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Erasmus funding still available
This is a reminder that there are 2 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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BU Undergraduate Research on show in Parliament
The UK’s best undergraduate research has been on show in Westminster earlier this month. The annual Posters in Parliament exhibition, hosted by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), saw 53...
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Dr Lenia Marques nominated to the World Leisure Organization Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of World Leisure Organization (WLO) just welcomed Dr Lenia Marques as a member for the mandate 2016-2018. “Founded in 1952, World Leisure, is a world-wide, non-governmental...
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Erasmus funding – last week to apply!
This is a reminder that there is one week 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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BU Civic Media Hub & the Omega Research Foundation publish report on the...
Peaceful demonstrators tear gassed in Turkey Responding to a request for more data on tear gas misuse in Council of Europe member states, the BU Datalabs team hosted a daylong data hack day to...
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Faculty of Management students attend high profile industry event
Students and staff from the Department of Events & Leisure in the Faculty of Management recently attended an exclusive charity reception hosted by the Fastforward15 mentor programme at Basement at...
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Fusion in Action: Clinical Academic PhD scholarships jointly funded with NHS
Doing a PhD may appeal to midwives and other NHS health professionals, but it often involves having to make difficult choices. Undertaking a part-time PhD means studying on top of a busy clinical...
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Free speech only applies to those with nothing to say…
Some things are worth fighting for… liberty, freedom of speech…people have died for these. When the war between Iran and Iraq finished, I realised that we had lost some of the most courageous young men...
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BU to host National Undergraduate Research Conference in April 2017
Bournemouth University is getting ready to host the 7th BCUR (British Conference in Undergraduate Research) on April 25-26 2017. Previous hosts include: University of Central Lancashire (2011),...
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THET-project planning meeting in Kathmandu
This week we had our latest planning meeting for the BU-led and THET-funded project in Nepal. The project has been running for over a year (following a six-month delay due to the terrible 2015...
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Bringing FUSION to Nepal
We have written in many previous BU blogs about progress of our THET-funded project in southern Nepal (e.g. here AND here ). Today’s blog reflects on the use on BU’s unique FUSION approach in our...
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CIPPM’s AHRC-funded Project Copyrightuser.org publishes Episode II of the...
Copyrightuser.org – is a collaboration between the Law Department’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) at Bournemouth University (BU) and CREATe, University of Glasgow, has...
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InsideBU – Out Now
The latest issue of InsideBU, the magazine for BU staff and students, is out now. This issue brings the concept of Fusion to life through a range of features and articles including: Celebrating...
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The Bournemouth University Civic Media Hub is hosting a series of ‘Innovation Lunches’ with invited guests from institutions across the UK. Bringing together BU faculty, PGR and UG students from...
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BU staff, students and alumni celebrate the launch of Events Management: An...
Dr Paul Kitchin, Lecturer Sports Management, Ulster University and Dr Nicole Ferdinand, Senior Lecturer Events Management, Bournemouth University, Editors for Events Management: An International...
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Graduate Project – Supporting innovation at BU
My name is Oliver Cooke and I am currently in my third year of study on the BA Honours Media Production course. As part of my Graduate Project, I am developing a media package in order to showcase a...
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BU alumni supporting innovation projects at BU
Dominika Budka is currently working on an innovation funded (HEIF) project called: “Dinosaurs to Forensic Science: Digital, Tracks and Traces”. She graduated last year (2016) having completed an MSc...
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BU alumni working on serious gaming project
Joshua (Josh) Cook graduated in 2016 with a first in BSc Games Programming. He is currently working on an innovation project being led by Professor Wen Tang. ” PLUS” is a gamified training...
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Research Drove Me to Murder
“As reported by National Policing Improving Agency, the most frequently encountered evidence at the scenes of a crime is footwear impressions and marks. Unfortunately, recovery and usage of this kind...
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The Compound Eye of Calliphora Vomitoria (Bluebottle fly)
“Blood feeding activity of flies at crime scenes can be confounding. Experiments were conducted to investigate the blood feeding activity, and blood artefact patterns created by flies following a...
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