News: October 2018
Students create exclusive jewellery range
An exclusive range of high quality jewellery by design students at Bangor University is currently on sale at MOSTYN in Llandudno. The contemporary art gallery has worked with BSc Product Design degree course staff and students on a design project to create the range of jewellery items suitable for the MOSTYN shop.
Publication date: 26 October 2018
Emotions: how humans regulate them and why some people can't
Take the following scenario. You are nearing the end of a busy day at work, when a comment from your boss diminishes what’s left of your dwindling patience. You turn, red-faced, towards the source of your indignation. It is then that you stop, reflect, and choose not to voice your displeasure. After all, the shift is nearly over. This may not be the most exciting plot, but it shows how we as humans can regulate our emotions . This article by Leanne Rowlands , PhD Researcher in Neuropsychology, at the School of Psychology is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article .
Publication date: 19 October 2018
Bangor University research informs national policy and provides the evidence base for Wales’ first Rural Education Action Plan
Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams has today (11/10/18) launched the Welsh Government’s new Rural Education Action Plan that introduces a range of initiatives and measures for educational improvements and experiences across rural school areas of Wales. The action plan forms a pivotal part of the transformation reforms outlined in Education in Wales - Our national mission 2017-21 that sets out Welsh Government’s strategy on how they aim to improve the school system by 2021 and details activities which will transform policy into practices in our schools. The action plan draws upon evidence and recommendations made in a research report led by Gwilym Siôn ap Gruffudd of Bangor University’s School of Education and Human Development. The report: Rethinking Educational Attainment and Poverty- in Rural Wales (REAP) was commissioned by Regional Education Consortia ERW and GwE as a result of a competitive tender process.
Publication date: 11 October 2018
Mindfulness at Bangor on the European Stage
The International Conference on Mindfulness which took place in Amsterdam recently is part of a series of conferences scheduled every other year in Europe – alternating with the conferences that Bangor University has hosted in Chester for several years.
Publication date: 10 October 2018
Great Heritage Funding crucial to world leading hypoxia research at Bangor
In collaboration with Dr Jamie Macdonald and Sam Oliver at the School of Sport and Exercise Science, Dr Paul Mullins from the School of Psychology has been studying the effects of hypoxia on cerebral physiology for the past 7 years. In this time, they’ve have had two very successful PhD students, and some ground-breaking discoveries about how the human brain copes with lowered oxygen availability. Research of this type is extremely important to understand what happens in the brain during periods of hypoxic exposure weather due to clinical complications, or because you are a climber at the top of the world up a mountain.
Publication date: 4 October 2018