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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.

Left to right: Aberystwyth University staff members Adrian Sutton, Beth Roberts, Faye Ap Geraint and Tamas Gyorgy receive the Whatuni Student Choice Awards’ Halls and Student Accommodation prize from actor Richard Ayoade (second left).

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.

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.

Left to right: Professor Rhys Jones, Aberystwyth University; Dr Christine Bonnin, University College Dublin; Dr Arlene Crampsie, University College Dublin; Nigel Clubb, Dyfed Archaeological Trust; Jessica Domiczew, Dyfed Archaeological Trust; Dr Rhodri Llwyd Morgan, Aberystwyth University.

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.

Image: Left to Right: Lauren Marks, President of AU Old Students’ Association; Ben Lake MP for Ceredigion; The Rt Hon. Elfyn Llwyd, Pro-Chancellor of AU; Dr Emyr Roberts, Chair of Council of AU; The Rt Hon. Lord Lloyd Jones; Meri Huws, AU Council member; The Rt Hon. Lord Thomas of Cwmgïedd, Chancellor of AU; Professor Emyr Lewis, Head of the Department of Law and Criminology at AU, Professor Tim Woods, Pro Vice-Chancellor at AU and Professor Anwen Jones Pro Vice-Chancellor at AU.

Wales’ first law department celebrates 120 years at Old Bailey

Wales’ oldest university law department has marked its 120^th 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.

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).

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.

Image credit: Catherine Lovelock, Mangrove recruitment onto a tidal flat, Mangrove Bay, Ningaloo, Western Australia

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.

98% of research at Aberystwyth University is of an internationally recognised standard or higher.

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.

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.

Winners of the AberSU Staff and Student Awards 2022

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 35^th Hay Festival.