The winner will be announced at the Award Night readings in the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast later this month. The Shortlist includes: The English Summer, by Holly Hopkins (Penned in the Margins, 2022) Slide, by Mark Pajak (Jonathan Cape, 2022) The City, by Stav Poleg (Carcanet, 2022) In Her Jaws, by Rosamund Taylor (Banshee […]
The audit published today, Tuesday 9 May, was funded by local pancreatic cancer charity NIPANC with the audit work undertaken by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR) at Queen’s University Belfast in partnership with HPB clinical staff in the Belfast Trust. Its findings have prompted Mark Taylor, NI Director of the Royal College of Surgeons […]
One of the key research driver programmes of this initiative is Big Data for Complex Disease, which will be co-led by Professor Mark Lawler, Professor of Digital Health at Queen’s and Scientific Director of DATA-CAN and Professor Cathie Sudlow, Deputy Director at HDR UK and Director of the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre. The […]
A number of changes and improvements have been made to the Animal Medicines Training and Regulatory Authority (AMTRA) RAMA exam system, with a new team at Harper Adams University working alongside the authority to modernise and streamline the process. Building on their 32-year partnership, AMTRA and Harper Adams have been working closely together, meeting regularly […]
KATHMANDU —The Government of Nepal and the World Bank today signed a financing agreement for $120 million concessional loan from the International Development Association and a grant agreement for $19.7 million from the Global Partnership for Education for the School Sector Transformation Program (SSTP) Operation, which support the implementation of the government’s flagship School Education […]
The University of Bath will work with marine networking technology specialist Actisense to develop an innovative sensor that measures the level of fuel or other liquids in tanks using acoustic technology, improving accuracy and reliability compared to conventional low-cost sensor systems. Following the award of an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant, University of […]
A five-day training programme on the “Production protocol of biocontrol agents for the management of Fall armyworm” was organized at ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru for seven officials from Nepal and Bangladesh during 22nd -26th May 2023. The training was sponsored by USAID, under the Feed the Future Nepal Integrated Pest Management Program […]
Political parties regularly claim to have their finger on the pulse and be able to read the public mood. Yet a new study challenges the idea that being political makes you good at understanding others: it shows gender, not politics, is a far more important factor in determining people’s social skills. Analysis of a sample […]
