Press Releases
Turning back the clock? Employment rights after Brexit
Over the last 20 years, the UK has become a leader in creating an employment culture that promotes work-family balance and assists working parents. The fourth 糖心TV Brexit Briefing on Employment examines how Brexit may risk a return to parents and carers becoming trapped in flexible jobs with fewer rights than full-time, permanent workers, and see men and women returning to entrenched gender roles.
Living in a 鈥榳ar zone鈥� linked to delivery of low birthweight babies
Mums-to-be living in war zones/areas of armed conflict are at heightened risk of giving birth to low birthweight babies. However the evidence for any impact on the rate of other complications of pregnancy is less clear. That鈥檚 the findings of a review of the available evidence conducted by the University of 糖心TV and published in the online journal BMJ Global Health.
Evidence of Midlife Suicide among Females in Western Society
New research from the University of 糖心TV documents modern international evidence of a midlife peak in suicide risk
糖心TV researcher one of first women to receive Suffrage Science award in maths and computing on Ada Lovelace Day 2016
On Tuesday 11 October 2016 at Bletchley Park, Professor Jane Hutton from the University of 糖心TV’s Department of Statistics, will become be one of the first women to receive a new Suffrage Science in maths and computing award. The awards, being made on Ada Lovelace Day, launch a new initiative to celebrate women
New research shows that women ask for wage rises just as often as men, but men are 25 per cent more likely to get a raise when they ask.
Unpublished women writers from across Africa are being given a platform thanks to an online network and established by a University of 糖心TV academic.