Research News - 2010
Methane Study
20 December 2010
IBERS heads £3.9m study to improve understanding of amounts of methane emitted by agriculture and attempts to control it.
London 2012
16 December 2010
Award winning Theatre, Film and Television Studies team to produce Colriolanus for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Launch of new book
01 December 2010
Hot off the press is a publication from the Department of Welsh Diflanedig Fyd: Gohebiaeth Carneddog a Gwallter Llyfni, 1926-1932
Food security
29 November 2010
IBERS shows Welsh farmers how to tackle surge in prices.
A miller's tale
26 November 2010
IBERS grows local organic wheat for Wales’ latest working water mill.
Better farming, better environment
26 November 2010
IBERS shows how its latest research can help farmers help the planet, and themselves.
Breaking new ground
23 November 2010
Work starts on a new £7 million research facility at IBERS Gogerddan.
Designing Bloodhound SSC
19 November 2010
Public Lecture: Professor Kenneth Morgan discusses research behind the 2012 World Land Speed Record attempt.
Smart coasts
09 November 2010
A £3.7m Aberystwyth University led initiative to maximise the potential of the coastline on both sides of the Irish Sea was launched on the 5th November.
Satellites view habitats
02 November 2010
Cutting edge, space technology is being used to bring maps of all Wales’ wildlife habitats right up to date.
Work starts on new buildings
05 October 2010
Work starts on the construction of new state of the art research and teaching facilities at IBERS.
An artist's impression of the new IBERS building on Penglais.
ProSafe Beef
04 October 2010
Medieval stained glass inspires space scientists
29 September 2010
The magnificent stained glass windows that adorn medieval cathedrals have provided the inspiration for a team of space scientists looking to capture the true colours of Mars.
Professor Dave Barnes (left) and Dr Stephen Pugh during recent field trials on Clarach beach.
LOFAR to boost solar research
27 September 2010
The first major radio telescope to be built in Britain for decades will provide the best view yet of the Sun’s outer atmosphere according to scientists at Aberystwyth University.
LOFAR
Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales visits Aberystwyth University
21 September 2010
Professor John Harries, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Welsh Assembly Government will spend the day at the University today, Tuesday 21st of September.
Media and Memory in Wales 1950-2000
Tuesday 3 August 2010
A major new study into the influence of television on family life in Wales during the second half of the 20th century.
Dr Iwan Morus
New Head of Law and Criminology
Wednesday 28 July 2010
Professor Noel Cox has been appointed as the new Head of the Law and Criminology Department at Aberystwyth University. Professor Cox joins the University from Auckland University of Technology (AUT) where he was a Professor of Law and Head of the Department of Law.
Professor Noel Cox
Launch of meat safety research
Monday 19 July 2010
Today, Monday 19th July, the Minister for Rural Affairs Elin Jones AM officially launch the Improved Food Safety research project which is set to play a significant role in ensuring the safety of meat.
Dr Michael Lee
New Chair of Sustainable Agriculture
19 July 2010
Research into global food security problems has been given a boost thanks to a new partnership between Waitrose and Aberystwyth University.
Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones
Scientists welcome new super computing network
12 July 2010
Scientists at Aberystwyth University have welcomed the creation of High Performance Computing Wales (HPC Wales), an ambitious £40m project to develop a new super computing network in Wales.
Professor Richard Lucas
Falls awareness week
Thursday 24 June 2010
National Falls Awareness Week marks the start of a research collaboration between Bronglais General Hospital, Age Concern Ceredigion and the Department of Sport and Exercise Science.
Pictured left to right are Samantha Winter, Sian Williams (a participant in the research), Annmarie Butlin (Co-director of Age Concern Ceredigion), David Langford (Registered Exercise Professional for the Leri Day Ward), and Fiona Higgs (the Ph.D. student conducting the research).
Heidelberg-Aberystwyth grant
News from the Department of European Languages
Professor David Trotter has been awarded £66,353 as the Aberystwyth element of a joint Heidelberg-Aberystwyth grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the AHRC.
Professor David Trotter
Fellowship at Princeton
News from the Department of English and Creative Writing
Professor Sarah Hutton
Solar explosion research
Thursday 22 April 2010
International team led by Aberystwyth University builds the most complete picture yet of the full impact of a large solar eruption.
The sun
New £4.9m oats study
Tuesday 20 April 2010
IBERS is leading a major new study to develop improved varieties of oats that will provide significant economic and environmental benefits.
Dr Athole Marshall
More crop success for scientists
Thursday 18 March 2010
Scientists at Aberystwyth University are once again leading the way in developing new varieties of one of the UK’s most important crops. And they’ve even beaten the Tardis in the process!
Dr Athole Marshall with the winter oats
University play integral part in £1m international research
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Aberystwyth University is part of a £1 million international research effort to combat liver fluke – a parasite which causes disease in livestock, resulting in billions of pounds in losses every year to farmers around the world.
Peter Brophy and Neil Mackintosh, IBERS
Beyond the face
Tuesday 16 March 2010
A groundbreaking new partnership sees researchers from the Department of Computer Science collaborate with the Royal College of Art to observe feelings and emotions.
Professor Reyer Zwiggelaar
Researcher Takes Space Robot Research to Parliament
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Research by an Aberystwyth academic on a camera-snapping robot destined to look for signs of past life on Mars will be showcased at the Palace of Westminster on 8 March 2010.
Stephen Pugh, Department of Computer Science
St David's Day Declaration
Monday 1st March, 2010
Wales’ leading universities mark St David’s Day by renewing their joint commitment to drive forward Wales’ knowledge economy.
The Old College
IBERS scientists tackle meat safety
March 2010
Scientists at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University are set to play a vital role in ensuring the safety of meat. The Department has been awarded a major contract to investigate ways of identifying contaminated meat in a bid to reduce outbreaks of serious infections such as E. coli.
Cows grazing
Queen’s Anniversary Prize presented to Aberystwyth University
Monday 22 February 2010
Staff and students from Aberystwyth University were at Buckingham Palace on Friday 19 February to receive the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh presented the Prize Medal and Certificate to Professor Noel Lloyd, Vice Chancellor of Aberystwyth University and to Professor Wayne Powell, Director of IBERS.
Professor Noel Lloyd and Professor Wayne Powell receive the award from the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh respectively. Image courtesy of BCA Ltd.
Parental Rights in Child Education
Tuesday 2 February 2010
Aberystwyth University has been selected to represent the UK in a pan-European research project on Parental Rights in Child Education.
Dr Marco Odello (right) and Jill St George
Time rates robot discovery
Tuesday 5 January 2010
Time Magazine rates Aber robot's discovery as one of the 5 most siginficant science discoveries of 2009.
Professor Ross King with Adam in the background
Postgraduate Research Studentships
Friday 22 January 2010
Students interested in studying for a PhD at Aberystwyth are being urged to submit their applications soon if they want to be considered for a prestigious bursary worth more than £50,000 over three years.
Simon Payne who has been awarded an ARPS to study at the Department of Sports and Excercise Science.
EPSRC Grant in Quantum Control
News from the Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Dr Rolf Gohm and Professor John Gough from the Quantum Control Research Group have obtained an EPSRC-grant of approximately £250,000 for a three year project 'Quantum Control: Approach based on Scattering Theory for Non-commutative Markov Chains and Multivariate Operator Theory'.
Image: Feedback using a beam-splitter
£165k AHRC grant for Welsh performance art research
News from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies
Dr Heike Roms was recently awarded a research grant of £165,779 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to support a two-year research project, entitled “'It was forty years ago today…': Locating the Early History of Performance Art in Wales 1965-1979”.
Dr Heike Roms
Helping the world from a country estate
Wednesday 16 June 2010
Welsh farmers, families in India and Ghana and fresh meat lovers everywhere should thank the research work taking place in the grounds of one of Wales’s most famous mansions.
Dr Athole Marshall from IBERS has been working on new varieties of oats.