Issue 4
NIGHT OWLS HAVE HIGHER RISK OF DYING SOONER
‘Night owls’ – people who like to stay up late and drag themselves out of bed in the morning – have a higher risk of dying sooner than ‘larks’, those who have a natural preference for going to bed early and rising with the sun.
The research, by Surrey and Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, looked at nearly half a million people in the UK Biobank Study and found ‘owls’ have a 10 per cent higher risk of dying than ‘larks’. In the study sample, 50,000 people identified as owls were more likely to die in the 6½ -year period sampled.
Scientists found owls had higher rates of diabetes and psychological and neurological disorders.
“This is a public health issue that can no longer be ignored,” said Malcolm von Schantz, Professor of Chronobiology at the University. “We should discuss allowing evening types to start and finish work later, where practical. And we need more research about how we can help evening types cope with the higher effort of keeping their body clock in synchrony with sun time.”
CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF ERASMUS AT SURREY
Since records began, the University has sent more than 2,000 students to study or work to another part of the EU with Erasmus funding.
NEW SYSTEM TO AID GIFT AID DONATIONS
Charities across the UK are missing out on millions of pounds each year due to donors not adding Gift Aid onto donations. A new process being developed by Surrey will make the transaction much easier in future.
Swiftaid will enable Gift Aid to be automatically added onto any card donation via banking apps, once a donor has signed up to the service.
The project, in collaboration with Streeva and Creditcall, is being led by Professor
Steve Schneider, Director of The Surrey Centre for Cyber Security. He said: “As technology moves forward and card payments remain the leading form of payment, it is vital that there is a solution for attaching Gift Aid to card donations while protecting the donor’s privacy. Surrey’s leading research will provide the foundations for a secure and practical system to help streamline these donations.”
The Erasmus programme was launched in 1987 enabling students to study at a higher education institution in another European Union country. In the first year fewer than 1,000 UK students participated. Since then, the programme has developed to include 28 countries in Europe and, under the International Credit Mobility stream, nearly all countries in the world.
Surrey students have studied at 115 different partner universities and worked in more than 350 different companies. We now have 50 active Erasmus partnerships, where students regularly move in both directions. In 2016/17 150 students spent a period of study and/or work in another European country, with Spain, France and Germany the three favoured destinations.
The UK will remain in the Erasmus scheme until at least 2020 with plans to continue membership after that.
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