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Scores of students and staff welcomed Sir Kevin Sinfield to the University’s athletics track as part of his final endurance event to raise money for motor neurone disease charities.
AI adoption and upskilling could boost the Yorkshire and Humber economy by £38bn by 2030, according to landmark research detailing the region’s future skills needs.
A new teaching resource has been launched to help secondary schools challenge misogyny and the influence of the online ‘manosphere’.
Higher education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom have established a transatlantic partnership to advance research, skills, and policy in fusion energy.
People across the G20 want their economies transformed, but they no longer trust theirgovernments to achieve this change, a new survey has shown.
A University of York academic has co-produced a new exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of influential artist John Flaxman.
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Explore the stories behind our remarkable research community here at York to discover the people and the passion driving us toward a better world.
In a global fight against climate change, nature is often treated as a silent victim or a passive backdrop to human needs. Although climate activists demand justice for the planet, our current legal system might not be fit to meet those demands. As the ecological crisis deepens, a once-fringe question and idea is slowly entering our minds: can nature itself have rights?
Dr Jay Harrison is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology. From building self-playing musical instruments to shaping national policy, he champions the role of the ‘technical-creative’ and works to bridge the evidence gap between art and industry.
Composer, performer, and sound artist Federico Reuben, and CoSTAR Live Lab Co-Director Gavin Kearney, tell us how they think AI could cross the legal badlands and emerge from the shadows, to become the next chapter in creativity; and how institutions like the University of York could play its part in creating a new perception of technology’s latest bogeyman.