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Research A-Z

Spotlight on research

A video series of innovative and impactful research projects based in our Advanced Research Centre [ARC]
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Research excellence at Glasgow. Recognition for our world-leading research, and the positive impact it has on society.

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News

23 Oct

New research on knitting in Scotland traces two centuries of innovation, craft and fashion

Knitting in Scotland: Culture, Craft and Industry is the first comprehensive history and analysis of Scotland’s knitting trade.
23 Oct

UK libraries set to help borrowers check out brighter days this winter

A pioneering project which enables library-goers to borrow kits to help them tackle the effects of seasonal affective disorder is set to roll out across the UK’s four nations this winter.
22 Oct

£1.4M new network aims to strengthen UK electronic materials sector

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are set to lead a new partnership which aims to strengthen the UK’s sovereign capabilities in the development, manufacture, and commercialisation of electronic materials.

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The Advanced Research Centre (ARC)

Find out more about the University of Glasgow's new research centre and flagship research building - the ARC. The £116 million building helps bridge the boundaries between research, cross subject collaboration and true societal impact.

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College research

Changing the world since 1451

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World-changing Glasgow. Our people have always been at the forefront of innovation. Our past achievements inspire our current world-changers.

1776 – Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations

1848 – Lord Kelvin proposes an absolute scale of temperature, now called the Kelvin Scale

1867 – Joseph Lister publishes research on the use of antiseptic in surgery

1879 – first successful removal of a brain tumour by William Macewen

1895 – Sir William Ramsay discovers helium

1896 – John Macintyre opens the world’s first x-ray department

1898 – Sir William Ramsay discovers neon, krypton and xenon

1913 – Frederick Soddy discovers isotopes

1926 – John Logie Baird invents television

1936 – John Boyd Orr publishes link between poverty, poor diet and ill health

1958 – Ian Donald shows the world the first ultrasound image of a foetus

1958 – discovery of first beta-blocking drug to treat coronary heart disease by Sir James Black

1967 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers radio pulsars

1974 – Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett create the Glasgow Coma Scale

1995 – James Shepherd leads a landmark study on use of statins to prevent heart attacks

2009 – A team of Glasgow researchers, led by Christian Kay, publishes the world’s first Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

2010 – Keith Muir leads the first fully regulated clinical trial of stem cell therapy for stroke patients

2015 – Sheila Rowan leads the Glasgow team that first detected gravitational waves

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