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25 January 2023

RKEDF: Impress the Press media training workshop – Wednesday 8th February

If you’re interested in sharing your work and research with the media, join us for a practical workshop – Impress the Press: How to talk to journalists.

This in-person workshop will take place on Talbot Campus from 2-4pm on Wednesday 8th February.

We’ll cover what makes a good news story and how to talk about your work, as well as tips and techniques for speaking with broadcast media (TV and radio) – followed by the chance to put it all into practice through some mock interviews.

Engaging with the media can be a great way to raise your profile and share your research with a broad range of audiences, which can increase the reach and potential impact of your work.

By the end of the session, you’ll feel confident in undertaking media interviews and talking to journalists about what you do.

This workshop is taking place as part of the Research and Knowledge Exchange Development Framework (RKEDF) and will be facilitated by Stephen Bates (Senior Press Officer, M&C) and Emma Matthews (Research Communications Adviser, RDS)

Book your place

For queries regarding the content of this session, please contact Emma Matthews: ematthews@bournemouth.ac.uk

For any other queries, please contact Organisational Development

17 January 2023

Supervisor Lunchbite | Wellbeing Support for PGRs at BU

PG research Deborah Smythe

Hosted by the Doctoral College, these one hour online lunch bite sessions supplement the regular New and Established Supervisory Development Sessions and are aimed at all academic staff who are new to, or experienced at, supervising research degree students and are interested in expanding their knowledge of a specific aspect or process in research degree supervision.Each session will be led by a senior academic who will introduce the topic, and staff will benefit from discussions aimed at sharing best practice from across BU. Bookings are arranged by Organisational Development.

Ensuring the wellbeing of PGRs and supervisors can be challenging and this session will look at the support available for PGRs at BU. This discussion will be led by Kerry-Ann Randle, Student Services.

Staff attending this session will:

have gained additional knowledge of how to support vulnerable PGRs
have gained an understanding how to signpost PGRs to the support available at BU

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

Date: Tuesday, 24 January 2023

Time: 12:00 – 13:00

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

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

16 November 2022

Remember the stadium builders

international, PG research, Publishing, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

With the men’s FIFA football world cup starting on Sunday in Qatar it important to remember the human costs of those who build the infrastructure. The media coverage on the number of workers dying during the building of the football stadiums has highlighted the plight of foreign workers in the Middle East more generally. For example, BU’s researcher Dr. Nirmal Aryal was cited in The Sunday Times in an article with the title ‘Qatar 2022: Dying for the World Cup”, see the BU Research Blog published this time last year.

Here at BU we have conducted several studies into Nepali migrant workers, including those working in Qatar and elsewhere in the Middle East [1-13]. In the Middle East working conditions for foreign labourers are often Dirty, Dangerous and Difficult (commonly referred at as the 3Ds). Migrant workers often perform physically demanding work in a hot unprotected environment, suffer dehydration and/or exposure to chemical, excessive use of pain killers, and unhealthy lifestyle factors (such as restricted water intake and a high intake of alcohol/sugary drinks) which may precipitate them to acute kidney injuries and subsequent chronic kidney disease [1]. Dr. Regmi and colleagues in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences are currently conducting a study into the kidney health of Nepalese migrant workers. This study is funded by the Colt Foundation.

From our work, we can say that in addition to the 3Ds, migrant workers are likely to experience a series of other challenges ranging from language and other cultural barriers, socio-economic problems and issues to do with their legal status, to a lack of health and safety training, difficulties in gaining access
to health services. If you have limited injury compensation in your line of work, a work injury attorney can answer commonly asked questions like “can employer make employee pay for accident?”

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

References:

Aryal, N., Regmi, P.R., Sedhain, A., KC, R.K., Martinez Faller, E., Rijal, A., van Teijlingen, E. (2021). Kidney health risk of migrant workers: An issue we can no longer overlook. Health Prospect 21(1): 15-17.
Aryal, N., Sedhain, A., Regmi, P., KC, R. K., van Teijlingen, E. (2021). Risk of kidney health among returnee Nepali migrant workers: A survey of nephrologists. Asian Journal of Medical Sciences 12(12), 126–132.
Aryal, N., Regmi, P.R., van Teijlingen, E., Trenoweth, S., Adhikary, P., Simkhada, P. (2020) The Impact of Spousal Migration on the Mental Health of Nepali Women: A Cross-Sectional Study, International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health 17(4), 1292; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph1704129
Regmi, P., Aryal, N., van Teijlingen, E., Adhikary, P. (2020) Nepali migrant workers and the need for pre-departure training on mental health: a qualitative study, Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health 22, 973–981.
Adhikary, P. van Teijlingen, E. (2020) Support networks in the Middle East & Malaysia: A qualitative study of Nepali returnee migrants’ experiences, International Journal of Occupational Safety & Health (IJOSH), 9(2): 31-35.
Aryal, N., Regmi, P.R., Faller, E.M,, van Teijlingen, E., Khoon, C.C., Pereira, A., Simkhada, P. (2019) ‘Sudden cardiac death and kidney health related problems among Nepali migrant workers in Malaysia’ Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 9(3): 755-758. https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/NJE/article/view/25805
Adhikary P, van Teijlingen E., Keen S. (2019) Workplace accidents among Nepali male workers in the Middle East and Malaysia: A qualitative study, Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health 21(5): 1115–1122. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-018-0801-y
Simkhada, P.P., van Teijlingen, E.R., Gurung, M., Wasti, S. (2018) A survey of health problems of Nepalese female migrants workers in the Middle-East & Malaysia, BMC International Health & Human Rights 18(4): 1-7. http://rdcu.be/E3Ro
Adhikary P, Sheppard, Z., Keen S., van Teijlingen E. (2018) Health and well-being of Nepalese migrant workers abroad, International Journal of Migration, Health & Social Care 14(1): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-12-2015-0052
Adhikary, P, Sheppard, Z., Keen, S., van Teijlingen, E. (2017) Risky work: accidents among Nepalese migrant workers in Malaysia, Qatar & Saudi Arabia, Health Prospect 16(2): 3-10.
Simkhada, P.P., Regmi, P.R., van Teijlingen, E., Aryal, N. (2017) Identifying the gaps in Nepalese migrant workers’ health and well-being: A review of the literature, Journal of Travel Medicine 24 (4): 1-9.
Aryal, N., Regmi, P.R., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P., Adhikary, P., Bhatta, Y.K.D., Mann, S. (2016) Injury and Mortality in Young Nepalese Migrant Workers: A Call for Public Health Action. Asian-Pacific Journal of Public Health 28(8): 703-705.
Adhikary P, Keen S and van Teijlingen E (2011). Health Issues among Nepalese migrant workers in the Middle East. Health Science Journal.5 (3):169-i75 DOI: 2-s2.0-79960420128.

25 November 2020

Refugee Entrepreneurship And Covid-19- BU Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020

BU Challenges, Business Engagement, Centre for Excellence in Learning, conferences, Festival of Learning, Funding opportunities, Fusion, Fusion Investment Fund, Fusion themes, Knowledge Exchange, Women's Academic Network Sukanya Ayatakshi

Melanie Montinard, Mawon, Brazil

Camila Pinto, Migraflix, Brazil

Esther Yanya, South Sudanese Refugee Entrepreneur from Uganda

Noel Lilija, Microfinance Officer, CRESS UK, Arua, Uganda

Abdoulaye Fall, Self Funded Communities ACAF, Barcelona, Spain

Talal Al-Tinawi, Syrian Refugee Entrepreneur in Brazil

Debora Gonzaga Brassau Brazil

Sayma Ahmad, Co-Founder and Honorary Chair, Unity in Vision, Dorset UK

Globally, there are 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes (WHO, 2019). Achieving legitimacy and acceptance and integration into the host community remains a challenge in most host countries with an increased inflow of displaced populations. What do refugees hope for? Safety, security, an ability to carve out a future for themselves and their loves ones and retaining the dignity of being a human being.

We recently concluded a study in Uganda,Brazil and Spain exploring how displaced populations seek and achieve legitimacy through the routes of entrepreneurship in collaboration with co-host Jiselle Steele. This study allowed us the opportunity to engage with displaced communities and individuals whose resilience, perseverance the the zeal to thrive, not just survive, showcases the true essence of the human spirit. Not only that, with the entrepreneurial offerings they created they are making huge community impacts to support others in the same circumstances as them- an empowerment pathway through entrepreneurship.

With the rapid developments in the pandemic sweeping our world, all the policy discussions around economic recovery has managed to not take into consideration the plight of the displaced populations engaged in business activities, mostly in the informal sectors.

This year, as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020, BU Social Entrepreneurs Forum (BUSEF), organised an event to celebrate the work of refugee entrepreneurs and support organisations that empower the displaced populations in integration and their entrepreneurial ambitions.

On the 18th of November, 2020, BUSEF brought together refugee entrepreneurs and support organisations from Uganda, Brazil, Spain and the UK. Esther Yanya, a 27- year old South Sudanese refugee, living in a displacement camp in Arua, Northern Uganda shared with us her harrowing story of walking across hundreds of miles with two very young children and arriving to no support, no food and so shelter. The work of Cress UK-led by Caroline Lamb (Founder and Chair or Trustees) and Noel Lilija, Project Lead at CRESS Arua, an aid organisation working to support refugees in medical care, education, agricultural training and microentrepreneurship- was the turning point in Esther Yanya’s life and now she not only leads a savings group based business in tailoring (She was wearing the most stunning dress similar to these Peaches Boutique white dresses for prom she crafted herself) but is also empowering other women in the displacement camp to achieve financial independence and a future for themselves.

Talal Al-Tinawi joined us from Brazil where he is a Syrian refugee and a gastronomy business owner. Having had to leave his mechanical engineering business in Damascus, Talal shared with us the role that society plays in integrating refugees like himself. The institutional barriers not withstanding, the role of social inclusion in allowing emotional security to refugees is something that is not well researched or discussed. Supported by Migraflix, Talal set up his gastronomy business, in the absence of being able to get employment.

What is quite extraordinary about both Talal and Esther is that, not withstanding their personal circumstances, they think of the community around them and how to support, how to empower. Talal has been working tirelessly to provide food to those vulnerable during this pandemic.

In addition to the refugee entrepreneurs, the event brought together Migraflix, Mawon, Brassau from Brazil and Cress UK with team from UK and Uganda, Self Funded Communities ACAF from Spain and Unity in Vision, Dorset, UK.

So what was the potential impact of an event such this? The obvious answer is of course, raising awareness and building the momentum in this conversation but also and critically, gaining increased visibility for the individuals who identify themselves and refugee entrepreneurs and the critical work that the support organisations do independent of and with very little state/institutional support.

19 July 2019

Cafe Scientifique: Can you save a life? Exploring the quality of CPR delivered by bystanders

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement ballen

Cardiac arrest is a sudden stop of the heart due to electrical failure and is a potentially reversible medical emergency yet, if untreated, it can lead to death within minutes. Every year in the UK, around 30,000 people receive resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, with survival rates ranging between 2-12%. High quality CPR is crucial in generating circulation to vital organs during cardiac arrest. However, it has been demonstrated that the quality of CPR delivered by a lay person, first aiders and highly trained rescuers is often inadequate, inconsistent and with excessive interruption.

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Positive outcomes from cardiac arrest depend on the effective delivery of resuscitation techniques, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). However, the quality of CPR performance is normally suboptimal, reducing the chances of survival.

Debora Almeida, lecturer in Operating Department Practice at BU, who’s research project is about quality and retention of CPR skills, was Cafe Scientifique’s guest speaker earlier this month. Debora’s study is part of her PhD and is investigating the use of real-time feedback to improve quality of CPR skills. The idea behind it, is to understand different aspects of learning, retention and decay of the skill and create a better re-training model using real-time feedback to optimise learning and maintain the CPR skill effective for whenever it is needed.

The real-time feedback system provides detailed visual and auditory feedback on CPR targets, based on resuscitation guidelines. The different CPR components which include chest compression rate, chest compression depth, residual leaning, chest duty cycle (percentage between compression and relaxation) and rescue breaths are captured with sensors and displayed in real time on the monitor. Added to that, the monitor provides visual and auditory clues for a better quality (if the rescuer’s performance is not optimal), allowing rescuers to self-correct or validate their skill performance immediately during training, adjusting their performance based on the feedback provided by the device (shown below)

Debora’s Cafe Scientifique talk highlighted the epidemiology of cardiac arrest around the world, the variations in survival rates and surprisingly, how suboptimal the quality of CPR performance delivered by lay people, basic life support rescuers and highly trained rescuers can normally be. She also talked about how fast CPR skills decay and challenged the re-training schedule in hospitals, which is normally 1 or 2 years apart. “Even though it has been demonstrated that CPR skills diminish within months after training, hospitals still get away with re-training their members of staff yearly or even after 2 years. This needs changing…. But to change this practice we need to figure out a better one…”

One of the highlights of the evening was when the audience were given the opportunity to practice their CPR skills on the manikin using the real-time feedback system that is used in Debora’s research.

Debora Almeida reflects on her experience of presenting at Cafe Scientifique earlier this month;

Debora said “The experience of talking to an audience formed by lay people, healthcare professionals and academics was an interesting and enjoyable challenge. The audience engaged really well with insightful comments and relevant questions. It was a great opportunity to talk about the challenges and benefits of bystander CPR.”

This is complemented by feedback from one of the audience members; “For me, being a senior, the simpler the instructions the better. Simply having the knowledge that I must not waste vital time checking pulses etc. but start immediately with chest compressions gives me confidence should such a situation arise.”

Cafe Sci will be taking a break in August however we’re set to return on

Tuesday 3 September 2019!

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