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July 7, 2017

Festival of Learning 2017- starts on Saturday!

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Bournemouth University Festival of Learning 2016

The Festival of Learning starts this Saturday for 5 days jam-packed with over 140 free activities and events for all the family.

Running in its fifth year, the festival has returned from the Global Festival of Learning which took place in ASEAN, China and India earlier in the year. Throughout the week we have different events taking place, with the festival kicking off on our Talbot Campus for a fun-filled day of activities and events for all the family on the Saturday. We’re then taking the festival off campus on the Sunday to Poole Quay, before returning to BU in the week with exciting events and activities running through the day and evening.

Saturday 8 July

Join us for a day packed with family-fun, as we transform the campus into a hub of creativity and innovation. Everyone from toddlers, to grandparents will find something for them, with events ranging from dinosaurs, to 3D printing and microbiology.

As well as this, we have a special guest speaker Anna McNuff. Anna is an inspirational speaker, endurance athlete, adventurer and self confessed mischief maker. She’ll be joining us for the day to share tales from her adventures. Book to find out why she believes passions and dreams should be embraced and explored.

You can view and book tickets for our Saturday events here.

Sunday 9 July

We’ll be heading off campus to Poole Quay on the Sunday. You can stroll along the quay, grab an ice cream and pop over to our Festival of Learning tent. We’ve got activities for all the family including healthy eating, a pop up hospital and a visual representation of Dorset’s past.

You can view and book tickets for our Sunday events here.

Monday 10 July to Wednesday 12 July

The festival will be returning to BU with a host of events taking place day and night Monday to Wednesday. There’s a whole array of events for everyone from families, to adults, students and professionals. So why not explore the campus and take advantage of our fantastic facilities?

You’ll find events ranging from exercise classes, to coding classes and a chance to explore one our TV studios.

Wednesday will be our global day to celebrate the Global Festival of Learning and the close of the festival for 2017. With events ranging from an international food festival, tales from our BU staff and students from ASEAN, China and India, as well looking at the region’s growing digital impact.

You can view and book tickets for events on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday here.

For more information about the Festival of Learning, please click here.

December 21, 2015

Festival of Learning 2016

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The festival of learning is in its fourth year and the dates for 2016 have been set as Saturday 25 – Wednesday 29 June for a shorter and more compact 5 day festival. Do make a note of these dates in your diary and let your friends and family know as there will be a huge variety of events they will be able to attend, all for free!

What kind of events could I put on?

We’re open to ideas and willing to support a wide variety of events, you could run anything from a professional development workshop to an art exhibition or you could just have a stool with some hands on activities for passers-by.

Some examples:

Gaming, computing and coding
Everyday professional skills
Health and fitness
Topics involving real-world issues
Media workshops

I’m keen to run an event! What do I do now?

You have until 31^stJanuary to submit your application to be considered as part of the festival of learning. Please click here to find the proposal form and instructions on how to submit. If you would like support in developing an event idea or for any further information then please get in touch with Naomi Kay (nkay@bournemouth.ac.uk), Public Engagement Officer.

September 17, 2015

Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team: how have we been flying the KEIT this month?

BU research, Business Engagement, Festival of Learning, HEIF, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team, Knowledge Transfer Partnership, Public engagement, Research communication Genna West

While many have been enjoying the last of the great British summer, the KEIT team have been working hard to ensure that BU’s research and knowledge is informed by society for the benefit of society on a number of cross institutional projects. Read on for a selection of our achievements this month:

Communicating BU’s research

Two exciting new digital features have been launched this month. The Research Photo of the Week exhibits winning photographs from the Research Photography Competition that we held earlier this year to showcase BU research. Our research spotlight feature has also just been launched in the form of a short video interview, featuring Dr Sally Reynolds whose work has recently been published in Scientific Reports.

Other research communication successes include Colin Pritchard’s research into dementia which was featured on the front page of the Times in August and has been well cited in the local and national press. Additionally, Jane Murphy and Joanne Holmes’ research into dementia and nutrition was reported in the Mirror and subsequently in the Coventry Telegraph and Evening Gazette.

Public Engagement

After the success of the Festival of Learning back in July, we’re already moving onto our next big event of the year, the ESRC Festival of Social Science. BU has supported events as part of the Festival for the past 3 years but this year, for the first time, we are officially a partner of the Festival and as such are producing many more events for the public, business and schools. Take a look at research.bournemouth.ac.uk/events for further details of activities taking place as part of the Festival, as well as for details of all our public facing activity.

Café Scientifique continues to be successful with September’s talk coming from Dr Robin Wilson from University of Southampton who discussed how we’re monitoring our environment from space and why we should care about it. Upcoming talks will feature Marine Archaeologist, Tom Cousins (October 6) and Vanora Hundley and Edwin Van Teijlingen who will explore Fear in Childbirth (November). If you’d like to be involved and have a great idea for a debate-centric talk we’d love to hear from you – just email Naomi.

The deadline for submitting your expression of interest to run a Festival of Learning event is also fast approaching so be sure to put your name and the concept of your event in online before 25 September.

Higher Education Initiative Fund (HEIF)

13 HEIF projects came to an end this summer, with some excellent outcomes including:

The BFX festival is running for the third year after starting out as a HEIF funded project. Tickets are now available for the festival – check out the website for more information. Volunteers are also need for this event, so please email Tracey Ricketts if you are interested in helping out.
An MSc Mobile app development course launched to start in 2016, in consultation with a number of stakeholders including local mobile app agencies.
BUG continues to hit the headlines: Weed machines remove 30 tonnes from Poole Park lake – Bournemouth Echo. This year-long research project by Bournemouth University Global Environment Solutions (BUG) monitors water quality at Poole Park lake, to form part of the bid for Heritage Lottery Funding to improve Poole Park.

HEIF 5+1: The twelve new projects that secured funding in August 2015 and will run for the next 12 months are well underway. More information will be posted on the Research Blog as these evolve – so keep an eye out for updates. One of the first to go live is Building Roman Britain.

KEIT and Liam Toms within the Media & Communication Faculty are working together to co-ordinate a Creative Bournemouth event to be held at the EBC on 23 September. Professor Tim McIntyre-Bhatty will open the event and a number of speakers from the creative industries will present during the afternoon. This event will also launcha special feature on creative industires in Bournemouth published by The Drum .

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)

We currently have five live KTP within SciTech and KTP activity at BU is on the increase with KTP leads associated with every Faculty. This is a fantastic result and we are keen to further promote the specific KTP Cyber Security call and Stratified Medicine call, both of which are due to close in early 2016.

If you’re feeling inspired by our blog post and would like to get involved with some of our projects then feel free to get in touch:

Genna West – Knowledge Exchange and Impact Manager

Rachel Bowen – Research Communications Manager

Rachel Clarke – Knowledge Exchange Adviser (KTP)

Jayne Codling – Knowledge Exchange Adviser

Naomi Kay – Public Engagement Officer

Katie Breadmore – Public Engagement Event’s Organiser

Oliver Cooke – Student Engagement Coordinator

To find out more about us and what we do, take a look at our team page.

August 15, 2015

Summer time celebrations from your favourite KEIT club

BU research Naomi Kay

This summer the Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team have been working hard and we have a few successes we’re especially proud of that we’d like to share with you!

Festival of Learning

The Festival of Learning took place from the 11th-17th July and featured over 200 activities. The entire of KEIT where heavily involved in making sure this was successful and feedback so far has been fantastically positive. We hope to have some final statistics on numbers and dates for 2016 with you soon. We’re already looking for expressions of interest to be involved in 2016 so if you would like to take part next year then take a look at how to submit your event idea here. If you’re awaiting feedback on your Festival of Learning event then rest assured we’ve been beavering away entering evaluation form data for the past month and you can expect this shortly.

Higher Education Initiative Fund (HEIF)

As HEIF 5 funding came to an end at the end of July after a run of 4 years, there is no time to stop for breath as the wheels of knowledge exchange continue to turn and HEIF 5+1 gears up – running from 1st August 2015 until 31st July 2016. Following a competitive call , twelve projects have been identified to accelerate the ethos of knowledge exchange and innovation at BU. These stem from all faculties and you can follow their progress on the research blog all year. A list of these projects has been included at the bottom of this post and you can email Jayne for further information.

Impact

An impact acceleration plan for the institution will shortly be confirmed and an impact working group convened in September in preparation for REF2020.

Knowledge Exchange and KTP

Both Rachel Clarke and Jayne Codling have been busy flying the BU flag #BUProud amongst our business community, representing the university at internal and external events. These have included supporting business focussed presentations at the Festival of Learning, attendance at the inaugural Festival of Enterprise and networking at a breakfast briefing with the British Interactive Media Association and creative lovies! Rachel also represented RKEO at an event Athelhampton House – organised by Business Insider (a business news publisher). An inaugural academic and industry networking dinner took place early July at the Marriott, between invited guests. This has enhanced links to support an engineering based student project, developing relationships to support social enterprise and environmental solutions in the area of mining, a site visit for academics to a local technology outsourcing company , development of a simulation platform in the drilling industry and additional follow up meetings and collaborations are developing. We also have recently had a KTP awarded which brings us up to a total of five KTP.

Staff Changes

We bid goodbye to Harry Gibson (Event Coordinator) and Sam Squelch (Student Engagement Coordinator) at the end of July as they completed their placement year with us and return to their studies in the Faculty of Management. Their positions have been taken over by Katie Breadmore and Oliver Cooke respectively and you can find out more about both them and their roles here.

Additionally Rebecca Edwards will be temporarily leaving us as she goes on maternity leave on 30th September and Genna West will be covering her time away, coming into post as of 1st September.

If you’re feeling inspired by our blog post and would like to get involved with some of our projects then feel free to get in touch:

Rebecca Edwards – Knowledge Exchange and Impact Manager

Rachel Bowen – Research Communications Manager

Rachel Clarke – Knowledge Exchange Adviser (KTP)

Jayne Codling – Knowledge Exchange Adviser

Naomi Kay – Public Engagement Officer

Katie Breadmore – Public Engagement Event’s Organiser

Oliver Cooke – Student Engagement Coordinator

To find out more about us and what we do, take a look at our team page.

HEIF 5+1 awarded projects

Faculty of Management
- Heather Hartwell – FoodSMART (proof of concept)
Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
- Alison McConnell – Final stage development and validation of a mobile device App to reduce blood pressure
Faculty of Media and Communications
- Jian Chang – Virtual Prototyping of New Lifeboat Launching System with Unmanned Vehicles to Enhance Safety
- Stephen Jukes – Hazardous environment training for journalists: a mobile training platform
Faculty of Science and Technology
- Adrian Newton – Development of a toolkit for modelling natural capital
- Hongnian Yu – Sensor-Integrated Urometer for measuring real-time urine output
- Kathy Hodder – Enhancing Urban Green Space for Pollinators – Decision Making Hub
- Kevin McGee – Psychiatric Genetic Counselling for Healthcare Professionals (PGC4HP): First UK pilot study, regional knowledge exchange and global impact
- Mark Brisbane – Building Roman Britain: Innovative investigations of Roman building material and knowledge exchange through museum interpretation and learning
- Richard Stillman – Simply communicating complex research to inform environmental decision-making
- Sarah Bate – Superior Face Recognition: Generating Knowledge Exchange with the Police Force
- Wen Teng – Knowledge Exchange Partnership Building with Regional Police Forces on Developing New Police Training Methodologies Using Role-playing Games Technology

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