BU in the Media
BU makes the headlines across local, regional, national and international media. The real sound of TwitterBBC Radio 4 'Today' programme - Sam Harman, School of Design, Engineering and Computing, 4 August 2011 Music and Audio Technology student Sam Harman reveals the 'music' of tweets to BBC correspondent Jon Kay via a unique computer programme created as part of a student project. > Listen to ‘The sound of Twitter’ online End of the line for one in three river fishThe Sunday Telegraph - Professor Rudy Gozlan, School of Applied Sciences, 31 July 2011 Richard Gray, Science Correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph, reports from the annual conference of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles at Bournemouth University and focuses on an alarming report into the decline of freshwater fish around the world. > Read the feature‘Third of freshwater fish threatened with extinction’ online Can we bring tourism and public health strategy together?The Guardian - Dr Heather Hartwell, School of Tourism/Health and Social Care, 28 July 2011 Associate Professor Heather Hartwell authors a thought leadership article on why tourism strategies should no longer focus on the night-time economy, but promote public health and wellbeing. > Read the feature ‘Can we bring tourism and public health strategy together?' online The truth about wildlifeBBC One Television - Professor Adrian Newton, School of Applied Sciences, 10 June 2011 Naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham interviews Professor Adrian Newton on the biodiversity of the New Forest, Britain's newest National Park. >View a film clip from ‘The truth about wildlife' online A manifesto for media educationThe Guardian (12 July 2011) and Broadcast (29 July 2011)- Jon Wardle, The Media School Jon Wardle, Director of the BU-based Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, outlines the Manifesto for Media Education, a project which asks people involved in media education to consider the question: 'what is the purpose of what we do?'. >Read the feature 'Measuring success: a manifesto for media education' online
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