A joint approach to tackling violence & fraud
7 December 2007

HSC celebrated a year of joint working with the the Dorset and Somerset Counter Fraud & Security Management Service in October.

Award of tender for the provision of Continuing Professional Development
22 November 2007

The School of Health and Social Care led by Dr. Bernie Edwards and The School of Health and Social Care at Oxford Brookes University led by Dr Ann Ewens have successfully collaborated on a tender for a £96,000 contract to provide CPD for NHS South Central Strategic Health Authority.

Professor Steven Ersser leads global Dermatology Congress
12 October 2007

Professor Steven Ersser recently chaired the one-day Nursing Meeting of the World Congress of Dermatology.

Website Provides Insight into Breastfeeding
7 June 2007

Dr Kath Ryan, Senior Research Fellow at BU, recorded interviews with 49 women and two men from all parts of the UK for the new breastfeeding website.

Celebrating the life of Florence Nightingale
9 May 2007

For the first time ever, student nurses featured prominently in the service to celebrate the life of Florence Nightingale. This year’s procession on Wednesday, 9 May, was led by 24 HSC nursing students.

British Academy Research Grant
12 April 2007

Dr Rosie Read has secured a British Academy Larger Research Grant of £27,555 to conduct ethnographic research on gender and volunteering within health settings in the Czech Republic.

Research Underlines Risk of Violent Child Abuse
12 February 2007

New research finds the risk of children being murdered by strangers is reassuringly low, but that the dangers posed by a very small group of offenders tends to be underrated.