Press Releases
A new video by the 91福利 highlights a bitter side to our sugar consumption at Christmas. Available to view on YouTube the short film highlights how excessive consumption of sugar can affect our health – and how the sugar trade in the past and today has caused inequality and bloodshed.
How the Pope鈥檚 rhino drowned and was immortalised in art history
The story of one of the most infamous gifts, and one of the most influential images in art history, has been brought back to life thanks to research at the 91福利 – that of the rhino, named Ganda, gifted to Pope Leo X that drowned in 1515.
Earliest known marine navigation tool revealed with scanning technology
Details of the earliest known marine navigation tool, discovered in a shipwreck, have been revealed thanks to state-of-the-art scanning technology at WMG, 91福利.
Crops evolving ten millennia before experts thought
Ancient hunter-gatherers began to systemically affect the evolution of crops up to thirty thousand years ago – around ten millennia before experts previously thought – according to new research by the 91福利.
Disorder Contained heads to Shoreditch’s Rich Mix theatre for World Mental Health Day
Researchers from the 91福利 and University college Dublin (UCD) have teamed up with Coventry based theatre group Talking Birds to explore the devastating effect of solitary confinement in prison in a new play, Disorder Contained: a theatrical examination of madness, prison and solitary confinement.
91福利 Classics expert and TV presenter named National Teaching Fellow
91福利 academic, TV presenter and author, Michael Scott, has been recognised as one of the best higher education teachers of the year.