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On the 28^th November 2019, Steve Berry OBE, Head of Highways Maintenance, Innovation, Resilience, Light Rail and Cableways at the UK Department of Transport will give the keynote address at the Very Light Rail Conference being held at The Slate on the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s campus. He will speak about the potential for Very Light Rail to transform local public transport.

Used EV batteries could be used to power rickshaws in Bangladesh, as researchers from WMG, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, seeking to find out how they can be repurposed for the rickshaws and lower peoples’ carbon footprint.

A child’s temperament is affected by the early stages of their life. Researchers from the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, the University of Tennessee, University of Southampton and Kings College London have found children who were born very preterm (under 32 weeks gestation) or very low birthweight (under 1500g) had similar temperamental difficulties in controlling their impulses, to children who experienced institutional deprivation.

In a bid to get the first Riley car recreated and back on the roads of Coventry for City of Culture 2021, WMG, at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, are helping with sponsorship to construct a replica engine which will complete a working replica of Percy's Riley 1898 Voiturette.

Three new exciting opportunities for engineering and manufacturing experts are being advertised at WMG, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, including Regius Professor of Manufacturing – which was last held by the late founder of WMG Professor Lord Bhattacharyya.

Dr Maria Liakata, Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s Department of Computer Science, has received a Turing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fellowship.