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November 3, 2021

RKEDF: Research Training Events in November

BU research, ECR Network, Events, Postgraduate Research, Public engagement, Research news, Research Training, RKE development framework, Training Theresa

The following events are coming up this month. For everyone’s safety these are all online events.

Wednesday 9th November 14:00 – 15:00 Getting started with research impact

What exactly is research impact? Why is it so important? And how do you ensure that your research has impact? This workshop covers all of these questions.

Please book via the staff intranet.

Monday 22^nd November 09:30 – 12:00 Meaningful Online Engagement

We are delighted to be able to team up with the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE), who will use their experience and expertise to provide an invaluable guide to running online public engagement events. The training session is aimed at people who are thinking about taking their public engagement online and would like guidance about how to do it well. Please book via the staff intranet.

Wednesday 24^th November 16:00 – 17:00 Early Career Researcher Network Meeting

This is an Open Surgery session – an opportunity for you to raise research-related queries and to network with other researchers who are also in an early stage of their research career. You don’t have to be a member of the network to attend.

Please book via the staff intranet.

Monday 13^th December 10:00 – 12:30 High Quality Public Engagement

To find out how high quality public engagement can enrich your research, ensure its relevance to your wider public and build trust with partners and stakeholders, sign up for this session. We are delighted to again team up with the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE), who will use their experience and expertise to provide an invaluable guide to running online public engagement events. The training session is aimed at people who already have some experience of public engagement. Please book via the staff intranet.

In addition to the above, 1-1 sessions on clinical governance can also be arranged. Contact Suzy for more information on swignall@bournemouth.ac.uk

You can see all the Organisational Development and Research Knowledge Development Framework (RKEDF) events in one place on the handy calendar of events.

If you have any queries, please get in touch!

November 1, 2021

Events coming up this week in the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2021

BU research, Events, Impact, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team, Public engagement, Research communication Adam Morris

Free events for the public, organised by BU researchers, taking place online and in person throughout November. Book your places below.

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2021 banner

The ESRC Festival of Social Science 2021

Coming up this week

Digital exclusion and inclusion in health and social care

Wednesday, 3 November
Online

This half-day workshop will bring together people working in health, social care and community services to discuss and explore the impact of digital exclusion on the public’s access to services and support. It will focus particularly on the context of West Dorset but with lessons and discussions relevant across the country.

Book now

How can faith-based organisations address climate change?

Saturday, 6 November
LOVECHURCH @ St Swithun’s Bournemouth

Join us to hear different perspectives from faith-based organisations on how faith, religion and organisations might view and address climate change, as well as from researchers working on solutions.

Faith and climate change awareness are both important factors in how many people think and live. However, despite some efforts from faith-based organisations (FBO) such as Christian Aid, Tearfund, there is more that could be done to tackle climate change from a faith perspective.

Book now

Later this month

The science of suicide – addressing myths and misconceptions

Saturday, 13 November
Bournemouth Gateway Building, Bournemouth University

In this talk, Dr Moseley will explore common myths and misunderstandings about suicide, and what contemporary psychological theories about suicide can tell us about why and how people end their own lives.

Through scientific research, we’ll explore themes of loneliness and social connectedness, as well as what research tells us about groups who are especially at risk, such as autistic people. We’ll also consider what we can do, including the language we use, to support people at risk of suicide.

Book now

Connecting with nature: for wellbeing, sustainability and the environment

Monday, 15 November & Wednesday, 17 November
Online

Connecting with nature can have benefits not only for our own wellbeing, but for the environment too. Join BU researchers and local nature organisations for a selection of talks over two days, to learn more about forest bathing, volunteering for nature, sustainable living and other ways to engage with and protect the natural environment.

We’ll also discover what social science research tells us about the sustainable choices people make throughout their life. Set against the backdrop of COP26, this event will explore how the choices we make could address the climate and ecological crises, and how Bournemouth University targets and supports these.

Book now

Storytelling for communicating climate science

Monday, 15 November
Online

In a time of information overload, it can be hard to break through the noise to tell evidence-based stories that inform and inspire. In this interactive workshop our team of Science, Health and Data Communications experts will investigate the uses—and misuses of storytelling about climate change.

Through a ‘playable communications’ workshop we will explore how play, in the form of choice-based games and text adventures, can be used for myth-busting and misinformation spotting, as well as for constructing imaginative and inspiring evidence-based narratives.

Book now

Demystifying ‘mental capacity’ – what you should know

Tuesday, 16 November
Online

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 is relevant to everyone working with individuals aged 16 or over who have difficulty in making informed decisions. However, many are unsure of how it is used in practice, for example in making ‘best interest’ decisions, or in relation to end of life care and Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment.

This online event will provide an opportunity for members of the public (including experts by experience) and health and social care practitioners to learn from one another about how to best support vulnerable members of society who lack capacity.

Book now

Collaboration for better outcomes in criminal justice

Thursday, 18 November
Online

Many of the people who offend most frequently are also some of the most vulnerable, who need support from a number of different local agencies. There is huge potential for these criminal justice, health and social care services to work together for better outcomes across the board.

Join us to learn about how integrating these services is done around the world, including Nordic models, and how BU research is improving collaboration between correctional and mental health services.

Book now

Nursing in times of crisis: Covid-19 & WW2

Wednesday, 24 November
Bournemouth Gateway Building, Bournemouth University

This event will look at nursing during Covid-19 and during another period of crisis in which nurses played a key role – World War II.

We’ll explore personal stories of nursing during WW2 and from Bournemouth University’s own student nurses who worked during the pandemic, as well as considering what objects and uniforms from these different eras can tell us. This event is also an opportunity to share your own thoughts and experiences.

Book now

The face under the mask: what Covid-19 has taught us about face perception

Thursday, 25 November
Online

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed a great deal about how humans communicate and interact with each other, part of which is the wearing of face masks. But faces are our most important social clues and provide a great amount of information, so what happens when they are partially covered? We’ll discover how masks affect how we perceive faces, but also what this effect can tell us about how face perception works.

Book now

Interested in holding your own public event to share research? Join our training session on getting started in public engagement with research. Online, Thursday 4 November 11-12:30.

October 27, 2021

IMSET Seminar: How archaeologists can contribute to a Green New Revolution

BU research, Events, Research communication, Research news Theresa

BU are delighted to welcome Erika Guttman-Bond tomorrow, Thursday October 28^th, at 4.30pm for a hybrid seminar, held in F306 and on line.

There has been a lot of interest in the failures of the past and the environmental disasters that have ensued because of poor land management practices. Erika will be arguing that the successes of the past are of equal importance. Her research focuses on pre-industrial techniques that have been rediscovered, either through archaeology or anthropology, and put back to work. Such systems often prove to be not only more sustainable than modern approaches, but more resilient in the face of environmental extremes.

Tickets are available from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imset-seminar-how-archaeologists-can-contribute-to-a-new-green-revolution-tickets-186916160267?fbclid=IwAR14hzCKSgvIz0k8G6lRU1NcezC4mewjCzJV1M4fSQfclXhq-BXiW5BixFM

October 21, 2021

Café Sci – Tuesday 2 November: Climate change coastal flooding – relocate before it’s too late?

BU research, Events, Impact, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement ballen

At Café Scientifique, you can explore the latest ideas in science and technology in a relaxed online setting. Enjoy listening to a short talk before engaging in debate and discussion with our guest speaker and audience.

We’ll be joined by Dr Luciana Esteves on Tuesday 2 November from 7.00pm until 8.30pm.

Climate change and coastal flooding – relocate before it’s too late?

For an increasing number of people, coastal flooding and erosion are a real threat to property, the local economy and, in some cases, life. With the effects of climate change, this threat is quickly growing.

Should coastal communities at risk be relocated before they are forced from their homes? Or could engineering and nature-based solutions provide the defences they need?

Join us to discover the challenges faced by coastal communities in an uncertain climate future, and what society could do to address them.

Attendance is free but booking is required

October 21, 2021

SCRAMBLE EVENT : Come along to the ESRC Explore people’s relationships with digital technologies session

BU research, Events, Funding opportunities apekalski

The ESRC have pre-announced the following call: Explore people’s relationships with digital technologies, discussed at the funding development briefing this week.

Who should attend?

All are welcome with an interest in exploring relations with digital technologies. This call should be social science-led, with at least 50% of the programme falling within ESRC’s remit. But to enable approaches to the challenge of understanding our relationships with technology, it should also look widely across disciplines, drawing on expertise from fields such as:

the humanities
computer science
software engineering
mathematical sciences.

RDS will be running a brainstorming session on the 10^th November 13:00 -14:30. It will be an opportunity to identify potential collaborators/ themes for this network funding call. The session will be hosted on Zoom here

ACTION REQUIRED: Ahead of the event, we invite you to discuss your interests, potential collaborators, project ideas on Padlet. As ideas get added we can start to identify potential themes prior to the session. You can access the Padlet here.

Agenda:

13:00- 13:30 Information on the call and ESRC delivery plan overview.

13:30 – 14:15 Discussion around emerging themes from Padlet and potential collaborations.

14:15 – 14:30 Discussion about next steps.

If you have any queries or are unsure as to whether you ought to come along, please email your faculty facilitator in the first instance or Alexandra Pekalski apekalski@bournemouth.ac.uk .

October 18, 2021

Project-DIPCAT: Another Success Story for a Winning Strategic Partnership

Awarded & submitted bids, BRIAN, BU2025, EU, Events, Fusion, Fusion themes, Global engagement, Impact, innovation, international, open access, REF Subjects, research staff, staff profile pages palexander

Designing Innovative Pedagogy for Complex Accounting Topics (Project-DIPCAT) is coming to a successful end in December 2021. BU has led eleven other European Universities in this three-year, Erasmus+ funded project. Its objects were to design, develop and deliver four integrated accountancy case studies with contemporary content and innovative methods for wider dissemination in higher education. While the project partners were challenged by the COVID-19 Pandemic, the resulting intellectual outputs have exceeded expectations and are now suitable for F2F, hybrid and online deliveries.

Intensive Study Programmes

The cases were first tested in an Intensive Study Programme (ISP) at BU in September 2019. The second and third ISPs were originally planned to be delivered in Innsbruck and Budapest in 2020 and 2021. When it became apparent international travel would not be possible, the project partners redesigned the cases and delivery modes for two international hybrid events. The teams were challenged to deliver something truly innovative and engaging that participating students would enjoy remotely.

As ISPs are extra-curricular, they need to achieve something extra and engaging. That X-factor has always been fun, cultural enrichment and opportunities to develop friendships with students from other countries. The partners were delighted these very attributes were recognised and appreciated in feedback from more than 70 participating students in last month’s ISP, virtually hosted by Innsbruck partners. The third and final ISP will be virtually hosted by the Budapest partners next week, 25th-29th October 2021.

The Cases

The four cases are on the most contentious and fast-changing areas that challenge the accounting profession:

International Taxation – during the era of reform (post-BEPS 1.0 and pre-BEPS 2.0);
IFRS 9 – modeling for the changing requirements in accounting for financial instruments;
Digitalization in Auditing (with data mining skill development);
Corporate governance mechanisms fostering socially responsible behavior of companies in tax compliance.

The case studies and the supplemental materials are designed to address all the competencies that are needed for emerging accountancy professionals (e.g. subject-specific knowledge, problem solving ability, interdisciplinary thinking, soft skills and the ability to recognise ethical issues in accountancy). While adaptable to short courses (e.g. ISPs or CPD), taken in their entirety, each case provides the scaffolding, content and assessment for 20-credit modules.

The cases and their rich supplemental learning materials, tasks and pedagogical innovations will be freely available through the European Union Repository in December 2021. The finished International Tax and CSR cases were successfully showcased at the Tax Research Network’s Education Day last month and have already been adopted at other HEIs. A recording of the event will soon be available on the TRN website. The IFRS and Auditing cases will be showcased at an International Accounting Conference in Budapest on 26^th November.

The Team at BU and Beyond

The BUBS academics leading Project-DIPCAT are Dr Phyllis Alexander (PI), Dr Suranjita Mukherjee, Dr Hany Elbardan and Dr Tuan Vu. Mr Robert Day and Judge Anne Fairpo were special appointments to the project given their expertise in corporate governance and international taxation, respectively.

While Project-DIPCAT comes to a successful end, the partners continue to collaborate in research, professional practice and education, as they have done for over 25 years (partner details and their history is on the AFECA webpage). BU was one for four founding partners of AFECA in 1993, thanks to the inspiration and dedication of Mr Day.

The consortium have another Erasmus+ project currently underway – Smart Teaching in Accounting – Meeting Place Online, with its first ISP next month (November 2021). DICPAT and STAMP-Online follow the success story of Project-ILPA, which was shortlisted for best project in 2018 and was classified as a ‘good practice example’ by the European Union. AFECA truly is a winning strategic partnership in accountancy that continues to thrive and innovate!

Follow DIPCAT’s finale on Facebook and Instagram : #dipcatisp and #dipcat2021

October 18, 2021

UKRO annual visit – meeting with BU academics in 2021

EU, Events, Funding opportunities, pre-award Ainar

As usual, RDS will host the annual UK Research Office visit to BU in 2021 – this year it will be virtual again.

This year’s event is scheduled for October 27, 2021 and is organised as part of funding briefing session; we have those on Teams every Wednesday.

Please make a note in your diaries – all academic staff interested in Horizon Europe framework programme and EU funding in general are invited to attend this session.

The session will be hosted by RDS and led by our UKRO European Advisor Ms Malgorzata Czerwiec from Brussels.

This year you are not be required to register in advance – simply join our Wednesday’s briefing session on 27th October at noon.

Agenda

12:00 – 12:10

Newest funding opportunities (as usual)

12:10 – 12:50

Horizon Europe Pillar 2 opportunities – how to approach calls for collaborative funding.

During this session will be covered opportunities of Horizon Europe 2022 calls, highlighting key features of proposal writing/consortium building/evaluation.

13:00 – 14:45

Previously booked one-to-one sessions (to be held using Zoom) with UKRO representative.

Academics are welcome to book one-to-one sessions indicating their EU funding related topic of interest; please email individually to Research Facilitator International Ainar Blaudums by 25 October and we will allocate 15 minutes timeslot for you.

UKRO delivers subscription-based advisory service for research organisations and provides Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and European Research Council (ERC) National Contact Point services in the UK. As part of UKRO services, BU members of staff may sign up to receive personalised email alerts and get early access to the EU funding related publications on UKRO portal.

Please contact Research Facilitator International Ainar Blaudums if you have further questions.

October 15, 2021

UK-China Workshop on Advancing wearable technology: promoting physical activity and mobility among older adults in China

ECR Network, Events, Global engagement, Uncategorized sarahprice

The University of Portsmouth and Shanghai Jiaotong University are organising a joint workshop on ‘’Advancing wearable technology: promoting physical activity and mobility among older adults in China’’. The workshop is organised as part of The Newton Fund Researcher Links programme which provides opportunities for early career researchers from the UK and China to interact, learn from each other and explore opportunities for building long-lasting research collaborations.

The workshop will take place on the 9-10th December 2021 for the UK meeting in Portsmouth and there will be a hybrid delivery with the partner in China. Travel costs will be covered for travel within the UK.

The organisers would like to invite early career researchers to apply to attend this workshop which will provide a multidisciplinary platform for UK and Chinese early career researchers to share their research expertise, and to work across disciplines to develop innovative approaches to wearables which can promote health and socioeconomic development in China and other countries. Early career researchers will have the opportunity to present their research in the form of poster presentation and work with expert mentors who are established researchers from the UK and China. There will be a focus on building links with industry promoting acceleration of knowledge transfer of wearables. There will also be the development of a web-based forum and a network/consortium to extend the discussion and continue to build research links after the workshop.

Please find further information here – applications need to be received by the University of Portsmouth by 31st October 2021.

October 12, 2021

Public Engagement: Online workshop to help develop confidence and skills to promote yourself effectively

BU research, Events, Public engagement ballen

Tuesday 12th October is Ada Lovelace Day: an international celebration of women’s achievements in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

In addition to our profiles of women in STEM at BU, running throughout this week, we thought you might be interested in the following workshop.

#IamRemarkable is a Google initiative. The workshops are designed to help to empower women and underrepresented groups to speak openly about accomplishments in the workplace and beyond, breaking modesty norms.

Many of us struggle when it comes to talking about our own accomplishments. Cultural and gender modesty norms, as well as impostor syndrome can prevent anyone from acknowledging their remarkable attributes and expressing their achievements. The goals are to improve the self promotion motivation and skills of women, and underrepresented groups, and challenge the social perception around self promotion.

What does this workshop have to do with public engagement?

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are important and critical for creating the world we all want to live in. Besides being great for underrepresented groups, this is a good workshop to help other groups (“people of majority”) become more aware of the gender and cultural norms that keep certain kinds of people from progressing and having their voices heard.

In this free interactive session, there will be group discussions and exercises to develop the confidence and skills to promote yourself effectively.

The 90 min workshop will include:

sharing data and research regarding self promotion and unconscious bias
an exercise to help you articulate your achievements and practice self promotion
discussion and share take home exercises

Sign up for the free #IamRemarkable workshop

For any questions about this workshop, please contact organiser Ashley Kent.

October 11, 2021

Take part in Café Scientifique – Tues 2 Nov 7-8:30pm – Short Deadline

BU research, Events, Impact, Public engagement, Research communication Adam Morris

Thank you for coming to this post, we have since had interest from several potential speakers and so will close this opportunity. If you’re interested in a possible future date for Cafe Sci, please feel free to still get in touch.

Ideally looking for climate/environment-related research, though all welcome to enquire.

Would you like to share your research with a public audience in an informal online setting?

Due to unforeseen availability issues, at fairly short notice we’re looking for someone to speak at our next Café Scientifique event, taking place 7-8:30pm on Tuesday 2 November 2021.

To coincide with COP26, we’re ideally looking for someone with climate or environment-related research. However, please do get in touch even if your work doesn’t fit this brief – we may still be able to feature you.

Café Scientifique is a format in which you talk about your research for about 40 minutes, followed by a short break, before returning for around 40 minutes of questions and discussions with the audience. We’ll be holding the event online, meaning you can take part from wherever you’re based.

The audience is a mixed general public audience, interested in learning more about research. It’s always a friendly atmosphere and the questions are often surprising and insightful.

You can read about the experiences of past Café Sci contributors on the Research Blog.

If you’re interested, please send a short summary of the research you’d like to present to publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk. We will confirm as soon as possible whether you have been selected, and explain the next steps.

We will handle the marketing, event logistics and running the event. Our host, Sharon Docherty, will host the event on the night and work with the audience. We just need you to provide the content and engage in discussion.

If you have any questions, contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk

October 10, 2021

First face-to-face Science event in over 2 years!

BU research, Events, Uncategorized thompsonk

On the 3rd October, Genoveva Esteban and Katie Thompson from the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences and the Interreg EU-funded project SAMARCH (http://theceesresearchgroups.org/samarch) took part in the first ever Weymouth Family Science Festival. They ran three interactive activities at the spectacular location: The Nothe Fort. These included learning about insects, the wonderful life cycle of the Atlantic Salmon as well as the microbial world. They were delighted with the turnout and look forward to more face-to-face events. If you have any questions, please email Katie on thompsonk@bournemouth.ac.uk or Genoveva on gesteban@bournemouth.ac.uk

October 8, 2021

Postgraduate Researchers and Supervisors | Monthly Update for Researcher Development

BU research, Doctoral College, Events, Featured, PG research, Postgraduate Research, Research news, Research Training, student research, Training Deborah Smythe

Postgraduate researchers and supervisors, hopefully you have seen your monthly update for researcher development e-newsletter sent earlier this week. If you have missed it, please check your junk email or you can view it within the Researcher Development Programme on Brightspace.

The start of the month is a great time to reflect on your upcoming postgraduate researcher development needs and explore what is being delivered this month as part of the Doctoral College Researcher Development Programme and what is available via your Faculty or Department. Remember some sessions only run once per year, so don’t miss out.

Please also subscribe to your Brightspace announcement notifications for updates when they are posted.

If you have any questions about the Researcher Development Programme, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Natalie (Research Skills & Development Officer)
pgrskillsdevelopment@bournemouth.ac.uk

October 7, 2021

Return of the Science, Health, and Data Communications Research Series

Events, Fusion, Research Centres lskains

The Science, Health, and Data Communications Research Group invites you to our Autumn-Winter 2021 research series. These talks are open to the public, and encompass topics on representations of women scientists in the media, health inequalities and COVID-19, how comics are used for health messages, and how politics drives decisions around health and science.

SHDC-RG is an emerging interdisciplinary, cross-faculty group seeking to explore the ways in which specialised knowledge and information is communicated to the public, including policy-makers and front-line workers, and how mass communication (such as journalism and entertainment media) conveys and represents these areas to audiences.

Covid Comics & Public Health Messaging on Instagram

Date: Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 12-1pm UK time
Speaker: Prof. Anna Feigenbaum (with Ozlem Demirkol Tonnesen, Shannon McDavitt, Jonathan Sexton, Kufre Okon, Jose Blazquez), Bournemouth University
Further details and registration.

Healthcare Workers and Online Shaming During COVID-19

Date: Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 12-1pm UK time
Speaker: Dr. Luna Dolezal, University of Exeter
Further details and registration.

Generic visuals of Covid-19 in the news: invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration

Date: Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 12-1pm UK time
Speaker: Prof. Helen Kennedy, University of Sheffield
Further details and registration.

TBC

Date: Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 12-1pm UK time
Speaker: Dr. Tanya Le Roux, Bournemouth University
Further details and registration.

The Making of Collective Politics through Feminist Media

Date: Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 2-3pm UK time
Speaker: Dr. Rachel Kuo, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Further details and registration.

Humanising Public Health & Challenging Infodemics: The potential of web-comics

Date: Wednesday, 8 December 2021, 2-4pm UK time
Speaker: Dr. Emmy Waldman (Harvard), Dr. Laura Happio-Kirk (UCL), Dr. Ernesto Priego (City University), Monique Jackson (Artist)
Further details and registration.

TBC

Date: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
Speaker: Prof. Julian McDougall, Bournemouth University
Further details and registration.

October 6, 2021

Call for abstracts | The 13th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference

BU research, Doctoral College, Events, Featured, PG research, Postgraduate Research, Research communication, student research nstewart

The 13th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2021 will take place on Wednesday 1 December, 09:30 – 16:00 and the call for abstracts is now open.

The conference is a great opportunity for postgraduate researchers to showcase and promote their research to the BU community whether they have just started or are approaching the end of their journey at BU.

Attending the conference is a great opportunity to engage and network with the postgraduate research community and find out more about the exciting and fascinating research that is happening across BU.

For our 13th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference we will be hosting oral presentations via Zoom, showcasing research posters virtually on the website and the research and Faculty blogs and will have an on campus hub during the conference in the Fusion Building.

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October 5, 2021

Meet the Environment Editor for The Conversation

BU research, Events, Research news ntealdi

Environment Editor for The Conversation, Will de Freitas, will hold an online training session for BU on Wednesday 27 October.

The session will run from 10.30am to 11.30am over Zoom and 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, how to look for story hooks and angles from the news, and how to write a quality story pitch to section editors.

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 7.5 million reads and been republished by the likes of The i, Metro, and the Washington Post.

Book your place via Eventbrite.

With the COP26 climate change conference on the horizon, insights around how to protect and preserve our environment and deal with our changing climate will be high on the news agenda.

A limited number of 20-minute one-to-one sessions with Will are available from 11.30am – 1pm on Wednesday 27 October, to discuss environment-related story ideas. To request a place, please contact newsdesk@bournemouth.ac.uk.

September 30, 2021

Centre for Seldom heard Voices – online lunchtime seminar series

BU research, conferences, Events, Research Centres jonesc

Join us at our first Lunchtime Seminar this October. Email jonesc@bournemouth.ac.uk for the online link.

Octobers Seminar – 12:00-13:00 on 27th October

Mark Berry will be presenting our first lunchtime seminar on ‘The ethics and challenges of semi-covert research with active drug dealers’

Ethnographic research with offenders has become increasingly difficult to carry out in the UK and internationally. Requirements of institutional review boards (IRB) are stringent. Research that involves fieldwork in high-risk settings is often turned down, which in effect silences the voices of vulnerable and marginalised populations within them. Furthermore, witnessing and recording crimes that are not known to the police is risky and could put the researcher in a position where they are legally obligated to give up the information. Ethnography with criminals may also require elements of covert observation in order to be successful and protect the safety of both the researcher and the researched. Covert research is especially difficult to get approved and is frowned upon for being deceptive. It can, however, benefit participants by illuminating hidden injustices, whilst leading to proposals for progressive policy change. This talk draws upon data from a 5-year semi-covert ethnography of the illicit drug trade in a city in England. It outlines the ethical and methodological challenges of conducting ethnographic research on hard-to-reach criminal groups.

September 30, 2021

Volunteers’, carers’ and home care workers’ perspectives on the pandemic

Awarded & submitted bids, BU research, conferences, COVID-19, Events, Public engagement, Research Centres, Uncategorized Rosie Read

‘Staying Home Connecting Care’ is a British Academy funded research project exploring care provided to people at home during the Covid-19 pandemic. As society locked down, people with age-related frailties, disabilities, and certain health conditions needed to shield at home. Many relied on the support of family carers, home care workers and volunteer-run schemes to supply them with the care, companionship and essential supplies of food and medicines to stay safe and well at home.

Over the past year we have been interviewing care workers, volunteers and carers from across Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole (BCP) and Dorset, about their experiences of providing such care and support to people in their homes during the pandemic.

We recently organised an online workshop, ‘Care and Support at home in the time of Covid’. The aim of this free event was to share the interim findings of the study with a public audience, and invite feedback, reflection and discussion.

The highlight of the event was the roundtable discussion in which six speakers took part, each with extensive experience of home care work, voluntary and community pandemic activities and/or care of vulnerable adults. The round table speakers were:

Sue Warr from Prama life, Jon Sloper from Help and Kindness, Rosie Thompson from Gillingham Community Kindness, Sarah Ward from the Covid-19 Poole Community Support Group, Pam Henderson from Bournemouth University’s PIER Partnership and Andrew Davis from Right at Home and Dorset Home Care Providers’ Association.

Each round table participant spoke in fascinating and poignant detail about their activities during the pandemic. They reflected on how the ‘Staying Home’ research findings resonated with their own insights and experiences, and shared their perspectives on the priorities for future research and policy.

Several themes recurred throughout the course of the round table discussion. The dynamism and resourcefulness of the voluntary and community sector response to the pandemic was evident from many of the talks, which detailed how people in communities across BCP and Dorset rapidly and creatively devised practical schemes for getting help and support to people at home. The innovative use of telephone and web-based technologies to build new infrastructures to connect people was also a key area of discussion.

Speakers highlighted important shifts over the course of the pandemic. As one remarked, it is easy to forget the public uncertainty about how coronavirus was transmitted in the early days, when an effective vaccine seemed a distant prospect. This made close-contact caring for adults vulnerable to Covid-19 acutely stressful and challenging for carers and care workers.

Over time, as needs of people at home for basic supplies of food and medicines eased from summer 2020, other needs became apparent, not least many people’s poor mental health and loneliness. The isolation and loss of services had a profound impact on (family) carers. The pandemic has stretched to breaking point the fragile support networks on which many carers continue to depend. The phase of clapping for care workers and carers is over, but for some, the challenges to daily existence posed by the pandemic are more acute than ever.

Speakers highlighted several important questions for future research and policy. How can the hugely positive innovations within the voluntary organisations and communities be best supported and transformed as society reopens? How can that project be harnessed to the transformation of the social care system to make it fairer and fit for purpose, with appropriate levels of public investment? How can the rights and needs of people who still need to shield, and their carers, be protected, as wider society reopens?

Evaluation
20-25 people attended the event, and, 15 of them anonymously completed the evaluation survey at the end of the workshop. All agreed that the presentation of interim findings was clear, accessible, interesting and informative, and that the roundtable furthered their understanding of care during Covid-19. All except one agreed that research on social care needs to take account of unwaged forms of support, such as that provided by carers and volunteers, as well as that provided by workers within social care services. One commented “This is a really important need as I don’t think people realise the scope of unpaid care that is happening”, whilst another remarked, “I feel the total focus is always around residential care, and other areas…including homecare and voluntary, get forgotten”.

Survey respondents highlighted several areas for further research.

The event was recorded and a link to it can be found here.

Dr Rosie Read, Principal Investigator
Erica Ferris, Research Assistant

Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
Bournemouth University

Email for correspondence: rread@bournemouth.ac.uk

September 28, 2021

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