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Cardiff University is a world-leading, research excellent, educationally outstanding university, driven by creativity and curiosity, which fulfils its social, cultural and economic obligations to Cardiff, Wales and the world.

The University is recognised in independent government assessments as one of Britain’s leading teaching and research universities and is a member of the Russell Group of the UK’s research intensive universities. Among its academic staff are two Nobel Laureates, including the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine, University Chancellor Professor Sir Martin Evans.

Founded by Royal Charter in 1883, today the University combines impressive modern facilities and a dynamic approach to teaching and research. The University’s breadth of expertise encompasses: the College of Humanities and Social Sciences; the College of Biomedical and Life Sciences; and the College of Physical Sciences, along with a longstanding commitment to lifelong learning. Cardiff’s three flagship Research Institutes are offering radical new approaches to neurosciences and mental health, cancer stem cells and sustainable places.

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If you can’t attack the Beeb, shoot the messenger. Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

The controversial business of researching BBC impartiality

Mike Berry, Cardiff University; Justin Lewis, Cardiff University; Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University; Kerry Moore, Cardiff University; Richard Sambrook, Cardiff University, and Richard Tait, Cardiff University

Whoever takes over from Lord Patten as the new head of the BBC Trust has a tough job ahead – there’s the Scottish referendum and the general election, both potential minefields for a public broadcaster…
Cool customer Andy Coulson. Anthony Devlin/PA

Phone hacking judge sums up as Coulson holds firm on stand

John Jewell, Cardiff University

It seems that after six long months, the phone hacking trial is nearing its conclusion. The trial judge, Justice John Saunders, has begun his summing up, and has instructed the jury to consider an amendment…
Subject to change. Bak16/Deviant Art

Explainer: what is genetic risk?

Adrian Harwood, Cardiff University; Jeremy Hall, Cardiff University, and Mike Owen, Cardiff University

Genetic risk is the contribution our genes play in the chance we have of developing certain illnesses or diseases. Genes are not the only deciding factor for whether or not we will develop certain diseases…
EU elections: when no voters in 2014 may mean a ‘no’ vote in 2017. David Cheskin/PA Wire

EU election at risk from apathy and voter dissatisfaction

Jonathan Este, The Conversation

Less than a month out from the EU parliamentary elections and polls are showing either disenchantment or downright disinterest in the European project among the British public. Following a YouGov poll…
Thank goodness for black and white. Michael

Explainer: why do we blush?

Raymond Crozier, Cardiff University

Awkward and embarrassing, the human act of blushing raises many difficult psychological and physiological questions. Why should an emotional response take this particular form and does it serve any purpose…
Would you want to study under the bright lights of the Big Apple? iwillbehomesoon

Fees drive rise in UK students who want to study abroad

Gemma Ware, The Conversation

A growing number of UK students are considering going abroad to study with a majority of them motivated in some part by the rise in university fees at home, according to new research on student mobility…
It clearly takes more than nice packaging to impress this cool cat. Felix Idan

Bottled water is the marketing trick of the century

John Jewell, Cardiff University

Writing in the Daily Telegraph Dr Phil Hammond, the GP, comedian and columnist wonders whether we have all swallowed the “water con”. Have we, he asks, abandoned rational thought? The answer to this question…
Power of suggestion. Summer Kitchen

Nudge can make us healthier even if it’s a bit 1984

Mike Marinetto, Cardiff University

In George Orwell’s futuristic dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four, O’Brien, an apparatchik of the Thought Police come sadistic torturer, famously boasts to the book’s protagonist Winston Smith, “We create human…
Class one – how much you owe us. Birkbeck Media Services Centre

Drop in overseas students adds to universities’ cash woes

Colin Riordan, Cardiff University

Sweeping changes to the way student visas are allocated have been recommended by the House of Lords science and technology select committee. It is the sixth time the government has been given such steers…
A room in Beijing reserved for relatives of those on MH370. Ng Han Guan/AP

Flight MH370 confirmed lost: experts respond

Matthew Greaves, Cranfield University; Adam Tyson, University of Leeds; Andrew Smith, The Open University; Chris Hughes, University of Liverpool; David Stupples, City, University of London; Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University; Morgen Witzel, University of Exeter; Peter Kinderman, University of Liverpool; Thomas Furey, Marine Institute, and Yijun Yu, The Open University

Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has confirmed that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, with no survivors. In a press conference, Razak said new information proved…
By day, they were mild-mannered business studies academics. Olaf Gradin

Wanted: crime-fighting academics to catch corporate criminals

Mike Marinetto, Cardiff University

“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” This maxim is attributed to 19th century man of letters Honoré de Balzac – the suggestion being that business activity of any kind is inherently corrupt…
A ban is unlikely to remove halal or kosher food from the high street. EPA/Peter Kneffel

We already have the answers to humane religious slaughter

Mara Miele, Cardiff University

With kosher and halal food an increasingly common feature of the British high street, a top vet has called for reform of their slaughter practices, calling them inhumane. These alternative methods of animal…

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