Research, Innovation and Enterprise Publication

In this issue you can discover a variety of articles looking at the impact of our research, our latest innovation and the opportunities for enterprise including: 

• How our collaborative partnership with Brazilian institutions is looking to improve the experiences of women in STEM in Brazilian academia.
• How our AI expertise is benefiting Blenheim Palace in visitor management 
• How Oxford Brookes Enterprise Centre is bringing people and knowledge together to support start-up companies.

• Our lead story discusses a new project to develop insecticides which target pests better but are safer to the environment
• We explore a research model that could help reduce mental health illness in the workplace
• Shakespeare’s plays are helping unravel the present day issue of our increased digital selves
• Trials to enhance workplace training using Augmented Reality (AR).

• Our lead story explores witchcraft and magical beliefs in 19th and early 20th century regional fiction
• We learn more about a study on anorexia in the elderly
• We discover the research making a difference to the testing of car emissions.

• Our lead story explores Brookes’ research into human evolution and the origins of disease
• Professor Linda King, Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Global Partnerships, outlines the University’s new international research outlook
• We look at a quirky project investigating the benefits of dark chocolate on reducing multiple sclerosis symptoms
• With the upcoming Rio 2016 Olympics Two we focus on two research projects in taking place in Brazil.

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• This edition starts with a welcome from the new interim Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, Professor Linda King
• Our lead story explores the Oxford Brookes research that’s helping tackle major challenges of the 21st century such as human trafficking
• We take a look at our strong results in the recent Research Excellence Framework assessment (REF 2014) as well as some excellent analysis and insight into:
• the 3D models of microscopic organisms changing understanding of the natural world
• Tokyo’s Olympic preparations by Professor John Gold, Department of Social Sciences
• where the garden cities idea came from and its impact on the UK housing crisis
• how Dr Alexandra Wilson, Reader in Musicology, is rescuing opera from stereotypes.

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• This edition features a special article from some of our leading academics and researchers offering their analysis and insight into key research areas and issues affecting wider society, such as:
• climate change
• transport
• compassionate care
• an aging population.
• We also catch up with all the latest news from around the University, including funding success focusing on research on young people with developmental disorders
• Read about Robert Llewylen’s (aka Kryten from Red Dwarf) visit to our Department of Computing and Communication Technologies' new cognitive robotics laboratory
• Find out about a current research project developing online learning for trainee health visitors
• And now that we have made our final submission to the REF (Research Excellence Framework 2014), we turn our attention to proposals for Open Access with a helpful guide on what this means for you.

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