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The creative arts are by no means alone in recognising the benefits of practice-as-research. The value of 'learning through doing' is gaining popularity in other disciplines too.

Parents of deaf children with complex disabilities are locked in battle with health, social care and education professionals to access vital support and medical care for their child, a report published today (Thursday) has revealed.

' Sociomedical Sciences ' Research & Service ' Keeping Preschoolers with Asthma Out of the Hospital Multi-Pronged Model for Managing Asthma in Preschoolers Leads to a Dramatic Drop in Emergency Room

Professor Sarah Woolley does research on males who mate for life and help out around the home. If you asked where these creatures can be found, she might direct your attention outdoors.

If your children dream of spaceships and saber tooth tigers, love baby animals or want to save the planet, give them a summer to remember at Bell Museum Science Discovery Day Camps beginning Monday, June 13, through Friday, Sept.

Two effective treatments benefit up to 60 per cent of patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), according to a collaborative trial by King's College London and col

Why is it funny when people fall over? What are jokes for? A session for teenagers at Cambridge University today will come up with some answers.

Imperial launches School of Public Health A new School of Public Health that aims to address the major global health challenges of the 21st century is being launched at Imperial College London today. Monday 14 February 2011 A new School of Public Health that aims to address the major global health challenges of the 21st century is being launched at Imperial College London today, in an event featuring the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley.

Plans to develop a new teaching resource using a unique collection of films made in India during the final decades of British rule have been announced by the University of Cambridge.

Press release issued 9 February 2011 What services does Bristol provide for disadvantaged two-year-olds and what impact do they have? These are just two of the questions a team of researchers from the University will be asking parents, carers and early years practitioners in the city.

Policy 01 Feb 11 'What constitutes "quality" in the education and care of children from birth up to the age of five?' is the question being tackled by Oxford researchers.

Sibling rivalry is driven by the transfer of wealth between generations, according to new research by anthropologists at the University of Bristol and Addis Ababa University.

Top Stories People Press Clips @Work What's Happening Faculty Authors YouTube Video Catapults UCSD Senior and Daughter to Internet, TV Stardom Ioana Patringenaru | Jan.

A radical reorganisation of Greater Manchester's education system has resulted in unprecedented improvements in test and exam results, especially among children and young people previously regarded as unreachable.

Australian cuckoo birds have taken a new evolutionary step - mimicking the colour of their host young to avoid certain death, according to a study by researchers from The Australian National University.

UC San Diego Study Suggests Link Between Sudden Infant Death and Alcohol December 16, 2010 By Inga Kiderra Not a happy holiday thought, but an important one: The number of babies who die of SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, surges by 33 percent on New Year's Day.

Gaining an insight into the implications of vision loss may now be as simple as donning a pair of 'vision goggles', thanks to a creative new teaching aid.

A University of Manchester Professor - and one of the UK's greatest champions for the intellectually disabled - has told of his amazing January 1939 escape from Nazi Austria in a new book.

Most Australians do not approve of IVF or abortion for sex-selection purposes, and most do not think a hypothetical blue or pink pill to select the sex of a child should be legal, a new study has found. The study, led by Dr Rebecca Kippen from the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, analysed responses from more than 2,500 people participating in the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, combined with a series of in-depth parental interviews.

Brain scans may be able to predict which children with dyslexia are likely to improve their reading skills over time, according to a new study led by MIT and Stanford researchers. Some 5 to 17 percent of U.S. children suffer from dyslexia, a learning disorder that makes it difficult to read.