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On-demand minibus services beneficial in rural areas but face financial challenges, trials suggest

“The Rural Mobility Fund pilots have been perceived as successful by the local authorities. This is generally due to the pilots providing an enhanced level of public transport access in the areas they ...
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Prince of Wales visits UWE Bristol to see pioneering robotic tech tackling societal health challenges

The Prince of Wales visited the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) at the University of the West of England’s (UWE Bristol) ...
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Dementia support groups developed by professor adopted across globe

It was set up by Richard Cheston, Professor of Dementia Health, with an NHS colleague in 2010. The LivDem approach of holding ...
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UWE Bristol becomes South West Regional Hub lead for national Climate Ambassadors scheme

UWE Bristol is the new South West Regional Hub lead for the Climate Ambassadors scheme, a national initiative helping to ...
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UWE Bristol academic to help shape new national Art and Design curriculum for England

A UWE Bristol academic has been appointed by the Department for Education to draft a new national curriculum for Art and ...
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UWE Bristol’s environmentally conscious and student-focused accommodation wins three awards

Purdown View, the largest certified Passivhaus student accommodation development in the world, has been nationally recognised at the Property Week Student Accommodation Awards. The awards recognise ...
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Picture perfect: Graduate Chloe Barnes wins Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2025

Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2025 Winner Chloe Barnes with her winning portrait of ‘Succession’ actor Brian Cox (photo credit: Chris Lobina/Sky) Artist Chloe Barnes has won Sky Arts Portrait ...
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Health-tech start up MyCelsius launches breakthrough cooling tech for hot flushes developed at UWE Bristol’s Launch Space

A pioneering Bristol-based health-tech company developing cutting-edge cooling technology for hot flushes has credited UWE Bristol’s Launch Space incubator with playing a key role in accelerating its ...
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UWE Bristol ranked among top 12 per cent of universities globally for sustainability

UWE Bristol has climbed over 400 places in the QS World University Sustainability Rankings 2026 and is now within the top 12 per cent of universities globally. In the latest release of the rankings ...
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Urgent reform needed to support ambulance-delivered end of life care, study finds

More than three quarters (78 per cent) of paramedics sometimes fear doing the wrong thing when caring for people in the last year of life, new research has found. Marie Curie, the UK's leading end of ...
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Lecturer wins prestigious Times Higher Education award for innovation in teaching

Jon Newton (centre) collecting the prize at the Times Education Awards 2025 ceremony in Edinburgh A senior paramedic science lecturer at UWE Bristol has been named the most innovative teacher of the ...
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New AI research to revolutionise animal welfare

An international project led by UWE Bristol’s Centre for Machine Vision (CMV) will aim to fuse human behavioural science with AI, taking a step towards technology that understands not just what ...