The eponymous ‘they’ strike again. You may know ‘them’ from such a sentence as “Well, you know what they say”, but this time ‘they’ are a team of international researchers lead by Exeter’s own Dr. Tom Evans. Their most recent research, conducted using NASA’s Hubble space telescope has discovered the most significant evidence to date […]
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Eradicating the Gender pay gap for university professors
A one-off salary hike will be given to female professors at the University of Essex, in order to level out the average gender pay gap amongst academics. Female professors will be moved up to three newly created pay levels, which will, as a result erase the wage disparities across the University. The Vice chancellor of […]
Exeter Uni ecologist launches crowdfunding to aid Dartmoor’s declining birds
A University of Exeter PhD researcher has begun a crowd-funding initiative to help expand bird conservation research. Sara Zonnevald, an ecologist at the University, has collaborated with the Dartmoor Upland Bird Nest Group to create a crowd-funding website that will help cover fieldwork expenses such as equipment and running costs. This fieldwork will be essential for […]
Lecture series line-up announced
E xeter research and innovation will be celebrated in a series of lectures starting next Tuesday. Beginning with a talk by Dr Darren Schreiber on his upcoming book Your Brain is Built for Politics, the series will cover topics as diverse as biophotonics, bad decision-making and child soldiers, before concluding on Tuesday 8 March with a […]