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Staff member Dr Lorna Anguilano and former student Joanna Power were both part of the 50 trailblazing Women in Innovation selected last year by Innovate UK, the government’s innovation agency – and who were each awarded £50,000 to scale up…

Described by judge Cerrie Burnell as ‘moving, humorous and lovely all at once’, the picture book in verse wins the SoA’s Queen’s Knickers Award for an outstanding children’s original illustrated book for ages 0–7. The judges were impressed…

Brunel’s Professor Brian Cantor is today named one of 90 exceptional researchers worldwide to be elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. Prof Cantor is a consultant at Brunel Centre for…

Last night was Brunel University London’s 2024 Alumni of the Year Awards, and the Hollywood actor and Brunel alumnus, Damson Idris, won the Outstanding Contribution to Culture and Creativity Award. The Snowfall actor picked up his trophy in…

Climate change is one of the world’s biggest challenges, and Brunel academics are working with other universities and policymakers as part of a new £5 million hub - Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) hub -  to assess how the…

The idea that autistic people lack empathy is simply short-sighted and non-autistic people may find it just as hard to put themselves in someone else’s shoes, a study suggests. A paper in the journal, Autism flips the script on the…

The Kardashians are a high-profile white American family with a global influence on fashion and beauty. Their sculpted bodies have attracted a great deal of attention over the years, and Kim Kardashian’s changing butt has been a particular…

Researchers from Brunel University London have used virtual reality to support people with speech anxiety and a fear of public speaking. A new application called PublicVR was uploaded to VR headsets to allow participants to deliver…

If India, Bangladesh and Pakistan’s policies on the use of smokeless tobacco stay as they are now, then more than $23 billion will be spent on healthcare costs across the lifetime of consumers in the three countries, with the biggest health…

Socks containing sensors that monitor the distress of people with dementia will be used in UK care homes as part of new clinical research by Brunel University London. Carers will be alerted to any distress via a smartphone app, allowing…