BU Research Blog

March 8, 2024

New BU migrants’ health paper

BU research, Featured academics, Global engagement, international, open access, Publishing, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Drs. Pramod Regmi and Nirmal Aryal in the Department of Nursing Sciences published a new paper with colleagues from Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines in PLoS ONE under the title ‘Assessing the basic knowledge and awareness of dengue fever prevention among migrant workers in Klang Valley, Malaysia’. [1] Globally, 390 million dengue virus infections occur per year. In Malaysia, migrant workers are particularly vulnerable to Dengue Fever (DF) due to mosquito breeding sites exposure and poor health literacy. This study reports on assessing the current Dengue Fever knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP). The paper identifies strategies to promote awareness around Dengue Fever among migrant workers in Malaysia. Most respondents were male, working in the services industry, had completed high school, aged between 30–39 years and with less than ten years work experience in Malaysia. Overall, respondents’ knowledge was positively correlated with attitude but negatively with practices. Older respondents, who had completed higher education, obtained higher knowledge scores. Similarly, those with working experience of >20 years in Malaysia obtained higher attitude scores. Respondents with a previous history of Dengue Fever strongly considered the removal of mosquito breeding sites as their own responsibility, hence tended to frequently apply preventive measures. Respondents’ knowledge was also positively correlated to their understanding of Dengue Fever information sourced from social media platforms.

Congratulations!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Reference:

Chaudhary MN, Lim V-C, Faller EM, Regmi P, Aryal N, Mohd Zain SN, Azman AS, Sahimin B. (2024) Assessing the basic knowledge and awareness of dengue fever prevention among migrant workers in Klang Valley, Malaysia. PLoS ONE 19(2): e0297527. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297527

December 15, 2023

New sociology paper

BU research, Global engagement, international, Publishing, Research news, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Congratulations to Professors Sara Ashencaen Crabtree and Jonathan Parker who, together with academic colleagues from Cost Rica and Malaysia, published in the journal Debates En Sociología [1]. Their latest sociology paper focuses on Indigenous research, its costs, benefits and problematic issues, drawing on theoretical insights from Bourdieu. Both Sara and Jonathan are based in Bournemouth University’s Department of Social Sciences & Social Work.

Congratulations!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMWH

Reference:

Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Parker, J., Sylvester, O., García Segura, A., & Man, Z. (2023). “Balancing the Books”: Research Paradigms, Funding,
Ethics and Accountability in Research with Indigenous People, Debates En Sociología, 57: 60-83.

July 25, 2023

New BU migration and health publication

BU research, Featured academics, Global engagement, international, Publishing, Research communication, Research news, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Congratulations to Drs. Pramod Regmi and Nirmal Aryal in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences who published their latest paper this week [1]. This peer-reviewed paper ‘Assessing the knowledge of, attitudes towards, and practices in, food safety among migrant workers in Klang Valley, Malaysia’ in the journal Travel Medicine & Infectious Disease assesses the current food safety KAP (knowledge, attitudes and behaviour) as well as strategies to promote food safety awareness, among migrant workers across occupational sectors in Malaysia.

The authors conducted a survey with 403 migrant workers using telephone interviews and online self-administered questionnaires. The respondents were Nepalese, Filipino and Indonesian migrant workers. The majority were male, working in the services industry, had completed high school, aged between 30 and 39 years and had worked in Malaysia for less than ten years. Knowledge was significantly correlated with attitudes and practices. Female respondents had lower knowledge and attitude scores while younger respondents had lower knowledge scores. Indonesian and Filipino respondents had lower knowledge and attitudes scores than Nepalese respondents. Understanding food safety information from social media was positively correlated with the respondents’ food safety knowledge and practices. The paper concludes there is: (i) a to target female, younger, Indonesian and Filipino migrant workers, and (ii) the potential of social media to improve public awareness of food safety and hygienic practices.

Well done!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH)

Reference:

Chaudhary MN, Lim V-C, Sahimin N, Faller EM, Regmi P, Aryal N, Azman AS (2023) Assessing the knowledge of, attitudes towards, and practices in, food safety among migrant workers in Klang Valley, Malaysia, Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102620.

February 10, 2021

BU research tackles global challenges – Indigenous people’s voices (Costa Rica and Malaysia)

BU research, Global engagement Julie Northam

In February, we are sharing stories about BU’s research funded from the Global Challenges Research Fund. This funding enables BU academics to undertake cutting-edge research in partnership with organisations in developing countries. These projects help to build collaborations with researchers, policy-makers and practitioners, ensuring that the outcomes of the research have tangible outcomes and impacts for people in those countries. This research was able to continue, despite the travel restrictions due to the pandemic, predominantly by redesigning the projects to reduce BU staff travel and increase local delivery in the beneficiary countries. This change in delivery was beneficial to the research as it encouraged greater partnership working, ensured projects were led by in-country organisations, and will help in the long-term to ensure projects are sustainable after GCRF funding ends.

In Costa Rica and Malaysia, Professor Sarah Ashencaen Crabtree and Professor Jonathan Parker are leading a project focussing upon the inclusion of indigenous people’s voices in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Inspired by their earlier study exploring the impact of industrialised environmental degradation affecting Malaysian indigenous people, they found that indigenous Costa Ricans face different problems. For both, exploitation of traditional indigenous land occurs through social policy drivers prioritising State profits. These consequently hold potentially serious implications for the future survival of indigenous lifestyles and their social and cultural integrity, which are based on traditional indigenous territories, access and use of these. The UN Declaration of Indigenous People notes that indigenous rights are inherently connected to indigenous territories as cultural capital.

This study brings together two indigenous communities living in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: the Bribri of Talamanca, Costa Rica and the Jakun people of Tasik Chini, Malaysia. They developed dialogues with both groups, sharing their experiences and knowledge aimed at achieving genuine ‘voice’ for self-advocacy in policy development. The team facilitated capacity-building research using indigenous methodologies, where indigenous people are active participants, creating accessible, bio-cultural ‘experiential’ storybook’ narratives with theorised alternative approaches towards inclusive, respectful social policies.

The research team is composed of social scientists, cultural-linguists and (ethno) botanists from four main collaborating universities: lead HEI Bournemouth University, the UN Mandated – University for Peace, Costa Rica, National University – Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, National University – Universidad de Costa Rica. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA provides advisory input. Two of the team members are Indigenous groups and are either directly members of the communities under study or have very loose working and personal links with them. This has facilitated the study to a crucial degree and ensured that an equitable and responsive working relationship of shared responsibility, accountability and effective communication loops was established from the beginning.

Dialogues constructed between Indigenous peoples refer to State-driven social and economic development initiatives. Indigenous methodologies employed for power sharing, enabled indigenous participants to shape study aims, process and outcomes:

Creation of constructive dialogue aimed at poverty reduction.
Raising the visibility of hidden needs and amplifying muted voices.
Assisting in the attainment of SDGs, political and material gain.
Developing indigenous research methodologies and partnerships.
Enhancing social justice and human rights.

The team believe that the study holds untapped potential for transformatory ideas and actions, peacefully bringing about change and development via genuine hearing of the voices and needs of indigenous communities. The study seeded many ideas among both communities, where Malaysian indigenous peoples were very excited to learn about the local and State government representation by and for Indigenous people in Costa Rica, this has galvanised their awareness of how national policies can be influenced and shaped. The socio-economic viability of Indigenous lifestyles was also affirmed in these encounters, with some very useful examples of Indigenous agrarian cultivation was identified with regards to food crops and pharmaceutical crops.

February 6, 2021

Congratulations to Prof. Ashencaen-Crabtree on publication of new book

Featured academics, international, Publishing, Research news, Women's Academic Network, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Congratulations to Prof. Sara Ashencaen Crabtree on the publication of her new Routledge research monograph, Women of Faith and the Quest for Spiritual Authenticity [1]. This new book is based on 59 interviews with women in Malaysia and the UK concerning their experiences, beliefs and practices across the faiths of Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism and diverse Pagan pathways. These accounts are often very personal and detailed in referring to both the micro (individual) and the macro (social) in terms of how faith and gender are negotiated in multicultural societies that struggle with the politics of diversity.

This is an ecumenical and entertaining ethnography where women’s narratives and life stories ground faith as embodied, personal, painful, vibrant, diverse, illuminating and shared. This book will of interest not only to academics and students of the sociology of religion, feminist and gender studies, politics, political science, ethnicity and Southeast Asian studies, but is equally accessible to the general reader broadly interested in faith and feminism. Sara says that she road-tested some of these Sociology of Religion ideas in the classroom at Bournemouth University and she found that social science students really related to it in their discussions.

I have taken the liberty to reproduce one of the reviews written for the publisher’s website by Prof. Crisp from Deakin University in Australia.

Congratulations!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

Reference:

Ashencaen Crabtree S (2021) Women of Faith and the Quest for Spiritual Authenticity: Comparative Perspectives from Malaysia and Britain, London: Routledge.

February 25, 2020

More BU migration research success

BU research, conferences, Featured academics, Global engagement, international, open access, Publishing, Research news, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Last week migration researchers in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences were awarded two competitive grants through GCRF funding to Bournemouth University. The first project Nepal-Malaysia-UK partnership on Nepali migrants’ health research is led by Dr. Pramod Regmi (lecturer in International Health) and Dr. Nirmal Aryal (Post Doctoral Researcher) and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen. The second GCRF-funded project focuses on Investigating sudden cardiac death of Nepali labour migrants in Malaysia. The project is the brain child of Dr. Nirmal Aryal who is supported by Dr. Pramod Regmi and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen.

In the same week the International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health (IJERPH) accepted our latest migration and health paper: ‘The Impact of Spousal Migration on the Mental Health of Nepali Women: A Cross-Sectional Study‘. [1] This paper was part of the journal’s Special Issue ‘The Health & Wellbeing of Migrant Populations’ and it is Open Access and hence freely available online. The international authors are all related to Bournemouth University, Dr. Nirnal Aryal and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen are both in the Centre of Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) and Dr. Pramod Regmi and Dr. Steve Trenoweth are based in the Department of Nursing Sciences, whilst Dr. Pratik Adhikary was awarded his PhD from Bournemouth University and Prof. Padam Simkhada based at the University of Huddersfield is Visiting Professor at in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences. The editor emailed us today to say “Thank you very much for your nice paper …. We are pleased to see it has raised a lot of interest since its publication in IJERPH. The article metrics show: in the first week alone we had 474 views and 133 downloads.”

Last, but not least, today we were informed by the review committee that our submission, ‘Workplace Harassment Faced by Female Nepali Migrants Working in Abroad’ has been accepted by the CESLAM (Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility) Kathmandu Migration Conference 2020.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

Reference:

Aryal, N., Regmi, P.R., van Teijlingen, E., Trenoweth, S., Adhikary, P., Simkhada, P. (2020) The Impact of Spousal Migration on the Mental Health of Nepali Women: A Cross-Sectional Study, International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health 17(4), 1292; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041292

January 28, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Pratik Adhikary

Featured academics, international, open access, PG research, Publishing, Research news, student research, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Congratulations to Dr. Pratik Adhikary on the fifth (and final paper) from his PhD in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences. This latest paper ‘Support networks in the Middle East & Malaysia: A qualitative study of Nepali returnee migrants’ experiences’ was recently published in the International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health [1].

This is one of the few studies focusing on the support networks of Nepali migrant worker in the Middle East and Malaysia. The previous four papers have focused more on living conditions and working conditions of migrant workers as well as occupational health and safety abroad [2-5].

References:

Adhikary P, van Teijlingen E. (2019) Support networks in the Middle East & Malaysia: A qualitative study of Nepali returnee migrants’ experiences’ – International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health 9(2): 31-35.
Adhikary P, van Teijlingen E., Keen S. (2019) Workplace accidents among Nepali male workers in the Middle East and Malaysia: A qualitative study, Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health 21(5): 1115–1122. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-018-0801-y
Adhikary P, Sheppard, Z., Keen S., van Teijlingen E. (2018) Health and well-being of Nepalese migrant workers abroad, International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 14(1): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-12-2015-0052
Adhikary, P., Sheppard, Z., Keen, S., van Teijlingen, E. (2017) Risky work: Accidents among Nepalese migrant workers in Malaysia, Qatar and Saudi, Health Prospect 16(2): 3-10.
Adhikary P., Keen S., van Teijlingen, E. (2011) Health Issues among Nepalese migrant workers in Middle East. Health Science Journal 5: 169-175. www.hsj.gr/volume5/issue3/532.pdf

November 16, 2019

Growing wealth of migration publications at Bournemouth University

BU research, Centre for Excellence in Learning, Featured academics, international, open access, PG research, policy, Publishing, Research news, research staff, student research, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Yesterday saw the latest publication based on Bournemouth University (BU) migration research. The international journal BMC Public Health published our quantitative paper ‘Psychological morbidity in Nepali cross-border migrants in India: a community based cross-sectional study’ [1]. This scientific article highlights that since Nepali migrants can freely cross the border with India and hence work and stay there, they are largely undocumented. The majority of these Nepali migrant workers is involved in semi-skilled or unskilled jobs with limited labour rights and social security, which predisposes them to psychological distress. The paper assessed the prevalence of and factors associated with psychological morbidity among Nepali migrants upon their return from India.

Just a few days ago the UN Migration Agency in Nepal IOM (International Organization for Migration) published ‘Research on the Health Vulnerabilities of the Cross-Border Migrants from Nepal‘, an online report to which BU academics (Aryal, Regmi & van Teijlingen) had contributed [2]. Just recently we had published the qualitative sister paper on Nepali migrants working and living in India. [3]. Whilst Dr. Nirmal Aryal was the lead author on a paper highlighting the need for more research specifically focusing on adolescents left behind by migrant workers [4]. Earlier this year BU PhD graduate Dr. Pratik Adhikary published his latest paper from his thesis, the paper is called ‘Workplace accidents among Nepali male workers in the Middle East and Malaysia: A qualitative study’ and was published in the Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health [5].

Last year was also a very good year for BU migration research, including a systematic review on sex trafficking (perhaps the worst kind of migrant workers) [6], an earlier research paper by Dr. Adhikary with his PhD supervisors [7], and one paper on Nepali female migrants workers in the Middle-East & Malaysia [8]. Earlier BU academics published on general health issues and accidents among Nepali migrant workers in Malaysia, Qatar & Saudi Arabia [9-10], Nepali migrants in the UK [11-12] , other papers included: a call for action on Public Health [13]; a systematic review [14]; a paper on migrant workers’ spouses [15]; migrant health workers in the UK [16-17]; migration and tourism industry [18-20]; migrants and space in Italy [21-22]; an anthropological perspective on migration [23]; a media studies’ perspective [24]; and archaeological perspective [25]; and a socio-economic perspective [26]. No doubt there are several other publications I have forgotten or I am simply unaware missed in this list.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health

References:

Dhungana, R.R., Aryal, N, Adhikary, P., KC, R., Regmi, P.R., et al. (2019) Psychological morbidity in Nepali cross-border migrants in India: A community-based cross-sectional, BMC Public Health 19:1534
International Organization for Migration (2019) Research on the Health Vulnerabilities of the Cross-Border Migrants from Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal: International Organization for Migration.
Regmi, P., van Teijlingen, E., Mahato, P., Aryal, N., Jadhav, N., Simkhada, P., Syed Zahiruddin, Q., Gaidhane, A., (2019) The health of Nepali migrants in India: A qualitative study of lifestyles and risks, Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health 16(19), 3655; doi:10.3390/ijerph16193655.
Aryal, N., Regmi, P.R., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P., Mahat, P. (2019) Adolescents left behind by migrant workers: a call for community-based mental health interventions in Nepal. WHO South East Asia Journal of Public Health 8(1): 38-41.
Adhikary P, van Teijlingen E., Keen S. (2019) Workplace accidents among Nepali male workers in the Middle East and Malaysia: A qualitative study, Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health 21(5): 1115–1122. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-018-0801-y
Simkhada, P., van Teijlingen, E., Sharma, A., Bissell, P., Poobalan, A., Wasti, S.P. (2018) Health consequences of sex trafficking: A systematic review, Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, 4(1): 130-149.
Adhikary P, Sheppard, Z., Keen S., van Teijlingen E. (2018) Health and well-being of Nepalese migrant workers abroad, International Journal of Migration, Health & Social Care 14(1): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-12-2015-0052
Simkhada, P.P., van Teijlingen, E.R., Gurung, M., Wasti, S. (2018) A survey of health problems of Nepalese female migrants workers in the Middle-East & Malaysia, BMC International Health & Human Rights 18(4): 1-7. http://rdcu.be/E3Ro
Adhikary, P, Sheppard, Z., Keen, S., van Teijlingen, E. (2017) Risky work: accidents among Nepalese migrant workers in Malaysia, Qatar & Saudi Arabia, Health Prospect 16(2): 3-10.
Adhikary P., Keen S., van Teijlingen E (2011) Health Issues among Nepalese migrant workers in Middle East. Health Science Journal 5: 169-75. www.hsj.gr/volume5/issue3/532.pdf
Adhikary, P., Simkhada, P.P., van Teijlingen E., Raja, AE. (2008) Health & Lifestyle of Nepalese Migrants in the UK BMC International Health & Human Rights 8(6). Web address: www.biomedcentral.com/1472-698X/8/6
van Teijlingen E, Simkhada, P., Adhikary, P. (2009) Alcohol use among the Nepalese in the UK BMJ Rapid Response: www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/339/oct20_1/b4028#223451
Aryal, N., Regmi, PR., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P., Adhikary, P., Bhatta, YKD., Mann, S. (2016) Injury and Mortality in Young Nepalese Migrant Workers: A Call for Public Health Action. Asian-Pacific Journal of Public Health 28(8): 703-705.
Simkhada, PP., Regmi, PR., van Teijlingen, E., Aryal, N. (2017) Identifying the gaps in Nepalese migrant workers’ health & well-being: A review of the literature, Journal of Travel Medicine 24 (4): 1-9.
Aryal, N., Regmi, PR., van Teijlingen, E., Dhungel, D., Ghale, G., Bhatta, GK. (2016) Knowing is not enough: Migrant workers’ spouses vulnerability to HIV SAARC Journal of Tuberculosis, Lung Diseases & HIV/AIDS 8(1):9-15.
Scammell, J., 2016. Nurse migration and the EU: how are UK nurses prepared? British Journal of Nursing, 25 (13), p. 764.
Sapkota, T., Simkhada, P., van Teijlingen, E. (2014) Nepalese health workers’ migration to United Kingdom: A qualitative study. Health Science Journal 8(1):57-74.
Janta, H., Ladkin, A., Brown, L., Lugosi, P., 2011. Employment experiences of Polish migrant workers in the UK hospitality sector. Tourism Management, 32 (5): 1006-1019.
Dwyer, L., Seetaram, N., Forsyth, P., Brian, K. (2014) Is the Migration-Tourism Relationship only about VFR? Annals of Tourism Research, 46: 130-143.
Filimonau, V., Mika, M. (2017) Return labour migration: an exploratory study of Polish migrant workers from the UK hospitality industry. Current Issues in Tourism, 1-22.
De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2016. ‘If I climb a wall of ten meters’: capoeira, parkour and the politics of public space among (post)migrant youth in Turin, Italy. Patterns of Prejudice, 50 (2), 188-206.
De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2015. Climbing walls, making bridges: children of immigrants’ identity negotiations through capoeira and parkour in Turin. Leisure Studies, 34 (1), 19-33.
Mai, N., Schwandner-Sievers, S. (2003) Albanian migration and new transnationalisms, Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies 29(6): 939-948.
Marino, S., Dawes, S., 2016. Fortress Europe: Media, Migration and Borders. Networking Knowledge, 9 (4).
Parker Pearson, M., Richards, C., Allen, M., Payne, A. & Welham, K. (2004) The Stonehenge Riverside project Research design and initial results Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science 14: 45–60.
Chowdhury, M., 2014. Migration, Human Capital Formation and the Beneficial Brain Drain Hypothesis: A Note. Migration & Development, 3 (2), 174-180.

October 15, 2019

New Sociology and Development publication

BU research, Featured academics, international, Publishing, Research news, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Congratulations to Professors Sara Ashencaen Crabtree and Jonathen Parker in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences on the recent publication of their paper ‘‘Behaving like a Jakun!’ A case study of conflict, ‘othering’ and indigenous knowledge in the Orang Asli of Tasik Chini’ in the Journal of Sociology and Development [1]. This paper reports on an ethnographic study of the indigenous Jakun Orang Asli in West Malaysia.

Congratulations!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

Reference:

Parker, J., Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Crabtree Parker, M., Crabtree Parker, I., 2019. ‘Behaving like a Jakun!’ A case study of conflict, ‘othering’ and indigenous knowledge in the Orang Asli of Tasik Chini. Journal of Sociology & Development, 3 (1):23-32.

September 6, 2019

Migration & health research in Middle East & Malaysia

BU research, Featured academics, international, Publishing, Research communication, Research news, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Yesterday the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health published the final version of Dr. Pratik Adhikary’s paper ‘Workplace Accidents Among Nepali Male Workers in the Middle East and Malaysia: A Qualitative Study’ [1]. This is the fourth paper originating from Pratik’s Ph.D. research conducted in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, the first three papers appeared in the period 2011-2018 [2-4].

The paper highlights that many Nepali men work in the Middle East and Malaysia and media reports and anecdotal evidence suggests they are at a high risk of workplace-related accidents and injuries for male Nepali workers. Pratik’s Ph.D. study used face-to-face interviews to explore the personal experiences of twenty male Nepali migrants of unintentional injuries at their place of work. His study found that almost half of study participants experienced work-related accident abroad. The Participants suggested that the reasons behind this are not only health and safety at work but also poor communication, taking risks by workers themselves, and perceived work pressure. Some participants experienced serious incidents causing life-long disability, extreme and harrowing accounts of injury but received no support from their employer or host countries.

The paper concludes that Nepali migrant workers are at a high risk of occupational injuries owing to a number of interrelated factors poor health and safety at work, pressure of work, risk taking practices, language barriers, and their general work environment. Both the Government of Nepal and host countries need to be better policing existing policies; introduce better legislation where necessary; ensure universal health (insurance) coverage for labour migrants; and improve preventive measures to minimize the number and severity of accidents and injuries among migrant workers.

References:

Adhikary P, van Teijlingen E., Keen S. (2019) Workplace accidents among Nepali male workers in the Middle East and Malaysia: A qualitative study, Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health 21(5): 1115–1122. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-018-0801-y
Adhikary P., Keen S., van Teijlingen E (2011) Health Issues among Nepalese migrant workers in Middle East. Health Science Journal 5: 169-75. www.hsj.gr/volume5/issue3/532.pdf
Adhikary, P, Sheppard, Z., Keen, S., van Teijlingen, E. (2017) Risky work: accidents among Nepalese migrant workers in Malaysia, Qatar & Saudi Arabia, Health Prospect 16(2): 3-10.
Adhikary P, Sheppard, Z., Keen S., van Teijlingen E. (2018) Health and well-being of Nepalese migrant workers abroad, International Journal of Migration, Health & Social Care 14(1): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-12-2015-0052

April 24, 2019

BU migration health stakeholders’ meetings in Malaysia

BU research, Events, Featured academics, Fusion, Global engagement, international, policy, Public engagement, Publishing, Research news, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

BU’s researchers Dr. Pramod Raj Regmi and Dr. Nirmal Aryal have recently visited Malaysia for a consultation meeting. They organised meetings with stakeholders working on migration health related and Nepali migrant workers as Public Patient Involvement (PPI ) in Malaysia. These meetings discussed risk factors for sudden nocturnal deaths and kidney disease among Nepali migrant workers in Malaysia.

More than 350 Nepali migrant workers die in Malaysia every year. Nearly one-fourth of them die from cardiovascular problems often during their sleep, many without previous signs or illnesses. This also seems to be the case in South Asian workers in the Middle-East. The cause of death is hitherto unknown. During a consultation meeting on 19^th April, participants suggested several possible causes of these deaths and strongly supported the idea of carrying out verbal autopsy with close friends, employers, roommates, etc. The emerging health issue of kidney health risk among Nepali migrant workers and its risk factors were also discussed. A total of 25 participants attended the meeting. Participants from many different disciplines [1], including from migration health researchers from several universities, migrant workers’ non-governmental organizations (NGO), the Malaysian Ministry of Health, and International Organization for Migration (IOM) Malaysia. FHSS’s Drs Aryal and Regmi facilitated the consultation workshops.

On the same day, Dr. Regmi and Dr. Aryal met with the Nepali ambassador to Malaysia Mr. Udaya Raj Pandey and his team and discussed migration issues. The Nepali Embassy in Malaysia is aware of these health problems and the ambassador committed to provide any support required for further investigation in these issues.

On 20^th April, another PPI was carried out among Nepali migrant workers at their living quarters. Around 20 Nepali migrant workers participated. During this meeting, issues of sudden nocturnal deaths and acceptability and feasibility of verbal autopsy tools, problem of kidney disease and its possible triggers were discussed. The research into the usefulness of verbal autopsy tool as a good example of BU’s FUSION, since research can lead to a change in practice regarding health of migrant workers through better education of the migrant community, their left-behind families and NGOs working in the field.

These consultation meeting and PPI were intended to develop basis for further research in these area and build collaboration in Malaysia. The NGOs North-South Initiatives (Mr. Adrian Pereira and his team) and Migrant Workers’ Health Alliance (Dr. Erwin Martinez Faller and his team) have locally co-ordinated these events. These activities were conducted from the QR pump-priming fund awarded to Dr. Aryal this year in FHSS.

Finally, on 21^st April, Dr. Regmi and Dr. Aryal were invited to the Philippine Embassy to share knowledge on mental health risk among migrant workers. They have presented findings of previous BU’s research on it as well as existing evidence on mental health risk on migrant workers and their left-behinds. More than 60 Filipino migrant workers attended the event.

As Malaysia is a popular destination for migrant workers from Asia Pacific and South Asia (there are currently more than 700,000 Nepali workers in Malaysia), these consultations will play a significant role in designing and developing grant applications to promote health and wellbeing of migrant workers. This consultation meeting builds on recent work on the topic conducted at BU [2-14] as highlighted in the recent Research Brief Migration and Health (Jan. 2019).

References:

van Teijlingen, E., Regmi, P., Adhikary, P., Aryal, N., Simkhada, P. (2019). Interdisciplinary Research in Public Health: Not quite straightforward. Health Prospect, 18(1), 4-7.
Aryal, N., Regmi, P.R., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P., Mahat, P. (2019) Adolescents left behind by migrant workers: a call for community-based mental health interventions in Nepal. WHO South East Asia J Public Health 8 (1): 38-41.
Adhikary P, Sheppard Z., Keen S. van Teijlingen E (2018) Health and well-being of Nepalese migrant workers abroad, Int J Migration, Health Social Care 14(1): 96-105
Simkhada, P.P., van Teijlingen, ER., Gurung, M., Wasti, S. (2018) A study of Health Problems of Nepalese Female Migrants Workers in the Middle-East & Malaysia, BMC Int Health Human Rights 18(1):4.
Adhikary P, Sheppard Z, Keen S, van Teijlingen E (2017) Risky work: Accidents among Nepali migrant workers in Malaysia, Qatar & Saudi, Health Prospect 16(2): 3-10
Simkhada P, Regmi, P, van Teijlingen E, Aryal N (2017) Identifying gaps in Nepalese migrant workers’ health & well-being: A review of literature J Travel Med 24(4): 1-9
Aryal, N., Regmi, PR., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P., Adhikary, P., Bhatta, YKD., Mann, S. (2016) Injury & Mortality in Young Nepalese Migrant Workers: A Call for Public Health Action. Asian-Pacific J Public Health 28(8): 703-705.
Aryal, N., Regmi, PR., van Teijlingen, E., Dhungel, D., Ghale, G., Bhatta, GK. (2016) Knowing is not enough: Migrant workers’ spouses vulnerability to HIV SAARC J Tuberculosis, Lung Diseases HIV/AIDS 8(1):9-15.
Joshi, S., Prescott, G., Simkhada, P., Sharma, N., Bhurtyal, Y. (2014). Knowledge and Risk Perceptions about HIV/AIDS among Nepalese Migrants in Gulf Countries: a Cross-sectional Study. Health Sci J, 8 (3) pp 350-36
Sapkota, T., Simkhada, P., van Teijlingen, E. (2014) Nepalese health workers’ migration to United Kingdom: A qualitative study. Health Sci J 8(1):57-74.
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October 24, 2017

Newton Fund – Funding Update

Funding opportunities, Global engagement, international Emily Cieciura

Please see the calls currently open, or forthcoming, being offered through the Newton Fund scheme. Some calls are newly opened whilst others have been promoted previously via the BU Research blog. In each case, please refer to the call website for full details including eligibility requirements and thematic priorities:

If you are interested in applying to any of these calls then please contact your RKEO Funding Development Officer, in the first instance.

DEADLINE	TIME	DETAILS OF CALL
15 November 2017	12pm GMT	BRAZIL – Estimating methane fluxes through inverse modelling (CSSP Brazil) (Met Office)
15 November 2017	12pm GMT	BRAZIL – Meteorological driving data for offline land surface and impacts simulations (CSSP Brazil) (Met Office)
16 November 2017	4pm GMT	NEW! THAILAND – Capacity Building in Software and Hardware Infrastructures and Data Handling through Astronomy (STFC)
27 November 2017	9am GMT	NEW! COLOMBIA – INDIA – INDONESIA – SOUTH AFRICA – THAILAND – Industry Academia Partnership Programme (RAEng)
30 November 2017	4pm GMT	COLOMBIA – Exploring & Understanding Colombian Bio Resources (AHRC, NERC)
30 November 2017	4pm GMT	COLOMBIA – RCUK-Colciencias Research Partnerships Call 2017 (RCUK, AHRC, ESRC)
4 December 2017	4pm GMT	NEW! INDONESIA – MALAYSIA – PHILIPPINES – THAILAND – VIETNAM – (Notification of intent) Understanding of the Impacts of Hydrometeorological Hazards in South East Asia (ESRC, NERC)
5 December 2017	4pm (GMT)	NEW! MALAYSIA – Collaborative research for higher level STEM skills in Malaysia (STFC)
6 December 2017	4pm GMT	BRAZIL – BBSRC-FAPESP Joint Pump-Priming Awards for AMR and Insect Pest Resistance in Agriculture (BBSRC)
7 December 2017	4pm GMT	INDIA – Cultural Heritage and Rapid Urbanisation in India (AHRC)
12 December 2017	4pm GMT	VIETNAM – UK-Vietnam Partnerships for Infectious Disease Research (MRC)
APPLICATIONS ON A ROLLING BASIS		TURKEY – Fellowships for UK Researchers (British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society)

August 3, 2017

Newton Fund – Funding Update

Funding opportunities, Global engagement, international eknight

Please see the calls currently open, or forthcoming, being offered through the Newton Fund scheme. Some calls are newly opened whilst others have been promoted previously via the BU Research blog. In each case, please refer to the call website for full details including eligibility requirements and thematic priorities:

If you are interested in applying to any of these calls then please contact your RKEO Funding Development Officer, in the first instance.

21 August 2017	4pm BST	INDIA – Newton-Bhabha PhD Placements Programme (British Council)
31 August 2017	4pm BST	CHINA – Call for Participation in an International Workshop on ‘Development through the Creative Economy in China ‘ (AHRC)
5 September 2017	4pm BST	EGYPT – Cultural Heritage and Development in Egypt (AHRC)
6 September 2017	12pm BST	MALAYSIA – UK-Malaysia Urban Innovation Challenge (Innovate UK)
6 September 2017	4pm BST	COLOMBIA – RCUK-CIAT Newton-Caldas Fund Sustainable Tropical Agricultural Systems Programme (BBSRC, ESRC, NERC)
6 September 2017	3pm BST	BRAZIL-CHINA-MEXICO-SOUTH AFRICA – Newton Advanced Fellowships (Academy of Medical Sciences, Royal Society)
19 September 2017	4pm BST	THAILAND – UK-Thailand Joint Initiative on Infectious Diseases and Non-Communicable Diseases (MRC)
19 September 2017	4pm BST	EGYPT-THAILAND-TURKEY – Institutional Links grants (British Council)
20 September 2017	12pm BST	CHINA – PhD Placements and Supervisor Mobility Grants China-UK (British Council)
26 September 2017	4pm BST	BRAZIL – MRC-CONFAP Call for Health Systems Research Networks (MRC)
3 October 2017	4pm BST	CHILE – Newton RCUK-CONICYT Broadening Impact Call (RCUK, BBSRC, ESRC, EPSRC, NERC, STFC)
4 October 2017	12pm BST	CHINA – UK-Guangdong (China) – Urban innovation (Innovate UK)
18 October 2017	12pm BST	INDIA – Newton Bhabha UK–India industrial waste challenge 2017 (BBSRC, EPSRC)
24 October 2017	4pm BST	INDIA – UK-India Newton-Bhabha Fund joint call on pulses and oilseeds (BBSRC)
APPLICATIONS ON A ROLLING BASIS		TURKEY – Fellowships for UK Researchers (British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: COLOMBIA – Colombia BIO programme (NERC, AHRC)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: MULTI-COUNTRY – Latin America Biodiversity Regional Researcher Links Workshops (British Council)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: MULTI-COUNTRY – South-East Asia Regional Researcher Links Workshops (British Council)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: INDIA – RCUK: Pre-call announcement: UK-India AMR Initiative (RCUK)

May 30, 2017

Newton Funds Update

Funding opportunities, Global engagement, international Emily Cieciura

Please see the calls currently open, or forthcoming, being offered through the Newton Fund scheme. Some calls are newly opended whilst others have been promoted previously via the BU Research blog.

If you are considering applying to any thse calls, please contact Ehren Milner (FM and FMC) or Lisa Gale-Andrews (HSS and SciTech) for further support.

13 June 2017	4pm BST	MULTI-COUNTRY – Institutional Links grants (British Council)
13 June 2017	4pm BST	MULTI-COUNTRY – Researcher Links Workshops grants (British Council)
13 June 2017	4pm BST	THAILAND – Researcher Links Travel grants (British Council)
13 June 2017	4pm BST	SOUTH AFRICA – Researcher Links Workshops grants (British Council)
13 June 2017	4pm BST	SOUTH AFRICA-KENYA – Trilateral Researcher Links Workshops grants (British Council)
13 July 2017	4pm BST	NEW! CHINA-PHILIPPINES-THAILAND – Call for collaborative proposals in Swine and Poultry Research (BBSRC)
21 July 2017	4pm BST	NEW! VIETNAM – Research Environment Links Grants (British Council)
6 September 2017	12pm BST	MALAYSIA – UK-Malaysia Urban Innovation Challenge (Innovate UK)
APPLICATIONS ON A ROLLING BASIS		TURKEY – Fellowships for UK Researchers (British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: CHINA – UK-China Joint Research and Innovation Partnership Fund PhD Placement Programme (British Council)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: INDIA – Newton-Bhabha PhD Placements Programme (British Council)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: INDIA – Bio-technological solutions for reducing industrial waste (Innovate UK, BBSRC, EPSRC)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: CHINA – UK-China Agri-Tech (Innovate UK, BBSRC)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: COLOMBIA – Colombia BIO programme (NERC, AHRC)

May 16, 2017

Newton Fund latest calls

Funding opportunities, international Emily Cieciura

The British Council have announced that the latest calls available under the Newton Fund are now open or forthcoming:

6 September 2017	12pm BST	NEW! MALAYSIA – UK-Malaysia Urban Innovation Challenge (Innovate UK)
APPLICATIONS ON A ROLLING BASIS		TURKEY – Fellowships for UK Researchers (British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: CHINA – UK-China Joint Research and Innovation Partnership Fund PhD Placement Programme (British Council)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: INDIA – Bio-technological solutions for reducing industrial waste (BBSRC, EPSRC)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: CHINA – UK-China Agri-Tech (BBSRC)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: INDIA – Ganga Delta – Bay of Bengal Interactions (NERC)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: INDONESIA – Wallacea understanding biodiversity and evolutionary responses to environmental change (NERC)
Forthcoming		FORTHCOMING: SOUTH EAST ASIA – Increasing resilience to hydrometeorological hazards (NERC)

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If you are interested in applying to any of these calls then please contact your RKEO Funding Development Officer, in the first instance.

March 6, 2017

Newton Fund – current opportunities

Funding opportunities, Global engagement, international Emily Cieciura

The Newton Fund has announced the following funding opportunities:

22 March 2017	MULTI-COUNTRY – Newton International Fellowship (Academy of Medical Sciences)
22 March 2017	MULTI-COUNTRY – Newton International Fellowships (Royal Society)
23 March 2017	MULTI-COUNTRY – Newton Advanced Fellowships (Royal Society)
2 April 2017 5pm	NEW! BRAZIL – Newton PDE Programme: Call for expressions of interest from UK universities to host Brazilian Master’s Scholars
12 April 2017 4pm	NEW! INDIA – Global Research Programme; addressing the health needs of women and children in disadvantaged populations globally
26 April 2017 4pm	NEW! INDIA – India-UK Water Quality Research Programme
3 May 2017 12pm	BST BRAZIL – Urban innovation in Brazil
17 May 2017 12pm	SOUTH AFRICA – Precision Medicine Programme in South Africa
APPLICATIONS ON A ROLLING BASIS	TURKEY – Fellowships for UK Researchers
FORTHCOMING	INDIA – Bio-technological solutions for reducing industrial waste
FORTHCOMING	CHINA – UK-China Agri-Tech
FORTHCOMING	MALAYSIA – Newton-Ungku Omar Fund Malaysia – UK Urban Innovation

To find out more, please follow the links given above. For general information about the Newton Fund, please go to their website.

If you are intending to apply for a Newton call, please contact your respective Research Facilitator – Lisa Gale-Andrews (HSS & SciTech) or Ehren Milner (FMC and FM)

May 17, 2016

Newton Fund International Calls Update

Funding opportunities, international Emily Cieciura

newton fund The following Newton calls are currently open. If you are thinking of applying, please contact Emily Cieciura, REKO’s Research Facilitator: EU and International, as soon as possible, so that we can support you.

DEADLINE	TIME	DETAILS OF CALL
1 June 2016		DEADLINE SOON! MALAYSIA- UK-Malaysia Joint Health Research Call in Non-Communicable Diseases
20 June 2016	4pm GMT	CHINA- Developing financial systems to support sustainable growth in China
27 June 2016	4pm GMT	MULTI- COUNTRY- Newton Institutional Links
27 June 2016	4pm GMT	MULTI-COUNTRY- Travel Grants – Newton Researcher Links
27 June 2016	4pm GMT	MULTI-COUNTRY- Workshop Grants – Newton Researcher Links
27 June 2016	4pm GMT	MULTI-COUNTRY Trilateral workshop grants – Newton Researcher Links
30 June 2016		SOUTH AFRICA- NRF Fellowships for Early Career Researchers from the UK
14 July 2016	4pm GMT	NEW OPPORTUNITY! INDONESIA- UK-Indonesia Joint Health Research Call on Infectious Diseases
20 September 2016	12pm GMT	NEW OPPORTUNITY! CHINA- UK-China PhD Placement Programme
22 September 2016	12pm GMT	NEW OPPORTUNITY! TURKEY- Agri-food innovation in Turkey

May 3, 2016

Global BUzz ASEAN

Global engagement Emily Cieciura

7646-INTERNATIONAL-Global BUzz ASEAN-DIGITAL SCREEN-27 04 16-v 2 0_Page_1 BU invites you to celebrate the countries that make up the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region, as we host an event that showcases the variety of cultures and BU’s relationships across Southeast Asia on Wednesday 11 May.

Through your engagement, we hope to create a buzz on campus with a series of talks and cultural activities from the region, including food and entertainment.

The event will be an opportunity to showcase BU’s on-going research and engagements across Southeast Asia and to hear about the experiences of our students from those countries that make up the ASEAN region who are studying in Bournemouth as well as those who have travelled there as part of their degree.

Arrival is from 1pm in Kimmeridge House foyer for an informal networking lunch, with the formal programme of events getting underway from 2pm to 5pm. Attendance is free – simply book your ticket via Eventbrite.

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