Access to Music: Music Technology in Special Educational Needs Settings
Access to Music is a HEIF funded project situated in the department of Creative Technology and the Emerge Research Group. The aim of this project is to work collaboratively with local schools for...
View ArticleHEIF project on managing peatlands for biodiversity and cultural heritage
Improving the Condition of Natural and Cultural Capital in Dorset and Hampshire: A HEIF project By Alexander Lovegrove Dorset and Hampshire are counties rich in natural beauty, biodiversity, and sites...
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Flying the KEIT for knowledge exchange and impact at BU
It’s been a busy month for BU’s Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team and below is a small selection of our activities. If you’d like to find out more about our team and how we can support your...
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Graduate Project – Supporting innovation at BU
My name is Oliver Cooke and I am currently in my third year of study on the BA Honours Media Production course. As part of my Graduate Project, I am developing a media package in order to showcase a...
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Innovation funding now featured on Instagram !
Forming part of a media package to support innovation funding at BU, a new Instagram Account is now live. Oliver Cooke a third year student on the BA Honours Media Production course is developing a...
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Tracks in the sand: tracking criminals
“Within our lives we leave thousands of individual footprints – in the snow, on the beach, in the park and sometimes even muddy prints on the kitchen floor! Tracks are more numerous than any other...
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BU alumni supporting innovation projects at BU
Dominika Budka is currently working on an innovation funded (HEIF) project called: “Dinosaurs to Forensic Science: Digital, Tracks and Traces”. She graduated last year (2016) having completed an MSc...
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BU alumni working on serious gaming project
Joshua (Josh) Cook graduated in 2016 with a first in BSc Games Programming. He is currently working on an innovation project being led by Professor Wen Tang. ” PLUS” is a gamified training...
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Sherlock’s Window: In search of an odourless growth medium
“A key aspect of forensic investigation is the assessment of the ‘window of opportunity’ during which death took place. Estimations using insects (e.g. blowflies) increase accuracy. Using blowflies to...
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Research Drove Me to Murder
“As reported by National Policing Improving Agency, the most frequently encountered evidence at the scenes of a crime is footwear impressions and marks. Unfortunately, recovery and usage of this kind...
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The Compound Eye of Calliphora Vomitoria (Bluebottle fly)
“Blood feeding activity of flies at crime scenes can be confounding. Experiments were conducted to investigate the blood feeding activity, and blood artefact patterns created by flies following a...
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HEIF-6: funding now available for innovative KE projects
HEFCE provide Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) to universities to facilitate a broad range of knowledge-based interactions between them and the wider world, which result in economic and...
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Reminder of HEIF-6 funding call
The deadline is fast approaching for the HEIF-6 funding call – 23rd July. HEFCE provide Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) to universities to facilitate a broad range of knowledge-based...
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Globalisation of the Wessex Portal thanks to HEIF
Over the Summer of 2017, project manager Katie Thompson has been working to redesign and improve the Wessex Portal to include a global conservation theme. The site has been enhanced to target a global...
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Natalia Adamczewska joins the HEIF-6 Virtual Learning Environment project
Recently, I was fortune enough to become the Research Assistant on the HEIF-6 project run by Dr Ben Hicks. This is a one year project that aims to develop and evaluate a free Virtual Learning...
View ArticleHE policy update for the w/e 1st December 2017
The KEF is coming On 1st December, HEFCE launched a consultation on the new Knowledge Exchange Framework – the KEF – which was announced earlier in the Autumn by the Jo Johnson – as the “third leg” of...
View ArticleHE Policy Update for the w/e 13th April 2018
Knowledge Exchange Framework After the initial announcement and consultation, things had gone a bit quiet. Louis Coiffat from Wonkhe chaired a conference on it before Easter and wrote about it here....
View ArticleHE Policy update for the w/e 20th July 2018
Free speech still in the news The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a report on free speech on campus – Cracking the code: A practical guide for university free speech policies. This is...
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Game On! Enriching the lives of people with dementia through digital gaming.
On the 13th July 2018, the Ageing and Dementia Research Centre (ADRC) hosted a free half-day workshop for dementia practitioners and academics interested in understanding how digital gaming technology...
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The Big PalaeoGo! Trial
PalaeoGo! is a project funded by Bournemouth University (BU) via its Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) that aims to show how augmented reality (AR) can be used as an educational tool at natural...
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