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A pioneering UK wide study has demonstrated that babies and toddlers engage with digital devices as part of their everyday life and can have rich learning experiences, if used appropriately. But researchers say that policy and guidance…

A £9m research centre focused on tackling and reducing health inequalities in the UK has been announced. The University of Strathclyde is a partner in the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity…

Professor Dame Angela McLean DBE FRS, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser and Honorary Distinguished Professor at Loughborough University, gave a public lecture to staff, students, and members of the public at the East Midlands campus…

Loughborough University is featured in a new national report that examines the role of businesses in creating employment and supporting local economic growth. Released this week by the Jobs Foundation, the report—Two Million Jobs:…

Loughborough University will shortly begin recruiting for its sixth cohort of the prestigious early career fellowships programme, the Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellowships (VCIRF). The scheme offers recently completed…

Efforts to reach Net Zero are being undermined by a multitude of carbon accounting systems, new research has found. Research led by University of Bath academics shows that the multiple systems increase costs and prevent well-meaning…

The Network Plus for Analytical Behavioural Science (NABS+) in Security and Defence is a collaboration between the Universities of Bath, Cardiff and Edinburgh, led by the University of Lancaster. NABS+ will have a total value of £3.5…

If Labour is serious about addressing regional economic inequalities, it must reverse Conservative education policies, specifically the flagship ‘levelling-up’ agenda which did nothing to disrupt the concentration of university graduates in…

Weather system models used by engineers, architects and planners to create and maintain major infrastructure including flood defences are having to be renewed to reflect climate change. Engineers and computer scientists in the UK’s…

LSE alumni Daron Acemoglu (MSc Economics 1990 and PhD Economics 1992) and James A. Robinson (BSc Economics 1982), now Professors at MIT and the University of Chicago respectively, have today been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic…