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Left to right: Dr Malte Urban (Senior Lecturer in English Literature), Professor Louise Marshall (Head of School of Languages and Literature) and Dr Alex Hubbard (Associate Lecturer, English Literature and Creative Writing)

English and Creative Writing crowned Aberystwyth Department of the Year

The Department of English and Creative Writing has won the highly coveted Department of the Year award at the Teaching, Learning and Student Experience Awards.

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Postgraduate student, Nadine Johnson, preparing pine marten DNA for molecular analysis in the laboratory at Aberystwyth University

Aberystwyth scientists help monitor pine martens

Aberystwyth University scientists are helping to monitor the success of the reintroduction of Britain’s second rarest mammal.

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Professor Nigel Holt, Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for international, Aberystwyth University

Top marks for Aberystwyth from global education experts

Aberystwyth University has gained top marks for the quality of its education and wider provision from one of the most prominent global education organisations.

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“Outstanding” Aberystwyth University academic awarded major fellowship

An Aberystwyth University academic has achieved one of the highest accolades in the geographic field after being made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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A computer model showing the mouth of a baby with a cleft lip.

Cleft lip research may reduce childhood operations

Research could help children born with a cleft lip and palate to avoid multiple operations as they grow up.

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Dr David Wilcockson, Department of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University

Revealing the cells behind the biological clocks of intertidal animals

Scientists have identified the cells behind the bioclocks keeping time with tides in tiny marine organisms.

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Dr Jenny Mathers, Department of International Politics

Russia looks to frame war as an inevitable part of life on Victory Day

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Jenny Mathers from the Department of International Politics and Dr Allyson Edwards from Bath Spa University suggest that by encouraging young people to feel a personal connection to Russia’s history of war, Moscow hopes to ensure that they regard war as an inevitable part of life.

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The distribution and density of above-ground biomass in 2022 (credit: ESA/Planetary Visions).

Global maps of forest carbon released by the European Space Agency

Aberystwyth University is playing a major role in quantifying the changing distribution of carbon in the World’s forests and their contribution to our changing climate.

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Professor Jamie Medhurst, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies

First UK broadcasting devolution study gets go ahead

The first four-nations study of broadcasting policy in a devolved UK is set to begin following the awarding of a major research grant to an Aberystwyth academic.

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Members of Andrew Scott Ltd, Principal Contractor on the Old College Project, and sub-contractor M&C Civils, mark the completion of the atrium’s ground floor concrete slab – April 2025.

Old College’s new atrium takes shape

Work on the new Old College atrium that will lead into a dramatic new glass fronted 200-seater function room with stunning views over Cardigan Bay has reached a key milestone.

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Why is Donald Trump failing to bring peace to Ukraine like he promised?

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Jenny Mathers from the Department of International Politics discusses why negotiations for peace in Ukraine are struggling to get off the ground, despite numerous meetings between US and Russian officials.

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The Tristan Albatross is a critically endangered species. Photo by James Glass, Tristan de Cunha Fisheries Department.

eDNA reveals new information about rare marine life on world’s most remote inhabited islands

Researchers from Aberystwyth University have carried out the first ever environmental DNA (eDNA) assessment of marine vertebrates in Tristan da Cunha, a group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu, Department of Law and Criminology

Ritual murder of children: study in Ghana and Kenya explores who’s doing it and why

In an article for The Conversation, Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu, a Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Law and Criminology, discusses his research on ritual child murder in Ghana and Kenya.

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No kidding: goats prove brainier than sheep and alpacas

PhD Candidate Megan Quail has written an article for The Conversation about research findings that goats outperform sheep and alpacas in a series of cognitive tests.

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