Professor Timothy Darvill, together with co-authors Peter Marshall, Mike Parker Pearson and Geoffrey Wainwright, have been awarded the 2013 Ben Cullen Prize by the leading international journal Antiquity for their article ‘Remodelling Stonehenge’ published in the December 2012 issue. For further information about the prize and access to the article see: http://journal.antiquity.ac.uk/prize-winners.
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Change of venue for eBU drop in session
The venue has changed for the first drop in session for prospective authors and those interested in eBU: Online Journal.
I had advertised sessions on Talbot on Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th – both in PG30d. However, the Monday session will now take place in TAG01. I shall place a sign on the door of PG30d in order to redirect people!
The revised eBU drop in sessions are now as follows:
Monday 7th October 11am – 2pm TAG01
Tuesday 8th October 11am – 2pm PG30d
And on the Lansdowne:
Wednesday 9th 11am – 2pm EBC ground floor cafe
New staff profile pages will be released tomorrow
The new staff profile page application is being transitioned into live operation during the morning tomorrow. The new pages should be accessible by noon.
There is nothing BRIAN users need to do. However, the staff profile pages draw most of their information from BRIAN so ensuring your BRIAN profile is up to date and you have populated the new fields, eg the research field, would be good preparation to ensure your new profile page looks great.
One area of the new profile pages that is still being worked on is the link to documents in BURO. Documents that are available in BURO can still be accessed from the staff profile pages. Our work is to remove the link to those documents that are no longer available in BURO. This work should be complete next week and will mean that BURO document links will only be displayed for accessible files.
Please have a look at the new pages once they are live and let us know what you think by emailing BRIAN@bournemouth.ac.uk.
BU PhD Studentship Competition 2014 – Call for Project Proposals
The Graduate School is delighted to announce the launch of the 2014 BU PhD Studentship Competition. Potentially, there will be up to 50 studentships available across two parallel strands: (1) Matched Funded and (2) Fully Funded.
At this stage, Academic Staff are invited to submit proposals for studentship projects which, if successful, will be advertised to recruit PhD candidates for an October 2014 start.
Full details can be found on the Graduate School Staff Intranet.
- For Information: BU Studentship Competition 2014 Policy
- For Information: Studentship Proposal Form (application form)
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For Information: Matched Funded PhD Studentships Flyer (useful information for potential matched funders)
Support for Academic Staff:
Staff Development are running a one day workshop “Funding your Studentship: engaging effectively with business and industry” on Tuesday 15 October 2013 for academic staff considering submitting a proposal(s). Full details of the event and how to book are available here.
Submission Deadline:
Applications should be submitted on the Studentship Proposal form to the Graduate School; email: phdstudentshipcompetition@bournemouth.ac.uk) no later than 5pm on Monday 6 January 2014. Funding decisions will be made in line with the Studentship Policy within 3 weeks of the deadline.
‘Workshop ‘Modelling Organisational Behaviour and Social Agency’
BU’s Business School is hosting the Workshop ‘Modelling Organisational Behaviour and Social Agency’, 27-28 January 2014, EBC. Abstract submissions are now open!
The Workshop is organised by Davide Secchi (Dept. of Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour, BU) and Martin Neumann (Institute for Information Systems in Business and Public Administration, U. of Koblenz) and it is supported by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) UK.
We aim at bringing together a group of people that is interested in any aspect of agent-based models (ABMs) of social agents in organisations. We invite submissions that seek to examine the applications, structure, how-to, potentials, and philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of ABMs applied to organisational behaviour and social agency. The workshop welcomes contributions from any discipline, including but not limited to psychology, sociology, management, computer science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, economics, philosophy, you name it!
Submissions are due 3rd November 2013.
For more information, check the Call for Abstracts. CFA-ABM Workshop
Patient involvement in research boosts study success!
According to a new study by King’s College London, involving patients in the design and implementation of research programmes increases the likelihood of studies recruiting to target. Delays in recruitment are a major reason why some studies fail, so better recruitment means studies are more likely to be successful and run on time and budget. The authors argue that researchers need to involve patients more comprehensively in research.
Published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the researchers analysed 374 studies registered with the Mental Health Research Network (MHRN). Studies which included collaboration with service users in designing or running the trial were 1.63 times more likely to recruit to target than studies which only consulted service users. Studies which involved more partnerships – a higher level of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) – were 4.12 times more likely to recruit to target.
More information can be found at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iop/news/records/2013/September/Patient-involvement-in-research-boosts-study-success.aspx and http://brc.slam.nhs.uk/our-blog/brcu/developing-best-treatments-means-patient-involvement-every-step-of-the-way
Paper reference: Ennis, L. et al. ‘Impact of patient involvement in mental health research: longitudinal study’ British Journal of Psychiatry (Sept 2013) doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.119818
Publication of the Third NUS/HEA ‘Student Attitudes towards and skills for Sustainable Development’ report
This is the third year of reporting on student attitudes towards, and skills for, sustainable development (SD) continuing research conducted in 2010 and 2011
Two page Executive summary available at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/sustainability/Executive_summary_2013-4.pdf
Full report at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/sustainability/2013_student_skills_final_report
BU is well placed in addressing SD within the curriculum but perhaps we could do more?
Tonight is the night for Cafe Scientifique’s one year anniversary! Join us for an exciting talk on – Technobiophilia: How nature calms your wired life.
Why do we adorn our screens with pictures of forests, waterfalls, animals and beaches? Why are there so many nature metaphors in the language of the internet? The answer lies in biophilia, the innate human attraction to life and life-like processes. Sue Thomas believes that nature can soothe our connected minds and offer unexpected benefits – an improved attention span, a rested mind, and enhanced creativity. So there’s no need to choose between technology and well-being – we can have both! This talk is about the best way to make our digital lives integrated, healthy, and mindful.
If you would like to find out more about Sue Thomas, please visit her website: www.suethomas.net
This month we have worked with the Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival, so this is definitely not one to miss. Also, as an extra special treat we have brownie cake to celebrate our one year anniversary – what a great success Cafe Scientfique has been!
Doors open at the wonderful Cafe Boscanova, Boscombe at 6:30pm and Sue Thomas will begin her fascinating talk on Technobiophilia at 7:30pm-9pm. There is no need to register for this event, so just simply come along! There is also some excellent food available (and chocolate brownie – if I hadn’t already mentioned).
The Cafe Scientifique team look forward to seeing you there!
CEMP Research & Innovation
At the open forum last week, we agreed the following actions for the coming year:
Research & Innovation Bulletin – to continue for information only, once a fortnight, via the research blog, from October 10th;
CEMP meetings – for CEMP staff only, once a month, to include bidding and income monitoring;
CEMP Coffee Mornings – once a month, ‘drop in’ for anyone in the MS who wants to talk to us about funding applications or other research / innovation opportunities. The first of these will be Thursday October 17th;
CEMP workshops – a series of supportive events to help people get started with research, bid writing, publishing, networking;
CEMP Associates – a proposal will be submitted to facilitate more experienced colleagues working with CEMP in a more structured fashion – to collaborate on bid writing, projects and making connections across academic groups.
Fusion: Sports Academic Group and School of Tourism to Advance Partnerships with US East Coast Universities
As part of the overall internationalisation dynamics spreading through the School of Tourism – especially concerned with creating opportunities for students – Dr Tim Breitbarth, Senior Lecturer in Sports Management, will travel to South Carolina and Florida end of October.
The project is funded through the BU Fusion Investment Fund, based on the trips’ three impact-focused objectives of, firstly and mainly, advancing partnership development for the sports academic group as well as the School of Tourism and potentially other Schools as well; secondly, Tim will collect further sets of empirical data for an established and awarded international collaborative research project on CSR and sport; and thirdly, develop and foster industry and research contacts aiming towards strengthening BU’s golf/sport management programmes and editing a first book on global golf business.
Main contacts and places to go are the University of South Carolina, which has the largest undergraduate sports and entertainment management programme of its kind in the USA, with more than 1000 majors and minors (recently been listed in the Top25 in the 2013 SportBusiness Global Postgraduate Ranking), and the University of Central Florida, where a university partnership agreement covering many subject areas is already well underway.
“My experience with the Fusion fund and the way it is managed is that coherent applications focusing on wider impact and multiple outcomes are very welcome,” says Tim, who already was successful with staff mobility and networking applications in the past. Please feel free to contact Tim (tbreitbarth@bournemouth.ac.uk) if you like to learn more about his upcoming trip.

Events and Leisure Students Help Create Carnival Futures
Bournemouth University students from the Events and Leisure Group in the School of Tourism joined carnival organisations, young professionals, experts, researchers and Notting Hill residents to plan for the future of the Notting Hill Carnival.
Annie Mbagwu, Roxana Nucu, Olivia Wreford and Billy Wright participated in the public workshop held on September 24th 2013, which was organized as part of the Carnival Futures: Notting Hill Carnival 2020 project. The project is being funded by the King’s Cultural Institute which sponsors knowledge exchange projects that seek to test new ideas and stimulate innovation within the cultural and creative sector. It is jointly led by led by Principal Investigator Nicole Ferdinand, PhD researcher with King’s College London’s department of Culture Media and Creative Industries and Kemi Sobers, Director of the London Notting Hill Carnival Enterprises Trust.
Dr. Mary Beth Gouthro, Lecturer in Events Management in the School of Tourism has also been retained as an independent evaluator for the project.
For more information please see this link.
Don’t delay – today is the deadline to complete the Research Ethics e-module!
The research ethics e-module is available on myBU for all academic staff and for those who supervise students. To access the e-module login to myBU and click on ‘Research Ethics’ in the ‘My Communities’ tab. Please note that the preferred browser to view the course/quiz is either Internet Explorer or Google Chrome.
Why are research ethics important?
It is important to conduct research in line with ethical standards for a number of reasons:
• In order to respect and cause no harm to the participants
• As a sign of respect for other researchers and those who will use the research
• It is a professional requirement particularly in some disciplines and failure to do so may result in disciplinary procedures.
• It is a requirement to obtain funding.
• Failing to conduct research ethically could be embarrassing or result in research (or the researcher) being dismissed or rejected by the research community.
• Research involving human beings, including using questionnaires and focus groups, must be passed by an Ethics Committee whose job it is to confirm that the research conforms to a set of ethical guidelines.
If ethics are considered, this should make sure that the work is acceptable to the research community and other users of the research results.
10 features of the new Staff Profile Pages you need to know
Here are the top 10 features of the new Staff Profile Pages (SPP) application that is to be released this week.
1. Improved header information. The header contains information on your title, job title and contact details. This is always present at the top of every page. Icons are also displayed to indicate the research themes to which you are linked and the keywords selected. Social media and website links are also displayed.
2. Improved searching. Previously the search facility was quite poor. Now, it is possible to search for partial matches for people’s name and publications. In addition, SPP will prompt with ‘Did you mean?’ suggestions. This is very useful where users are searching for staff but don’t quite enter the name correctly.
3. Displaying favourites. Within BRIAN you can highlight a publication (or grant) as a favourite. This is achieved by clicking on the heart icon next to the item. We suggest staff select a maximum of five favourites. These items then appear on the home page of the SPP in chronological order.
4. Displaying your current research activity. We have just introduced to BRIAN the ability to record your current research activity. If completed in BRIAN, this is displayed on the home page of SPP. Having this information makes you profile feel contemporary and up to date so we encourage your to complete this area within the Professional Activities area of BRIAN.
5. Immediate profile refresh. The frustration that changes in BRIAN cannot be viewed in the profile page until the next day has been removed by the ability to refresh a page immediately in SPP. There is a small area at the base of the SPP pages which tells you when the page was last refreshed and, by clicking on the icon, allows you to refresh the page. This means that any changes you make in BRIAN are immediately visible so that you can see how the change looks.

6. Browse by research theme or keyword. You can click on a research theme or keyword and see all the people who have that association. To make this feature useful, please ensure your RTs and keywords are up to date.
7. Existing links to your page continue to work. While the application has changed, people who have bookmarked the URL for your profle can lick on this old link to access your new profile.
8. Two-way link with PhD students. The method of linking to PhD students is much improved with the ability to hyperlink from a supervisor to the student and from the student back to the supervisor(s). To achieve this, it is necessary to enter the student’s username when adding a PhD student to BRIAN.
9. Improved scrolling. Where there are many publications to display, the header is always visible on the screen so that the user knows which section is being viewed. It also allows the user to easily switch section without scrolling. Also, at the bottom of the screen, there is a button that returns the user to the top of the screen.
10. Publication format. The format for publications conforms to the BU standard.
While these 10 features of SPP are great, some of them (items 1, 3, 4, 6 & 8 ) require you to enter the information into BRIAN. To a large extent, the SPP pages will only be a good as the underlying information in BRIAN so please spare a few minutes to update your BRIAN profile, add a recent picture etc.
Women’s Academic Network Launched at BU
Thursday 26th September saw the launch at BU of the Women’s Academic Network (WAN). It seems rather timely that as I am sitting writing this, there is a discussion on the Today programme about the re-rise of feminism and feminist activism. WAN’s aims and raison d’être have been spelled out previously on this blog, and on Thursday after some wine/light refreshments we Retreated (sorry) to the inauspicious surroundings of the newly revamped Mary Shelley lecture theatre for our inaugural address.
Head of ApSci and HSC, Gail Thomas eloquently introduced the aims of the network, the committee and gave details of our Fusion funded speaker programme (first event November 22nd Laura Bates from everyday sexism, lunchtime seminar, room tbc) and read out a message of support from a sister network at UEA (see below). The Vice Chancellor, John Vinney then welcomed the packed room to the Women’s Academic Network, and to the event. He also highlighted how WAN is just one of a number of initiatives here at BU, including the excellent work being led by Tiantian Zhang around Athena Swan. Gail then introduced our speaker, Dr Fiona Beddoes-Jones from the Cognitive Fitness Consultancy. There was a collective intake of breath when the keynote mentioned things that can cause tension in organisations…such as car parks, but that is real life I guess. Her talk was derived in part from work in neuroscience and in a good natured manner she humorously took us through the differing characteristics of authentic leadership. She was careful to not revert to the biological determinism which can characterise this work, and she generated some very thought provoking questions after. She asked the audience to write down their 3’top tips’ for women academics. These have been collected, will be collated and posted here at a later date.
Sue Sutherland (OBE, Chair of the Board) then gave a vote of thanks where she talked about her own experiences and background. She talked of the relative absence of women at senior level, and stressed there was recognition and a will to tackle this. She also emphasised the importance of having and of being role models, to each other and to our students, closing the address on an important note.
Networking opportunities followed and which provided a great opportunity to meet women across the University who we may not normally have had recourse to come across.
Thanks are finally due to the massive audience, it was great to see the place full. Thanks too for those messages of support and interest from those who could not be there.
So what happens next?
Well there are Fusion funded speaker events planned which will be advertised in the usual way. If you wish to be added to the mailing list please contact Jo Downey and we will keep you posted as we move forward.
This is just the start and we hope you are able to stay in touch and join in.
Letter of support from Resnet (women’s research network at UEA)
The Network for Women In Research
and Supporting Research
25th September 2013
Via hsavigny@bournemouth.ac.uk
Dear Heather
On behalf of your friends on the ResNet Committee I am writing to send you and your colleagues all our best wishes for the launch of the Bournemouth University Women’s Academic Network – WAN.
As you know, ResNet has been running continuously here since 2000. There have been many improvements for women in research and academia since then, but there is still some distance to go. Consequently there is a very strong need for networks with a fairness and gender equality focus. Importantly, women remain under-represented in the more senior, decision making, senior academic posts. The issues retarding women’s advancement are complex and more open discussion is needed to improve awareness and lobby for change. WAN will give Bournemouth University a forum for these issues and the all-important networking space that academic women need and enjoy.
We wish WAN and yourselves every success and look forward to exchanging ideas between our two networks in the future.
Best wishes
Gill Malin
Chair of ResNet
Kick starting the academic year with Erasmus Mundus TECHNO and TECHNO II partneships
The start of the academic year has seen the Schools of Applied Sciences and Design, Engineering and Computing welcoming 4 new Erasmus Mundus students through the TECHNO 2 (Erasmus Mundus Partnership). Specifically, these include 3 fully funded MSc students and 1 BSc exchange students (6 month).
Last year, the School of Applied Sciences has welcomed one post-doc exchange, 2 teaching staff exchanges and 1 MPhil student TECHNO. By December 31st, 2013 both schools will welcome an additional 2 teaching staff; 1 post-doc exchange and 1 PhD exchange.
Both TECHNO and TECHNO II projects are partnerships of the Erasmus Mundus programme of the European Union, and they are collectively funded with approximately 4 million euro. All participants receive a monthly allowance and full cover of their travel expenses and medical insurance. The person in charge of TECHNO and TECHNO II at BU is Dr Demetra Andreou; a Lecture in Environmental Science at the School of Applied Sciences and is currently supported by Dr Emilie Hardouin (maternity cover for Dr Andreou) and Mrs Heather Cashin (Senior Programme Administrator at Applied Sciences).
The second call of the TECHNO II project will take place before the end of this year. All the information about the TECHNO projects can be found at http://www.techno-em.org/ and http://www.techno2-em.org/



The TECHNO team with our current participants (Left to right: Dr Demetra Andreou, Dr Emilie Hardouin, Yating Ru, Phuong Nguyen, Quyen Tran, Yankun Zhao, Qianqian Wei and Heather Cashin.

Nigel Farage’s UKIP Conference speech
Does Nigel Farage need a crash-course in EU law?
One of the things that struck me about the recent coverage of the UKIP conference (which, as I will explain, is not entirely unrelated to the pamphlet that struck Michael Crick) was that many UKIP members complained that the controversy surrounding Godfrey Bloom’s comments overshadowed their emergence as a real political force. It seems certain that at the next European and local elections, and possibly even at the general election, UKIP will be a major player. My research background in EU law means I am interested in how the political world frames and explains EU issues, and particularly the extent to which political positions reflect the laws underpinning them. UKIP’s manifesto is a rich source here, and this is the perhaps tenuous connection to the document that played such a starring role in the Bloom-Crick kerfuffle.
Reading through Nigel Farage’s keynote speech – with the intention of writing a post about the EU laws underpinning his comments on immigration – I stumbled across this statement: ‘our laws have come from Brussels – and what laws. What directives. What a list of instructions. How this shall be done. How that shall be regulated’.
This struck me for several reasons. Much of my research is concerned with the relationship between EU law and EU democracy (I’m sure many readers would argue that it is now my phrase that is striking, even an oxymoron – without wishing to go into too much detail, the EU does have democratic processes, even if their effectiveness and suitability is questionable). Because of this background, whenever a politician talks about ‘Brussels’ or ‘EU laws’, I am put slightly on edge. They are broad terms that risk oversimplifying a complicated area. Debates about EU democracy need to be based on clear understandings of the underpinning laws; otherwise one risks, in Mr Farage’s words, ‘playing the man and not the ball’.
With that in mind, I’d like to look at two aspects of the quotation I highlighted above – the references to ‘Brussels’ and ‘laws’ – and explain that the situation is not quite as simple as the speech makes out. My analysis is going to be a brief one focused on the relevant legal procedures – Channel 4’s FactCheck blog has some interesting posts on the statistical side of the speech.
Brussels
It is very common to hear politicians talking about Brussels as an umbrella term for the EU, either positively or negatively. But what does it mean? When ‘Brussels’ makes law, who is actually making them?
The answer is lawyerly: it depends. The EU acts on the principle of conferred powers. This means it can only legislate in areas mandated by the Treaties – if it enjoys a so-called ‘legal basis’. For example, the EU has some environmental law competences because of Articles 191-192 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Each legal base found in the Treaties requires a particular legislative procedure, and each process calls for different involvement from the Council (made up of elected national ministers), the European Parliament (directly elected MEPs) and the Commission (an appointed body but one which typically proposes laws rather than passes them).
Broadly speaking, since the Lisbon Treaty most EU laws have been made using the ‘ordinary legislative procedure’. This was previously known as ‘co-decision’. Under this procedure, the Commission proposes legislation (sometimes prompted by the Parliament or national ministers), but it is not a legislative body. A majority of votes in the Council and the European Parliament must agree on the final draft of a particular proposal before it becomes law. Less frequently there will be a ‘special legislative procedure’, which normally means the Parliament is just consulted by the Council; on rarer occasions it sees no role for the Parliament or gives the Parliament a veto.
So, does a monolithic ‘Brussels’ pass these laws? Not exactly. EU laws are passed through a process of negotiation and bargaining amongst elected national ministers and elected MEPs. Even if the MEPs are sidelined, promulgation remains the responsibility of elected national ministers. This may be imperfect, but it perhaps differs to the common perception.
Laws
It is interesting that the speech uses the words ‘directive’ and ‘regulated’. This is because Directives and Regulations are two different kinds of EU law, and each works in a different way. This doesn’t mean that the EU is not passing laws which affect the UK, but it does mean that EU laws are not diktats.
A Regulation is binding on Member States from the moment it is passed: it has ‘direct effect’. Those laws do indeed tell Member States ‘how this shall be done’ – for example, a common customs code – although one might point out that laws tend to tell people what to do. As noted above however, it is the Member States themselves, and usually elected MEPs, that have agreed to whatever course of action is proposed.
A Directive on the other hand gives far more discretion to Member States. Directives set out a certain goal – for example, make sure EU citizens can move and reside freely across the EU (with certain caveats) – but it is only the goal that is binding. Member States can pursue that aim however they wish, and it is not unheard of for a given state’s domestic law to already comply with the Directive. In that regard Directives certainly do not tell states ‘how this shall be done’.
Once again then, the situation seems more complex that it has been made out. The image of ‘Brussels’ telling states ‘what to do’ is not necessarily accurate.
Final thoughts
There is an understandable and important debate occurring about whether the UK should remain in the EU, but it should be based on a clear picture of how the EU operates. Phrases such as ‘Brussels’ and ‘EU laws’ are commonplace, but they risk oversimplifying the issues. Decisions and policy ought to follow from a more solid basis. A clearer understanding of the law leads to a more informed debate.
About David Yuratich
David Yuratich is a lecturer in law at Bournemouth University. His research interests include the constitutional law in the UK and the EU law, and the relationships between courts and democracy.
Online training got you down? Prefer an alternative face-to-face route to completing the Research Ethics e-module? Two session being held tomorrow!
Don’t fancy the pure online mode of delivery for the Research Ethics training in myBU? Prefer an alternative? We are holding two University-wide sessions where you will get the opportunity to go through the e-module and discuss any aspects of the training with colleagues and then finish by taking a paper quiz, which will confirm your completion of the e-module. These sessions are primarily targeted at those members of staff who have yet to complete the e-module; however, anyone is welcome!
Details of the sessions are below:
Lansdowne – 1 October 1000-1100 EB302
Talbot – 1 October 1500-1600 PG22
If you would like to attend, please email Julia Hastings Taylor. For more information on the Research Ethics e-module, please click here or check out the Training section of the Research Ethics page.
Current public engagement funding opportunities – Now you’ve had some inspiration, it’s time to take it to the next step!
The Royal Academy of Engineering invites proposals for ingenious public engagement grants.
The Royal Academy of Engineering is supporting innovative ideas which will help engineers to communicate their passion and expertise to a wider audience. The academy is welcoming applications from different types of organisation and if successful funding from £3,000 to £30,000 is available per project.
In order to be successful in your application, the Royal Academy of Engineering is asking you to ensure that your project aims to achieve at least three certain criterions, stated on the funding website.
The closing date for this funding opportunity is the 30th September 13 and applications need to be in by 5:30pm.
You can find out more about this ingenious grant scheme here: http://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1207065/
The Science and Technology Facilities Council – science-in-society small awards scheme.
The science and Technology Facilities Council are inviting applications for the science-in-society small awards. The aim of the scheme is to fund small, local or pilot projects that promote STFC science and technology. In order for your application to be successful, the project must be relevant to one or more of the STFC science areas, which are listed on the website.
Eligible applicants include STFC research facility users, grant-funded research groups, schools and also museums. Those successful can be awarded between £500 and £10,000 and may cover expenses for materials, salaries, travel and subsistence.
The closing date for applications is 10th October 13; applications must be in by 4pm.
You are able to find out more about the small awards scheme here: http://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/256087/
The Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics are inviting applications for public engagement grants. The scheme will provide financial support to those individuals and organisations that are running physic-based events and activities throughout the UK and Ireland.
Those eligible applicants include; members of IOP, researchers in academic or industry, schools, museums, community groups, not-for-profit organisations, art groups and libraries, however it is not limited to these!
Successful applicants can win a grant worth up to £1,500.
The closing date for applications is 22nd October 13; due in by 12 noon.
You can find out more about the Institute of Physics public engagement grants and how to apply here: http://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/256904/
The Welcome Trust – People awards.
The welcome trust are also inviting applications for their people awards, which enable individuals to explore the impact of biomedical science on society, its historical roots, effects on different cultures, or the ethical questions that it raises.
The awards aim to support those small-to-medium-sized one-off projects or projects which pilot new ideas with a view to scale up or become sustainable following the grant, or they can part-fund larger projects. The project should aim to achieve at least one of the conditions, which is clearly stated on the website (link to follow).
The scheme is available to a large scale of people, including; mediators and practitioners of science communication, science centre of museum staff, artists, educators, film makers, theatre producers, game developers, health professionals and academics in bioscience, social science, bioethics and history.
For those successful applications, there is up to £30,000 available per project.
The closing date for applications is 25th October 13; applications are due in by 5pm.
To find out more please visit:http://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/246180/
The Welcome Trust – Arts awards for small to medium-sized projects
Again, The Welcome Trust are also inviting applications for their arts awards for small to medium-sized projects which supports imaginative and experimental art projects that investigate biomedical science.
The scheme is available to a large number of people including; artists, scientists, curators, filmmakers, writers, producers, directors, academics, science communicators, teachers, arts workers and education officers.
An award of up to £30,000 is available for projects that last a maximum of 3 years.
The closing date for applications is 01 November 13 and due in by 5pm.
Please find out more here:http://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/255353/
Royal Society of Edinburgh – Nominations for its prizes for public engagement
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is inviting nominations for their prizes for public engagement with the aim to recognise and promote excellence in the emerging field of public engagement with research. There are two prizes to be awarded.
The closing date for applications is 13th January 14.
To find out more, please visit: http://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1019593/
The Arts and Humanities Research Council – follow-on funding for impact and engagement scheme.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council are inviting applications for the following scheme. This scheme provides funding for creative and innovative engagements with new audiences and user communities which stimulate pathways to impact.
Successful applications can be awarded up to £100,000 for a maximum of 12 months and small awards of up to £30,000 can be used for higher risk and shorter activities.
There is NO deadline for applications!
Be sure to find out more! http://www.researchprofessional.com/funding/opportunity/1002695/
If you have any questions or queries relating to the current funding opportunities available, or public engagement in general, please do not hesitate to contact Dr Rebecca Edwards on redwards@bournemouth.ac.uk OR extension number: 61206