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Fair Access Research project (FAR) webpages are launched

Centre for Excellence in Learning, Fusion, Student Engagement, student research

The FAR project webpages have now been published.

BU’s pioneering Fair Access Research project has brought together students, SUBU, professional, service and academic staff from across the university to develop and expand expertise and reflexive practice in the field of fair access to higher education.

Each member of the team has brought different knowledge and experiences to a series of innovative research projects exploring what it means to be a ‘non-traditional’ student in the 21st century. FAR has inspired new ways of thinking about fair access and widening participation through this ‘whole institution approach’,

The team has explored all the different stages in the student lifecycle developing an understanding of the challenges some students face in accessing or succeeding at university, how university is experienced by diverse groups of students and how the university can support them in the optimum way when they are here.

Explore the five themes of the FAR programme on the webpages at https://research.bournemouth.ac.uk/project/fair-access-research-and-practice-far/

 

Outreach

Admissions

Experience 

Continuation 

Ways of Working

 

 

Contact principal investigators Dr Vanessa Heaslip or Dr Clive Hunt for further information

Second H2020 ERASMUS PLUS success for ADRC and CGMTR team

The Ageing and Dementia Research Centre (ADRC) and the Centre for Games and Music Technology Research (CGMTR) have been successful in their second H2020 ERASMUS PLUS funding application.

The project, led by Dr Ben Hicks from Psychology and supported by Professors Wen Tang (CGMTR) and Jan Wiener (Psychology), aims to work in collaboration with European partners to develop an online training toolkit that promotes the use of Assistive Technology for people with dementia and their care partners. In addition to this, it will also explore the use of VR technology as a tool for educating the public on dementia awareness. The project will begin in September 2017 and run for two years. This work follows closely on from their first ERASMUS project (awarded in September 2016 and on-going until August 2018), which sought to develop an e-training package for the use of Serious Games amongst people with dementia and their care partners.

The quick-fire successes for the project team demonstrates the growing interest across Europe in the use of technology as a means to enhance Quality of Life and well-being in people with dementia. As technology evolves, and awareness increases amongst researchers and practitioners of the benefits it can have for this population, it is likely that this field will expand at a rapid rate. Hopefully the ADRC and the CGMTR, with their growing expertise in this area, will be well positioned to take full advantage of this in the future!

For further details of the projects please contact Ben Hicks: bhicks@bournemouth.ac.uk

HSS Research Priority Areas

Research themes

Following a process of consultation the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences has identified three research priority areas that will guide our research investment for 2017-18. The research entities (centres and clusters) listed below sit within these areas. You can read more about each research entity and its members by clicking on the link.

 

Long term health challenges

 

Marginalised voices

 

Clinical Research

 

National Centre for Post Qualifying Social Work (NCPQSW) – Centre Membership

HSS Our 9 Research Entities

NCPQSW specialises in providing high quality education, continuing professional development (CPD) and training for professionals within Health and Social Care. Post qualifying social work education is centred on a commitment, passion and dedication to develop professional practice, the enhancement of which is crucially focused on challenge and creative resolve, encompassing sound professional values, reasoning and judgement.

The centre currently works in partnership with over one third of local authorities in England. The flexible delivery model means we come to you to deliver education and training designed to make a positive contribution to practice.

https://research.bournemouth.ac.uk/centre/national-centre-for-post-qualifying-social/

 

Current Membership

Keith Brown (Head), Lee-Ann Fenge (Deputy), Jennifer Bigmore, Richard Field, Melanie Forsyth-Smith, Jane Holroyd, Katherine Hewe, Michael Lynne, Joanne Parker, Lynne Rutter,  Sarah Williams, Sally Lee.

 

 

 

Seldom Heard Voices Membership

HSS Our 9 Research Entities

Seldom Heard Voices: marginalisation and societal integration’ brings together a range of existing academics across Social Sciences and Social Work, both early career researchers keen to be mentored and established researchers. A key aspiration is to collaborate, develop and share networks for joint research activities and funding bids to achieve a critical mass of high quality Social Science focussed research within the faculty that will underpin a credible REF submission. This area includes both qualitative and quantitative methods to engage with marginalised communities and often excluded or silenced voices, particularly through user-led and participatory co-created research.
Current Membership

Dr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Prof. Lee-Ann Fenge, Dr Mel Hughes, Prof. Sara Ashencaen Crabtree, Jenny Bigmore, Prof. Keith Brown, Dr Sid Carter, Wendy Cutts, Dr Jill Davey, Dr Richard Heslop, Dr Maggie Hutchings, Dr Steve Keen, Stefan Kleipoedzsus, Dr Sally Lee, Dr Hyun-Joo Lim, Prof. Jonathan Parker , Prof. Colin Pritchard, Dr Rosie Read, Emily Rosenorn-Lanng, Dr Lynn Rutter, Richard Williams.

 

Orthopaedic Research Institute (ORI) Membership

HSS Our 9 Research Entities

The Orthopaedic Research Institute (ORI) works across the university and with hospitals, industry partners and academia to produce high quality research and educational outputs that have a proven impact for patients, clinicians and society.

https://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/ori/

Current Membership

Robert Middleton, Tom Wainwright, Tikki Immins, Shay Bahadori, Louise Burgess.

Link to people page on our website – https://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/ori/about-ori/people/

Nursing Research Cluster Membership

HSS Our 9 Research Entities

The Nursing Research Cluster came into being in May 2016 and following some scoping of members’ expertise and areas of interest in the context of contemporary nursing and health care, our focus from autumn 2017 will concern Nursing and long-term health challenges.  The cluster brings together academics with passion, expertise and reputation in nurse education and research for impact on patient benefit and the preparation of a resilient workforce to support healthy communities.  It is led by a core group of very experienced researchers with high level collaborations nationally and internationally.  It will support and build the reputation of nursing research at Bournemouth University and enable many more staff to achieve a fused portfolio of activity for Ref 2021.

Managing people with long-term conditions is a significant challenge for the UK and global health community.  As the largest professional group in health care, nursing has a major role to play.  Colleagues at BU have been researching leadership, workforce development and value-based nurse education, as well as issues pertaining to long-term conditions such as cancer and chronic obstructive airway disease (COPD).  The aim is to bring these three strands together to form a synergy to establish a clear framework for research activity that supports the development of a nursing workforce capable of meeting the challenges of changing patterns of health need in the coming decades.

Moving forward cluster members will develop and lead distinct research themes to provide a clear framework for nursing research at BU.  The potential for collaborative activity with FHSS research groups is clearly evident and to be encouraged. However the unique focus of this group is the nursing contribution towards healthy communities, particularly for those living with long-term conditions.

Members

Sue Baron; Emma Bockle; Teresa Burdett; Ian Donaldson; Katherine Curtis; Sarah Eales; Helen Farasat; Martin Hind; Janet James; Eleanor Jack; Anneyce Knight; Andy Mercer; Sam Porter; Elizabeth Rosser; Janet Scammell; Lucy Stainer; Desiree Tait; Stephen Tee; Sharon Waight

PGRs

Petra Brown; Sonya Chelvanayagam; Karen Cooper; Nikki Glendening; Sue Melling; Jill Phillips; Ashley Spriggs

Associate members

Michele Board; Jonny Branney; Lisa Gale-Andrewes, Vanessa Heaslip; Peter Thomas; Andy Powell; Sara White

External members (associates)

Debbie Streeter (DHC)

iWell Membership

HSS Our 9 Research Entities

The Integrative Wellbeing research group (iWell) has its ancestry in a previous Research Centre, viz., the Centre of Wellbeing & Quality of Life. The legacy of this centre is a wealth of expertise that can be brought to bear on several key domains of health-related wellbeing, including the development of public health innovations. Furthermore, recent appointments have strengthened the Faculty’s research expertise in areas that are known to influence wellbeing at a fundamental level, such as physical activity and nutrition.

Our inter-disciplinary, and cross-faculty team will undertake research to improve public health and wellbeing at population, community and individual citizen levels. A particular focus has been, and will continue to be, upon low income, disadvantaged and/or marginalised groups. Furthermore, members are committed to the INVOLVE principles for the co-production of research questions with service users.

Current Membership

Alison McConnell (Head), Carol Clark, Clare Killingback, Jon Williams, Jonny Branney, Jo Thurston, Osman Ahmed, Sarah Collard, Gill Glasgow, Steve Trenoweth, Andrea Lacey, Debbie Neal, Ann Hemingway, Angela Turner-Wilson, Anne Mills, Anneyce Knight, Adele Ladkin (FOM), Sheila Brooks, Karen Rees, Liz Norton, Sid Carter, Heather Hartwell (HSS & FOM), Holly Crossen-White, Katherine Appleton (FST), Sam Crowe (visiting fellow), David Phillips (visiting prof)

 Associate Members

Jane Murphy, Fotini Tsofliou, Joanne Holmes, Michelle Heward, Sharon Docherty, Sue Baron, Swarjit Sarkar, Sara Crabtree, Petra Brown, Sara White, Bernadette Waters.

PGRs

Sarah Pyke, Stacy Wall, Alice Ladur, Elizabeth Waithaka, Folashade Alloh, Pippa Hillen.

 

 

Centre for Qualitative Research – Centre Membership

HSS Our 9 Research Entities

The Centre for Qualitative Research (CQR) is is part of The Faculty of Health & Social Sciences. CQR is an internationally recognised resource for knowledge transfer activities and for the alignment of teaching and qualitative research.

The Centre in Qualitative Research acknowledges a history of achievements and expertise which serves as a focus for emerging developments in: Humanising Health and Social Care;  Performative Social Science and Arts-based Research;  Narrative and Biographic Research; and  Novel and Innovative Research including auto-ethnography, poetic inquiry, fiction, creative use of media including Research as Film.

Website: https://research.bournemouth.ac.uk/centre/centre-for-qualitative-research/

Twitter: @BUQualitative

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/54608373386/

 

Current Membership

Kip Jones (Director), Anne Quinney, Carol Bond, Carol Pound, Caroline Ellis-Hill (Deputy Director), Judith Chapman, Immy Holloway, Sarah Collard, Michele Board, Sheila Brooks, Catherine Hennessey (Visiting Prof), Karen Rees, Jennifer Roddis, Karen Cooper, Maria (Camila) Devis-Rozental, Wendy Cutts.

Associate Members

Lorraine Brown, Jenny Hall, Trevor Hearing (Media), Lee-Ann Fenge, Jacqueline Priego, Clare Cutler, Jen Leamon, Janet Scammell, Jonathan Parker, Jane Fry, Nikki Glendening, Vanessa Heaslip, Mark Readman (Media), Sara Crabtree, Ben Hicks, Maggie Hutchings, Andy Mercer, Jill Phillips, Lynn Rutter, Carly Stewart, Emma Kavanagh.

Post Grad Affiliates

Clare Gordon, Peter Wolfensberger, Kathleen Vandenberghe, Louise Oliver, Karen Cooper, Elizabeth Gauntlett, Mevalyn Cross, Camila Devis-Rozental, Sally Lee, Manaya Podee, Paul Leal

 

 

Ageing & Dementia Research Centre (ADRC) – Centre Membership

HSS Our 9 Research Entities

The ADRC is the only cross faculty centre at BU that brings together expertise in the areas of ageing and dementia. The aim of ADRC is to use the team’s collective expertise to develop person-centred research which will improve the lives of older people with long-term conditions including dementia and their families.  The research falls under three broad categories – developing ageing & dementia friendly environments, nutrition & wellbeing and activity & social inclusion. The ADRC is led by Professor Jane Murphy and Professor Jan Wiener, supported by staff and students from the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science & Technology.

https://research.bournemouth.ac.uk/centre/ageing-dementia-research-centre/

Current ADRC Membership:-

Jane Murphy (Head), Jan Wiener (Joint Head – Sci-tech), Michele Board, Michelle Heward, Joanne Holmes, Juliet Wiseman, Mike Bracher, Swrajit Sarkar, Ashley Spriggs, Ben Hicks (Sci-tech), Ramona Grzeschik (Sci-tech), Samuel Nyman (Sci-tech), Denise Carroll (Sci-tech).

Associate Members

Janet Scammell, Shanti Shanker (Sci-tech), Steven Trenoweth, Wendy Cutts, Vanessa Heaslip, Christos Gatzidis (Sci-tech).

PGRs

Mananya Podee, Natalia Adamczewska, Yolanda Barrado-Martin, Iram Bibi, Sophie Bushell, Mary O’Malley, Mary Duah-Owusu White, Christopher Hilton.

BUCRU – Centre Membership

HSS Our 9 Research Entities

“BUCRU aims to design, conduct and manage high quality, funded, health-related randomised controlled trials and other well-designed studies within HSS, across University Faculties, with researchers in National Health Service (NHS) Trusts and with national and international collaborators.

It does this by:

  1. Supporting researchers in improving the quality, quantity and efficiency of research across Bournemouth University and local NHS Trusts.
  2. Incorporating the Dorset office of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Design Service (RDS) to support the methodological development of high quality research grant applications.
  3. Offering methodological and statistical collaboration for health related research, particularly research of relevance to the NHS and public health.
  4. Conducting high quality nationally and internationally recognised research in complex interventions (including digital health) and long term conditions. “

Current Membership

Peter Thomas (Head), Tamas Hickish (Head), Sarah Thomas (Deputy), Helen Allen, Sharon Docherty, Vanessa Heaslip, Roger Baker (Visiting Professor), Andy Powell, Louise Ward (administrator).

Associate Members

Samuel Nyman (Sci-tech).

 

Centre for Midwifery, Maternal and Perinatal Health (CMMPH) – Centre Membership

HSS Our 9 Research Entities

CMMPH focuses on research in midwifery, maternal and perinatal care. Academic researchers associated with the group employ a wide spectrum of research approaches, ranging from qualitative to quantitative research and from mixed-methods studies to systematic reviews. They also cover a range of different topics, with studies undertaken locally in Dorset and the South of England, nationally across the UK, and internationally as far afield as Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan and the USA. We currently have 21 doctoral students working on a wide variety of projects both local and international.

Research focuses on the following broad areas

  • Improving maternal outcomes in low and middle income countries
  • Early labour
  • Maternal health and the media
  • Breastfeeding
  • Midwifery professional and maternal education
  • Other clinical studies

https://research.bournemouth.ac.uk/centre/centre-for-midwifery-maternal-and-perinatal-health/

Current Membership

Edwin van Teijlingen (Head), Sue Way (Deputy), Catherine Angell, Luisa Cescutti-Butler, Simon Dyall, Sarah Emberley, Jane Fry, Vanora Hundley, Denyse King, Jen Leamon, Lesley Milne, Sara Stride, Alison Taylor, Gail Thomas, Fotini Tsofliou, Carol Wilkins, Pramod Regmi, Wendy Marsh, Juliet Wood.

Associate Members

Ann Luce, Andrew Mayers (Sci-tech), Jenny Hall.

PGRs

Dana Colbourne, Rebecca Cousins, Liz Davey, Hannah Haydock, Debbee Houghton, Rie Inomata, Michelle Iriving, Alice Ladur, Preeti Mahato, Susan Mant, Amy Miller, Dominique Mylod, Isabell Nessell, Stella Rawnson, Layla Toomer, Daisy Wiggins, Donna Wixted.

Visiting Faculty

Jo Alexander, Debra Bick, Sheena Byrom, Suzanne Cunningham, Jillian Ireland, Minesh Khashu, Gwyneth Lewis, Paul Lewis, Ans Luyben, Wendy Marsh, Zoe Matthews, Emma Pitchforth, Samridhi Pradhan, Kath Ryan, Brijesh Sathian, Rob Sawdy, Bibha Simkhada, Padam Simkhada, Mandy Forrester.

ECAH Conference 11th-12th July in Brighton. Theme: ‘History, Story, Narrative”

I attended the European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH), July 11th -12th 2017 held in Brighton. With the conference theme being “History, Story, Narrative”, the aim of the conference was exploring how best to write history, while we were spectators to the process of history, often, while being intimately situated within its impact and formations. Who gets to tell history if the issue is colonialism or class? How does geography, the power of place, intersect with history? What is the status of the personal story or narrative within the larger frame of events?
My presentation explored the use of narrative from qualitative research using multi-layered archival data and the need for liberatory narratives when the voices of people are silent in the paperwork. This is an original archival early narrative of Anna, an enslaved mulatto girl who lived in the eighteenth century and the extraordinary turn of events in which her life transformed from slavery to wealth. Within this period of sociohistory, black and mixed-heritage people were both enslaved and considered property or free with minimal rights and privileges. The power of wealth intersects with slavery, family, freedom, and mortality. The social sciences explore humanity and its relationship to the environment in which humans live, thus bringing into this narrative the anthropology and development of Caribbean British Jamaican society. The presentation focused on the life and relationships of eighteenth-century Jamaican-born Anna PW and her British colonial community. Her remarkable story, as an analytical case study, highlights a developed narrative embedded in her “lived experience”, however, her voice is absent from the paperwork. In the paper, I argued that narrative analysis represents an explorative method of unpicking and understanding those experiences, thus providing socio-moral education and the need for a liberatory narrative to give Anna a voice in those ‘lived experiences’. A liberatory narrative according to bell hooks (2002), engages the personal and the emotional as it depicts the history of slavery and reminds us of how little we know … particularly if all we know are the facts … “. In Anna’s case, all we have are the facts.
Anna’s story takes us from her enslaved birth in 1745 Jamaica, to her manumission by her white father who bequeathed her a substantial amount of property in Jamaica, Britain, and the USA. The narrative explores the legal lengths Anna’s father went to ensure her protection from a patriarchal, racist society including, the involvement of King George III and the Archbishop of Canterbury, all to ensure her wealth was secure when she married and had children. In addition, Anna’s uncle Robert, also bequeathed her his Jamaican properties making her possibly the richest black woman of her time.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the International Academic Forum (iafor) for choosing me to present this paper, the BU Doctoral College, Santander for the award and the fantastic support I receive from my supervisors; professors Sara Ashencaen Crabtree, Jonathan Parker and Dr Hyun Joo Lim. Much respect to you all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melsia (left) with the UWI Trinidad & Tobago delegates

Photo of the Week: Tiddles- the playful data analyst!

Tiddles- the playful data analyst!

Tiddles- the playful data analyst!

Our next instalment of the ‘Photo of the Week’ series features Andrea Lacey‘s image of her cat Tiddles playing in her data transcripts.  The series is a weekly instalment which features an image taken by our fantastic BU staff and students. The photos give a glimpse into some of the fascinating work our researchers have been doing across BU and the wider community.

Andrea explains more about her research and the background behind the image.

“I’m exploring the experience of mental health student nurses first practice placement,”

“I conducted focus groups to find out what students expect to get out of their placement. I recently started analysing the data and cut up sections of the transcript. I had just placed some possible sections together when Tiddles decided to join me. Tiddles is a rescue cat who until then had never shown any interest in play. These pieces of paper were too much for her and she wouldn’t leave them alone! The more fun she was having, the more her tail was swishing! I removed her countless times yet each time she came back and rearranged my carefully placed groupings. The impact here is two-fold- Tiddles does likes play and you can never predict the frustrations involved in research!” says Andrea.

If you’d like find out more about the research or the photo itself then please contact Andrea.

This photo was originally an entry in the 2017 Research Photography Competition. If you have any other questions about the Photo of the Week series or the competition please email research@bournemouth.ac.uk

Research Staff Association coffee morning 26.07.17

The next BU Research Staff Association coffee morning will take place this Wednesday.

This is the last coffee morning for this academic year so please take the opportunity to come along to network with other researchers and share your thoughts on this years themes and what you would find useful for next year.

  • Date: 26 July 2017
  • Time: 10-11am
  • Venue: Global Hub, DG68, Talbot Campus.

We look forward to seeing you there.

BU Research Staff Association