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Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, has announced a £250,000 funding boost for community-led business hubs to support ethnic minority businesses during an event hosted by Aston University. The Centre for Ethnic Minority…

Aston University’s Cyber Security Innovation (CSI) Research Centre is supporting this year’s National Cyber Diversity Awards, which aim to raise awareness of under-representation of ethnic minorities in the cyber security sector. Only…

Aston Medical School has appointed Dr Gail Parsons as a new honorary associate professor on its nursing studies degree teaching team. Dr Parsons is a nurse consultant in trauma and orthopaedics at the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust.…

A new project at Aston University has been set up to develop a mathematical model to improve liquid metal casting. The method will be used to help prevent lightweight aluminium alloys corroding - or oxidating - very quickly when first…

New research carried out at Aston University shows that observing facial expressions of others eating raw broccoli can influence people’s liking of the vegetable. Dr Katie Edwards in the School of Psychology led a team investigating if…

Aston University scientists are to tackle some of the challenges of how to make inedible rice straw into the next generation of biofuels. In recent years, biofuels and biobased chemicals have been blended with petrol to create a more…

A project led by Aston University has been awarded £190,000 funding by the NHS Research Engagement Network (REN) to tackle language-based exclusion in kidney research. Professor Shivani Sharma, based within the University’s College of…

Aston University has taken an important step towards developing closer relationships with key industry stakeholders by joining  the British Plastics Federation (BPF). BPF, which has over 500 members and 1200 affiliated members, is is the…

Aston University will establish the Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME), a globally unique, cross-disciplinary institute to develop novel biomimetic membranes, after receiving a major grant of £10m from Research England. AIME…

Aston University is to explore the use of AI to improve sharing health data internationally. Dr Sergei Sokolovski of the University’s Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies has been awarded €317,500 to work on a European-wide project.…