BU’s keywords for research – is everything included? Part 2

Guidance

A couple of weeks ago I added version 3 of the BU research ontology to the blog and asked for your advice as to whether this adequately reflected the breadth of your disciplines and expertise (see BU’s keywords for research – is everything included?). Thank you to everyone who responded to this – all of your comments and suggestions have been incorporated into version 4.

Rather than using the rigid 3-level structure, Version 4 includes the first attempt of mapping the keywords to the four broad areas of:

  • Business & Management
  • Media & Culture
  • Health & Society
  • Science & Technology

These areas will then map to the 8 emerging BU research themes. The aim of this is to provide a more flexible ontology that is adaptable to the complexities of inter- and multi-disciplinary research and that can be used to make relationships between people and disciplines (and therefore news stories, projects, outputs, etc) internally and also via the new external research webpages.

You can access Version 4 here: Research ontology v4

We’re very interested in your feedback as to whether the mapping in Version 4 is fit for purpose or whether any changes need to be made. Please add your comments to this post by Friday 2 September 🙂

Thanks to Katarzyna Musial for her help in visualising how this could work.

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6 Responses to “BU’s keywords for research – is everything included? Part 2”

  1. Darren Lilleker

    We have ‘Political Organisation’ and ‘Political Science’ but no ‘Political Communication’ which would actually describe one hub of research better. There also seems to be a gap around firstly media (Journalism, Media production), creative industries (Advertising) and also new media. Not sure how exhaustive we would want to be but offer these as additions or suggestions for changes.

    • Julie Northam

      Hi Darren,
      Thanks for your comments. We have included ‘political communication’ in V4 – it’s on row 203. All of the media terms you mention and other appear in rows 152-176. Do these cover everything required?
      Thanks
      Julie

  2. Jacqui Taylor

    Please can you amend:
    Psychology of e-learning – pls also add a cross in 4th column Human-computer interaction – pls also add a cross in 2nd column
    Cyberpsychology – pls also add a cross in 2nd column
    Thanks, Jacqui

    • Julie Northam

      Thanks, Jacqui. I’ve made these amendments to V4.
      Thanks
      Julie

  3. Kirsty

    Hi

    In the health and social care section thanks for adding in the subjects I asked for. Physiology has been added but not Physiotherapy. I wondered if this was substituted by accident.

    Thanks