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Please keep an eye out for upcoming seminars throughout 2025!
Having fully sold out, I’m pleased to announce further spaces have been made available for this popular event……
In addition, the panel has been confirmed as
Please see this blog post for further details and book in quick HERE before those extra spaces are taken…….
Contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk if you have any queries
Explaining the ideas underpinning the intervention
As my British Academy Innovation Fellowship now draws to its close, yesterday I presented my key research findings for the first time. The event entitled ‘What is “Supportive Offboarding” and who cares?’ took place at the London HQ of the global media giant, Fremantle, where I have been based for the past 12 months. An invited audience of media policy and industry leaders included representatives from the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), the Parliamentary Select Committee, Creative UK, the BFI, the union BECTU, the producers’ association PACT, various national skills and training-related organizations (including ScreenSkills and Workwise for Screen) and many of the major broadcasters and production conglomerates.
Dr. Ken Emond, Head of Research Funding at The British Academy
My project has been timely. The theme of how we can better support our television freelance workforce is especially pertinent as the industry is currently experiencing particular turbulence. We need remedial action – as I have argued in my comment piece for Broadcast this week. The intervention that I have been developing in my Fellowship project is a small but practical measure to encourage better support mechanisms in a culture in which such support is conspicuous by its absence.
Presenting key research findings
Yesterday’s was a packed programme. After a welcome by Alex McBride, Fremantle UK’s Head of HR, Dr. Ken Emond, Head of Research Funding at The British Academy took the floor to talk about the importance of funding this kind of academic research with its application to industry. Dr Christa van Raalte, Director of CEMP then provided context for the project, describing the body of work related to media employment that she and I have conducted over a number of years. My industry sponsor, Ewan Vinnicombe Wallis (no relation!) followed this by describing (with illustrative video) the intervention that he and I have designed and tested. I then presented my main research findings, following which, Talent Manager Vic Roye, a project facilitator, and Series Producer (The Rap Game) Abi Adetoye, a project participant, described the experience of taking part. The event formally ended with some concluding words from the Louse Benson Director of Development of the Film and TV Charity, announcing the Charity’s intention to partner with the University to roll this intervention out across the industry through its integration with The Whole Picture Tool Kit. This exciting next phase of the project will be supported by HEIF funding.
The event seems to have been gone down well with those who attended as early feedback has been very positive. My full report will be published in the Spring.
Richard Wallis
Faculty of Media & Communication / CEMP
The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network – South West & South Wales cluster invites you to an online gathering on the 2nd Tuesday of each month where we get to know each other and exchange knowledge, support and inspiration. Each month, the first half of the meeting has a theme, often including a presentation and discussion. Then there is ample time for networking, fostering new connections and collaborations across the region. Our intention is the topics and format of the events are ECR-driven.
Feel free to bring your lunch or coffee. This is an informal space to connect.
For more information about these events, and to feedback, please email Linda Lanyon.
Tuesday 11th February Programme
1200 – 1205: Welcome and objectives for this new series of events – Dr Linda Lanyon, BA ECRN SWSW Project Officer
1205 – 1230: Outcomes from the ECR workshop at Bath Spa University in October & discussion about next steps – Dr Sanja Djerasimovic, University of Exeter / all.
1230 – 1300: Networking & discussion – all
The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network brings together ECRs across the humanities and social sciences disciplines, regardless of their funding source or background.
To book a ticket to attend this event you must be a member of the British Academy ECR Network. Please see the BA website for more information on eligibility and how to sign up. For membership enquiries, please email ecr_network@thebritishacademy.ac.uk.
We are welcoming your proposals for the upcoming BA/Leverhulme Small grants call.
The below deadlines will be in place to ensure that the pre-award team can provide all interested academics with optimal support.
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26th February 2025
26th Feb – 9th April
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Guidance Session – follow the link below-
Work on your proposal between the allotted time- things to accomplish during that time by the 9th April: -Brainstorm idea with peers/mentors and discuss the design, methods and approach you are planning to take -Consider if you require additional funding development support, ie Research Facilitator support, External Application Reviewers, Bid writing – speak to RDS -Organise your team, will you have a coi or the max of two at hand, do you need any further wider team (panel). -Start a Flexi-Grant account and start an application in the system
-Submit your ITB and attach your draft proposal |
| 9th April 2025 | Call Opens -expected- |
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9th April 2025
10th -25th April |
Latest date to submit your ITB
Remember to advise your referee that you will be sending them your completed application on Flexi-Grant and that their expected statement to be submitted by the 23rd May
Internal Peer review taking place |
| 25th April 2025 | If you are Grade 8 or below and you wish to use the support of an External Application Reviewer (EAR), you must submit your quality approved by the Faculty draft application to RDS by this date. |
| 23rd May 2025 | Nominated referee supporting statement to be completed via Flexi-Grant |
| 24th May 2025 | Your final application must be submitted on Flexi-Grant by this date at the latest.
Click ‘submit’ and the form will be sent to BU’s accounts for RDS checks. |
| 24th May – 4th June 2025 | Institutional checks to take place by RDS and final submissions. – submission final dates estimated currently till call opens. |
The Doctoral College Postgraduate Research Showcase is scheduled to take place at the Atrium Gallery from 3 to 28 February 2025. This exhibition will showcase a selection of the posters presented at the 16th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference.
To launch the showcase, we are hosting the PGR Showcase Celebration event, as part of our 3C event series (Culture, Community & Cake). PGRs and Supervisors are invited to this social gathering and this time we are swapping out the cake for cheese and wine!
Date: Wednesday 5 February
Time: 15:00-16:00
Location: Atrium Galley, Poole House, Talbot Campus
Meet fellow researchers and academics, support your PGR community and celebrate some of the amazing research that is taking place at BU!
Don’t miss out, book your place below:
Any Questions please contact pgconference@bournemouth.ac.uk
Best wishes,
The Doctoral College
Would you like to build a media profile and take your research to a global audience by writing for The Conversation?
The Conversation is a news analysis and opinion website with content written by academics, researchers and PhD candidates working with professional journalists.
Since we first partnered with The Conversation, articles by BU authors have had close to 11 million reads and been republished by news outlets across the world.
Find out more about working with The Conversation and have the chance to pitch your ideas directly to one of their editors in our upcoming training sessions:
In this interactive session, you’ll find out more about communicating your research to the public, what The Conversation is looking for, and have the chance to discuss your research with a Conversation editor and pitch potential story ideas.
This one-to-one session with one of The Conversation’s editors is tailored to you and your research.
You’ll have the chance to discuss potential pitches and receive personalised advice and feedback on communicating your research to a general audience and turning your expertise into articles.
Places on each training session are limited so please cancel your place via Eventbrite if you are no longer able to attend.
Find out more about our partnership and the benefits of working with The Conversation
On January 20-21, 2025, the VOICES in Action: International Event on Gender Equality in Science and Research took place at Izmir University of Economics (IEU). Organised and funded by COST Action VOICES, this two-day conference brought together a group of experts and researchers from across Europe to exchange knowledge and experiences on issues related to gender equality in academia and research. The event featured a lineup of speakers, including Dr Ola Thomson from BU Business School.
Day one set the scene with topics such as implementing Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in universities and research institutions, integrating gender perspectives in research, and exploring the global challenges faced by women in STEM careers.
Ola, who is a management committee member and co-lead of VOICES, delivered a talk focusing on the activities of her working group in promoting inclusive mentoring as a strategy to advance gender equality in academia and research. Ola shared insights from the Mentoring Mapping in Europe project, which involved identifying and analysing existing mentoring programmes to better understand their impact and gaps. Additionally, she presented the outcomes of the Inclusive Mentoring Summer Training held in Bilbao in 2024, which had utilised art-based and co-creation techniques to enable mentees, mentors and programme managers to share their experiences of mentoring and create ten guiding principles on inclusive mentoring.
Day two was an interactive and hands-on experience for attendees, featuring co-creation workshops for early-career researchers. Ola and her two VOICES colleagues Dr Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins from Germany, and Şerife Durna from Türkiye co-led a World Café session, which explored the challenges impacting early researchers’ careers. Themes included the gendered nature of institutions and the impact of systemic inequalities, addressing the tension between professional demands and societal gender roles, examining gendered access to opportunities and critiquing notions of “meritocracy” and “excellence”, and lastly, sharing personal and institutional experiences to understand the prevalence and impact of bias.
This event was a rewarding opportunity to engage with a Turkish community of researchers and academics committed to shaping the future of gender equality in science and research. It underscored the importance of collaboration across Europe and Inclusiveness Target Countries such as Türkiye, where challenging socio-political systems operate and influence gender equality efforts and outcomes.
This work links to three UN SDGs: Gender equality, Decent work and economic growth, and Reduced inequalities within and among countries.
ECRN: Demonstrating Research Impact – Mon 3rd Feb, 14:00-16:00, online
Are you hopeful that you research is going to make a difference? Have you considered the variety of ways your research can have an impact? This session will help you consider the ways in which you can demonstrate the impact your research is having and start you off on planning an impact strategy. Open to ECRs & PGRs. Book your place HERE
Konfer training – Thurs 6th Feb, 14:00-15:30, in person – Talbot campus
Featuring Anna Dent-Davies and Shivaun Meehan from the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB). They will introduce Konfer, a powerful platform for navigating the UK innovation ecosystem. For those unfamiliar, Konfer connects users with resources and potential collaborators perfectly aligned with their research or innovation projects.
You’ll also have the chance to discuss your specific research projects or areas of interest and even begin drafting your own collaboration call during the session. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore how Konfer can support your research and innovation goals!
Ahead of the session, we kindly ask attendees to:
Find out more and book your place HERE
RKEDF: ECRN – Work life balance – Weds 12th Feb, 13:00-14:00, in person – Talbot campus
This session is aimed at Academics, Researchers and PGRs with an interest in discussing work/life balance within Academic roles and careers. The session aims to discuss approaches to setting and maintaining healthy work/life balance whilst also managing the demands of their role. It will follow an open, discursive model and invite responses from ECRs with input from the ECRN Academic leads. For further details and bookings, click HERE
Please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk if you have any queries.
Are you organising a public engagement activity or event that you would like help to promote?
Whether it’s a community event, public lecture, workshop, or any other public engagement activity, the Public Engagement with Research team can assist in promoting your event. Our monthly newsletters and social media channels offer a range of promotional opportunities to help you reach a wider audience and ensure your event is a success.
To be considered for inclusion, your event or activity must be;
Event descriptions may be edited for consistency in style with other content.
Share your upcoming public event or activity
If you have any questions, please contact the team publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk
On Wednesday 26 March we will have four parallel sessions, one for each Faculty, to select the 2 finalists to advance to the final round, which will take place in the afternoon. The winner will take part in the national competition run by Vitae.
More information about the history of 3MT® can be found on the Vitae and 3MT® websites.
Eligibility
Active PhD and Professional Doctorate Research candidates who have successfully passed their Probationary Review (including candidates whose thesis is under submission/examination) by the date of their presentation (26 March 2025) are eligible to participate. Graduates are not eligible.
Please Note: MRes/MPhil students and students on interruption are NOT ELIGIBLE to enter the 3MT Competition.
Competition Rules
Make sure you read the international 3MT® rules before applying.
In order to allow all our P/T and remote PGRs to take part, if unable to attend in-person a pre-recorded video will be accepted, in line with the 3MT® rules.
Prizes
Key dates
Why should I take part?
Further information available on Brightspace.
Registration to attend will open in March.
Best wishes,
The RDP Team
There is one week left to apply to run an event at the British Science Festival 2025!
The British Science Festival will take place in Liverpool from the 10 – 14 September 2025, and will be hosted in partnership by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University.
The programme showcases cutting-edge science, technology and ideas that challenge, inspire and excite audiences. Each year, thousands of people come together to celebrate the latest developments in research and engage in open discussion about issues affecting our culture and society. 
Open Call for proposals – Do you have an idea to engage public audiences with science and research?
Anyone can propose an event and the Festival celebrates science in its broadest sense. The organisers are looking for proposals from individuals, researchers, industry professionals, artists, writers, organisations, charities, academic institutions, and more. They aim to programme a range of formats from talks to drop-in activities and creative content that challenges perceptions of what science is and can be.
The Festival is free and open to all, but content should be appropriate for an adult (16+ audience).
More information, including how to submit a proposal, can be found here
The deadline for proposals is 23.59 20 January 2025.
If you have any questions, or if you would like to discuss your proposal, please email festival@britishscienceassociation.org.
Alternatively, should you wish to discuss your application with BU’s Public Engagement with Research team, please contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk.
The BU PIER Partnership have joined forces with Community Action Network Dorset (CAN), The HealthBus Trust and the Lantern Trust to deliver a series of webinars and workshops to build capacity in the voluntary and community sector (VCS) to actively collaborate in shaping, designing and undertaking health, social care and community research. The series is funded by NHS England as part of the Dorset Research Engagement Network funding where PIER have been co-designing with community partners methods and approaches for collaborating with marginalised groups who are currently under-served by research, by drawing on the expertise of VCS partners who are embedded in these communities.
If you would like to attend or to share with your community partners, please see here
Webinars:
https://can100.org/event/introduction-to-research-and-the-role-of-the-voluntary-sector/
In person workshops:
Weymouth:
https://can100.org/event/building-research-capacity-workshop/
Bournemouth:
https://can100.org/event/building-research-capacity-workshop-2/
If you would like to hear more about earlier phases of this project where PIER have been co-designing how people who are homeless and vulnerably housed and VCS partners want to have a voice in research, see here.
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/adrc-symposium
With a rapidly growing population of people affected by dementia and increasing global emphasis being placed on early and timely diagnosis, it is vital to explore creative ways of supporting those affected. Social media has potential to mitigate some of the challenges associated with dementia, by facilitating social connectivity and access to information. Despite these possibilities, research in this area is scarce, and social media platforms are not designed with the specific needs of people with dementia or their carers in mind. In this talk, Dr Catherine Talbot will present the findings from her British Academy funded research, which aimed to explore the attitudes of people with dementia and their carers towards engaging with social media. She will also discuss how educational and technological initiatives can empower people with dementia to use social media safely and effectively.
The British Science Festival will take place across the city of Liverpool from the 10 – 14 September 2025, and will be hosted in partnership by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University.
Anyone can propose an event. Artists, researchers, community activists, critical thinkers, industry partners, charities and beyond- from across disciplinary backgrounds are invited to submit proposals events, activities or installations.
The British Science Festival celebrates science in its broadest sense. The programme showcases cutting-edge science, technology and ideas that challenge, inspire and excite audiences. Each year, thousands of people come together to celebrate the latest developments in research and to engage in open discussion about issues affecting our culture and society.
While the primary focus is on events programming, the organisers are keen on programming public installations and welcome proposals that could be hosted throughout the festival in site-specific locations like shopping centres, public buildings and town squares.
The Festival is free and open to all, but content should be tailored to an adult (16+) audience.
The target audience for the programme is:
The organisers particularly welcome creative content that challenges perceptions of what science is and can be. They anticipate that the majority of events in the 2025 programme will use a range of participatory formats and take place outside traditional lecture-theatre settings. A limited number of talks and panel discussions will be programmed.
To submit a proposal for an event please complete the proposal form.
The deadline for open call applications is 23.59 on Monday 20 January 2025.
Before developing and submitting your proposal, you are encouraged to read the FAQs
If you have any questions, or if you would like to discuss your proposal, please email festival@britishscienceassociation.org.
Alternatively, should you wish to discuss your application with BU’s Public Engagement with Research team, please contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk.
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3C Online Social: Research Culture, Community & Can you Guess Who? Thursday 26 March 1-2pm
Final Call: UKCGE Recognised Research Supervision Programme – Deadline Monday 16 March
Interdisciplinary research: Not straightforward?
BU academics in the news in Nepal
ECR Funding Open Call: Research Culture & Community Grant – Apply now
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 Call
ERC Advanced Grant 2025 Webinar MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 Call ERC Advanced Grant 2025 Webinar MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
Update on UKRO services
European research project exploring use of ‘virtual twins’ to better manage metabolic associated fatty liver disease
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