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ADRC are presenting a research seminar on Veterans and Dementia: A Collaborative Research Project

We’re thrilled to invite you to the first online seminar in the new ADRC series on Wednesday 4 December, 3pm-4pm. This session will feature Dr. Michele Board from Bournemouth University, presenting on the topic: Veterans and Dementia: A Collaborative Research Project.

The Ageing and Dementia Research Centre (ADRC) at Bournemouth University, with funding from Dementia Research UK, launched a 2023/4 project focused on ex-military veterans—a typically underserved group in dementia research. The project explores veterans’ experiences through collaborative creative workshops, culminating in a documentary-style short film that amplifies their voices and personal stories. During this seminar we will share our film, highlight implications for practice and discuss the next stages of our project.

The seminar is open to all Bournemouth University staff, students, community organisations, and anyone interested in the topic.
Please keep an eye out for upcoming seminars throughout the new year!

Key Details:
• Date: Wednesday 4 December 2024
• Time: 3pm -4pm
• Topic: Veterans and Dementia: A Collaborative Research Project
• Speaker: Dr. Michele Board, Associate Professor Nursing Older People and Co-Lead Ageing and Dementia Research Centre ADRC
See you there!

Microsoft Teams 
Scan the QR code below or click on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZGI0NjE1YTUtNTIzYy00NTljLTk2OTEtYWZiNTc1ZmRjYzUy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22ede29655-d097-42e4-bbb5-f38d427fbfb8%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22612fce03-de45-44e3-b1e6-8404efc1b742%22%7d

Meeting ID: 364 666 916 013
Passcode: wJyC7U

 

The 16th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference is approaching!

conferences, PG research

Last chance to register for the 16th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2024. We are so excited to welcome you on Wednesday 27 November!

This conference is a celebration of the incredible work being carried out by our postgraduate researchers, and we are proud to provide this platform for sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration and building connections. Whether you are presenting, exhibiting, or attending, this is a wonderful opportunity to network with fellow PGRs, colleagues from across the university and external visitors.

Registrations close at 10:00 Tuesday 26 November, so don’t miss your chance to book! Lunch will be provided.

This conference is open to external participants, please share this invite with companies and organisations you are cooperating with.

Register to attend

Poster and oral presenters do not need to register as their participation has already been confirmed. 

Click here to view the conference brochure

We look forward to meeting you on Wednesday 27 November. Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate research and collaboration!

Best wishes,
The PGR Conference Team

Enrica Conrotto – Doctoral College Programme Manager
Arabella Moyse – Doctoral College Marketing & Events Coordinator
Zoe Leonard – Postgraduate Research Administrator

Applications are now open for 2025 ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships!

Funding opportunities, PG research

The ESRC invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships (PDF) to be based at the SWDTP institutions of University of Bath, University of Bristol, University of Exeter, Plymouth University, University of West of England, Bath Spa University, Bournemouth University and Plymouth Marjon University.

Fellowships are aimed at providing a development opportunity for social science researchers in the immediate postdoctoral stage of their career, to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, and their research and professional skills.

At Bournemouth University, we run a dual stage application process. Candidates must be aligned to one of the pathways to which BU belong. For BU, this means that we would be able to support applicants in one of three pathways:

In the first instance we ask potential candidates to complete an Expression of Interest (EOI) and an Equal Opportunities form. The deadline for submitting the EOI & Equal Opportunities forms is January 31 2025. Both forms are available from the pathway leads.

Prior to submission of your EOI it is a good idea to have identified a mentor who will support you to develop your application. If you are uncertain on how to identify a mentor, then please contact one of the pathway leads listed above.

Following review of all EOI received, we will nominate successful applicants and support the development of a full application to the ESRC (via the SWDTP). The full application is due on 25 May, 2025. Only nominated applicants are able to complete this second stage.

For further information, please take a look at the SWDTP web pages dedicated to the postdoctoral fellowships award. Note that this includes important Eligibility criteria.

Please also note that you can register for an online information event hosted by the SWDTP. This takes place at 2-3 pm on Wednesday 20 November 2024. Register here. (A recording will be available from 25 November).

 

FoodMapp project holds mid-term meeting

Awarded & submitted bids

 

On 16-17 September 2024, FoodMapp members met for the project mid-term meeting at the Institut Lyfe, Château du Vivier​, Ecully, France​. From Bournemouth University, Prof. Jeff Bray, Prof. Juliet Memery, Prof. Katherine Appleton, and Dr. Roberta Discetti attended the meeting.

Representatives of all project partners were present, including: Universiteit Gent (UGent) Ghent, Belgium; Centre de Recherche de L’Institut Paul Bocuse (IPBR), Écully, France; Ronge & Partner GmbH (RP), Baden, Austria; Centre de Recerca en Economia i Desenvolupament Agroalimentari-UPC-IRTA (CREDA), Barcelona, Spain; Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary; and University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UZ), Zagreb, Croatia.

The Marie-Curie Staff Exchanges project representative at the European Commission, Dr Gianluca Colucci, attended the meeting online. Dr Colucci chaired the afternoon session, where project secondees had the opportunity to share their secondment experiences. All participants highlighted the positive impact Foodmapp secondments had on their personal and professional lives.

 

Foodmapp is currently in its month 19th, at 40% of completion, with further 29 months to go (60%). Project members have conducted 37 research secondments so far, equalling over 30% of the total of intersectoral and interdisciplinary exchanges among project partners. The project has already produced 8 research outputs between research papers and conference presentations.

Work Package 1 on stakeholder requirements and consumer preferences for the development of the application has been completed.  Activites on Work Package 2 (Information Engineering and Architecture Design) and Work package 3 (User Interface Development) are underway.

FoodMAPP is a European research project that will enable consumers to find and buy local food supplies, reducing waste and supporting sustainable purchases. It will develop a searchable map-based platform that will enable consumers to search and buy food products directly from local suppliers.

The four-year project has been awarded €584,200 from Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, alongside additional funding from UKRI to support BU’s continued inclusion.

 

 

New midwifery publication

NHS, PG research, Publishing, writing

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Joanne Rack on the publication today of her paper ‘Understanding perceptions and communication of risk in advanced maternal age: a scoping review (protocol) on women’s engagement with health care services’  [1].   Joanne is currently doing a Clinical Doctorate in the Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH) focusing on personalised care for women of advanced maternal age.  Her doctoral study is matched-funded by University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust and Bournemouth University [BU].  Her PhD is supervised and supported by Profs. Vanora Hundley, Ann Luce and Edwin van Teijlingen at BU and Dr. Latha Vinayakarao in Poole Maternity Hospital.

Well done!

 

Reference:

  1. Rack, J., Hundley, V., van Teijlingen, E., Luce, A., Vinayakarao. L. (2024) Understanding perceptions and communication of risk in advanced maternal age: a scoping review (protocol) on women’s engagement with health care services, MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, 34(3): 201-204.

Bursaries available to attend the 2024 Vitae Researcher Development Conference

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A number of bursaries are available to enable researchers to attend the Vitae International Researcher Development Conference 2024.

The conference takes place online from 3rd-5th September and in-person in Birmingham on 23rd and 24th September.

It is the flagship annual event of Vitae, a non-profit programme to support the professional development of researchers, and will cover topics around policy and practice in researcher development.

29 bursaries are available in total – covering attendance at both the online and in-person events or the online-only elements.

The bursaries have been sponsored by UKRI, British Academy’s Early Career Researcher Network, and Wellcome – with different criteria for each.

They are available to researchers in the following categories:

  • who are, have been, or are looking to be involved in researcher networks and staff associations or committees (UKRI bursaries)
  • part of the BA Early Career Researcher Network (British Academy bursaries)
  • with an interest in equity, diversity and inclusion within the research environment (Wellcome bursaries)

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 20th August.

For more information and to apply, please visit the Vitae Researcher Development Conference website

one day a week research assistant post with Wessex Cancer Alliance

Colleagues from the Wessex Cancer Alliance are keen to appoint a research assistant (approx. one day a week for 6 months) to work with their Inequality and Involvement Strategic Lead to produce an information pack for their 20 Clinical Advisory Groups (CAGs), which sets out clear and referenced summaries of key insights and intelligence to support their work. This could be a great opportunity for a BU PGR, especially for anyone with an interest in Cancer research and care. The post holder will be hosted by Help and Care, a Wessex Cancer Alliance partner.

Further info:

Brief for research role – Wessex Cancer Alliance patient and public involvement, patient experience and inequalities

What do we need?

We are keen to build a repository of insight and intelligence to support our Clinical Advisory Groups (CAGs) with high impact summaries of patient and public experience and health inequalities.  Briefing packs for CAGs could include:

  • Information from the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey relevant to that CAG’s activity
  • Other relevant patient and public involvement insight gathered from a wide range of sources, both specific to Wessex and from national and international sources
  • Information on inequalities in access, experience, and outcome relevant to that CAG
  • Relevant information would include that which is specific to that CAG’s activity but also other information that can support the activity of the Clinical Advisory Group (e.g. general insight from cancer patients about treatment and care).

Currently, we have 20 Clinical Advisory Groups.  The cancer specific information for each group will vary, with more common cancers (e.g bowel, breast, lung, prostate) expected to have considerably more intelligence and insight available.

The Role

You will work with the Inequality and Involvement Strategic Lead to produce an information pack for each CAG, which sets out clear and referenced summaries of key insights and intelligence to support their work.  The packs will include data from existing online and published literature and resources.  Resources and reports will be stored in a searchable ‘database’ with key words enabling searching by cancer type, area/hospital Trust and where the information exists, protected characteristics.

Hours are flexible and by agreement, but we anticipate approximately 7 hours per week over a 6 month period from September 2024 with possible option to extend.

About you

We are looking for someone who can work pragmatically and at a good pace – with the ability to identify and clearly communicate key insights in a helpful, summarised format.  You will need to have good attention to detail, an enquiring mind and an interest in health, cancer and inequalities.  You will be a confident IT user with an excellent standard of written English.

For more information, please get in touch with Emma Leatherbarrow, Inequality and Involvement Strategic Lead, Wessex Cancer Alliance

Emma.leatherbarrow@wca.uhs.nhs.uk

 

BA Blindness and Media Engagement Project led by Dr. Catalin Brylla

Awarded & submitted bids, Knowledge Exchange

Dr. Catalin Brylla has successfully completed the first stage of his British Academy-funded project Blindness and Media Engagement – A Model for Improving Wellbeing through Research and Intervention. The lives of blind people have been negatively affected by social exclusion, as well as the sensory challenges of having impaired vision. This project explores the engagement with digital media for improving physical, psychological, social and economic wellbeing in the visually impaired community.

The project has partnered up with three sight loss service providers, Beyond Sight Loss, Dorset Blind Association and the Thomas Pocklington Trust, to develop a model for engaging blind and partially sighted people with digital media, such as blogging, vlogging, video making, podcasting and setting up film clubs. The aim is to empower them to improve their wellbeing and resist social exclusion. In the spirit of “Nothing about us without us” (Charlton, 1998), this research is participatory, through which partners and their members are major stakeholders and co-creators in the research process.The project first maps the field by evaluating the opportunities and obstacles of digital media engagement taking into account how the intersection of multiple social identities (e.g. disability, gender, age, ethnicity and religion) affect lived experiences. Then, the team designs and delivers workshops on media creation and consumption, studying the short-term impact on the participants’ engagement and wellbeing.

Mapping the Field of Media Engagement

The team held two, in-person knowledge exchange workshops with the partners in order to introduce the team and the project’s objectives, as well as to discuss the role of digital media and wellbeing in the VI community. The main aim was to hear about lived experiences of creating and consuming media. They discussed social and personal barriers to media engagement, as well as how active media use can improve the lives of visually impaired people. They linked these insights to the partners’ agendas, their current and past media initiatives and their existing resources. This helped tentatively identifying opportunities and strategies for co-designing media engagement training for their members.

 

 

The full project team consists of:

  • Dr. Catalin Brylla – Principal Lecturer in Film and TV (Principal Investigator), Bournemouth University
  • Professor Anica Zeyen – Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Royal Holloway, University of London (Co-Investigator)
  • Dr. Jessica Hayton – Associate Professor in Psychology, University College London (Co-Investigator)
  • Dr. Ibrahim Emara – Lecturer in Journalism, Tamta University (Co-Investigator)
  • Dr Angharad Butler-Rees – Research Fellow, University of Birmingham (PDRA)
  • Dr. Kate Jupp – Public Involvement Officer, Bournemouth University

MRes studentship opportunities – application deadline extended to 14th August, 2024

student research

Update about the NIHR INSIGHT programme MRes studentship eligibility which impacts on the current recruitment round.

Following consultation with the 12 regional leads for the NIHR INSIGHT programme, NIHR has agreed to Research Masters studentships being open to applicants with up to five years’ experience of practice in the health or care profession for which they hold the required registration. It is still possible to provide flexibility for instances such as career breaks or time out for caring responsibilities so long as experience of practice fits with this guidance.

In light of the above changes, the deadline for applications for the Research Masters Studentships for South West Central have been extended to Wednesday 14th August 2024 to allow for applications for those who may now meet the eligibility criteria.  Information about how to apply is available on our webpage: https://insight-southwestcentral.net/

There was also discussion about health and care professionals working on skilled worker visas and the requirements for Research Masters studentships in line with all applicants, only those with up to five years’ experience of practice (UK and international practice) will be considered. Those on skilled worker visas will need to be employed on a full-time basis and given clinical release to undertake the MRes programme (0.4FTE). The studentship stipend can be paid to employers to offset the cost of clinical/care release. However, this will mean that employers will need to subsidise the difference in salary costs. This will need to be discussed and negotiated on an individual basis where employers deem it appropriate.

If you have any queries, please contact  Carol Clark (cclark@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Theo Akudjedu  (takudjedu@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Les Gelling lgelling@bournemouth.ac.uk