Day: September 5, 2026
Election to the Academy of Social Sciences is one of the most significant honours available to researchers in the field in the UK. This year, two academics from Lancaster University have earned that distinction. Professor Suzanne Ost, of the Law School, and Dr Aaron Winter, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, are among 74 social scientists recognised […]
Artificial intelligence now writes music, produces images, drafts text, and generates software code. What the law should make of these outputs has divided courts, registries, and policymakers around the world. A recent decision from the Indian Copyright Office has now added an important voice to that conversation. Writing in an expert commentary, Professor Ryan Abbott, […]
The latest statements from Anthropic about cyber incidents involving its Claude models have generated intense discussion across the AI community, and for good reason. According to commentary from University of Surrey experts — Professor Alan Woodward of the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security and Dr Andrew Rogoyski of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI — […]
The University of Exeter Business School has been shortlisted for Business School of the Year at this year’s Times Higher Education (THE) Awards, one of the most closely watched recognition programmes in UK higher education. The nomination places Exeter among a select group of institutions competing across 20 categories, and it reflects the school’s sustained […]
The University of Exeter has reached a defining moment in its international strategy. On 2 September, the university welcomed its inaugural cohort of undergraduate students to the Exeter-Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT) Joint Education Institute in China, marking Exeter’s first transnational education cohort and one of the most significant developments in UK-China academic cooperation in […]
When researchers, policymakers and business leaders gather at the Xfi building at the University of Exeter this September, they will mark ten years of work that has changed how the UK accounts for land. The Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), part of the University of Exeter Business School, was founded on a premise […]
The University of Roehampton has announced the introduction of Google Gemini for Education, giving students and staff secure, supported, and responsibly governed access to artificial intelligence tools within a managed university environment. The decision forms part of the institution’s wider AI roadmap and reflects a significant shift across UK higher education: preparing graduates for workplaces […]
Artificial intelligence now sits at the centre of how banks process transactions, how hospitals manage patient data, and how software companies build and ship products. But the security tools designed for traditional software were never built to protect AI models, autonomous agents, and AI-powered applications. Mindgard, a spin-out company from Lancaster University, has built its […]
The University of Portsmouth has added a major achievement to its research record. Professor Jia Liu, a Professor of Accounting and Finance in the Faculty of Business and Law, has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) — one of the most respected honours available to social scientists working in the […]
