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International Women in Engineering Day: Kingston University expert Dawn Childs highlights importance of teaching girls how creative science careers can be
Posted Thursday 20 June 2019
Ensuring young girls understand the creative potential of engineering and science careers could play a key part in addressing the sector's gender imbalance, according to industry expert and Kingston University visiting professor Dawn Childs. The group engineering director for global theme park operator Merlin and current president of the Women's Engineering Society also spoke of the need for more female engineers to visit schools and act as powerful role models to children ahead of International Women in Engineering Day this Sunday.
D-Day landings 75th anniversary: six closely-guarded military secrets about Kingston upon Thames' involvement in this critical campaign
Posted Thursday 6 June 2019
On the D-Day landings' 75th anniversary, a Kingston University historian reveals the essential role the borough and its residents played in the momentous events which began Operation Overlord and changed the course of the Second World War.
Kingston University's Dorich House Museum secures National Lottery support for heritage project exploring its recent history
Posted Wednesday 29 May 2019
The former home of renowned sculptor, artist and designer Dora Gordine and her husband Richard Hare has been awarded a £65,000 National Lottery grant to gather recollections from the community that lived in and visited the building during the 1980s and 90s.
Unexploded Second World War bomb discovered in Kingston: Five facts about impact of German air raids on borough during the war
Posted Tuesday 28 May 2019
The recent discovery of an unexploded Second World War bomb on a building site near Kingston University's Penrhyn Road campus served as a reminder of how the local area bore the brunt of some considerable attention from the German Luftwaffe between 1939 and 1941.
Kingston University's leading role in closing BME attainment gap highlighted in new report by Universities UK and National Union of Students
Posted Thursday 2 May 2019
Kingston University's sector-leading work in reducing the BME attainment gap has been highlighted in a new report by Universities UK and the National Union of Students. The report, led by Baroness Amos, director of SOAS, and Amatey Doku, vice-president of higher education for the NUS, sets out five key recommendations for the sector to adopt as a framework for closing the gap.
Sir Brian Leveson hails Kingston University's online archive of landmark public inquiry in to journalism during Discover Leveson project launch event
Posted Thursday 4 April 2019
Sir Brian Leveson has highlighted the importance of ensuring the lessons of his landmark examination of standards in journalism are not forgotten at an event launching Kingston University's online archive of the Leveson Inquiry.
Do electrodes make you smarter? Kingston University neuroscientist casts doubt on benefit of using electric currents to improve memory
Posted Thursday 28 March 2019
Dr Giulia Galli was part of an international research team who investigated the effectiveness of applying electrical currents to the brain to improve memory and enhance cognitive ability.
Health economist claims Government's failure to offer HPV catch-up vaccinations to older boys is discriminatory
Posted Thursday 28 March 2019
Kingston Business School health economist Profesor Giampiero Favato believes omitting older boys from the national HPV vaccination programme poses serious risks.
