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Minister opens Aberystwyth film premiere for port stories
Wales’ Arts and Sports Deputy Minister has launched a new film charting the histories and life of five port towns in Wales and Ireland.
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It’s not helpful to talk about children’s ‘learning loss’ during lockdown – they and their parents learned a great deal
Writing in The Conversation, Prysor Mason Davies, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education discusses how the widely-used term 'learning loss' unfairly stigmatises a generation of school pupils, and argues that in fact the pandemic was a period of learning for all involved in education.
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Aberystwyth University student accommodation rated best in UK
Student accommodation at Aberystwyth University has been ranked the best in the UK by student review website Whatuni.
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Aber’s red piano at the Urdd Eisteddfod
Competitors at the Urdd Eisteddfod will be able to book time on Aberystwyth University's new red piano next week, before taking to the stage at this year’s festival.
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Wales/Ireland rural tourism project launches with aim to increase tourists
A new €3 million European project aimed at boosting sustainable tourism in rural parts of Wales and Ireland has been launched.
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Wales’ first law department celebrates 120 years at Old Bailey
Wales’ oldest university law department has marked its 120th anniversary with a celebratory event at London’s top criminal court.
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How taking a closer look at your family tree can help you get to grips with climate change
Writing in The Conversation, Flossie Kingsbury, Postdoctoral Research Associate from the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences discusses how tracing our ancestors’ connections to colonialism and industrialisation can help us personally connect with the climate crisis.
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Aberystwyth students take peace message to the Nobel Institute
Students from Aberystwyth University are at the Nobel Institute in Norway today, Wednesday 18 Mai, for the publication of Urdd Gobaith Cymru’s Peace and Goodwill Message on its 100th anniversary.
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Wales’s post COVID-19 future explored at Aberystwyth research conference
Wales’s future post COVID-19, the effects of the pandemic on small high streets, student parents and rural sport, and how to develop sustainable tourism will be among the subjects explored at an Aberystwyth University conference (Thursday 19 May).
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Wales’ favourite artworks go on display in Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth Arts Centre is exhibiting a selection of the nation’s favourite artworks as part of an initiative to share the national art collection with communities and galleries across the country.
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Earth’s coastal wetlands are disappearing, new high-resolution maps reveal
Four thousand square kilometres of the world’s tidal wetlands have been lost over twenty years, but ecosystem restoration and natural processes are helping reduce total losses, according to Aberystwyth University researchers.
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Significant rise in research quality at Aberystwyth University
The quality of research at Aberystwyth University has increased significantly, the latest review of research in UK higher education institutions has shown.
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Fair pay for writers in Wales to be explored in new survey
Making writers’ pay fairer and establishing benchmarks for different kinds of author incomes will form part of a new study by Aberystwyth University.
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Annual staff and student awards presented
The School of Education was crowned Department of the Year at the Aberystwyth Students’ Union Staff and Students Awards 2022, which were held on 3 May at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
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Aberystwyth academics elected as Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales
The Learned Society of Wales has named four academics from Aberystwyth University among its newly elected Fellows.
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Aberystwyth film premiere for Welsh and Irish port stories
The histories and life of five port towns in Wales and Ireland will feature in a new film that will be premiered in Aberystwyth at the end of May.
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Aber at Hay
Developing friendlier and more sociable robots, 40 years of Welsh language television, and historical myths about the human body are some of the subjects set to engage audiences at the 35th Hay Festival.
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