Momentum - January 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a crucial role to play in identifying terrorist content online, but human input remains essential to protect human rights and prevent legitimate groups being wrongly targeted, according to a new report by a team including Swansea University experts.

Regular exercise could reduce the risk of stroke in post-menopausal women, according to new research partly undertaken in Swansea.

Swansea University research into how artificial intelligence could be used to help tackle coastal flooding has just secured a major funding boost.

Swansea University is playing a key role in a new platform aimed at bringing together UK strengths in the research of rare diseases to develop better and faster understanding, diagnosis and treatment.

The UK Research Institute (UKRI) has announced that 75 of the most promising research leaders will benefit from £101m to tackle major global issues and to commercialise their innovations in the UK. Among the future scientific leaders announced by the UKRI is Dr Helen Chadwick.

Led by Professor Perumal Nithiarasu, a team from Swansea University is developing a cost-effective alternative to the current expensive and invasive diagnosis of Coronary heart disease (CHD), one of the top killers in the world. 

Dr. Sarah Hillcoat-Nallétamby, in collaboration with French research and government institutions, co-led a study about how the UK and France are trying to manage the challenge of an ageing population and what lessons can be learnt from a comparative perspective.

Inspired by her own experience as an international student in the UK in 2012, Dr Mengwei Tu is seeking to answer why students choose to study abroad, what happens after studying abroad, and what the impact is of overseas education on the student, their families and the sending/receiving countries.

In this episode of Exploring Global Problems, Professor Ian Walker explores the phenomenon of ‘Motornormativity’ and discusses behaviours that are triggered automatically and unconsciously by the environment an individual finds themselves in specifically in the context of driving habits.

In this article from The Conversation, Swansea University's Dr Sophia Komninou and Professor Sue Jordan uncover new breastfeeding research which finds that mothers taking prescription medicines are faced with a lack of information.

Dr Mike Burgum is a Research Officer at Swansea University Medical School. His primary research interests are in regulatory toxicology, nanomaterial mutagenicity, and nanomaterial characterisation.

Amy Locke is a PhD student in the School of Medicine. Her research examines the introduction of universal free school meals in primary education, with a focus on children’s health and wellbeing.

SPECIFIC Innovation & Knowledge Centre is at the forefront of sustainable technologies, developing and integrating solar technologies to reduce carbon emissions, and creating buildings that can generate, store and release their own heat and electricity from solar energy.

A Swansea University historian will play a key role in a new research project which aims to use humanities and social science expertise to help bring patient voices into healthcare research and practice.

Swansea University is a partner in a new international collaboration aimed at investigating possible ways to convert the carbon dioxide emitted by industries into renewable fuels.