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Research Connect – MSI Monthly Research Seminar Series Launched

On 11th September 2024, department of Marketing, Strategy and Innovation (BUBS) launched the Research Connect Seminar Series, a monthly event aimed at providing a supportive space for academics and PGRs to share their research and receive constructive feedback. The series is designed to help PGRs build confidence in presenting their work while encouraging collaboration among researchers.

The one hour long seminar format includes two presentations—one by a staff member and one by a PGR—each followed by a discussion. In the first session, Tim Gale presented his research on tourism, and Mukeh Kenneth shared his study on disaster risk governance in Sierra Leone.

The series will continue in the academic year until May 2025, offering a great opportunity for MSI staff and PGRs to engage, present, and collaborate.

Making Research More Inclusive: An Invitation to Health and Social Care Researchers for a Collaborative Event on 7th October

Calling all health and social care researchers! Are you seeking ways to design more inclusive research opportunities? You are invited to join us for our next stakeholder event on Monday 7th October, where we are collaborating with community groups and people who are homeless and vulnerably housed to design inclusive ways of involving people who do not typically engage in research.

Purpose: The aim of the I am more than…. project has been to create inclusive, shared spaces for people from the homeless community (people who are homeless or vulnerably housed, as well as the staff and volunteers who support them) to share with health and social care researchers and colleagues what having a voice and being involved in research means to them. This allows us to come together to understand the barriers and enablers to participation and to co-create inclusive opportunities in health and social care research.

This event will share updates on the learning so far and be used to co-design a sustainable model for researchers to harness the expertise of people with lived experience of homelessness and being vulnerably housed. Together, we will explore how to develop research collaborations with voluntary and community sector organisations.

Tickets are available via the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rend-2-research-engagement-with-people-who-have-experienced-homelessness-tickets-993657615677

Events taking place as part of UK National Postdoc Appreciation Week

Postdoc Appreciation Week logoUK Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) is an annual nationwide event celebrating the contribution postdocs make to research and academic life.

This year, Postdoc Appreciation Week runs from Monday 16 September to Friday 20 September with free events taking place to connect and support researchers.

The PAW flagship event this year, Into the Postdoc-verse: building relationships across dimensions, will explore how to authentically network and build long-lasting relationships across disciplines/sectors. This will include live networking sessions to practice and build connections right away as well as a keynote talk by Dr Steve Cross, founder of Bright Club.

The event takes place 10am – 12.15pm, Monday 16th September.  Register here: https://event-lab.co.uk/paw/

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of PAW,  free online 1-2-1 careers sessions are also available on Tuesday 17th September for those who do no have institutional support for careers/CV clinic. Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/UKNPAWcareers

Find out more about UK Postdoc Appreciation Week on the PAW website. 

Congratulations to BU Visiting Faculty Dr Ans Luyben

international, Publishing, writing

Congratulations to Dr. Ans Luyben on the publication of her latest midwifery article ‘How to promote midwives’ recognition and professional autonomy? A document analysis study’ [1]. This latest paper will appear in the forthcoming November issue of the international scientific journal Midwifery, published by Elsevier. 

The paper identified challenges in Belgian midwives’ recognition and professional autonomy and provided recommendations to address them, emphasizing the importance of recognized authority in midwifery. Implementing these recommendations can positively impact midwives’ recognition and autonomy in Belgium as well as in other countries.  Ans has long been affiliated with the Centre of Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH) as Visiting Faculty and she works in the Frauenzentrum (Centre for Women’s Health), Lindenhofgruppe, Bern, Switzerland.

Well done!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

 

 

Reference:

  1. Vermeulen, J., Buyl, R., Luyben, A., Fleming, V., Tency, I., Fobelets, M. (2024) How to promote midwives’ recognition and professional autonomy? A document analysis study Midwifery, 138: 104138.  

Paper with a difference

international, open access, Publishing, writing

Last night ResearchGate informed us that our paper ‘Understanding health education, health promotion and public health‘ had reached 6,000 reads [1].  This reflective paper in an Open Access journal tries to bring a little more clarity in the confusion around the difference between the concepts of health education, health promotion and public health. We argue that such confusion does not limit itself to the individual terms but also to how these terms relate to each other. Some authors and public health practitioners use terms such as health education and health promotion interchangeably; others see them clearly as different concepts.

In this theoretical overview paper, we have first of all outlined our understanding of these individual terms. We suggest how the five principles of health promotion as outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO) fit into Andrew Tannahill’s model from 2009 [2] of three overlapping areas: (a) health education; (b) prevention of ill health; and (c) health protection. Our schematic overview places health education within health promotion and health promotion itself in the center of the overarching disciplines of education and public health. We hope our representation helps reduce confusion among all those interested in our discipline, including students, educators, journalists, practitioners, policymakers, politicians, and researchers.

The paper is co-authored by a primary school teacher based in Dorset, and four professors who have a combined experience in the wider public health field of over a century.

 

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health

 

References:

  1. van Teijlingen, K., Devkota, B., Douglas, F., Simkhada, P., van Teijlingen, E. (2021) Understanding health education, health promotion and public health, Journal of Health Promotion 9(1):1-7.
  2. Tannahill, A. (2009). Health promotion: The Tannahill model revisited. Public Health, 123(5),396-399. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2008.05.021

Presenting Studies on LLMs Reasoning Capabilities in Sentiment Analysis of Mass-Media texts at NLPSummit-2024

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As a part of reseach studies in Natural Langauge Processing (NLP) field, this year I am delighted to present the most recent advances of Generative AI in it at NLPSummit-2024. The 5’th summit represents a free online conference September 24-26, hosted by JohnSnowLabs. The conference is dedicated to showcase the best practices, real-world case studies and challanges in Generative AI for Natural Language Processing.

By joining to my talk you become aware of how Large Language Models (LLMs) could be applied for retrieving implicit information from non-structured texts. Sentiment Analysis represent one of such problems, and as a task aimed at extraction of the hidden opinion of the author towards objects mentioned in text. We start by discovering reasoning capabilities of the most popular Large Language Models (ChatGPT, Mistral, Gemma, Microsoft-Phi, and more) out-of-the-box to show their limitations in retrieving authors opinion from Mass-media texts. To address the existed limitations in models reasoning capabilities 🧠 , we cover Chain-of-Thought technique and explore the way of its proper adaptiation in Sentiment Analysis. It is worth to note that the techniques, to be covered, could be distributed and adapted in the other domains that go beyond Mass-media. Such domains include but are not limited to: medical (adverse drug reaction), literature (fictional chatbot development), conversational (emotion extaction / empathy mapping).

These advances were achieved while at Centre for Applied Creative Technologies CfACTs+ by working on “Marking Medical Image Reports Automatically with Natural Language Processing (NLP-MMI)” project.

The keylinks realted to the event and presentation in particular, are as follows:

📍 Event page: https://www.nlpsummit.org/nlp-summit-2024/
⏰ When: 24-26 September 2024 (Online)
⭐ Project: https://github.com/nicolay-r/Reasoning-for-Sentiment-Analysis-Framework

Dr. Nicolay Rusnachenko
Research Fellow at Centre For Applied Creative Technologies PLUS (CFACT+)
Bournemouth University

RKEDF: Early Career Researcher Network – Introduction/New to BU

Training

RKEDF: Early Career Researcher Network – Introduction/New to BU

Weds 2nd Oct 14:00-15:00, Talbot Campus

 

This session is facilitated by BU Professors and ECRN conveners.  It is an open introduction to working, researching and thriving at BU where you will learn about key contacts and services, how to manage the expectations of your role, and share advice on developing your skills as an early career researcher.

It is open to all who identify as being in the early stages of their research career – whether a Postgraduate Researcher, newly-appointed academic, or returning to research.

Book your place here

If you are not already a member of the Early Career Researcher Network (ECRN) but would like to be, or if you have any questions, please contact: RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk.

 

BRIAN drop-in surgery – Talbot Campus

BRIAN

BRIAN drop-in surgery

Date: September 18th

Time: 10:00-12:00

Location: F203, Talbot Campus

 

Come along to this 2-hour drop in surgery if you have any questions or issues relating to BRIAN, or if you need a refresher on how to update your profile.

No booking is required, just come along with your laptop and questions!

Open and Engaged Conference at the British Library

open access

International Open Access week will take place this year on October 21 – 27, 2024. Open Access week is a global initiative which offers an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

As part of the week, on 21 October 2024, the British Library will host a one-day conference, Open and Engaged 2024: Empowering Communities to Thrive in Open Scholarship.

This hybrid event will take place at the British Library’s Knowledge Centre in London, St. Pancras and will be streamed online for those unable to attend in-person.

More about the conference including the full programme and a link to the registration form are available at https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/08/open-engaged-2024.html

If you have any questions, please contact the British Library directly at openaccess@bl.uk.

Women and Leadership in the Creative Industries: An Inter-disciplinary Symposium

Bournemouth University will host Women and Leadership in the Creative Industries: An Inter-disciplinary Symposium next week at the  Executive Business Centre on the Lansdowne Campus (12-13 September) with an online pre-symposium on 10th.

This symposium will address women’s leadership in the creative industries, taking into account the very broad definition of the term in an industrial ecosystem characterised by its dependence on freelance workers and micro-businesses alongside more traditional institutions. Its scope will encompass routes into leadership and associated barriers as well as concepts of creative entrepreneurial, as well as institutional leadership.

It brings together contributions from a range of disciplines including music, theatre, dance, media industries, gender studies and business and management studies. It is our hope that by sharing diverse perspectives on women and leadership in the creative industries, participants will make new discoveries, form new, inter-disciplinary alliances and open up this under-explored topic to a wider audience – including stakeholders in the industries themselves.

BU students and staff are welcome to drop in on the keynotes and panels – no need to register, but please participate on a self-catering basis. You can find the programme, together with abstracts, biographies and the log in details for the online component, on our website. 

 

UKRI cross research council responsive mode pilot scheme- EOI

UKRI have announced round 2 of the cross research council responsive mode pilot scheme, deadline for applications is 19th November. Due to the high demand from round 1, institutional caps have been introduced. BU can submit a maximum of 5 applications so we will be running an internal selection process. The expression of interest form should be submitted by Friday 27th September.

The award is between £200,000 and £1.2 million for 2 years. The scheme aims to fund projects that “support interdisciplinary ideas emerging from the research community outside current disciplinary boundaries” and it will not fund projects where there is a clear research council responsive mode scheme.

Please email kpercival@bournemouth.ac.uk if you wish to submit an EOI.

The arts and humanities need you! Join the AHRC Advisory Board- Closing date 12 September 2024

 

 

 

AHRC, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is excited to invite applications from across the arts and humanities communities, representing different career stages, sectors, and disciplines, to join their Advisory Board.

Supporting AHRC’s vision

As an expert support and advisory body, the Advisory Board’s pragmatic advice reflects both the arts and humanities research communities’ perspectives and the needs and challenges facing arts and humanities research, innovation and practice. It supports the development of strategic partnerships that facilitates the delivery of AHRC’s vision and balances the strategic needs of both our research community and AHRC’s position as a strategic funder.

As a member of AHRC’s Advisory Board, you will also be committed to championing the work of AHRC across the wider research community, building connections and being adaptable. You will value a diversity of opinion across board members and staff and challenge us to ensure the shape of our portfolio delivers maximum return on investment.

Key areas of advice

Over the past two years, AHRC have worked closely with their Advisory Board and benefited from their key contributions in several key areas of work, for example:

  • in the development of our future doctoral provision
  • in establishing and enacting our equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) action plan
  • in the transformation of our responsive mode grants schemes

Closing date for applications: 12 September 2024

Please do reach out to AHRC directly, or get in touch with RDS if you would like to discuss the opportunity further.

Email: governance@ahrc.ukri.org

Apply now: AHRC Advisory Board: member vacancies.