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A different way of thinking
One of the ways a BU education will help you stand out is the way in which we blend education, professional practice and research in everything we do. We don’t think that cutting-edge pedagogy, world-leading research and partnering with global industry giants are enough – instead, we make sure each activity informs the other. The insight and expertise we gain in one area doesn’t just strengthen that area – it strengthens everything. We call it Fusion.
What we learn through our research influences our curriculum and is passed on to industry through engagement with professional practice. What we learn from working with industry gives us new ideas for research and helps us to design and deliver courses that keep our students at the cutting edge of their chosen professions. And what we learn from delivering a world-class education helps us to improve our research and our professional practice.
It means students benefit from all areas of our expertise at every turn. For example, in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, our student midwives have worked alongside research students, BU academics, and practising midwives and chiropractors to develop and deliver interprofessional student-led clinics. Tourism students have worked with Dr Anya Chapman on her research project focusing on resort regeneration projects and revitalising coastal tourism with an emphasis on piers, bringing their learning to life. Journalism students have worked alongside our researchers to help older people become citizen journalists and get their voices heard. Biodiversity students have worked on a project with BU academics, the National Trust and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to develop better conservation methods for the Purbeck region.
We are flexible in leadership, giving our staff the freedom to come up with new ways of thinking, and supporting them in delivering new solutions. We work without barriers, collaborating and sharing with each other to deliver worldleading, life-changing research that we are passionate about. Indeed, many of our projects involve academics from different faculties working together, and we place a lot of emphasis on developing processes, structures and learning spaces that make it easier to work together.
We believe that these different elements combine to enable BU to offer something truly remarkable to the world. It helps us to think differently, so that not only are the solutions we provide unique, but the questions we ask are too.
You'll find examples of the ways Fusion helps us stand out in each subject area in the course section of this prospectus, or visit:
