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Picture perfect: Graduate Chloe Barnes wins Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2025

Artist Chloe Barnes has won Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2025, earning a £10,000 commission from The Royal Society.
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Social media influencer work is far more demanding than it looks, research finds

A study exploring the mental health impacts of social media influencer work has revealed that life online is far more ...
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Explore courses shaped by industry, state-of-the-art facilities and a community that will challenge, excite and support you. Discover a community that will inspire and support you and give you the ...
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Counselling and Music Therapy Postgraduate and Professional Open Event

This event will cover our Counselling Certificate, MA Counselling and Psychotherapy and MA Music Therapy. You will find out all you need to know about the courses and the excellent teaching facilities ...
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Graduate’s winning design to feature on Brabazon Hangar

UWE Bristol and YTL Developments have teamed up to run a student design competition for a large-scale artwork at the Spitfire Community Hangar at Brabazon.
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Laying Pluckley’s ghosts to rest: new research uncovers the truth about the most haunted village in England

New research from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) has solved a series of tantalising mysteries associated with Pluckley in Kent, known for over 70 years as the ‘most haunted ...
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Smartphone use hitting struggling pupils hardest, major study finds

Parents underestimate the types of harmful content their children are accessing Teachers and parents broadly support stricter school policy on smartphone use Most comprehensive study of its type on ...
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UWE Bristol announces partnership PhD with Woodland Heritage

From left to right: Dr Elena Vanguelova – Senior Biogeochemist, Forest Research; Dr Sandra Denman – Principal Pathologist, Forest Research; John Orchard – CEO, Woodland Heritage; Dr Carrie Brady – ...
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Growth for tech innovation in Bristol as Future Space expands

Future Space, UWE Bristol’s award-winning innovation centre for trailblazing tech and science businesses, has opened its doors to 10,000 square feet of brand new office and laboratory facilities.
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Big leap forward for environmentally friendly ‘e-textiles’ technology

Strip of e-textile demonstrating the flexible qualities of inkjet-printed graphene. Credit: Marzia Dulal. A research team led by UWE Bristol and the University of Southampton has shown wearable ...
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Researchers launch support hub for people with visible differences and their families

A first of its kind website offering evidence-based psychological support for people with visible differences and their families has been launched by university researchers. Academics from the Centre ...
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'Wearable bodyguard' among ten new businesses by young entrepreneurs to receive funding boost

Members of the judging panel for the UWE Bristol Entrepreneurial Futures Award (L-R): Dr Paul Bennett, Peter Fane and Mark Mason. A business developing a ‘wearable bodyguard’ for safer solo journeys ...