BU Research Blog

We’re coming to the end of Writing Week in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences and by now you will have made a good start or have put the finishing touches to your academic writing projects. Over the last week, we have given you some tips on writing grant applications and highlighted some of the expertise within BUCRU. If you didn’t get the chance to pop in and see us we thought it would be useful to remind you what we’re about and how we can help.

Bournemouth University Clinical Research Unit (BUCRU) supports researchers in improving the quality, quantity and efficiency of research across the University and local National Health Service (NHS) Trusts. We do this by:

• Helping researchers develop high quality applications for external research funding (including small grants)
• Ongoing involvement in funded research projects
• A “pay-as-you-go” consultation service for other work.

How can we help?

BUCRU can provide help in the following areas:

• Study design
• Quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Statistics, data management and data analysis
• Patient and public involvement in research
• Trial management
• Ethics, governance and other regulatory issues
• Linking University and NHS researchers

Our support is available to Bournemouth University staff and people working locally in the NHS, and depending on the support you require, is mostly free of charge. There are no general restrictions on topic area or professional background of the researcher.

If you would like support in developing your research please get in touch through bucru@bournemouth.ac.uk or by calling us on 01202 961939. Please see our website for further information, details of our current and previous projects and a link to our recent newsletter.