Many of our teaching academics are also “research active” and participate in industry-renowned research and publication outside of the University’s specialist centres. This may be in the form of collaborations with partner institutions or fellow academics, independent works, or particpating in large research groups.
Our academics are known for their contributions to the various canons of their specialisms, and are often invited to be key notes speakers at conferences around the world.
To read more about the research activities of Buckingham’s staff, please visit our Staff Directory to view our academics and their work.
The University of Buckingham Press publishes authoritative, independent research and academic works by Buckingham staff and others in both journals and books.
One hundred thousand billion free-floating Earth-sized planets, replete with life, may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way. Read more
This special edition of the Journal of Cosmology is published 10 years after the passing of Fred Hoyle, and marks the 30th anniversary of the theory of Cometary Panspermia which he and Chandra Wickramasinghe developed: that the beginnings of life exist throughout the cosmos and comets were the vehicles by which it reached Earth.
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Comets were regarded by many ancient cultures as the bringers of pestilence and death. Modern astronomy, however, has tended to distance itself from such ideas, maintaining instead that comets – those hairy wanderers through the heavens – are inert, lifeless lumps of ice and dirt. This conventional view of comets has been challenged in a decisive way by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and a team of international scientists. Read more