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Monday 21 May 2012
Hear about the 'Memory Bank' project in partnership with the National Media Museum's Pictureville Cinema. Films have been carefully selected for the initiative in collaboration with health experts, carers and families along with Age UK, the Alzheimer¿s Society, Bradford University and Methodist Homes for the Aged, whose residents have given audience reviews.
(External) http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/main-section/archive-video-a-yorkshire-we-ve-almost-forgotten-unlocks-memories-of-the-past-1-4554633Monday 21 May 2012
"It's a sport that requires hard work and aggression - not just from the men, but also from the women. Now, Bradford College's women's boxing programme has won a top award from the organisers of this year's Olympics for increasing female participation in the sport." Hear from our second-year student, Saira Tabasum, a rising start in the female boxing scene in Bradford...
(External) http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/video-boxing-clever-with-bradford-s-female-fighters-1-4553804Saturday 19 May 2012
Being the victim of a hit-and-run driver when he was seven left Mohammed Danyal with such horrific head injuries that doctors feared he would never walk or talk again. Now 22, he has beaten the odds to get a law degree and, inspired by his own survival story, wants to become a personal injury lawyer.
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/9715800.Law_graduate_Mohammed_Danyal______I_was_told_I___d_not_walk_or_talk_again_/?ref=rssTuesday 15 May 2012
Sustainability is at the heart of GWP Architecture¿s project to provide student accommodation for the University of Bradford. The Green, as it is known, certainly lives up to its name, as environmental considerations are embedded throughout.
(External) http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/business-news/students-learn-how-energy-can-be-saved-1-4548163Thursday 10 May 2012
The inaugural S-Labs Awards Scheme has been set up to reward and encourage best practice in lab design and practice. Here Professor Peter James tells us why this is so important... Professor Peter James is Director, and Lisa Hopkinson the Project Manager, at S-Lab, and are based at the University of Bradford.
(External) http://www.labnews.co.uk/features/effective-lab/Thursday 10 May
Universities are reasonably conservative places and virtually no institutions have moved away from the three-year undergraduate degree, or the one-year master's programme... There are lots of radical innovations that could be tried. For example, a university could move much closer to being a degree awarding body that examines but does not teach. EThames graduate school teaches students for degrees that are examined and awarded by the universities of Sunderland, Bradford, Greenwich and De Montfort.
(External) http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/may/10/innovators-academia-universitiesThursday 10 May 2012
The winners of the first ever Greenbuild Awards were announced last night in a ceremony at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry... Behavioural change winner: University of Bradford Preparing 3,000 students and 150 staff for a move to a low-carbon building has maximised energy savings and illustrated what a comprehensive behavioural change programme can achieve.
(External) http://www.greenbuildnews.co.uk/news-details/Greenbuild-Awards-winners-revealed/587Friday 09 May 2012
A Bradford-based specialist engineering company which is expanding its export trade is planning to create more graduate training opportunities over the next five years... A Bradford-based specialist engineering company which is expanding its export trade is planning to create more graduate training opportunities over the next five years.
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/business/9694315.Bradford_engineers_hope_to_create_graduates/?ref=rssFriday 04 May 2012
Scrutinising skeletons isn't for the faint-hearted. But they help the experts who handle human remains provide an intriguing insight into the nutritional impact on people¿s diets in the past. Participants in the recent You Are What You Ate osteology workshop in Bradford University¿s Archaeological Sciences department were given the opportunity to do just that...
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_behind/9688831.Bradford_bones_unit_peek_into_the_past/?ref=rssWednesday 02 May 2012
Combining hospital quality assurance and aseptic services work with teaching pharmacy students provides the perfect blend of theory and practice, Hannah Kitching tells Sue Laird.
(External) http://www.pjonline.com/content/how_a_teacherpractitioner_in_technical_services_helps_link_science_and_practiceTuesday 01 May 2012
The Bradford Industrial Museum was due to play host to six University of Bradford students today as they were awarded the Benjamin Jowett Memorial Scholarship.
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/9679209.University_of_Bradford_students_to_receive_scholarships/Friday 27 April 2012
Details have been published from a study by Bradford University School of Optometry that found nearly half of ready-made spectacles (RMS) on sale in the UK failed to meet quality assurance standards.
(External) http://www.opticianonline.net/Articles/2012/04/27/29341/Quality+of+ready+readers+is+questioned.htmFriday 27 April 2012
Robert Mood, the tall, square-jawed and fair-haired Norwegian general heading the Syria ceasefire observer mission, appears the archetypal cool Nordic head who will use an image of impartiality to bridge what he has called an "abyss of suspicion.
(External) http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/uk-syria-mood-idUKBRE83Q0KW20120427Thursday 26 April 2012
Peter Popena is currently on Bradford University School of Management's Accelerated MBA. He has come to the UK from Papua New Guinea on a scholarship programme and will return to his environment management role to undertake his MBA project in the summer, just eight months after starting the programme.
(External) http://www.businessbecause.com/news/member-stories-1/mba-skills-for-developing-countries-doing-social-good-as-well-as-economic-good-81459Wednesday 25 April 2012
The University of Bradford has risen two places to 71st in a national higher education league table of the country's 116 universities. The Complete University Guide shows the facility has improved on last year's position of 73rd in the table, which ranks establishments on criteria including student satisfaction, research, entry standards, graduate prospects and course completion rates.
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/9667596.League_table_rise_for_University_of_Bradford/Tuesday 24 April 2012
Dementia is on the rise, with more than one million people expected to be living with the disease in the next ten years. How carers treat those with the condition is coming under the spotlight as the ageing population increases and one person is diagnosed with dementia worldwide every seven seconds.
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_behind/9665697.Call_for_better_care_treatment/r/?ref=rssMonday 23 April 2012
BBC Panorama will tonight reveal the appalling treatment of a vulnerable, elderly woman in a care home, after it was captured on a secret camera hidden in the woman's bedroom by her concerned daughter. Paul Edwards, from the University of Bradford's Bradford Dementia Group in the School of Health Studies, provides leading expert advice on the programme, entitled: Undercover: Elderly Care.
(External) http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/care-home-abuse-caught-on-camera-1-4474408Monday 23 April 2012
Bradford amateur boxer and coach Saira Tabasum is in the running for honours at the Asian Women of Achievement awards. Saira Tabasum, 21, runs a girls-only non-contact boxing club at Springwood Community Primary School. The Bradford University student is short-listed for the first-ever sports category, which has been set up to coincide with this summer's London Games.
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportother/sport_other_indoor/boxing/9664125.Bradford_boxer_on_awards_short_list/Saturday 21 April 2012
TAJIKISTAN is the poorest republic of the former Soviet Union, yet its capital, Dushanbe, is awash with cash, construction and flash cars. It is easy to guess where the money comes from. Tajikistan has little industry but, with a porous 1,300-km (800-mile) border with northern Afghanistan, it is at the heart of a multi-billion-dollar network smuggling heroin. Bizarrely though, unlike other transit countries such as Mexico, Tajikistan sees little drug-related violence. The heroin, instead, seems to help stabilise the place.
(External) http://www.economist.com/node/21553092Saturday 21 April 2012
Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel will be at the University of Bradford next week to speak about challenges to human rights in the 21st Century.
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/9662429.Activist_and_Nobel_Peace_Prize_winner_to_give_lecture/r/?ref=rssThursday 19 April 2012
Charities could face another funding blow if the Government's plans to introduce a cap on tax relief for charitable donations comes to fruition... Professor Mark Cleary, vice-chancellor at the University of Bradford, says: "We are concerned by the cap on income tax reliefs announced in the Budget and specifically regarding the possible negative impact upon donations to charity... "The University of Bradford has a comparatively young fundraising programme, which has been successful in its early years. Any measure that creates a reluctance for donors to support our work to help bright students access higher education, and our world-class research activities, could seriously limit the gifts we receive in support of these programmes."
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_behind/9657983.Should_there_be_a_charity_tax_rethink_/r/?ref=rssThursday 19 April 2012
SARAH Haslam, a Southport-born automotive engineer, has become a star of the small screen in the latest TV advertising drive by motoring giant Ford. She studied mechanical engineering at the University of Bristol, has a Ford-sponsored master's degree from the University of Bradford and is a chartered engineer with the Institution of Mechanical Engineering
(External) http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/ldpbusiness/business-local/2012/04/19/southport-engineer-sarah-haslam-stars-in-new-ford-tv-ad-99623-30787716/Wednesday 18 April 2012
Among the award-winning buildings announced today at Ecobuild in London are some of the highest ever scoring buildings certified under BREEAM. This follows a year that saw a record number of new and existing buildings being registered for BREEAM assessment. All of the award-winning buildings achieved at least an 'Excellent' rating, which requires a BREEAM score of 70% or above, with a number reaching the 85% needed for 'Outstanding'. Among the very wide range of buildings this year was the Dogs Trust Shrewsbury Rehoming Centre, which gained the highest ever BREEAM post-construction score awarded to date. Close behind was 'The Green' student accommodation at the University of Bradford, which earned additional 'Innovation Credits' for its provision of real-time, energy-use and water-use displays to every student flat. Both these buildings achieved scores of over 94%.
(External) http://www.atdonline.eu/pressrelease/pressrelease.aspx?companyname=BRE+&title=Green+buildings+reach+new+heights+at+the+BREEAM+Awards+2012Tuesday 17 April 2012
Independence for Ilkley and Keighley, as advocated by Keighley Conservative MP Kris Hopkins at the recent annual meeting of Oxenhope Parish Council, is not a new idea... According to information gathered by Bradford Council - some of which features in the book Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, by Bradford University academics Janet Bujra and Jenny Pearce - the gap between the least and the most deprived areas in Bradford was the largest in the country.
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_behind/9652184.Could_split_help_rich_and_poor_/r/?ref=rssMonday 16 April 2012
An archaeologist from the University of Bradford has joined a project exploring the bronze age carvings of the South Pennines. Community archaeologist Louise Brown is working on the Carved Stones Project on Rombalds Moor, above Ilkley, and the Riches of the Earth Project taking place on Baildon Moo
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/9650016.Volunteers_to_record_ancient_rock_art/r/?ref=rssWednesday 11 April 2012
A book aimed at helping more women reach the boardroom has been written by a top headhunter who spent a year at Bradford University School of Management . Heather McGregor, an agricultural marketing graduate carried out her research at the Bradford business school in the mid 1980s. She has published Careers Advice for Ambitious Women to help more females reach the top.
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/business/9640919.Book_aims_to_help_women_get_to_the_top/r/?ref=rssWednesday 11 April 2012
After weeks of deliberation, the judges selected the finalists for the first ever Greenbuild awards, in association with the Green Gauge Trust. To find out more about all of these shortlisted entries, come along to Greenbuild Expo on 9th and 10th May in Manchester. The Green, GB Building Solutions This student village at the University of Bradford achieved the highest-rated BREEAM Outstanding building in the world. A fabric-first design approach was key to producing a truly sustainable scheme.
(External) http://www.greenbuildnews.co.uk/news-details/Greenbuild-awards-2012-shortlist:-in-detail/547Saturday 07 April 2012
Did you know the best-selling shampoo in the world is Head & Shoulders? About 110 bottles of the anti- dandruff formula are sold every minute - 29million a year. Yet the medicated shampoo market's size is hardly surprising: at some point, half of us will suffer the unsightly, sometimes uncomfortable condition. Des Tobin, Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Bradford, agrees: "This yeast is strongly implicated in dandruff, though the nature of this relationship between the two isn¿t completely clear. It may introduce an inflammatory immune response in some people because the yeast produces enzymes capable of causing the scalp¿s surface cells to increase their shedding rate."
(External) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2126574/Head--Shoulders-Does-worlds-best-selling-shampoo-actually-work-dandruff.htmlTuesday 03 April 2012
A pioneering development in Bradford could be on the verge of winning a national award. The Green, a student village at the University of Bradford, has been announced as a finalist for the inaugural Greenbuild Awards 2012. The £40 million student village, off Great Horton Road, has BREEAM status - one of the world's most prominent assessments for the environmental performance of buildings.
(External) http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/9627480.Bradford_University_student_village_in_finals_of_national_award/Monday 02 April 2012
TOP ASIAN CHEF RASHID NOLI RECENTLY COMPLETED A TOUR OF UK UNIVERSITIES IN WHICH HE HELPED CATERING STAFF AND STUDENTS ENJOY A SPICY TASTE OF MALAYSIA. He left behind the soaring temperatures of his native Malaysia in South East Asia, to visit over a dozen UK universities as part of a three-week tour of some of Sodexo's Higher Education business.
(External) http://www.costsectorcatering.co.uk/online_article/sodexo-hosts-top-malaysian-chef-on-uk-campus-tour/15650Friday 30 March 2012
Of the many reasons for extending your skills and experience outside the consulting room, all apply to studying for additional qualifications. If you want to improve patient care, make your job more varied and satisfying, move into new areas of clinical practice while at the same time help your profession to progress, then continuing your studies is surely one of the best ways of achieving this.... Another route for DOs to consider is converting to optometry. Various routes are available, such as the Optometry Career Progression Course offered by the University of Bradford or, at other departments, exemption from some elements of the first year of an undergraduate optometry course. Studying the full three or four years of a degree in optometry is a further option.
(External) http://www.opticianonline.net/Articles/2012/03/30/29283/The+letters+game.htmFriday 30 March 2012
A Skipton scientist visited Parliament to present his science to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges as part of SET for Britain. Andrew Nichols, 25, a research assistant at the University of Bradford, saw his poster on research into novel acoustic flow monitoring judged against dozens of other engineers¿ research in the only national competition of its kind.
(External) http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/ocalnews/9621524.Young_scientist_presents_work/r/?ref=rss28 March 2012
In a back-street in Manchester's old garment district, now buzzing with students and bars, 20 or so people have gathered to do something unimaginable even a few years ago. They are here for a session of MadLab, a science club, and this evening is devoted to amateur biology. But this is not your typical study of butterflies or pond life. This is DIYBIO, part of a movement that began in the US, and the goal is to play with genes, to manipulate nature.
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