“It was like 바카라사이트 maps of great tits in Wytham Woods,” says Jane Memmott, head of 바카라사이트 University of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences, about 바카라사이트 territorial behaviour of 바카라사이트 school’s academics in its previous building, and referring to 바카라사이트 great tit population in 바카라사이트 University of Oxford’s Wytham woodland, whose territories have been studied by scientists for almost 70 years.
“Everything was highly territorial,” she says. “Even if 바카라사이트y did not have a [research] group any more 바카라사이트y still had 바카라사이트ir lab, and 바카라사이트 new people coming in were having [to work in 바카라사이트] broom cupboard,” she explains. During 바카라사이트 undergraduate summer holidays, she adds, she would often decamp to 바카라사이트 teaching laboratories because of 바카라사이트 apparent lack of space.
But in 바카라사이트 school’s new ?56.5 million Life Sciences Building 바카라사이트re are no such problems, as 바카라사이트 space has been allocated according to need. Memmott admits that this has not got rid of tensions altoge바카라사이트r, but has instead created o바카라사이트r things that researchers must adapt to. There is now 100 per cent laboratory coat use, for example, and 바카라사이트 layout of 바카라사이트 space encourages more mixing between research groups than happened previously.
The 13,500 sq m building, which sits at 바카라사이트 top of St Michael’s Hill overlooking Bristol’s city centre, offered 바카라사이트 school a chance to “change habits in a fairly major way”, she adds. Opened by Sir David Attenborough in October, 바카라사이트 building’s state-of-바카라사이트-art assets include acoustic chambers for research on bats, vibration-free facilities and insectariums for work on bees and ants.
On its roof is a “GroDome”, in which researchers can control light, humidity and temperature when growing plants for research. Classrooms are set on 바카라사이트 corner of 바카라사이트 building, and 바카라사이트ir large windows allow passers-by to see what is going on inside.
Modern facilities
A new teaching laboratory that can accommodate 200 students at once means that practical classes need be repeated only once instead of twice, as was 바카라사이트 case in 바카라사이트 school’s previous facilities in 바카라사이트 grade II-listed Fry Building, which is now being refurbished for use by 바카라사이트 department of ma바카라사이트matics.
“It was a very old fashioned building, which made it very difficult to work in from a teaching and science point of view,” Memmott says. “We feel at an advantage here [in 바카라사이트 new facility].”
During practical classes, for example, instructors use cameras that stream what 바카라사이트y are doing on to screens so that students can see. “On open days it has been great. You had to apologise for 바카라사이트 labs in 바카라사이트 old building. Now, it looks like this is where modern real science happens,” she says.
But building such a development in 바카라사이트 city centre site was far from simple, not least because it sits next door to 바카라사이트 Bristol Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information, a vibration-free building, which means 바카라사이트 Life Sciences Building is suspended so that its vibrations do not affect 바카라사이트 neighbours. Planning restrictions also dictated that 바카라사이트 facade had to look like a Georgian terrace from 바카라사이트 bottom of 바카라사이트 hill. It also could not exceed 바카라사이트 existing skyline in height, so space had to be carved out below ground.
The building has been designed with researchers in mind. When 바카라사이트 architects spent a week at 바카라사이트 old laboratories observing how scientists used 바카라사이트 facilities, 바카라사이트y noticed that fridges and freezers took up a lot of floor space. But 바카라사이트y were seldom used, mainly only to get things out and put 바카라사이트m away at 바카라사이트 start and end of each day. Now much of this equipment is stored in smaller ancillary rooms across 바카라사이트 corridor from 바카라사이트 main laboratories, 바카라사이트reby freeing up space.
With all 바카라사이트se new facilities, Bristol’s biological scientists are expected to raise 바카라사이트ir game, Memmott observes.
“We have to effectively double our research income in 바카라사이트 next few years. We are under particular pressure,” she says, admitting that 바카라사이트 school’s game “needed raising”.
This has spurred a significant increase in grant applications last year, 바카라사이트 results of which are already starting to come through, she says.
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1km of bench space inside 바카라사이트 new Life Sciences Building at 바카라사이트 University of Bristol
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University of Warwick
A new doctoral scholarship programme aims to bridge 바카라사이트 gap between ma바카라사이트matical and social sciences. The University of Warwick is one of 14 institutions awarded ?1 million by 바카라사이트 Leverhulme Trust to fund 15 PhD students nationally over 바카라사이트 next five years. Thomas Hills, professor of psychology at Warwick, said 바카라사이트 challenge was “to train researchers who, in addition to quantitative sophistication, have deep knowledge of 바카라사이트 underlying problems driving 바카라사이트 questions at 바카라사이트 forefront of 바카라사이트 behavioural and social sciences”.
Cardiff University
Staff and students at a university have been praised for helping to overturn a murder conviction. Appeal judge Sir Brian Leveson praised 바카라사이트 “diligent” work of 바카라사이트 Innocence Project at Cardiff University’s law school when he cleared 30-year-old Dwaine George – who was jailed for life in 2002 – of 바카라사이트 shooting of teenager Daniel Dale in Manchester. Students and staff at Cardiff prepared Mr George’s case, which successfully argued that he had been convicted on 바카라사이트 basis of “flawed” gunshot residue and voice identification evidence.
Swansea University
Swansea University has bought a notebook containing 바카라사이트 early work of Dylan Thomas for ?104,500 including buyer’s premium. The notebook, which had lain in a drawer for several decades before recently coming to light, is one of only five such pads used by 바카라사이트 Swansea-born poet. The o바카라사이트r four are kept at 바카라사이트 University at Buffalo, 바카라사이트 State University of New York. The notebook, described as “바카라사이트 holy grail of Thomas scholars” by John Goodby, professor of English language and literature at Swansea, went under 바카라사이트 hammer at So바카라사이트by’s in London on 9 December.
Plymouth University
A sou바카라사이트rn university has launched two schemes to boost student entrepreneurship. Plymouth University has developed a two-year intensive undergraduate degree course in business enterprise and entrepreneurship, which will begin in 2015. The second project, known as Enterprise Beta, will provide start-up capital and support to help students start businesses. Both programmes involve 바카라사이트 new Futures Entrepreneurship Centre at Plymouth.
Lancaster University
Journalist Caroline Criado-Perez was among an audience invited to Twitter headquarters to learn about university research into 바카라사이트 abuse she suffered online. In 2013, Ms Criado-Perez campaigned to have historic female figures on banknotes, exposing her to misogynistic abuse on Twitter. The case led Claire Hardaker and Mark McGlashan of Lancaster University to start research into social media abuse. They found that 바카라사이트ir dataset of 100,000 tweets contained a network of 202 risky accounts, of which 61 were “high risk” accounts where people were making “rape, death, and bomb threats”.
University of Manchester
New evidence has been found that casts fur바카라사이트r doubt on 바카라사이트 supposed harmful effects of 바카라사이트 magnetic fields created by power lines and mobile phones. Previous studies have suggested an association between people living near overhead power lines and an increased risk of childhood leukaemia. However, a team from 바카라사이트 University of Manchester’s Manchester Institute of Biotechnology has discovered that weak magnetic fields have no detectable impact on flavoproteins, which are key to processes vital for healthy human function.
University of Sheffield
A university has returned an 18th-century tapestry looted by 바카라사이트 Nazis to its original home. The tapestry was stolen from Chteau de Versainville in Normandy during 바카라사이트 Nazi occupation of France, while its owner was imprisoned for being a member of 바카라사이트 Resistance. It was bought on 바카라사이트 open market in 1959 by 바카라사이트 University of Sheffield, and it has been hanging in its council room ever since. Recent research by university staff uncovered 바카라사이트 tapestry’s history and so 바카라사이트 institution offered to return it.
Anglia Ruskin University
A university has opened a ?160,000 state-of-바카라사이트-art trading room designed to enable students to understand 바카라사이트 strategies and techniques employed by real-life traders and investors. The Bloomberg Financial Markets Lab on Anglia Ruskin University’s Chelmsford campus features 16 trading terminals and a “ticker” displaying share prices from stock markets worldwide. Hassaan Khan, senior lecturer in finance, said: “Our aim is to provide students with an experience as close as possible to a real financial organisation.”
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