Month: May 2023

Channel 4 teams up with We Are Parable for a second year of mentoring programme for Black film and content creators across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 is renewing and expanding its partnership with award-winning organisation We Are Parable following a successful first year of Momentum – a mentoring and training programme for Black TV, film and content creators across the UK. Channel 4 will work with We Are Parable to help progress the careers of people keen to work in the TV and film sectors in cities including Leeds, London, Bristol, Glasgow and Birmingham, and will also expand across Scotland and the Midlands this year. The mentorships offer participants the opportunity to receive one…

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Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025

Stuart Mitchell

Apple has announced a major acceleration of its work to expand recycled materials across its products, including a new 2025 target to use 100 percent recycled cobalt1 in all Apple-designed batteries. Additionally, by 2025, magnets in Apple devices will use entirely recycled rare earth elements, and all Apple-designed printed circuit boards will use 100 percent recycled tin soldering and 100 percent recycled gold plating.  In 2022, the company significantly expanded its use of key recycled metals, and now sources over two-thirds of all aluminium, nearly three-quarters of all rare earths,…

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Two Alabama Teens Receive National Recognition for Helping Create & Pass Alabama’s First-Ever Period Poverty Law

Stuart Mitchell

Brooke and Breanna Bennett, Co-Founders of Women in Training, Inc. (WIT), were recognized on March 28 for their tremendous advocacy work – helping to create and pass Alabama’s “period poverty” law in April 2022, which allocates $200,000 to the Alabama Department of Education to provide grants for menstrual products to students in Title I schools. Engage – a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting women’s economic security through bipartisan and commonsense solutions – honored Brooke and Breanna with the first-ever Engage Woman Award for Non-Profit Leadership – making them the youngest…

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Designs for green ammonia plant become reality

Stuart Mitchell

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) researchers are building a small-scale plant to generate ammonia using only renewable energy sources. Ammonia is a promising carbon-free fuel source of the future and so if successful, the plant has the potential to considerably advance the UK’s net zero ambitions. It marks the second phase of the Ammonia Synthesis Plant from Intermittent Renewable Energy (ASPIRE) initiative which will be led by STFC in conjunction with the University of Bath, Johnson Matthey, and Frazer-Nash Consultancy. The journey to net zero The first phase of…

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Networks to strengthen public’s role in research and innovation

Stuart Mitchell

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded 25 grants in the first phase of its £3.6 million Community Research Networks programme. The programme will empower communities to develop grassroots research agendas and build capability and expertise in community-led forms of research and innovation. The investment is supporting 25 collaborations, who have each received £25,000 for the initial expression of interest phase. Over the next six months, collaborations will work with local communities to develop detailed plans for a network in their area. They will be given the opportunity to bid…

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