With a rapidly ageing population, the number of people with dementia and other age-related disabilities is expected to soar by 2050. Coupled with warnings about future shortages of health workers and doctors, it’s clear other options need to be found.…
Find Out How The HTA Programme Can Help You Achieve Impact And Shape The NHS!
Registration is now open for the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Conference! The two day event, to be held in London on the 9th – 10th October 2013 will provide an ideal opportunity to learn more about how the HTA Programme…
Lincoln professor discovers ‘The Fantastic Mr Feynman’
A revealing documentary film by a Lincoln professor will tell the incredible life story of one of the 20th century’s most extraordinary scientists, Richard Feynman. Coinciding with what would have been his 95th birthday; ‘The Fantastic Mr Feynman’ celebrates the…
University of Lincoln research: Land animals kept fish-like jaws for millions of years
Research has confirmed how early land vertebrates, which evolved from fish, developed weight-bearing limbs and other adaptations long before their feeding systems adjusted to a vegetation-based diet. Now, for the first time, fossil jaw measurements have demonstrated this gap in…
Lincoln funding: LN6 Active Community Grants Scheme
Community groups and organisations can apply now for grants of up to £1,000 for projects which encourage more people in the LN6 postcode area of Lincolnshire to be active, more often. The LN6 Active Community Grants scheme is provided by…
Identifying Afghanistan’s war dead
A forensic anthropologist has contributed to a special report which outlines steps Afghanistan can take to help identify the victims of the country’s 35-year conflict. Gillian Fowler, from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Lincoln (UK), has…