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The Scottish Child Payment (SCP) is successfully reducing child poverty and food insecurity, according to a new major study, featuring researchers from the University of York.
Technological developments could change how artists connect with fans, following a trial of a virtual live performance held across two different counties.
A study has revealed that despite centuries of violent regime changes, medieval Sicily was a genetic ‘melting pot’, where Christians and Muslims thrived together.
Scientists have extracted and analysed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential all female burial site.
A University of York academic is set to pioneer a new generation of autonomous biosensors after securing a prestigious €2.5M grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
A University of York professor has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for an ambitious, multi-year project that aims to rewrite the history of risk by tracing how global firms have acted as ‘risk laboratories’ across seven centuries and four continents.
Features
Explore the stories behind our remarkable research community here at York to discover the people and the passion driving us toward a better world.
Dr Jay Harrison is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology. From building self-playing musical instruments to shaping national policy, he champions the role of the ‘technical-creative’ and works to bridge the evidence gap between art and industry.
Composer, performer, and sound artist Federico Reuben, and CoSTAR Live Lab Co-Director Gavin Kearney, tell us how they think AI could cross the legal badlands and emerge from the shadows, to become the next chapter in creativity; and how institutions like the University of York could play its part in creating a new perception of technology’s latest bogeyman.
Gill Francis is Assistant Professor of Psychology in Education at the University of York. A developmental-cognitive psychologist, her research focuses on the role of play in child development for neurodivergent and neurotypical children.