News: March 2021
Preparing tomorrow’s teachers for educating post-COVID
With vaccines in full flow and schools now reopening, researchers at Bangor University have been investigating the effects of COVID-19 school closures on learners, teachers and families.
Publication date: 23 March 2021
Bangor to focus on health and wellbeing in phase II of CALIN, a project supporting innovation in life science across Wales and Ireland
Life science experts at Bangor University’s College of Human Sciences are to play a key role in plans to forge even closer links between Wales and Ireland through the CALIN project.
Publication date: 18 March 2021
YOU’RE NOT DONE WITH BANANA BREAD - A PSYCHOLOGIST REVEALS ALL
During the first pandemic lockdowns at the start of 2020, social media was flooded with pictures of homemade banana bread as people turned to baking in lieu of socialising. Now with many places reintroducing or anticipating further restrictions as COVID-19 case numbers rise again, there’s a good chance we could see a revival of the home baking trend.
Publication date: 17 March 2021
Rugby Union injury risk research at Bangor University
Seren Evans is a PhD researcher at Bangor University, and is researching the impact of injury risk within Rugby Union funded by the Coleg Cymraeg.
Publication date: 10 March 2021
Bangor young entrepreneur puts words into action with public speaking venture
A Bangor University student has built on her love of public speaking to launch a business which helps children to develop confidence skills from a young age. Olaitan Olawande, who is completing her Masters in Applied Behaviour Analysis , set up Practice What You Speak, to provide public speaking workshops to young people across the UK. The workshops are targeted at three age ranges, 7-11 years, 12-17 years and ages 18-24, with Olaitan having already run workshops for over 30 young people.
Publication date: 9 March 2021
Bangor joins other research led universities in contributing to the Physiological Society Knowledge Exchange report.
Physiology is one of the 3 core disciplines within Sport and Exercise Science and Bangor University staff are helping to lead the way in the knowledge exchange (KE) of this area.
Publication date: 5 March 2021
Dementia & Sensory Challenges - Dementia can be more than memory
Lecturer and researcher at the School of Health Sciences and member of the all-Wales Centre for Ageing & Dementia Research, Catrin Hedd Jones has worked with leading specialist in Wales and members of the Merched y Wawr to translate and update the Dementia & Sensory Challenges – Dementia can be more than memory booklet in support of raising awareness around the sensory challenges for [some] people living with dementia through the Welsh medium.
Publication date: 2 March 2021