Vice-Chancellor’s welcome

Welcome

All BU students benefit from the strength of our expanding research community. Our academic staff are involved in cutting-edge research and enterprise that make a genuine contribution to society both nationally and internationally – whether we are helping surgeons practise operations using VR technology or developing smart cities with digital technology that can help to keep us safe.

We pride ourselves on the way our work makes a difference to the world around us. That's best demonstrated by our outstanding performance in the Research Exercise Framework 2021, where 95.7% of our research was deemed to have considerable impact or more, with 31.5% achieving an outstanding impact score.

Nothing we do at BU is done in isolation. We believe that by working together between different departments and faculties, by collaborating with professional organisations and other universities, and by working with students to cocreate new knowledge together, we are enriching the world around us and contributing to a better society.

We also recognise the value of an inclusive and welcoming community. At BU we work as one to inspire learning, advance knowledge and enrich society. A further benefit of belonging to the BU community is its diversity – our staff and students come from over 100 countries and our outlook is truly global. I'm proud of our approach to sustainability – it's not just something we teach, it's something we are. Sustainability and ethical practice are embedded into our practices – for example, they are at the heart of the design of our new buildings, which make the most of renewable and sustainable energy to help us reduce our carbon footprint even further. That's demonstrated by us being the highest-ranked UK university in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022 for climate action.

Bournemouth is a great place to live, work and study, so if you want to be encouraged and challenged to contribute directly to the development of knowledge in your subject, we’d love to welcome you to BU.

Professor John Vinney

Vice-Chancellor