News story: Queen Mary academic wins Belfast Film Festival AwardDr Steven Eastwood from Queen Mary’s School of Linguistics, Languages and Film has won the Maysles’ Brothers Prize at the Belfast Film Festival for his film Island.
News story: Wasafiri magazine launches special issue, Queer Worlds/Global QueerQueen Mary’s Wasafiri magazine has launched its issue for the month of June, a special volume entitled Queer Worlds/Global Queer. Launched in 1984, Wasafiri is the UK’s leading magazine for international contemporary writing.
News story: International team of scientists explore the secrets of Saturn's ringsAn international team of scientists have studied the intricate characteristics of Saturn’s mysterious rings in never-before-seen detail, it has been revealed in a paper published today.
News story: Shahidha Bari on the secret life of clothesDr Shahidha Bari from Queen Mary University of London has published a brand new book, Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes, which explores the hidden power of clothing choices in our daily lives and what this says about wider culture.
News story: Mexican government presents Queen Mary academic with prestigious award Professor Teresa Alonso-Rasgado, Queen Mary’s Dean for Global Engagement in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, has been awarded the highest distinction possible for her academic excellence in Mexico.
News story: Queen Mary participates in Tate ExchangeQueen Mary University of London is taking over the 5th floor of the Blavatnik Building at Tate Modern as part of a week-long set of activities at Tate Exchange (11-16 June).
News story: Leading genomics expert awarded knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honoursProfessor Mark Caulfield, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Queen Mary University of London and the interim Chief Executive at Genomics England, has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
News story: Experience Tower Hamlets at the 2019 Festival of CommunitiesThe annual Festival of Communities celebrates the culture and diversity of the extraordinary borough that is Tower Hamlets. Hosted by Queen Mary University of London and Tower Hamlets’ organisations, the festival is returning for its fourth year to showcase living and learning across the borough.
News story: Q & A with Psychiatry Consultant on BBC’s Killing EveDr Mark Freestone from Queen Mary University of London works as a Psychiatry Consultant for BBC’s hit TV show Killing Eve, which returns for season two in the UK on Saturday 8 June. We spoke to Dr Freestone about how he helped shape Villanelle’s character and his work at Queen Mary.
News story: Nish Kumar delivers Queen Mary’s Annual Arts Lecture 2019The stand-up comedian Nish Kumar has delivered Queen Mary's Annual Arts Lecture for 2019.
News story: Making a splash is all in the angleMaking a splash depends on the angle of a liquid as it hits and moves along a surface, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London.
News story: Mathematicians work out how to predict success in show businessMathematicians from Queen Mary University of London have found a way to predict whether an actor’s career has peaked or if their most successful days lie ahead.
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News story: Call for ban on cartoons on unhealthy food packagingIn the biggest survey of its kind, new research by Action on Sugar and Action on Salt, based at Queen Mary University of London, has found that half of the 526 food and drink products which use cartoons on their packs are unnecessarily high in fat, sugar and/or salt.
News story: Professor appointed as Vice-President of Medical Women's FederationProfessor Chloe Orkin from Queen Mary University of London has been appointed as the new Vice-President of the UK’s leading organisation for women doctors.
News story: Coffee not as bad for heart and circulatory system as previously thoughtDrinking coffee might keep us up at night, but new research has given us a reason to sleep easy knowing that the popular drink isn’t as bad for our arteries as some previous studies would suggest. The research from Queen Mary University of London has shown that drinking coffee, including in people who drink up to 25 cups a day, is not associated with having stiffer arteries.
News story: Clinical calculator could spare breast cancer patients five years of unnecessary hormone therapyNew research by Queen Mary University of London and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust confirms that an algorithm, called CTS5, accurately identifies patients who are at low risk of their breast cancer returning at a later stage.
News story: Surgery patients are getting older every yearA combination of the improved safety of anaesthesia and surgery for older people, and a general improvement in availability of surgical treatments in the NHS is likely to be the reasons why people undergoing surgery in England are getting older at a faster rate than the general population.
News story: Queen Mary extends legal placement programme in collaboration with leading law firmsQueen Mary University of London is set to launch an extension of its popular business placement programme for LLB students in collaboration with two leading law firms, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) and Bindmans LLP.
News story: Exploring the political, social and cultural relevance of the European spaAcademics from the University of Amsterdam, Lund University, Freie Universität in Berlin and Queen Mary University of London will embark on a pan-European research project examining the European spa as a transnational space.
News story: Brexit: The views from Queen Mary academicsThe United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union is one of the biggest political news stories of our time and Queen Mary’s academic experts have featured regularly in the media.
News story: Queen Mary’s staff and students participate in the Vitality London 10kStaff and students from Queen Mary University of London have participated in the Vitality London 10,000. The 10 kilometre race was also a focal point for Queen Mary’s fundraising activities for Community Sport.
News story: Technology to capture energy from sea waves awarded fundingA team from Queen Mary has been awarded funding to develop technology to capture energy from waves at sea.
News story: Spanish flu was ignored as a ‘minor infection’ two years before the great outbreak of 1918 The most severe pandemic in recent history, killing some 50 million people worldwide, the Spanish Influenza, may have emerged up to two years earlier than previously believed, according to a new study by Queen Mary University of London researchers.
News story: DNA discovery could have implications for mitochondrial donation treatmentMitochondria, the ‘batteries’ that produce our energy, interact with the cell’s nucleus in subtle ways previously unseen in humans, according to research involving academics from Queen Mary University of London.
News story: London heart disease patients take part in clinical trial to test alternative to statinsA clinical trial, coordinated by researchers from Queen Mary University of London, is currently recruiting patients in London to see whether a new cholesterol-lowering drug could save lives in people who are intolerant to statins.
News story: Diabetes patients at higher risk of deadly liver disease, finds study of 18 million peopleMany patients with potentially deadly liver cirrhosis and liver cancer are being diagnosed at late advanced stages of disease, according to a study led by Queen Mary University of London and the University of Glasgow.
News story: Queen Mary Professor receives Historical Biography awardProfessor Julian Jackson, Head of the School of History at Queen Mary University of London, has been announced by the Society of Authors as the winner of the 2019 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, for his book ‘A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles De Gaulle’.
News story: Londoners want to be represented by local peopleLondon may be one of the most multicultural, multi-ethnic cities in the world, but its residents want their local councillors to come from the areas they represent. A new YouGov poll, commissioned by Professors Tim Bale and Philip Cowley of Queen Mary University of London’s Mile End Institute, found that six out of 10 of the capital’s voters would like to see more councillors from their local area.
News story: Prime Minister visits new medical school building in MaltaOn Wednesday the Prime Minister of Malta visited Queen Mary University of London’s Malta campus where the new medical school building is currently under construction.
News story: Exploring the future of British Party Politics Professor Tim Bale from Queen Mary’s School of Politics and International Relations has presented a keynote speech at the Wonkhe conference on 16 May 2019, The Rule of Engagement: Building political trust and confidence in universities, where he explored possible outcomes for UK political parties in the future.
