2018

Clare Holdsworth, Professor of Social Geography, writes for The Conversation UK.

From headlines about sleep and heart disease, to the discovery of a pitch black planet, and new research about back pain and breast cancer treatments, Keele research has made global headlines this year.

Sharon George writes for The Conversation UK.

Colleagues at Keele University were saddened by the recent passing of Professor Sir David Weatherall, our former Chancellor, who was a world-leading clinical scientist and pioneering researcher.

Mark Eccleston-Turner writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele was pleased to welcome His Excellency Ambassador Liu Xiaoming, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the UK, to the campus earlier this month.

Keele University’s innovative green energy trial ‘HyDeploy’ has been presented at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24).

New research into the benefits of swearing has found that making a taboo hand gesture whilst in pain can help you feel more positive.

A team from Keele University has been selected as one of four ‘Global Nominees’ in Virtual Participation in the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018.

Dr Michael Fay writes for The Conversation about the UK Mental Health Act Review

Dr Helen Parr, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University, recently published ‘Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper’ to critical acclaim.

Professor Mark Ormerod, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at Keele University, has been appointed to the Research Excellence Framework 2021 Institutional Environment Pilot Panel.

A collaborative project partially funded by Higher Horizons+ has won a Construction News Talent “Graduate Initiative of the Year” award.

A business support programme designed to drive improvements across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire’s healthcare and medical sector has been approved for a second project to provide support for a further three years, after receiving more than £1m of additional funding.

Researchers at Keele University have transformed back pain treatment, improving the lives of millions of people around the world.

Research led by Keele University suggests that patients with cancer who undergo a common heart procedure have worse short-term clinical outcomes compared to non-cancer patients, in the largest study undertaken to date.

Jan Hoole writes for The Conversation UK.

Geoscientists from Keele University have been working with the police to assist with the investigation of environmental crimes, such as illegal waste dumps.

A research team from Keele University has been awarded £200,000 from the Government’s new Work and Health Challenge Fund

Sharon George, Keele University and Matt Edgeworth, University of Leicester write for The Conversation UK.

Rebecca Yearling writes for The Conversation UK.

The inaugural Stoking Curiosity festival took place at the historic Spode Works factory site in Stoke-on-Trent.

Keele University Gospel Choir (KUGC) has made it to the final of the BBC Songs of Praise Gospel Choir of the Year 2018 competition.

Keele University has won a highly coveted Green Gown Award for its outstanding approach to sustainability.

Elliott Lancaster has won the ‘Enterprise’ category of the Green Gown Awards 2018 for his student project ‘Utter Rubbish’

Members of the public are invited to a free event at Keele University to learn more about the life of Staffordshire MP Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, who was MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1906-1942.

Karen Hunt writes for The Conversation UK.

Stoking Curiosity is Stoke-on-Trent’s first “festival of ideas” - a free festival that will build a community of curious people in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, to celebrate inquisitiveness, spark ideas, and bring people together.

Keele University geoscientists have helped police scientifically identify when a badger sett has been illegally filled in.

Keele University’s School of Psychology has been ranked in the Top 200 in the 2019 Times Higher Education World University rankings.

Robert Kirby, Professor of Clinical Education and Surgery writes for The Conversation UK.

An innovative green energy trial that could help dramatically cut carbon emissions has been given the go-ahead at Keele University

Jan Hoole writes for The Conversation UK.

A large clinical trial by researchers at the universities of Keele, Bristol, Exeter, Manchester and Hull York Medical School, and published in the British Medical Journal today, has looked at the effectiveness of adding mirtazapine to two types of antidepressants in patients who remain depressed after at least six weeks of conventional antidepressant treatment.

Keele University’s Professor Murray Brunt presented findings from the study at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

A major study of mortality across England attributes socioeconomic deprivation for sharp rises in deaths among 22 to 44-year-olds living in the North of England.

A new book which it is hoped will become a valuable resource for student nurses by giving them unique insights into patient and carer experiences of care at home has been launched at a special event held at Royal Stoke University Hospital.

A new international diplomacy programme jointly delivered by Keele University and Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) in China has welcomed its first 80 students with a day of celebrations.

‘The Great Donate’ scheme at Keele University has been shortlisted for a prestigious Green Gown Award for Student Engagement.

Keele is very pleased to announce that five Athena SWAN awards have been confirmed for its schools and research institutes.

Dr Senthorun Raj, a lecturer in Keele’s School of Law, has been invited to chair the Black Gold Arts board of trustees.

‘Emergency Poet’ Deborah Alma, who is a Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow in Creative Writing at Keele University, has won the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement photo competition 2018.

Researchers at Keele have contributed to an important new report published by the College of Policing

Keele University’s Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences welcomed Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge and former Archbishop of Canterbury, to campus this week to present the first Grand Challenges lecture of 2018/19.

Two subject groups at Keele University have entered the 2019 Times Higher Education World University rankings.

People over 65 who harm themselves are more likely to die by suicide than other age groups according to new research published in the Lancet Psychiatry by Keele University and University of Manchester researchers.

On Monday 24 September 2018, our first apprentices started at Keele on a Nursing Associate apprenticeship.

Keele University has been awarded an extension of the Strategic Support to Expedite Embedding Public Engagement with Research (SEE-PER) grant, by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Alex Sharpe, Keele University; Rosa Freedman, University of Reading, and Rosemary Auchmuty, University of Reading write for The Conversation UK.

Researchers from Keele University have worked with an international team of astronomers to find for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a ‘blaze of glory’ that was witnessed on Earth in 1670.

Keele University has launched a new research institute to tackle the issues of sustainability on a local, national and global scale.

To mark 100 years since the end of the First World War, Keele University will be hosting a programme of events to commemorate the Centenary this autumn.

James Peacock, Senior Lecturer in English and American Literatures writes for The Conversation UK.

Jan Hoole, Lecturer in Biology writes for The Conversation UK.

Ashley Murphy writes for The Conversation UK.

Lindsay Hamilton, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Ethnography and Emma Surman, Senior Lecturer in Marketing write for The Conversation UK.

Ken Rotenberg, Professor in Psychology writes for The Conversation UK.

Ella Tennant writes for The Conversation UK.

Live Age, the annual festival led by the New Vic Theatre, Keele University and Age UK North Staffordshire is back this month, celebrating creativity in later life.

The Keele University website has been Shortlisted for Best School and Education Website in the 8th Annual Lovie Awards.

Keele researcher Dr Helen Wells is urging drivers to consider safety first, and leave their phones alone whilst driving.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council has announced exciting plans for the long-term expansion of the area to the west of the Keele campus as a result of a significant land use planning exercise carried out by the Council and its partners.

Keele University’s School of Health and Rehabilitation has officially opened a brand new radiography suite on campus.

Senthorun Raj, Lecturer, Keele Law School, writes for The Conversation UK.

Lindsay Hamilton, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Ethnography writes for The Conversation UK.

Research led by Keele University suggests that women who have undergone a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure are more likely to die or suffer complications than male patients.

Mark Eccleston-Turner, Lecturer of Law writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele University is to be part of a new mental health network designed to reduce health inequalities for people with severe mental illness.

Keele University has been shortlisted for the prestigious ‘University of the Year’ title in the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2018.

A large scale systematic review and meta-analysis has found that burnout in doctors has devastating consequences on the quality of care they deliver

Peter Styles, Professor Emeritus in Geophysics and Jamie Pringle, Senior Lecturer in Engineering and Environmental Geosciences write for The Conversation UK.

A Keele University medical student has won the sought-after Wolfson Intercalated Award from the Royal College of Physicians.

New research led by Keele University has revealed that people with obstructive sleep apnoea have a higher risk of developing gout

Keele University’s Dr Russell Crawford has been awarded a highly coveted National Teaching Fellowship.

Dr Siobhan Talbott has been awarded a prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Leadership Fellowship

Dr Jamie Pringle and Dr Sharon George write for The Conversation UK about the valuable waste that may be hidden in landfill

Dogs have the same hormones and experience the same chemical changes that humans do. Dr Daniel Allen and Dr Jan Hoole write for The Conversation UK

Rebecca Laycock Pedersen, Keele University and David P. M. Lam, Leuphana University write for The Conversation UK.

Why do some people love roller coasters while others hate them?

The North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP), led by Manchester University and of which Keele University is a member, is one of 10 consortia who will share more than £170 million in funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) over eight years.

Carolyn Roberts writes for The Conversation UK.

New research has found that changes in North Atlantic Ocean circulation at the end of the last ice age triggered a considerable increase in Greenland Ice Sheet melt.

Keele University has been awarded a £500,000 research grant by the Medical Research Council (UK) to assess the effectiveness of a community-based intervention in Pakistan in order to address the current gap in care for Schizophrenia patients within developing countries.

A global study led by Keele University has found that people who sleep for more than eight hours a night have a greater mortality and cardiovascular risk than those who sleep for under seven hours.

Keele University scientists have discovered a road created by the Knights Templar after the recent heatwave exposed the long-hidden foundations.

Sharon George, Keele University, writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele University has been ranked number one in England for overall student satisfaction in the 2018 National Student Survey (NSS) of broad-based public universities.

Sorin Baiasu, Professor of Philosophy, writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele University’s Professor Toby Bruce has been awarded a major grant of £1.1million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate solutions to the rising problem of the Fall Armyworm, in collaboration with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Kenya.

Xuebing Cao, Lecturer in Industrial Relations, writes for The Conversation UK.

A student company from St John Fisher Catholic College has won at the Young Enterprise Company of the Year 2018 awards, after working with Keele’s School of Pharmacy

Patients with prior heart attack, who smoke or misuse alcohol or drugs are most likely to discharge against medical advice.

In recognition of their outstanding achievements and contributions to society, six distinguished individuals have been awarded honorary degrees at Keele University

Jan Hoole and Daniel Allen write for The Conversation UK.

In recognition of their outstanding achievements and contributions to society, Dr Nawal Al-Hosany and Mike Jackson have been awarded honorary degrees at Keele University.

The flamboyant 18th-century 'Macaronis' were so called because they were said to prefer continental pasta to good old British roast beef.

In recognition of their outstanding achievements and contributions to society, Keele Alumni Ian Redmond OBE and Lynn Saunders OBE have been awarded honorary degrees at Keele University.

Keele University is delighted to announce the thirteenth Neil and Gina Smith Student of the Year Award.

Keele University’s School of Health and Rehabilitation (SHAR) has signed a partnership with Connect Health, the UK’s largest provider of musculoskeletal (MSK) health services.

Keele University has been named as one of the top 100 universities in Europe in the Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings 2018.

In recognition of their outstanding achievements and contributions to society, Sinéad Butters MBE and Professor David Croisdale-Appleby have been awarded honorary degrees at Keele University.

Research to be published in this week’s issue of the journal Nanoscale is helping to increase understanding of the impact of metals in the brain which may drive the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, and how the management of these metals could lead to more effective treatments for Alzheimer’s in the future.

Keele University has been shortlisted for four awards at the prestigious Green Gown Awards 2018.

Stella Coyle writes for The Conversation UK.

Researchers from Keele University have been selected to present their work on the quest for a life-like prosthetic hand at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.

Keele has an established award scheme for the recognition of excellence in teaching and supporting learning. In November 2017 the scheme was expanded to include a number of new award categories which are aligned to the University’s key strategic themes and to enable colleagues from all staff groups to be nominated.

Chris Stiff, Lecturer in psychology writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele has been ranked in the Top 10 universities in the UK to study Health Professions in the Guardian University Guide 2019.

Alicia El Haj, Professor of Cell Engineering at Keele University, has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to design and develop ways for remote control healing of the human body.

Keele University’s Digital Health Hub has been highly commended in the ‘Outstanding Digital Innovation of the Year’ category at the national Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2018.

Tim Collins, Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University; Ivan Miguel Pires, PhD Researcher, University of Beira Interior; Salome Oniani, PhD Researcher, Georgian Technical University, and Sandra Woolley, Senior Lecturer, Software and Systems Engineering Research, Keele University write for The Conversation UK.

Keele University welcomes representatives from over 300 universities and colleges to its campus this week to share knowledge on environmental issues and sustainability within further and higher education.

Keele University has been ranked in the Top 10 in the UK to study Nursing and Midwifery, in the Guardian University Guide 2019.

The single, divorced, and widowed at heightened risk, pooled data analysis suggests

Keele University has launched a new research Institute to tackle the issues of social inequality on a local, national and global scale.

Yvonne Skipper, Lecturer in Psychology, writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele University has signed a new partnership with Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) to deliver a joint undergraduate programme.

A Keele University student with a love of Stoke-on-Trent has claimed the honour of being the city’s first ever poet laureate.

Distinguished Keele University alumni Dame Fiona Woolf DBE DL and Jack Bowman have been appointed to Keele’s College of Fellows.

Keele University has been ranked amongst the best universities in the world in a table focused on institutions founded in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Seven distinguished individuals will be honoured by Keele University at this summer’s graduation ceremonies for their outstanding contributions to society.

Higher Horizons+, part of the aspiration-raising National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP) that operates across Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire, is launching an ambitious new project as part of NCOP’s nationwide week of action.

Adam Stanton, Lecturer in Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life, writes for The Conversation UK.

As the FIFA World Cup approaches, researchers have found that keyhole surgery could help get injured footballers back on the pitch faster than physiotherapy-led treatments.

Professor Elaine Hay has been appointed as the new Programme Director for National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR).

Carolyn Chew-Graham writes for The Conversation UK.

Jan Hoole, Lecturer in Biology, writes for The Conversation UK.

Research at Keele University has examined why members of the public make judgements as to whether violent attackers are viewed as either terrorists or mentally ill.

Dr Naomi Forrester-Soto has joined Keele University’s School of Life Sciences as Reader in Vector Ecology.

Ashley Murphy, PhD Researcher writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele University Council and Harper Adams University Board today confirmed plans to establish a new joint Veterinary School, due to take its first cohort of students in 2020.

Keele University awarded major grant by the ESRC to help shape police policy and practice

A large study led by Keele University has found that patients suffering with gout are not at a higher risk of fractures, contradicting previous research findings.

Students from Newcastle Under-Lyme College have completed a three-month long Model Law Commission pilot in collaboration with Keele University’s School of Law and the widening participation initiative Higher Horizons+.

Two entrepreneurial students from Keele University have won the ‘Design’ category at the UK STEM Awards.

Academics at Keele University have worked with local education practitioners and parents to develop a video guide for parents about reading with their children.

Scientists have detected an exoplanet atmosphere that is free of clouds, marking a pivotal breakthrough in the quest for greater understanding of the planets beyond our solar system.

Dr Senthorun Raj, a lecturer in Keele’s School of Law, has been elected to the Amnesty International UK board of governance.

An ambitious £2.7 million programme of research is seeking to personalise care for people with shoulder pain

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected helium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-107b

Keele University has been successful in achieving renewal of its institutional Bronze Athena SWAN award.

Keele University has successfully retained the HR Excellence in Research Award.

Professor Trevor McMillan has shared his expert knowledge in innovation and knowledge exchange with an audience of university leaders and representatives from Chinese government and industry at the British Embassy, Beijing this week.

Dr Ann Jardine, director of a Widening Participation (WP) scheme at University New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, visits Keele University.

Keele University School of Medicine held a Thanksgiving Service to honour those who have donated their bodies to science.

Keele researchers have been awarded a grant to help cure a heart defect that causes thousands of sudden deaths each year.

Researchers from Keele University have discovered a planet that absorbs 99% of light, making it one of the darkest planets ever found.

Jan Hoole, Lecturer in Biology writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele University researchers have been awarded a grant to investigate whether gene therapy can stop older people becoming frail.

Professor Mike Watkinson has taken up his position as Keele’s new Head of the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences.