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BU RSA – get involved!

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BU Research Staff Association (RSA) meets informally at a regular coffee morning which is open to all staff and PhD Students at BU. Each coffee morning has a research related theme and speakers are invited from across BU to share their experiences around this theme.

The next three coffee mornings will focus on:

Date Time Venue Theme Speakers
25 October 2017 10-11am S107, Studland House, Lansdowne Campus Introduction to Project Management Dr Roger Atkinson,
Senior Lecturer in Project Management
29 November 2017 10-11am F105, Fusion Building, Talbot Campus Career pathways for researchers within and outside of academia Penny Ballyntyne,
Careers Adviser, BU Careers Service
31 January 2018 10-11am S107, Studland House, Lansdowne Campus Developing your research ideas and where to look for funding Lisa Gale-Andrews and Emily Cieciura, Research Facilitators, Research and Knowledge Exchange Office

To ensure we have enough cake please email mheward@bournemouth.ac.uk to confirm attendance.

Further coffee mornings will also take place on 28 March,30 May, and 25 July 2018 – themes and speakers to be confirmed!!!!!

See you there!

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Centre for Qualitative Research ‘In Conversation” this Wed 1 pm Fenge & Jones

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Not to be missed!

This Wednesday at 1 pm in RLH 201

Lee-Ann Fenge and Kip Jones converse about a focus group that became an innovative journal article, and now about to become a short ‘script in hand’ performance by YOU the audience!

“I’m her partner. Let me in!”

All BU staff and students welcome! 

See you there!

See all of the ‘In Conversation’ CQR Seminars listed here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Physiotherapy student co-creation for published smartphone app review

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Last year was the first year of a new Level 6 unit on the Physiotherapy programme called “Innovation in Physiotherapy”, and as unit lead I was keen to encourage the students to appraise smartphone apps in healthcare. Much of my research to date has been looking at “eHealth” (electronic health) and I was keen for them to have more awareness of these growing forms of healthcare adjuncts.

The students worked in groups to select their apps and then present their app reviews to the class, and following this they were encouraged to write up their app reviews and submit them for publication. I am happy to say that along with Adam Arthur, Alastair Bolton, Alex Evens and Philip Slemon, we have had our app review (“World Rugby Concussion’ by World Rugby Limited: a smartphone application for the general public”) published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine (Impact factor 6.724). This is my first co-creation paper with students since arriving at BU, and hopefully this process can be replicated in future years in the unit.

The article can be found at:

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2017/09/27/bjsports-2017-098185.full

Vitae Researcher Development International Conference

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On 11 – 12 September 2017 Clare Cutler and Natalie Stewart (Doctoral College Research Skills and Development Officers) attended the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference, focused on researcher development policy, impact and application.

With over 400 delegates in attendance, the conference celebrated 100 years of the modern PhD in the UK and 50 years of researcher development. With a strong emphasis on the future of researcher development, the growing importance of developing the highest calibre research students, and an increasingly diverse and competitive job market, we came back inspired…inspired to provide a sector leading researcher development programme accessible to all Bournemouth University postgraduate research students.

Three Minute Thesis UK Final

The UK National 3MT® Final was hosted at the conference gala dinner where six finalists from across the UK competed to win a £3k grant to spend on a public engagement activity and a place on the Taylor & Francis Journal Editor Mentoring Programme. This year’s winner was Thomas Fudge from Brunel University. Thomas, who completed his undergraduate degree in Product Design here at BU, stole the prize with the winning presentation on ‘decentralised sanitation for developing communities with energy and nutrient recovery’. You can watch all of the finalist presentations on the Vitae Website here.

Researcher Development Programme

With Researcher Development at the forefront of the research agenda, this year the Doctoral College Researcher Development Programme will be offering over 150 workshops, online modules and video resources specifically for our postgraduate research student’s professional, personal and research development. We have also teamed up with the University of East Anglia, to provide an interactive online training series which is due to launch later this month.

In addition to this full and varied programme we will also be launching the Doctoral College’s inaugural 3MT® event. For your place in this national competition and to be in with a chance of presenting your research at the 2018 Vitae Conference 3MT® Final, don’t forget to submit your application by Sunday 22 October 2017 to PGRskillsdevelopment@bournemouth.ac.uk.

 

Emerald removes embargo period on all journal articles in open access repositories

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Emerald has today, 26th September 2017, removed the embargo period on all Green open access. Author accepted manuscripts (AAMs or postprints) of journal articles held in open access repositories such as BURO will now be available on publication. This applies not only from today, but also to any Emerald publications currently under embargo in repositories.

Emerald Group Publishing

This is a huge advance for open access as Emerald had previously extended their embargo periods in response to the RCUK/ Finch statements on embargo periods and green open access.

Lunchtime Talk With Visiting Fellow Marianne Martens

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Marianne Martens, recently appointed as a Visiting Fellow in the School of Journalism, English and Communication will be giving a talk based on her current research on Wednesday 27 September at 1p.m in F305. All welcome and you are welcome to bring your lunches! Details below.

For the Love of Harry Potter: Fans’ Activism in Fan Fiction, Festivals, and Charitable Works

First published in 1997, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter changed the landscape for children’s publishing, in terms of sales figures, bestseller status, and book length.  The Harry Potter books are cross-over titles, which means that even though they are published as children’s books, their appeal extends to adult readers as well. One of the reasons for this, is the rich world-building that exists within the books. This world-building also lends itself exceptionally well to various fan-based activities, from fan fiction, to festivals, to charitable works.  Protective of the books and their characters, J.K. Rowling (and related corporate entities) are not always supportive of such fan activities. Marianne Martens will present her in-progress monograph, which examines how and why fans contribute their labor in support of Harry Potter, and the ensuing tensions between fans and the corporations who own him.

Marianne Martens, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at Kent State University’s School of Information. Her research covers the interconnected fields of youth services librarianship and publishing, and the impact of interactive reading technologies. Previously, she was vice president of North-South Books in New York. Martens is the author ofPublishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). You can read more about her work at mariannemartens.org.

Student-staff publication in the leading Brazilian tourism journal

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Dr. Miguel Moital, Principal Academic in Events Management (FM), has just published a paper co-authored with MSc Events Management graduate Cisil Andirin and Dr. Carla Cardoso, Associate Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University (Braga Campus).

After this publication, Dr. Moital has published a total of 8 outputs with BU Undergraduate and Masters students (7 journal articles and 1 book chapter). Journal articles include publications in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, International Journal of Event and Festival Management, Young Consumers and Journal of Fashion Marketing & Management (All Emerald journals), as well as Event Management (a Cognizant journal).

The paper, entitled “Service failures as organizational crises in business travel: origins and operational strategies as perceived by events professionals” was published in the Brazilian Journal of Tourism Research (RBTUR). RBTUR is the leading Brazilian tourism journal edited by the Brazilian Research and Post-Graduation in Tourism Association – ANPTUR. The journal is open access and the paper can be downloaded here.

The paper is based on Cisil’s Masters dissertation and focuses on exploring crisis management perceptions and practices by meetings professionals from two perspectives: origins of crisis and crisis management strategies. Focusing on Turkish meeting planners, the paper found that according to them crises are more about service failures than major disruptive events that question the organisation’s existence as per the traditional definition of crisis. As a consequence, the paper suggests that distinction between the notions of service failure and crisis may be artificial rather than real. Therefore, researchers planning studies on crises-service failure should consider looking at both literatures in order to integrate both bodies of knowledge.

 

BOS Survey Tool unavailable 3-4 October 2017

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There are changes to the service delivering the Bristol Online Survey (BOS) Tool as the service is transferring from Bristol University to Jisc.  The transfer of the BOS service from the University of Bristol to Jisc is scheduled to take place during the week commencing October 2, 2017.

To enable the transfer of its database, BOS will be offline from the morning of Tuesday October 3, for a period of up to 48 hours. During this time users will not be able to access BOS and all surveys will be offline.

From Thursday October 5, the service will be supported by Jisc.

Please note that the support email address and telephone number will change after the transfer. These will be advertised on the BOS website.

Users will be able to log in with the same usernames and passwords after the transfer, and should not notice any significant changes. All surveys and survey data will be transferred, and any surveys that were open prior to the transfer will be accessible to participants as soon as the service is restored.

A notification will be placed on all user Dashboards two weeks prior to the transfer to inform them of the upcoming downtime and transfer to Jisc, but please also make every effort to notify your account’s users.

If you have any questions please contact the support team at bos-migration-support@bristol.ac.uk or call on 0117 394 1783.

Freshwater Taxonomy success!

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Last week (11-15 September 2017) saw the successful delivery of the NERC-funded Advanced Training Course Freshwater Taxonomy and Field Identification Skills, awarded to Professor Genoveva F. Esteban (SciTech, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences) in collaboration with the Freshwater Biological Association (https://www.fba.org.uk/fba).  The course is free for PhD students and early-career researchers.  With a strong emphasis on training excellence and practical hands-on experience this short course offers expert tuition in freshwater fieldwork, taxonomy, and freshwater science. The course provided in-depth training on the well-established use of macro-invertebrates as the core component of freshwater bio-assessment and also included specific training in field and laboratory methods for investigating and identifying microscopic organisms like diatoms, meiofauna and protists. The participants’ feedback was outstanding; Davina Hill from the University of Cumbria tweeted “Thanks for a fascinating and inspiring course in Freshwater Taxonomy. Recommended!”

The course will also be delivered in 2018 (dates to be confirmed). Please contact Genoveva F. Esteban gesteban@bournemouth.ac.uk for further information. Photograph courtesy of Hai Luu.

cfp Extended deadline:‘Psychosocial Reflections on a Half Century of Cultural Revolution: The 50th anniversary of seasons of love and protest

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Association for Psychosocial Studies Biennial Conference

Bournemouth University, 5th-7th April 2018

‘Psychosocial Reflections on a Half Century of Cultural Revolution:

The 50th anniversary of seasons of love and protest’

Join us to reflect on revolutionary relationships and revolutionary politics which challenged authority then and which influence us now.

The cultural forces and the political movements of 1967 and 1968 aimed to change the world, and did so. Recent development of some populist and protest politics could be seen as a continuation of the revolutionary movements in the 1960s. Hedonic themes that recall the summer of love suffuse contemporary life, and self-reflection and emotional literacy have also become prominent values, linked towards human diversity and the international community.

We invite you to offer psychosocial analyses of the development and legacy today of the ‘revolutions’ in love, sex and politics. This could be via explorations of contemporary issues in politics, culture and artistic expression, or through historical studies. All proposals for papers must indicate how they address both psychological and social dimensions of their topic.

Send your abstract of 250-300 words to: APS2018@bournemouth.ac.uk

Deadline: 1st October 2017. Confirmation of acceptance: 1st November.

We welcome contributions from academics and practitioners from different fields and disciplines and very much look forward to seeing you there!

 

 

 

 

 

http://aps2018.bournemouth.ac.uk/

 

Conference on the impact of complications and errors in surgery held at BU

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Things can go wrong in surgery, and dealing with the consequences of complications and errors is part and parcel of a surgeon’s life. Last week a conference was held at BU’s Executive Business Centre which explored the impact that adverse events have on surgeons and examined how these effects can be ameliorated. Eminent presenters from across the UK shared insights from their surgical careers and personal experiences, presented the latest research in the area, and considered how better support and training could be provided for surgeons.

The conference was organised by the Bournemouth Adverse Events Research Team, a joint research venture between psychologists at BU and surgeons at Royal Bournemouth Hospital, who are currently researching the impact of complications and errors which inevitably arise during surgery on surgeons.  Professor Siné McDougall, one of the research team, said: “Today is about trying to think about what we can do to support surgeons. When things do go wrong, the focus is rightly on patients and their family. However, surgeons are also dealing with their own feelings, particularly if they have made a mistake which they deeply regret.”

It was clear that the conference had touched on a key issue for surgeons.  This was summed up by the keynote speaker, Professor Sir Miles Irving, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Manchester University, who said “The proceedings were excellent and clearly demonstrated that you have latched on to a problem which has the potential to become even more significant if not addressed.”  The Bournemouth Adverse Events Team is looking forward to continuing research in this area which will address this issue.

Tax Research Network (TRN) 26th Annual International Conference, 4-6 September 2017

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Tax Research Network (TRN) 26th Annual International Conference, 4 – 6 September 2017

The Accounting, Finance & Economics Department of the Faculty of Management has this week hosted the Tax Research Network (TRN) 26th Annual Conference at the EBC.  Professor John Vinney opened the TRN Conference 2017 with a welcome address on behalf of the University and the event was run by Dr Alan Kirkpatrick and Dr Phyllis Alexander over three days (including a Doctoral Colloquium).

The event was a great success and thanks are due to our colleagues Charmain Lyons, Research & Knowledge Exchange Office and Rebecca Marney, BU Events Management Team for their considerable help.

The TRN has a wide international membership.  The delegates attending included some of the best known international and UK-based academics in taxation as well as senior figures from the professional bodies that sponsored the event: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), both the global body and the regional organisation, ‘ICAEW Southern’ and the Chartered Institute of Taxation as well as Chartered Accountants Ireland.

The Keynote sessions were a particularly successful feature of the Conference.   The themes were:

  • ‘Challenges for taxation policy makers’ presented by Professor Judith Freedman of Oxford University:
  • ‘Making Tax Digital’ presented by Professor John Hasseldine of the University of New Hampshire: and,
  • ‘Tax and Trade – implications of Brexit and the special case of the UK-Irish border’ with presentations by Dr Brian Keegan who is Director of Taxation Policy at Chartered Accountants Ireland and by BU academics Dr Alan Kirkpatrick and Professor Tim Lloyd from the panel with further contributions from Professor Jens Holscher.  The other panellists were Judith Freedman (Oxford Univ), Ian Young (ICAEW) and Anne Fairpo (Temple Tax Chambers and a past President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation).

This event has helped to showcase BU’s facilities and expertise in the field of taxation research and education.

Dr Alan K Kirkpatrick, PhD MSc (Oxon) BA (Hons) Econ SFHEA FCA

Senior Academic in Accounting and Taxation, Director of TRIBUTE Tax Research,

Faculty of Management

 

Digital Health Technology Catalyst 2017 – Round 1. DEADLINE 11/10/17

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Are you working with an SME on a digital health project?  Innovate UK have announced funding opportunities related to Digital Health. Feasibility projects funding is between £50-£75k for a one year project.  Industrial research and developmental project have funds available for £500k-£1m for projects lasting up to three years and work with at least one other partner.  All projects must start by February 1st 2018.  Projects must have the potential to achieve at least one of the following:

  • Improve patient outcomes
  • Transform healthcare delivery
  • Enable more efficient delivery of healthcare

Please note, all projects must be led by a UK business.  For further details, please go here.

 

ADRC presented latest results at two conferences in Germany

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Jan Wiener, Ramona Grzeschik and Chris Hilton represented the Ageing & Dementia Research Centre (ADRC) at the 40th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 27–31 August 2017 in Berlin and the 20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) 3-6 September 2017 in Potsdam.

The ECVP is an annual meeting that brings together researchers from Psychology, Neurosciences, Optics, Computational Sciences and more. Besides vision, other modalities are represented as well as their interaction (multisensory perception). The conference of the ESCoP is being held once every two years. The society’s mission is “the furtherance of scientific enquiry within the field of Cognitive Psychology and related subjects, particularly with respect to collaboration and exchange of information between researchers in different European countries”.

Ramona represented the ADRC at both conferences with her ESRC-funded project on Dementia-friendly environments. In particular, she presented a poster with the latest results of her wayfinding experiment where she investigated the route learning abilities and eye movements of young and old participants.

At the ESCoP conference, Jan gave a talk on “What can eye-tracking tell us about the cognitive mechanisms underlying successful navigation?” where he introduced a couple of experiments that investigated eye movements during route and place learning in Virtual Environments.

Chris presented his results at the ESCoP as well. His poster titled “An exploration into the effects of ageing on general control of attention during route learning in a complex environment.” escribed his experiment using a natural looking virtual environment called “Virtual Tübingen”. He investigated attentional engagement during a route learning task in young and old participants.

Methodspace highlights BU Academics’ Innovative Approach to Reporting Focus Group Data

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‘I’m Her Partner, Let Me In!’ Bringing the Narrative to Academic Papers

Lee-Ann Fenge and Kip Jones

A blog recently requested by the editor of Sage Publications’ Methodspace highlights an article representing focus group data in a new way. In a recent report, two BU Academics, Lee-Ann Fenge and Kip Jones (FHSS), took an inventive approach in writing up their findings in the online journal, Creative Approaches to Research. The Sage editor said, “I thought your paper brought up some good methodology issues”.

The authors believe that as narrative researchers and storytellers we should be promoting narrative in the content and styles of our publications. We can no longer afford to ignore the great advances that have been made in representation of qualitative data in recent history. As narrative researchers, we are natural storytellers and need to keep this in focus when reporting studies, particularly in publications. In this way, as researchers, we move to the background, and the research participants are foregrounded.

The article “I’m her partner, let me in!” in Methodspace can be read here.

New Chapter on “Film as Research/ Research as Film” from Hearing and Jones

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Pleased to announce a ground-breaking Chapter on the use of film in research from FMC’s Trevor Hearing and FHSS’ Kip Jones in Guilford Publications’ Handbook of Arts-Based Research edited by Patricia Leavy.

Chapter 22, “Film as Research/Research as Film,” is a spirited dialogue between Trevor Hearing and Kip Jones about film as a performative research practice and means of disseminating research. Hearing comes to the conversation with a background in documentary film-making for television, while Jones is a qualitative researcher who has turned biographic research data into the story for an award-winning short film, RUFUS STONE. The authors collaborated on the trailer for that film, as well as documenting its production on video.

Hearing and Jones have worked together for over a decade on several projects and presentations, which offers a starting point for their conversation about the power and potential of film for researchers.