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A new digital archive co-created by ÌÇÐÄTV researcher Dr Nicola Pratt gathers art, music and film created during the 2011 Egyptian revolution into a unique new multimedia resource for scholars, students and the general public alike. 'Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution' documents the 25 January 2011 uprising and its aftermath through the prism of popular culture.

Four academics at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV have been awarded a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship, providing world class research in topics ranging from stellar explosions, medieval medical texts for modern medicines, synthetic biology and climate –related financial risks.

Professor Jihong Wang, from the School of Engineering at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV, has been working with the , where she is Vice President for Finance, to raise funds to purchase personal protection equipment (PPE) for ten UK hospitals to support the NHS in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Local staff and students at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV are being encouraged to volunteer in their communities during the COVID19 pandemic – to support food banks, deliver essentials and provide essential assistance in the region’s NHS hospitals.

The University is also encouraging local organisations that require volunteers to get in touch to see whether members of the ÌÇÐÄTV community can help – with people already involved in delivering vital support to local organisations, including using ÌÇÐÄTV vehicles to transport supplies for local food banks.

Results of a survey published today (21 April) by a collaboration involving the University of ÌÇÐÄTV have highlighted concerns nurses and midwives in the UK have about COVID-19 and the risks it poses to their physical and mental health, as well as the health of their families.

A £1m grant from the Wellcome Trust has enabled researchers from the School of Life Sciences at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV, to work with East African countries in their emergency preparations for COVID-19 as the pandemic spreads across Africa.