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Did you catch the Festival of Learning On-Tour in Falklands Square last weekend?
On Saturday (30th May) the Festival of Learning On-Tour arrived in Falklands Square. The weather surprisingly held up and made for a sunny day full of activities for the public to engage with. Some...
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Lightning Talks event – come and find out about the exciting research...
Lightning Talks: An adrenaline rush of research On Monday 13 July, between 6-8pm, a group of BU staff and student researchers will present lightning talks of their research and its significance. They...
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Distinguished Social Science Public Lectures Series at BU
Presenting for the first time at this year’s Festival of Learning: the first two Distinguished Social Scientists Public Lectures at Bournemouth University. The inaugural lecture will be given by...
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Yesterday’s BRAD session – Public Engagement
We had a very enjoyable and engaging BRAD session yesterday with Steve Dorney the Principal Public Engagement Fellow at the University of Southampton. Here we have our Adrian Butterworth from the...
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Celebrating BU success at the FoL – come along!
We would love to see you at our Drop-in event – feel free to attend for a session or two, or the whole day. Come along and hear about the huge range of Research taking place across the University, and...
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Lightning Talks event – come and find out about the exciting research...
Lightning Talks: An adrenaline rush of research Interested in finding out more about the research that takes place at BU? Then come to the Lightning Talks event on Monday 13th July. A group of BU...
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Come to the Impact by Design creative networking event, on 11th July
Do you want to meet creative people, exchange ideas, create new ones, and find people to work with? Then come along to BU’s Impact by Design event! Presentations will be in a PechaKucha style which...
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FoL Reconciliation in Practice
Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Melanie Klinkner, Wendy Cutts and Elina Kuusio delivered a fantastic Festival of Learning event yesterday. The event focused on how to reconcile social communities, for...
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Support and Celebrate our Research Success at the FoL – come along!
We would love to see you at our Drop-in event ‘Research Reflections’ on the 16 July – feel free to attend for a session or two, or the whole day. Come along and hear about the huge range of Research...
View ArticleFoL event A conversation about Climate Change
Pippa Gillingham, John Stewart, Andy Ford, Einar Thorsen and Shelley Thompson led a lively ‘conversation’ about climate change in a well attended event today. The audience led the discussion and there...
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Support and Celebrate our Research Success at the FoL – come along!
Support and Celebrate our Research Success at the FoL – come along! We would love to see you at our Drop-in event ‘Research Reflections’ on the 16 July – feel free to attend for a session or two, or...
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FoL event Building Learning Power
Keith Williamson from Avonbourne College provided an inspirational lecture on how they are changing the way their pupils learn. This involves programmes such as ELLI (Effective LifeLong Inventory)....
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Prof. Judy Wajcman LSE speaking this evening in FoL
Prof Judy Wajcman will be the second speaker in the Distinguished Social Scientists Public Lectures Series tonight in Festival of Learning. The lecture is based on her new book Pressed for Time: The...
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FoL event What can eye-tracking tell us about reading, writing and dyslexia?
Julie Kirkby and her team of PhD students delivered an interesting lecture combined with demonstrations for which the audience participated. Using eye-tracking technology as ‘a window to the mind’,...
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FoL event: What’s your story? Childbirth over the last 60 years.
Midwifery educators and researchers from CMMPH Dr Jen Leamon and Dr Jenny Hall, with help from Shelly Anne Stringer RDO, spent the day in an empty space engaging creatively with shoppers in the...
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Dragons’ Den a Roaring Success for BUCRU: ‘Now That’s What I Call Research!’
L-R: Mark Mould, Eileen Hayward, Alan Lindsay, Peter Atkins and Ann Hemingway Last week the team from BUCRU hosted a Festival of Learning event to demonstrate their commitment to service user...
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Arjan Gosal one of our RKEO Research Reflections event presentation joint...
At our recent RKEO Research Reflections event at the Festival of Learning it was really interesting to hear about the amazing variety of research taking place at BU and to have them presented with such...
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Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team: how have we been flying the KEIT this month?
While many have been enjoying the last of the great British summer, the KEIT team have been working hard to ensure that BU’s research and knowledge is informed by society for the benefit of society on...
View ArticleFind out how to submit your Festival of Learning 2016 Proposal
The Festival of Learning enters its fourth year in 2016 and will be running from Saturday 25 – Wednesday 29 June. It’s a fantastic public engagement opportunity for BU to showcase the great research...
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FoL debate pregnancy & alcohol
We are preparing a lively debate on the motion: “Advising pregnant women to avoid drinking alcohol during pregnancy is symptom of the Nanny State and another step towards the medicalisation of...
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