University of York

The panels have been installed on the flat roof of a University of York campus building, home to the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, where researchers will be collecting data from the panels over the coming year.Solar…

The team of archaeologists, which includes researchers from the University of York, Durham University, and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, examined human and animal remains from Britain’s only known Viking cremation cemetery at…

This process of self-cleaning is essential to remove gaseous pollutants and regulate greenhouse gases such as methane from the atmosphere.Researchers were already aware that the atmosphere had this ‘self-cleaning’ ability, but in a new…

Primary school children across the UK are collecting and sending squirrel food to scientists researching the dramatic decline of the native red squirrel population over the last 150 years.Through a new initiative at the University of York…

Families with dependent children are being hit hard by rising energy prices and need targeted government support, according to new research published which found the needs of families with dependent children are being overlooked by policy…

A major study has provided answers to the ways in which heather-dominated peatland can be managed, with a number of methods to choose from to help tackle the impacts of climate change and biodiversity losses.Researchers at the University…

A new report, co-authored by a University of York academic, has warned that children living in the North of England are among the most vulnerable to rising living costs.The Child Poverty and the Cost of Living Crisis report from the…

York is just one of two universities in the UK to have held the award for so long.The award highlights the University’s commitment to supporting the career development of researchers and its implementation of the Researcher Development…

May Sumbwanyambe, PhD student at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies wrote the play whilst he was artist-in-residence at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, where he collaborated with Molly Brown, a PhD student…

The study - by the University of York and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research - examined nearly 100,000 social media posts by NHS GPs to identify matters that were important to them during the first year of the…