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RKEDF: ECRN – ECR & PGR online drop-in surgery

Weds 23rd April, 13:00-14:00, online

Given the recent proposals shared with staff, we recognise that this is a time of uncertainty for many of us at BU. This is an open session for all BU ECRs and PGRs to discuss any issues relating to their career development or the ECR experience with peers in the network, and receive advice and guidance (where possible) from the network’s academic leads.

Book your place HERE

For further information on this event or joining the ECRN, please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk

Nepal Family Cohort Study dissemination event

international, open access, Publishing, writing

Colleagues working on our Nepal Family Cohort Study (NeFCoS) presented baseline data at a dissemination programme held today (March 28th) in Everest Hotel, Kathmandu.  Bournemouth University is a key partner in this unique long-term follow-up study in Nepal.  Our large international team is led by Dr. Om Kurmi, Associate Professor Research in the Centre for Healthcare and Communities at Coventry University.  The Bournemouth University (BU) team comprises Dr. Pramod Regmi (Principal Academic-International Health), Dr. Edwin van Teijlingen (Professor of Reproductive Health), Dr. Rebecca Neal (Principal Lecturer in Exercise Physiology) and Dr. Vanora Hundley (Professor of Midwifery).
The Nepal Family Cohort Study (NeFCoS) is a multidisciplinary cohort study into the prevalence, incidence, and determinants of various diseases from childhood to adulthood in children and their parents for over two decades.  NeFCoS is a longitudinal study which recently started collecting health and well-being data, and which will collect data repeatedly from the same individuals at certain intervals for years to come.
Today’s programme included a range of academics and policy-makers introducing aspects of the study and its preliminary findings.  Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen did a short presentation offering ‘Special Remarks on Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health’.  To date we have published one academic paper in an Open Access journal on the research protocol of this work [1].
Reference:
  1. Kurmi, O.P., Chaudhary, N., Delanerolle, G., Bolton, C.E., Pant, P.R., Regmi, P., Gautam, S., Satia, I., Simkhada, P., Kyrou, I., Sigdel, T.K., Hundley, V., Dali, P.R., Lokke, A., Hubert Lam, K.B., Bennett, D., Custovic, A., van Teijlingen, E., Gill, P. Randeva, H., O’Byrne, P.M., and Nepal Family Cohort Collaborators Group, Nepal Family Cohort Study: A Study Protocol, BMJ Open 14:e088896. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2024-088896

When is a ‘new’ paper no longer new?

BRIAN, open access, Publishing, writing

This week we had two new academic papers published online.  The first paper was an education one ‘PhD Progress and Transfer Vivas at Universities in the United Kingdom‘ [1] and the second focused on ‘Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Masters Level Students in the COVID-19 Pandemic‘ [2].  The first paper clearly states “Article History: Received: 10 Jan 2024; Revised: 17 Feb 2024; Accepted: 26 Feb 2024”, the online information for the second paper states: “Published 2024-12-31”, i.e. both are clearly identified as 2024 papers.

The problem for the authors is that both only appeared online this week.  For example, today (27th March 2025) Nepal Journals Online (NepJoL) reports the publication of the latest issue of Education Quarterly, Volume 5 Issue 1, the one in which we published, as 24th March (see picture below).  The reason this happens is because the journal editors experienced problems in the past year and did not manage to publish an issue in the calendar year, which makes the publication history look less professional.  To avoid having a year missing the most recently published issue is given an official 2024 publication date.

In a world full of problems the minor inconvenience of papers being backdated is twofold for academic authors.  First, we can not really announce the publication of a a new Bournemouth University paper since the dated stamped on it is last year’s.  Secondly, paper can’t be used for the REF as the acceptance date is also set in the past, for papers to be acceptable for inclusion in REF 2029 typically papers need to be made available on Open Access within three months after the acceptance date .

 

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health

 

 

References:

  1. van Teijlingen, A., Marmion, V., Harvey, O., Regmi, P., van Teijlingen, E. (2024) PhD Progress and Transfer Vivas at Universities in the United Kingdom, Journal of Education and Research, 14(1): 104-116, https://doi.org/10.51474/jer/16196
  2. Pasa, R.B., Khanal, K.P., Khatri, B.B., Adhikari, D., Kharel, S., Sharma, M.K., van Teijlingen, E.R. (2024). Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Masters Level Students on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Education Quarterly, 5(1): 53–72. https://doi.org/10.3126/jeqtu.v5i1.76745

New research evaluating a domestic abuse programme: A collaboration between BU & Yellow Door

A team at Bournemouth University have won funding to evaluate a holistic domestic abuse programme run by Yellow Door in Southampton, a domestic abuse charity. The Early Years Domestic Abuse Programme is run over a 10-week period for mothers/caregivers and their children (under 5 years) who have experienced domestic abuse. The interdisciplinary team at BU consists of Project Lead, Dr Jane Healy, Criminology, alongside colleagues in social work and psychology.

 

Chloe Gilbert, Head of Business Operations and Strategy at Yellow Door stated: “The course is run in 2 parts: the parents course covers the impact of domestic and sexual abuse, effective communication skills, working with challenging behaviour, developing protective behaviours and strategies for keeping mothers, children and young people safe. We then also run separate Thera-play sessions for the children delivered by a qualified Play Therapist. We are really looking forward to working with Bournemouth University to assess the impact of this important work”. 

 

Yellow Door extend their thanks to Rayne Foundation and Charles Hayward Foundation for their support. If you would like to find out more about the project which is running until 2027, please contact: Victoria at Yellow Door, at info@yellowdoor.org.uk.

Collaborative Decision Making

The other members of the research team have strong ties to this field of research having published widely in the areas of domestic abuse, gender-based violence and social work practice. They include Dr Terri Cole and Dr Orlanda Harvey, who will lead on work with professionals, and Dr Stefan Kleipoedszus and Dr Louise Oliver who will work with the children.  Dr Healy will work with the parents/carers, alongside Research Assistant Dr Anna Kopec Massey.

 

This research builds on previous work undertaken in collaboration with Yellow Door (Final Report for Yellow Door and Stop Domestic Abuse) and Harvey, Healy and Cole have previously evaluated domestic abuse services through a number of local and international projects (including: OSSPC “The Other Side of the Story : Perpetrators in Change “, Yellow Door and Stop Domestic Abuse) which have included interviews with adult victim-survivors and focus groups with professionals.

 

The evaluation will contribute substantially to understanding both the benefits and challenges to delivering an Early Years programme to adults and children. The evaluation will produce an evidence-base in relation to this specific programme, in the form of an open-access and accessible research report, published articles and conference presentations, and position it within wider national, international, practitioner and academic context. It will gather information from service users, including children, parent/carers, professionals and practitioners to provide an independent but holistic evaluation of the programme.

teamwork

Presenting Advances in Marking Medical Images at NLP Healthcare Summit 2025

international

📢 The NLP Heathcare Summit 2025 is nearly in a week. This year, I am looking forward to showcase advances that were made at Bournemouth University in Understanding Medical Concepts via LLM in Textual Series Narratives of Imaging Series ⚕️

In this talk we cover LLM evaluation concepts through the detailed overview of manual reporting directions in liver cancer imaging. We cover radiological imaging aspects that doctors tend to mention ✍️ and see how these aspects could be retrieved by LLM 🤖 by means of NLP and IR techniques. We provide recommendations on model scale choice and findings out of result analysis.

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.

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

BA ECRN South West & South Wales events

SWSW Webinar Series: How to Create and Deliver an Effective Presentation

Malcolm Love – Weds 2nd April, 1200-1330 Zoom

The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network (ECRN) – Southwest & South Wales (SWSW) invites ECRs across humanities and social sciences to its Webinar Series.

In this webinar Malcolm Love will talk about how to prepare and deliver highly effective presentations, including tips on presenting material and yourself: overcoming stage fright, storytelling, body language. This will be an interactive event.

Malcolm (https://malcolmlove.org/) is a former senior producer (programme maker) at the BBC. He is an independent producer, radio presenter, lecturer and public communication skills coach.  He specialises in public engagement skills and has more than 25 years’ experience in delivering skill building workshops and masterclasses around the world in over 40 countries.

REGISTER HERE

SWSW Connect: online connection and inspiration each month

Tuesday 15th April 1200 – 1300  Zoom

The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network (ECRN) – Southwest & South Wales (SWSW) invites ECRs across humanities and social sciences to a monthly ECR-driven online gathering where we get to know each other, exchange knowledge, support and inspiration. Meetings combine thematic content with time for networking and fostering new connections across the region.

REGISTER HERE

April’s topic:

Continuing the REACH Principles: What does Reach IN, Reach OUT, Reach BEYOND mean for us as individuals and as a Network?

How can we best use the ECRN for connecting with others (Reach Out) and using the supportive environment to extend skills (Reach Beyond)? We will discuss this together as a group and in smaller breakout groups which will allow time for connecting with each other.

For more information, email Linda Lanyon

Information about the BA ECR Network.

CWLTH Research Seminar & Centre Meeting

PG research, student research

The Centre for Wellbeing and Long-Term Health (CWLTH) will be hosting their next Research Seminar and Centre meeting at 11:00 on Tuesday 22nd April. PhD student Yagya Adhikari will be presenting their doctoral research exploring ‘Parental migration for work and psychosocial problems among left-behind adolescents in Nepal.‘ Click HERE to join this meeting on Teams. Contact CWLTH@bournemouth.ac.uk for more information about the Centre.

Early Labour App Interns attend NIHR Celebration Day

NIHR Undergraduate Interns Tom Lower and Kaisei Wieczorek Numao with their supervisor Dr. Dominique Mylod attended the Round 1 NIHR Undergraduate Intern Celebration at International Student House, Regent’s Park, London on 19th March 2025.
Tom and Kaisei are both BU Computer Animation students. Together with Year 3 midwifery student Carys Nash they have developed the User Interface and tracking systems on our Early Labour App during their internship. In line with the feedback that Carys has gathered from women and birth partners, the app provides education and strategies for families to navigate the latent phase (or ‘early labour’) at home before labour establishes and they transfer to a birth unit or Labour Ward. The app content has been developed from research through the BU Centre for Midwifery and Women’s Health and with the latest funding from the NIHR Undergraduate Internship programme. 
Tom presented on behalf of the group and we caused some excitement by showcasing the app on a mobile phone to the other attendees!

The Great British Medalists Project reaches 600 citations and 70,000 downloads

international, open accecss

Here at BU, in work led by Professor Tim Rees, we developed what Dr Simon Timson, Director of Performance for City Football Group, described as “the primary piece of empirical research that underpins talent identification, selection, confirmation, and development practice across Olympic, Paralympic and professional sport domains in the UK”. This work underpinned preparations for the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2021 Games, and still permeates talent development programmes worldwide today. The research underpinned one of UoA24’s Impact Case Studies for REF 2021: “The development of athletic talent: Driving policy change in national sporting organisations.”

The first article from this project, published OA in the prestigious Sports Medicine, just reached 600 Google Scholar citations, with over 70,000 downloads. If you’re interested in a whirlwind tour of all we know about athletic talent development—despite being published in 2016—this is still a reasonably comprehensive overview.

Alongside working with UK Sport, the nation’s high-performance sports agency, this was part of a wider collaboration with colleagues at Bangor University, University College London, University of Kaiserslautern, University of Queensland, and Queens University.

Reference.

Rees, T., Hardy, L., Güllich, A., Abernethy, B., Côté J., Woodman, T., Montgomery, H., Laing, S., & Warr, C. (2016). The Great British medalists project: A review of current knowledge into the development of the world’s best sporting talent. Sports Medicine, 46(8), 1041-1058. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-016-0476-2 OA Link

Reading about Positionality

international, open access, PG research, Publishing, Women's Academic Network, writing

This week ResearchGate informed us that the paper ‘The Importance of Positionality for Qualitative Researchers‘ by Bournemouth University M.Res. student Ms. Hannah Gurr has been read over 800 times.  The co-authors are Hannah’s supervisors Dr. Louise Oliver, Dr. Orlanda Harvey and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS), and one of Nepal’s foremost sociology of health and illness researchers Prof. Madhusudan Subedi. 

The paper is of particular interest for qualitative and mixed-methods researchers as these researchers are especially required to be critically reflective and explain to readers their positionality on their work. This account can be relatively straightforward, but there are occasions when this process of reflection and outlining one’s positionality is much more complicated. This method-paper explains this process. It outlines, using examples of different occasions and situations, where and why such complications may arise, for example, around values and personal experiences. It concludes with further practical advice on writing the section on positionality for novice social scientists.  The journal in which this methodological paper is published is Open Access and therefor freely available to read for anybody across the globe.

 

Reference:

  1. Gurr, H., Oliver, L., Harvey, O., Subedi, M., van Teijlingen, E. (2024) The Importance of Positionality for Qualitative Researchers, Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 18(1): 48-54,

New Social Work Education paper published

international, Publishing, writing

Congratulations to Dr. Alex Fry (Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Health & Illness) and Professor Emeritus Jonathan Parker who were part of a project researching the use of creative methodologies in pedagogy. Their latest paper ‘Using the arts in social work education for short-term European mobility: evaluating student experiences on an Erasmus+ blended intensive program‘ resulting from this work was published last month in the journal Social Work Education (a Routledge journal) [1].
Well done!
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen
Faculty of Health & Social Sciences
Reference:
  1. Frampton, M., Schiller, U., Parker, J.,  Hartogh, T., Arlinghaus, G.A., Fry, A.D.J., Autio, K., Ndhlovu, N. (2025): Using the arts in social work education for short-term European mobility: evaluating student experiences on an Erasmus+ blended intensive program, Social Work Education, DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2025.2466707  

NCCA Research: Ensuring the Quality of Autonomous Intelligent Systems through the Guide to Ethical Assessment of the Product

IEEE CertifAIEd Four Phases

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So far, I successfully complete IEEE Standards Association | IEEE SA training program 🎓, dedicated to guide Ethical Assessment and Product Improvement using the CertifAIEd framework.

The following Wednessday 26th of March 2025, as a part of NCCA Research Seminars, I am looking forward to briefly demostrate the potentials of earned skills in the following talk:

Title: Ensuring the Quality of Autonomous Intelligent Systems: A Guide to Ethical Assessment and Product Improvement using the IEEE CertifAIEd framework. 

Description: Many products employ Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) including: transportation (self-driving cars), manufacturing, retail / customer service, healthcare, finance, education (AI learning platforms). The use of a quality framework to manage the risks of AIS is crucial to protect users and grow product adoption. The standards association IEEE offers the ability to evaluate the quality of any AIS using an evaluation framework – CertifAIEd. Having recently completed the first stage of IEEE CertifAIEd training, I will present an overview of the potentials of CertifAIEd and the route to become an authorized assessor.

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

Research Connect Seminar: February & March 2025 Recap

PG research, Publishing

The Research Connect seminar series, organized by the Department of Marketing, Strategy, and Innovation at the Business School, continued successfully throughout February and March 2025. These sessions have provided an excellent platform for colleagues and PGR’s to showcase their research, share insights, and engage in thought-provoking discussions.

February 12 Session

We kicked off the February seminar with Prof. Jeff Bray, who presented his work on last year’s Watercress-funded project. He also shared valuable insights into navigating the funding application and review process this year. This was followed by Asim Batwa (second year PGR) who presented his research on Smart Digital Nudges: Enhancing Tourists’ Sustainable Transportation Decisions. His session, ahead of his major review, led to a engaging discussion on the role of digital interventions in sustainable travel behaviour.

March 12 Session

In March, Duncan Light presented his research recently published in Tourism Review on Selling Souvenirs and Lifestyle Entrepreneurship, offering key insights into this evolving market. The session concluded with a very interesting discussion on Quality vs. Quantity in Academic Publishing—a very timely topic for researchers striving to strike the right balance in their publication strategies.

You can read Duncan’s full paper: Light, D., Lupu, C., Creţan, R. and Chapman, A. (2024), “Unconventional entrepreneurs: the non-economic motives of souvenir sellers”, Tourism Review, Vol. 79 No. 8, pp. 1442-1456. https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-09-2023-0655

Join Us for the Next Research Connect Seminar!

Our next Research Connect session is scheduled for April 9, 2025, from 4:00–5:00 PM in F108. We will follow the same format: an academic presentation, followed by a PGR-led discussion. As always, we’ll continue the conversation informally at Dylan’s afterward.

Looking forward to seeing you there 😊