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The Welsh name Yr Wyddfa is now used for the mountain instead of Snowdon by the national park authority. Malgosia Janicka/Shutterstock.

Welsh place names are being erased – and so are the stories they tell

Writing in The Conversation, Prof Rhys Jones from the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences discusses the erasure of Welsh place names and the growing appetite to protect them and preserve their history.

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Aberystwyth University staff and students thanked for “a year of great progress”

Aberystwyth University’s Chair and Vice-Chancellor have thanked the institution’s staff and students after a year of significant achievements highlighted in its latest annual report.

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Ukraine war: attitudes to women in the military are changing as thousands serve on front lines

In an article for The Conversation, Dr Jenny Mathers from the Department of International Politics and Ukrainian scholar Anna Kvit, Visiting Research Fellow at University College London discuss changes in Ukrainian public attitudes towards women in the military, and whether attitudes will roll back in the aftermath of war.

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Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE. Credit: Marcus Ginns

The Fight for Beauty – why it matters more than ever

Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE will deliver a public lecture at Aberystwyth University as part of the celebrations to mark the institution’s 150th Anniversary.

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Leading slavery historian’s Aberystwyth lecture about reparations

A leading expert on the history of slavery will give a public lecture about restorative justice at Aberystwyth University at the start of next month (Monday 6 February).

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Health Minister Eluned Morgan MS, Principal in Healthcare Education Amanda Jones, and Elin Jones MS opening the Healthcare Education Centre in September 2022.

Dragon’s Den winners’ dementia resources at Aberystwyth University’s nursing centre

Dragon’s Den winners have installed resources at Aberystwyth University’s new Healthcare Education Centre to help educate nursing students about dementia.

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Ernie Hunter's mother Fanny Höchstetter and aunt Bertl, 1933. Credit: Ernie Hunter

Talk by son of German refugees to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

The Centre for the Movement of People will mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 with a talk by a Holocaust educator whose parents fled Germany due to the National Socialist dictatorship.

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Aberystwyth University welcomes Principal Lead of new Dialogue Centre

A leading expert on the relationship between dialogue and knowledge exchange has taken up her role as Principal Lead of Aberystwyth University’s new Dialogue Centre.

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An example from the University of Galway, Ireland. A children’s book created by a student as part of a module in Spanish about children’s literature.
Photo credit: Pilar Alderete Diez (University of Galway, Ireland)

Language teachers could ditch essays in favour of graphic novels

Language learning could be assessed through clowning, radio plays and graphic novels, according to work led by Aberystwyth University.

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Dr André Soares analysing the DNA of microbes while underground at The Big Pit Museum during his PhD at Aberystwyth University

New global map of life inside Earth reveals bacteria rich coal

Coal is surprisingly rich in bacteria according to the world's first atlas of microbial biodiversity deep under the Earth, which has been developed by Aberystwyth University academics.

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The children of Cwm Gwaun go door to door singing and collecting calennig in 1961. Geoff Charles/National Library of Wales

Hen Galan: why one Welsh community celebrates the new year on January 14

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Eryn White from the Department of History & Welsh History sheds light on why a hamlet in Pembrokeshire celebrates the new year a fortnight after the rest of the UK.

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Welsh Language Standards Annual Report

Aberystwyth University has published its Welsh Language Standards Annual Report for the year 1 August 2021 to 31 July 2022.

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Vladimir Putin holds a face-to-face meeting with mothers of servicemen serving with the Russian army in Ukraine, at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence on November 25 2022. Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin Pool/Alamy Live News

Ukraine war: why Russian soldiers’ mothers aren’t demonstrating the strong opposition they have in previous conflicts

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Jenny Mathers from the Department of International Politics and Natasha Danilova from the University of Aberdeen, discuss the response of the mothers of Russia’s soldiers to the war in Ukraine.

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Scientists at Aberystwyth University are looking at how farm waste can be used to grow duckweed as a protein source for feeding livestock.

Farmers’ chance to turn waste into feed with native plant

Farmers could use a native Welsh plant to turn agricultural waste into feed for livestock as part of an Aberystwyth University research project.

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Oleksii Gorbatenko and Maryna Zaitseva who are currently studying at Aberystwyth Business School as part of a twinning arrangement with Odesa National Economic University in Ukraine.

Aberystwyth University welcomes Ukraine students

As the war in Ukraine continues, Aberystwyth University has been building on the link established with Odesa National Economic University (ONEU) as part of a UK wide twinning initiative to support students and academic staff in the country.

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A screenshot from a computer game designed by an Aberystwyth University student to communicate with children about the minimum age of criminal responsibility.

Aberystwyth students create resources to teach children about youth crime

A catchy song played on a ukulele and a novel computer game were amongst the innovative resources designed for primary school children by Aberystwyth University Criminology students.

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Governments need a “step-change” in how they deal with the biodiversity crisis, says researcher

Governments are not doing enough to prioritise biodiversity when it comes to their green policies, an Aberystwyth University academic has said at COP15 in Canada.

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