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Cardiff Innovation Campus – Education and engagement with Bouygues UK

Cardiff Innovation Campus – Education and engagement with Bouygues UK

Posted on 9 January 2019 by Innovation + Impact blog

Guest post – Nick Toulson, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Advisor, Bouygues UK  Education Interactions during the Construction Phase As with any major construction project, community benefits are now either a […]

The science behind Cardiff’s space-age scanner

The science behind Cardiff’s space-age scanner

Posted on 20 December 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

A super-sensitive passenger scanner that reveals hidden security threats has been trialled at Cardiff Airport. The walk-through device applies space technology to image human body heat. The result of a […]

The Effects of Concussion in Sport

The Effects of Concussion in Sport

Posted on 13 December 2018 by Peter Theobald

Head injury in sport is becoming an increasingly prominent societal challenge. The effect of concussion, or ‘mild traumatic brain injury’ (MTBI), is now frequently reported in sports including rugby and […]

Innovation…

Innovation…

Posted on 28 November 2018 by Damian Walford Davies

Words have histories, like places and people. Consider ‘innovation’. You’ll say the word has become a cliché, a cant word in the media, a piece of management speak or glib […]

Guest post: Linda Hazzard – Living with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL)

Guest post: Linda Hazzard – Living with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL)

Posted on 8 November 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

Linda Hazzard won the ‘People’s Choice’ Social Media Competition at Cardiff’s 20th Innovation and Impact Awards earlier this year. A former local government employee from Weston-Super-Mare, Linda voted for Cardiff […]

Chinese delegates visit Institute for Compound Semiconductors

Chinese delegates visit Institute for Compound Semiconductors

Posted on 5 November 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

Cardiff’s Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS) has played host to officials from Chongqing Municipal Government in south western China. The party of ten delegates visited the University to get to […]

Case Study – Qioptiq

Case Study – Qioptiq

Posted on 11 October 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

Cardiff University expertise helped the North Wales company Qioptiq win an £82m defence contract, creating and safeguarding jobs. Experts from Cardiff Business School spent two years developing a toolset to improve Denbighshire-based Qioptiq’s inventory forecasting […]

Meet our innovators – Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Meet our innovators – Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Posted on 10 October 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

I’ve always been interested in what we can do to make firefighters safer. My husband is also in the fire brigade. There was an incident one day where someone on […]

Urban Innovation

Urban Innovation

Posted on 8 October 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

Professors Rick Delbridge and Kevin Morgan visited Canada to explore the changing role of universities and cities in urban innovation networks. The cities of Ottawa and Toronto are both trying […]

Guest Post – Bula Batiki Update

Guest Post – Bula Batiki Update

Posted on 4 October 2018 by Innovation + Impact blog

Callum Drummond is a Cardiff University graduate and founder of Bula Batiki, raw Fijian coconut oil. Callum, along with co-founder Ellis Williams set up the business after experiencing the struggle […]