The diversity of the case studies shown below is impressive, and shows that our research, and our training of the next generation of biologists, really does have tangible impact.
One word that is never far from the agenda today is ‘impact’. Increasingly, Universities are being challenged to demonstrate that research is having positive effects on the health, wealth, or well-being of people and the planet.
We will always argue that fundamental curiosity-driven research is also essential, partly since surely it is important (and interesting) to understand how the world works, but also because very often far-reaching impacts come in quite unexpected ways. Below is a sample of some of the ‘impacts’ that have come from research across Biology.
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