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August 10, 2016

Going for Gold! 3D Scanning, 3D Printing and Mass Customisation of Ancient and Modern Jewellery – Dr. Dinusha Mendis delivers invited talks in Southampton, Newcastle and London

Awarded & submitted bids, BU research, conferences, Events, Featured, Featured academics, innovation, Knowledge Exchange, Post-award, Public engagement, REF Subjects, Research communication, Research news cippm

In July 2016, Dr. Dinusha Mendis Associate Professor in Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) disseminated her research on the Intellectual Property (IP) implications of 3D scanning, 3D printing and mass customisation in Southampton, Newcastle and London.

Questioning what the future holds for IP law as a result of technologies such as 3D printing, Dr. Mendis spoke about the research she has conducted for the UK Government (UK Intellectual Property Office) as well as the research she is conducting for her RCUK/AHRC-funded project ‘Going for Gold’ considering the IP implications of 3D scanning, 3D printing and mass customisation of ancient and modern jewellery.

Cross-Hub Workshop on 3D Printing, Southampton Solent University, 5th July 2016

The event titled ‘Cross-Hub Workshop: 3D Printing: Development, Application and its Contribution to Local Economy’ hosted speakers from industry, academia and professional practice thereby presenting the opportunity to explore and discuss the digital opportunities and its potential contribution to local/national economy in the development and application of 3D printing technology.

Dr. Mendis was invited to speak about her research into the intellectual property implications of 3D printing and presented the results from the commissioned research carried out for the UK Intellectual Property Office, which led to the publication of 2 Reports and an Executive Summary in 2015, whilst outlining the copyright, design and licensing implications relating to cultural institutions and SMEs in 3D scanning and printing ancient and modern jewellery.

Fossilisation and Innovation Law, Innovation and Society Research Group of Newcastle Law School, 11th July 2016

At this 2-day event, Dr. Mendis was invited to speak about law’s response to innovation and emerging technologies. Dr. Mendis’ presentation explored law’s resilience to dynamic change, in particular, and questioned whether legislators should adapt to innovation whilst adopting innovative regulation. The 2 day event began with a keynote speech by Professor Dan Faber of UC Berkeley and concluded with a keynote speech by Professor Karen Yeung of Kings College London.

3D Printing in Law and Society Workshop, Information, Law and Policy Centre, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) London, 12th July 2016

The event marked the launch of Dr. Angela Daly’s new book on 3D Printing and commenced with a presentation from Dr. Daly, a research fellow at Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law, Australia. Dr. Daly’s presentation was followed by an invited guest lecture from Dr. Mendis who spoke about the IP implications of 3D printing, highlighting the challenges and opportunities which this technology has brought about, whilst outlining the next steps for 3D printing, from a legal perspective. More information about the event as well a write up about it, can be found here.

August 1, 2016

ECO-CODING a HEIF funded centre for DNA Meta-barcoding Ecology

Awarded & submitted bids, BU research, HEIF efranklin

ECO-CODING is a HEIF (Higher education innovation fund) funded project that will bring the technology of DNA barcoding to BU, collaborating environmental organisations and local school children. DNA (eDNA) meta-barcoding involves the use of DNA produced by living organisms, collected from the environment and matched to DNA databases telling us what species are present. eDNA can rapidly, non-invasively and cost effectively inform and influence critical issues in ecology and forensics.
The project has four key elements:

Urban Pollinators Project: How are pollinators using urban wildflower planting strips?

The Urban Pollinators project will be in collaboration with Dr Natasha de Vere from the National Botanic Garden of Wales and Bournemouth Borough Council. The project will identify pollen species from pollinators’ bodies to uncover what plants they are using in the urban environment and in addition discover the value of urban wildflower planting. This will inform the best planting strategies for pollinators. This project will provide guidance both locally (Bournemouth Borough Council) and nationally through the HEIF+1 funded Pollinator Exchange Hub Led by Dr Liz Franklin and Dr Kathy Hodder

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The river connectivity project: How are engineering structures affecting migratory fish in the river Severn catchment?

The river connectivity project is in collaboration with the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Severn Rivers Trust. Using an eDNA collected from the water and using meta-barcoding techniques the project will assess how river engineering structures in the River Severn catchment shape its biological fish communities, with a focus on migratory fish such as salmon (threatened) and eels (critically endangered). Led by Professor Rob Britton, Dr Demetra Andeou and Dr Emilie Hardouin

Develop a hub for eDNA meta-barcoding at BU

After completing the two meta-barcoding projects will qualify BU’s expertise in this field. ECO-CODING BU will discuss the potential of advertising and providing commercial eDNA meta-barcoding services as part of BU’s consultancy services BUG (Adrian Pinder), providing a unique angle to the services BUG can deliver to its customers and increasing BU’s potential for impacting ecological policy worldwide.

Inspiring local community and engaging the public.

Delivering public outreach events at BU’s festival of learning and at the National Botanic Garden of Wales in collaboration with the Faculty of Media and Communication. We will introduce our work at these outreach events using the concept of “The DNA Detective” and a series of interactive narratives, much like the Royal Society Christmas lectures, focusing on plant DNA such as, pollen being used link a burglar to a crime scene who brushed against a particular bush on his way out. will promote these events to local schools with the help of our BU Advertising students and maximising social media use to generate publicity using #DNADetective. Led by Dr Jenny Alexander and Dr Liz Franklin

Watch this space, eDNA meta-barcoding is coming to BU.

(This project is funded through HEIF – HEIF 5+1+1 – with funding running from 1 August 2016 until 31 July 2017.)

June 15, 2016

Seminar today: Dr Marcellus Mbah,R301, 13:00-14:00

Awarded & submitted bids, BRIAN, BU research, Centre for Excellence in Learning, Coffee Morning, conferences, Events, Fusion, HEIF, Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team, PG research, Research Ethics, staff profile pages, student research, Uncategorized Mastoureh Fathi

All welcome to the seminar happening today. Room R301 (Royal London House), 13:00-14:00. Feel free to bring your lunch with you.

An exploration into the dynamics of being an international student and the complexities surrounding their placement and employability prospects

Abstract

The experience of students gaining work placement has become an integral part of the United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education (HE) system in an attempt to help prepare students for the world of work. Whilst much has been written about this subject, the majority of the research centres on the UK domicile learner. Considering the importance of the HE internationalisation agenda, the drive to increase the recruitment numbers of international students (IS) and the fact that the need to gain work experience extends to include IS, there is little published literature which explores the work placement experiences from an international student perspective. This presentation reports on an instrumental case study which explored the experiences of IS with a view to understanding the challenges they face identifying, securing and successfully completing a work placement. Findings suggest substantial challenges exist and a framework is proposed to help the university improve the international students’ placement experience and employability prospects.

Marcellus is Research Fellow in the Centre for Excellence in Learning at Bournemouth University. His involvement in the Centre touches on some of the key areas in the discipline of Education such as University Community Engagement, Graduate Employability and Education for Sustainable Development.

If you have any queries about Social Science Seminar Series, please get in touch with Dr Mastoureh Fathi (mfathi@bournemouth.ac.uk).

May 23, 2016

Scenarios, Murder, Mingling and Twitter

Awarded & submitted bids, conferences, EU, Fusion, Fusion Investment Fund, Global engagement nferdinand

Dr Nicole Ferdinand, Senior Academic in Events Management, recently returned from a week-long Erasmus mobility teaching exchange to BU Erasmus Partner, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Porvoo, Finland. She had the opportunity to share some of her department’s cutting edge research and teaching practice. She led a series of workshops on scenario planning, inter-cultural communication and event evaluation using social media. Two of the sessions were based on research she had conducted whilst at BU. The approach used in the scenario planning workshop was based on Carnival Futures: Notting Hill Carnival 2020, a stakeholder-based approach to scenario planning which was funded by the King’s Cultural Institute. The methodology demonstrated in the event evaluation workshop was based on the Festival Impact Monitor (FestIM), which was funded by BU’s Fusion Fund. Nicole was joined for this workshop by her colleague, Dr Nigel Williams, FestIM’s Principal Investigator. As an added bonus, during her exchange she was allowed free entry to the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Spring Mingle, which was being hosted at Haaga-Helia that week.

Haaga-Helia Events Management students joined by their lectuer, Monika Birkle for the Porvoo Events in 2050 workshop

Haaga-Helia Events Management students joined by their lecturer, Monika Birkle for the Porvoo Events in 2050 workshop

Nicole’s week started with a scenario planning workshop entitled, Porvoo Events in 2050, in which students considered the future of events in Porvoo, given the uncertainties of the event and destination marketing skills of the industry and the yet to be formulated event development policy. Her second workshop, Improving Your Communication Skills by Killing the Russian Mafia, proved especially popular and was requested by three of Haaga-Helia’s lecturers for their student groups. Inter-cultural communication was a key skill that many Finnish students found especially challenging to acquire.

Students participating in the inter-cultural communications skills workshop

Students improving their communication skills by “Killing the Mafia”

Nicole was joined by her colleague Dr. Nigel Williams on the fourth day of her visit for the MPI Spring Mingle. Nigel was the event’s keynote speaker. Prior to the MPI event, Nicole and Nigel hosted a workshop for Haaga-Helia’s students who wanted to learn how to use social media data to undertake business and marketing research for events. Nicole also spent some of her remaining time promoting BU as an Erasmus destination and talking to staff and students planning Erasmus visits to BU next year.

Nicole and colleague Nigel meet Haaga-Helia staff and students and participate in the MPI Spring Mingle

Staff or students wishing to find out about going to Haaga-Helia for an Erasmus visit, please feel free to contact Nicole – nferdinand@bournemouth.ac.uk. She is happy to chat with you and has some helpful advice on preparing for a visit to Finland.

May 19, 2016

Fusion Investment Funding project – Enhancing research collaboration and networking with University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Awarded & submitted bids, Fusion Investment Fund vfilimonau

I have recently returned from a BU Fusion Fund sponsored visit to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) where I attended a series of meetings with tourism, events and transportation science academics working within the Transportation Engineering Program (PET) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The purpose of the visit was to enhance existing and establish new contacts with Brazilian researchers whose interests rest within the remits of sustainable urban development, tourism and mega-events.

As part of my visit, I delivered a series of guest lectures to the student and broader academic / research communities at UFRJ. The student lectures focussed on the topic of environmental management as applied in the tourism and hospitality context and featured a number of seminal studies developed by colleagues from the Faculty of Management at Bournemouth University. The academic / research community orientated lecture presented the outcome of my recent research project on the carbon footprint of the World Football Cup 2014 in Brazil. Given the geographical proximity of the topic and its relevance to the issue of urban transportation and sustainable tourism development in Rio de Janeiro, the lecture was well perceived by the audience which had found reflection in the substantial number of questions posed and comments made. Due to the identified mutual research interest in improving sustainability of the Olympic Games 2016, Brazilian colleagues took me on an exclusive study trip which provided access to the primary venues of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, including the legendary Maracanã Stadium.

The key outcome of my visit is enhanced collaborative opportunities with Brazilian academics who I am now writing a joint research paper with on the environmental implications of the Olympic Games 2016. It is envisaged that the established contacts will be maintained and harnessed via joint applications for research funding and student exchange projects.

For more information about this project, please contact Dr Viachaslau Filimonau

May 6, 2016

International launch of ERC Hyksos Enigma project at ICAANE conference

Awarded & submitted bids Holger Schutkowski

Last week, the Austrian Academy of Science hosted the 10^th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) on its magnificent premises in the heart of Vienna. A whole day was dedicated to the international launch of the ERC advanced grant The Hyksos Enigma, for which the Austrian Academy and Bournemouth University are co-beneficiaries, combined with a state-of-the-art review of research on the most significant site of the Hyksos, their capital Avaris/Tell el-Dab’a in the eastern Nile Delta. This was an important day to show Bournemouth’s presence and to promulgate its research in the bioarchaeology of the Hyksos, engage in extensive networking with associates and partners of the project, and to establish new links in support of Bournemouth’s role in the project. Regular updates will now appear on the new project website (http://thehyksosenigma.oeaw.ac.at/).

Prof Manfred Bietak (left), project lead, Institue for Oriental and European Archaeology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Prof Holger Schutkowski, Co-PI, Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Forensic Science.

Prof Manfred Bietak (left), project lead, Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Prof Holger Schutkowski, Co-PI, Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Forensic Science.

April 22, 2016

FBU Workshop Overview

Awarded & submitted bids, Fusion, Fusion Investment Fund, Global engagement, international, Post-award ebolat

Better later than never. Finally, I found some time to write about our incredible time in Moscow.

Supported by Santander FIF fund, Dr Parisa Gilani and Dr Elvira Bolat (me) travelled to beautiful sunny Moscow (10 March -13 March) to run the “Digital momentum for SMEs” workshop. The workshop took place in Faculty of Management, Financial University (Moscow, Russia) and was well attended by students across different levels. In total 30 students were selected to engage with two master-classes, which aimed to promote academic strengths of Bournemouth University in the fields of digital marketing, leadership and SMEs management and marketing.

Two interactive master-classes covered the following topics:

“Digital marketing for SMEs” (delivered in Russian by Dr Elvira Bolat)

2. “Leadership in the context of SMEs” (delivered in English by Dr Parisa Gilani).

Following workshops, both BU academics have met Faculty of Management (Financial University) Executive Team to discuss joint research projects, prioritising EU research funding, joint publications and public engagement opportunities.

Source: international.fa.ru

Financial University is first formal partner of BU in the Russian Federation. Moreover Financial University is part of Santander Universities network. FBU workshop was a fantastic opportunity to strengthen BU and Financial University partnership resulting in increased visibility of BU in Russia, promotion of BU portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate courses among our Russian partner’s students and, most importantly, increasing awareness of BU’s academic and professional expertise in the fields of digital marketing and leadership.

We are definitely looking forward to working further with Financial University and expecting their academic staff and group of students to visit BU in September/October 2016.

Source: chilingarov.viperson.ru

Second part of the visit involved meeting with well-established Professor of Law Marina Telukina whose academic expertise covers bankruptcy and commercial law. At the moment Professor Telukina is working across various Higher Education Institutions in the Russian Federation but is a full-time member of staff in the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).

Professor Telukina is willing to strengthen her academic ties with BU (sharing her knowledge and practice of Russian Law) and work on collaborative projects between Faculty of Management (BU) and Graduate School of Management and Innovation in Lomonosov Moscow State University – something our team is really excited about. Professor Telukina has now planned visit to the UK in August 2016 and we are planning to meet in Bournemouth in order to discuss details of joint research projects.

That is all from me. Hope, you are now more open to expanding your academic networks. Santander Fusion Investment Fund is best option to support you in this. Full list of global Santander Universities partners can be found here: http://www.santander.com/csgs/Satellite?appID=santander.wc.CFWCSancomQP01&c=GSInformacion&canal=CSCORP&cid=1278679137354&empr=CFWCSancomQP01&leng=en_GB&pagename=CFWCSancomQP01%2FGSInformacion%2FCFQP01_GSInformacionDetalleSimple_PT08

Elvira Bolat

April 7, 2016

Hello Haaga Helia

Awarded & submitted bids, EU, Fusion, Fusion Investment Fund, Global engagement, Public engagement nferdinand

Following her successful Erasmus Fusion Investment Fund bid, Dr Nicole Ferdinand, Senior Academic in Events Management will be visiting the Haaga Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland from May 9^th – 13^th 2016. During her visit Nicole with be showcasing BU’s excellence in research and teaching.

Nicole with Haaga Helia’s Mari Austin, International Coordinator and Kaija Lindroth, Director, Tourism Degree Programmes during a visit to Bournemouth University in November 2015

Professor Buhalis and Dr Inversini (pictured 2nd and 3rd from left) receiving the Second Place Best Journal Paper award from IFITT

Her activities will include demonstrating a new event evaluation methodology to Haaga Helia’s staff and students, as well as, members of the event association, Meeting Professionals International (MPI), who will be hosting its Spring Mingle at Haaga Helia on May 12^th. The research methodology which utilizes social media data was featured in an article Nicole co-authored with BU colleagues, Dr Nigel Williams, Dr Alessandro Inversini and Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, which recently received a best journal paper award from the International Federation for IT and Travel and Tourism (IFITT).

Haaga Helia’s staff and students will also be introduced to BU’s technology enhanced learning. Nicole will be using Xerte learning objects, which were featured in BU’s recently launched Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Toolkit video.

Xerte learning objects developed for Events Management teaching featured in BU’s TEL Toolkit video

Nicole will be hosted by Mrs. Kaija Lindroth, Director of Degree Programmes in Tourism at Haaga Helia’s Porvoo Campus.

March 23, 2016

Awarded Summer-based Undergraduate Research Assistantship Project

Awarded & submitted bids, BU research, Fusion Investment Fund, Uncategorized Rachel

Following on from the academic applications of the Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA), the application review panel have selected the following projects to recruit a student to.

All student job vacancies are live on MyCareerHub, all BU staff and students have access to this system. These vacancies are currently in the recruitment stage to recruit a student.

Alison McConnell – Cardiorespiratory Physiology Research Assistant

Amanda Korstjens – Researcher and assistant on the LEAP (Landscape Ecology and Primatology) conservation project

Ann Luce – Research Assistant: Research on the impact that the media can have on intervention in early childbirth and labour

Anna Feigenbaum – Research Assistant: Social Media, Policing and Human Rights

Caroline Jackson – Creativity & Events Undergraduate Research Assistant

Carrie Hodges – ‘Using Participatory Methods to Empower Disabled Young People’ UG Research Assistant

Christos Gatzidis – Game Developer (Programming / Art)

Constantine Panourgia – A pilot effectiveness study of the Incredible Years Parent Programme. UndergraduateResearch Assistant

Daniel Jackson – EU Referendum Analysis: media, voters and the campaign

David John – 3D developer: Reconstruction of Roman Farmhouse Undergraduate Research Assistant

Feng Tian – Creating a Virtual and Interactive Environment for the Event Planning

Ian Stephenson – Web Developer

Isabella Rega – A Study on Informal Learning and Slum Tourism in India using User Generated Contents

James Gavin – Gait, Balance and Mobility Throughout the Lifespan: The ORI Biomechanics Database

Katherine Appleton – Testing a novel mobile phone app for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption

Mark Readman – Digital Outreach Research Assistant

Michael O’Regan – Chinese Tourists Abroad and the CNTA Etiquette Guide Book

Miguel Moital – Undergraduate Research Assistant: Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) in events as a marketing tool

Nicola Gregory – Social cognition in autism and borderline personality disorder

Shamal Faily – CAIRIS Research Assistant

Viachaslau Filimonau – Food waste management in the UK grocery retail sector

Please do share any relevant URA positions to your students where applicable.

Pending further funding, the URA scheme is set to continue into 2016/17. Should funding be awarded, the next call for academic applications will be in Autumn 2016. Please do look out for further communications on this on the BU research blog.

Further information on the URA scheme can be found here. If you have any questions, please contact Rachel Clarke, KE Adviser (KTP) on 01202 961347 or email clarker@bournemouth.ac.uk or urap@bournemouth.ac.uk

March 11, 2016

Predictive Analysis of Complex Social Networks – here we come!

Awarded & submitted bids, Uncategorized kmusialgabrys

I am delighted to share with you good news about the small grant that I was awarded from the Grants Academy at BU. It will help me to develop my research in the area of predictive analysis of complex networks.
The main goal of the project that will be a result of this small grant is to develop a robust and adaptive framework for Predictive Analysis of Complex Social Networks. Sound mysterious and you are probably asking so what?
Let me give you some background. For the first time in history, we have the possibility to process big social data about the interactions and activities of millions of individuals that can be represented as a social network. It represents an increasingly important resource yet is underutilised due to the scale, complexity and dynamics of these structures which makes them extremely difficult to model and analyse. As only recently the development of ICT technology has made collecting this data feasible, there is no coherent and comprehensive approach to analyse such networks and their dynamics which is crucial to advance our understanding of continuously changing people’s behaviour. It means that we need new approaches that will enable us to analyse and predict the future of social networks.

And now the next question that you are asking is probably: so why is it important?
Again, let me give you some examples that shed a little bit of light onto importance of my study:
a) Improving national security
The outcomes of this project will be applied in a collaborative research, with a visiting researcher, Prof. De Meo from the University of Messina, Italy, focused on Cosa Nostra analytics, for understanding of the organisation of Mafia syndicates. Application of my framework for Predictive Analysis of Complex Social Networks will contribute to the improvement of well-being and security of citizens. Results of this joint cross-disciplinary research will help law enforcement agencies and policy makers to more efficiently allocate resources in the fight against Mafia
b) Improving health and well-being
The results will also be applied in the cross-disciplinary collaborative research with a visiting researcher, Dr De Ruddere from the Ghent University, Belgium, to understand the social exclusion of patients with chronic pain. Application of my framework will facilitate the understanding of how the social networks of people with chronic pain evolve over time contributing to the improvement of the patients’ quality of life and social well-being.

If you would like to have a chat and hear more about my research please keep in touch: kmusialgabrys@bournemouth.ac.uk

March 10, 2016

‘Voices of the Secret State’: Seminar presentation by Dr Hyun Joo Lim, 16th March, Studeland House, Room S206, 13:00-13:50

Awarded & submitted bids, BRIAN, BU Challenges, BU research, Centre for Excellence in Learning, Coffee Morning, conferences, EU, Events, Featured, Featured academics, Funding opportunities, Fusion, Fusion Investment Fund, Grants Academy, Knowledge Transfer, Knowledge Transfer Partnership, Publishing, R & KE Operations, Research assessment, Research communication, Research Ethics, Research Integritiy, Research news, Research themes, Uncategorized, Women's Academic Network Mastoureh Fathi

All staff and students welcome. Please feel free to bring your lunch.

Voices of the Secret State: Human Rights Activism among North Korean

Defectors in the UK

Abstract: My paper aims to highlight the lived experiences and identity formation of North Korean defectors settled in the UK who are involved in human rights activism. Whilst violations of human rights in North Korea are well documented, human rights activism by its defectors is less well known. Since 2004, approximately 600 North Koreans have settled in the UK. Free NK, a human rights organisation born out of this settlement, has been active in illuminating the reality of North Korea whilst also working towards subverting the regime by informing its fellow remainders about the outside world through the distribution of newspapers. This paper is drawn from ongoing research on North Korean defectors living in the UK. The data is collected using life history interviews to capture their lived experiences and to identify a range of factors which have influenced their involvement in the activism whilst also seeking to find better ways of improving the wellbeing and quality of life for those activists. The presentation will focus on the in-depth story of a North Korean defector who has founded Free NK. Themes that will be addressed in this story include the reason why he has fled North Korea; the processes of getting to the UK; challenges he has faced in his human rights activism.
Dr Hyun-Joo Lim is a lecturer in Sociology and the programme leader for BA Sociology and Social Policy at BU. She is originally from South Korea and has been engaged in various research projects that explore issues around migration, ‘race’/ethnicity, gender and identity. Her previous research examined East Asian mothers in Britain.

For more information about Social Science seminar series please get in touch with Dr Mastoureh Fathi (mfathi@bournemouth.ac.uk).

January 7, 2016

Contract Signing Procedures Workshop 22/01/16

Awarded & submitted bids Dianne Goodman

Taking place on Friday the 22 of January, Jane Forster, Legal Services Manager and Marianne Jarvis, Senior Legal Services Officer will be holding a workshop which will address the University’s contract signing procedures which all staff need to be aware of when thinking of setting up a contract and the procedures and regulations that need to be followed in this process.

This workshop will cover what a contract is, especially in the context of research funding applications. What the contract signing procedures require and how they work within BU and how to get a contract approved.

Aims:

– To know when you need approval for a contract/bid/funding arrangement – To know how to go about seeking approval and the process to follow – To know how to identify a contract that needs approval – To be aware of the main risks when entering into a contract and where to go for help

If you would like to book your place on one of these workshops please email Organisational Development.

December 15, 2015

Upcoming ‘Ageing Well Photographic Exhibition’ supported by British Society of Gerontology

Awarded & submitted bids, Knowledge Exchange, PG research, Public engagement, student research cfarrance

Public engagement and impact are important to consider if we want our research to make a difference. In response to this, one PhD student from the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences will use photographs to creatively disseminate research findings. The ‘Ageing Well Photographic Exhibition’ will share about the role community based exercise programmes play in adding to the health and wellbeing of older people. It will also be a great opportunity to showcase the positive aspects of active ageing.

To support the event Michele Board and Clare Farrance have been successful in securing a grant from the British Society of Gerontology. The support of the BSG for the event is a valuable endorsement of the important topic of positive ageing and enhancing our understanding of later life.

More details will be posted closer to the time of the event launch. In the meantime if you have any questions feel free to contact Clare at cfarrance@bournemouth.ac.uk

December 7, 2015

CEMP awarded EU COST Action Grant

Awarded & submitted bids, BU research, EU, international jmcdougall

CEMP’s Marketa Zezulkova has been awarded a COST “Short-Term Scientific Mission” grant to conduct field media literacy research with 4-7 year old disadvantaged children in the Czech Republic and to establish a Child Research and Impact Group (CRAIG) with Charles University, Prague. Together with a ‘Mapping Media Literacy in the Czech Republic’ grant Marketa was also awarded recently, this new project further establishes CEMP’s partnership with CU, following the Media Education Summit in Prague last year.

December 3, 2015

Dr. Dinusha Mendis disseminates Government-funded research on the IP implications of 3D Printing at invited talks in UK and EU (Part II)

Awarded & submitted bids, BU research, conferences, EU, Featured academics, Knowledge Transfer, PG research, Public engagement, REF Subjects, Research communication, Research news, Research themes, Uncategorized cippm

In April 2015, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) published three reports reflecting a legal and empirical study into the intellectual property (IP) implications of 3D printing. The project – commissioned by the UKIPO – was awarded to Bournemouth University and was led by Dr. Dinusha Mendis.

Together with Dr. Mendis, the research team consisted of Dr. Davide Secchi (Southern University, Denmark; previously Bournemouth University at the time of conducting the research) and Dr. Phil Reeves (Econolyst Ltd – now Stratasys Strategic Consulting Ltd).

All three reports can be found here and further information about the project, including research findings and recommendations for the UK Government, Industry and Intermediaries can be found here.

Since the publication of the reports, Dr. Dinusha Mendis, Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) has been invited to deliver a number of talks in UK and Abroad, thereby reflecting the impact of the research.

This blog-post, highlights the invited talks in EU. For the dissemination of research in UK, please see here.

34th ECTA Conference, Hamburg, Germany

On 12 June 2015, Dr. Mendis was invited to present the research at the European Communities Trade Mark Association 34th Annual Conference in Hamburg. The Conference took place from 10-13 June 2015 and Dr. Mendis spoke on the copyright implications of 3D printing based on the findings from the UKIPO project.

Dr. Mendis spoke on the topic as part of a Panel exploring the challenges to copyright law, which also included Professor Ian Hargreaves, Professor of Digital Economy, Cardiff University UK and author of the Hargreaves Review 2011.

For further information, please see here.

MAPPING Project, First General Assembly, Hannover, Germany

From 22-23 September 2015, the First General Assembly of the FP7-funded MAPPING Project was held in Hannover, Germany at the Hannover Congress Centrum.

MAPPING – Managing Alternatives for Privacy, Property and Internet Governance brought together stakeholders from three key areas including Internet Governance, Privacy and Intellectual Property.

Dr. Mendis was invited to speak in the Intellectual Property Panel titled ‘The EU IP Reform: Unlocking Culture, Stimulating Progress’. As part of the talk, Dr. Mendis was invited to speak on the UKIPO 3D Printing project.

Further information about the event can be found here.

OHIM Enforcement Conference, Alicante Spain

In November (18-20 November 2015) Dr. Mendis was invited by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) in Alicante Spain. The 3-day event organised by OHIM, Europol and Eurojust explored issues on tackling enforcement in relation to the infringement of copyright and design law.

The event was attended by policy makers, law makers, customs and border protection officials, investigators, criminal analysts and industry experts amongst others.

Dr. Mendis presented at this conference together with with Dr. Davide Secchi (co-author of Study 1 of the UKIPO Project) and member of the research team which carried out the Commissioned work for the UKIPO.

Dr. Mendis and Dr. Secchi presented the research carried out particularly for Study 1 of the UKIPO project, but also took the opportunity to speak on next steps and future projects – in taking forward the UKIPO Project.

In this regard, Dr. Mendis spoke briefly about the work being carried out for the newly funded project considering a legal and empirical case study on 3D printing, 3D scanning and mass customisation of ancient and modern jewellery.

For more information about the new project, please see here. For further information about OHIM’s event, please see here.

FORUM Institut Management GmbH, 3D Printing and IP, Munich, Germany

On 1 December 2015, FORUM Institüt fur Management GmbH hosted an international conference exploring 3D Printing and IP Rights. The conference brochure including further details and speakers can be found here.

Dr. Mendis was invited to speak on the UKIPO Project with a particular focus on the implications for IP as a result of 3D online platforms as well as its impact on the industrial sector.

The presenters were drawn from industry, professional practice and academia thereby providing for a vibrant discussion.

December 3, 2015

Dr. Dinusha Mendis disseminates Government-funded research on the IP implications of 3D Printing at invited talks in UK and EU (Part I)

Awarded & submitted bids, BU research, conferences, Featured academics, Knowledge Transfer, PG research, Post-award, Public engagement, REF Subjects, Research communication, Research news, Research themes cippm

All three reports can be found here and further information about the project, including research findings and recommendations for the UK Government, Industry and Intermediaries can be found here.

Since the publication of the reports, Dr. Dinusha Mendis, Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) has been invited to deliver a number of invited talks in UK and Abroad, thereby reflecting the impact of the research.

This blog-post highlights the invited talks in UK. For dissemination of research in the EU, please see here.

Plymouth Law School, One Day Workshop on CSR

On 28 August 2015, Plymouth Law School held a one-day workshop, titled, ‘Valuing Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation: Relating Corporate Social Responsibility to Copyright Law’.

The workshop considered the prospect of practising Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in relation to copyright, where similar ideas of corporate social awareness have already applied to other areas of intellectual property protection.

Dr. Mendis explored the issue from the angle of emerging technologies and gave a presentation titled ‘Printing the Future: Is there a Need for Regulation? The Copyright Implications of 3D Printing’.

Other invited speakers on the day included, amongst others, Professor Charlotte Waelde, Professor of Intellectual Property, Exeter University and Dr. Abbe Brown, Reader and Deputy Head of the Law School, University of Aberdeen.

Please see here for further information.

EPIP Conference 2015, CREATe, University of Glasgow

From 2-3^rdSeptember 2015, CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy at the University of Glasgow hosted the 10th Annual Conference of European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP). The event explored intellectual property from an economic, legal and political perspective considering its impact in the creative economy with a focus on copyright, data and the changing economics of the digital world.

Dr. Mendis presented and led a panel titled ‘A Legal and Empirical Study into the Intellectual Property Implications of 3D Printing – Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations’. The panel consisted of the research team, which carried out the research for the UKIPO Project, with a Panel member from the UKIPO outlining the next steps in relation to policy in the area of 3D printing and IP Law.

Together with Dr. Mendis, other Panel members included Dr. Davide Secchi (University of Southern Denmark), Ms. Sophie Jones (for Dr. Phil Reeves) (Stratasys Strategic Consulting) and Ms. Pippa Hall of the UK Intellectual Property Office.

Further information this event can be found here and further information about the conference including presentations from both days can be found here.

IPAN Event, London

On 11 November 2015, the Intellectual Property Awareness Network (IPAN) hosted an evening event, which explored 3D printing from an industry perspective as well as from a legal (IP) perspective. IPAN is a non-profit organisation working to improve understanding of patents, trademarks, designs, copyright and other IP rights and their value to society.

IPAN is chaired by CIPPM Associate Director, Professor Ruth Soetendorp.

Dr. Mendis was invited to deliver a talk highlighting the research findings, conclusions and recommendations of the UKIPO Project and its implications for IPAN’s membership. Dr. Mendis spoke alongside Mr. Paul Gately, EMEA Manager of 3D Systems.

3D Printing Panel and Poster Presentation at University of Liverpool

On 11 December 2015, Dr. Mendis will form part of a panel exploring the topic of 3D printing and its implications for IP law, from a broader perspective at the University of Liverpool.

November 18, 2015

CIPPM Project Copyrightuser.org wins AHRC Research in Film Award

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An animated film on Copyrightuser.org titled The Adventure of the Girl with the Light Blue Hair won an AHRC Research in Film Award on 12 November 2015 at an Awards Ceremony hosted at the British Film Institute, Southbank London.

Copyrightuser.org is an online resource, which makes copyright law accessible to creators, teachers, students and members of the public. The project began with Bournemouth University’s Fusion Investment Fund in 2012 after which, the project has been successfully funded by RCUK/AHRC since 2013.

It is a collaborative project carried out by the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) Bournemouth University and CREATe, University of Glasgow.

The animated film was short-listed for the AHRC 10^th Anniversary Research in Film Award within the category Award for Innovation in Film – Best Film in the Year and beat another four contenders to win the award.

The panel of judges – consisting of industry and academic experts such as film director Beeban Kidron, Financial Times Arts Editor Jan Dalley, and actor and producer Diana Quick – described the film as “a well-constructed, quality animation addressing issues of creativity, IP and copyright for schools and undergraduates: lively, engaging, witty (à la Sherlock Holmes mode), informative and educating at the same time.”

The Adventure of the Girl with the Light Blue Hair is the first episode of The Game is On!, web series and is produced by Mr. Bartolomeo Meletti (CREATe, University of Glasgow) and Professor Ronan Deazley (Queens University Belfast). The film draws inspiration from Sherlock Holmes and other well-known copyright and public domain works and provides a springboard for exploring various copyright concepts.

It forms part of a suite of online learning materials for students and teachers in the UK while educating the wider public about what can and cannot be done with copyright works. To achieve this aim, researchers working on Copyrightuser.org produced both video and textual material.

The animated film is enhanced by 12 ‘Case Files’ authored by Ms. Hayleigh Bosher and Dr. Dinusha Mendis (CIPPM, Bournemouth University), which draws on the various elements of the film to explore key principles and ideas underpinning copyright law, creativity, and the limits of lawful appropriation and reuse.

The educational materials also include Copyright for A Level Media Studies authored by Ms. Hayleigh Bosher and Dr. Dinusha Mendis (CIPPM, Bournemouth University) – an educational web resource which addresses the AS/A Level Unit Critical Perspectives in Media, Section B: Contemporary Media Issues.

The AHRC Research in Film Awards is designed to recognise the creative and innovative work being undertaken at the interface between research and film. All the winners and full versions of the films can be seen here.

October 19, 2015

New website and funding success for LEAP

Awarded & submitted bids, BU research, Global engagement, Grants Academy, Research news akorstjens

Updates on our international research project LEAP (landscape ecology and primatology), led by Amanda Korstjens and Ross Hill and that falls at BU under the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences and the ISLHE (see my previous blog for more info).

Thanks to a UG Research Assistant in the BU URAP programme, we now have a fabulous website to show off the research of LEAP. Media student Matthew Hammond even created a lovely logo for us. The website is now publicly accessible here: http://go-leap.wix.com/home.

Secondly, funding has been obtained for Gaius Wilson’s (an Indian postdoc) Sumatran elephant research. We received an International Elephant Foundation grant of over $55000 and £5000 from Rufford Small Grants. This is an expensive project so we cannot not leave it at that yet but it is great that our hard work on these funding applications this summer paid off.
I also want to highlight that this was supported by the training I received through the Grants Academy and the EUADS grants scheme as BU and 1:1 help from Martin Pickard and Chris. Gaius attended a 2-day workshop for EU Marie S Curie fellowship applications in March at BU and that started the elephant project off (including a submission for such a fellowship of course). Kerri and Alice from RKEO have been great in getting us through our summer of applications, thank you! There are more submissions to come.

Please visit our website and contact Amanda Korstjens or Ross Hill if you are interested in collaborating on any of our projects. We will need MRes students or other people in the field to help with data collection on Human-elephant co-existence (or conflict) and our various other research projects in Indonesia and Uganda. Any field project requires a minimum of 6 months in the field.

LEAP team BU Oct 2015

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ECO-CODING a HEIF funded centre for DNA Meta-barcoding Ecology

Scenarios, Murder, Mingling and Twitter

Fusion Investment Funding project – Enhancing research collaboration and networking with University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

International launch of ERC Hyksos Enigma project at ICAANE conference

FBU Workshop Overview

Hello Haaga Helia

Awarded Summer-based Undergraduate Research Assistantship Project

Predictive Analysis of Complex Social Networks – here we come!

Contract Signing Procedures Workshop 22/01/16

Upcoming ‘Ageing Well Photographic Exhibition’ supported by British Society of Gerontology

CEMP awarded EU COST Action Grant

Dr. Dinusha Mendis disseminates Government-funded research on the IP implications of 3D Printing at invited talks in UK and EU (Part II)

Dr. Dinusha Mendis disseminates Government-funded research on the IP implications of 3D Printing at invited talks in UK and EU (Part I)

CIPPM Project Copyrightuser.org wins AHRC Research in Film Award

New website and funding success for LEAP

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