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A groundbreaking partnership aimed at revolutionising professional development and career advancement opportunities has been launched by the University of Derby and In Professional Development.

Universities and colleges across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire have come together to launch ground-breaking projects to tackle skills shortages and skills gaps in the region and support hundreds of small and medium sized businesses and organisations (SMEs) – by making sure the area is home to a talented workforce with the high level skills that SMEs really need.

New research suggests that the economic restructuring undertaken by the Thatcher governments in the early-1980s led to more school children ‘giving up’ on their studies, truanting from school and subsequently becoming involved in crime, often in to their adult years.

Newly published research from the University of Derby suggests there may be a need for greater support to help adults with intellectual disabilities to integrate into society, particularly in current Government schemes concerning emotion

A new Derby-based, collaborative research project, which combines medicine and engineering, could improve the lives of thousands of people worldwide who are dependent on dialysis.

Spending time in woodland regulates human emotions and the heart helping to restore a healthy balance when compared to time in urban environments, according to new research. 

Six geology students alongside a research fellow at the University of Derby have published a new research paper into the growth rate, extinction and survival of sea-shells.

A new study published in the Journal for Geographical Research: Biogeosciences has shed new light on how microorganisms move through dryland landscapes attached to wind-blown dust and then alter the surfaces that they land on.

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is challenging people to sign up and join in with 30 Days Wild - June’s national nature challenge to do something wild every day for a whole month is back for its sixth year!