On 28th June 2022, KESS 2 funded researcher Donna Dixon from Bangor University shared her insights on the increased device usage of children during lockdown in a discussion with Robin Williams and Jennifer Jones on BBC Radio Cymru. Donna’s research project, titled “Behavioural and health impacts of raising children in a digital household” aims… Read more »
Bangor University KESS 2 PhD candidate Owain Barton has published his first paper in the academic journal PLoS ONE (Impact Factor 3.24). Owain’s research investigates factors influencing landscape-scale use of woodlands by fallow deer and is conducted in collaboration with The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (www.gwct.org.uk/wales) and The British Deer Society (www.bds.org.uk). The aim of… Read more »
On 8th June 2022, KESS 2 PhD researcher Tom Major and Bangor University peer Lauren Jeffrey, both from the School of Natural Sciences, featured on the BBC’s Springwatch sharing their research on the introduced Aesculapian snake population in Colwyn Bay. Tom and Lauren have been radio tracking the snakes, allowing them to understand their… Read more »
Adam Williams, a KESS 2 participant from Cardiff University, recently won the ‘Researching the Rainbow: LGBTQ+ thesis of the Year’ award at National Student Pride 2022. It is the UK’s biggest LGBTQ+ student event, committed to improving the queer student experience across the UK. The award acknowledges a researcher who demonstrates a passion for bringing… Read more »
Article reposted from: https://www.southwales.ac.uk/news/news-2022/taking-the-time-to-talk-to-patients-is-fundamental-for-their-care/ To mark International Nurses’ Day (Thursday 12 May) we are speaking to some of our inspirational Nursing graduates who are continuing to make a real difference in their profession. Hilary Dyer, a mental health nurse who worked on acute wards for a short period during the Covid-19 pandemic, is studying a Masters by… Read more »
10th March 2022 is World Kidney Day and here at KESS 2 we are highlighting some of the fantastic kidney related research funded by the ESF in partnership with Kidney Wales. KESS 2 researchers Emma Jones of Bangor University and Lauren Jones of Cardiff Metropolitan University both have research projects with Kidney Wales. Lauren’s project… Read more »
On 6th of June 2021, Bangor University’s KESS 2 PhD student Nawaf Aldabashi presented his innovative honeybee monitoring radar device at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium, hosted virtually from Atlanta in the US. The event was a hybrid of both online and in-person attendance and Nawaf was given the opportunity to remotely demonstrate the design… Read more »
Bangor University KESS 2 researcher Tom Major presented preliminary findings from his PhD work at the recent online Herpetofauna Workers Meeting on Saturday the 5th February 2022. The conference focused on non-native reptiles and amphibians in the UK and Tom, whose research is sponsored by the Welsh Mountain Zoo, was given the opportunity to… Read more »
On Friday 11th February 2022 we celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by highlighting some of KESS 2’s very own Women in STEM in a Twitter campaign:
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of KESS 2 Alumnus, Dr Adrian Mironas, who passed away on the 24th of January 2022. We would like to remember Adrian by recognising his achievements and contributions through KESS 2 and the wider professional academic society. Adrian was passionate about his… Read more »
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