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Why go back to the office?

Why go back to the office?

Posted on 19 July 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

The Coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly catalysed one of the most rapid transformations in many people’s working lives for decades. UK data suggests that while 5% of workers worked from home […]

RemakerSpace leads green revolution

RemakerSpace leads green revolution

Posted on 12 July 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

A new centre dedicated to repair, reuse and recycling will make its home in sbarc | spark,  Cardiff University’s new #HomeofInnovation. RemakerSpace is Wales’ first not-for-profit academia/industry centre focused on the circular economy, […]

Shaping a seat of innovation

Shaping a seat of innovation

Posted on 5 July 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

Choosing the right furniture, finishes and fixtures for a building can inspire creativity and bring ideas to life. Cardiff University is partnering with Bridgend-based BOF to furnish sbarc | spark – the University’s future ‘Home of Innovation,’ due to open […]

How Cardiff University’s sbarc | spark building will nurture post-pandemic recovery

How Cardiff University’s sbarc | spark building will nurture post-pandemic recovery

Posted on 28 June 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

Cardiff University's new sbarc building opens this coming winter. It aims to grow collaborations, businesses, spin-outs, start-ups, and social enterprises, bringing together essential ingredients to boost enterprise in Cardiff and the […]

Exciting time for the innovation agenda in Wales

Exciting time for the innovation agenda in Wales

Posted on 21 June 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

It is an exciting time for the innovation agenda in Wales. The Centre for Innovation Policy Research at Cardiff University has recently undertaken research alongside Welsh Government considering the views […]

RemakerSpace reshapes the future 

RemakerSpace reshapes the future 

Posted on 14 June 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

Sustainability, green jobs, resilient growth: words that will increasingly fill our airwaves as the UK prepares for the UN Climate Change Conference this autumn. How can Wales, ranked third in the world for recycling, […]

Innovation culture at the heart of new development designed to strengthen social and economic wellbeing in Wales.

Innovation culture at the heart of new development designed to strengthen social and economic wellbeing in Wales.

Posted on 7 June 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

Professor Karen Holford, Deputy Vice Chancellor at Cardiff University, spoke to Business News Wales about the vision for Cardiff Innovations@sbarc. Cardiff University has created a thriving innovation culture that excels […]

Milestone for Big Ideas Wales

Milestone for Big Ideas Wales

Posted on 31 May 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

In just five years, over 300,000 young people across Wales have been inspired to follow entrepreneurial ambitions through Welsh Government’s Big Ideas Wales service. And rather than dent aspirations, the Covid-19 pandemic has […]

COVID-19 sheds new light on violence and how to prevent it.

COVID-19 sheds new light on violence and how to prevent it.

Posted on 21 May 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

In his PhD studies in the 1980s Jonathan Shepherd matched police data with hospital emergency department (ED) records of people injured in violence. Startlingly, three quarters of violent offences which […]

SIOE 2021

SIOE 2021

Posted on 10 May 2021 by Innovation + Impact blog

Professor Peter Smowton, It was with great pleasure that we welcomed friends old and new to the 34th Semiconductor and Integrated OptoElectronics (SIOE) Conference, from 30th March to 1st April 2021. Following the unfortunate cancellation of SIOE […]