Qualitative comments: How the C-19 lockdown has affected the work-life...
Over the last two weeks we (Dr Luciana Esteves, Professor Ann Hemingway and I) have been giving the BU community a blog update of the findings from our opportunistic, cross-faculty survey focusing on...
View ArticleBU academic launches institutional collaboration to advance Public Diplomacy...
Dr. Alina Dolea launched officially the institutional collaboration between the International Communication Association’s (ICA) Public Diplomacy Interest Group and International Studies Association’s...
View ArticleBU Social Entrepreneurs Forum offers FREE workshop on legal structures and...
More than a year ago ( in June 2019) BU Social Entrepreneurs Forum BUSEF was formed in partnership with Association of Sustainability Practitioners and Poole Bay Rotary Club. Its overarching ambition...
View ArticleWelcome Dr. Lyle Skains, SL in Health and Science Communication
I am delighted to announce that as of this week Dr. Lyle Skains joins us in FMC, Department of Communication & Journalism, as a Senior Lecturer in Health & Science Communication. Lyle...
View ArticleFHSS PhD student’s poster at prestigious GLOW conference
Today and tomorrow Sulochana Dhakal-Rai will have her poster ‘Factors contributing to rising Caesarean Section rates in South Asia: a systematic review’ online at this year’s GLOW Conference [Global...
View ArticleNew book on tourism and gender-based violence
Tourism and Gender-based Violence, Challenging Inequalities. Edited by Paola Vizcaino, Heather Jeffrey, Claudia Eger A new book edited by Dr Paola Vizcaino (Department of Sport & Events...
View ArticleBU Social Entrepreneurs Supporting Business in the Times of Covid-19
Covid-19 has created tremendous uncertainty, to state the obvious mildly, particularly for small social businesses and social entrepreneurs where there is not much focused and specific support to go...
View ArticleBournemouth University Social Entrepreneurs Forum Celebrates Global...
BU Social Entrepreneurs Forum BUSEF is proud to present Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020 with not one but two stellar events! Last year we celebrated the very first Global Entrepreneurship Week at...
View ArticleRefugee Entrepreneurship And Covid-19- BU Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020
Melanie Montinard, Mawon, Brazil Camila Pinto, Migraflix, Brazil Esther Yanya, South Sudanese Refugee Entrepreneur from Uganda Noel Lilija, Microfinance Officer, CRESS UK, Arua, Uganda Abdoulaye Fall,...
View ArticleWomen Entrepreneurs and Covid-19- Celebrating BU Global Entrepreneurship Week...
Women’s representation in entrepreneurship, the barriers women face in entrepreneurship is all well documented and well researched with robust evidence from around the world. From seeking access to...
View ArticleNew publication Dr. Orlanda Harvey
Congratulations to Social Work Lecturer Dr. Orlanda Harvey on the acceptance of a paper by the journal Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy. This latest academic paper ‘Libido as a motivator for...
View ArticleMissing out? The Early Career Researcher Network
I recently realised I had been missing out! Although I have worked at BU for 18 months there is so much about university life I still don’t understand. I find it hard to ask/disturb busy people and the...
View ArticleStudent Entrepreneurship at Bournemouth University
The nature versus nurture debate has long dominated entrepreneurship discussions in academia. But, globally, across universities and business schools, there is increased recognition of the role of...
View ArticleFaith Matters? New Book on Women and the Quest for Spiritual Authenticity
The quest for women’s authentic experience of spirituality and faith is a topic of broad and profound social significance. Since the first published, scholarly and excoriating critiques by women...
View ArticleCongratulations to Prof. Ashencaen-Crabtree on publication of new book
Congratulations to Prof. Sara Ashencaen Crabtree on the publication of her new Routledge research monograph, Women of Faith and the Quest for Spiritual Authenticity [1]. This new book is based on 59...
View ArticleEmbedding UN SDGs in Teaching Entrepreneurship at BU
A few days ago I noticed a post on the BU Staff Intranet about the Fourth Annual Global Goals Teach In, where, as educators, we can pledge to embed the UN Sustainable Development Goals in our teaching...
View ArticleBlack Political Women and the 2020 US Presidential Election, IWD Webinar...
The theme of this year’s Women’s International Day (IWD) is ‘Choose to Challenge’. So, why is International Women’s Day important? While IWD is about women it is not just for women. It focuses our...
View Article‘Doing Diversity Better: Interrogating ethnic and gender equality among BAME...
The Women’s Academic Network (WAN) at BU are delighted to host this powerful and timely public engagement, open-to-all, Q&A Panel Discussion on one of the most important and urgent issues facing...
View Article‘Doing Diversity Better: Interrogating ethnic and gender equality among BAME...
The Women’s Academic Network (WAN) at BU are delighted to host this powerful and timely public engagement, open-to-all, Q&A Panel Discussion on one of the most important and urgent issues facing...
View ArticleCongratulations to PhD student Raksha Thapa
This week BU PhD student Raksha Thapa heard from the editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health that her manuscript “Caste Exclusion and Health Discrimination in South Asia: A Systematic...
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