Environment | 21 October, 2019
A team of researchers, including experts from Queen’s University Belfast, have examined 31 peatlands across Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and continental Europe to assess changes in peatland surface wetness during the last 2,000 years.
Health | 16 October, 2019
Scientists at Queen’s University have been awarded a prestigious grant by British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland (BHF NI) to investigate how heart cells change in people affected by an abnormal heart rhythm.
SOCIETY | 14 October, 2019
Brexit is already having an impact on life on both sides of the border according to residents from the Central Border Region of Ireland/Northern Ireland.
SOCIETY | 14 October, 2019
Staff and students from Queen’s University Belfast as well as local business leaders will be at the City Hotel in Derry on the evening of Wednesday 23rd October for an ‘Experience Queen’s’ event.
The Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s invited leading international figures from the worlds of nutrition, health and agriculture to the University. The opportunity to join up food, farming and diet to improve public-health outcomes for a growing world population was discussed. 'Growing a Healthy Society – The Role of Food' was arranged in partnership with the Oxford Farming Conference ahead of their January 2020 event.
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An independent analysis by London Economics showed Queen's economic contribution represents an economic benefit to cost ratio of 6:1.
It also found that Queen’s University employs 3,700 staff and supports a further 2,570 jobs across the UK.
The ‘Economic Impact Report’ highlighted that the public purse benefits by an average of £101,000 per each of the university’s full-time undergraduate students, who graduate each year.
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