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11 May 2015

Fear in childbirth: is the media responsible?

Join us to celebrate the breadth and excellence of Bournemouth University’s research as part of Interdisciplinary Research Week this May. This is an opportunity to spark new collaborations and ideas among our diverse research community.

This year we have a week long programme of lectures, demonstrations, discussions and a film, which will showcase the fantastic research which is being undertaken at the university.

This is the tenth in a series of blog posts which will highlight the events you can join throughout the week. The tenth event of the programme will take place on Friday 15^th May, Professor Vanora Hundley, Dr Ann Luce & Professor Edwin van Teijlingen will discuss if fear is increasingly cited as a reason for rising rates of intervention in childbirth, with women allegedly opting for operative birth to avoid going through labour. Explanatory factors are said to include previous negative birth experiences, but increasingly the way that childbirth is portrayed by the media is suggested to be having a significant effect on women’s perceptions and raising anxiety with regard to the birth process. This lecture reports the findings from interdisciplinary research exploring the impact of the mass media on women’s views of childbirth.

This event will take place on Talbot Campus in KG03 from 2.00pm-4.00pm, with refreshments available from 4.00pm. You can book your place by clicking here.

11 May 2015

Building defensible invisible castles

Public engagement gibsonh

Join us to celebrate the breadth and excellence of Bournemouth University’s research as part of Interdisciplinary Research Week this May. This is an opportunity to spark new collaborations and ideas among our diverse research community.

This year we have a week long programme of lectures, demonstrations, discussions and a film, which will showcase the fantastic research which is being undertaken at the university.

This is the ninth in a series of blog posts which will highlight the events you can join throughout the week. The ninth event of the programme will take place on Friday 15^th May, Dr Shamal Faily will discuss if Software is invisible, and so pervasive that we place our trust in software without caring too much about how warranted that trust is. Unfortunately, designing secure software is hard, and the media is filled with stories about what happens when software fails to meet our [albeit implicit] security and privacy expectations. In this talk, I will describe how adopting disciplinary perspectives beyond computer science can help build software that is both secure and useful.

This event will take place on Talbot Campus in KG03 from 12.30pm-1.30pm, with lunch available from 12.00pm. You can book your place by clicking here .

11 May 2015

HSS Sharing Research Experiences day 18 May 2015

Lisa Andrews

You are invited to a day of sharing research experiences from staff across HSS. Sessions will consist of 20 mins presentation about an individual’s experiences of a particular funder, followed by 20 mins for questions and discussion. An opportunity to share your research ideas with colleagues from HSS and RKEO, and receive feedback, will be provided over lunch.

The day starts at 9am in EB206. Please find the timetable of the day here. This is a drop in day – there is no need for people to commit to the whole day.

Speakers include:

Ann Hemingway – EU funding
Zoe Sheppard – Case studying the submission and successful award of a Research for Patient Benefit grant
Caroline Ellis-Hill – NIHR Research for Patient Benefit
Edwin van Teijlingen – Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET)
Jane Murphy – Burdett Trust for Nursing
Jonathan Parker – British Council
Kip Jones – ESRC
Claire Gordon – NIHR PhD studentship
Vanora Hundley – Wellbeing of Women

Please email Lisa Gale-Andrews to confirm your attendance.

11 May 2015

Catch award-winning RUFUS STONE this Thursday 2 pm in Kimmeridge

Kip Jones

As part of BU’s Interdisciplinary Reserch Week, Kip Jones will be showing the short award-winning biopic RUFUS STONE in Marconi Theatre in Kimmeridge at 2:00 pm on Thursday, 14 May.

If you haven’t seen it before, please do come along! Or come see it for a second time! We will be showing it on a very large screen in blu-ray with a fab sound system, the best way to view this poetic rendering of a researched story. Lots of time for questions following the screening too. Media’s Trevor Hearing will moderate.

And there’s cake and coffee!

Get your tickets here

Watch the Trailer here

10 May 2015

Paper by BU academics used as example in Dutch university newsletter

Publishing, Research Integritiy Edwin van Teijlingen

The March 2015 newsletter of the Dutch University of Groningen’s School for Behavioural & Cognitive Neurosciences dedicated two pages to the question: ‘How to pick the right journal?’ The author of the English-language newsletter contribution, Liwen Zhang, offer its readers a brief introduction on journal selection for a scientific manuscript. The newsletter piece is based on two papers which both share their submission stories and suggestions of journal selection. We were pleased to see that one of these two papers is by two Bournemouth University professors: Hundley and van Teijlingen. Their paper which gives advice on one specific aspect of academic publishing is called ‘Getting your paper to the right journal: a case study of an academic paper’ [1]. It was published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing in 2002.

Reference:

vanTeijlingen, E., Hundley, V. (2002) Getting your paper to the right journal: a case study of an academic paper, Journal of Advanced Nursing 37(6): 506-511.

10 May 2015

BU students support Nepal earthquake disaster appeal

PG research, student research Edwin van Teijlingen

Posted on behalf of BU students!

Appeal for helping Nepal earthquake survivors

UK Nepal Friendship Society

Nepal was stuck by earthquake of 7.8 RS magnitude at 11:56 am local time on 25th April 2015. There have been more than one hundred aftershocks since. Many people are traumatised and lack proper care in the aftermath of the earthquake. This natural disaster has created havoc on a massive scale. To make conditions worse there was rain pouring down in parts of Nepal and there now is a risk of the spread of epidemic diseases, thefts, and other crime. Until now the death toll has reached almost 8,000 and thousands have been rendered homeless and destitute. According to the Prime Minister of Nepal Sushil Koirala, the death toll could rise as high as 10,000. We are planning to raise fund for the immediate relief and rebuilding process of Nepal.

The UK Nepal Friendship Society and students from BU are organising a fund-raising event for earthquake victims of Nepal on 12th May, Tuesday from 4pm until 7 pm in Bournemouth Square (western side). Please spread this information to all interested! Ask them to visit us on Tuesday and help Nepal at this time of crisis. Your donations will help to rebuild the nation and help to provide necessary amenities to people who have lost their home and family. Any amount will be greatly appreciated, but please give as much as you can. Nepal has been awaiting this disaster for many years now, and according to the cycle of major earthquakes in the country the national catastrophe that has taken place could have happened sooner (the last took place in 1934). Your donation via the UKNFS will be provided to disaster victims through official/reliable Government of Nepal and Embassy of Nepal in London recommendedchannels.

Please support Nepal at this time of national tragedy!

–xx–

BU has several undergraduate and postgraduate students from Nepal. Moreover, several BU students conduct studies or do their electives in Nepal.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

10 May 2015

From ivory tower to silver screen: academics engaging with filmmakers for impact and to reach a wider audience

Public engagement ssquelch

Join us to celebrate the breadth and excellence of Bournemouth University’s research as part of Interdisciplinary Research Week this May. This is an opportunity to spark new collaborations and ideas among our diverse research community.

This year we have a week long programme of lectures, demonstrations, discussions and a film, which will showcase the fantastic research which is being undertaken at the university.

This is the eigth in a series of blog posts which will highlight the events you can join throughout the week. The eigth event of the programme will take place on Thursday 14^th May, Screening of RUFUS STONE (30 minutes) followed by Q & A with Project Lead, Executive Producer and Author of the film, Dr Kip Jones. Bournemouth University1s Gay and Pleasant Land? project was part of the national New Dynamics of Ageing Programme funded by Research Councils UK. The project investigated ageing and gay life in rural South West England and Wales. Research Team: Dr K. Jones, L-A. Fenge, R. Read & M. Cash

This event will take place on Talbot Campus in Stevenson Lecture Theatre from 2.00pm-3.30pm, with refreshments available from 13.30pm. You can book your place by clicking here.

10 May 2015

Turning numbers into narratives: an introduction to digital storytelling with data

Public engagement gibsonh

Join us to celebrate the breadth and excellence of Bournemouth University’s research as part of Interdisciplinary Research Week this May. This is an opportunity to spark new collaborations and ideas among our diverse research community.

This year we have a week long programme of lectures, demonstrations, discussions and a film, which will showcase the fantastic research which is being undertaken at the university.

This is the seventh in a series of blog posts which will highlight the events you can join throughout the week. The seventh event of the programme will take place on Thursday 14^th May, Digital transformations in communications have led to the increasing popularity of data visualisations and the use of maps and other multimedia interactives for representing complex data. Often, these visual data stories can better communicate the significance of research findings to policy-makers and the public. Beyond engendering greater comprehension, this turn to the visual can also tap into our emotions and cultural values. In this Masterclass, we will introduce the audience to the emerging interdisciplinary field of data storytelling research. Drawing on a range of contemporary examples, we will present a variety of techniques and technologies for creating data stories.

This event will take place on Talbot Campus in KG01 from 11.00pm 2.00pm, with lunch available from 12.30pm. You can book your place by clicking here.

10 May 2015

14:Live with Dr Lauren Kita

Public engagement ssquelch

Hello!

Thank you to everyone who attended 14:Live on the 7th May, it was an extremely fascinating half an hour with Dr Lauren Kita.

Lauren Kita gave an exciting insight into how we can explore the science behind the mind-body connection to empower you with ways of managing everyday stress, during the talk, Dr Lauren Kita also gave some examples to some simple techniques (such as mindfulness and breathing exercises) that can help you to better manage your stress.

14:Live will be returning to Talbot Campus in september. So look out on the Research Blog and the student portal events page for updates on when 14:Live will be returning, we look forward to seeing you all again in September were there will again be 30 x tokens for a FREE Papa Johns pizza!

Would being a speaker at 14:Live interest you? or do you just want to find out more about student engagement with research events, if so, please feel free to contact ssquelch@bournemouth.ac.uk

9 May 2015

Nepal earthquake follow-up

Public engagement, Research Integritiy Edwin van Teijlingen

Shortly after the earthquake in Nepal I posted on the BU Research blog as we have a long-standing presence in Nepal. We have been working there for nearly ten years, conducting research largely around community-based interventions. Several Bournemouth University colleagues (and many based elsewhere) have indicated that they have donated (or will do so) to our intervention partner, the UK-based Buddhist charity Green Tara Trust. Thank you everyone for this generous support. It has brought tents and food to rural communities in an area where we have been working for eight years. The support also has had an incredible effect on our Nepalese team, raising their spirit and encouraging them in their relief efforts.

Donations to Green Tara Trust from individuals have just reached £35,000. As there is always the question how best to support victims in such disasters, I would like to show how supporting a small existing local organisations has direct benefits. Green Tara staff in Nepal supplied medicines, blankets and basic food supplies such as rice, lentils and cooking oil for a period of one month to 130 of the poorest families in in the hills in and around Pharping within days after the earthquake when the after-shocks were still going on. Please, note the guys carrying huge sacks of rice up the mountain at the left hand side of the lorry bringing the Green Tara relief. Loads of places in the affected rural areas can only be reached by foot making the relief effort more difficult.

As we have been working with women’s groups in the community for years Green Tara staff know who the poorest people and where to find them. In addition, they provided tents to 200 families who have lost their homes. One very local solution (rather than flying in tents from the UK) was purchasing the tents elsewhere in Nepal. As we have a second field site in a part that is hardly affected by the earthquake near the Indian border, staff there bought hundreds of tents covers, put them on a bus to Kathmandu where local Green Tara staff picked them up and took them rural areas in the hills near Pharping.

Government-controlled health posts in rural Nepal often run out of medical supplies even before the earthquake. Therefore, Green Tara Nepal donated several boxes of essential medicines to two health posts in the area in case of outbreaks of infections, such as diarrhea or respiratory tract infections. Most of the time I would complain about the fact that you can buy just about any kind of medicine under sun over the counter in pharmacies shops in Nepal, but on this occasion is was very helpful.

Thank you again for keeping those affected by the earthquake in your thoughts. You can donate to Green Tara!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

8 May 2015

ESRC NCRM International Visitor Exchange Scheme launched

Funding opportunities Jennifer Roddis

The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) has launched its International Visitor Exchange Scheme (IVES). This will fund visits of between one and three months to or from experts at the forefront of key methodological developments. The scheme aims to enable “UK social scientists to engage with methods development internationally, in order to stimulate debate and develop ideas (with associated outputs) in relation to methodological innovation in the social sciences.” Awards can begin from 1 January 2016, with a deadline for submissions of 25 September 2015. Up to 6 awards of £5000 are expected to be available.

For more information, please see http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/IVES/ and, if you are interested in applying, please contact a member of the Funding Development Team.

8 May 2015

A de facto Conservative majority – what next for universities?

Julie Northam

The following highlights are taken from a WonkHE article by Mark Leach, Martin McQuillan and Graeme Wise. Read it in full here: http://www.wonkhe.com/blogs/general-election-what-next-for-universities/

EU referendum in 2017 – this would have real implications for universities given their reliance on international student numbers and European Union research funding.

Whitehall – there will be a new Business Secretary, and possibly a new HE minister. Where HE sits is uncertain – there could be a BIS and DCMS merger or HE might be moved into the Department for Education. If it remains, BIS may need to find £4-5bn in savings which could affect funding for initiatives such as widening participation. There’s also a potential for tuition fees to increase further to offset departmental cuts.

Immigration – the government stance on immigration is likely to tighten. The Conservative manifesto outlines plans for immigration that would affect universities, such as reforming the student visa system (including a review of the sponsor system for visas), the clamping down on the number of so-called ‘satellite campuses’ opened in London by universities located elsewhere in the UK and including students in the net migration calculation.

7 May 2015

Bournemouth University Students in Santander 60 Second Pitch!

Business Engagement Nikki Harvey

The Centre for Entrepreneurship is delighted to announce that Bournemouth University student Alice Parlett’s Bumblebee Nest business idea – called Cub-Bee-Hole – and Peter Ramsey’s student website – Move’m – have been short-listed as two of the 10 most outstanding business ideas for the Santander 60 Second Pitch. Vote for your favourite Student Business

Alice, a final year Industrial Design student at BU, recently attended the CfE’s Business Ideas Generator Hackathon and successfully pitched to our Dragon’s Den-style event for a small amount of funding to investigate an early prototype of her product. Alice’s business idea is conservation and stunning design beautifully interwoven with current market trends. The Cub-Bee-Hole is an aesthetically pleasing hive for bees that adheres to your window, allowing you to view the bees in action whilst encouraging nesting and reproduction in a safe, nurturing home for the bees.

Essential to our ecosystem, bumblebees are dying out. Yet, bumblebees pollinate 1/3 of our food! Alice’s product is a woven wicker bee home that sticks to your window, with a design that allows you to see the bees nesting and at work, whilst preventing the bees from being disturbed by you.

Targeting conservationists, gardeners, farmers, parents, this product is a registered design and could be seen at the Flower Shows, Chelsea stores and garden stores nationwide soon… with your help.

Stunning aesthetics – on trend – conservation-minded – raising awareness – educational – fun.

Alice is pitching for £1500 to create a prototype that she can use to launch her business.

Move’m are also a Bournemouth University student business who have set up a website that helps student find out about rental properties from other students reviews before starting a tenancy.

Have you ever moved in to a property to find that there is mould on the bathroom ceiling, the roof is leaking and the landlord isn’t answering his phone…ever!? These are things that were certainly not mentioned on the viewing, yet when you take the tenancy, it is too late.

Move’m has created a website where any student can review his/ her experience so that the next tenant can be confident in the property that they are moving into.

Searching for the right student accommodation has never been easier… and Move’m need £1,500 to help them develop their business further to help more students

***At the time of going to press, Alice’s bumblebee Nest Concept business is in 2nd place with 109 votes to Ulster University’s Little Creation’s 171 votes. Move’m is currently in 8th place with 30 votes.***

Do you have time to vote for one of the student businesses? Registering is as simple as inserting your email address and password and you have just one vote, so please make it count by voting for your favourite student entrepreneurs – Vote for your favourite Student Business

We wish both businesses all the best of luck! #BUPROUD

7 May 2015

Reverse Mentoring, Fusion and Threshold Concepts

Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Transfer, Public engagement, REF Subjects, student research gretad

Writing a blog post about our experience at the ABS (Association of Business Schools’) annual conference on Learning, Teaching and Student Experience, 27-29 April 2015, has proven to be a great way to fill in the time waiting for a plane back from York, UK!

Louise (Preget), Deborah (Taylor) and I (Milena Bobeva) had been to York to present the work from the first stage of the Fusion project on Reverse Mentoring (RvM) in Higher Education. This student:staff co-creation/co-production project examines RvM, a strategy where younger, less experienced employees share their knowledge and expertise with a more senior person. Our team has studied industry practices as viewed and experienced by our placement and post-placement students.

The conference was a brilliant opportunity for academics within UK Business Schools to share and showcase best practice in a number of key streams including internationalisation, blended learning, the changing student and employability. Bournemouth University had a strong lobby there with five academics and three publications, including two by Dr Sukanya Ayatakshi, who presented some assessment and engagement practices on the fully online International Business and Management undergraduate programme.

There was unanimous agreement amongst the BU team that the most interesting session at the conference was the talk on ‘Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge’ delivered by Prof. Ray Land from Durham University. It stressed the importance of challenging our habitual practices as both learners and educators and made us recognise RvM as a threshold concept. Further detail of this seminal work is available here and on this website.
For those interested in finding out more about reverse mentoring and the findings of the Fusion project, we will be running a session at the Festival of Learning: 3-5pm on the 14^th July 2015 in PG142-144.

7 May 2015

Human navigation: a cognitive neuroscience approach

Public engagement ssquelch

Join us to celebrate the breadth and excellence of Bournemouth University’s research as part of Interdisciplinary Research Week this May. This is an opportunity to spark new collaborations and ideas among our diverse research community.

This year we have a week long programme of lectures, demonstrations, discussions and a film, which will showcase the fantastic research which is being undertaken at the university.

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts which will highlight the events you can join throughout the week. The sixth event of the programme will take place on Wednesday 13^th May, Dr Angela Gosling & Dr Jan Wiener the ability to navigate within complex and rapidly changing environments is a crucial skill humans possess and one that most of us take for granted. Recent reports suggest that increasing numbers of people have deficits to core navigation abilities; current estimates suggest 6 million people in EU countries, a number expected to rise in coming years. Research currently underway in the Navigation Lab at Bournemouth University is aimed at addressing some of the current issues in human navigation. Our novel research focus makes use of state-of-the art eye-tracking and electrical neuroimaging technology to investigate neural and cognitive functions in virtual navigation environments.

This event will take place on Talbot Campus in Barnes Lecture Theatre from 4.00pm-5.30pm, with refreshments available from 5.30pm. You can book your place by clicking here.

7 May 2015

VeggiEat: a voyage of discovery

Public engagement gibsonh

Join us to celebrate the breadth and excellence of Bournemouth University’s research as part of Interdisciplinary Research Week this May. This is an opportunity to spark new collaborations and ideas among our diverse research community.

This year we have a week long programme of lectures, demonstrations, discussions and a film, which will showcase the fantastic research which is being undertaken at the university.

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts which will highlight the events you can join throughout the week. The fifth event of the programme will take place on Wednesday 13^th May,Dr Ann Hemingway will be discussing how a continuing challenge is to understand how the intricate range of drivers affect the food intake of teenagers and older people the two groups in society who have the lowest vegetable intake across the lifespan. Research led by BU and being undertaken across Europe is trying to tackle this challenge, the learning from this cross disciplinary work and the intended and actual outcomes of the research so far will be discussed.

This event will take place on Talbot Campus in Barnes Lecture Theatre from 2.00pm -3.30pm, with refreshments available from 3.30pm. You can book your place by clicking here.

7 May 2015

Beyond the one dimensional consumer

Public engagement ssquelch

Join us to celebrate the breadth and excellence of Bournemouth University’s research as part of Interdisciplinary Research Week this May. This is an opportunity to spark new collaborations and ideas among our diverse research community.

This year we have a week long programme of lectures, demonstrations, discussions and a film, which will showcase the fantastic research which is being undertaken at the university.

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts which will highlight the events you can join throughout the week. The fourth event of the programme will take place on Wednesday 13^th May, Professor Juliet Memery, Dr Jeff Bray, Dr Janice Denegri-Knott & Professor Sine McDougall will be discussing ‘Beyond the one dimensional consumer’

The nature of the marketplace is constantly changing. Exponential growth of the internet and rapid evolution of technology has created new ways of communicating and ‘doing business’. This means that organisations, especially those without their own research capacity, may struggle to keep up as multiple media touch points develop, become ‘on trend’, then rapidly fade. The need to ‘bring science to the market’ has never been more pressing to help understand the modern consumer. This session will highlight how the Consumer Research Group may provide the integrated multi-dimensional approach to consumer research that is required in business today through interactive discussion and illustrative case examples.

This event will take place on Talbot Campus in Barnes Lecture Theatre from 12:30-13:30, with Lunch served at 12 noon. You can book your place by clicking here.

6 May 2015

Who needs Dimbleby? Media Faculty hosts live election coverage tonight from 10pm

Fusion, Public engagement Daniel Jackson

With the polls open in the most exciting General Election in recent history, we invite you to follow events with our ‘live’ coverage online, on TV and Radio, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.We are streaming our TV coverage to the website and it will be broadcast around BU from 10pm tonight until 10am on May 8th. Radio coverage will also be ‘live’ on Hope FM from 10pm and we are covering all the Dorset counts alongside reporters and photographers from The Daily Echo. Meridian will be taking our TV reports.
We have a team at Westminster and our own focus group of student voters who were ‘undecided’ will be joining us, there is comedy from our own Comedy Coalition and we will have a constant flow of guests — pundits and politicians – in the studio with us on the night to bring us analysis and insights as the story unfolds.

This is an impressive cross-Faculty student-led collaborative project, involving students from journalism, animation, PR, politics, advertising, marketing, communication and English. We are also linking up with students engaged in a similar activity around the country, in conjunction with the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC).

Please be part of the story and follow us, comment and engage online and encourage your friends and family to join in too!http://www.yourelection15.co.uk/

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Fear in childbirth: is the media responsible?

Building defensible invisible castles

HSS Sharing Research Experiences day 18 May 2015

Catch award-winning RUFUS STONE this Thursday 2 pm in Kimmeridge

As part of BU’s Interdisciplinary Reserch Week, Kip Jones will be showing the short award-winning biopic RUFUS STONE in Marconi Theatre in Kimmeridge at 2:00 pm on Thursday, 14 May.

Get your tickets here

Watch the Trailer here

BU students support Nepal earthquake disaster appeal

From ivory tower to silver screen: academics engaging with filmmakers for impact and to reach a wider audience

Turning numbers into narratives: an introduction to digital storytelling with data

14:Live with Dr Lauren Kita

ESRC NCRM International Visitor Exchange Scheme launched

A de facto Conservative majority – what next for universities?

EU referendum in 2017 – this would have real implications for universities given their reliance on international student numbers and European Union research funding.

Bournemouth University Students in Santander 60 Second Pitch!

Reverse Mentoring, Fusion and Threshold Concepts

Human navigation: a cognitive neuroscience approach

VeggiEat: a voyage of discovery

Beyond the one dimensional consumer

Who needs Dimbleby? Media Faculty hosts live election coverage tonight from 10pm

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