being manipulated for political gain. National governments and other groups try to keep sites off the list, with strategies such as lobbying, or partial efforts to protect a site.
Innovative research on enhancing the quality of evidence in outreach work from the University of Exeter’s Centre for Social Mobility is impacting on universities’ practices in designing and evaluating their work with widening participation students.
Professor Achim D. Brucker explains how we can keep our systems cyber secure while remote working.
The representation of women on NHS Trust boards has increased to 45 per cent following the adoption of changes to hiring practices recommended in a 2017 report from Professor Ruth Sealy.
Prepaid business card provider, Soldo, spoke with Prof. Mark Thompson as part of a series, speaking to today’s most influential digital disruptors.
Conventional approaches to teaching grammar are being rethought by the University of Exeter’s Centre for Research in Writing.
Academics from Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology have been working with police across the South West to roll out the #RU2Drunk campaign.
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