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Children’s University visits Welsh School of Architecture

Passport to the City: Cardiff Children’s University visit the Welsh School of Architecture

2 May 2023

A scheme designed to encourage and develop a love of learning in children continues in its success.

Dark underwater scene beneath blue sun beam

Twilight zone at risk from climate change

27 April 2023

Study warns of climate change risk to twilight zone life

The top of a tsunami warning tower is photographed against a blue sky. The tower is painted red and white and features solar panels and megaphone speakers

Using artificial intelligence to create a tsunami early warning system

25 April 2023

Real-time classification of underwater earthquakes enables earlier and more reliable tsunami alerts

A landscape with skyscrapers in the distance, and wind generators and solar panels in the foreground

Tackling the need for leaders in the move to Net Zero with a new MSc

24 April 2023

Our new MSc in Engineering Net Zero will provide skilled graduates for the move towards a net zero society.

Left to right: Professor Graham Hutchings, Professor Zeblon Vilakazi and Professor Roger Sheldon.

Sustainable energy on the agenda at Wits

21 April 2023

Professor Graham Hutchings CBE FRS joined fellow distinguished scientists at the event in South Africa

Dr Federico Wulff and Dr Mamuna Iqbal lead Heritage for Development to develop and reactivate heritage sites for deprived communities in Pakistan

3 April 2023

Visiting the Walled City of Lahore, Dr Federico Wulff applied Architectural and Urban Design-Research methods to develop urban and architectural reactivation projects.

Creating a new way of building cyber skills in our university

29 March 2023

PwC’s Dr Nia Evans has played a crucial part in developing our award- winning master’s programme in Cyber Security and Technology. She now joins the University as an Honorary Senior Lecturer.

Two rows of people wearing lab coats are photographed in a laboratory in Cardiff University’s Translation Research Hub

Launch of new centre showcases innovations in catalysis research

29 March 2023

UK-EU science partnership aims to meet net zero challenge with new catalysts

Drone image of a degraded forest in Malaysian Borneo

Recovering tropical forests offset just one quarter of carbon emissions from new tropical deforestation and forest degradation, study finds

22 March 2023

Scientists use satellite data in first pan-tropical estimates of carbon stock recovery across Amazon, Central Africa and Borneo

The Welsh School of Architecture’s Low Carbon Built Environment (LCBE) team holding three trophies on stage at the National CIBSE Performance Awards 2023.

Low Carbon Built Environment (LCBE) team wins Building Performance Champion at 2023 CIBSE Awards

10 March 2023

Welsh School of Architecture’s Low Carbon Built Environment (LCBE) team took the most prestigious award of the evening, as well as two further awards for Best Collaboration and Domestic Project of the Year