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How taking a closer look at your family tree can help you get to grips with climate change
Writing in The Conversation, Flossie Kingsbury, Postdoctoral Research Associate from the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences discusses how tracing our ancestors’ connections to colonialism and industrialisation can help us personally connect with the climate crisis.
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Aberystwyth students take peace message to the Nobel Institute
Students from Aberystwyth University are at the Nobel Institute in Norway today, Wednesday 18 Mai, for the publication of Urdd Gobaith Cymru’s Peace and Goodwill Message on its 100th anniversary.
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Wales’s post COVID-19 future explored at Aberystwyth research conference
Wales’s future post COVID-19, the effects of the pandemic on small high streets, student parents and rural sport, and how to develop sustainable tourism will be among the subjects explored at an Aberystwyth University conference (Thursday 19 May).
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Wales’ favourite artworks go on display in Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth Arts Centre is exhibiting a selection of the nation’s favourite artworks as part of an initiative to share the national art collection with communities and galleries across the country.
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Earth’s coastal wetlands are disappearing, new high-resolution maps reveal
Four thousand square kilometres of the world’s tidal wetlands have been lost over twenty years, but ecosystem restoration and natural processes are helping reduce total losses, according to Aberystwyth University researchers.
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Significant rise in research quality at Aberystwyth University
The quality of research at Aberystwyth University has increased significantly, the latest review of research in UK higher education institutions has shown.
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Fair pay for writers in Wales to be explored in new survey
Making writers’ pay fairer and establishing benchmarks for different kinds of author incomes will form part of a new study by Aberystwyth University.
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Annual staff and student awards presented
The School of Education was crowned Department of the Year at the Aberystwyth Students’ Union Staff and Students Awards 2022, which were held on 3 May at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
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Aberystwyth academics elected as Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales
The Learned Society of Wales has named four academics from Aberystwyth University among its newly elected Fellows.
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Aberystwyth film premiere for Welsh and Irish port stories
The histories and life of five port towns in Wales and Ireland will feature in a new film that will be premiered in Aberystwyth at the end of May.
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Aber at Hay
Developing friendlier and more sociable robots, 40 years of Welsh language television, and historical myths about the human body are some of the subjects set to engage audiences at the 35th Hay Festival.
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Russia: programme of ‘patriotic education’ aims to create next generation of Putin faithful
Writing in The Conversation Dr Jenny Mathers from the Department of International Politics and Dr Allyson Edwards from Warwick University examine Russian schoolchildren being mobilised in a patriotic movement which encourages military service.
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The controversial Victorian novel that argued for the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act
Writing in The Conversation Elizabeth Margaret Duffield-Fuller from the Department of English and Creative Writing discusses the author Dinah Craik and her book on the controversial Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act.
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Shortlist for 2022 Staff and Students Awards announced
Aberystwyth Students Union (AberSU) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Staff and Students Awards.
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Winner of prestigious student enterprise competition announced
A business proposal to produce innovative and therapeutic hemp products has wowed the judges to win this year’s student business ideas competition, InvEnterPrize.
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