Research news

The University of Derby has signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with digital technology studio Bloc Digital.

Dr Charlie Whiffin, Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Derby, is leading an NIHR funded study to determine whether storytelling can support the wellbeing and adjustment of family members after Traumatic Brain Injury.

The second Derbyshire Festival of Business has been launched by the University of Derby's Business School at an event at the University's Enterprise Centre.

Initial construction has completed on a new industrial research facility, which will provide a permanent base in Derby for the University of Sheffield’s Nuclear AMRC, and a new home for the University of Derby’s Institute for Innovation in Sustainable Engineering (IISE).

A new Nuclear Skills Academy has been opened today by Rolls-Royce, with support from the University of Derby, Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, the National College for Nuclear and Derby City Council.

The University of Derby, in partnership with Go Jauntly, National Forest and UK Treescapes, has launched a research study which aims to break new ground in understanding how the UK’s treescapes, a landscape including groups of trees, can benefit wellbeing.

University of Derby academic Dr Naomi Shiner has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by Advance HE.

A new psychological scale to measure ontological addiction – where someone is addicted to themselves and the way they think they exist – has been developed under the guidance of a leading international expert in Contemplative Psychology at the University of Derby. 

Two senior nursing staff, both considered trailblazers of their profession, have been appointed Visiting Professors of Nursing at the University of Derby.

The University of Derby is delivering world-leading and internationally excellent research in Education, according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 results announced today.