By Tania Willis on April 5, 2012
The winning group of BA Hons advertising students successfully launched their Chatterbox event in Bournemouth square yesterday 4 April. Poppy Sargeaunt, Youth Disability Coordinator at the YMCA, said: “Today has gone really well, we have all the young chatterboxes who are all really keen about the event, they are all really eager to tell people [...]
Posted in News, The Media School | Tagged Bournemouth University, chatterbox
By kirstipawlowski on January 27, 2012
Dr. Bronwen Thomas and Dr. Julia Round have been successful in securing an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) award, likely to be around £15k, to organise a research network on the topic of ‘Researching Readers Online: understanding the impact of digital transformations on the reading process’. The funding will put the rapidly-developing Narrative [...]
Posted in The Media School | Tagged AHRC, Bournemouth University, BU, cemp, Centre for excellence in Media Practise, research
By Tania Willis on December 7, 2011
Journalists, politicians, academics and novelists gathered to panel a debate entitled ‘The politicisation of higher education’ at the House Of Commons yesterday, which was organised by the Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group. Senior Lecturer in Marketing Communication at BU, Dr Richard Scullion, Dean of the Media School Stephen Jukes both held a place [...]
Posted in News, The Media School | Tagged Bournemouth University, Dr Dan Jackson, Higher Education, House Of Commons, Marion Hersh, Professor Jeremy Gilbert, Stephen Jukes, University and College Union, University of East London, ‘The politicisation of higher education’
By Tania Willis on November 25, 2011
Sky News journalist Andrew Wilson is coming to BU on Monday to give a workshop to Journalism students. The workshop will begin at 1pm chaired by Andrew Wilson, who has just returned from covering the Arab Spring and conflict in Libya for Sky News, Andrew Preston, reportage editor for the Mail on Sunday, and Marion [...]
Posted in Journalism, News, The Media School | Tagged Andrew Preston, Andrew Wilson, BAMMJ, Bournemouth University, International Journalism, Journalism, Marion Bowman, Sky News
By Tania Willis on November 21, 2011
Appalled by co-alition policy betrayal? Journalists want some fresh ammo for the higher education 2012 fees debate? Perhaps you might like to vent your opinion, or delve into the depth of questions such as, is higher education in England and Wales heading for meltdown? Or is there a more positive alternative to the government’s policies? [...]
Posted in Journalism, News, The Media School | Tagged Bournemouth University, Dean of The Media School, House Of Commons, Laurie Penny, New StatesmanStephen Jukes, Politicisation of Higher Education conference
By Tania Willis on November 14, 2011
BA (Honours) Interactive Media Production will be changing it’s name for the academic year 2012. The new name will be BA Hons Digital Media Design, however will remain the same in content and structure, but the course will continually make interactive changes to the delivery to reflect the fast paced changes of [...]
Posted in News | Tagged BA Hons Digital Media Design, BAIMP, Bournemouth University, Mark Shufflebottom
By kirstipawlowski on November 11, 2011
The winner of this years Bournemouth University placement student prize is Jabir Siraz-Ullah, who performed outstandingly on his placement with Eli Lilly & Company. Jabir graduated from BA Hons Marketing this today, said upon learning of winning the prize: “I was surprised considering the scale, especially when there are nearly 2000 students eligible for the award. [...]
Posted in The Media School | Tagged Bournemouth, Bournemouth University, BU, Marketing, placement
By Tania Willis on November 7, 2011
Never mind the buzzcocks star Phill Jupitus came down to Bournemouth University’s Talbot Campus yesterday to give a lecture to radio production students last week. Phill Jupitus also was the celebrity raffle drawer in the Children In Need raffle.
Posted in The Media School | Tagged Bournemouth University, Children in Need, Phil Jupitus
By Tania Willis on November 3, 2011
The Chartered Institute of Public Relations hosted the Pride awards for the Wessex region last night at the Grand Harbour Hotel. in Southampton, recognising the highest achieving PR and communications professionals. Bournemouth University won a gold award for the internal Newspaper Bulletin, and Bournemouth University’s in house PR team scooped silver for their outstanding work, [...]
Posted in The Media School | Tagged Bournemouth University, BU PR, CIPR, winning
By Sally Gates on October 25, 2011
The Creative Enterprise Bureau (CEB) at BU will join over sixty major brands to share advice on integrated communications at this year’s Media Pro Expo The Media Pro event held in Olympia, London on November 1-2, will include an exhibition and conference programme detailing how to deliver effective integrated communications across digital, social and print [...]
Posted in The Media School | Tagged Bournemouth University, Creative Enterprise Bureau, Media Pro, Media School