📰| A new way of quickly distinguishing between illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth tusk ivory could prove critical to fighting the illegal ivory trade. Research led by University of Bristol and Lancaster University and co-authored by Prof Alice Roberts💙
College of Life and Environmental Sciences
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Great to see our new campaign featured on billboards in São Paulo!
Keep your eyes peeled next week as they feature in Birmingham New Street.

Want to find out more about the artwork and how it links to our research? Visit: birmingham.ac.uk/research/spotl…

Workers in the hospitality industry can see their career progress damaged by gossiping colleagues. Our experts found that negative workplace gossip damages employees’ personal reputation and weakens their career growth prospects birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/hote…

Happy birthday to the Bard! 🎂🎭

If you're looking for a way to celebrate why not check out Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius, which features our very own Professor Ewan Fernie (Ewan Fernie).

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Shakespeare Institute College of Arts+Law

🌍 Our Director Prof. Michael Dobson will be part of the star-studded lineup for this event on Shakespeare’s birthday, broadcast on the UN’s Youtube account. 🌎

We're working with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to plan strategic research partnerships with the Global South in health, sustainability, and education - tripling investment in our partnership to $600,000 to mark 10 years of our BRIDGE Alliance birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/birm…

Our new Brazil Institute marked its launch with a tour of four Brazilian cities to strengthen research and education partnerships in energy, healthcare, international security, neuroscience, ageing, cancer, sociology, water engineering, and forest ecology
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/new-…

We welcomed visitors from the University of Cape Coast, in Ghana, to our Birmingham campus where we showed them round our engineering facilities. In a packed programme, we also talked about student recruitment from Ghana, student exchanges and research opportunities

We're changing how the world works! Our academics are helping to launch our new Brazil Institute - meeting key partners in Belem, Brasilia, Campesinas, and São Paulo to strengthen our research and education partnerships across Brazil

Why robots can be culturally insensitive – and how scientists are trying to fix it.
Henry Taylor, from our Department of Philosophy, and Masoumeh Mansouri, from our School of Computer Science:
theconversation.com/why-robots-can…

Today we launch our new global campaign to show how our academic community is changing how the world works.

In all our research, we’re transforming lives around the world and discovering new solutions to the biggest global issues.

And we want to share those stories with you

The ongoing growth of a major Indian city has helped our experts to create a new way of understanding how ‘urban sprawl’ happens – a breakthrough that could improve people’s lives across the Global South through better urban planning birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/chen…

Manufacturing nations in the Global North are stockpiling energy and emission problems by outsourcing energy-intensive industrial processes to countries in the Global South, says our expert Dr Yuli Shan birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/glob…

Nations battling for #Olympics success in a global sporting ‘arms race’ has led to elite coaches migrating to Western countries as they escape restrictive coaching regimes in their home countries, according to a new study by our expert Dr Yoon Jin Kim
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/elit…

Our world literature expert Prof. Louise Hardwick has written The Guardian obituary for Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé, who wrote uncompromisingly and often provocatively about race, gender, colonialism and the complexities of a globalised world bit.ly/3VVZcQf

As we mark 10 years of partnership with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, our guests from America visited Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) to discover more about our research into the impact of climate and environmental change on woodlands

A night of music and celebration at The Exchange as we celebrate a 10-year partnership with our friends from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - with help from Birmingham's Town Hall Gospel Choir and a jazz quintet formed by our students Illinois International University of Illinois

In pursuing a sustainable future, green energy, and renewable resources are essential - our renewed partnership with Fraunhofer UMSICHT will create a UK-Germany partnership that can boost global sustainability birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/appl…

Lots of food for thought as academic colleagues from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign discuss the future of Higher Education with their Birmingham counterparts during a visit to mark the 10th anniversary of our partnership Illinois International University of Illinois

📰| Cloud ‘engineering’ could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research shows.
Uni of Birmingham College of Life and Environmental Sciences
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/clou…