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This week’s research process seminar. Visual Politics and the Global South. 6th December at 2pm on Zoom

You are warmly welcomed to this week’s research process seminar. Hosted in FMC but open to all staff and research students

Visual Politics and the Global South – by Dr. Anastasia Veneti (BU) & Dr. Maria Rovisco

The discussion will build on those efforts by various scholars to de-westernise media and communication studies. By drawing on our forthcoming edited collection (Visual Politics in the Global South), we aim to discuss whether there is a distinctive global-south approach to the study of visual politics, as well as how the methodologies, theories and concepts mobilized by visual scholars from the Global South interact with those Northern approaches, concepts and methodologies that constitute the canon of visual politics research.  

6th December at 2pm

https://bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9292103478?pwd=UzJnNTNQWDdTNldXdjNWUnlTR1cxUT09

Meeting ID: 929 210 3478

Passcode: rps!4fmc

We hope to see you there

Dan and Sae

New paper FHSS Visiting Faculty

NHS, Publishing, Women's Academic Network, writing

The latest issue of the journal Performing Ethos: An International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance includes the paper ‘The birth of a lullaby and these COVID years’ by Jillian Ireland, who is BU Visiting Faculty.  Jillian is Visiting Faculty in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) and Professional Midwifery Advocate in Poole Maternity Hospital, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (UHD). 

Her new paper describes the birth (an appropriate verb to be used by a midwife) of a lullaby. This particular lullaby grew from a community-based maternity care intervention.  This project was funded by the Burdett Fund for Nurses, supported by the Foundation of Nursing Studies, and co-created by local women and staff  from maternity, health visiting and the Children’s Centre in the community.  The beautiful illustrations in this paper are by two local artists: Alan Mercel-Sanca and Allison Churchill.

Reference:

Ireland, J. (2022) The birth of a lullaby and these COVID years, Performing Ethos: An International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance, 12: 39–52,  https://doi.org/10.1386/peet_00045_1

Supervisor Lunchbite | Clinical Research Governance and the role of the PGR supervisor

PG research

Hosted by the Doctoral College, these one hour online lunch bite sessions supplement the regular New and Established Supervisory Development Sessions and are aimed at all academic staff who are new to, or experienced at, supervising research degree students and are interested in expanding their knowledge of a specific aspect or process in research degree supervision.

Each session will be led by a senior academic who will introduce the topic, and staff will benefit from discussions aimed at sharing best practice from across BU. Bookings are arranged by Organisational Development.

This session is focused on expanding individuals’ knowledge on the research governance processes and supervisory responsibilities for supporting their PGRs. This discussion will be led by Suzy Wignall, RDS.

Staff attending this session will: 

  • have gained additional knowledge of the research governance approval process
  • have gained an understanding of the role of the Supervisor in supporting PGRs

Further details on the session as well as information on future lunchbite sessions can also be found on the staff intranet.

Date: Wednesday 7 December 2022

Time: 12:00 – 13:00

To book a place on this session please complete the booking form.

Further details and future sessions can also be found on the Supervisory Development Lunchbite Sessions staff intranet page.

Visiting NEOMA Business School

I was delighted to present the findings of a consultancy project aiming to enhance research governance at the university of Manouba to Professor Mourad Touzani and his team at NEOMA, a leading Business School in Europe. I received excellent feedback that helped me to improve the project and adapt the presentation of the project outcomes to the audience. I have been working on this project with Professor Marcjanna Augustin and Dr Sean Beer. I have also discussed future collaboration with Professor Mourad Touzani.

Congratulations to Dr. Daisy Wiggins

Publishing, writing

Congratulations to Midwifery Lecturer Daisy Wiggins on the publication of her paper ‘Could a decision support tool be the key to supporting choice for women regarding place of birth?’ and her co-author Prof. Vanora Hundley.  This paper, based on her Ph.D. studies, has been accepted by the international journal Midwifery (academic publisher = Elsevier).

Research Professional – all you need to know

Funding opportunities

Every BU academic has a Research Professional account which delivers weekly emails detailing funding opportunities in their broad subject area. To really make the most of your Research Professional account, you should tailor it further by establishing additional alerts based on your specific area of expertise. The Funding Development Team Officers can assist you with this, if required.

Research Professional have created several guides to help introduce users to Research Professional. These can be downloaded here.

Quick Start Guide: Explains to users their first steps with the website, from creating an account to searching for content and setting up email alerts, all in the space of a single page.

User Guide: More detailed information covering all the key aspects of using Research Professional.

Administrator Guide: A detailed description of the administrator functionality.

In addition to the above, there are a set of 2-3 minute videos online, designed to take a user through all the key features of Research Professional. To access the videos, please use the following link: http://www.youtube.com/researchprofessional

Research Professional are running a series of online training broadcasts aimed at introducing users to the basics of creating and configuring their accounts on Research Professional. They are holding two monthly sessions, covering everything you need to get started with Research Professional. The broadcast sessions will run for no more than 60 minutes, with the opportunity to ask questions via text chat. Each session will cover:

  • Self registration and logging in
  • Building searches
  • Setting personalised alerts
  • Saving and bookmarking items
  • Subscribing to news alerts
  • Configuring your personal profile

Each session will run between 10.00am and 11.00am (UK) on the second Tuesday of the month. You can register here for your preferred date:

9th May 2023

These are free and comprehensive training sessions and so this is a good opportunity to get to grips with how Research Professional can work for you. Previous recordings can be found here if you can’t attend a session.

Have you noticed the pink box on the BU Research Blog homepage?

By clicking on this box, on the left of the Research Blog home page just under the text ‘Funding Opportunities‘, you access a Research Professional real-time search of the calls announced by the Major UK Funders. Use this feature to stay up to date with funding calls. Please note that you will have to be on campus or connecting to your desktop via our VPN to fully access this service.

How can cities cope with climate change? – Looking back at Café Scientifique September 2022

Dr Ediz Akcay shares his experience of presenting at a BU Café Scientifique event on 6 September 2022

My Café Scientifique experience

The talk I made in Cafe Scientifique in September 2022 was about the research we are conducting with Dr Hiroko Oe about city resilience and communities. The research aims to provide insights to city managers to improve the resilience of their cities through collaboration with stakeholders and local communities. 

We had previously presented the research to an academic audience at a Royal Geographical Society conference but felt it would be beneficial to also share it with the public, to create awareness about the impact of climate change on cities and seek their thoughts.

Details of the presentation can be found here: City resilience and increase communities’ preparedness for natural disasters

Originally, I planned to present the research together with Dr Hiroko Oe, sharing insights about our home countries to receive feedback from the audience about the cases we presented. However, Dr Oe couldn’t attend the event due to unforeseen circumstances. That meant I needed to spend extra time on her part before the event to successfully share the learnings about her case with the audience.

Due to my previous experience in public events, I anticipated that there would be many questions after the presentation. I prepared my answers to potential questions before the event, but they were difficult to predict, considering the debate going on about the climate change and its impact. 

Before the event, I learned that we were expecting a packed audience, with a registered guest list and others who arrived hoping for a space. This added some pressure but also more motivation for my presentation. 

I feel the talk went well, thanks to an engaged audience who reacted well to questions I asked during the talk, which provided extra interactivity. At the start of the Q&A session I facilitated an online quiz to test knowledge and raise awareness about the impact of our daily routine on climate change, which ended up triggering further questions.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Q&A session with its engaged discussion about the issues I presented in the talk. The questions and feedback I received from the audience have already opened new paths in the research we are conducting. Furthermore, it also led to potential new collaboration with BU colleagues who attended the event. 

Cafe Scientifique is a place where anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. We’ve been holding these talks in Bournemouth for over ten years and we’re very pleased to have returned to in-person events at The Black Cherry, a fantastic new venue in Boscombe, Bournemouth.

If you have any questions about Café Scientifique, or if you would like to get involved, please get in touch publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk

Tomorrow – The 14th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference

conferences, PG research, student research

 

Register to attend the 14th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference. We will be hosting a PGR poster exhibition in FG06 with over 40 research posters on display (our biggest exhibition yet!).

The conference will also see oral presentations presented via Zoom with a screening room in Create LT (spaces limited).

You can see the full programme with presentation and poster abstracts  in our conference brochure.

Public Involvement – How can VOICE help your research?

Could using VOICE – National Public Involvement and Network Collaboration Platform help with public involvement for your grant application and research?

Find out more about VOICE. Join  ‘VOICE: Celebrating 15 years of impact’ on Thursday 8th December, 3-5pm to celebrate all that VOICE members have achieved and the impact they have had in research and innovation.

VOICE: Celebrating 15 Years of Impact Tickets, Thu 8 Dec 2022 at 15:00 | Eventbrite

Hear from VOICE members, researchers, businesses, and the VOICE team, sharing their stories and experiences of VOICE. This will be a great opportunity to learn about how VOICE began, some of the key programmes and initiatives that they are involved in, and their vision for the future.

https://www.voice-global.org/

 

Please do get in touch if you’d like to discuss public involvement in your research further – we welcome initial informal conversation to share ideas. kejupp@bournemouth.ac.uk; wardl@bournemouth.ac.uk; voice@bournemouth.ac.uk

 

Online training opportunity: Writing for The Conversation

Training

Would you like to build a media profile and take your research to a global audience?

Find out more about writing for The Conversation and have the chance to pitch your article ideas to one of their editors in an online training session on Wednesday 7 December.

BU is a partner of The Conversation, a news analysis and opinion website with content written by academics working with professional journalists.

The training session will run by one of The Conversation’s editors and will take place from 2pm – 3pm over Zoom.

It is open to all BU academics and PhD candidates who are interested in finding out more about working with The Conversation.

Learn how to consider the news potential of your expertise, make your writing accessible and engaging to a diverse range of audiences, and pitch your ideas.

Why write for The Conversation?

The Conversation is a great way to share research and informed comment on topical issues. Academics work with editors to write pieces, which can then be republished via a creative commons license.

Since we first partnered with The Conversation, articles by BU authors have had over 8.8 million reads and been republished by the likes of The i, Metro, and the Washington Post.

Book your place via Eventbrite

Find out more about our partnership with The Conversation on the Research Impact, Engagement and Communications Sharepoint site

Doctoral Supervision | New Supervisors Development Workshop

PG research

Whether you are a new supervisor, you plan to be one, or you have experience but are new to Bournemouth University, this development workshop is for you.

The workshop, which is mandatory for new supervisors, offers the necessary knowledge to supervise Postgraduate Research students by placing this knowledge within both the internal and external regulatory framework.

This workshop will cover the following key areas:

  • Nature and scope of doctoral study and the role of a supervisor
  • Code of Practice for Research Degrees at BU, its purpose and operation
  • Monitoring, progression, completion and process of research degrees at BU
  • Importance of diversity, equality and cultural awareness
  • Student recruitment and selection
  • Keeping students on track: motivation and guidance

Book your place onto one of the Doctoral Supervision: New Supervisors Development workshops below. Further details about this workshop can also be found on the staff intranet.

Date Time Location Booking
Thursday 15 December 2022 10:00 – 14:30 Online Book
Thursday 23 February 2023 10:00 – 14:30 Talbot Campus Book
Wednesday 22 March 2023 10:00 – 14:30 Lansdowne Campus Book
Tuesday 16 May 2023 10:00 – 14:30 Talbot Campus Book

 

PGR Amina Hamza talked about mangrove conservation during royal visit in Kenya

Our PGR Amina Hamza was part of a group hosting the visit of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway to the Mikoko Pamoja project in Gazi Bay, southern Kenya, on Wednesday 23rd November 2022. Amina guided the Royals’ tour around the mangrove forest and responded to their concerns about the impacts of coastal development in Kenya with insights from her PhD work highlighting the importance of prioritising mangrove conservation to reduce the impact of  flooding and erosion along Kenya’s shoreline.

The Mikoko Pamoja project was the world’s first community-based project selling carbon credits from restoring and protecting mangroves. The project was initiated with the support from the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), where Amina works as a senior scientist. Sweden is the major buyer of the projet’s carbon credits and Norway has supported the Vanga Blue Forest project, which replicates the Mikoko Pamoja project to protect 460 hectares of mangroves closer to the border of Tanzania in southern Kenya. The Royals were accompanied by Kenyan Government dignitaries including the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry, the Governor of Kwale County, the local Member of Parliament, and the CEO and scientists from KMFRI. Part of the joint royal visit was at the invitation of the United Nations Development Programme, to which the Crown Prince is the Goodwill Ambassador and the Crown Princess is an Advocate Emerita for the UN’s Global Sustainable Development Goals.

On 8th November 2022, Amina had her viva, where examiners recommended the award of PhD following minor modifications on her thesis entitled “Understanding changes in mangrove forests and the implications to community livelihood and resource management in Kenya“. Well done, Amina! Amina was supervised by Dr Lu Esteves and Dr Marin Cvitanovic from the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences and Dr James Kairo, from KMFRI.

These photos of Amina and the Royals during their visit to the Mikoko Pamoja project have appeared in the Daily Mail online: Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden looks elegant alongside Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon in Kenya | Daily Mail Online

BU PIER (Public Involvement in Education and Research) partnership annual report

Dear colleagues, we are delighted to share the BU PIER Partnership Annual Report 2021-22 . Every year the annual report provides us with an opportunity to look back at our achievements and impact and to share some highlights from our year. To reflect the significant level of co-production this year with students, PIER members and community organisations, this year’s report is written by people with lived experience and our partners, from their perspective. We hope you enjoy reading about PIER activity and impact and we look forward to hearing your comments. The report reflects some fantastic activity across HSS.

kind regards

Mel, Angela, Pete and Kate