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Faculty of Health and Life Sciences news
11 October 2022
Oxford Brookes provides CPR training for students and staff to mark Restart a Heart Day
Oxford Brookes University is offering free training sessions for its students and staff to come and learn CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) today, Tuesday 11 October 2022 as part of the Resuscitation Council’s UK’s Restart a Heart Day.
30 September 2022
Newly opened Oxford Brookes Enterprise Centre will boost biotech, digital and business innovation
The Oxford Brookes Enterprise Centre, created to provide lab and office space, and access to academic and technical expertise to start-ups, spin-outs and small businesses in the biotech and digital sectors opened today at the Headington Campus.
27 September 2022
Oxford Brookes University rises four places in The Guardian University Guide 2023 rankings
Oxford Brookes University has climbed 4 places in the latest Guardian University Guide. The University is now ranked 42nd out of 121 UK institutions.
05 August 2022
Military medics teach students emergency trauma care skills at training trial
Nursing students from Oxford Brookes University, Medical students from the University of Bristol and Combat Medical Technicians from MOD Lyneham took part in a pilot simulation training day of emergency trauma scenarios at the University’s Swindon Campus.
04 August 2022
Oxford Brookes Social Work team awarded Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence
The Social Work team at Oxford Brookes University has been awarded the Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence by Advance HE in recognition of their work to create a decolonised, anti-racist social work programme.
04 August 2022
Oxford Brookes Lecturer awarded National Teaching Fellowship
An Oxford Brookes University lecturer has been awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship by Advance HE.
26 July 2022
Repeated head impacts are a definitive cause of CTE, breakthrough research reveals
New analysis by world-leading experts on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), has found conclusive evidence that repetitive head impacts (RHI) cause the degenerative brain disease CTE.
22 July 2022
Premiership Legend Tom Varndell joins Oxford Brookes
Premiership Legend, Tom Varndell, has been appointed to a newly created role at Oxford Harlequins as Head of Community and, under the partnership between Oxford Brookes and Oxford Quins, Head of Men’s Rugby within Brookes Sport.
18 July 2022
People with Parkinson’s need more support to stay in work according to our research
Researchers at Oxford Brookes University have led a study to see how employment is affected after a Parkinson’s diagnosis and what support may have helped people to stay in work.
11 July 2022
Secondary school children experience mock medical emergency on healthcare taster day.
Secondary schoolchildren from Swindon and surrounding areas took part in a live simulation of a medical emergency at Oxford Brookes University’s Swindon campus.
