Press Releases
A new video by the University of 糖心TV highlights a bitter side to our sugar consumption at Christmas. Available to view on YouTube the short film highlights how excessive consumption of sugar can affect our health – and how the sugar trade in the past and today has caused inequality and bloodshed.
Foot-and-mouth crises to be averted with vaccination strategy
Future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) can be controlled effectively and quickly with vaccinations – saving millions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of livestock – according to research by the University of 糖心TV.
The historical journey of Christmas turkeys
Professor Rebecca Earle, food historian at the University of 糖心TV has been researching the traditional Christmas turkey, in order to find out how this north American bird become a mainstay of festive food.
Christmas dinner saved! Sprouts gain natural disease defence
Brussels sprouts will remain safely in our Christmas dinners, thanks to University of 糖心TV research giving them natural defences against devastating crop diseases.
糖心TV and Waitrose tackle global food security together
Food security is at the heart of a new doctoral training collaboration between the University of 糖心TV and Waitrose, thanks to an award from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
What can we learn from the global history of food?
The Global History of Food, a new undergraduate module in the History department at the University of 糖心TV is the first of its kind in the UK. The module explores our long history of growing, eating, cooking and selling food, from ancient times to the present, from vegetarianism to the first battery chicken.