By Charles Elder on June 20, 2011
Dr Kip Jones’ research on past rural attitudes to homosexuality grabbed the headline above in last week’s Times Higher Education. Dr Jones is collaborating with Lond0n-based filmmaker Josh Appignanesi over the summer to create the film, Rufus Stone, which will tell the story of being gay and growing older in the British countryside. The film will be [...]
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By Charles Elder on June 3, 2011
Parents of children born with clubfoot share many of the negative feelings and perceptions experienced by parents of children with more disabling conditions, according to new research carried out by the University of Aberdeen and Bournemouth University. The Royal Children’s Hospital in Aberdeen also collaborated on the study – published in the International Journal of [...]
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By Charles Elder on June 1, 2011
A new book co-edited by BU’s Dr Francis Biley, seeks to dispel misconceptions about mental health and society’s relationship with ‘madness’. All of the contributors to the book, entitled ‘Our Encounters with Madness’, have written freely about their own personal experiences without being subjected to analytical commentary which, say the book’s editors, tend to dilute or [...]
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By Charles Elder on June 1, 2011
The first annual conference organised by the University Department for Mental Health (UDMH) at Bournemouth University and the Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust is scheduled for Friday, 10 June in Bournemouth. This one-day event will be held at BU’s Executive Business Centre (EBC) in Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, situated near the town’s mainline rail station and coach/bus interchange. This [...]
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