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  • New Member of the team! 

    • Hello everyone! My name is Jia Ping Lee and I have joined the Digital Skills team as a digital capabilities and skills development coordinator.   I completed my undergraduate studies in Genetics at Aberystwyth and recently returned home from China after 4 years as an English Teacher for young children.  I am looking forward to supporting and working ...more

  • Introducing: Database Search

    • We are pleased to announce the release of our new Database Search functionality on Primo – the library catalogue, which has replaced the A-Z of Electronic Resources page. Our new Database Search page is fully integrated within our main library search tool and can be found at the top of Primo, so no need to remember ...more

  • What do our students think of LinkedIn Learning? 💭

    • The Student Digital Champions met with groups of students in March 2023 to gather their opinions on LinkedIn Learning, an online learning platform that all students and staff at AU have free access to. Take a look at the infographic below to learn more about our students' views of the platform - a text version ...more

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  • Reading List Update for Teaching Staff

    • Create links to your reading lists in your Blackboard modules In a Blackboard Ultra module there is no automatically-created link to the Aspire reading list for that module. To enable you to create these links without delay, empty reading lists have been created in Aspire for new and returning modules requiring a list. Please link all your 2023-2024 ...more

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  • Public lecture to consider international politics in the context of climate change

    • Yr Athro / Professor Jan Selby The implications of climate change on international politics will be the subject of this year’s Kenneth Waltz Memorial Lecture, which takes place online on Thursday 14 October. Hosted by the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, the Kenneth Waltz Memorial Lecture 2021 will be given by Professor Jan Selby of ...more

  • Climate change research festival at Aberystwyth University looks ahead to COP26 challenges

    • From left to right: Professor Julian Agyeman; Professor Sarah Davies (Aberystwyth University); First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford MS; EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius; and Professor Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth University) Climate change experts will gather at Aberystwyth University for a week of events to discuss challenges ahead of the COP26 summit. First Minister Mark Drakeford, EU Environment ...more

  • Sting presents European web award to Aberystwyth led environmental project

    • Concrete tiles were attached to man-made sea defences in Borth, Ceredigion, in the summer of 2019, as part of the eco-engineering project Ecostructure. An innovative eco-engineering project that aims to turn sea defences and other artificial structures into thriving marine habitats has won a major European Union award. The Aberystwyth University led Ecostructure project was presented with the Better ...more

  • Beetle burgers or cricket snacks? Insect-based food on Aberystwyth research menu

    • Hop bars Crickets and beetles could become a common part of our diets, thanks to new academic research. Insects are a common feature of people’s everyday diets in countries around the world, such as Mexico, China and Ghana. These insect-based foods offer a more environmentally-friendly source of protein than many other food stuffs, and could help feed the ...more

  • Major grant for healthy oats project

    • One of the fields at Aberystwyth University where oats are grown for research purposes A research project to promote the development of oats as a healthy food product and a climate-resistant crop in Wales and Ireland has been awarded a major European grant. The ‘Healthy Oats’ project will benefit from a €2.18 million from the European Regional ...more

  • Fibre-optics used to take the temperature of Greenland Ice Sheet

    • As part of the project, scientists from Aberystwyth University set up special equipment on the Greenland Ice Sheet to drill deep into the glacial ice.  Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ever taken on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Their findings will be used to make more accurate models of ...more

  • Microbe build-up on Greenland could mean more ice loss says research

    • Greenland ice sheet The Greenland Ice Sheet could be under threat from microbes on its surface multiplying faster than they are washed away in a warming climate, according to new research from Aberystwyth University. The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest mass of ice in the northern hemisphere. It covers an area about seven times the size of ...more

  • Speeding up Miscanthus breeding to combat climate change

    • Miscanthus growing in one of the fields at Aberystwyth University's Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences Aberystwyth University scientists will investigate adopting a technique to speed up Miscanthus breeding in an effort to meet climate change targets as part of a £4 million UK government package to boost biomass production. Thanks to investment from the UK ...more

  • New health research to help save African penguins from extinction

    • African Penguins in Namibia - a hint of courtship ©J Kemper Research involving Aberystwyth University academics is investigating the part disease and pollution are playing in the decline in the African penguin population, a species which faces extinction within the next thirty to eighty years. The international project looking at the health reasons for the ongoing fall ...more
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