Visiting Spanish historian researches PR archives
Since June 30, Professor Natalia Rodriguez Salcedo of the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain has been a visiting scholar at BU, based in the Corporate & Marketing Communications academic...
View ArticleWhen telling tales is good!
The RCUK Digital Economy Theme ‘Telling Tales of Engagement’ Competition 2014 The RCUK Digital Economy Theme is running a competition designed to help capture and promote the impact that your digital...
View ArticleCongratulations to Malala Yousafzai !
The Centre for Midwifery, Maternal and Perinatal Health would like to take the opportunity to congratulate 17-year old Malala Yousafzai on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Her call for education for...
View ArticleThird book in PR history series published by Palgrave
The third book in Professor Tom Watson’s edited world history of public relations series, Middle Eastern and African Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices, has arrived. Ten...
View ArticleTired of Writing? Make a Map!
This spring semester, thanks to a Fusion CCCP grant, we’ll be turning our BU research into interactive media, designed for making an impact. If you are like me, dishwashing, hanging laundry, answering...
View ArticleFunding Opportunity: The International Partnership and Mobility Scheme
The International Partnership and Mobility Scheme aims to support the development of partnerships between the UK and other areas of the world where research excellence would be strengthened by new and...
View Article31 publications by January 31st!
My contribution to the BU Research Blog this year started on 3-1-2015 under the heading First BU publication of 2015. I soon discovered that with loads of journals publishing their first issue of...
View ArticleRepresentations of PR – online resource
Representation of professions and employment takes many forms and is often shaped by books and visual and aural media. In the public relations field, characters such as Edina in Absolutely Fabulous and...
View ArticleThe Politics of Societal Impact: Community Development and Critical Scholarship
How can we do research that engages with communities in a genuinely collaborative way? What kind of research produces findings which address critical questions about the structural issues and problems...
View ArticleCollaborative ethnography and undergraduate learning
The value of providing undergraduate students with experience of conducting first hand, empirical research is widely recognised. As a social anthropologist, I’ve long been interested enabling students...
View ArticleWhy not get involved in Being Human Festival of humanities?
The UK’s only national festival of the humanities, will be returning for fourth year between 17-25 November 2017 and number of grants to support public engagement activities is being offered! The...
View ArticleBritish Academy Small Grants – Spring Round
The call for the next round of BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants has been announced and will be open from 11th April 2018. The call closes at 5pm on Wednesday 6th June 2018. Scheme notes will be...
View ArticleBU and Vietnam National University, University of Social Sciences and...
Dr Jaeyeon Choe in Faculty of Management successfully co-organised and co-chaired the Nexus of Migration and Tourism: Creating Social Sustainability Symposium, with Vietnam National University,...
View ArticleFree workshop: Research Impact in the Arts and Humanities
Attendance is free – fully funded places are also available (inc accommodation, travel etc.) The “I” Word: Research Impact in the Arts & Humanities This one-day workshop aims to provide...
View ArticleCalling all Humanities and Social Sciences ECR’s
Do you want to super charge your skills development? Do you want access to a range of training and mentoring? Do you want to engage in networking opportunities? Take a look at this…… THE...
View ArticleBU HL team wins award at the BISA Model NATO at FCDO in London
BU students in the Humanities and Law Department, Shahidah Miah (3rd year Law student), Alex Carey (2nd year History student) and Josh Pitt (3rd year Politics student) won the Distinguished Delegation...
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