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Media highlights 13 -19 April 2024

Professor Hasan Arshad appeared on BBC South, BBC Radio Solent and the BBC Online in features about his 34-year follow up of the Isle of Wight Birth Cohort study into asthma and allergies.​

Dr Sarah Chellappa's research on the differences between men and women's sleep was covered by The Washington Post and the Southern Daily Echo.​

BBC Online, BBC Radio Solent and the Southern Daily Echo ran our story on astrophysicist Phil Wiseman who is running seven marathon in seven days.​

Michael Lomotey spoke to BBC Radio Humberside (1hr 18mins in) about raising awareness of African, Caribbean and South Asia nations which "suffer most" from climate change as they have no "capacity to adapt".​

News that UoS has been given £1.4million from Cancer Research UK to train more doctors specialising in cancer care featured on BBC Online, and carried quotes by Professor Andrew Davies.​

Jess Boxall spoke to the Southern Daily Echo about UUK's 100 Faces campaign.

Professor Tim Underwood featured in the BBC series Surgeons: At the edge of life. He also featured in a Daily Mirror article about the episode. 

Dr Ivo Tews featured in Phys.org and other international news outlets talking about his research on bacteria Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic organism in the world's oceans that fixes around four gigatons of carbon each year.​

Dr Vincenzo De Lipsis' research into the effect of climate change on wheat prices and food security featured in Southern Daily Echo and Earth.com. ​

Dr Tim Freegarde and Professor Jordan Cheer also featured in a Southern Daily Echo story about the launch of two new UoS research centres working to develop quantum computing and boost UK defence.​

Professor Christina Vogal warned The Telegraph that "almost all of us" are exposed to hyperpalatable, unhealthy foods each day that are difficult to stop eating.​

Dr Malcolm Cook gave his thoughts to sister publication of the San Franciso Chronicle, SF Gate, about a single 1980s animated image which eventually led to Toy Story and the success of the famous Pixar studio.​

Dr Daniel Devine's research on government trust during the Pandemic featured in The Economist.​

Professor Ian Townend commented in a Daily Mail article about the erosion of the Jurassic Coast.​

Comments by Professor Sir Stephen Holgate about government plans to ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes were used by the Science Media Centre.

Professor Hazel Everitt is quoted in New Scientist commenting on a trial into diets to help with irritable bowel syndrome.​

Associate Professor of Finance Larisa Yarovaya told the FT that bitcoin will likely rise in value this year, amid report some crypto miners are hoarding the currency.​

Dr Gina Vale commented in a The Telegraph article about teenage terrorists.​


Times Higher Education Campus

How to incorporate fintech and Web3 into university curricula - by Associate Professor of Finance Larisa Yarovaya.​

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