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The waste from larvae production could be used as a crop fertiliser should commercial insect farms get off the ground in the UK. This is the concept that researchers at the ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ and Durham University are investigating as part of a major government-funded project to look at the viability of rearing insects for animal feed in the UK.

The National Automotive Innovation Centre, in the Prof. Lord Bhattacharyya Building, at the ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ, has been recognised as one of the best workplaces in the Midlands and Central England at the annual British Council for Offices (BCO) regional awards. The BCO’s Festival Awards Week, recognises the highest quality developments in the UK and sets the standard for excellence in the regional and national office sector.

The capacity for language is built upon our ability to understand combinations of words and the relationships between them, but the evolutionary history of this ability is little understood. Now, researchers from the ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ have managed to date this capacity to at least 30-40 million years ago, the last common ancestor of monkeys, apes and humans.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many people across the world, one particular way includes supply chains, some people found they couldn’t buy pasta or loo roll, and it was the same for manufacturers, who suddenly had to change their strategies to ensure their supply chain during the pandemic. A survey by researchers at WMG, ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ saw 250 mid to large manufacturers from food and beverage to automotive, and pharmaceuticals to electronical equipment and more industries respond to the survey about their supply chain resilience in the current state and future potential.

Advanced recycling company ReNew ELP, based in Teesside, has been awarded a £4.42 million grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to build the world’s first commercial-scale plastic recycling plant using Cat-HTRâ„¢ technology with WMG, ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ. 

Dr Adriano R. Lameira, from the Department of Psychology at the ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ, has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leader Fellowship, for his project: The ape and the first word: Understanding the origins and evolution of the first linguistic structures in the human clade through comparative research.