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Science, Maths & Technology
How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?
Sustainable fashion research in the design school is investigating people mending their clothes and how to encourage it to extend garment life.
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Science, Maths & Technology
From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Nayana Unnipillai discusses how Bayesian methods can help inform real-world problems across healthcare, environmental science and beyond by combining prior knowledge with newly acquired data.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Brain-inspired computing: a new paradigm for sustainable AI
Could the secret to greener AI be hiding inside our own head? Research into brain-inspired hardware suggests it might.
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Science, Maths & Technology
An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Samantha Osys explores the location of ethics within design practice and how tools and methods function as boundary objects that help translate ethical concerns across teams.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Design forensic psychology: parenting education and support
Rachel A.Wood explores service co-design methods and tools in parenting education and support with, and for, women who are experienced with the justice system. She is also a practicing service design leader and mentor in public services, with a specific focus on the intersection of design and psychology.
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Nature & Environment
Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?
Could we transform our relationship with landfills as forgotten spaces and use these to help biodiversity by giving nature a home?
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Science, Maths & Technology
AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture
Agriculture is closely tied to human civilisation. From hunting and foraging, it evolved into farming, sparking the Neolithic Revolution. Since then, agriculture has transformed through ancient, medieval, and industrial eras, and today is being reshaped by technology and artificial intelligence.
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Digital & Computing
Are you ready for online study?
Digital disparities can affect how well a student performs in online study. Philippa Harrison looks at where those disparities lie and how the digital skills gap can be reduced.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments
Anti-cancer treatments have significantly improved patient survival, but they can also cause side effects, including damage to the heart, known as cardiotoxicity.
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Nature & Environment
Hidden soil allies – fungi that help plants face drought
Climate change makes droughts more frequent and intense, threatening the food we grow and eat every day. Luckily, plants have invisible allies under the soil – tiny fungi called mycorrhizae that help them survive in tough times.
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Nature & Environment
How do microplastics make their way into our food?
We know that microplastics have found their way into our food chain. Understanding the sources of microplastics, their journey to our plates, and what we can do to reduce the risks is essential for tackling this pressing issue.
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Science, Maths & Technology
How our brain changes as we grow old: the Blood Brain Barrier breakdown
What's the Blood Brain Barrier and how does studying this help us to find out more about diseases associated with ageing such as Alzheimer’s? OU research student, Eduardo Frias-Anaya explains: