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Free game and £10 Amazon Voucher Investigating Face Recognition in Children The ability to recognise faces is a really important skill in everyday life. However, some children find it hard to recognize faces. We’re trying to find out why this is and whether face recognition can be improved with training. We’d like your help by… Read more » about Learning to recognise faces? Fun research opportunity for children aged 4 – 11
Service Excellence Conference 2017 – thank you! 09 May 2017 We just wanted to say a huge thank you to all those people who supported us by attending this years’ Service Excellence Conference – it was an inspiring and surprisingly emotional day! If you didn’t manage to make it – and we all know that… Read more » about Service Excellence Conference 2017 – thank you!
Kindness We believe kindness is central to service excellence – behaviours that include generosity, friendliness and consideration. During today’s conference we will present a growing body of evidence which supports our case for kindness and take a look at how these traits link to our BU values. Excellence, Achievement, Authenticity, Creativity, Responsibility Generosity – sharing… Read more » about Service Excellence 2017
Systematic Reviews: making sense of research This Research Approach paper, developed by the Fair Access Research project (FAR) team at BU and Liverpool University in conjunction with the Office for Fair Access (OFFA), outlines how to undertake a systematic review of widening participation research. Undertaking a systematic review enables researchers to explore a wide range… Read more » about Widening Participation Research. Systematic Reviews: making sense of research
This seminar highlights the results of George Ellis’ recent research project in which he investigated the importance of social networks on anxiety and depression levels within the BU MSc student cohorts of 2014-2016. We are keen to share this information so that people may be able to use it for planning MSc student inductions and… Read more » about Understanding the importance of social networks for student wellbeing at BU
Applying for HEA Fellowship Session One of BU’s key performance indicators in BU2018 is that every academic member of staff has either Fellowship (or higher) of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) or a teaching qualification. If you’d like to find out more about applying for HEA Fellowship in 2017 Dr Sue Eccles (CEL) will… Read more » about Applying for HEA Fellowship Session
Yes I know this is a bit more BUDI than CEL! However this research has received a much greater response than expected. Conversely this game measures depletion in what has previously been learnt rather than excellence in learning. But could this inspire your thinking about augmented reality? What do you think? Here’s the link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sea-hero-quest/id1034383306?mt=8… Read more » about Download this game from the App Store to help with Dementia research
