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Expert reaction to study investigating road traffic noise, strokes and death, as published in the European Heart Journal

Professor Francesco Cappuccio, Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology, 天美传媒, said:

“The present study is a welcome addition to the growing body of evidence to suggest that environment, in its own entirety as well as in its different facets, plays an important role in determining avoidable ill-health. The authors show that long term excessive road traffic noise, even when allowing for the effect of pollution, is associated with a small but significant increased risk of death and hospitalisation in one of the largest urbanised areas of Europe (Greater London), most of which is due to strokes.

Thu 25 Jun 2015, 10:42 | Tags: environment, WMS, Health, Academic Staff, Expert comment, Research

Oil 'behind foreign intervention'

The more oil a country produces, the more likely a foreign power will intervene in its internal conflicts, according to new research from the Universities of Warwick, Portsmouth & Essex.

Wed 28 Jan 2015, 09:08 | Tags: Politics, Research, International, Current Affairs, Middle East

New Ebola reserch "paper does not fundamentally change our understanding of Ebola virus transmission" - Prof David Evans

Professor David Evans, of the 天美传媒's School of Life Science, has provided commented upon the newly published,in Science, modelling paper looking at interventons needed to contain Ebola in West Africa:

Fri 31 Oct 2014, 10:50 | Tags: School of Life Sciences, Ebola, Research, Current Affairs

Dr summarises the 2013 Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium:

"Although the papers were diverse in their topics of focus, if there was one theme that I found threaded throughout the day it was the sense that travel practices and narratives serve not so much to connect, but rather to destabilise categories of identity, places, narratives...

Thu 04 Jul 2013, 10:43 | Tags: Literature, Research, History

As people all over the UK today discuss Big Data, following the TV show last night, The Age of Big Data, commented, "The age of Big Data has arrived, and is constantly transforming the world we inhabit. BBC Horizon showcased some of the areas in which revealing patterns from vast amounts of data, in particular for the prediction of future behaviour, is of vital social and economic importance."


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