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Graduate Business aids local SMEs through pandemic

Graduate Business aids local SMEs through pandemic

Posted on 4 November 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

Steph Locke (BA 2008), a Cardiff University Philosophy graduate founded Nightingale HQ, a digital platform for Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption in 2018. Named with inspiration from Crimean War nurse Florence […]

Drive your career with a KESS 2 scholarship

Drive your career with a KESS 2 scholarship

Posted on 29 October 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

Teaming academic expertise with organisational knowhow is at the heart of innovation. For young researchers in Wales, Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships (KESS 2) can open the door to a job […]

Shooting for the Earthshot Prize

Shooting for the Earthshot Prize

Posted on 21 October 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

When it comes to saving our planet, Adam Dixon believes he can help. The Cardiff University graduate (BEng 2015, MPhil, 2016) founded Phytoponics. The company designs and manufactures Deep Water […]

Sparking the imagination

Sparking the imagination

Posted on 29 September 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

Drone film footage recently captured the physical impressiveness of the sbarc | spark building – soon to be home to interdisciplinary social science researchers, students and a range of external […]

Transforming Cardiff’s media sector

Transforming Cardiff’s media sector

Posted on 15 September 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

Sara Pepper, Director of Creative Economy, shares the ambition of Creative Capital – a Cardiff University-led consortium bid to the UKRI Strength in Places Fund to transform the media sector […]

Business booms for graduate’s tech tour start-up

Business booms for graduate’s tech tour start-up

Posted on 26 August 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

Cardiff University Alumni start-up Virtus Tech – a virtual reality company for the property and retail sector – has come on leaps and bounds since the Home of Innovation blog […]

Double first for electronics forum

Double first for electronics forum

Posted on 24 August 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

Cardiff University recently broke new ground as it hosted a global conference on high frequency electronics. The event notched up two major ‘firsts’ as it was hosted in the UK […]

Success for Language Mentoring Project

Success for Language Mentoring Project

Posted on 4 August 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

The MFL Student Mentoring Project began in 2015, funded by Welsh Government. It was conceived as a response to the steep decline in the number of young people opting to […]

Have you got the Spot-a-bee buzz?

Have you got the Spot-a-bee buzz?

Posted on 27 July 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

The next time you are in the garden or walking the dog, look out for bees. If you take a picture on your phone of the plants they visit, and […]

The road from evaluation to public service reform

The road from evaluation to public service reform

Posted on 22 July 2020 by Innovation + Impact blog

In 2014, in a report for the UK Cabinet Office, Professor Jonathan Shepherd introduced the concept of the evidence ecosystem. For the first time this integrated the processes of evidence […]