University of Birmingham

A new University of Birmingham spinout, Delta g, has raised £1.5 million in its pre-seed investment round to fast-track the commercial availability of its ground-breaking quantum technology gravity gradiometry sensors for mapping the…

A person’s ‘mindreading ability’ can predict how well they are able to cooperate, even with people they have never met before.Researchers at the University of Birmingham found that people with strong mind reading abilities – the ability…

Supported by HSBC UK and delivered by the University of Birmingham in partnership with Energy Systems Catapult, the CIP programme provides the SME’s with tailored packages of support to drive the commercialisation of innovative energy…

Professor Paul Moss has been appointed as the new Chair of the Medical Research Foundation’s Board of Trustees, with effect from October 2023.Taking over from Professor Nicholas Lemoine CBE, Professor Moss will steer the future direction…

Universities have a major role to play in shaping the lives of people within a city or town - building capability, capacity and steering local agendas - whilst holding central government accountable to ‘levelling-up’ more disadvantaged…

Research into social worker training reveals that an LGBTQ+ training module is effective in both increasing knowledge about LGBTQ+ young people, and challenging heteronormative assumptions that these professionals make.LGBTQ+ young people…

The project will be funded as part of a combined £6 million from the UK Research and Innovation’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (£5 million) and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)…

Students from two local schools, University of Birmingham School and Blackwater Academy, shared their experiences of education and talked about the issues that matter to them in a series of workshops.This work culminated in the students…

A consortium from the University of Birmingham, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Northumbria aims to understand the performance and resilience of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) under severe climate…

Professor Paul S. Cannon and Dr Sean Elvidge are two of the eight International Union of Radio Science (URSI) award winners for 2023, which recognise significant scientific research and leadership in the field of radio science.URSI…