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Mental Health: Why is stigma increasing?

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Efforts have increased to combat mental health stigma over the past few decades. But why, paradoxically, are rates of prejudice and discrimination rising for those with severe mental illness? Research reveals that the biomedical model of mental illness has increased rates of stigma for those living with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Despite small gains in public perceptions of people living […]

Meet the Editorial team: Eva Murtzen

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An interview with Eva Murtzen, Senior Editor at RPI and Research Outreach, about her interests, background and work with the publication

Get to know Eva Murtzen, Senior Editor at Research Publishing International (RPI). She’s been working with Research Outreach since 2020 and hasn’t looked back! Can you start by telling us about your background and how you came to be working with RPI? I moved to Bristol just before the pandemic because my partner had found a position as a postdoc […]

Research Outreach – Issue 133: Bee farming, electrical eye activity, and IP disputes

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In the last issue of 2022, Research Outreach contains a sparkling array of articles covering the latest studies into topics such as intellectual property, health and gender inequality, and an eye-opening experiment on detecting vision problems in alcoholics. We feature some fascinating interviews, talking to leaders in their fields about the importance of critical pedagogy and how a programme assessing […]

Meet the Editorial team – Rachel Perrin

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An interview with Rachel Perrin, Editorial Director at Research Publishing International, about working with Research Outreach. Rachel enjoys spending time outdoors with her family.

Get to know Rachel Perrin, Editorial Director at Research Publishing International. She’s been working with Research Outreach for the last four years and is truly passionate about what we do here. So, can you start with telling us a bit about your background? I’ve always had a passion for science. I studied physiology and did my PhD at Bristol University […]

Meet the Editorial team – Adele Walker

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Research Outreach - an interview with Adele Walker. View of Maiden Castle, Dorset, the hill fort.

Get to know Adele Walker, one of our editors on the team at Research Outreach. Can you give us some insight into your background and how you came to be working at Research Outreach? I’m an archaeologist by training – I learned my craft at an impressive Iron Age hillfort called Maiden Castle in Dorset. I fell in love with the […]

Research Outreach – Issue 132: Police deception, machine learning, and psychedelic therapy

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Research Outreach Issue 132 includes a number of articles, such as a study of a natural resin as a powerful pesticide, how phytoplankton impacted biodiversity, and how implementing solvent-based recycling could transform plastic manufacturing into a more environmentally friendly process. We also catch up with Dr Ben Sessa about his research into the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy and the work […]

The life of a lithium-ion battery

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A review of lithium-ion batteries for Research Outreach issue 133

If you’re reading this on a laptop or mobile phone, it’s likely powered by a lithium-ion battery – a huge amount of our everyday technology, from computers to medical devices and electric vehicles, relies on them. With so much demand, it’s no surprise that there is a significant amount of research into maximising the efficiency of lithium-ion batteries and working […]

Climate justice: International Open Access Week 2022

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Celebrating #OAWeek2022 with our favourite articles on this year's theme of 'Open for Climate Justice '

#OAWeek…is now open! Open access to knowledge is essential for tackling the climate emergency. ‘Openness can create pathways to more equitable knowledge sharing and serve as a means to address the inequities that shape the impacts of climate change and our response to them’, says SPARC, the organisers of International Open Access Week 2022. Opening on the 24th of October […]

Ecology in our cities: Why urban biodiversity matters

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Helping to raise public awareness of biodiversity in urban areas

In the UK, conservation charity Plantlife runs an annual campaign to raise awareness of the detrimental effects of excessive lawnmowing. A perfectly manicured lawn may have once been something to be proud of, but keeping grasses cut down is deleterious to the environment. This year, the ‘No Mow May’ campaign reached even more people than in previous years, and helped […]

Research Outreach – Issue 131: Vaccines, nanotech, and new teacher troubles

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Research Outreach Issue 131 covers the spectrum of scientific research from long-range submarine sensors to using nanotechnology in nuclear fusion, as well as social issues such as building inner strength, and how to support new teachers when teaching ‘out-of-field’. We cover a number of positive new insights in the field of medicine, including a valuable approach to childhood vaccines that […]