University of Exeter

Teachers need to do more to celebrate the achievements of the working classes and confront social class biases in the classroom, a leading social mobility expert has said.Equity in Education – a new book by Lee Elliot Major, professor of…

An international team led by the University of Exeter has won a global prize for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to harmonise the thresholds for what constitutes antibiotic resistance, which currently varies between continents.A team…

Hot weather reduces workers’ productivity – even if their workplace is air conditioned, new research shows.The study, led by the University of Exeter, tracked outdoor temperatures and worker productivity at a high-tech factory in…

Bumblebees have a remarkably successful method for fighting off Asian hornets, new research shows. When attacked, buff-tailed bumblebees drop to the ground – taking the hornets down with them. This either causes the hornet to lose its…

A more dangerous world represented in the Russian invasion of Ukraine means the Labour Party must go “bolder and deeper” in how it thinks and talks about the future of work, says a major new study released today in the run-up to the…

The world’s most diverse forest, the Amazon, may host more than 10,000 records of pre-Columbian earthworks (constructed prior to the arrival of Europeans), according to a new study. Combining cutting-edge remote sensing technology with…

Academic, civic and industry partners will work together to unlock the huge potential of our region’s hydrogen ecosystem providing solutions for storage and distribution, transport, and the energy sector supporting up to 100,000 jobs by…

Gender norms reinforce inequality in the workplace leading to a significant disparity in time spent commuting between men and women.A new study, which uses data from 139,000 same-sex and different-sex couples, finds that working women in…

A University of Exeter apprentice is celebrating after winning at the Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards.Mamadou Kone, who was one of six shortlisted apprentices studying at University of Exeter, won in the Transport and Logistics…

Tens of thousands of endangered sharks and rays are caught by small-scale fisheries off the Republic of the Congo each year, new research shows. Scientists surveyed fish brought ashore at Songolo, which is home to more than 60% of the…