News
March 2013
Brunel launches scholarship scheme for first class graduates
Brunel University is offering scholarships covering 15 percent of tuition fees to holders of first class degrees from any UK university who choose to pursue postgraduate studies at Brunel.
The offer extends to those who earned their first degrees at UK university institutions overseas. For these students, the scholarships could be worth up to £2,250 a year.
In addition, graduates who earned first degrees at Brunel are now being offered a 15 percent discount off the tuition fee for any taught postgraduate course, up from 10 percent
Occupational Therapy students take storm at Harlington Hospice
Temi and Venetia, Occupational Therapy (OT) students from Brunel University arrived at Harlington Hospice with the aim to implement aspects of OT into the service.The Brunel International Scholarships
For 2013/14 we are please to be able to offer 30 awards, which will comprise of a 15% discount off the cost of tuition fees. These awards are open to Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Research students who are classed as overseas for fee purposes.
November 2012
Children In Need- SOUP KITCHEN
We would like to say a huge thank you to all the members of staff from the School of Health Sciences and Social Care who kindly supported the Children in Need Soup Kitchen today, approximately £120 was raised in an hour!!October 2012
Knowing Young People: The politics of researching sexuality with young people' event
'The second 'Knowing Young People': The politics of researching sexuality with young people' event, hosted by the Centre for Youth Work Studies on Sept 19th 2012..Brunel University shortlisted for University of the Year 2012
Brunel University has been shortlisted for the prestigious University of the Year award at the Times Higher Education Awards 2012.
July 2012
Knowing Young People, a conference on methods for researching young people's sexuality
The day was a great success, bringing together 40 researchers and researching practitioners to discuss the ethical and methodological dilemmas of researching sensitive topics such as sexuality, with under 18 year olds, in the context of the social anxieties, judgmentality and moral panics and that seem peculiar to sexuality.
Brunel Graduate selected as Olympic Physio
Raona completed her physiotherapy degree at Brunel University over 7 years ago and recently applied to become a London 2012 medical team physiotherapist and was selected despite the very stiff competition!!!
May 2012
Social care should not be privatised, argues Brunel academic
A new report led by Brunel University's Professor Peter Beresford OBE recommends that services for the elderly, vulnerable and disabled should be paid for out of taxation.SCPHN Lecturer Practitioner Secondment (0.5 FTE)
Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN)
(Health Visiting/School Nursing pathway)
March 2012
Successful Modern Girlhoods Event
On 8th February 2012, members of the Centre for Youth Work Studies (CYWS) organised a successful day exploring aspects of young women’s lives in theory, policy and practice.
January 2012
Brunel graduate Malcolm Shopland is first star of 2012
The HCS ‘You are a Star’ trophy will be presented to occupational therapist Malcolm Shopland next week, after he received high praise from a county councillor.Brunel achieves NHS Physiotherapy ‘preferred bidder’ status
Brunel University physiotherapy programme team are pleased to announce we have achieved ‘preferred bidder’ status with NHS London for the provision of physiotherapy pre-registration education and training in London.November 2011
Professor Peter Beresford, Director of CCP
Has been appointed by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme..Dr Wendy Bryant, Deputy Director CCP
Guest editor of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists BulletinPoetry
Alan Sutherland has been our Poet in Residence over the past year, funded by the Leverhulme Trust to develop an innovative approach to gaining insight into the life stories of people with disabilities. He has just completed a series of transcription poems, drawing on interviews to create rich and moving insights for Disability Arts Online.Living with Psychosis
The Researching Psychosis Together group are currently working on two publications from the Living with Psychosis research.Improving our Website
The user advisory group for the Centre for CCP met in April.Other Current Funded Projects
Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)Launch of Standards We Expect
The findings of the report on Standards We Expect, a national research and development programme, led by service-users and supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, were published at a launch in Westminster on May 18th, with the book Supporting People. Towards a person-centred approach.October 2011
NSS 2011: Brunel is the UK’s most improved university for student satisfaction
Brunel is the UK’s most improved university for student satisfaction, according to the National Student Survey for 2011.
Measuring to Maximise Impact
This summer the Centre for Research in Rehabilitation (CRR) is running 3 day seminars with the focus on measurement and impact in clinical rehabilitative research. Three speakers will lead each day with a mixture of lectures and workshops focussed on one of each of the topics.
September 2011
7th biennial international interdisciplinary conference
Call for abstracts `New masculinities’? Reshaping the discourse. 27–29 June 2012, Keele University, UK
