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Our research shapes and changes the world around us, providing solutions to real-world problems and informing the education we deliver. Our students are a key part of the research we conduct, co-creating knowledge with us and playing a crucial role in everything that we do.

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SONAMONI

A project to reduce the number of child drowning deaths in Bangladesh through intervention and education.

Centre for Sustainable Business Transformations

The Centre for Sustainable Business Transformations (CSBT) delivers cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange that address the needs of businesses, policy and society in their quest for a sustainable future.

Research to explore how artificial intelligence can help detect and investigate crime

Perceptions of Ageing in a Digital World

Co-created by older people and academic researchers, this project will explore what it means to be an older person in a digital world.

ADDISONIC - Advanced Manufacturing Ultrasonic Fatigue Prediction & Life Extension

ADDISONIC is finding new ways of fatigue-testing materials to more accurately predict and extend their lifespan, reducing the amount that ends up in landfill. 

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Stonehenge's relationship with the moon

BU researchers have spent an entire year exploring the moon’s position in the sky and its connection to the architecture of Stonehenge during a major lunar standstill.

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Study of the moon and Stonehenge

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28/05/2026

London community project helps visually impaired people enter the social media world

BU has held its latest workshop to help visually impaired people build the digitals skills to help them feel part of the online world and improve their wellbeing.

06/05/2026

Community project helps visually impaired people enter the social media world

BU is running workshops for visually impaired people to build skills in content creation to help them feel part of the digital world and improve their wellbeing.

05/03/2026

Nearly half of UK adults happy to use ChatGPT as a counsellor, study finds

BU Researchers surveyed 31,000 people globally about how much they would trust AI tools to carry out some of the most important roles in their daily lives.

17/02/2026

BU receives over £500,000 to improve AI agents' reliability

FRAME is a 6m EUR project that aims to provide a shared software engineering environment to design, build and test AI agents effectively.

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