BU Research Blog

14 May 2012

Good luck and Congratulations!

Awarded & submitted bids Matthew Bennett

Congratulations to Tania Humphries-Smith (DEC) for securing funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering for an industry visiting professor, Zulfiqar… Read more »

2 April 2012

Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme: Daily Life Activities of Older Adults at Home funding

Corrina Lailla Osborne

The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme has launched its fifth Call for Proposals: “ICT-based Solutions for (Self-) Management of… Read more »

21 March 2012

‘World Leading Academic to attend Media School Symposium’

Research themes John Oliver

Professor Robert Picard, of Harvard and Oxford universities has confirmed his attendance at the forthcoming symposium on New Economic Models… Read more »

21 February 2012

NERC plans to move to shared Research Outcomes System (ROS)

Susan Dowdle

NERC has been collecting research outputs data on NERC-funded research through its Research Outputs Database (ROD) for nearly a decade. … Read more »

23 November 2011

RCUK launches the ROS!

Guidance Julie Northam

Last month Anita posted on the blog about the forthcoming RCUK Research Outcomes System (ROS) due to be launched imminently…. Read more »

18 November 2011

RCUK Demand Management week on the blog! AHRC and demand management

Guidance Julie Northam

Welcome to RCUK Demand Management week on the blog! Today’s focus is on the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and… Read more »

16 November 2011

RCUK Demand Management week on the blog! ESRC and demand management

Guidance Julie Northam

Welcome to RCUK Demand Management week on the blog! Today’s focus is on the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and… Read more »

14 November 2011

RCUK Digital Economy theme: invitation to apply to participate in sub-theme workshops and networks

Julie Northam

The EPSRC have recently announced a call for applications to participate in a number of workshops to develop research challenges… Read more »

14 November 2011

RCUK Demand Management week on the blog! What is RCUK Demand Management?

Guidance Julie Northam

Welcome to RCUK Demand Management week on the blog! There has been a lot of discussion and debate about demand… Read more »

11 October 2011

EPRSC announces new open access policy

Guidance Julie Northam

The EPSRC has introduced a new policy on access to outputs arising from funded research: EPSRC Council has agreed to mandate open… Read more »

3 October 2011

HEIF-5 strategy approved by HEFCE

News from the PVC Matthew Bennett

I am delighted to share with you the news that BU’s HEIF-5 Strategy was approved by HEFCE at the end… Read more »

26 September 2011

Tourism comes of age…

Alan Fyall

Although a major contributor to life at BU, the study of Tourism is often wrongly maligned as being a niche… Read more »

21 September 2011

BU internal peer-review scheme for your research proposal

Funding opportunities, Guidance Caroline O'Kane

Why is the internal peer review of research proposals important? The competition for research funds is high and is likely… Read more »

22 August 2011

Research Council Success Rates

Susan Dowdle

The Research Councils have created central web-hubs with all the key data on success rates in addition to other useful… Read more »

18 August 2011

Equipment Sharing Database Launched

Susan Dowdle

The EPSRC has launched a database to encourage researchers to share equipment. This is a valuable resource following the research… Read more »

24 June 2011

Creative and Digital Economy

BU Challenges Corrina Lailla Osborne

Authors: John Oliver and Darren Lilleker Alternative name suggestion: Creative and Digital Society Brief theme summary: This theme aims to explore… Read more »

22 June 2011