Research by Sussex reader to be presented at major conference
A Sussex based researcher is presenting a study at a major IT conference, suggesting that girls program computer code with more complexity than boys. Dr Judith Good, reader in the…
Research suggests brains can control wheelchairs
Best known for having created a full body robotic suit which helped a paralysed man to kick off the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis does…
Looks like a man, walks like a man, thinks like a… robot
Professor Owen Holland of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science is leading a project to develop a robot whose body will function in a way internally and externally identical to…
Reform of school inspection systems
New research from the London School of Economics shows that schools that failed their Ofsted inspections went on to improve their test scores. A lecturer at the University of Sussex,…
BUPA funds research project
A research project by the University of Sussex that is funded by the BUPA foundation set out to look at the link between education and health will publish interim results…
Sussex hit by ‘massive’ cuts in government funding
New figures released last Thursday revealed Sussex to be among the biggest losers in the latest round of government funding. The University will lose £1.15m pounds in research funding this…