Innovative research projects including a study of the effectiveness of a learner-driver coaching programme have been announced as the first recipients of funding awarded through a major scholarship scheme.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents established the scholarship scheme after BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels) donated a total of £500,000 to fund research that will [...]
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Keele University to help recession-hit North Staffordshire
Posted in Research and Enterprise Services, tagged Business, Economy, Environment, Funding, Recession, Regeneration, Staffordshire on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Keele University was today set to launch an £885,000 project to offer much needed support to local people and businesses hit by the recession after an award from the Economic Challenge Investment Fund.
The University, working closely with local partners including Wardell Armstrong, Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Newcastle Borough Council, will equip 140 unemployed people in [...]
Keele Researchers awarded £2m for Osteoarthritis Research
Posted in Primary Care and Health Sciences, tagged Disability, Funding, Health, NHS, Osteoarthritis, Pain, Research on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A team of researchers from the Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences at Keele University in Staffordshire has been awarded £2,055,000 by the NHS National Institute for Health Research for an investigation into clinical osteoarthritis and joint pain in older people, which will add to best practice for managing osteoarthritis in primary care [...]
Students Speed To Success
Posted in Science Park, Students, tagged Blinds, Business, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Music, T-shirts, Writing on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Funding from the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) has enabled four Keele University students to successfully turn their business ideas into real companies, which are now trading and earning them money.
Rebecca Mulhearn, Scott Bordoni, Nicola Smith and Matthew Forde started on the SPEED (Student Placements in Enterprise Education) programme in January 2008. Run by the [...]
Staffordshire arthritis patients to take part in major new Keele University study
Posted in Primary Care and Health Sciences, tagged Arthritis, Funding, Health, Research on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A team of researchers at Keele University are hoping to improve the care and treatment of painful osteoarthritis offered by GPs in a major project involving almost 2,000 local patients.
The study is being funded by a five-year grant of more than £788,000 from the Arthritis Research Campaign.
Although osteoarthritis affects millions of older people in the [...]