Business School wins grant to study management performance
The Portsmouth Business School has beaten applications from 14 different countries to win a highly sought after research grant from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). Portsmouth Business School’s proposal was one…
New Dean starts at Business School
Professor Gioia Pescetto starts today as the new Dean of Portsmouth Business School. Educated in Italy, the USA and the UK, Professor Pescetto worked as an Economist at San Paolo Bank in London…
Plants could pave the way for new ovarian cancer treatments
Tropical plants may contain the basis of new and effective treatments for ovarian cancer, according to researchers at the Universities of Portsmouth and Strathclyde. The scientists are developing a programme for testing plant…
High levels of student satisfaction for fifth consecutive year
Students at the University of Portsmouth have reported very high levels of satisfaction in the National Students Survey for the fifth year running. Both full and part-time students were asked to rank their…
World record breaker says thanks to Portsmouth team
A former Welsh international rugby player, who is the first person ever to stand on the highest summit on each of the world’s continents and stand on all 3 poles in the same…
New professorship for radiation expert
An expert on nuclear radiation and the Chernobyl disaster is the latest member of University staff to be awarded a professorship. Dr Jim Smith, who has spent years researching the on-going impacts of…
New fossil lends weight to giant bird theories
A gigantic prehistoric bird which could have been as big as an ostrich has been identified from a single jawbone. The new bird, estimated to have been between two and three metres tall,…
BBC recruits students for Big Screen Olympic Games coverage
The BBC selected twice the number of students from the University of Portsmouth than it intended to be involved in producing content for the UK’s ‘Big Screens’ during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic…
Fraud in HE sector could exceed £1 billion per annum
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) need to protect themselves more effectively against fraud, claims a new report, which found that the total cost of fraud in the sector could exceed £1 billion per annum….
Scientist urges compulsory sports bras in schools
A campaign has been launched to educate schoolgirls on breast health and make sports bras a compulsory part of PE kit in all UK schools in the same way that mouthguards are for…
February 12, 2013
heather — You make a lot of substantiated claims with poorly defined terms.
February 12, 2013
jennifer — It is anecdotes like yours which may inspire the research.
However the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", hence the need...
February 12, 2013
Stephen Mason — Just an anecdote that accords with the research. I tend to go for a walk with 6 year old labrador...
