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Bangor to host training workshop in conjunction with Amnesty International

Bangor Law School and Amnesty International (Colwyn Bay Branch) are delighted to be able to offer expert training on ‘The Protection of Women and Children in Armed Conflict’.  The workshop, taking place on Saturday 7^th July, will focus on raising awareness of the challenges faced by women and children in armed conflict, introducing the legal regime that exists to address these challenges, engaging participants in ways in which they can become involved in the issues and drawing them into some practical application of knowledge and strategies.

Publication Date: 16/05/2012

Bangor Law School teams up with the School of Electronic Engineering to collaborate with 5 other European countries in a major Transnational European research programme

Bangor University’s Law School is to join an elite group of universities and organisations on a Europe-wide research transnational collaboration to support knowledge intensive high growth potential companies.

Bangor University – the only UK partner to be invited to join the consortium – will work in conjunction with the University of Tilburg, Netherlands, to research how high-growth potential start-ups can benefit from public procurement participation, and the challenges they face in doing so.

Publication Date: 14/05/2012

Meet us in India in May and June

Dona Breese Padan, International Marketing and Recruitment Officer for the College of Business, Social Sciences and Law, will be visiting India between 23^rd of May and 4^th of June to meet students interested in studying Business, Law and Social Sciences degrees at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 03/05/2012

Meet us in Jordan this month

Dona Breese Padan, International Marketing and Recruitment Officer for the College of Business, Social Sciences and Law, will be visiting Jordan on the 9^th and 10^th of May to meet students interested in studying Business, Law and Social Sciences degrees at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 01/05/2012

4th International IFABS Conference on Rethinking Banking and Finance: Money, Markets and Models

Bangor Business School’s Professor Shahid Ebrahim and Dr Thanos Verousis are organising special sessions at the 4th International IFABS (International Finance and Banking Society) Conference on Rethinking Banking and Finance, which takes place in Valencia in June.

Publication Date: 30/04/2012

A public lecture not to be missed: “Research for Business and the Business of Research”

George Buckley, Deutsche Bank's Chief UK Economist and a Bangor graduate, is usually to be found giving interviews to radio, television and the national press. A Bangor Business School graduate himself, George now brings his personal experience and thoughts on the role of research for business, the value of university education and employability, to the George Building at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 26/04/2012

‘Inspirational’ Bangor lecturer selected to carry the Olympic Torch

A lecturer from Bangor University Law School has been selected to carry the Olympic Flame after being nominated for the honour by her students.

Law lecturer Sarah Nason was nominated in the ‘Inspiring Others through Education’ category and will carry the Flame when it travels through Conwy – 15 miles from Bangor – on Tuesday, 29^th May 2012.

Publication Date: 25/04/2012

Bangor University establishes Confucius Institute

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Bangor University and Hanban (Confucius Institute Headquarters) on 17 April 2012 at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London to set up a Confucius Institute at Bangor University in collaboration with China University of Political Science & Law, Beijing.

Publication Date: 25/04/2012

PhD studentships for October 2012

Bangor Business School is inviting applications for Research Bursaries starting in October 2012. This provides three years of support for full-time PhD study.

Publication Date: 12/04/2012

Two PhD studentship awards available in the area of Banking and Finance

Bangor Business School is inviting applications for two PhD studentship awards, worth approximately £16,000, in the area of Banking and Finance.

Bangor, Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Swansea Universities are partners in the new all-Wales Doctoral Training Centre (DTC), led by Cardiff University. The aim of this Centre is to train ESRC-funded PhD students across Wales on a range of issues affecting society today.

Publication Date: 03/04/2012

Another successful Completion Workshop for Bangor's PhD students

Following the success of the first PhD Completion Workshop in September 2011, Bangor Law School held the second Completion Workshop for advanced PhD students on Friday 23 March 2012.

Publication Date: 02/04/2012

Where did the idea of a cashless society come from?

The concept of a "cashless society" is now getting increased attention as countries such as Sweden try to move away from bills and coins whereas in the UK there has been a failed attempt by banks to do without paper cheques. In a Bangor Business School Working Paper, Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo of the Business School, along with Thomas Haigh of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; The Haigh Group and David Stearns, of Seattle Pacific University document that the ‘cashless’ idea actually originated first in the world of business and only later moved into the realm of fiction.

Publication Date: 02/04/2012

Undergraduate student wins £15,000 scholarship to pursue Barrister training

Third year student Kate Longson has been awarded a prestigious scholarship worth £15,000 to pursue her ambition to become a Barrister.

LLB Law student Kate, who will embark on the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) at Manchester Metropolitan University in September, was awarded the £15,000 Lord Denning Scholarship by Lincoln’s Inn following a successful interview earlier this month.

Publication Date: 29/03/2012

New Course: MA Social Work

From September 2012, the School of Social Sciences will be offering an MA in Social Work, subject to validation by Bangor University and recognition by the Care Council for Wales.

Publication Date: 29/03/2012

Law student to represent Bangor University at Shanghai summer school

A PhD student at Bangor Law School has been selected to attend a prestigious summer school in Shanghai.

Stephen Clear, who has previously attained a first-class honours degree and recently completed an LLM Master of Laws by Research at Bangor Law School, beat other Bangor University candidates to secure a place on Shanghai University’s intensive cultural, business and language experience.

Publication Date: 28/03/2012

Professor Dermot Cahill speaks to BBC Radio Wales about Procurement Week

Professor Dermot Cahill, Head of Bangor Law School, was interviewed by BBC Radio Wales last Thursday, 22^nd March 2012. He spoke about the Institute of Competition and Procurement Studies’ first ever Procurement Week, which takes place at Bangor University this week (27^th-30^th March). 

Publication Date: 27/03/2012

What you see is what you get? Bangor academics to research impression management by business organisations

‘Impression management’, or how organisations control the way how they are perceived by the public, will be the focus of cutting-edge research undertaken by a new centre at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 27/03/2012

Leading German business newspapers cover research by Bangor academic

The article “Does it pay to have friends? Social ties and executive appointments in banking”, jointly authored by Dr Klaus Schaeck from Bangor Business School with his colleagues Allen Berger (University of South Carolina), Thomas Kick (Deutsche Bundesbank), and Michael Koetter (University of Groningen), has received widespread media coverage by two leading business newspapers in Germany, Handelsblatt and Wirtschaftswoche.

Publication Date: 26/03/2012

London Study Visit

23 second year undergraduate students studying various courses at Bangor Business School recently went to London for 3-days as part of the ‘London Study Visit’ module.

Publication Date: 23/03/2012

Major social science conference comes to Bangor

One of the most important events in the social science calendar for people concerned with social and economic issues in Wales is travelling to Bangor next week.

The third annual Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods’ (WISERD) Conference will bring together social science researchers, politicians, postgraduate students and public sector representatives to explore topical themes that impact society in the context of devolution, place and change.

Publication Date: 20/03/2012

Elevate Cymru launched

More than 60 businesses attended the highly successful launch of the innovative project Elevate Cymru held at Bangor University recently. (Thursday March 1^st).

Publication Date: 16/03/2012

University staff to tackle Mount Kilimanjaro for charity

Two Bangor University employees are preparing for the trip of a lifetime in memory of a local boy killed in a road accident.

Emma Wynne-Hughes of Bangor Business School and Hazel Frost from the School of Psychology will climb Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Hope House and the Darren Rhys Memorial Fund.

Publication Date: 06/03/2012

Students become marketers for national competition

Last week, students Ffion Haf Jones, Megan Jones and Aysha Khalid represented Bangor Business School in 'Brolio/The Pitch', a student competition sponsored by the Welsh Government and the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).

Publication Date: 02/03/2012

Bangor welcomes the President of the Law Society of England and Wales

Bangor Law School had a unique opportunity to showcase its research expertise and employability provision to the President of the Law Society of England and Wales.

Publication Date: 23/02/2012

Meet us in Canada this March

Dona Breese Padan, International Marketing and Recruitment Officer for the College of Business, Social Sciences and Law, will be visiting Canada between 1^st and 7^th of March to meet students interested in studying Business, Law and Social Sciences degrees at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 21/02/2012

Bangor sees in the Chinese New Year in style

Hundreds of Chinese students have joined Bangor Business School for a spectacular celebration of the Chinese New Year.

Organised in conjunction with the Chinese Student Society, the event saw students and their families come together to celebrate the most important date in the Chinese calendar, which this year marks the Year of the Golden Dragon.

Publication Date: 08/02/2012

Meet us this February in India

Dona Breese Padan, International Marketing and Recruitment Officer for the College of Business, Social Sciences and Law, will be visiting India between 12^th and 22^nd of February to meet students interested in studying Business, Law and Social Sciences degrees at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 08/02/2012

MA students visit the Basque country to see language planning in practice

Students on the MA Language Policy and Planning degree have had a unique insight into the subject of their studies thanks to an insightful trip to the Basque region of Northern Spain.

Publication Date: 07/02/2012

Bangor Law student wins prestigious Lincoln’s Inn scholarship

A Bangor Law student has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to pursue her ambition to become a Barrister.

Publication Date: 07/02/2012

Bangor Academic wins award to research the current account market

The real cost of ‘free’ current account banking services will come under greater scrutiny in a new research study by Bangor Business School. Dr John Ashton, a senior lecturer in banking, has been awarded a £25,000 grant from the Friends Provident Charitable Foundation to determine what are the costs of ‘free’ current account use, particularly for customers viewed as more vulnerable or poorly-informed about financial services. The project is to be undertaken with collaboration from North Wales Credit Union.

Publication Date: 04/02/2012

From Bangor to Brussels: Law and Business students unite on Europe trip

Students from Bangor Business School and Bangor Law School have united for an eye-opening study trip to the institutions of the European Union and the Council of Europe, sponsored by Jill Evans MEP.

Publication Date: 24/01/2012

Two teams to represent Bangor at IBM Universities Business Challenge semi-finals

Two teams of Bangor Business School students have made it through to the semi-finals of the 2012 IBM Universities Business Challenge.

The IBM Universities Business Challenge is a prestigious and highly competitive contest in which undergraduates from universities throughout the UK participate in a series of realistic, simulated business scenarios.

Publication Date: 21/01/2012

New scheme to boost Bangor Law Students’ employability

Bangor Law School is among the first of the University’s academic schools to trial a new initiative designed to boost students’ employability.

The Bangor Employability Award seeks to enhance the career prospects of Bangor University students by encouraging them to partake in co- and extra-curricular activities such as work placements, volunteering, part-time work and learning new skills. The scheme invites students to develop the sort of transferable skills that will prove valuable in the increasingly competitive graduate job market.

Publication Date: 17/01/2012

Bangor academic co-authors article selected as one of the best corporate finance papers

The article “Who disciplines bank managers?”, co-authored by Dr Klaus Schaeck from Bangor Business School, is the lead article in a virtual issue of the best corporate governance papers published in the Review of Finance, one of the top five finance journals.

Publication Date: 14/01/2012

Bangor Law student comes top of the crop in Wales

A Bangor Law School student has been named as the best Law student in any Welsh university.

Publication Date: 11/01/2012

Professional Sports Management module as popular as ever

Each year, second-year students selecting the Professional Sports Management module participate in a two-day study visit to Norwich City FC which enables them to see how the theory they are introduced to in lectures can be applied to organisations in a real-world setting.

Publication Date: 11/01/2012

Bangor Lecturer wins Economist Paper award

A Bangor Business School lecturer has won an award for a paper presented at a major banking and finance conference in Italy.

Publication Date: 10/01/2012

Law and Criminology students visit police firearms training centre

On Wednesday 7th December 2011, Professor Suzannah Linton, Chair of International Law at Bangor Law School, led a group of Law and Criminology students on a successful field trip to the North Wales Police Firearms Training Centre.

Publication Date: 06/01/2012

Potential solution to financial services mis-selling raised by Bangor Academic

In a week where we have observed yet another financial services mis-selling case are there any solutions to this perennial problem of financial regulation? While the recent movement to remove commission in the sales of retail investments may assist this problem, an article published this month by a Bangor academic suggests more fundamental change to how we regulate the development of financial services products is required.

Publication Date: 05/01/2012

Bangor Professor leads speakers at international conference

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Professor of Business History and Bank Management at Bangor Business School, delivered the key note address at the first international conference organised by the Tolani Institute of Management Studies (TIMS) in Gandhidham, Gujarat (India). The town bears the name of India's founding father because the announcement of the decision to house the Sindhi community (a group of people relocated after partition) in that area was Gandhi's last act on the day he was killed. The Institute itself is part of an educational group that educates over 8,000 students thanks to the effort, financial support and vision of K. B. Tolani (1893-1988).

Publication Date: 16/12/2011

Lectures come to life on Cardiff study trip

Second-year students from Bangor Business School have undertaken a study trip to Cardiff for a unique insight into devolved governments and the impact of ‘change’.

Publication Date: 14/12/2011

Credit Ratings Research at Bangor Business School

On 5^th December 2011, the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) attracted news headlines by placing the credit ratings of 15 eurozone nations under review (‘watch’) for downgrade. Using a 15-year dataset, researchers at Bangor Business School identified that S&P has tended to act earlier than other agencies in placing sovereign government ratings under review for downgrade.

Publication Date: 09/12/2011

Bangor Academic’s Research Quoted in Position Limits Article

A working paper by a Bangor Business School academic has been quoted in a Computerworld article on position limits.

Research undertaken by Professor Shahid Ebrahim, Professor of Islamic Banking and Finance at Bangor Business School, was quoted in an article reporting on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s recent 3-2 decision to impose a position limits regime in the commodity futures and swaps markets.

Publication Date: 01/12/2011

Bangor Business Lecturer goes Down Under

A Bangor Business School lecturer recently completed a stint as Visiting Chair at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Professor Lynn Hodgkinson, Professor of Accounting and Finance at Bangor Business School and its new teaching centre in London, worked alongside Sydney’s Professor Graham Partington on a paper examining the impact of a change in dividend taxation of New Zealand Managed Funds.

Publication Date: 01/12/2011

Local Business Owners take their business to the next level

Twenty four business owners on the second LEAD Wales Programme graduated on 14th November at Bangor University.

Publication Date: 19/11/2011

Bangor Law School welcomes distinguished scholars for guest lectures

Bangor Law School is welcoming two distinguished guest lecturers to Bangor in November 2011.

Professor Jason Chuah, Head of Academic Law at City University Law School in London, will deliver a seminar on "Letters of Credit - Reconciling legal rules with commercial realities" on Monday 14 November. Also delivering a seminar on 14 November will be Professor Z Wang of Beijing Foreign Studies University. He will deliver a seminar entitled "The Evolving Nature of EU Power and Sino-EU Relations in the 21st Century".

Publication Date: 15/11/2011

Upcoming Distinguished Guest Lecture - Dr Gillian Davies

Bangor Law School is delighted to announce a guest lecture by Dr Gillian Davies, a Barrister at Hogarth Chambers in London, on Thursday 24 November 2011.

Entitled “The European Patent Office (EPO) in the Global Patent System – European Patent Convention (EPC) Law and Practice”, Dr Davies’s lecture is intended to demonstrate how the EPC fits into the global patent system (Paris Convention, Patent Co-Operation Treaty, etc) as well as its relationship to domestic laws and the EU patent. The talk will be of particular interest to students currently studying or intending to study the ‘Intellectual Property Law’ module.

Publication Date: 15/11/2011

Bangor Business Lecturer secures funding to promote Welsh-medium education

Dr Sara Parry, Lecturer in Marketing at Bangor Business School, has been awarded funding to develop to develop a digital film promoting the benefits of Welsh-medium study.

Publication Date: 12/11/2011

Law students celebrate continued sponsorship from BPP

Representatives from various Bangor Law School projects and initiatives have welcomed a special guest to the University as they celebrate yet another year of sponsorship from BPP.

BPP’S Universities Education Liaison for the North West, Dave Fallon, visited Bangor to mark the beginning of an academic year that sees more of Bangor Law students’ initiatives than ever before receiving much-needed funding from BPP.

Publication Date: 09/11/2011

Bangor Business School enters new partnership with Guru Nanak

Bangor University has signed an articulation agreement with Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Information Technology in India which will see Guru Nanak students being able to transfer their studies to Bangor Business School, one of the top Business Schools in Europe.

Publication Date: 26/10/2011

Bangor University a world-ranked University

Bangor University has risen substantially in Times Higher Education World University rankings 2011-12, and is now placed among the world’s top 275 universities, alongside universities such as Bath and Queen’s.

Publication Date: 19/10/2011

Bangor Law student project needs YOUR vote

A student project set up and run by Bangor Law School undergraduates is vying for a major cash prize.

Street Law is participating in the NatWest Community Force scheme in which charities and projects across the UK stand to win a prize of £6,000 to help them further develop their initiatives.

Publication Date: 17/10/2011

Vice-Chancellor to host launch of Bangor Business School ‘Green Economy’ project

Monday, 17th October 2011 sees the launch of Bangor Business School’s GIFT (Green Innovation Future Technologies) project, an instrument to establish a cross border forum to help grow a sustainable “green economy” in the INTERREG regions of Wales and Ireland.

GIFT is a partnership between Bangor University, the Waterford Institute of Technology and University College Dublin. The project was established in response to the Operational Programme call for “more and better jobs”…”through greater linkages between the region’s higher education institutions and industry”. It aims to bring together and up skill Welsh and Irish businesses / social enterprises and the public sector. The project is funded by the Economic Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the INTERREG IVA programme.

Publication Date: 13/10/2011

Public Lecture 07/10/11 - Paul Harris S.C.

Bangor Law School is delighted to announce that on Friday 7 October 2011, from 5.00pm-6.00pm, Mr. Paul Harris S.C. will deliver a lecture about his distinguished career at the Bar, specialising in civil liberties and other Human Rights cases. Mr. Harris is one of the leading silks in Hong Kong, and practises at the Bar in this country from Oxford and his London Chambers at Doughty Street.

Publication Date: 07/10/2011

'The Future of Public Law in England and Wales' - Lecture by Ms. Sarah Nason

Bangor Law School is delighted to announce that Ms. Sarah Nason, a member of the School’s UK Public Law Group, will be giving a talk on her research into Judicial Review in the United Kingdom on Wednesday, 12 October 2011.

Ms. Sarah Nason is Lecturer in Law at Bangor University. She graduated from Cambridge University with 1st Class Honours in Law and later began training as a solicitor with the London law firm Slaughter and May. Ms. Nason decided to return to academia to pursue her interest in public law and access to justice issues. Alongside her funded research into the future of judicial review in England and Wales, Ms. Nason is a doctoral candidate of University College London and is currently writing up her Thesis on the philosophy of public law and new approaches to legal rationality.

An overview of the theme of the lecture, titled ‘The Future of Public Law in England and Wales’, can be found by clicking the link below. The lecture will take place in room A1.01, Alun Building, at 2.00pm on Wednesday 12 October 2011.

Publication Date: 06/10/2011

Opportunity to obtain free Commercial Awareness Certificate

Bangor Law undergraduates are once again being offered the opportunity to attend a career-enhancing programme free of charge.

BPP Law School’s certificate of commercial awareness highlights the need for Law students to be commercially minded and to have business awareness and also offers a taster as to what to expect on a Legal Practice Course.

Publication Date: 29/09/2011

Bangor Law Lecturer Honoured with Teaching Fellowship

There was extra cause for celebration at this year’s Law School graduation ceremony, as Bangor Law School lecturer Ann McLaren was awarded a Teaching Fellowship for excellence in teaching and pastoral care.

Publication Date: 22/09/2011

Welsh Medium Postgraduate Scholarship: Social Policy

The School of Social Sciences at Bangor University is offering a Welsh medium postgraduate scholarship in the field of Social Policy to start 1 October 2011. This scholarship is funded by Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.  Funding is available for up to five years, including three/four years as a doctorate research student and an additional year as a teaching fellow. The postgraduate scholarship will include the university’s tuition fees (the current rate for home/EU students is £3,466) and also a maintenance grant (the current rate is £13,590 a year). Applications are invited from prospective researchers with a background in social sciences and who have an interest in health policy in Wales since devolution. The successful candidate will also need to undertake some Welsh medium teaching in the School of Social Sciences as one of the scholarship’s conditions. The final year of the scholarship will be considered a fellowship year when the teaching commitments will increase.

Publication Date: 31/08/2011

North Wales SMEs boost their management and leadership skills thanks to Bangor Business School-based programme

Twenty three business owners are the first delegates to graduate with flying colours in the first LEAD Wales programme at Bangor University.  The first graduation of SME’s on the LEAD Wales Programme took place at Bangor University on Friday 15^th July 2011.  The aim of the programme is to give owner-managers the resources and support they need to fully harness the skills and energy of their staff, recognise and exploit opportunities for greater efficiency, and provide a sound platform for growth.

Publication Date: 19/08/2011

Don't know your legal rights? Bangor Law students are here to help...

Law students from Bangor University are offering free presentations to local organisations to help improve people's understanding of their legal rights.

Publication Date: 18/08/2011

Bangor Business School Graduation 2011

Over 300 Bangor Business School students celebrated their graduation in glorious sunshine on Saturday, 9th of July 2011.

Publication Date: 16/08/2011

Read the latest edition of the Bangor Business School Newsletter

Click here to catch up on all the latest news and developments in the Bangor Business School newsletter, 'Bangor Means Business'.

Publication Date: 15/08/2011

Read the latest edition of the Bangor School of Social Sciences Newsletter

Click here to catch up on all the latest news and developments in the Bangor School of Social Sciences newsletter.

Publication Date: 15/08/2011

Read the latest edition of the Bangor Law School Newsletter

Read up on the latest news and developments at Bangor Law School in the latest edition of our Newsletter.  For a more thorough insight into our new members of academic staff and our extensive suite of new LLM programmes for 2011, read the first edition of the Bangor Law School Law Journal.

Publication Date: 15/08/2011

Bangor Law School to Host Live Postgraduate Webchat

Bangor University Law School will be holding a live webchat for prospective Postgraduate students from 11.00am on Wednesday, 3rd of August 2011, with course leaders for the International Law and Public Procurement Law & Strategy LLM programmes here at Bangor.

Publication Date: 25/07/2011

Local Graduate wins top Student prize

A local student’s hard work has paid off as he is awarded the Dr John Robert Jones Prize worth £1,125.

Publication Date: 19/07/2011

Mature student overcomes the odds to win 1st Class Degree

A former bench joiner from Rhyl has graduated with a first class honours degree after a drastic change of career due to an occupational illness.

Publication Date: 18/07/2011

Bangor Law School Prepares for Major International Conference

Bangor Law School is preparing to host a major Competition Law conference next month, welcoming guest speakers from across the globe.

Publication Date: 14/07/2011

University Launches £3.2 million Project Set to Boost Economic Growth

Bangor University Law School has officially launched a £3.2 million project that is set to encourage economic growth in Wales and Ireland.

Part-funded by the EU’s Ireland/Wales Cross Border Programme, the Winning in Tendering project aims to transform smaller suppliers’ ability to win contracts and ensure home-grown organisations win a greater share of public sector business.

Publication Date: 13/07/2011

Trading bells ring across the region as schools take part in a unique skills challenge

Students from across North Wales got the opportunity to experience the excitement and the adrenalin of dealing on a live trading floor thanks to a Bangor University initiative called Stock Market Challenge.

Publication Date: 07/07/2011

‘Community, Environment and Sustainability in Wales’ WISERD Networking Event

This well attended event on 15^th June 2011 brought together grassroots activists, NGOs, policy makers and academics from across Wales and further afield, with interests in local community sustainability and environmental campaigns and initiatives. The event provided a network and knowledge exchange opportunity, and also ‘launched’ the WISERD thematic network on environment, tourism and leisure.

Publication Date: 07/07/2011

Dr. Suzannah Linton: Appointment as Chair of International Law at Bangor Law School

Dr. Suzannah Linton is the Chair of International Law at Bangor Law School and heads the International Law team.  She recently joined Bangor Law School from the University of Hong Kong and brings much practical and academic expertise in the field of International Law to her teaching.

Publication Date: 06/07/2011

Bangor London Centre Announces MSc Degrees

Bangor Business School has announced a trio of new Masters courses to be offered at its London base from September.

Publication Date: 27/06/2011

Law Society Visits London and Cardiff

Members of Bangor Students’ Law Society marked the end of the academic year with educational trips to London and Cardiff.

Publication Date: 24/06/2011

Crown Court Stages School’s Welsh Moot Final

Caernarfon Crown Court recently played host to the final round of Bangor Law School’s Welsh-medium Moot competition, the Griffiths Cup.

Publication Date: 22/06/2011

£3.2m Tendering Project Prepares for Launch

Small businesses and charities in Wales and Ireland will be in a stronger position to compete for public sector contracts thanks to a £3.2 million Bangor University-led project launched this week.

Publication Date: 20/06/2011

Marketing Students Get the Message Across in Waste Campaign

An end of term campaign to reduce waste problems in Bangor has been carried out by Bangor University, Bangor Students’ Union, Gwynedd Council and North Wales Police.

The tongue-in-cheek awareness raising campaign was developed and led by the University’s Marketing Society with Marketing students Emma-Louise Jones, Ffion Haf Jones and Yueun Chung leading the team. The campaign aimed to highlight the contrast between the stereotype of the messy student and the current geek chic fashion championed by television shows aimed at young people.

Publication Date: 16/06/2011

Bangor to Host Major Financial Sector Conference

Financial experts from across the world will attend a major conference at Bangor Business School next week.

Publication Date: 14/06/2011

Community, Environment and Sustainability in Wales - WISERD Networking Event

This event will bring together grassroots activists, policy makers and academics from across Wales with interests in local community sustainability and/or environmental campaigns and initiatives, as a network and knowledge exchange opportunity, and will also 'launch' the WISERD thematic network on environment, tourism and leisure. Dr John Barry from Queens University Belfast will be giving a keynote talk on the topic of 'Vulnerability and Resilience in Contemporary Green Thought'.

Publication Date: 13/06/2011

Come and Visit Bangor Business School’s London Centre

The Bangor Business School London Centre has announced the dates of its first ever Open Days.

Publication Date: 09/06/2011

Unique PhD Sponsorship for Bangor Business School Student

Anahita Baregheh is one of 5 Bangor Business School students to be awarded a PhD this year, but hers is a PhD with an ‘innovative’ twist.

In a unique partnership with Bangor Business School, Anahita’s studies were sponsored by BIC Innovation, a Bangor-based business consultancy for whom she worked on a part-time basis during her third and final year of study.

Publication Date: 03/06/2011

Bangor Business School Appoints New Head

Professor John Thornton, Professor of Global Finance, has been appointed as the new Head of Bangor Business School.

Publication Date: 02/06/2011

Bangor Law Student selected for prestigious course

A Bangor Law Student has been given a unique opportunity to build essential skills for a professional legal career after being selected to attend a prestigious residential school for first year law students in London. 

Publication Date: 02/06/2011

Want to Know More About Working in International Law?

Whether you are a Fresher or a Masters student, it’s never too early to start thinking about the next step of your legal career. Dr Suzannah Linton, recently appointed Professor of International Law at Bangor Law School, will this month be giving an insight into the sort of careers offered by the Public International Law and Human Rights Law sectors.

Publication Date: 10/05/2011

Bangor Business School Students Visit China

16 Bangor Business School students recently took part in the School’s first ever student visit to China.

Publication Date: 06/05/2011

Students Take Legal Knowledge to the Streets of North Wales

Two Bangor Law students have established a community-based initiative designed to improve legal understanding and advice amongst local people.

Publication Date: 03/05/2011

Bangor Lecturer Takes Expertise to Finland

Dr Stefan Machura, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Research at the Bangor School of Social Sciences, recently spent a week as a Visiting Lecturer at a Finnish university.

Publication Date: 03/05/2011

Bangor Business School PhD Scholarships

Bangor Business School is inviting applications for Research Bursaries starting in October 2011, each providing a total annual allowance of £13,000. This provides three years of support for full-time PhD study.

Publication Date: 19/04/2011

One in Se7en Awards scheme for young entrepreneurs launched at Bangor Business School

Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones and Bangor Business School marked World Entrepreneurs Day by launching One in Se7en, a new awards scheme for young entrepreneurs in participating schools and colleges in north Wales.

Publication Date: 19/04/2011

New Module in Corporate Social Responsibility a Success

Final year students returned recently from a successful two day study visit to Burnley Football Club as part of Bangor Business School’s new module in Corporate Social Responsibility led by Neil Doncaster, Chief Executive of the Scottish Premier League and Professor John Goddard, Deputy Head of Bangor Business School.

Publication Date: 14/04/2011

BBC’s The One Show revisits Beatles’ Bangor visit

Remember to watch The One Show on BBC 1 at 7.00 on Tuesday 23 November to find out about when The Beatles came to Bangor.

Publication Date: 23/11/2010

Major European Grant Success for Law School

Bangor University Law School’s Professor Dermot Cahill and Ceri Evans have just successfully led a €4 million research grant bid (the WIT project), a collaboration with Dublin City University’s Strategic Procurement Unit led by Paul Davis of DCU Business School. This major award, announced last week against stiff international competition, will be funded until the end of 2013 by the European Union’s Ireland/Wales INTERREG Innovation & Competitiveness programme. Bangor University Law School will be the Lead Partner.

Publication Date: 15/10/2010

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