Ron Harle - Dark clouds above. Can we dodge the storm?

Ron Harle, Director of Support Progression and Employability, first started liaising with the University in the late seventies when he worked in graduate recruitment and training for an electronics company and sponsored a lot of students at the University. Since 1989 he's been employed at Bradford as a Careers Adviser, and for the last ten years has been Head of Career Development Services.

Ron Harle talks about the situation graduates across the country find themselves in when looking for work after getting their degree and how the University of Bradford is making the difference.

Professor Hassan Ugail - Research in Visual Computing at Bradford

Computer graphics is a field that is approximately 40 years old. Over this period the field has developed enormously, to the point where the techniques and technology of computer graphics are ubiquitous in both the home and workplace and underpin fields as diverse as entertainment and e-Research.

Yet despite these rapid technological advances, the shape of computer graphics as a subject does not yet resemble a core discipline in science or engineering. A group of academic researchers at Bradford are working in this area under the theme of Visual Computing. Their task is to enable computers to efficiently perceive process and understand visual data such as images, videos and complex 3D scenes.

Hassan currently leads research in Visual Computing at Bradford and he shares his thoughts and opinions with our readers. He views research in this area to be a re-working of known laws of nature such as Newton's laws of motion and Einstein's theory of relativity in a suitable form applicable to a virtual world where physical matter does not exist.

Dr Martin Brinkworth: The key to our beginning, pathology and evolution

Recently The Independent on Sunday newspaper reported on work that Senior Lecturer Dr Martin Brinkworth is carrying out with scientists at the University of Leeds. They have discovered a unique 'DNA packaging signature' in human sperm, which may act as a key that unlocks an egg's fertility and trigger new life.

Martin shares with us his views on research in male reproduction and how these new findings fit into our understanding of male infertility.

Professor Jackie Ford - Importance of upskilling in today's climate

As we remain in the midst of the recession, media reports continue to list the challenges facing individuals, teams and organisations. These challenges include redundancies, short-time working, wholesale closures and tumultuous change.  These continue to dominate the business press.

Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies, from the School of Management, Jackie Ford shares with us her views on how organisations need to engage with the latest thinking on researching leaders and leadership so as to tap the talent and potential of their workforces.

Dr Fiona Macaulay: PeaceJam - Making Peace 'Cool for school' - Spring 2009

The University of Bradford is the only university in the UK - indeed in the whole of Europe - that plays host every year to a different Nobel Peace Prize winner. For three days in March, for the last four years, the University has been honoured by the presence of four globally-recognised peace activists, all, as it happens, women of enormous conviction, courage and charisma. Máiread Corrigan Maguire, founder of a peace movement during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Jody Williams, coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, spokeswoman for her indigenous people during the civil war in Guatemala, and Shirin Ebadi, a women's rights advocate from Iran, have all come to Bradford because of PeaceJam, an international youth peace education programme.

Fiona shares with News & Views why PeaceJams are important to the children of today.

Prof. Neil Small: Partnerships in health research - Winter 2009

In recent years the rationale for the NHS supporting research has been a subject of much debate, culminating in 2006 in both the White Paper Best Research for Best Health and A Review of UK Health Research Funding, also known as the Cooksey Report.  These heralded a change in the assumptions and organisational structure for NHS research and this change has implications for universities as they seek research collaborations with the NHS.

Prof. Des Tobin: Skin - a Jewel in Bradford's Crown - Autumn 2008

In a recent conversation with colleagues involved with the University's recent RAE2008 submission preparations in struck, Professor of Cell Biology Des Tobin, that many people were unaware that the University of Bradford is home to Britain's largest group of academic researchers working on skin - our body's largest organ.

Dr John Baruch: Robot cars - a vision for the future? - Spring 2008

Dr John Baruch, from the University's School of Informatics, says robotic driver systems for cars could slash the death toll on the roads, but will the car manufacturers welcome it?

Prof. Rae Earnshaw: Harnessing the Digital Age - January 2008

Computer and information technology is evolving, and fast! We're hearing words like downloads, podcasts, streaming, interactive, wikis and blogs more and more. But how is the University adapting to these evolving technologies and using them to improve teaching, learning research and administration for students and staff?

Paul Edwards: Dementia Care in the UK - November 2007

In August 2008, Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis announced that the government is to produce a national dementia strategy in response to the ever-increasing numbers of people being affected by dementia. There is a clear recognition in this announcement that the current systems of care are failing too many people with dementia and their families.

Dr Qun Shao: can Chinese Herbal Medicine break into accepted Western healthcare? - September 2007

Traditional Chinese Medicines have existed for about 2,000 years and have greatly contributed to medicine development and community health care in China and across the world.

Prof. Paul Rogers: Moving from Blair to Brown - June 2007

As Tony Blair's long goodbye draws to an end, Gordon Brown will inherit the leadership of a country that has made significant military commitments overseas. Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, assess the impact of Blair, and looks to a future of Brown.

John McIlwaine - Celebrating Archaeological Sciences

The University of Bradford is proud to celebrate top-quality international research especially when it comes to knowledge transfer and the University's strapline of 'Making Knowledge Work'.  However, in the area of the forensic work undertaken by Archaeological Sciences at Bradford, it is hard for the University to celebrate their achievements openly due to the work being done as part of an operation for criminal investigation.