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Early Career Researchers Network Meeting

BU research, ECR Network, Events, policy, Research Concordat

We’re kicking off the new academic year with a meeting for all Early Career Researchers on

Wednesday 22nd September from 15:30 – 16:30

This is a great opportunity to get to know other researchers across BU.

 

It’s a friendly, supportive environment for raising all sorts of questions, and hearing about other’s research-related experiences, and plain networking should you be interested in interdisciplinary working.

This month we will have a discussion focused on the Research Concordat, and what it means for you as a researcher, but there will also be plenty of time for a general chat. This will be a MS Teams meeting.

If you have any queries, please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk, or see the staff intranet page to book.

Last Chance to attend Free Webinar on VR for Stroke Rehabilitation

Events, Research communication

Registration for this event is now closed due to bumper turn out but you can still join this event directly following this link:

 

EU Interreg AiBle – VR Games for Stroke Rehabilitation Workshop Webinar, Thu 16 Sep 2021 13:00 -17.30

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzI1YzI4ZmQtZmRhZC00MTlmLThmYmMtNzZmMGNmMWNjODlj%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22ede29655-d097-42e4-bbb5-f38d427fbfb8%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2223912e64-5936-4adc-a7af-c052f91862d9%22%7d

See you there!

Dr. Ann Luce honoured in Malaysia on World Suicide Prevention Day

Events, Fusion, Impact, Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team, policy, Research communication, Uncategorized

Dr. Ann Luce, Associate Professor in Journalism and Communication in FMC and her colleague, Dr. Ravivarma Rao Panirselvam, a psychiatrist in the Ministry of Health at Hospital Miri were honoured by The Honorable Dato Sri Hajah Fatimah Abdullah, Minister of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development in Sarawak, Malaysia earlier today (September 10th) for their work in creating guidelines for police on how to speak with journalists about suicide deaths and suicide attempts.

The guidelines were launched at a World Suicide Prevention Day event where policy makers, Members of Parliament and the Sarawak State Assembly learned about suicide prevention and discussed the decriminalisation of suicide within the country.

The guidelines, and an accompanying Z-fold flyer for police duty belts, have been distributed to officers within the Royal Malaysia Police in Sarawak. The guidelines advise police to identify a single point of contact (spokesperson) to discuss suicides with journalists and advise them on what type of information they should share with journalists and how to do this safely and responsibly. The guidance also states that police should avoid talking about specific suicide methods and locations of deaths. The guidelines also advise police to provide helpline information so journalists can educate the general population that suicide is a public health issue and not a criminal one.

While Malaysia’s crude suicide rate is about 5.6 per 100,000 inhabitants and below the global crude rate of 10.6 per 100,000 people, suicide rates in Malaysia have been steadily climbing since 2010. With only one psychiatrist for every 200,000 residents in the country, Malaysia falls short of the World Health Organisation recommendation of one psychiatrist to 10,000 residents. Coupled with social stigma regarding mental health and growing mental health problems amongst young people, there is a push within the country to now decriminalise suicide.

Malaysia is believed to be one of about 20 countries around the world that still treats suicide as an illegal act. There are a further 20 countries which follow Islamic or Sharia Law where suicide or suicide attempts are illegal and can be punished with jail sentences.

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Dr. Ann Luce at Mental Health Academy Suicide Prevention Summit

conferences, Events, Impact, Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team, NHS, REF Subjects, Research news

Dr. Ann Luce, Associate Professor in Journalism and Communication in FMC is keynoting at the Mental Health Academy Suicide Prevention Summit on Saturday, 11th September in honour of World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10th).

In partnership with the British Psychological Society (BPS), the summit aims to equip practicing mental health professionals with the most up-to-date, advanced knowledge and treatment options on suicide prevention.

With suicide rates amongst medical professionals some of the highest in the UK, Dr. Luce will share early findings from her most recent research here in Dorset on how suicide is stigmatised amongst mental health professionals, the attitudes and barriers to seeking help within mental healthcare Trusts and what Trusts need to do to make the workplace safer for mental health staff.

Launched | Doctoral College Researcher Development Programme

Doctoral College, Events, Featured, PG research, Postgraduate Research, Research Supervision, Student Engagement, Training, Vitae


I am delighted to share with you all that sessions as part of the 2021-22 Doctoral College Researcher Development Programme for Postgraduate Researchers are now available to book.

PGRs can book onto sessions via the Doctoral College Researcher Development Programme on Brightspace. All sessions between October-December are delivered online.

If you are a PGR or PGR Supervisor and unable to access the Researcher Development Programme on Brightspace, please let us know and we will get you added.

Email Natalie and Debbie at: pgrskillsdevelopment@bournemouth.ac.uk.

 

BU hosting Free Webinar on VR Games for Stroke Rehabilitation

Events

As a part of EU Interreg Project AiBle, Bournemouth University is running this workshop webinar on VR Games for Stroke Rehabilitation on Thursday 16th September 2021 from 1-4.30 pm, see further details below:

https://www.euaible.com/event/vr-games-for-stroke-rehabilitation-workshop-webinar/

The workshop objective is to create a discussion platform on intersections between the fields of rehabilitation, robotics, and human-computer/robot interaction. We have host of international experts as speakers for this event. Please register for this Webinar at the link below if you are interested to attend.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eu-interreg-aible-vr-games-for-stroke-rehabilitation-workshop-webinar-registration-163487905727

Funding Development Briefing – Spotlight on the new Wellcome Trust funding programmes

BU research, Events, Funding opportunities, Research news

The RDS Funding Development Briefings occur weekly, on a Wednesday at 12 noon.

Each session covers the latest major funding opportunities, followed by a brief Q&A session. Some sessions also include a spotlight on a particular funding opportunity of strategic importance to BU.

Wednesday 8th September 2021, there will be a spotlight on Wellcome Trust’s new funding schemes.

We will cover:

  • Overview of the new schemes
  • How to apply
  • Q & A

For those unable to attend, the session will be recorded and shared on Brightspace here.

Invites for these sessions have been disseminated via your Heads of Department.

Join the event: Care and support at home in the time of Covid

BU research, conferences, COVID-19, Events, Research news

An event exploring the experiences of volunteers, carers and care workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in BCP and Dorset

About this event

The Covid-19 pandemic has concentrated much care and support within peoples homes. The closure of schools, day centres, shops and non-essential services during lockdowns, alongside prohibitions on household mixing, have meant that caring work has been much more spatially concentrated and contained within households than in normal times.

This has placed increasing demands on carers and home care workers. It has also expanded initiatives of volunteer-provided support to people at home. This event presents the early findings of a research project exploring the activities and experiences of carers, care workers and volunteers in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset over the past 18 months. It also includes a round table discussion in which experts and leaders from the voluntary and community sector, carers’ groups, home care providers and local government will reflect on current and future challenges for their respective fields, and the role of academic research in addressing these.

Date 

Wed, 8 September 2021

Time

13:00 – 15:30 BST

Price

This event is free and open to all. Book your place at Care and support at home in the time of Covid Tickets, Wed 8 Sep 2021 at 13:00 | Eventbrite

Location

Join Zoom Meeting

https://bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85863758884?pwd=S05FYWlzWUFoWWRpS2lnWnk0alZPZz09

Meeting ID: 858 6375 8884

Passcode: i98CDv8@

Questions

For further information on this event please contact

Dr Rosie Read, email: rread@bournemouth.ac.uk

BU Academic to Give Keynote at Raymond Williams and Paulo Freire Symposium, UNICAMP, Brazil

BU research, Events

2021 marks the centenary of two of the twentieth century’s most important critical thinkers: Raymond Williams and Paulo Freire. Bournemouth Associate Professor Hywel Dix, who has published extensively on both, has been invited to give the closing keynote address at an online symposium dedicated to exploring connections between the two figures and their legacy at the University of Campinas in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

 

This keynote address will explore the place of race and religion in the work of Williams and Freire. Beginning with a discussion of William Empson’s Structure of Complex Words (1951), it will argue that the work of Empson was a greater influence on Williams’s work than has previously been realised, both in the adoption of a historical approach to linguistics and its application to the sociological analysis of culture. However, there are also two key elements in Empson for which there are no equivalent in Williams: specifically, the idea of a Christian sensibility and a Eurocentric perspective which fails to incorporate racial diversity. Williams’s Culture and Society (1958), Keywords (1976) and Marxism and Literature (1977) are all rooted in the work of Empson but say virtually nothing about either religion or race and the jettisoning of these areas of thought relative to the earlier writer has a series of very precise effects. Positively, it enables Williams to move away from the Eurocentric racial politics of Empson so that although Williams himself has rightly been criticised for his inability to incorporate racial diversity, his work can at least be read as a corrective to his predecessor’s in this regard. On the other hand, since race and religion are closely related in Empson’s thinking, getting rid of one simultaneously entails getting rid of the other. This has the effect that the opportunity to identify forms of counter-hegemonic relationships that a sociology of religious organisations can provide is missed – and Williams interprets organisations of religion solely as organs of the dominant ideology. The problem with this assumption is that it fails to account for how the kinds of relationship that typify faith-based communities (of all kinds) are inflected by experiences of race and can provide instances of counter-hegemonic solidarity. This, the chapter will provide, is why it is worth reading Williams alongside his exact contemporary Paulo Freire, because in Freire’s work a connection between a critical racial politics and an acknowledgement of the contribution certain religious communities can potentially make to that politics can be re-established. In doing so, it adds nuance to our current thinking about race.

 

The symposium will take place on August 26, with the keynote at 7.30 pm UK time. Anyone interested can register to attend the online symposium at https://www.fe.unicamp.br/agenda-de-eventos/coloquio-internacional-centelhas-de-transformacoes-paulo-freire-raymond-williams

Care and support at home in the time of Covid

BU research, conferences, Events, Research news

An event exploring the experiences of volunteers, carers and care workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in BCP and Dorset.

About this event:

The Covid-19 pandemic has concentrated much care and support within peoples homes. The closure of schools, day centres, shops and non-essential services during lockdowns, alongside prohibitions on household mixing, have meant that caring work has been much more spatially concentrated and contained within households than in normal times.

This has placed increasing demands on carers and home care workers. It has also expanded initiatives of volunteer-provided support to people at home. This event presents the early findings of a research project exploring the activities and experiences of carers, care workers and volunteers in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset over the past 18 months. It also includes a round table discussion in which experts and leaders from the voluntary and community sector, carers’ groups, home care providers and local government will reflect on current and future challenges for their respective fields, and the role of academic research in addressing these.

Event details:

For further information on this event please contact Dr Rosie Read, email: rread@bournemouth.ac.uk

This online event will be recorded. For details in respect of any recording and how it will be made available, please contact the organiser. If you do not want to appear in any recording please notify the host, keep your camera and audio off throughout the event and avoid using any chat function during the event (we will do our best to respond to any questions you have through other channels). For further information, please refer to our privacy notice https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/governance/access-information/data-protection-privacy/general-enquiries-public-events-privacy-notice [RA1]

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

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