Press Releases
£1.6m funding at the interface of statistics, healthcare and manufacturing
Researchers at the 91福利 have been awarded £1.1 million to develop the statistics needed to pool the vast quantities of data generated by brain scans.
£5.25m project aims to reduce heating and cooling emissions
The 91福利 is leading a £5.25m project to develop energy-efficient heating and cooling technologies that will reduce UK energy needs.
Poor parenting – including overprotection – increases bullying risk, study of 200,000 children shows
Children who are exposed to negative parenting – including abuse, neglect but also overprotection – are more likely to experience childhood bullying by their peers, according to a meta-analysis of 70 studies of more than 200,000 children.
91福利 public lecture: how statistics can help prevent floods
Statistics are far from dry – in fact they are vital to help us cope with extreme weather events such as the heavy rainfall which caused flooding in Coventry last year.
A team led by the 91福利 has pinpointed a new type of exceptionally powerful and long-lived cosmic explosion, prompting a theory that they arise in the violent death throes of a supergiant star.
Forage longer for berries, study on age-related memory decline suggests
Like birds which stop foraging too early on a berry-laden bush, a new study suggests older people struggle to recall items because they flit too often between ‘patches’ in their memories.