The University of Surrey is a global university, renowned for the outstanding quality and impact of its graduates and research, as well as its collective contribution to society.
Since the University’s founding in the 1960s out of origins that can be traced back to 1894, its community has thrived on strong connections and collaborations on campus and with the wider world.
Today, we remain true to those goals and have an ambitious strategic agenda to be in the top 100 universities in the world, generating knowledge, educating change-makers, and influencing practice beyond our boundaries for a better society and planet.
Surrey is always looking for ways for its academics to engage with the public and show the relevance of research to the wider world. The Conversation will provide opportunities to do this.
Research with impact
Ground-breaking research at Surrey is bringing direct benefits to many spheres of life – helping industry to maintain its competitive edge and creating improvements in the areas of artificial intelligence, sustainability, health and life sciences, medicine, and space science.
The 2021 Research Excellence Framework reported that 89 per cent of our submitted research outputs are rated as world-leading or internationally excellent, while 94 per cent of our research is taking place in an environment conducive to producing world-leading or internationally excellent research in the future.
An international outlook
The University of Surrey is committed to being a world-leading, international university. Our goal is to work with international partners to tackle the global challenges we face. We actively explore opportunities for high-quality joint research with government, industry and charitable organisations.
As part of the University Global Partnership Network (UGPN), whose members include North Carolina State University and The University of São Paulo, we are engaged in a new approach to partnerships, focusing on deep engagement with a small number of institutions across the world.
Estudos com comunidades de caçadores-coletores e sociedades não industrializadas indicam que menos sono pode ser suficiente, mas a qualidade do sono envolve mais do que apenas a quantidade de horas que dormimos, e necessidades individuais variam.
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Eight hours isn’t necessarily the magic number for sleep. Your age, body clock and individual needs all matter.
La mémoire du naufrage du Titanic s’incarne dans des éléments sans cesse repris et réinterprétés (ici, une réplique du grand escalier du paquebot).
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Plus d’un siècle après le naufrage du « Titanic », qui fit près de 1 500 victimes, le 15 avril 1912, la catastrophe reste un puissant objet culturel. Les technologies immersives lui offrent désormais une nouvelle vie, entre mémoire, spectacle et émotion.
Os dilemas morais de guiar turistas por uma paisagem intocada
Com seu amplo campo de visão e precisão, o observatório Nancy Grace Roman poderá ajudar a responder questões relacionadas à natureza da matéria e energia escuras, além de descobrir novos exoplanetas que não podem ser detectados pelos métodos em uso atualmente.
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O telescópio Nancy Grace Roman vai investigar a natureza da matéria e da energia escura e descobrir exoplanetas que não podem ser detectados pelos métodos atuais
On estime que d'ici une dizaine d'années, 400 000 touristes pourraient visiter l'Antarctique chaque été.
Zdenka Sokolickova
L’Antarctique attire chaque année davantage de touristes. Mais pour certains guides, voir les glaciers fondre et les colonies de manchots se remplir de visiteurs est devenu moralement insupportable. Ils racontent pourquoi ils ont décidé de partir.
The Nancy Grace Roman telescope could help answer some of the biggest cosmic questions.
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Perhaps the greatest danger is not that restrictions fail, but that they succeed just enough to convince us that the work is done.
Uma leitura inesperada no smartwatch pode fazer você pensar que algo está errado e causar preocupação, principalmente em pessoas com maior tendência de sofrer com a ansiedade.
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Research Fellow in Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences at the University of Surrey, Visiting lecturer at University of Roehampton and OELS, University of Surrey