Tag: The University of Birmingham

UK citizens call for stronger safeguards as cultivated meat nears regulation

Stuart Mitchell

As cultivated meat moves closer to regulatory consideration in the UK, a new report has set out a series of public-led recommendations aimed at ensuring the technology contributes to a fairer, safer, and more transparent food system. Cultivated meat – which is grown from animal cells rather than produced through traditional livestock farming – has been developed over decades and is now transitioning from research into potential commercialisation. The Cellular Agriculture Manufacturing Hub (CARMA), a collaboration between the University of Bath, the Royal Agricultural University (RAU), University College London (UCL),…

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Rwanda launches ambulance communication system that could save many lives

Stuart Mitchell

Ambulance crews in Rwanda’s capital city could save more lives with the launch of a unique electronic system that could speed hospital transfers – reducing the likelihood of people dying unnecessarily from injuries caused by road traffic crashes, accidents, or violence, as well as other emergency condition. The system is potentially revolutionary in low-resourced settings, such as countries in the Global South – using a single software system to enable faster location of the patient, guidelines-based assessment of their condition, and selecting the nearest facility that can treat their condition.…

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The University of Birmingham in collaboration with Music Football Fatherhood announces the winners of the inaugural Working Dads Employers Awards 2022

Stuart Mitchell

Birmingham Business School’s Equal Parenting Project and Music Football Fatherhood developed the awards to celebrate organisations that recognise and promote the role of fathers in driving gender equality in the workplace.  By supporting parents employers can aid working families, attract and retain top talent, help close the gender pay gap and alleviate the motherhood penalty.  The awards, not only celebrate current employers, but give companies the opportunity to further break down the gendered barriers to child-caring in order to promote gender equality in the workplace, reduce the gender pay-gap, encourage…

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