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The REF results are in! BU’s research recognised as world leading
After many years of preparation, numerous mock exercises and thirteen long months of waiting, the REF results are finally published today! And the news for BU is excellent! 62% of BU’s research has...
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Capacity Building in Health Research is Focus of International Symposium in...
On 3 January 2015, a day-long symposium dedicated to research capacity building in Nepal will feature mixed-methods research in health and health care. The event is jointly organised by...
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Happy new year! BU’s research highlights of 2014
2014 was another great year for research at BU. Here are the fabulous highlights for your perusal, in no particular order: 1. REF results – Preparing for the REF submission was an enormous part of...
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BU academic honoured in Nepal
BU Professor Edwin van Teijlingen was honoured by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Mahendra Bahadur Pandey yesterday in Kathmandu. Prof. van Teijlingen was honoured for “his...
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BU’s research website wins an international award
Exciting news – I am delighted to announce that BU’s research website, launched in January 2014, has won ‘Best Research Website’ in the annual international eduStyle Awards. These celebrate the best...
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Student-midwife-run postnatal clinic: FUSION example
FHSS staff and students published their latest article ‘Would a student midwife run postnatal clinic make a valuable addition to midwifery education in the UK? — A systematic review’ now out on line in...
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Two new CMMPH publications this week!
BU Senior Lecturer in Midwifery Dr. Jenny Hall published her interesting piece on Nursing Times.net under the title ‘Time-wasters in A&E: time to shake the label’. Jenny uses quite a sociological...
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BU successful in retaining EC HR Excellence in Research Award!
Good news – BU has been successful in retaining the European Commission HR Excellence in Research Award and is now one of 72 universities in the UK who have successfully passed their two-year review....
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New paper on obesity research
Colleagues associated with the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU), Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) and the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health (all based at the University of Aberdeen),...
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New paper by Dr. Mastoureh Fathi
Congratulations to Mastoureh Fathi for her latest paper: “I Make Here My Soil. I Make Here My Country” in Political Psychology. Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen CMMPH
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New BU Research Methods paper
Yesterday the journal Health Prospect published another of our research methods papers. This latest paper on cross-national comparative research has been written by five sociologists from Northern...
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BU PhD student publishes in Huffington Post
From Aspirations to Reality: How to Effectively Measure the Sustainable Development Goals PhD student Ms. Sheetal Sharma in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) published...
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Bournemouth University listed in top 800 global universities
Bournemouth University ranked just over the half way line in the top 800 universities in the world. Bournemouth University is in good company in the bracket (401-500) with other well-known...
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Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Roddis
RKEO were proud to watch Dr Jennifer Roddis, Research Facilitator, RKEO, graduate yesterday as Doctor of Philosophy. Jenny has worked incredibly hard to achieve her PhD whilst working full-time at the...
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BU’s research council success rates 2014-15
Yesterday Jo added a post to the Blog about the national Research Councils’ success rates in 2013-14. This post is a follow-on from that one and provides the data at BU-level. The coverage is decisions...
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BU student quoted in The New York Times!
FHSS PhD student Rachel Arnold has been quoted in of one world’s most famous newspapers The New York Times. Late last week on Dec. 4th The New York Times published an article under the heading...
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Latest BU Nursing publication
Congratulations to Janet Scammell, Vanessa Heaslip and Emma Crowley in FHSS on their new publication which appeared at the very end of 2015. Their most recent paper is the first systematic review of...
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Over 5,000 posts added to the BU Research Blog!
A milestone has been achieved – over 5,000 blog posts have gone live on the BU Research Blog since it was launched in March 2011. To celebrate this, here are some interesting and impressive stats about...
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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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Congratulations to Prof. Hundley on her latest systematic review paper
This week Professor Vanora Hundley in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) published a systematic review form with her international collaborators working on early labour....
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