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UWE Bristol academic to help shape new national Art and Design curriculum for England

A UWE Bristol academic has been appointed by the Department for Education to draft a new national curriculum for Art and ...
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UWE Bristol’s environmentally conscious and student-focused accommodation wins three awards

Purdown View, the largest certified Passivhaus student accommodation development in the world, has been nationally recognised at the Property Week Student Accommodation Awards. The awards recognise ...
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Picture perfect: Graduate Chloe Barnes wins Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2025

Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2025 Winner Chloe Barnes with her winning portrait of ‘Succession’ actor Brian Cox (photo credit: Chris Lobina/Sky) Artist Chloe Barnes has won Sky Arts Portrait ...
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Health-tech start up MyCelsius launches breakthrough cooling tech for hot flushes developed at UWE Bristol’s Launch Space

A pioneering Bristol-based health-tech company developing cutting-edge cooling technology for hot flushes has credited UWE Bristol’s Launch Space incubator with playing a key role in accelerating its ...
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UWE Bristol ranked among top 12 per cent of universities globally for sustainability

UWE Bristol has climbed over 400 places in the QS World University Sustainability Rankings 2026 and is now within the top 12 per cent of universities globally. In the latest release of the rankings ...
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Urgent reform needed to support ambulance-delivered end of life care, study finds

More than three quarters (78 per cent) of paramedics sometimes fear doing the wrong thing when caring for people in the last year of life, new research has found. Marie Curie, the UK's leading end of ...
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Lecturer wins prestigious Times Higher Education award for innovation in teaching

Jon Newton (centre) collecting the prize at the Times Education Awards 2025 ceremony in Edinburgh A senior paramedic science lecturer at UWE Bristol has been named the most innovative teacher of the ...
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New AI research to revolutionise animal welfare

An international project led by UWE Bristol’s Centre for Machine Vision (CMV) will aim to fuse human behavioural science with AI, taking a step towards technology that understands not just what ...
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Lessons from Low Traffic Neighbourhoods will drive better public engagement, study finds

Lessons from Low Traffic Neighbourhoods have informed a new toolkit to improve engagement with the public on challenging local street issues. Produced by academics at UWE Bristol as part of the TRUUD ...
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Smartphone use hitting struggling pupils hardest, major study finds

Parents underestimate the types of harmful content their children are accessing Teachers and parents broadly support stricter school policy on smartphone use Most comprehensive study of its type on ...
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UWE Bristol to help protect threatened forest in Madagascar in £800k project

UWE Bristol is a partner in a groundbreaking project awarded almost £800,000 in funding to protect one of Madagascar’s most precious and threatened forests. The University is a key academic and ...
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UWE Bristol ranks in the top ten modern universities in The Sunday Times Good University Guide

UWE Bristol has climbed 11 places in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026, securing its place within the top ten modern universities in the UK. The university’s jump in the ...