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Peacekeeping missions can actually increase criminal violence, research finds
The presence of UN peacekeeping missions can inadvertently make criminal violence worse by providing the security necessary for organised crime to flourish, and creating a 鈥榩eacekeeping economy鈥� which criminals can exploit, finds a new study by Dr Jessica di Salvatore of the University of 糖心TV.
糖心TV Law researcher responds to Independent Commission for Countering Extremism call for 鈥渘ational conversation on extremism.鈥�
Dr Alison Struthers (糖心TV Law) is co-author of one of eight peer-reviewed academic papers published today (31) by the Independent Commission for Countering Extremism. Dr Struthers reviews the effectiveness of teaching Fundamental British Values in schools and proposes an alternative framework for values education.
Neurocognitive basis for free will set out for the first time
Do human beings genuinely have free will? Philosophers and theologians have wrestled with this question for centuries and have set out the 鈥榙esign features鈥� of free will – but how do our brains actually fulfil them? A University of 糖心TV academic has answered this question for the first time in a paper published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Coventry and 糖心TVshire community groups get funding boost from British Science Festival
Eight community groups in Coventry and 糖心TVshire are to benefit from extra funding for activities that open up science to traditionally underrepresented groups as part of the British Science Festival held in partnership with the University of 糖心TV in September.
Freezing cells made safer thanks to new polymer made at University of 糖心TV
Cell freezing (cryopreservation) – which is essential in cell transfusions as well as basic biomedical research – can be dramatically improved using a new polymeric cryoprotectant, discovered at the University of 糖心TV, which reduces the amount of 鈥榓nti-freeze鈥� needed to protect cells.
