Latest Projects and Research
Latest Projects and Research
Buckinghamshire New University aspires to be a leading UK University in applied, practice based and translational research and related advanced scholarship in our fields of professional, creative and translational practice. Details of current and recent research projects can be found in this section. For further details of past projects, please refer to publications in our repository or our archives.
Art and Design Research Projects
Creative research at Buckinghamshire New University includes ceramic innovation, product design and cultural heritage. The University is also undertaking environmental research relating to conservation and sustainability.
Nursing, Health and Wellbeing Research Projects
We have conducted research into a wide range of current issues, from the Living with Fear: Reflections on Covid-19 book which brings together the thoughts of 22 frontline professionals and people who have experienced COVID-19, to dignity for older patients in hospital and much more.
Education Research Projects
BNU has an extensive track record in developing innovative educational methods and programmes, working on a range of multi-partner EU funded Erasmus+ programmes. We have also secured funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to support local innovative education and student support initiatives.
Environment Research Projects
We are undertaking environmental research through a number of European and International projects relating to conservation and sustainability. We continue to build strong relationships and partnerships within this area of research.
Social Policy and Social Work Research Projects
At Buckinghamshire New University, we conduct research in a range of disciplines relating to social policy and social work, with a number of research projects relating to the welfare of marginalised communities - from migrant workers, to the GTRSB communities.
Research Notes Publication
Research Notes is a University publication that is published twice a year celebrating our successes and communicates our research activity. We recognise the value of our work in research, knowledge exchange, enterprise, impact and postgraduate supervision.
- Winter 2022 - Issue 7
- Summer 2022 - Issue 6
- Winter 2021 - Issue 5
- Spring 2021 - Issue 4
- Autumn 2020 - Issue 3
- Spring 2020 - Issue 2
- Summer 2019 - Issue 1
Novos Journal
Novos, Bucks Research and Impact Journal, provides a forum to disseminate research, impact, knowledge exchange, commentary, scholarly work and is an edited journal published by Buckinghamshire New University.
Novos Current Issues
Why do we cling to untruths? Truth is perhaps less a matter of facts than of feelings. This article discusses two canonical literary texts to illustrate psychic attachment to unenlightened world views and the productive potential of misreading. It develops the discussion with reference to Freud’s ‘The Wolf Man’ and Marshall Berman’s creative use of the (mis)translated phrase from Marx: ‘all that is solid melts into air’. Dr Simon Lee-Price
This study provides an insight into preferences for wood veneer among value-added wood products manufacturers and gives useful insights into the relevant marketing strategies for future product development. Chin Khoon Ark, Jegatheswaran Ratnasingham, Hazirah Ab Latib, Lim Choon Liat, Florin Ioras
The recent changes to the higher education policy focus on enabling quasi-markets through greater institutional competition and the empowerment of students, underpinned by changes to higher education funding. The cost-sharing policies and the subsequent empowerment of students have offered a new space for assertive students in higher education, who continue to seek value-for-money in their educational choice. In this context, using both the education and marketing literature, this article outlines the successive United Kingdom governments’ focus on student choice and examines the concept of perceived value and the process by which students evaluate value from their study experiences. Dr John Mariampillai
There has been a dearth of research specifically focussing on the extent to which inequalities in air transport access have developed and widened over time both within and between states at a sub-regional level.
This study has therefore been able to apply air access inequality measures to over 1,350 sub-regions across the continent (at NUTS3 level). There is also a more indepth phase to the research, that allows for more context and specific circumstances to be drawn out on a sub-sample of regions that are deemed to be the most cut-off and unequal in comparison to other sub-regions or indeed within individual countries by including further indicators of vulnerability and dependence.
The baseline year is 2019 with the impact of the pandemic through 2020 being applied to the shortlist regions to see the extent to which the absolute and relative (inequality) level of access changed as a result of Covid related travel restrictions and accompanying economic downturns.