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July 17, 2013

‘The Heart of the Work’: Exploring and enhancing child protection processes

BU research, Public engagement Jonathan Parker

HSC has held a practice-changing symposium on Tuesday 16th July to launch its work evaluating child protection processes across Bournemouth and Poole and hopefully Dorset. The multi-stakeholder event expressed the aim to ensure that Eileen Munro’s recommendations that parents, children and young people are at the ‘heart of the work’. (Prof Eileen Munro of LSE was commissioned by the Government in 2010-11 to review child care social work.)

Our research, commissioned by the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB), was undertaken by Richard Williams, Emily Rosenorn-Lanng and Prof Jonathan Parker of the Centre for Social Work, Sociology and Social Policy, in collaboration with the LSCB, Bournemouth and Poole Local Authorities, and latterly including representatives from Dorset County Council.

We were asked to evaluate Bournemouth and Poole child protection processes, child protection strategy planning, core group meetings and the all-important involvement of parents or guardians and children and young people themselves. Unlike many negative and emotionally charged newspaper reports since the serious case review inquiries into the death of Peter Connelly, published in 2008 and 2009 (http://media.education.gov.uk/…./20to%20peter%20connelly%20dated%20november%202008.pdf http://media.education.gov.uk/…/to%20peter%20connelly%20dated%20march%202009.pdf), our research found much in which social workers in the Bournemouth and Poole area can take pride; and much that may resonate elsewhere.

There was considerable evidence of high quality social work and child safeguarding practice. The majority of respondents to our survey (both professional and familial) agreed or strongly agreed that the child protection process has made a positive difference to the family (90.5%). Forty-seven per cent (47%) of children and young people responding, indicated that their feelings of safety rose from 13% to 47% after engagement in the child protection process. Importantly, over 25% of parents or guardians indicated their willingness to contribute further to the on-going evaluation.

Of course, there were elements of the process that indicated areas for development. For instance:

1. Ensuring that minutes of Core Group meetings are disseminated to all involved
2. Ensuring the Core Group follows and monitors the Child Protection Plan
3. Discussing reports fully with Parents and Guardians before the Review Conference
4. Facilitating the involvement of all key people at the Review Conference
5. Monitoring and facilitating the inclusion of the views of Children and Young People continuously

In an innovative approach to change, the day presented findings from the research and explored with social workers, medical and health practitioners, teachers, police officers, managers, and academics to ensure this emotive and complex work was of the highest quality. A commitment was made to continue working together on these matters of great import to children and families, and to addressing some of the areas for development.

Jonathan Parker, Richard Williams, Emily Rosenorn-Lanng

July 17, 2013

EC and Research Data Open Access Consultation – see one of the responses

EU Corrina Lailla Osborne

Earlier this month, the EC held a public consultation on open access to research data in Brussels inviting statements from a range of stakeholders, who will play some role in revising the ECs policy and will help shape Horizon 2020. Five questions formed the basis of the discussion:

How we can define research data and what types of research data should be open?
When and how does openness need to be limited?
How should the issue of data re-use be addressed?
Where should research data be stored and made accessible?
How can we enhance “data awareness” and a “culture of sharing”?

These are key questions every researcher should have an interest in. You can see the responses of the Open Knowledge Foundation here and learn more about the EC debates around research data open access mandates.

July 16, 2013

Argyro Karanasiou’s article featured in the International Forum for Responsible Media Blog (Inforrm)

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The article “Debunking the PBS myth: Media in Crisis ?” written by Argyro Karanasiou, Lecturer in Law and member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) is featured in the International Forum for Responsible Media Blog (Inforrm), the influential media policy blog set up to debate issues of media responsibility. As stated in the article, this issue is not only of local interest but it also encompasses certain parameters pertaining to constitutional and EU law matters. This contribution comes in a timely manner: the issue was discussed last week in the European Parliament while the bill for its substitution has been submitted to the Greek Parliament only a few days ago. Argyro notes:

The long standing debate over interventionism and liberalism in the EU market of services is also reflected in the regulation of competition for broadcasting services in the EU. And while the EU Parliament and the Commission remain undecided as to how PBS should be treated in terms of the market’s internal policy, the case of ERT faces us with the following paradox: a public broadcaster officially shut down by the state yet transmitted through the EBU satellite operators to this day.

The case of ERT furnishes us with a great example of how myths are deconstructed in times of crisis. However, as in every myth, what is of particular value is always the epimythion, the moral of the story. And if there is something to be learnt from the ERT switch-off that is that the current financial crisis is not simply a fiscal issue of local nature; it also threatens the societal foundations of democracy and EU cohesion in total.

To read the article in full please click here.

For updates follow Argyro on twitter @ArKaranasiou

July 16, 2013

Have your Say! What should the new online research degree monitoring system be called?

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Calling all postgraduate researchers, supervisors and research administrators!

You should by now have heard that we are working hard to have our new postgraduate monitoring system online for the beginning of the new academic year. The system will enhance the experience of all those involved in research degrees:

Postgraduate Researchers
Supervisors
Research Administrators

The main aim is to move away from paper-based forms and to a more streamlined on-line system. The system will guide you through the process and monitoring of PGR progression.

We’re now at the exciting stage of naming the system. The steering group has come up with a list of possible names for you to vote on. Cast your votes here – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/L8H9VHF for:

myResearch Degree
ResearchPAD (Progression, Administration, Development)
BURD (Bournemouth University Research Degrees)

The poll will be open until 22 July. Happy voting!

Dr Fiona Knight
Academic Manager

July 15, 2013

2015 Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference coming to BU

Public engagement aadams

Following on from the excellent Events Conference at BU last week, the School of Tourism is pleased to announce that BU has been chosen to host the 2015 Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference. This is a significant international conference that attracts visitors and speakers from across the globe and is a real mark of recognition for the University that will help establish further both the School of Tourism and BU’s international reputation. The conference will take place between 7^th – 9^thJuly 2015 and will provide a platform for BU academics, associated professionals and local/regional/national sport, leisure, events and tourism organisations to become involved.

Although the conference is almost two years away, planning and preparation will be underway in the very near future. The conference themes will be circulated in due course, but if you would like further information, then please contact either Andrew Adams (aadams@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Ian Jones (jonesi@bournemouth.ac.uk.

July 15, 2013

eBU in final stages before launch – please submit now!

BU research, Publishing, Research themes aharding

eBU is going through the final IT phases before the anticipated launch at the end of July.

I have been delighted with the interest that eBU has generated from all sections of the BU community. Academics, students and professional and support staff have all shown an interest in submitting to and signposting others to eBU, and it is clear that eBU will play a significant role in developing academic output.

eBU has champions in each school (I’m happy to put people in contact), and section editors across all of the research themes under which submissions will sit.

Authors will be encouraged to submit by logging in to the eBU site. However, if you’re interested in submitting to eBU before the live date, please get in touch and email submissions to me at eBU@bournemouth.ac.uk or aharding@bournemouth.ac.uk

We already have some submissions, and submissions sent to me before the launch date will be among the first to be published by eBU and undergo immediate publication and open peer review.

Author guidelines can be found here – eBU guidelines.

July 15, 2013

Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) 2013 now available

Uncategorized Emma Crowley

The 2013 Edition of Journal Citation Reports^® (JCR) provides a combination of impact and influence metrics, and millions of cited and citing journal data points that comprise the complete journal citation network of Web of Science^SM.

The 2013 Edition of JCR includes:

More than 10,800 of the world’s most highly cited, peer reviewed journals in 232 disciplines
Nearly 2,500 publishers and 83 countries represented
379 journals receiving their first Journal Impact Factor

Data from the JCR can be used to provide a quantitative, systematic review of the world’s leading journals.

You can access the JCR and Scopus’s corresponding Journal Analyzer tool via the Library A-Z List of Databases.

If you need any help researching and finding information, using library researcher tools, navigating reference management software or advice on depositing your open access materials in BURO via BRIAN please get in touch with your School Library Team.

July 11, 2013

British Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2013

Research news hcrossen

Last week the University of Wolverhampton hosted the annual conference of the British Society of Criminology. The Parellel sessions covered a wide range of topics including policing, prisons, diversity, media and culture and gender. Highlights for me were papers on cyberstalking by Italian teenagers and the development of websites that sell illicit drugs with a specific focus on the techonology behind one site Silk Road.

For anyone with a specific interest in prisons and offender welfare some interesting prelimary findings from the largest UK survey of prisoners were presented and this research will be published over the next few months with the first pblication due out at the end of July.

There was also a fascinating paper on research into the experience of prisoners that was conducted by a group of prisoner officers who undertook training in ethnographic research and were assigned to research prisons where their status as a prison officer was unknown. The paper focused on the impact that undertaking the research had upon the prison officer researchers.

My paper , Exploring female drug-taking during the First World War generated a lively discussion on the female role in drug dealing and law-breaking.

It was an excellent conference and I would like to thank Rosie Read for supporting my application to the Society and Social Welfare Community Budget which enabled me to attend.

July 10, 2013

A new Portal addressing questions on Copyright is launched in London

Awarded & submitted bids, BU research, Featured academics, Funding opportunities, Fusion, Post-award, Public engagement, Research news, Uncategorized cippm

A BETA version of the ‘Copyright User Portal’, funded by Bournemouth University’s Fusion Investment Fund (awarded 2012) was launched at the Law Society of England & Wales on 2 July 2013. The main event of the day was the launch of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s Commissioned Report on Copyright and Orphan Works co-authored by academics from CIPPM, Bournemouth University and CREATe, University of Glasgow. It also provided a platform to launch a BETA version of the Copyright User Portal.

The Copyright User Portal is an online resource aimed at making UK copyright law accessible to creators and members of the public. In particular the Portal aims to clarify UK copyright law for musicians, filmmakers, performers, writers, visual artists and interactive developers. The goal is to inform creators about how to protect their work, how to license and exploit it, and how to legally re-use the work of others. As such, the aim of the Copyright User Portal is to provide answers to the most pressing concerns creators have about copyright.

To find the answers to the most pressing queries which creators have, the research used two specific approaches. First, the 200 most frequently asked questions (FAQs) about copyright law was analysed which was then filtered down to the most important 20 FAQs. The second approach consisted of directly engaging with various creators, including musicians, filmmakers, performers, writers, visual artists and interactive developers and producing videos consisting of interviews with these creators, their artistic process, thoughts and questions about copyright. These two approaches helped the research team to create a rich resource capturing the common concerns faced by media professionals in their day-to-day work.

During Summer 2013, a complete version of the Copyright User Portal will be launched. A BETA Version of the resource can be accessed here

The Copyright User Project team consists of Mr. Bartolomeo Meletti (Lead Multimedia Producer), Dr. Kris Erickson (Principal Investigator and Executive Producer, CEMP), Dr. Dinusha Mendis (Co-Investigator and Executive Producer CIPPM), Professor Martin Krestchmer (Co-Investigator and Executive Producer CREATe, University of Glasgow) and Ms. Hayleigh Bosher (Research Assistant and Assistant Producer, CIPPM).

July 10, 2013

Inventions and Intellectual Property Law comes alive at the Festival of Design and Innovation 2013

Featured, Featured academics, Fusion, Uncategorized cippm

The annual Festival of Design and Innovation (FoDI) opened on Thursday 20 June 2013. It was an opportunity for students from the School of Design, Engineering and Computing (DEC) to exhibit their innovations and creations. “A cake icing pen, a computer game controlled by brain power and a glamping pod were just some of the ground-breaking ideas and inventions on display at this year’s FoDI.”

During the academic year, final year students from DEC are paired off with final year students from the Law Department studying Intellectual Property (IP) Law. The law students are tasked with advising their DEC clients on the protection and exploitation of their innovative creations. The DEC clients then incorporate the advice which they have received from the ‘lawyers’ into their final year projects.

The IP-DEC Project brings Intellectual Property law to life. It gives an opportunity for law students to apply IP Law to real-life inventions and in turn it helps the DEC client to understand the importance of strong IP protection when preparing to protect, market and exploit their various creations.

The IP-DEC Project culminates with Awards for the Best DEC Student; Best IP Student and Best IP-DEC Group sponsored by Paul Turner, a retired Patent Attorney.

The Paul Turner Prize for the best IP-DEC Group was awarded at the opening night of the Festival. The prize was awarded to Law Students Danielle Foster and Luke Trim and DEC Students Benjamen Armstrong, George Burge, Joseph Carter, Markko Reinberg, Nicholas Cron, Thomas Clements and Thomas Reynolds.

Paul Turner with two of the winning DEC students and law students Luke Trim and Danielle Foster.

The Paul Turner Individual Prize for the Best IP Student went to Gemma Jefferies whilst the Paul Turner Prize for the Best DEC Student was awarded to Coco Canessa. The Individual Prize winners will officially receive their awards at the Graduation Ceremony in November 2013.

The opportunity to apply Intellectual Property Law to real-life scenarios and to real-life innovations together with helping the DEC clients to grasp the importance of IP law, makes this project truly unique.

The IP-DEC Project is co-ordinated by Dr. Dinusha Mendis (Law); Dr. Tania Humphries (DEC); and Dr. Reza Sahandi (DEC).

July 10, 2013

Looking to the Horizons

News from the PVC Matthew Bennett

One of the fundamental foundations of BU2018 is that we should take an outward looking perspective, a look beyond the campus boundary. It is a significant feature within our commitment to societally led research and our commitment to Professional Practice as a core component of Fusion. This practice is about engagement with external stake holders contributing via thought leadership and research but above all else listening and channelling that information inward to ensure that the research we do is relevant to the big issues our society faces and that the education we deliver also meets society’s needs. It is the difference between a self-determined research and educational agenda – ‘we know best’ – to one that places listening and responding to societal need at its core. It is this idea that lies behind our eight societal research themes which have been live now for over 18 months. They act as shop windows for our research, as vehicles for inter-disciplinary and cross-university collaboration and as a rallying point for our different research communities.

They were informed at inception by the key themes identified by funding councils and government strategy, filtered through our bespoke academic footprint. It was always intended that there would be an element of Darwinian competition between them and that they would change over time to reflect emerging strengths within the organisation and changing external agenda.

I launched a quick review of the research themes at the start of 2013 and after some discussion within the University Research and Knowledge Exchange (URKE) Committee some changes were recommended to strengthen our proposition and to ensure visibility of some of our core strengths. The explicit recognition (and also control) of subthemes was one outcome, as was the recognition of Aging and Dementia as a separate theme in light of the fantastic work of BU Dementia Institute. The total number of themes remains at eight and the list below provides confirmation of the changes agreed by the URKE Committee and will come into enforce from the September.

1. Creative, Digital and Cognitive Science

NCCA
Big Data Centre
Creative Design
Software systems and security
Cognition in Action

2. Communities, Cultures and Conflicts NCPQSW

Crisis and conflict
Diversity and difference
Past peoples and societies

3. Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Centre for Entrepreneurship

4. Biodiversity, Environmental Change and Green Economy

Biodiversity
Green economy and sustainability

5. Lifelong Health and wellbeing

Psychology, health and human fulfilment
Health and practice development

6. Leisure, Recreation and Tourism

7. Ageing, Society and Dementia

8. Technology and Design

Medical and robotic engineering
Renewable technology
SMART technology

July 9, 2013

NERC peer review college call for members 2013

BU research Corrina Lailla Osborne

I don’t need to sell you the benefit of sitting on a funder review panel as I know you are already aware of what a fantastic experience this is in terms of meeting potential collaborators, learning how the assessment process works and discovering what makes a great proposal. BU’s Dr Richard Shipway is a peer reviewer for the ESRC and recently wrote an excellent blog post on the benefits of being a peer reviewer. You can read Richard’s post here.

You may recall that NERC recently announced initiatives to increase confidence in peer review; these include measures to increase the status and performance of the NERC College. As a result they are currently recruiting for members of their Peer Review College with the nomination deadline of 5 August 2013.

BU is fully supportive of you becoming a reviewer, including helping with ensuring you have time to perform reviews for funding bodies. If you want to take up this opportunity, please email me and I can inform you of the BU process for this.

July 9, 2013

Seen But Seldom Heard: An exciting future for the project

Public engagement Becca Edwards

On 8th July in West Lulworth the launch took place of the full length documentary film about the Seen But Seldom Heard project, plus live performances from the young poetry sensations from Victoria Education Centre.

The Seen But Seldom Heard project is a joint venture between the Media School and the School of Health and Social Care (HSC), involving Carrie Hodges from the Media School and Wendy Cutts and Lee-Ann Fenge from HSC. The project has been made possible, so far, thanks to funding from BU including the BU Fusion funding and Aim Higher with BU. It has used performance poetry as a methodology to engage young disabled people to explore issues related to disability, and has been led by two performance poets, Liv Torc and Jonny Fluffypunk. A number of live performances have taken place over the past year as a method of disseminating the outputs from the project including performances as part of the Cultural Olympiad in Weymouth 2012, the Bridport Literary Festival, and at Bournemouth University.

The Seen But Seldom Heard film follows the development of the project from the early sessions with the young people at Victoria Education Centre and some of their live performances. It is hoped that the full length documentary will be a powerful tool to disseminate the outputs from the project in a way which engages audiences to think differently about disability.

The launch of the film on 8th July was accompanied by some striking performances from the young people taking part in the project, including performance poetry, stand-up comedy, song and animation. It was a poignant event, as many of the young people who have been part of the project are now moving on from Victoria Education Centre, and this was their last performance as a group together. A lasting legacy of the project is that many of these young people are continuing to write and perform their own work.

There were very positive responses from the audience who were both challenged and moved by the performances. Performative methods of research dissemination can be very powerful tools which can potentially reach larger audiences than traditional paper based dissemination.

The project has received funding for 2013-14 to enable work with Victoria Education Centre to continue, and it is also hoped to developed projects with other seldom heard groups.

Further details about the project can be found here.

July 9, 2013

Ingenious grant scheme from the Royal Academy of Engineering – for creative public engagement with engineering projects

Public engagement Becca Edwards

“Ingenious is a grant scheme for creative public engagement with engineering projects.

If you have an imaginative idea that helps engineers to communicate their expertise and passion for engineering to a wider audience – we want to hear from you. You could be an engineer interested in running your own project, or a science and engineering communicator keen to explore ways to provide public engagement training and opportunities.

Ingenious has funded over 90 projects to date, providing opportunities for over 1,500 engineers to take part in thought-provoking activities, to gain skills in communication and to bring engineering to the very centre of society.

Find out more about our work in engineering engagement on our blog. You can also read about previous projects in the case studies and hear what grant holders and engineers have to say about their Ingenious experience in four mini-films.

We welcome proposals from engineers and engineering organisations and institutions, universities, science and engineering communicators, public engagement specialists, colleges and schools.

“Ingenious offers focus and helped us deliver against what we’re trying to achieve” – Ingenious Grant holder

Our Aims

The Ingenious grants programme aims to:

inspire creative public engagement with engineering projects
stimulate engineers to share their stories, passion and expertise in innovative ways with wider audiences
develop engineers’ communication and engagement skills
create debate between engineers and people of all ages to raise awareness of the diversity, nature and impact of engineering.

How to Apply

We are currently accepting applications for projects starting in May 2014.

For further information on the scheme please click the relevant link below

Ingenious Grants: Open to all applicants with creative ideas for engineering engagement.

The Ingenious Booster Grant scheme is currently under review and will not be open this year.

Contact Details

Manisha Lalloo
Assistant Manager, Public Engagement
020 7766 0683

Ingenious is supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, BIS.”

If you would like support to develop an application, please do not hesitate to contact Rebecca Edwards.

July 9, 2013

CEMP Conversation / Cluster

BU research, Funding opportunities, PG research, Publishing, Research news jmcdougall

Audio extracts of our CEMP conversation last week are here:

(1) Discussion of Marketa Zezulkova’s book chapter on a holistic approach to media literacy:

Marketa’s article: discussion

(2) Discussion of Richard Wallis’ journal article on media literacy and policy discourse: Richard’s article – discussion

And a reminder that the final CEMP Research & Innovation cluster meeting of the year is this Thursday the 11th July, 10-11am in the CEMP office, Iain MacRury is joining us to discuss a new AHRC call. The latest version of the CEMP R&I bulletin is here: CEMP Cluster bulletin and agenda 4.7.13

July 9, 2013

How can we help you meet your research goals? (or things I wish I had known as an early career researcher) (Demystifying the research process part 2)

Uncategorized Heather Savigny

Research is difficult. And like the loneliness of the long distance runner it can be isolating too. The aim of this post is demystify some of those early career uncertainties about what is expected, and to think about how we can work together in research as process (rather than content). It is underpinned by the questions: what should an early career researcher be aiming for? And how can we help those goals be identified, made manageable and achievable? It is based on a session I recently ran with some of my early career research colleagues.

We set aside a morning to begin this conversation. We started with a discussion about some of the constraints and barriers to research, both across the sector and within BU. Across the sector, government the Russell Group’s response to this (grr) all militate to pose greater challenges than perhaps 10 or 20 years ago. Within BU there are also a set of strategic goals across the University, schools and groupings. And of course, colleagues also have their own personal research goals.

Having discussed this wider context, we then began to think and talk about what we would want to achieve with our own research and how these goals might align with the context we are in. We did this through a conversations around a set of questions about research as process:
e.g. what is research?
what does a good research profile look like?
Where do you want your research to be at the end of the summer? After one year? Three years? (full set of discussion questions available from me hsavigny@bournemouth.ac.uk)

Through these conversations we then generated a series of outcomes:

Colleagues developed realistic research plans for over the summer (which included holiday away from research and work generally)
Shared practice on how to develop a research timeline for the forthcoming year and for three years
The request for both a bespoke grants academy session (in current discussion with the research office who offer some great support here) and a writing workshop (to be organised by me and held in the Autumn)
An agreement to run a series of research ‘brown bag’ sessions where we discuss the research we did over the summer (and we have just heard that we have now been able to get a one hour research session in to our timetable. This is so that discussions about research content and as process can continue throughout the year)
A plan to hold a ‘meet the editors, publishers and grant reviewers’ session (again as part of the demystification process)
A plan to establish an electronic discussion forum on linkedin so that research plans, ideas and good practice can be shared

Why I think this will work:

I think sometimes in the midst of everything (exam boards and marking and reassessment and emails etc etc etc) we can forget that research is fun. Having a bespoke session where we think specifically about research and hear about each other’s projects is just good fun and can be quite energising
Colleagues have some amazing ideas and research projects
To have a space to talk about why research is difficult, and to understand that many researchers feel like that, can help with those feelings of isolation. Working collaboratively is not only about working together on content. The isolation and loneliness that can accompany research can also be tackled if we think of research as process; it doesn’t matter if someone works in my area or not, we can still engage in the exchange and challenging of ideas
We have set small, achievable goals, as well as having done some long term planning.

I am more than happy to share what we did. If you would like to know more about the above or the writing workshops, or think of doing something similar yourself, please do get in touch

July 8, 2013

Reality Television Conference at Bournemouth

BU research, Public engagement, Publishing, Research news Christopher Pullen

The Bournemouth Media School conference ‘Reality Television: Media Convergences and Narrative Futures’ has just finished, taking place between July 5-6. Funded by the Media School’s Narrative Research Group, and drawing a wide range of international contributors, we were delighted with the outcomes. Key note speakers Reader Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton) and Professor Helen Wood (DeMontfort University), offered great insight, respectively, into aspects of (post) feminism, and the significance of labour use and exchange within the reality television genre. Notably Helen Woods discussion on ‘precarious labour’, whilst identifying key contexts of gender performance within the the reality television programme ‘Georgie Shaw’, offered stimulating insight into aspects of commodity, and the objectification of male and female sexual agency. Also Nouredinne Miladi’s (Qatar University) discussion of ‘Arab Idol’ offered great insight into the transgressive potential of factual television in considering the recent support for the Palestinian winner of the ‘Arab Idol’ series. In addition Anne Ganzert’s (University of Konstanz, Germany) examination of convergence and branding, foregrounding a case study on Kandi Burruss, was highly insightful. Offering a new perspective on participatory audiences and examining the television phenomenon ‘Gogglebox’, Richard McCulloch’ of University of East Anglia considered new layers of audience identification and issues of celebrity. Every paper was a delight, and generally there was a great sense of camaraderie in the conference cohort, stimulated by the social event in the evening, where the great sunny weather offered even more optimism. Significantly the conference offered great benefits in the exchange of ideas, and this will be extended as the conference organisers Chris Pullen and Peri Bradley, are working on an edited collection focusing on the subject area. Additionally it is intended that this will be the first of a series of annual conference events on the study of reality television. Finally thanks again to Bronwen Thomas (of the NRG) not only for supporting us, but also for creating the Twitter feed #realitybu – this became a very engaging focal point, adding to both the academic and social benefit.

July 8, 2013

Commissioned Report on Copyright and Orphan Works by academics at BU and Glasgow is launched in London

Awarded & submitted bids, BU research, Featured academics, PG research, Public engagement, Research news, Research themes, Uncategorized cippm

Copyright and the Regulation of Orphan Works, a report commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and co-authored by Dr. Marcella Favale, Dr. Fabian Homberg, Dr. Dinusha Mendis and Dr. Davide Secchi of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) at Bournemouth University and Professor Martin Krestchmer of CREATe, University of Glasgow was launched at the Orphans and Images event at the Law Society in London. It took place on 2 July 2013. Marcella Favale and Fabian Homberg introduced by Professor Martin Kretschmer presented the report.

The event was sponsored by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and CREATe, the Research Council UK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy.

The report consisting of two Studies, included a comparative international review of actual and proposed orphan works legislation in several jurisdictions aimed at identifying key characteristics of orphan works licensing schemes and simulated rights clearance for six scenarios in order to identify pricing models in the studied jurisdictions.

A panel discussion chaired by The Honourable Mr. Justice Arnold followed the launch of the Report. The panel included Richard Boulderstone (British Library); Matthew Cope (Intellectual Property Office); David Hoffman (Editorial Photographers EPUK / Hoffman Photos), Dr. Ros Lynch (Copyright Hub), Professor Derek McAuley (University of Nottingham and TSB Connected Digital Economy Catapult) and Dr. Jeremy Silver (Bridgeman Art Library).

The event also provided an opportunity to launch the the research agenda of CREATe and to launch the CREATe working paper series. For more information, please see http://www.create.ac.uk/

The Report, titled ‘Copyright and the Regulation of Orphan Works: A Comparative Review of Seven Jurisdictions and a Rights Clearance Simulation’ can be accessed here

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EC and Research Data Open Access Consultation – see one of the responses

Argyro Karanasiou’s article featured in the International Forum for Responsible Media Blog (Inforrm)

Have your Say! What should the new online research degree monitoring system be called?

2015 Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference coming to BU

eBU in final stages before launch – please submit now!

Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) 2013 now available

A new Portal addressing questions on Copyright is launched in London

Inventions and Intellectual Property Law comes alive at the Festival of Design and Innovation 2013

Looking to the Horizons

NERC peer review college call for members 2013

Seen But Seldom Heard: An exciting future for the project

Ingenious grant scheme from the Royal Academy of Engineering – for creative public engagement with engineering projects

CEMP Conversation / Cluster

How can we help you meet your research goals? (or things I wish I had known as an early career researcher) (Demystifying the research process part 2)

Reality Television Conference at Bournemouth

Commissioned Report on Copyright and Orphan Works by academics at BU and Glasgow is launched in London

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