…elf-help app for anxiety – – more than 500,000 users worldwide in more than 100 countries. It was developed by psychologists, computer and engineering scientists at UWE Bristol and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, working in collaboration with teams of students, mental health practitioners at UWE, in the NHS and in private practice and external app development company MyOxygen. With one in four people in the UK experiencing a mental health problem…
…ul tool when learned to help people enjoy life more and helps self belief.” UWE Bristol also recently saw the self-help app for anxiety (SAM) rise to the top 100 Health and Fitness Apps in 85 countries and received thousands of positive reviews….
…urses to meet the workforce needs of its local healthcare community. Almost 100 new nurses began work on the wards of Lincolnshire’s hospitals in the summer/autumn of 2015 after completing their undergraduate degrees with the University of Lincoln in the 2014/15 academic year. It was the largest single cohort of nursing students to graduate from Lincoln since the University was selected to deliver all adult and mental health pre-registration nursi…
Staff at Alliance universities have been recognised for exceptional achievement and service in the annual New Year’s Honours List. Among them are three academics from UWE Bristol: Professor Nichola Rumsey, Co-Director of the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) at UWE Bristol, has been awarded an OBE for services to people affected by an altered appearance. Nichola, Professor of Appearance Research at the university, founded CAR in 1992, the worl…
…ity focus. By the end of the project, students will have provided well over 100,000 hours of their time to volunteering, placements, internships and other activities. This means students gain valuable experience in running sustainability projects as well as gains for the City. Student Capital is a HEFCE Catalyst Fund project, and is a collaboration between UWE, the University of Bristol, and Bristol Green Capital. In recognition of students’ effor…
…tudents are in full-time or part-time employment, and four out of five FTSE 100 companies have sponsored staff to take OU courses. In the latest assessment exercise for university research (Research Excellence Framework), nearly three quarters (72%) of The Open University’s research was assessed as 4 or 3 star – the highest ratings available – and awarded to research that is world-leading or internationally excellent. The Open University is unique…
…. “Our group of universities have been collaborating with business for over 100 years. Businesses of all sizes rely on Alliance universities’ knowledge and networks to succeed. “We are particularly strong in teaching geared towards industry and the professions and in applied and practice-based research. Not least because we recruit teaching and research staff from industry – 28% of our new academic staff have come directly from the UK private sect…
…nce universities have been collaborating with industry and society for over 100 years. Many were established as institutes of engineering and design to meet the needs of the Industrial Revolution. Many have schools created to meet the needs of the towns and cities growing up around the new industries that needed health professionals, lawyers and architects. Even today, they are particularly strong in health, engineering, technology and design – ar…
…on cause of neurological disability and death among young adults, with over 100,000 people affected in the UK. Although there are increasing numbers of treatments for the inflammatory phase of relapsing-remitting MS, there are no treatments that alter the course of progressive MS. Plymouth University has developed a scale that measures how MS affects walking (reported as a main complaint by 85 per cent of patients) to track treatment systematicall…
…l methodology and fielded from the 7th May 2014 to 16th May 2014 to achieve 1000 completes per target (No quotas were applied in field). 1. Parents* are more concerned about the size of their child’s student loan (64%) rather than the terms of repayment (29%). When parents* were asked whether they were more concerned about the size of a student loan or the terms of repayments, 64% felt the size of the loan was the biggest concern. 2. 60% of underg…
