News Archive: April 2021

Crop rotations with beans and peas offer more sustainable and nutritious food production

Adding more legumes, such as beans, peas and lentils, to European crop rotations could provide nutritional and environmental benefits, shows a recent study. The authors use a first-of-its-kind approach to show that the increased cultivation of legumes would deliver higher nutritional value at lower environmental and resource costs. This provides additional evidence for strategies to meet the European Union’s urgent environmental targets.

Publication date: 27 April 2021

Is forest harvesting increasing in Europe?

Nature response throws doubt on controversial study claims

Publication date: 27 April 2021

Industrial seminar: Contact with the professional world in Computer Vision

Mr Thomas Vidal, C++ developer in Computer Vision at LANACESS , gave a talk from Barcelona (Spain) to our 3rd year students in computer science

Publication date: 23 April 2021

Clinical Legal Education

Thanks to a fantastic new partnership with Citizens Advices services and 30 law firms, Bangor Law students now have the opportunity to develop and use their legal knowledge in a real-life setting, making a tangible difference to people’s lives.

Publication date: 23 April 2021

Cost-effectiveness of treatments in neurological diseases

Professor Dyfrig Hughes and colleagues at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, School of Health Sciences, have recently published the results of three clinical trials of interventions in epilepsy and sciatica.

Publication date: 21 April 2021

Improved management of farmed peatlands could cut 500m tonnes of CO2

Substantial cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions could be achieved by raising water levels in agricultural peatlands, according to a new study in the journal Nature. (Media release from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) Peatlands occupy just three per cent of the world’s land surface area but store a similar amount of carbon to all terrestrial vegetation, as well as supporting unique biodiversity. In their natural state, they can mitigate climate change by continuously removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it securely under waterlogged conditions for thousands of years. But many peatland areas have been substantially modified by human activity, including drainage for agriculture and forest plantations This results in the

Publication date: 21 April 2021

The 'Heat Bombs' Destroying Arctic Sea Ice

Unprecedented observations could revise forecasts of melt in polar ocean

Publication date: 21 April 2021

Bangor University launches Intensive Learning Academy - ALPHAcademy

Bangor University today (20.4.21) launches the Intensive Learning Academy (ILA) - ALPHAcademy - which will drive global healthcare revolutions. Announced today by Life Sciences Hub Wales, and led by Bangor and Swansea universities, there are a total of three ILAs.

Publication date: 20 April 2021

Enjoy some vitamin-sea: download a new app to recognise sealife

Now that we can travel around more freely, why not get some vitamin-sea and watch out for one of the 30 species of whale and dolphin that visit UK waters as you walk along our stunning coastline?

Publication date: 19 April 2021

Native oysters restored to Conwy Bay

1,300 native oysters have been returned to waters in River Conwy as part of an ambitious restoration project to bring back these ‘ocean superheroes’ from the brink of extinction. The Wild Oysters Project , a partnership between ZSL (Zoological Society of London), Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE) and British Marine aims to help restore healthy, resilient coastal waters around the UK.

Publication date: 14 April 2021

Patients have an increasing role to play in their own medical safety

Despite being a medical doctor, Dr Saleyha Ahsan found it difficult to get medical staff treating her mother to take her concerns seriously, as she will reveal at a Conference on Medical Safety and Patient Participation taking place online with a global roster of speakers on 21 May 2021. In October 2019, Saleyha Ahsan realised that her mother’s health was worsening and that there was a window to act to prevent her deterioration, but her concerns went unheeded, indeed, she said she was made to feel small and irrelevant. She recognised that her mother’s care needed a senior review and that there was no care plan or plan for escalation of care. As a result, nothing was done to alleviate her mother’s condition. Sadly, her mother passed away in some pain and discomfort.

Publication date: 14 April 2021

First exploration of mental health resilience and loneliness of older people with cognitive impairment in Wales

Loneliness and mental health problems are more common in older people who have dementia or have difficulties with memory, thinking and learning. But not all individuals will be affected in the same way.

Publication date: 14 April 2021

Opera on demand

Y Tŵr , an original opera in Welsh, composed by Dr Guto Puw of the School of Music, with the libretto by Gwyneth Glyn, is now available on demand via Theatr Gen Eto.

Publication date: 14 April 2021

Patients have an increasing role to play in their own medical safety

Despite being a medical doctor, Dr Saleyha Ahsan found it difficult to get medical staff treating her mother to take her concerns seriously, as she will reveal at a Conference on Medical Safety and Patient Participation taking place online with a global roster of speakers on 21 May 2021.

Publication date: 8 April 2021