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The WMG Skills Centre launched today, the 17^th January. The Centre provides the opportunity for businesses to respond to challenges through a range of innovative short courses which will equip workforces with the latest technical skills.

Leading physicist Professor Sandra Chapman of the ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ has been awarded the 2022 Chapman Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for ‘paradigm shifting’ research into the physics of the solar wind and magnetosphere, our near-earth plasma environment.

A UK-backed mission which which will search for Earth-like planets orbiting alien stars has been given the green light to continue with its development after passing a critical milestone review.

Dr Siddartha Khastgir from WMG, ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ, has been appointed to be on the DfT’s Science Advisory Council, where he will advise on a wide range of science and engineering issues, such as enrolment of Autonomous Vehicles.

Global policy commitments on conservation such as the recent COP 26 declaration on Forest and Land Use are a step in the right direction but policy-makers must be inclusive of indigenous peoples and ensure that any initiatives learn from the long and problematic history of forest conservation, argues an international consortium of indigenous scholar activists and social, cultural, environmental, and behavioural scientists in correspondence published today [13] in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.

An observatory spearheading a groundbreaking astronomical survey has completed a key upgrade, which will allow ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ astronomers to achieve the aim of surveying hundreds of thousands of our near-neighbour stars.