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05/02/2025

BU supports National Disaster Management Agency in Sierra Leone with charter signposts

BU has supported the NDMA in constructing three Service Delivery Charter signposts and one billboard in Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown.

06/12/2024

BU Disaster Management Project makes contribution to Sierra Leone’s new crisis management procedures

Ongoing collaboration between BU’s Disaster Management Centre and Sierra Leone’s government has resulted in a new crisis management practice.

02/05/2024

Frequent disturbances increased the resilience of past populations

Researchers analysed evidence of global population change spanning 30,000 years to uncover the impact of disturbances on humans and the factors affecting their resilience.

21/07/2023

Student animations to support local and national charities

The RNLI, Dorset Ukrainian Community and National Park City Foundation are the charities supported by BU students at this year's BFX festival.

24/04/2023

Business School project recognised as ‘innovation that inspires’ by AACSB

A disaster management project, based at Bournemouth University Business School (BUBS), has been recognised as an Innovation that Inspires by the AACSB.

17/03/2023

New disaster management report launched in Sierra Leone

A new report, assessing and providing recommendations on disaster management across Sierra Leone, has been launched, written by BU experts.

30/11/2022

Helping Sierra Leone’s disaster management through research and professional practice

Professor Lee Miles visited Sierra Leone to undertake research and professional practice activities with the country’s governmental institutions responsible for preparing for, responding to and recovering from disasters.

03/05/2022

BU Disaster Management Centre enhances international collaboration on resilience

The Centre has begun to collaborate with the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre to foster reciprocal projects and partnerships in tourism resilience.

04/04/2022

BU helps Sierra Leone combat disasters through resilience research project

Disaster management experts have launched an Evaluating Disaster Action research project in Sierra Leone to explore how local communities become more resilient in their everyday lives to combat disasters.

01/02/2022

BU report highlights lack of government scrutiny in Kerala's pandemic journalism

BU academics release research report on pandemic news in Kerala, a southwestern coastal state of India.

09/12/2021

Dorset Economy blog 25: The End of a Difficult Year

In early November, the Bank of England left official interest rates unchanged at an extremely low 0.1% base rate. This was a surprise – the markets had priced in a symbolic but minuscule increase to a rate of 0.25%.

15/11/2021

New hub to help manage post-Covid symptoms through nutrition

BU has supported the creation of the Nutrition and Covid-19 recovery knowledge hub.

08/11/2021

OPINION: Targeting disaster management - new research evidence from Sierra Leone

Professor Lee Miles writes for The Conversation about BU research to help improve disaster management and response in Sierra Leone.

30/09/2021

Dorset Economy blog 23: Outlook, Values & Skills

The regional economy grew, albeit at a slower pace, in August and early September, suggesting, in response to various bottlenecks, that the recovery persists but has become less vigorous.

30/09/2021

Bournemouth University Disaster Management report to launch in Sierra Leone

A disaster management project delivered by Bournemouth University is to have its final report formally endorsed by the Government of Sierra Leone.

28/09/2021

OPINION: How the pandemic has changed holidaymaking in Britain

Dr Anya Chapman writes for The Conversation about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on domestic tourism.

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