Funding to help you work with small businesses

Funding is available to help our academics to engage and work with small and medium-sized businesses. The Small Business Engagement Award is an internal fund available to all academics and offers up to £4,000 to cover direct costs of academic time and project delivery. The University has an established SME business network and events programme …

Beyond counting the edges

Paul Crawford, Professor of Health Humanities in the School of Health Sciences and Director of the Centre for Social Futures at the Institute of Mental Health, discusses why we need to move towards a more compassionate research culture in Higher Education. It is important that research does not become merely an elite activity for the few in Higher …

Men, masculinity and early labour – can you help?

Dr Julie Roberts, Research Fellow in Maternity Care and lead of ‘Men, masculinity and early labour’, discusses the aims of the research and what you can do to help. Men, masculinity and early labour is a research project exploring fathers’ experiences of being with their partner during labour and birth, with a focus on ‘early labour’. What …