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Hayley is a trained Canine Massage Therapist and works alongside Vets and other therapists to provide holistic care for her doggy clients… Here she teaches us how to use our science and intuition to spot the pain signals in your dog and how new therapies are emerging that can help!

Dr Sian Rowsell PhD will share easily-applicable ‘life hacks’ to help you: enjoy better health, reduce workplace (or driving to work) accidents, improve your ability to learn, your decision-making and your productivity.   Why is it so important to pay attention to the quality and quantity of our sleep? Dr Ron Chervin – Professor of …

5 top tips for quality sleep. Read More »

Sarah Todd from Oxify Leeds Ltd is coming over to talk to us about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HbOT), it’s uses, the health and sports injuries it can assist with as well as some of the research behind HbOT.

Datasets get more valuable the longer they are collected and Dr Claire Risley has been lucky enough to be involved in the continuation of data collection on one of our most interesting mammals: the skomer island vole. Please join us on the 26th February to see the first albino skomer vole discovered! About Claire: Claire …

The vole truth: observing our native endemic vole subspecies on skomer island across the decades Read More »

Have you heard of one medicine? This is an approach where human and animal healthcare advance hand in hand. In research we can learn a lot about disease and how treatments work by studying different species. In the case of musculoskeletal conditions, such as osteoarthritis, horses can be used as a model organism, with veterinary …

One Medicine: How horses can help us understand human osteoarthritis Read More »

How often have we heard about criminal cases that remain unresolved and fade into oblivion? Unsolved cases have significant economic and societal impacts on every nation, breeding distrust towards the criminal justice system. The team at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston is pioneering innovative research aimed at enhancing our understanding of complex forensic …

Investigate the Dead! How Science can Improve Criminal Cases Outcomes Read More »

Biomarkers can take many forms in the body, but in the case of cancer they are often cells (known as Circulating Tumour Cells), proteins or DNA that have been shed by the tumour and can be measured in the bloodstream of a cancer patient. More commonly, they are measured in the patient’s tumour. Ideally, we …

Cancer Biomarkers: What are they, and how are they useful in the fight against cancer? Read More »

From an evolutionary standpoint, sexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are. If you were to take a picture of your brain during sex, you’d see that despite everything going on between your legs, the real action is happening between your ears. In this engaging and interactive talk, we’ll explore: – Primal, physical, and …

Sexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are, discover why! Read More »