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News Archive: March 2021
Preparing tomorrow’s teachers for educating post-COVID
With vaccines in full flow and schools now reopening, researchers at Bangor University have been investigating the effects of COVID-19 school closures on learners, teachers and families.
Publication date: 23 March 2021
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission scholarships available for MSc programmes in Agroforestry and Tropical Forestry at Bangor University. Apply now!
Bangor University has secured 15 Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) scholarships to award to exceptional international scholars to study either: MSc Agroforestry and Food Security (distance learning) , or MSc Tropical Forestry (distance-learning)
Publication date: 19 March 2021
Bangor to focus on health and wellbeing in phase II of CALIN, a project supporting innovation in life science across Wales and Ireland
Life science experts at Bangor University’s College of Human Sciences are to play a key role in plans to forge even closer links between Wales and Ireland through the CALIN project.
Publication date: 18 March 2021
YOU’RE NOT DONE WITH BANANA BREAD - A PSYCHOLOGIST REVEALS ALL
During the first pandemic lockdowns at the start of 2020, social media was flooded with pictures of homemade banana bread as people turned to baking in lieu of socialising. Now with many places reintroducing or anticipating further restrictions as COVID-19 case numbers rise again, there’s a good chance we could see a revival of the home baking trend.
Publication date: 17 March 2021
Bangor expert contributes to Arthurian stamp launch
The enduring popularity of the Arthurian legends has been underlined yet again by the new publication of a set of stamps depicting Arthurian legends and characters by the Royal Mail. The new stamps have designs commissioned from artist Jaime Jones, and the accompanying text is by Bangor University Arthurian expert, Professor Raluca Radulescu.
Publication date: 16 March 2021
Pioneering project to safeguard our iconic oaks launched
Climate change causes an increase in diseases affecting our iconic oak trees, but a pioneering project is to investigate the role of beneficial microbes in fighting diseases that affect our native oak trees. The FUTURE OAK project, comprising scientists at Bangor University, Aberystwyth University, Forest Research and Sylva Foundation, will study how oak microbiomes are affected by environmental change and disease.
Publication date: 12 March 2021
Celebrating Women!
The School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences celebrate Women’s History Month
Publication date: 12 March 2021
Combining public health and environmental science to develop pollen forecasting
New research, which brings healthcare data together with ground-breaking ecological techniques, could set a roadmap for refining pollen forecasts in the future. Current pollen forecasts, crucial for people with allergic asthma or hay fever to manage their symptoms, rely on measuring the total load of grass pollen in the atmosphere. However, these do not distinguish between pollen from different types of grass. Now, a potential link between pollen from certain grass species and respiratory health issues has been revealed.
Publication date: 11 March 2021
Bangor young entrepreneur puts words into action with public speaking venture
A Bangor University student has built on her love of public speaking to launch a business which helps children to develop confidence skills from a young age. Olaitan Olawande, who is completing her Masters in Applied Behaviour Analysis , set up Practice What You Speak, to provide public speaking workshops to young people across the UK. The workshops are targeted at three age ranges, 7-11 years, 12-17 years and ages 18-24, with Olaitan having already run workshops for over 30 young people.
Publication date: 9 March 2021
Bangor’s IEEE student branch holds its second guest lecture
The second Bangor University IEEE student branch guest lecture took place online on the 24th February 2021.
Publication date: 9 March 2021
Bangor joins other research led universities in contributing to the Physiological Society Knowledge Exchange report.
Physiology is one of the 3 core disciplines within Sport and Exercise Science and Bangor University staff are helping to lead the way in the knowledge exchange (KE) of this area.
Publication date: 5 March 2021
Bangor staff involved in delivering C21 north Wales Medicine receive C4ME Recognition from Cardiff Medical School
Students, staff and teaching partners of Cardiff Medical School were invited to nominate others to be recognised for their exceptional contribution to the student experience and the NHS 2020.
Publication date: 5 March 2021
Dementia & Sensory Challenges - Dementia can be more than memory
Lecturer and researcher at the School of Health Sciences and member of the all-Wales Centre for Ageing & Dementia Research, Catrin Hedd Jones has worked with leading specialist in Wales and members of the Merched y Wawr to translate and update the Dementia & Sensory Challenges – Dementia can be more than memory booklet in support of raising awareness around the sensory challenges for [some] people living with dementia through the Welsh medium.
Publication date: 2 March 2021
New study shows link between agricultural land grade and river water quality in rural catchments
A new study, conducted by a team of researchers from Bangor University, has shown that water quality in the Conwy and Clwyd rivers in North Wales is strongly related to the grade of agricultural lands in their respective catchment areas.
Publication date: 1 March 2021