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Spending time with family members is what makes us happiest - study

Spending time with family members is what makes us happiest and beats working through our list of new experiences or shopping, a new survey reveals.

Date: 20/09/2019
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Ministers must commit to 16-per cent bioenergy to safeguard UK energy security

Researchers from Aston University’s Supergen Bioenergy Hub urging ministers to commit to 16-per cent of the UK’s primary energy supply to come from bioenergy by 2032.

Date: 06/09/2019
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Gig economy “a springboard for entrepreneurs”

Workers in the gig economy are increasingly seeing their side hustle as a launchpad into longer-term entrepreneurship, according to the largest annual survey of UK entrepreneurs.

Date: 31/07/2019
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In Memoriam: Professor Chris Hewitt BSc, PhD, DSc, FREng, CBiol, CEng, CSci, FHEA

Professor Chris Hewitt, who passed away on the 25th July 2019 at the age of 50, was both an eminent scientist and truly devoted family man.

Date: 29/07/2019
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Earlier transplants for liver disease children ‘cut brain damage risk’

Children with progressive liver disease suffer long-term impacts on their brain development and should be offered a transplant at the earliest opportunity when warranted, a major new study suggests.

Date: 26/07/2019
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Inspirational Birmingham business advocate receives honorary doctorate from Aston University

The youngest ever President of the Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce (GBCC) has received an honorary doctorate from Aston University.

Date: 25/07/2019
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Urgent tree planting and agricultural policy reform needed to achieve zero greenhouse gases by 2050

Climate change has been unusually prominent recently. Greta Thunberg has captured public imagination with her campaign, the Committee on Climate Change has said that UK government action is far behind what is needed and demonstrators have mobilised action on the streets of London to demand more from their politicians.

Date: 02/08/2019
Government’s post-18 education and funding review must enable regions to join up their own skills pipeline

Augar’s recommendations have been dissected from many different perspectives, but little has been written about the influence they would have on the regional skills agenda.

Date: 27/06/2019
Tackling childhood obesity - a serious public health challenge for Birmingham

Professor Jackie Blissett discusses the action needed to tackle childhood obesity.

Date: 30/05/2019
The government’s attempts to regulate the internet – fit for purpose?

Dr Edina Harbinja discusses the government's Online Harms White Paper and its attempts to regulate the internet.

Date: 29/04/2019
Does firm-level jobs data show a 'canary in the mine' for the UK economy?

Economic forecasters have had a tough time second-guessing the UK's trajectory in recent years. Ever since the Great Recession of the late noughties, and especially since the 2016 referendum, Britain's economy has displayed conflicting signs that can seem to confirm or refute the overall narrative simultaneously.

Date: 29/03/2019
The UN Environment Assembly: an opportunity to change course on climate change?

Next month, the UK will participate in UNEA-4, the 4th UN Environment Assembly, in Nairobi, Kenya. The goal of the Assembly is to advance the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, agreed in 2015, and primarily focuses on reducing poverty and promoting more efficient natural resource management.

Date: 28/02/2019
Why confused policy and a hard Brexit would put the Midlands car industry at risk

Recent news that Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will shed up to 4,500 workers on top of the 1,400 lost in 2018 came as a huge blow for workers in the Midlands and showed the scale of the challenges that the car manufacturer now faces.

Date: 31/01/2019

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