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The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ has appointed Dr Richard Hutchins to the newly created post of Chief Communications Officer with immediate effect. He joins the University Executive Board, reporting directly to the University’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart Croft. He previously served as the University’s Director of Strategy.

New research led by epidemiologists at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ has found that there is no significant evidence that schools are playing a significant role in driving the spread of the Covid-19 disease in the community, particularly in primary schools. However, careful continued monitoring may be required as schools re-open to stay well informed about the effect they have upon community incidence.

A technique frequently portrayed in dramatic resuscitation scenes in television and film is among several alternative methods to CPR that have shown no benefit in saving lives in a review by ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ researchers.

Diffusion weighted imaging and machine learning can successfully classify the diagnosis and characteristics of common types of paediatric brain tumours a UK-based multi-centre study, including WMG at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ has found. This means that the tumour can be characterised and treated more efficiently.

Researchers have identified a new form of magnetism in so-called magnetic graphene, which could point the way toward understanding superconductivity in this unusual type of material.

Remnants of planets with Earth-like crusts have been discovered in the atmospheres of four nearby white dwarf stars by ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ astronomers, offering a glimpse of the planets that may have once orbited them up to billions of years ago.