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Our New Look
Four years ago, the first VOICE digital platform was launched with the aim of making it easier for members of the public to find out ab...
- 27/10/2020
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- Helen Sandford
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Usability testing of coronavirus antibody kits: From a Zoom call with the public to a study of 14,400 people
When Imperial College was approached to run a programme of antibody testing that could estimate how many people in England had already ...
- 28/08/2020
- Health & wellbeing, Health & Social Care Research, Ageing, Big Data & Digital Health, Blood & Immune System, Infectious diseases
- Philippa Pristera
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onHand in the North East
We have been working with an innovative Tech for Good company to pilot their service in the North East of England. They match vetted vo...
- 05/08/2020
- Innovation for Ageing, Culture & Society, Health & wellbeing, Mobility & Transport
- Meera Vijayaraghavan
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The VOICE Pulse: 4 weeks in...
How does a pandemic affect our physical and psychological health? Does social isolation change who we are? What are the positive and ne...
- 23/04/2020
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COVID-19 - VOICE Announcement
We are taking a proactive approach to the ongoing situation regarding coronavirus and are aware that the situation is changing daily an...
- 13/03/2020
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- VOICE Head Office
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Housing Secretary unveils green housing revolution
A new green standard for new build homes will bring an environmental revolution to home building. A new green standard for new buil...
- 07/10/2019
- Culture & Society, Housing
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Newcastle UNI-Health Programme - A brief summary of the week
This last week we finally enjoyed the second edition of UNI-Health program held in Newcastle University! The topic of this very special...
- 07/10/2019
- Housing, Mobility & Transport, Culture & Society, Health & wellbeing
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UNIHealth: A Personal Perspective - Barbara Douglas
Barbara Douglas of Elders Council of Newcastle participated in two visits to the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid as part of the UNI H...
- 24/09/2019
- Housing, Mobility & Transport, Culture & Society, Health & wellbeing
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Countdown to the UNI Health Newcastle Programme begins!
We’re now just a few days away from the start of Newcastle UNI Health programme week on 30 September. “UNIversity exchange programme cr...
- 19/09/2019
- Health & wellbeing, Culture & Society, Mobility & Transport, Housing
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Catalysing your insights
If you have been to the Newcastle Helix site recently, you will have seen that the Catalyst building is almost ready to open its doors....
- 13/09/2019
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Inside the village that caters for its ageing population
Pescueza in Extremadura, western Spain, is adapting to provide for the needs of its older population through a non-profit project calle...
- 03/09/2019
- Innovation for Ageing, Culture & Society, Housing, Mobility & Transport
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The grandmother effect suggests that proximity is a factor in family size
The human species is one of the very few, along with orcas and pilot whales, where females cease to be fertile after approximately 45 y...
- 27/08/2019
- Culture & Society, Women's Health
