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Professor Gillian Parker, director of the Social Policy Research Unit

Royal award for University's social policy researchers

A research unit at the University of York, which has helped to develop a range of policies to support vulnerable people in society over more than 35 years, has been awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.

Screenwriters’ archive gift to Borthwick Institute

Sweet as can be: how E. coli gets ahead

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The magnetic building blocks of nanotechnology

Research in the Department of Physics is revealing the properties of some promising building blocks for nanotechnology.

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Central Hall and the University lake

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Awards and partnerships

The Queen's Anniversary Prizes logoQueen's Anniversary Prizes

The University has been awarded four Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education.

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Campus development plans