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University of Portsmouth appoints new Vice-Chancellor

The University of Portsmouth has appointed Professor Graham Galbraith, currently deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hertfordshire, as Vice-Chancellor. He succeeds Professor John Craven who will retire after 16 years in post. Professor…

Professor Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili opens Graduate School

Professor Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster, has officially opened the University of Portsmouth’s Graduate School, set to boost the careers of post graduate students. The Graduate School will help develop researchers…

Michele Roberts

An evening with author and poet Michèle Roberts

Award-winning author and poet, Michèle Roberts, will talk about her work at a free event at the University of Portsmouth this Wednesday 23 January. Best known for her highly acclaimed novels The Wild…

Learning to read need not be an uphill battle

Early readers should be taught meaning first

Children would find it much easier to learn to read and write if they were first taught how the English language works and what words mean, rather than trying to sound out words….

Geoff Long and Ran Fiennes

UoP blogging the coldest journey

University of Portsmouth sports science technician Geoff Long is currently on board SA Agulhas as she makes her way south carrying Sir Ranulph Fiennes and his six man team to begin the first…

Stargazing pic

Hundreds of people spend an evening with the stars

Portsmouth residents attended an evening of stargazing, space activities, public lectures and cosmology chat at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on Thursday night. Over 600 people were at HMS Warrior 1860 in Portsmouth for the…

Winner: Catherine Ellis

Graduate voted most likely to rise to top

A recent graduate of the University of Portsmouth Business School has won a national professional award as ‘The One to Watch’. Catherine Ellis, 25, was voted winner at the Institute of Chartered Secretaries…

Legal Psychology

Portsmouth to become home of legal psychology

Threats from international terrorism, organised crime, criminal networks and violent gangs are to be addressed by a new doctoral programme offered by the University of Portsmouth. From 2013, the University of Portsmouth, in…

Richard Haines receiving his certificate for best dissertation of the year from Head of Sport and Exercise Science, Dr Richard Thelwell

Student’s final project wins national award

A University of Portsmouth student has won first prize in the Undergraduate Dissertation of the Year Award from the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES). Richard Haines, 22, from Bristol,  is the…

Christmas turkey

Turkey fat is money down the drain

Britons will pour 15 million cups of roast turkey fat down the kitchen sink on Christmas Day, enough to nearly fill an Olympic swimming pool. New research from the University of Portsmouth has…

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