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It has been wonderful to see the impact that KASPAR has had and I commend the University for taking this research so far.
Jane Asher, President of the National Autistic Society and Patron of TRACKS Autism
Parents and teachers have been surprised by the results they have witnessed – some seeing their child interact, mimic or make eye contact for the first time in their school.
Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn
By exploiting a unique magnetic property of asbestos, we developed a new detection method which can provide on-site, real-time identification of the dangerous asbestos fibres.
Professor Paul Kaye at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics
The team hopes that, over time, the new detector will help to reduce the 100,000 annual death toll that the World Health Organisation attributes to occupational exposure to airborne asbestos.
Professor Paul Kaye at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics
All the children were highly susceptible to gesture and spoke about extra information fraudulently planted by the interviewer
Dr Liz Kirk, University of Hertfordshire
This has serious implications for forensic interview of child witnesses, particularly where they may have witnessed a traumatic event which they may have to confront again during questioning. Interviewers need to think very carefully not just about what they say, but how they say it.
Dr Liz Kirk, University of Hertfordshire
We need to ...develop strategies for deploying crop resistance for rapeseed which can then be applied to a wide range of crop systems.
Dr Henrik Stotz, Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Life and Medical Sciences
We are investigating potential new drugs to block a protein called S100P which has been shown to be involved in the growth and spread of pancreatic cancer, as well as some other common cancers
Dr Sharon Rossiter, principal investigator and medicinal chemist at the University of Hertfordshire’s Department of Pharmacy
This new technique will help to understand the role that supermassive black holes played during the formation of galaxies.
Marc Sarzi, University of Hertfordshire’s Centre for Astrophysics Research
Many people with dementia have additional long-term health problems which, if not managed well, can make a person’s dementia worse or lead to unplanned hospital admissions.
Dr Frances Bunn, University of Hertfordshire
The behavioural symptoms often experienced by people with dementia can put them at risk, affect their quality of life and also be very stressful for those providing care and support.
Dr Daksha Trivedi, University of Hertfordshire
Tau Ceti is one of our nearest cosmic neighbours and so bright that we may be able to study the atmospheres of these planets in the not too distant future.
James Jenkins, Universidad de Chile and Visiting Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire
We pioneered new data modelling techniques ...which increased our ability to find low mass planets.
Mikko Tuomi, from the University of Hertfordshire
Older people taking part in our study said that services are most effective for them when there is continuity of care through a specific professional.
Professor Claire Goodman
More importantly, with a key professional to speak to about their healthcare, the older person and their family can be more involved in reviews and decisions.
Professor Claire Goodman
Over the last decade in the UK, a wide range of programmes have been made available to healthcare workers and educators to reduce violence and associated triggers.
Professor Fiona Brooks
The longer orbit of the new planet means that its climate and atmosphere may be just right to support life.
Hugh Jones, University of Hertfordshire
We pioneered new data analysis techniques....to reveal three new super-Earth planets around the star known as HD 40307, making it into a six-planet system.
Mikko Tuomi, University of Hertfordshire
...there is no reason why such a planet could not sustain an Earth-like climate,
Guillem Anglada-Escude, University of Goettingen
The needs of people with dementia and their carers are complex and varied which makes diagnosing and supporting this group particularly challenging
Dr Frances Bunn
The standard of the submissions has been extremely high and their content is quite breath-taking. Gaining a Primary Science Quality Award is a significant achievement for a school.
Jane Turner, Associate Director Science Learning Centre East of England and PSQM project leader
Using modern DNA techniques to detect and quantify the pathogen in potatoes enables us to better understand the spread of potato late blight.
Professor Bruce Fitt
Unlike mental decline associated with normal aging, something about Alzheimer’s specifically disadvantages women.
Professor Keith Laws
These research grants provide a fantastic opportunity for enthusiastic and capable students.
Dr Kirk
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New international collaboration to protect the world’s crops

Experts from the UK and India are working together to identify and develop novel environmentally-sustainable strategies to control plant pests, known as plant-parasitic nematodes or eelworms, to ensure global food production and security.  This project is funded by the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI).Plant-parasitic nematodes are thought to cause annual losses to crops in the region of $77 - $100 billion globally.  They are an important constraint on crop production by reducing the effective uptake of water and nutrients by the plant’s root system.  Since the middle of

Understanding disease resistance genes in crops to secure future food production

A new understanding as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help scientists breed new, more successful disease-resistant agricultural crops. The new concept is called effector-triggered defence or ETD.Breeding agricultural crops for resistance against disease pathogens is essential in the quest to secure global food production.  However, despite efforts to control them, crop diseases still account for fifteen percent of the losses in the world’s food production.  Farmers spray their

New degree in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security launched

A new undergraduate degree aimed at tackling concerns of food security and sustainability is now recruiting for 2014.The BSc (Hons) in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security has been designed around internationally recognised expertise and facilities at four partner institutions all located in central Hertfordshire: the University of Hertfordshire, the Royal Veterinary College, University of London (RVC), Rothamsted Research and Oaklands College. The course places livestock production at the heart of thinking about how we ensure that the human population has a healthy and sustainable

Developing new methods to assess resistance to disease in young oilseed rape plants

Being able to measure resistance to disease in young oilseed rape plants is vital in the battle to breed new disease resistant varieties of the crop, and is the focus of a study by a team of researchers led by the University of Hertfordshire.Oilseed rape is prone to phoma stem canker, also known as blackleg disease, which is responsible for losses worth more than £1,200 million in oilseed rape crops across the world.  With the fragile state of the world's economy and concern over food shortages, there is a need to protect arable crops from disease. However, assessing disease resistance in

New Centre for Agriculture partnership announced at Vice-Chancellor’s annual lecture

Meeting the increasing need for food to feed the world’s expanding population was the subject of this year’s annual lecture from Professor Quintin McKellar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, as he announced the new Centre for Agriculture, Food and Environmental Management – a new collaboration between the University, the Royal Veterinary College, and Rothamsted Research.Professor McKellar’s 2013 lecture, ‘Give us this day our daily bread’, explained the need for action to avoid food crisis and described how the University, together with its partners, planned to tackle the

University of Hertfordshire responds to demand for trained Agricultural Scientists

Ensuring there is enough food to feed the growing population and still remain sustainable is critical for the world’s food and farming industry, as the first group of students on the University of Hertfordshire’s MSc in Environmental Management for Agriculture have been discovering.The delivery of food security requires capacity building in the area of sustainable agriculture – as highlighted by Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs during a recent speech at Rothamsted Research on “making the food and farming industry more competitive while protecting the

It’s all in the genes - preventing rapeseed crop failure

Understanding what affects the resistance genes in rapeseed crops is the focus of a new Marie Curie Fellowship research project being led by Dr Henrik Stotz at the University of Hertfordshire.Rapeseed crop failure is not only an economic problem; it is a major concern for food security as well as for biofuel production.   Climate change and increasing populations threaten our global food security, driving an urgent need to develop crops that suffer fewer losses from diseases yet still produce good sustainable harvests. Dr Henrik Stotz, Marie Curie Fellow at the University of

Modern DNA Techniques Applied to Nineteenth-Century Potatoes

Researchers led by Professor Bruce Fitt, now at the University of Hertfordshire, have used modern DNA techniques on late nineteenth-century potatoes to show how the potato blight may have survived between cropping seasons after the Irish potato famine of the 1840s.Late blight of potato is caused by the microorganism, Phytophthora infestans, which rapidly destroys the leaves of potato crops and was responsible for the infamous Irish potato famine of the 1840s that left over one million people dead and another one million Irish emigrating. With growing concerns over food shortages and climate

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