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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 4h

👋 Looking forward to welcoming prospective UG students to our On Campus Open day @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social today!

Explore what we can offer you, from our #appliedsciences facilities & services to our teaching staff & the students already here experiencing it!

Undergraduate On Campus Open Day | UWE Bristol

Come along to an Open Day at our Frenchay Campus, City Campus and Glenside Campus to get a real insight into student life at UWE Bristol.

www.uwe.ac.uk

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UWE Bristol @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social · 9d

New funding for researchers to develop trustworthy clinical AI for assessing brain activity.

Electroencephalography is a non-invasive method for recording brain activity and is a vital tool for diagnosing and monitoring neurological conditions such as epilepsy, sleep disorders, and brain injuries

New funding for researchers to develop trustworthy clinical AI for assessing brain activity | UWE Bristol

Researchers have received funding from UK Research and Innovation to help bring their innovative brain-monitoring AI technology closer to real-world use.

www.uwe.ac.uk

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 2d

📢 Undergraduate On Campus Open day this weekend!

📅Sat 11 Oct, UWE Bristol

Great opportunity to explore what we can offer you. From our Applied Sciences facilities and services to our teaching staff & the students already here experiencing it!

Booking required 👇
www.uwe.ac.uk/events/under...

Undergraduate On Campus Open Day | UWE Bristol

Come along to an Open Day at our Frenchay Campus, City Campus and Glenside Campus to get a real insight into student life at UWE Bristol.

www.uwe.ac.uk

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 3d

Deadline to apply for Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science is TODAY! ⬇️

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 17d

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science

The post holder will support students on our #environmental & #conservation science programmes, contribute to teaching & learning, & supervise UG & PG research projects across the discipline.

www.uwe.ac.uk/about/jobs ref: R08772

Closes 8 Oct

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 4d

👏 Congratulations to SOAS PhD student Scarlet Maguire who won the Favoured Talk at the AAB 'Creating Canopies Conference' held in Carlisle. Scarlet's research focuses on the monitoring & modelling of ash-dieback using remote sensing.

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 4d

The first Employability Seminar for students takes place tomorrow 👇

Summer Bursary Projects- A Students Perspective
Speaker: Various Student Speakers
Date: 8th October 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Location: 2B020, Frenchay Campus

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 4d

📢 Calling all SOAS students - check out our Science Futures website!

Science Futures is the careers & employability space for the School of Applied Science. Through our curriculum, events & our annual fair, we enable our students achieve their career potential.

sciencefuturesuwe.co.uk

ScienceFutures – School of Applied Science

sciencefuturesuwe.co.uk

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 4d

Hancock, J.T. , Corpas, F.J. , Silveira, N.M. and Kolbert, Zs. (2025) A brief history of nitric oxide in plants: How we got here, where we are, and where we might be going.
Journal of Plant Physiology and Metabolism (in press)

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Journal of Plant Physiology and Metabolism

Scilight Press is an international academic publisher dedicated to open-access peer-reviewed journals and books. As a global multidisciplinary publisher, we provide a platform for researchers, scholar...

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 4d

Richard Luxton, Janice Kiely, Martina Piano, Jackie Barnett, Nicola Morris, Marcus
Drake (2025)

Magneto-agglutination biosensor system for rapid detection of bacteria causing urinary
tract infections,

Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Volume 290, 117923,

ISSN 0956-5663,

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 4d

Eugenol@Natural Zeolite vs. Citral@Natural Zeolite Nanohybrids for Gelatin-Based Edible-Active Packaging Films. Gels 11(7):518 (2025).
doi.org/10.3390/gels...

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 4d

🆕New Publications

Eugenol@Montmorillonite vs. Citral@Montmorillonite Nanohybrids for Gelatin-Based Extruded, Edible, High Oxygen Barrier, Active Packaging Films. Polymers 17(11):1518 (2025).

doi.org/10.3390/poly...

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to be welcoming our new Postgraduate Research students today! #postgraduate #postgrad #appliedsciences

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 16d

📢 We're very excited for the first ever Postgraduate Research Welcome Fair on 7th October on @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social Frenchay Campus!

#postgraduate #postgrad #appliedsciences

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 10d

Excited for our Alumni event this evening!
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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 11d

📢 Don't forget, it's the School of Applied Sciences Alumni Networking Event tomorrow!

📅Wed 1 Oct 5-8pm
📍UWE Bristol, Frenchay Campus

Open to all students, staff and alumni.

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 11d

📢 Don't forget, it's the School of Applied Sciences Alumni Networking Event tomorrow!

📅Wed 1 Oct 5-8pm
📍UWE Bristol, Frenchay Campus

Open to all students, staff and alumni.

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UWE Bristol @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social · 16d

The University is a partner in a ground-breaking project awarded almost £800,000 in funding to protect one of Madagascar’s most precious and threatened forests.

The initiative will run for five years and will involve working closely with communities living in TAPA.

UWE Bristol to help protect threatened forest in Madagascar in £800k project | UWE Bristol

UWE Bristol is a partner in a groundbreaking project awarded almost £800,000 in funding to protect one of Madagascar’s most precious and threatened forests.

www.uwe.ac.uk

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 15d

👏 Congratulations to Alice Dibley, SOAS PhD student, for winning the best poster award at the 11th Meeting of the IOBC-WPRS Working Group Integrated Protection in Oak Forests meeting in Sassari, Sardinia!

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 16d

📢 We're very excited for the first ever Postgraduate Research Welcome Fair on 7th October on @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social Frenchay Campus!

#postgraduate #postgrad #appliedsciences

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 16d

We are really proud of recent School of Applied Sciences graduates Phoebe Davis & Syed Ayaan Reza who founded ConFloUK!

Both founders were inspired to create ConFloUK after attending the inaugural Minoritised Life Scientists Future Forum MLSFF2025 in Birmingham.

Find out more: www.conflo-uk.com

ConFlo UK | Find STEM Conferences Near You & Worldwide

Never miss a STEM conference again. Search by field, location, or date, and get tailored updates. ConFlo UK helps researchers, students and professionals connect, discover, and attend events with ease...

www.conflo-uk.com

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 17d

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science

The post holder will support students on our #environmental & #conservation science programmes, contribute to teaching & learning, & supervise UG & PG research projects across the discipline.

www.uwe.ac.uk/about/jobs ref: R08772

Closes 8 Oct

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 17d

#CPD #ConservationCareers #CapacityBuilding #ProjectManagement #ConservationCommunication #ConservationTraining #ConservationNGO

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 17d

👏Congratulations @emmanueladukwu.bsky.social !

UWE Bristol @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social · 18d

We're pleased to announce that Prof. Emmanuel Adukwu has been appointed Dean for Students, focusing on student experience and outcomes for Global Majority students.

UWE Bristol appoints new Dean for Students | UWE Bristol

www.uwe.ac.uk

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 17d

26 Sept is the final deadline to enrol for the @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social & Bristol Zoological Society’s online CPD courses in Conservation Project Management & Conservation Communication & Marketing!

courses.uwe.ac.uk/USSYHB30M/co...
courses.uwe.ac.uk/USSYHC30M/co...

#conservation

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks to external examiner, Professor Mark Sutton (UK HSA), internal examiner Dr Gareth Robinson and to all supervisors, Dr Jenny May, Dr Dann Turner and Dr Robin Thorn.

School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations to Alex Cooper who last week successfully defended his PhD "Understanding the efficacy of antimicrobial aerosols through the development of a bacteriophage-based viral model" !

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School of Applied Sciences UWE Bristol @uwesoas.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations to Dr Alexandros Stratakos who has been selected for the EIT Food Innovator Fellowship (delivered by EIT Food, Aarhus University, the University of Turin and University of Bologna).
The Fellowship focuses on translating research to market.

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