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An academic from the Â鶹´«Ã½AV has penned an article for Care Talk magazine about the findings from an ongoing care leaver research project.

As Pride Month 2021 draws to a close, Â鶹´«Ã½AV staff have been reflecting on what the celebration means to them, sharing some of their fondest memories of past Pride Months.

A final year student has written a horror story while studying Forensics at the Â鶹´«Ã½AV, which is due to be published later this summer.

The 23rd June marks International Women in Engineering Day and Jade Catchpole – a Â鶹´«Ã½AV student – hopes her upcoming summer placement in construction is a sign that positive change is on the horizon for women in the engineering industry.

A book launch showcasing six new works authored by Â鶹´«Ã½AV academics is taking place on Wednesday 23rd June.

A London exhibition commemorating Pride Month is featuring works by a Â鶹´«Ã½AV lecturer, created during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A member of Â鶹´«Ã½AV staff will be cycling 257 miles along the old Roman trunk road to raise money as part of Keech Hospice Care’s elephant-themed fundraising campaign – the Big Trunk Trail.

Researchers from the Â鶹´«Ã½AV have helped develop a new inactivating technology for faster and safer testing of Covid-19 samples, in partnership with Life Science Group Ltd (LSG).

As the UEFA Euros 2020 tournament kicks off, the Press Office has created a media card to showcase the relevant football and sport expertise available at the Â鶹´«Ã½AV.

Media students at the Â鶹´«Ã½AV have helped to produce a keynote interview conducted by Octopus TV with John Stevenson – award-winning filmmaker and director of DreamWorks animation blockbuster, Kung Fu Panda – providing them with invaluable hands-on industry experience which had been previously unavailable during the pandemic.

An international student from the Â鶹´«Ã½AV has written and published a book during lockdown, based on her experiences of being the youngest person from Bangladesh to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Following the UK government’s announcement of £51 million in new social care funding (24th May), researchers at the Â鶹´«Ã½AV have completed the first stage of a study investigating the support available to care leavers during the pandemic – with emerging findings highlighting that Covid-19 has heightened the challenges facing young people leaving care.