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18 September 2026

UWE Bristol partnership with Frenchay retirement community shares knowledge across generations

Dr Bahareh Vahabi, Associate Professor in the School of Applied Sciences, discusses the civic benefits of the partnership between UWE Bristol and Extra Care Retirement Village.

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17 September 2026

UWE Bristol leads £2 million project helping government departments deliver better economic data

UWE Bristol researchers will lead a team providing academic expertise to key government departments as they work to deliver better economic data.

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14 September 2026

Immersive Arts announces £8.5m second phase funding

Immersive Arts has secured over £8.5 million to continue supporting UK artists working with immersive technologies until 2030.

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11 September 2026

New book delivers decades of machine vision research into the hands of students, engineers and researchers

Practical Machine Vision: 2D, 3D and Deep Learning Systems for Real-World Applications is a new practical guide to machine vision that draws on almost three decades of research.

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07 September 2026

UWE Bristol wins Heroes Award for Anti-Racism Strategy

UWE Bristol’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) team has been recognised with a prestigious prize at the University Alliance Awards 2026.

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04 September 2026

Most money laundering arrests involve people under the age of 30

A new study has highlighted gaps and inconsistencies in law enforcement of money laundering offences in England and Wales.

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19 August 2026

Researcher to lead £455k body image project supporting people with head and neck cancer

A UWE Bristol researcher has been awarded almost half a million pounds to lead a project to develop a body image programme for people living with and beyond head and neck cancer.

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17 August 2026

A statement on the death of Professor Jason Arday

UWE Bristol remembers Professor Jason Arday. 

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12 August 2026

UWE Bristol researcher helps develop pioneering Avon Bioregion River Charter

A University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) academic has helped develop a bioregional charter of rights, to protect the River Avon.

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10 August 2026

Graduate photographer breathing life into Weston-super-Mare’s own identity

A graduate photographer from Weston-super-Mare has created a 'love letter' to his home town to shine a light on struggling coastal communities.

06 August 2026

UWE Bristol lecturer wins prestigious teaching excellence award for interprofessional simulation

A UWE Bristol lecturer, who has organised the largest interprofessional major incident simulation conducted within an education environment in the UK to date, has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by Advance HE.

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27 July 2026

North Wales to host major UK immersive arts event ‘The Big Thing’

Artists, producers and technologists will gather in Llandudno in September as a national event exploring the future of immersive arts heads to North Wales.