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AfterGlow

Discover how Bournemouth University and the University of Glasgow joined forces to turn scientific theory into art, opening the door to a world of interdisciplinary possibilities.

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CopyrightUser.org

CopyrightUser.org is an independent online resource to help creators and users understand their copyright rights.

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Cultural and Scientific Perceptions of Human-Chicken Interactions

Chickens’ diffusion to the west – through India, the Near East, Mediterranean and northern Europe – has been almost completely neglected in academic research. But the outcomes from this significant research project show just how important understanding the subject is.

Power station

Developing reliable renewable energy

BU’s Professor Khan has discovered a clean, sustainable and renewable way of meeting our future energy needs.

Roger Baker at work

Emotional processing

How we deal with emotional experiences not only impacts the mind, but the body too, according to research carried out by BU’s Professor Roger Baker.

Oil pipe

Forecasting oil price volatility

Oil traders, portfolio managers and policymakers will all benefit from a new framework for oil price forecasting that uses information from a wider range of sources in its predictions.

Person walking with foot drop

Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)

Foot drop is a temporary or permanent muscular weakness or paralysis that affects people’s ability to lift the front part of the foot and move their toes. FES is a method of externally and electrically controlling muscles to generate movement.

INEA project

Identifying activity areas in Neolithic sites through ethnographic analysis of phytoliths and geochemical residues (INEA)

The Neolithic in southwest Asia (c 11,700-7800 cal BP) is an important period in human history which saw the advent of sedentism, agriculture, and ultimately, the rise of complex societies...

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Optimising food and nutritional care for people with dementia

Research led by Professor Jane Murphy and Dr Joanne Holmes of the Ageing and Dementia Research Centre (ADRC) at BU has resulted in the development of a toolkit that’s helping to transform nutritional care for people with dementia. This has reached 3,046 known recipients to date.

Pier preservation

Pier preservation

BU's Dr Anya Chapman is raising awareness of the importance of piers and how they can help regenerate seaside communities, successfully securing much-needed government funding to ensure their sustainable future.

New Forest conservation

Resilience to sudden environmental change

Find out how BU researchers have applied their ecological tipping points research into society, with the uptake of their recommendations by the Forestry Commission and further research now extending to all types of ecosystems.

Kilchurn castle from Loch Awe

Romantic Scotland

See how historic exhibits of Scotland were understood in China, helping to position Scotland’s international tourist product.

Conversation mahseer

Saving the iconic hump-backed mahseer from extinction

The hump-backed mahseer population has decreased by 90% in the last 15 years but due to a case of mistaken identity, the fish disappeared unnoticed from South India’s River Cauvery until research led by Adrian Pinder, director of Bournemouth University’s Global Environmental Solutions and director of The Mahseer Trust, highlighted the giant carp’s plight.

Rio de Janeiro at night

Sexual Spaces

Discover how BU research into lives of sex workers during sport mega-events has led to significant change in Brazilian Federal Law.

Two elderly individuals cycling

Stay Active and Independent for Longer (SAIL)

The SAIL project aims to identify new and sustainable partnership opportunities between areas such as leisure, tourism and health to help ageing people be more active and remain independent for longer.

Super-recognisers

Super-recognisers

People with exceptional facial recognition skills account for a small proportion of the population – but in areas such as security, their abilities can make a big impact.

Eye tracking psychological face tracking

The diagnosis and remediation of prosopagnosia

After succeeding in making face blindness an officially recognised condition, researchers from Bournemouth University are now trialling effective treatment for those with prosopagnosia.

Cyber Security lab

The emergence of hybrid warfare

Working with military experts to explore the concept of hybrid warfare and advise government officials and NATO about how to deal with this new and emerging threat.

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The implications of 3D printing for Intellectual Property

BU research which guided policymakers on the implications for intellectual property rights in the UK, as a result of 3D printing, is set to shape the landscape on an international scale.

NCPQSWPP past present and future

BU: shaping the past, present and future of social work in the UK

With around 40,000 registered social workers employed in the UK, it seems almost impossible that more than half of them would have undertaken training from one university – but that’s exactly what BU has achieved.

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LEAP: Landscape Ecology And Primatology

Read how 3D rainforest mapping is informing conservation plans that are key to assuring the survival of species such as gibbons, siamangs, orangutans and elephants.

Paralympic runner

Re-presenting para-sport bodies: Disability & the cultural legacy of the Paralympics

Discover how research into the media portrayal of para-athletes could make a difference to the daily lives of people with disabilities.

Two teenagers with physical disabilities

Seen but Seldom Heard

Discover how a BU project is helping disabled children tell their stories.

Nepalese earthquake

Aftershock Nepal: changing perceptions through sustained crisis journalism

Research project Aftershock Nepal, which questioned the media’s handling of the 2015 earthquake, has led the way for similar initiatives to address humanitarian crises worldwide.

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Avebury Landscapes

Extensive geophysical surveys of Avebury World Heritage Site address big academically and societally relevant questions, such as the social use of space at different times in the past.

Mary O'Malley

Dementia and Wayfinding

Researchers in BU’s Psychology department are leading the way in transforming the building and design guidelines of dementia care homes in the UK, helping residents with their navigation and orientation skills, which will improve their independence and quality of life.

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Desti-Smart – Delivering Efficient Sustainable Tourism

Desti-Smart is a project addressing challenges for efficient sustainable tourism while at the same time promoting a low-carbon economy.

DRIVE (Digital Reading for Inclusivity, Versatility and Engagement)

DRIVE (Digital Reading for Inclusivity, Versatility and Engagement)

DRIVE is a new network that brings together academics, NGOs, stakeholders and practitioners from Kenya with UK partners to maximise digital technologies to address development challenges.

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Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation in Western Mecklenburg

Investigating the origin and development of large-scale monuments, and the emergence of early complex societies, on the north European Plain, to examine the relations between monumental building and social structures after the emergence of sedentism at around 4100 BC.

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Humanising Care, Health and Wellbeing

Communications symbols imposed above a city

Innovative Port Ecosystems (Project SPEED)

The Smart Ports Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development (SPEED) project aims to improve ports in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the UK by using new advances in technology and data science.

Jumping In: Transgender and non-binary swimming LGBT+

Jumping In: Transgender and non-binary swimming LGBT+

BU's Dr Jayne Caudwell is working with local stakeholders to help provide valuable swimming sessions for the transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming community. 

MultiFluid

MultiFluid

MultiFluid will develop a multi-level theory and hybrid solution with tools to provide a coherent multi-level enhancement to refine the fluid details and offer user-friendly controls in animation.

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PATHways to improving perinatal mental health

PATH is an EU-funded project which will enable women, families and healthcare professionals to prevent, diagnose, and successfully manage mild to moderate perinatal mental health issues.

Improving the ecology of coastal wetlands

Reducing nutrient levels in coastal ecosystems (RaNTrans)

Reducing nutrient levels in coastal ecosystems (RaNTrans) aims to improve the ecological status of transitional waters in England and France.

MS research at Bournemouth University

Reducing the impact of fatigue in people with MS using the FACETS fatigue management programme

Bournemouth University has led the way in helping people with multiple sclerosis to manage their fatigue, the most common and debilitating of the disease’s symptoms.

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SAMARCH – Channel salmon and sea trout

The SAMARCH project aims to provide new scientific evidence to inform the management of salmon and sea trout (salmonids) in the estuaries and coastal waters of the French and English sides of the Channel.

Tear gas, policing and human rights

Tear gas, policing and human rights

Discover how the research of BU’s Dr Anna Feigenbaum has empowered everyday civilians to report the use of riot control weapons, such as tear gas canisters, during protest situations.

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The ECHO Project

The ECHO project will deliver an organised and coordinated approach to strengthen proactive cyber defence in the European Union, through effective and efficient multi-sector collaboration.

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The impact of digital technologies on readers and reading

Researchers from Bournemouth University, in collaboration with the University of Brighton, have been exploring how advances in digital technologies are transforming our reading experiences – and have transformed how reading is researched in the process.

People in Exeter Cathedral – England

VISTA AR – Virtual and Augmented Reality Tourism

VISTA AR is a research project funded by ERDF that is working closely with  a number of tourist attractions in the South of England and the North of France , to develop an understanding of visitor experiences and using virtual reality to create new business models.

Mass grave protection for truth and justice

Mass grave protection for truth and justice

This project investigates how best to safeguard, protect and investigate mass graves to ensure truth and justice for survivor populations. 

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Neuravatar: using augmented reality in medical education

The understanding of human anatomy is vital to the delivery of healthcare. Drawing on the computer animation and visualisation skills available at BU, the team are developing an online medical teaching platform to help improve medical education and training.

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Shared Post-Human Imagination: Human-AI Collaboration in Media Creation

Investigating the use of generative AI tools in media creation in the context of responsible AI.

Four students discussing a problem

SPEED-You-UP

Schools, welfare organizations and businesses work together to support young people from within entrepreneur hubs. In these hubs, young people work on a business pop-up that will improve their neighbourhood.

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Woolcombe Medieval Settlement

Woolcombe is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. During the 1960s the Austin family, then owners of Woolcombe Farm, became interested in the archaeological resource of their home and carried out some limited excavations.

3DPARE (3D Printing Artificial Reefs in the Atlantic)

3DPARE (3D Printing Artificial Reefs in the Atlantic)

The 3DPARE project is working to deploy and monitor artificial reef blocks in the Atlantic ocean which have been designed and fabricated using innovative 3D printing technology and sustainable, low-impact bio-receptive materials.

A nurse shining a light onto a mole on a patient

A nurse-led model for skin cancer detection

Investigating the efficacy of nurse-led, technology-supported models of care for patients requiring assessment, support and health education for skin cancer detection. 

Fifty, twenty and ten pounds

Access to finance for SMEs

There are many political and economic incentives to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but they bring with them a number of complexities that require in-depth research and discussion – a challenge a team of academics, led by Principal Investigator and BU Professor Jens Hölscher, is working to tackle.

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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. 

AiBle Project

AiBle Project

AiBle is a 3-year UK/France cross-border EU Interreg project to improve the recovery experience of stroke patients with better treatment effects and efficiency by developing an upper-limb rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on AI and cloud computing.

Map showing the distribution of recorded field investigations in England 1990-2010

AIP – Archaeological investigations Project

The Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP), funded by English Heritage, systematically collected information about the nature and outcomes of more than 80,000 archaeological projects undertaken between 1990 and 2010.

A doctor holding a virtual liver

ARTEMIS

Exploring the use of virtual twins to support personalised management of fatty liver patients.

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ASPIRE

Taking place across Europe, this project explores how to reduce unemployment and obesity at the same time through supporting people to make healthier lifestyle choices.

Face blindness

Assessment and treatment of children and adults with face processing impairments

BU established The Centre for Face Processing Disorders (CFPD) to provide cognitive screening and training programmes to improve recognition skills for affected adults and children.

A football on a football pitch

Beyond the Sidelines: Exploring the Fan Journey in Women’s Football

Enhancing the fan experience in women’s football by uncovering key insights into what makes it enjoyable, inclusive, and accessible, as well as identifying areas for improvement.

Seagulls on groyne

Biomimetic Marine Infrastructures (MARINEFF)

The objective of the MARINEFF project is to develop a new approach to the design and construction of maritime infrastructure. MARINEFF strives to enhance and protect coastal and transitional water ecosystems in cross-border Channel regions.

Black Down fortlet, Winterbourne Steepleton

Black Down Roman fortlet: a Roman army signal station in Dorset?

Building on an excavation and insights from the early 1970s, discover how BU academics and undergraduate students have worked together to discover more about a possible Roman fortlet in Dorset.

A man speaking into a microphone in front of a laptop

Blindness and media engagement

Run by Catalin Brylla, this project explores the engagement with digital media for improving physical, psychological, social and economic wellbeing in the visually impaired community.

Roman baths at Bath, UK

Building Roman Britain

This innovative programme of archaeological science will characterise stone and ceramic building materials and explore the contexts within which they were produced.

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Caring for the Sexual Health and Wellbeing of Cancer Survivors and Partners

This anonymous survey is aiming to find out more about people’s experiences of health care for their sexual health and wellbeing following cancer and its treatment.

A child sitting in front of a blurred television screen

Children’s Public Service Media

Investigating how young people engage with 'traditional' broadcast content, and the future of children's public service media. 

A row of yellow taxis in front of Bournemouth Square

Coastal Communities, Coastal Stories

Capturing memories of Bournemouth's high street and recognising its architectural and community heritage to help inform future development. 

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Computational intelligence research initiative (CIRI)

Discover how BU’s work, alongside partner institutions, is helping to improve the understanding of computational intelligence for multiple audiences – and garnering tens of thousands of online views in the process.

Constructive journalism Covid-19

Covid-19 and Group Blame

Exploring blame dynamics around the Covid-19 pandemic and its impacts. 

Velodrome Cycling

Cycling against hip pain

How a cycling and education programme is helping patients with hip osteoarthritis.

DA-RE (Digital Arts – Refugee Engagement)

DA-RE (Digital Arts – Refugee Engagement)

Digital Arts for Refugee Engagment (DA-RE) is an exploratory research project using arts-based activities in combination with digital literacy for developing the capabilities of refugee youth in Turkey and Bangladesh.

A man teaching a room of adults learners

Dementia Education And Learning Through Simulation 2 (DEALTS2) programme

Researchers at Bournemouth University were commissioned by Health Education England (HEE) to develop the ‘Dementia Education And Learning Through Simulation 2’ (DEALTS2) programme. DEALTS2 is simulation-based dementia toolkit that’s being used nationally to support the delivery of dementia education across acute care.

Developing training, standards and policies for forensic investigation of mass graves

Developing training, standards and policies for forensic investigation of mass graves

BU’s programme of research focuses on location, evaluation, excavation, recovery, recording of crimes scenes and the analysis and use of evidence in a legal context. It is a combination of primary research and the analysis of the results of professional practice.

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Dewlish Roman villa, Dorset

Find out how BU revived a post-excavation project to report findings from fieldwork and excavation activities that were completed more than 30 years ago.

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DIALOR (DIgitAL cOaching for fRailty)

Developing an intervention to support older adults using personalised health coaching and digital technology to manage symptoms of frailty and long-term health conditions.

Woman using a tablet computer in a restaurant

Digital Addiction Research

The team are reasearching digital addiction (DA) as an emergent research area and are exploring the problematic usage of digital media. They particularly focus on aiding people to adjust their usage style through the use of digital technology itself.

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Digital innovation - Tackling Falls and Fragility Fractures in the Community

Using digital tools to screen and treat the risk of falls and fractures in the community. 

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Digital intervention to facilitate return to work in young stroke survivors

Exploring how digital interventions can support successful reintegration into the workforce after a stroke. 

Accounting and Finance

DIPCAT: Designing Innovative Pedagogy for Complex Accountancy Topics

The DIPCAT project has created an internationally-oriented learning platform in accountancy that supports skill development for early career professionals. 

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Disability by Design: Representation in TV

Exploring the experiences of deaf and disabled television professionals working both on and behind the screen.

Sierra Leone - BUDMC

Driving African Capacity Building in Disaster Management (AFRICAB)

Improving resilience in Sierra Leone by building disaster management capacity at national and local levels. 

ECO-CODING: A Centre for DNA Meta-barcoding Ecology

ECO-CODING: A Centre for DNA Meta-barcoding Ecology

ECO-CODING is a Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) funded project that will bring the technology of DNA barcoding to BU, collaborating environmental organisations and local school children.

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Emotional wellbeing in the workplace

The Emotional Processing Scale for Wellbeing (EPS-W) taps into how people deal with changes and challenges in their working lives and provides guidance for improving wellbeing and building emotional resilience.

Enhancement of ‘Upstream’ Software Development Methods

Enhancement of ‘Upstream’ Software Development Methods

BU’s software engineering research has focused on the improvement of software development methods with a particular emphasis on the ‘upstream’ or requirements phases.

Sierra Leone BUDMC 2022

Evaluating Local Disaster Management in Sierra Leone (EVALDIS)

The EVALDIS project evaluates how leaders in Sierra Leone are building resilience to crisis and disaster. 

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Evaluating Media Literacy with a Theory of Change

Producing a new media literacy evaluation framework, using a theory of change to measure the difference media literacy makes to people’s lives.

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Exploring restorative practice approaches to safeguarding adults

Exploring practice approaches to safeguarding adults who experience hate crime and discriminatory abuse. 

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Exploring the influence of CEO characteristics on media firm innovation and performance

Understanding how the characteristics of CEOs influence research and development, innovation, and performance. 

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ExtremeXP

Experiment driven and user experience-oriented analytics for extremely precise outcomes and decisions

Poole Hospital map

Facilitating efficient wayfinding in complex human environments

The Wayfinding Research Centre (WRC) at BU conducts laboratory-based research, strongly informed by theory, to conceptualise the processes underlying human navigation. 

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Fair Access Research and Practice (FAR)

Fair access – or widening participation (WP) – is an area of considerable interest in the UK’s higher education sector. Its impetus is on breaking down barriers that prevent people from diverse backgrounds from entering higher education, and flourishing when they do.

Financial scams

Financial scams

The National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice (NCPQSWPP) is working in partnership with government and trade bodies to raise awareness of the scale of the problem and to gain a greater understanding of the reasons why people are drawn into a scam. 

Fish swimming in the water

FishE@BU - Fish Ecology & Conservation

FishE is exploring the factors that can negatively affect fish populations, and find effective strategies to prevent their decline.

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FoodMAPP: Local Food supply communicated through a transactional searchable MAP based APPlication

The FoodMAPP project will enable local providers to supply and sell produce directly to consumers, reducing waste and food miles. 

ecology wildlife conservation

Forever for everyone. Improving visitor enjoyment of National Trust properties

BU’s research has been at the heart of a dynamic repositioning of culture, working directly with the UK’s largest conservation charity, the National Trust, to make heritage accessible to a wider audience.

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Future Flight in Place

Helping communities understand the potential impact of future flight technologies. 

EROGamb wins Best Project Award

Gambling Research

These projects include academics from the Faculty of Science and Technology, the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Media and Communication.

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Geometric Modelling, Image Processing and Shape Reconstruction (PDE-GIR)

Project PDE-GIR, led by Bournemouth University, is developing partial differential equation (PDE) techniques to improve geometric modelling, image processing, and shape reconstruction (GIR). 

Ben Thomas

Green tribology – The sustainable design of lifeboat launch systems

Green tribology provides answers to friction and wear problems within an ecological and environmentally sound context. 

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Healthy Brain, Healthy Life

Funded by Alzheimer’s Research UK, the project aims to create dialogue and engage with minority ethnic communities around brain health and dementia.

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Human Henge: heritage and well-being

BU is a partner in the Human Henge project co-ordinated by the Restoration Trust and also involving Richmond Fellowship, English Heritage, and The National Trust. Using natural and constructed landscapes to promote health and well-being has a long and distinguished history stretching back to the pilgrimages of medieval times.

A person wearing a VR headset pressing buttons with virtual buttons appearing on a screen behind

Hybrid Digital Physical Spaces

The Hybrid Digital Physical Space research cluster is developing a deeper understanding of human behaviour and emerging technologies in hybrid spaces. 

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Impacts of adverse events on surgeon wellbeing

BU researchers are interested in how surgeons are affected personally and professionally when things go wrong, and in developing interventions to mitigate the impact of adverse events on surgeons

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Implementing nutrition screening in community care for older people

Funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing, the INSCCOPe project aims to improve the nutritional health of older people in the community, by supporting the implementation of a new procedure for screening and treatment of malnutrition.

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Improved Motion Blur in Computer Animated Film and Special Effects

Dr Ian Stephenson’s research develops new techniques to produce and render higher quality 3D images for feature film production.

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Improving health and social care practice

BU’s combination of theoretical and practice-based research into health and social care education and practice gives the balance needed to deliver effective training programmes with wide-reaching impacts.

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Inclusivity and Adversity in the Eurovision Song Contest

Exploring LGBTQI+ communities' experiences of the Eurovision Song Contest to examine attitudes, perceptions and practices. 

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Increasing access to music

Discover how BU is working in partnership with Coda Music Centre and SEN schools to make music more accessible to all children.

Three older black people around a table preparing vegetables

Inequalities in Nutrition & Healthy Ageing for older African adults

A novel approach to investigating inequalities in nutrition and healthy ageing for older Black African adults in the UK. 

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Informing breastfeeding policy, guidelines and training

BU breastfeeding research has generated impacts for a wide range of beneficiaries at a local, national and international level.

INFOSOC: Informational rights, informational wrongs

INFOSOC: Informational rights, informational wrongs

Within today’s information societies, there are a number of ‘informational interests’ on the basis of which certain rights are claimed and wrongs denounced.

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Insight Dementia: Going into Hospital

Providing a first-person perspective of what it feels like to have dementia in an unfamiliar hospital environment. 

Interreg Channel ASPIRE Project

Interreg Channel ASPIRE Project

ASPIRE is part of the Interreg VA Channel programme and will run from September 2019 to February 2023. The project has a total budget of over €10million and involves partners from the UK and France.

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Judicial Communication in the English Youth Court

This research has considered the expression of sentencing explanations through face to face and telephone interviews with 16 youth court Magistrates across Southern England. 

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Knowlton Prehistoric Landscape Project

Extensive data analysis based on fieldwork conducted between 1993 and 2009 has enabled BU to report on a fascinating ceremonial and funereal landscape in east Dorset.

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LEMONADE

An inclusive community food model for the health, wellbeing and social connectedness of older people. 

Field work on the Living with Monuments project

Living With Monuments Project

Survey and excavation in the UNESCO World Heritage landscape of Avebury, to discover more about the people that inhabited it and the ways they lived. 

Book production in a Medieval monastic environment

Lost voices of Celtic Britain

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Love where you work

Supporting the local community and economy in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) area.

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MaGMap: Mass Grave Mapping

Exploring where, when and under what circumstances the mapping of mass graves should be avoided or kept secret so that protection is not jeopardised.

Making TRACS to improve nurse retention

Making TRACS to improve nurse retention

Improving the retention rate of registered nursing staff through collaborative development and use of an evidence-based nurse retention model.

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Male users of anabolic androgenic steroids

Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) are increasingly used for their muscle-building and aesthetic effects. But they can have a detrimental impact on physical and emotional wellbeing, and little is known about the experiences of their users.

Maltese Temples Landscape Project

Maltese Temples Landscape Project

Investigating the development, social context, and landscape-setting of Malta’s Neolithic temples by focusing on the site of Skorba and its surroundings.

Mapping the Forests of Medieval Novgorod

Mapping the Forests of Medieval Novgorod

Archaeological evidence from sites in and around Novgorod, Russia, is being used to map nearby forests and document their exploitation.

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Mass digitisation of cultural heritage in Europe

CIPPM, in collaboration with other European research centres, has been at the forefront of research to develop solutions for the digitization of our cultural heritage.

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Media literacy for unaccompanied refugee youth

Developing the tools to empower the youngest generations of refugees.

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Mi Camino (My Path)

An interactive narrative aimed at young people in high risk areas of Colombia at high risk of (re)recruitment by non-state armed gangs. 

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MINE - Multimodal Immersive NEuro-sensing for natural neuro-behavioural measurement

The MINE team are combining cognitive neuroscience, clinical and social psychology with virtual reality (VR) to develop new insights into understanding and changing people's behaviour.

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Modelling Natural Capital in Dorset

Developing a suite of modelling tools to support economic forecasting.

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MS research at Bournemouth University

Researchers at Bournemouth University have been undertaking a programme of research around self-management approaches for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) to improve everyday quality of life.

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Neolithic flint mines

The Neolithic Flint Mines project was established in order to fully record and widely disseminate the results of the early 20th century investigations for the first time.

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Paisley Pearls

See how BU researchers have helped a Scottish town to explain its history in a modern way.

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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.

Piltdown Man

Piltdown Man

Background

In 1912, the discovery of human skull fragments, an ape-like jaw and crudely worked flints close to the quiet Sussex village of Piltdown was hailed by the world’s press as the most sensational archaeological find ever, the ‘missing link’ in the ‘chain’ of human evolution.

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PLUS project: Serious games for police training

Discover how gamification can improve the quality and efficiency of police training, including the core curriculum area of Stop and Search.

Practice development: Facilitating positive cultural change in health and social care organisations

Practice development: Facilitating positive cultural change in health and social care organisations

BU researchers developed practice development approaches that would work across a wide variety of health and social care settings.

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PRESERVE

A European project exploring how artificial intelligence and big data can help detect and investigate crime. 

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Pride in our Workforce

Working with the charity Energise Me, this project explored how the people working in physical activity, and their attitudes, affect the physical activity levels of LGBT+ people.

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Projects aimed at reducing sexual violence and misogyny

A group of researchers at Bournemouth University are running several projects with the aim of reducing sexual violence through better education and campaigning, better police and court practices, and changes to the law. 

Promoting and leading British radio archive policy

Promoting and leading British radio archive policy

The Centre for Media History (CMH) has won over £1 million in grants to digitise radio collections. Together with published output this has created the leading academic centre for radio history.

Promoting reflection and sharing within and across international communities

Promoting reflection and sharing within and across international communities

This AHRC network is focused on three emblematic contexts: two rural communities (Bario and Long Lamai) in Malaysia, a historical town (Ilha de Moçambique) in Mozambique, and five favelas (Rio de Janeiro) in Brazil.

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Provoking reflection on society’s critical ethical issues

Neal White has conducted interdisciplinary research across art and techno scientific disciplines at BU since 2003. His work uses art as a reflective framework – an active cyclical experiment – through which we can ask questions that will lead to unexpected events and ideas.

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Reading on screen

Reading on Screen is a collaboration between the universities of Bournemouth and Brighton funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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Refugee and Migrant Leisure Network (RMLN)

The Refugee and Migrant Leisure Network (RMLN) connects Bournemouth University academics working within the Centre for Events, Leisure, Society and Culture (CELSC) with local community partners.

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REGNVM – The First Kingdom

‘REGNVM: the First Kingdom’ is an ongoing project using archaeological and historical evidence to reassess the nature of cultural change across central south eastern Britain from the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD, examining in particular the nature of trade, globalisatio

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Research engagement with people who have experienced homelessness

Working with partners and the community to enable those who have experience of being homeless or vulnerably housed to have a voice in research. 

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Resolution: animation of mass grave recovery

A short, animated film that shows the process of mass grave protection and investigation from the perspective of victims’ families.

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Restorative Justice in Dorset – Neighborhood Justice Panels

Neighborhood Justice Panels (NJPs) in England are a local justice initiative made accessible to the public via the police and through probation recommendations in court. They provide an out of court option that is both flexible and cost-effective due to voluntary support.

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Scaling-up Human Henge

Exploring ways to improve mental well-being with therapeutic activities in ancient landscapes

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SERVED: Supporting Evidence-based Research for Veterans Experiencing Dementia

Funded by Dementia Research UK, this project is working collaboratively with veterans with dementia to better understand their experiences and support needs. 

Shaping IP legislation through evidence-based research

Shaping intellectual property legislation through evidence-based research

CIPPM undertook a comparative study of commercial music videos and amateur parodies to determine whether there were economic consequences to the presence of parody.

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Shaping the UK’s critical policy debate about regulation of accounting, auditing and corporate governance

Research into 2003/5 changes to UK accounting, auditing and corporate governance regulation found major flaws in the regime. By providing evidence and lobbying via other organisations, researchers have exposed these defects and their implications, contributing to critical public debate around the policy.

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SMART 5-A-DAY app

An interactive mobile phone app to aid understanding and adherence to the UK’s 5-a-day fruit and vegetable recommendations. 

SOARing to Digital Transformation in Vietnamese Higher Education

Empowering Vietnamese universities to effectively integrate digital practices that enhance learning, teaching, and administration.

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SOUNDS

Using innovative music-based methods to understand and engage with youth at risk of criminal exploitation in Albania. 

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State of Play: management practices in UK unscripted television

Research led by the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) in conjunction with industry bodies has investigated management practices in the UK television industry. 

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Staying home, connecting care

This project investigates care and support provided to people in their homes during the pandemic. It focuses on home care workers, carers and volunteers and the role they played in sustaining others and keeping them well at home. 

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Story 2 Remember

The 'Story 2 Remember' project is using drama and storytelling to create a training program to be used by health and social care professionals in care settings, with people with Alzheimer's disease.

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Striking the right balance between coastal bird conservation and the needs of society

Find out how BU researchers have created a system that provides timely advice to balance the requirements of coastal bird conservation with those of society.

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Sugar, sweeteners and sweet taste

Investigating approaches to reducing free sugar intake and the impact of limiting exposure to sweet taste. 

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Supportive offboarding: Developing new practices to support sustainable freelance careers in TV

This project aims to design, develop and test an intervention to support TV freelancers’ careers. 

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Sustainable methodology of conserving large historic military vehicles

New modelling technology is helping preserve historic tanks, and other unique vehicles and structures, for generations to come.

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TANGERINE

A co-produced sustainable food-based intervention to improve nutritional health and ageing in older South Asian and Black African and Caribbean communities living in the UK 

Active Ageing Pathway Evaluation

The Active Ageing Evaluation

The Active Ageing Evaluation is a collaborative research project between the Bournemouth University Clinical Research Unit (BUCRU) and Active Dorset. Active Dorset is a local organisation responsible for creating the conditions for local people to choose an active lifestyle through participation in sport and physical activity.

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The Centre for Applied Creative Technologies PLUS (CfACTs+)

The Centre for Applied Creative Technologies PLUS (CfACTs+) will transform the healthcare sector and training with digital technologies. 

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The digital lives of young LGBTQ+

An exhibition showcasing young LGBTQ+ positive experiences of social media and the internet. 

Fieldwork as part of the Big Dig

The Durotriges Project

The Durotriges Project is an intensive, multi-disciplinary investigation into the prehistoric and Roman societies of central south western Britain, conducted by staff and students of the Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Forensic Science of Bournemouth University working in co-operation with students from other universities, schools, sixth form colleges and team of dedicated local volunteers.

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The Missing Persons Indicator Project

This project is designed to progressively develop comprehensive data on states and their relationship with missing persons. 

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The REFRESH trial

Comparing different nutritional approaches for treating malnourished older adults in care homes. 

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The RETHINK Study

This study will consider the impact of greater fear and anxiety around pain (pain catastrophising) and how this affects the time when women are admitted to hospital in labour, their labour choices, and birth outcomes.

The TACIT Trial - Tai Chi

The TACIT Trial: TAi ChI for people with demenTia

Dr Samuel Nyman's research into improving the wellbeing and health of those with dementia and their carers.

Members of the UK-Egypt Pharmacoeconomics Partnership

The UK-Egypt Pharmacoeconomics Partnership

Function Electrical Stimulation (FES) in neurological rehabilitation

The use of Function Electrical Stimulation (FES) in neurological rehabilitation

Functional Electrical Stimulation, or FES, is a method of externally controlling muscles when signals from the brain can no longer control movement.

The Wessex Portal and DCDA

The Wessex Portal and DCDA

The Wessex Portal and the Dorset Coast Digital Archive aims at promoting a better understanding of the unique natural environment and heritage assets.

The ‘Face’ of Roman Britain

The ‘Face’ of Roman Britain

The Imperial Image Database was set up in 2010 with the aim of generating three-dimensional (3D) scans of Roman portraiture recovered from different contexts across southern Britain.

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TOMATO - nuTritiOn and deMentia AT hOme

The TOMATO project will help develop an intervention to provide nutritional care for people living with dementia at home.

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Transforming Advertising in the Transport for London Network

Demonstrating the role of digital media and advertising in stimulating consumer imagination has transformed advertising in Transport for London. 

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UK-China Health and Economy Partnership

The UK-China Health and Economy Partnership is a novel knowledge transfer partnership that will promote long-term collaboration between Bournemouth University, the University of York, the University of Sheffield and the University of Leeds.

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UK-China Research and Innovation Collaboration in Cloud-based Virtual Film Production (UCCVP)

UCCVP aims to explore and investigate cloud-based virtual film production in both the UK and China, identifying key challenges and developing future strategic plans for UK-China collaboration in the film industry.

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Understanding and encouraging fruit and vegetable intakes

Fruits and vegetables are fundamental to a healthy diet. High fruit and vegetable consumption has been associated with reduced risk from a number of chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, some cancers, and dementia and cognitive decline, yet fruit and vegetable consumption across the UK, Europe and the US remains lower than recommended by the World Health Organisation.

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Understanding of Perineal Practice at the time of birth across the UK

Funded by the reproductive and gynaecological health charity Wellbeing of Women, this study into the perineal practice undertaken by midwives at the time of birth collected information from across the four countries of the UK.

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Understanding political engagement

Why are some people highly engaged by political communication, while others are not? Why do some people believe spurious claims of political actors while others approach them all with cynicism?

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Understanding the Production Management skills gap in UK TV

Exploring the experiences and motivations of production managers working in UK television, as well as the current skills gap for the industry. 

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Unlocking the Digital Front Door

Exploring practical ways to support people who might find it difficult to access virtual or remote health services and who might be affected by wider inequalities.

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Unravelling an Egyptian enigma

Funded by the first Egyptological ERC Advanced Grant, the Hyksos Enigma Project sees BU working with researchers all over Europe, under the direction of renowned Egyptologist Manfred Bietak and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Using deep breathing to lower blood pressure in pregnant women

Using deep breathing to lower blood pressure in pregnant women

Researchers are investigating the feasibility of using slow and deep breathing as an alternative treatment method for high blood pressure during pregnancy.

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Value of Events

The aim of this project is to measure the economic and socio-cultural contribution of UK outdoor events. This will be achieved through the collection of data from public outdoor event suppliers, organisers and consumers to measure the value of public outdoor events in the UK. 

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Virtual Avebury: an immersive partnership

Virtual Avebury is an AHRC/EPSRC funded project under the 2017 Immersive Partnerships call.

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Vlochos Archaeological Project

The Vlochos Archaeological Project (VLAP) is a collaboration between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa and the Swedish Institute at Athens, with participating archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg and Bournemouth University, examining the extensive remains of a Classical-Hellenistic urban site at Vlochós in the municipality of Palamás.

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Voices from the Periphery

Exploring feelings of belonging and identity within post-industrial communities in the North East of England and Eastern Germany and their representation in media and popular culture.

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Waddon Hill Archaeological Research Project

Building on understanding of the Waddon Hill Roman Fort in Dorset and the history of the site. 

Wessex-Armorica: Territories, Connections & Hierarchies

Wessex-Armorica: Territories, Connections & Hierarchies

This study is crucial to understand how communities living in the Channel coastlands became interdependent at a time when trade in tin and copper was strengthening the foundations for an extensive prehistoric European union.

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