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A new international collaboration, which supports UN Sustainable Development Goals, will help the residential construction sector to recover from COVID-19 and build resilience to future shocks.

Four women from across the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences were this week recognised in the University’s Women of Achievement Awards.

“When people think about forests capturing carbon, they tend to focus on the tropical rainforests, like the Amazon,” says Dr Cat Scott.

Dr Ornella Iuorio’s work in developing innovative modular housing construction, in partnership with ilke Homes, has received the prestigious Institute of Civil Engineers Sir John Fowler Award 2021.

Researchers have mapped the physical organisation of the brain of a soil-living nematode worm, creating a new model for the architecture of the animal’s brain.