Bournemouth University

A team from Bournemouth University (BU) has developed a mobile phone app to support mental health and wellbeing for police officers.It has been designed and tested in partnership with Hampshire Constabulary and is available to their…

Community markets that sell food, household items and offer community-led services at subsidised rates could be a sustainable and popular complementary solution to existing food support programmes, a new study has found.They could also…

A delegation of staff from Bournemouth University visited Kathmandu, Nepal for a series of meetings and workshops to deepen partnerships with charities and education organisations and explore opportunities for future work in the…

As part of International Women in Engineering Day BU’s Department of Design & Engineering organised a Women in STEM networking event to kick off their annual Festival of Design and Engineering (FODE). The Festival of Design and…

Young adults who use social media to browse content of other users are more likely to experience anxiety, depression and stress than more active users who share their own content, a new study has found.Previous studies into the impact of…

A Bournemouth University (BU) graduate is creating an education toolkit of evidence-based resources to support children in making healthy life choices.Claire King, a former headteacher, noticed the link between food and mood during her…

A greater emphasis on environmental education in schools is needed to improve children’s understanding of the risks facing the environment, including the conservation of endangered species such as the African Savannah Elephant.That is the…

That is the finding of a new report by the Soroptimists UK and Jess Rose, a PhD student at BU, based on observations from over 1000 cases in over 30 magistrates courts around the country. The report by the was one of the subjects…

Bournemouth University has risen to 41st in the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings 2023.The rankings list the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger. BU has risen from 62nd in the 2022 rankings.…

Archaeology students from Bournemouth University have discovered a Bronze Age burial site during an excavation of a prehistoric settlement in Dorset.It is the first time Bronze Age bones have been discovered on the site in Winterborne…