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Launch of the summer round of the BU Undergraduate Research Assistantship...
I am delighted to announce today the launch of summer round of BU’s Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA) programme. Funded by the Fusion Investment Fund, this programme offers paid employment...
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BU Undergraduate Research featured in Houses of Parliament
BU was well represented at BCUR’s Posters in Parliament Event in February. Karolina Tamauskaite of the Faculty of Management and Susan Girvan of the Faculty of Science and Technology presented their...
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Apply for the Undergraduate Research Assistantship programme now!
On 1st March we announced the launch of the next round of the Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA) programme and opened the call for applications for positions to run in summer 2015 (see Launch...
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Datalabs 2: Maps and Mashups
Digital technologies like google maps have transformed the ways people relate to visual representations of geographic space. From zoom functionality on street view, to rainbow coloured social network...
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BU final year students present at 5th Annual Promotional Communications...
Some 44 advertising, marketing, public relations, and politics and media undergraduates present their dissertation research at the Fifth Annual Promotional Communications Conference on 20 May at the...
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Datalabs 3: Digital Storytelling with Data
Digital transformations in communications have led to the increasing popularity of data visualisations and the use of maps and other multimedia interactives for representing complex data. Often, these...
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What do Fishbone, Amusement Park and Apigee have in common?
They are all tools for digital storytelling. On Thursday May 14th, the Fusion-funded, inter-faculty BU Datalabs team presented at Interdisciplinary Research Week. Guests from across the University and...
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The Politics of Societal Impact: Community Development and Critical Scholarship
How can we do research that engages with communities in a genuinely collaborative way? What kind of research produces findings which address critical questions about the structural issues and problems...
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European Fusion: An Early-career Academic’s Experience at the Norwegian...
From Dr James Gavin — I began writing this Blog in Oslo Gardemoen Airport last Sunday when my evening flight was delayed, and have just got round to finishing it now after a week catching up with...
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Collaborative ethnography and undergraduate learning
The value of providing undergraduate students with experience of conducting first hand, empirical research is widely recognised. As a social anthropologist, I’ve long been interested enabling students...
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Fusing news and views on fish genetics and population restoration
We reported recently on this blog that work on our fusion-funded co-creation and co-production project on fish population restoration was progressing strongly in July. Yesterday, we held our workshop...
View ArticleIntroducing Jo George, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Hello, I will be working within the Health and Social Sciences Faculty with Impact Champion, Zoe Sheppard, over the next six weeks on the endeavour to monitor and measure the impact of research. My...
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FoL event: What’s your story? Childbirth over the last 60 years.
Midwifery educators and researchers from CMMPH Dr Jen Leamon and Dr Jenny Hall, with help from Shelly Anne Stringer RDO, spent the day in an empty space engaging creatively with shoppers in the...
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Fusion Investment Fund: Neuroscience has found that emotions are a primary...
We were very fortunate to receive Fusion funding for our collaboration between colleagues and students in Health and Social Sciences, Sports Science, and a variety of external practice partners....
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Where Numbers met Narratives: A Final Review of the BU Datalabs Fusion Project
Carried out between January 2015 and July 2015, our Fusion CCCP and RKEO Small Grant funded BU Datalabs project explored the possibilities and challenges associated with the communicative power of...
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CMMPH editorial in today’s Nepal Journal of Epidemiology
The current issue of the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published today carries an editorial by a BU-led team of researchers and development workers. The editorial Mental health issues in pregnant women...
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The impact of the enshrining of the research intensive university
Earlier this year a large number of academics across the UK completed the biennial Principal Investigators and Research Leaders Survey (PIRLS) run by Vitae. Looking through the responses from BU...
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Linking research and practice – Appointment to international panel
Professor Tom Watson of the Faculty of Media & Communication has been appointed to the Academic Advisory Panel of AMEC (the Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication). He...
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Editorial by Dr. Way in top journal highlights midwifery education
The forthcoming editorial in Midwifery (Elsevier) by FHSS’s Dr Susan Way highlights the importance of midwifery education and its educators.[1] This editorial makes reference to the recent series on...
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Erasmus funding still available
This is a reminder that there are 3 weeks left to make your application for Erasmus Staff Mobility Funding! You may recall the blogpost released last week (link) which outlined that we have funding...
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