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April 6, 2022

Important update – NIHR name change – 6th April 2022

NHS, pre-award, Research communication, Research news Louise Ward

The National Institute for Health Research changed its name yesterday (6th April 2022). To emphasise the enduring commitment to social care research, from today the NIHR will officially become the ‘National Institute for Health and Care Research’. The acronym ‘NIHR’ will remain unchanged.

This will bring them in line with the Department of Health and Social Care, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Health and Care Research Wales and others.

Linked to this announcement are a range of investments and commitments to future work designed to deepen and broaden the range of social care research the NIHR supports.

An increase in spending of £5m a year has been dedicated to social care research, some of which will go towards funding an additional call run through the Research for Social Care programme. They will now be running two calls a year.
More good news – the RfSC will also start to fund research in the area of social care for children and young people, working in partnership with the Dept of Education.
There are also increases in funding to RfSC, HSDR and HTA for Social Care research.

Prof. Lucy Chappell, Chief Executive of the NIHR, said:

“It is our hope that today’s name change will inspire not just current and future generations of social care researchers, whose talent and expertise can revolutionise the social care sector, but also people who need care and support, carers, the public and those working in social care. The involvement of all these groups will be key to getting the right research to the right places in the right way.”

Your local branch of the NIHR RDS (Research Design Service) is based within the BU Clinical Research Unit (BUCRU)

We can help with your grant application. We advise on all aspects of developing an application and can review application drafts as well as put them to a mock funding panel (run by RDS South West) known as Project Review Committee, which is a fantastic opportunity for researchers to obtain a critical review of a proposed grant application before this is sent to a funding body.

Contact us as early as possible to benefit fully from the advice

Feel free to call us on 01202 961939 or send us an email.

April 5, 2022

The ‘Other Side of the Story: Perpetrators in Change’ (OSSPC) project

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The ultimate aim of the ‘Other Side of the Story: Perpetrators in Change’ (OSSPC) project is a 2.5 year project which has aimed to prevent further violence and change violent behavioural patterns by increasing the capacity of professionals to support DVA perpetrators to change. The OSSPC project is a European Commission funded project between partners in the UK, Romania, Cyprus, Greece, and Italy. The UK team is a partnership between Dr Jade Levell at the University of Bristol, and Dr Jane Healy, Dr Orlanda Harvey, Dr Terri Cole, Professor Colin Pritchard at Bournemouth University. Our local front-line partner is The Hampton Trust, who deliver perpetrator interventions across Hampshire and Dorset. We are grateful to the CEO Chantal Hughes for supporting this work tremendously. The national and international reports from the first two phases of the project can be found here.

We are now in phase 3 of the project and will be leading a free Event on 6th June 2022.

Event booking

Other Side of the Story: Perpetrators in Change Training & Networking Event Tickets, Mon 6 Jun 2022 at 09:30 | Eventbrite
The event will share findings from an ongoing research project exploring the dynamics of Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) perpetration. It will provide an opportunity for professionals from health, social work, the charity sector and criminal justice agencies to explore and discuss the barriers and challenges working with perpetrators of DVA as well as include training sessions on key elements of perpetrator work. This event will be of particular interest to professionals working in the fields of health, social work and criminal justice.

This event is framed around the delivery of specialised training modules developed in partnership and led by our project partners in Italy (CAM). We are also thrilled to announce we will have the manager of RESPECT Make a Change, the national umbrella body who oversees quality and best practice for perpetrator services across the UK. ‘Make a Change’ is their flagship early intervention arm. The manager Rebecca Vagi will be our special guest in this event. We will also aim to have several front-line victim support services offering lunchtime stalls to promote their services.
We will have a range of modules and topics covered throughout the day, including dynamics of domestic abuse, engaging with perpetrators, working in a coordinated community response network. We will be using a blend of large discussion to smaller facilitated breakout rooms to promote multi-agency engagement throughout the day.

Please feel free to share this event within your wider professional networks.

April 4, 2022

Global Media Education Summit 2023

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Global Media Education Summit 2023

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

March 2nd and 3rd 2023 – in person, with virtual panels.

Conference Theme: Media Edu-cologies

The Global Media Education Summit (MES) brings together an international network of researchers, educators, and practitioners across all aspects of media education, media and digital literacies, youth media production and media and technology in education. As the leading global showcase for research, pedagogy, and innovation, MES explores the changing currents across media education and media literacy communities around the world

Now in its fourteenth year, MES is convened by the UK’s Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, in collaboration with a leading media education space in a different country each year. In 2023, the School of Communication and the Community Engaged Research Initiative at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada will host the event, in partnership with the McLuhan Foundation. Simon Fraser University is located on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen peoples.

We are pleased to announce that the Youth Media Education Summit (YMES) will return for the 2023 event, and will feature young people from across the local region working in a context of youth media production with educators and media creators from partner organizations.

The 2023 MES will be an in-person conference with some integrated virtual panels for delegates who are unable to travel to Vancouver. In addition, we will offer a special reduced rate registration fee to support participation by colleagues from locations across the Global South.

About the theme

The theme for the 2023 Media Education Summit is Media Edu-cologies, a construction that captures a complex set of ecological and environmental concerns now at the very centre of our field. The first concern is that posed by the climate crisis and instability in the Anthropocene, which for our field raises profound questions of media and ‘living systems’ (Antonio Lopez), how media infrastructures operate in nature and influence the earth’s ecologies, and how these systems can be engaged through new research, new conceptual frameworks, and new practices and pedagogies that address the place of the ecologies across global mediated life.

Where the ecological is mediated, media constitute an environment, and thus the second concern is that posed by our new socio-technical digital order, the impact of which has changed how we live everyday life. Through datafication, algorithms, surveillance structures and social media, our media is now an ecology, an environment that we habitually live through and connect with and that in turn, watches us and weaves our behaviour into a data order.

Together these overlapping concerns demand understanding and action on an ecological scale, and in this context the traditions of media education, media and information literacy and youth media production have much to offer and have already proven to be powerful resources for responding to the rise of algorithmic cultures, disinformation and misinformation, information fog and warfare, and the representation of nature, race, ethnicity, indigeneity and various forms of difference. Indeed, amidst our new media order, communities are continuing to find creative ways to resist and counter the impact of biased algorithms and tech corporations in their lives.

In Media Edu-cologies we welcome Papers and Conversations (see format definitions below) that broadly address ecological research, pedagogies, practices and conjunctures across the fields of media education and media literacies.

We send out this call to a wide range of recipients: educators, practitioners, researchers, activists / media artivists and those working in fields adjacent to media education and media literacies.

Proposals are invited for work across a range of topics, including (but not limited to):

The role of literacy and ecological metaphors in the field of media education;

Old media ecologies, new media environments;

Ecoliteracy, ecomedia, climate change pedagogies;

Petro cultures, energy futures and public communication

Algorithms, datafication, artificial intelligence, computational thinking, power and identity;

Race, ethnicity, indigeneity and algorithms of oppression;

Digital media infrastructures and the materialities of media systems;

Surveillance – markets, states and young people;

Social media, democracy and regulation;

Media, disinformation and hypermedia environments;

Social justice and media education;

Global health crisis and public communication;

Refugees, migration crisis and media educationDecolonizing digital spaces

Digital resistance, activism, and justice

How research informs practice – examples from formal and informal education

Pedagogical strategies for exploring digital environments and youth.

Call for Abstracts

We will be inviting abstracts for two options – MES Papers and CEMP Conversations.

MES Papers

MES 2023 invites presentations of research / practice in the broad fields of media education, media / digital literacies and media / technology in education. For this MES, we are particularly interested in receiving abstracts related to the theme of Media Edu-cologies.

Paper presentations should share the outcomes of research / practitioner enquiry, raising questions for the audience to discuss. Presentations are typically 15-20 minutes in length, forming part of a parallel session of 3 or 4 papers.

CEMP Conversations

This strand of the conference offers a different, more interactive platform for the exchange of research, practice and innovation in the broad fields of media education, media / digital literacy and media / technology in education. For the 2023 event, CEMP conversations should relate to the theme of Media Edu-cologies Conversations are given more time than standard presentations (typically two per parallel session) and can take the form of a seminar discussion, screening or other showcasing of work, demonstration, panel, workshop or roundtable, but we are open to other proposals.

Abstracts for both Papers and Conversations should be 250-300 words in length and must include:

Title
5-6 key words
A description of your topic, the work you will, present, and how you wish to present it
An indication of approaches or methods and/or research results, including their significance for the field of media education.
An indication of any media that will be included in the presentation

In addition, please include:

Author(s) bio of 50-75 words
Institutional affiliation(s)
Contact address and email

Please note, that in addition to the two in-person options, we are also offering some options for virtual presentations. As well as stating clearly whether your abstract is for an MES Paper or CEMP Conversation, please also state if you wish to present virtually or in person.

Timeline:

Submissions open: 8.5.22

Deadline for submissions: 2.9.22

Feedback will be provided by: 30.9.22

Resubmissions by: 14.10.22

Final decisions by: 28.10.22

April 1, 2022

NIHR RDS SW Residential Research Retreat application drop-in sessions 4th April 1-3pm and 6th April 11am-1pm

BU research, Events, Funding opportunities, Fusion, NHS, pre-award, Research news Louise Ward

The NIHR Research Design Service South West (RDS SW) is holding a Residential Research Retreat 13-15^th September 2022 inclusive, at Dillington House in Somerset.

It offers a fantastic opportunity for research teams to develop high quality research proposals in health and social care suitable for submission to national peer-reviewed funding streams. At the retreat there is advice on tap from a range of methodological advisers (statisticians, health economists, patient and public involvement experts, qualitative researchers etc.) and dedicated time to work on your proposal as a team.

FHSS is offering to cover the costs of 2-3 teams. Teams of up to 3 or 4 can attend the retreat, ideally with at least one member employed in an NHS, social care or public health organisation in the Southwest. Multi-disciplinary teams with varied research experience will be considered favourably, and a mix of clinical and academic skills and experience is preferable. Teams may include service users or carers.

Places on the retreat are competitive and there is an application process. Fees may be waived for applicants from a public health or social care background, but applicants are advised to seek advice about this before submitting an application.

This is an excellent opportunity for academics who already have a proposal developed in health and social care research that is aligned with fusion and the strategic investment areas.

The deadline for applications is fast approaching: 20^th April 2022.

What to do next?

You’ll need to book a slot with NIHR RDS SW Bournemouth site lead, Dr Sarah Thomas who is holding drop-in information and advice sessions to discuss potential applications. After your slot you will be given an opportunity to apply for FHSS funding.

The sessions are from 1-3pm on Monday 4^th April or 11am-1pm on Wednesday 6^th April. Please e-mail: wardl@bournemouth.ac.uk to book your 15-minute slot.

Further details about the Residential Research Retreat, including the eligibility criteria and application process can be found here: Residential Research Retreat

Your local branch of the NIHR RDS (Research Design Service) is based within the BU Clinical Research Unit (BUCRU)

The NIHR RDS can advise on all aspects of developing a grant application and can review application drafts as well as put them to a mock funding panel (run by NIHR RDS South West) known as the Project Review Committee, which is a fantastic opportunity for researchers to obtain a critical review of a proposed grant application before this is sent to a funding body.

Contact us as early as possible to benefit fully from the advice.

Feel free to call Louise Ward on 01202 961939 or send an email bucru@bournemouth.ac.uk to make an appointment.

March 31, 2022

Research seminar and Soundlapse Concert with Dr Felipe Otondo

Events, Fusion, Fusion themes, international, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement, Student Engagement aseddon

Last week Chilean composer and researcher Dr Felipe Otondo visited BU. Felipe, a Senior Lecturer at the Universidad Austral, Chile, gave a fascinating research seminar to the Creative Technology Department discussing his role in the Soundlapse Project.

Soundlpase is an interdisciplinary research initiative funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development, which seeks to highlight the acoustical heritage of wetlands in the south of Chile, and studies these ecosystems‘ unique soundscapes through field recording techniques. As an outcome of the project’s periodic documentation of the “Parque Urbano El Bosque” wetland soundscapes in Valdivia, in 2021 eight sound artists, including BU’s Ambrose Seddon, were commissioned to compose works using these field recordings, available as an album through the Gruenrekorder label.

Along with the research seminar, on Thursday 24th March we hosted a concert of the commissioned works, in the Soundstage, Poole Gateway Building. This was our first loudspeaker concert in this new space, and it was fantastic to be able to finally set up our loudspeaker system and present immersive sound works in our new facilities.

The audience was a mixture of UG students from the BA Music & Sound Production, as well as BU staff, and members of the public. Some of the students assisted with the concert set up, gaining valuable experience of immersive audio systems for live concert performance whilst also meeting and chatting with Felipe.

March 31, 2022

Latest BU publication on academic writing

Featured academics, Guidance, international, open access, Publishing, Research news, Research Training, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Today the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published our latest paper on academic writing, under the title ‘The Art of the Editorial’. [1] This editorial highlights the importance of writing and publishing editorials in scientific journal. Writing editorials seems sometimes to be a dying art. This is perhaps due to more and more online journals not publishing regular issues, but adding papers online as and when they have been reviewed, revised and accepted. This paper is co-authered by Bournemouth University’s Professors Vanora Hundley and Edwin van Teijlingen, two of their four co-authors are also BU Visiting Faculty: Prof. Padam Simkhada based at the University of Huddersfield and Dr. Brijesh Sathian based in the Geriatric Medicine Department, Rumailah Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. This paper is an Open Access publication.

This paper on the art of writing editorials follows on from a series of papers on a wide-range of aspects of academic writing and publishing by FHSS (Faculty of Health & Social Sciences) authors [2-18]. FHSS co-authors on aspects of academic writing include: Dr. Orlanda Harvey [2], Dr. Pramod Regmi [2-3,4,16], Prof. Vanora Hundley [1,3,5,6,12-14], Dr. Nirmal Aryal [3-4], and Dr. Shovita Dhakal Adhihari [4,16], Dr. Preeti Mahato [3,16].

References:

van Teijlingen, E., Hundley, V, Sathian, B., Simkhada, P., Robinson, J., Banerjee, I. (2022) The Art of the Editorial Nepal J Epidemiol, 12(1): 1135–38.
Harvey, O., van Teijlingen, A., Regmi, P.R., Ireland, J., Rijal, A., van Teijlingen, E.R. (2022) Co-authors, colleagues, and contributors: Complexities in collaboration and sharing lessons on academic writing Health Prospect 21(1):1-3.
Wasti, S.P., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P., Hundley, V. with Shreesh, K. (2022) Writing and Publishing Academic Work, Kathmandu, Nepal: Himal Books
van Teijlingen, E.R., Dhakal Adhikari, S., Regmi, P.R., van Teijlingen, A., Aryal, N., Panday, S. (2021). Publishing, identifiers & metrics: Playing the numbers game. Health Prospect, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.3126/hprospect.v20i1.37391
Simkhada, P., van Teijlingen E., Hundley, V., Simkhada, BD. (2013) Writing an Abstract for a Scientific Conference, Kathmandu Univ Med J 11(3): 262-65. http://www.kumj.com.np/issue/43/262-265.pdf
van Teijlingen, E, Hundley, V. (2002) Getting your paper to the right journal: a case study of an academic paper, J Advanced Nurs 37(6): 506-11.
Pitchforth, E, Porter M, Teijlingen van E, Keenan Forrest, K. (2005) Writing up & presenting qualitative research in family planning & reproductive health care, J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 31(2): 132-135.
van Teijlingen, E, Simkhada, PP, Rizyal A (2012) Submitting a paper to an academic peer-reviewed journal, where to start? (Guest Editorial) Health Renaissance 10(1): 1-4.
van Teijlingen, E, Simkhada. PP, Simkhada, B, Ireland J. (2012) The long & winding road to publication, Nepal J Epidemiol 2(4): 213-215 http://nepjol.info/index.php/NJE/article/view/7093/6388
Hundley, V, van Teijlingen, E, Simkhada, P (2013) Academic authorship: who, why and in what order? Health Renaissance 11(2):98-101 www.healthrenaissance.org.np/uploads/Download/vol-11-2/Page_99_101_Editorial.pdf
Simkhada P, van Teijlingen E, Hundley V. (2013) Writing an academic paper for publication, Health Renaissance 11(1):1-5. www.healthrenaissance.org.np/uploads/Pp_1_5_Guest_Editorial.pdf
van Teijlingen, E., Ireland, J., Hundley, V., Simkhada, P., Sathian, B. (2014) Finding the right title for your article: Advice for academic authors, Nepal J Epidemiol 4(1): 344-347.
van Teijlingen E., Hundley, V., Bick, D. (2014) Who should be an author on your academic paper? Midwifery 30: 385-386.
Hall, J., Hundley, V., van Teijlingen, E. (2015) The journal editor: friend or foe? Women & Birth 28(2): e26-e29.
Sathian, B., Simkhada, P., van Teijlingen, E., Roy, B, Banerjee, I. (2016) Grant writing for innovative medical research: Time to rethink. Med Sci 4(3):332-33.
Adhikari, S. D., van Teijlingen, E. R., Regmi, P. R., Mahato, P., Simkhada, B., & Simkhada, P. P. (2020). The Presentation of Academic Self in The Digital Age: The Role of Electronic Databases. International J Soc Sci Management, 7(1), 38-41. https://doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v7i1.27405
Pradhan, AK, van Teijlingen, ER. (2017) Predatory publishing: a great concern for authors, Med Sci 5(4): 43.
van Teijlingen, E (2004), Why I can’t get any academic writing done, Medical Sociol News 30(3): 62-63. britsoc.co.uk/media/26334/MSN_Nov_2004.pd

March 24, 2022

From Southern Brazil to Bournemouth, a Global Visiting Fellowship experience in times of Covid-19

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It was March 2020 when we submitted our application to BU’s Global Visiting Fellowship (GVF). Dr Luciana Esteves (LES, SciTech) reached out asking if I was interested in starting a collaboration taking the opportunity of the GVF scheme. We knew each other but have never worked together before. We thought it was a great opportunity to merge our research interests to assess how an ecosystem-based approach could make coastal vulnerability assessments more integrated to facilitate coastal adaptation. You can find insights about how our collaboration started in this blog.

An international collaboration proposal was born and later approved, great! Then the Covid-19 pandemic hit hard. All research and teaching schedules, timetables, academic calendars, everything became VERY uncertain. We were replanning activities without knowing when we would be able to start. We decided to do whatever was possible remotely. We started to co-supervise a postgraduate student enrolled at UFRGS and helped to kick start the process of establishing a BU-UFRGS MoU. We also organised an online workshop gathering researchers from across Brazil to discuss the methods and challenges of integrating ecosystem-based planning to better understand and manage coastal vulnerabilities in support of coastal adaptation.

It took almost two years for my first visit to BU (and my first ever to the UK) to happen. This was no easy task to coordinate. Federal institutions in Brazil, such as UFRGS, still have many restrictions in place regarding international travel. It was also difficult to find a period of time that was mutually convenient. The academic calendar in Brazil is still far from normal and, in UFRGS, we are still working remotely. At last, I arrived in Bournemouth on 6th March 2022 for a 17-day stay. It was very good to be able to travel and progress with our collaboration in person. Here are some personal impressions and highlights of my time in Bournemouth:

It was great to be able to be on Talbot campus and see BU’s facilities. I leave very impressed by the infrastructure and how sustainability is incorporated into the buildings. This is something you must be proud of!
I gave a lecture on Ecosystem-based management principles applied to environmental planning to undergraduate students (in the Applications of Environmental Science unit). This was the first time since December 2019 that I gave a lecture physically present in a classroom! It felt so good, thank you!
In hybrid mode, I gave a presentation to staff and PhD students about our laboratory and the ecosystem-based approaches we are using to support environmental management to address the needs of local organisations and government.
I have provided demonstrations of the TerrSet model applications for land-use change and ecosystem service mapping to staff and PhD students with potential for future collaboration.
We have proposed a special session for the Royal Geographical Society conference (to be held in Newcastle, 30 August to 2 September 2022).
We have started to write an academic paper and a practical guide for managers (particularly in less developed countries) about the application of ecosystem-based approaches to reduce coastal vulnerabilities and foster coastal adaptation.
We have identified possible calls and drafted a plan to secure funding from Brazil for staff and student mobility.

I’m very glad with the progress made. Luciana was a wonderful host and we worked well together. During my visit, I was contacted by many members of the university (from the administration, researchers and PhD students) and everyone was very polite and respectful. It is clear to me that BU is well-prepared for international collaboration. Besides work, I was very lucky with the weather and managed to visit some amazing places during weekends. The landscapes are beautiful, the Jurassic Coast is breathtaking, and London is a truly vibrant global city.

I look forward to continuing this collaboration beyond this Fellowship. My sincere thanks to all involved.

by Tatiana Silva (tatiana.silva@ufrgs.br)
BU’s Global Visiting Fellow
Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, southern Brazil

March 24, 2022

Our Global Visiting Fellowship experience (in times of Covid-19)

Global engagement, international lesteves

It was 23rd March 2020 when we submitted our application to BU’s Global Visiting Fellowship (GVF) scheme. I’m sure you remember this date well! We received the outcome of the submission around mid-May and confirmation of funds in June. The GVF provides funding to facilitate international collaborations with partners in BU’s priority list and each fellowship lasts 3 years. The funds cover costs for the Fellows to visit BU and for modest research costs (find out more here). As you can imagine, our plans halted and had to be modified throughout the pandemic. Differences in the timing of restrictions imposed by the UK and Brazil created further difficulties. Only very recently we were able to actually progress with our planned activities and organise the visit of Dr Tatiana Silva to BU. Here we provide some insights about how we started this collaboration, our activities and how we are progressing.

The Fellow: Tatiana is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Institute of Geosciences at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. Her research applies remote sensing and spatial analyses to support ecosystem-based planning ranging from the local scale (e.g. ports) to state-wide mapping and zoning.

BU host: Dr Luciana Esteves is Associate Professor at the department of Life & Environmental Sciences (SciTech). Her research concerns drivers and consequences of coastal change and how ecosystem-based management can be a more sustainable and effective way to reduce coastal vulnerabilities.

Motivation to apply: International collaboration has always been an important part of my work. At BU, I was Global Engagement Leader for my department and, I continue to actively contribute to BU’s global engagement, particularly with Brazil. I have an extensive network in Brazil and I’m always interested in opportunities to continue working with colleagues there.

How this collaboration started: When BU launched the GVF scheme, I knew that two Brazilian universities were in BU’s list of priority partners (USP and UFRGS). I then assessed who in these universities could be a good collaborator and a good fit to the call. I did my PhD at UFRGS and I was interested in re-establishing links. The call encouraged applications from female staff/fellows so I prioritised potential female colleagues from UFRGS with converging research interests and with greater potential for a successful long-term collaboration. In my search, I found out that Tatiana was working at UFRGS and working with ecosystem-based planning and with track record in international collaboration. Further, she had roles that would make her well-placed to develop and consolidate a long-term partnership. Although I knew Tatiana from the time I was an academic in Brazil, we have never worked together but it seemed a very good fit for this call. I decided to send an email and assess her interest. I was very glad when she replied promptly and positively. We started to discuss our common interests and soon agreed on a plan for our proposal. And here we are!

We think our proposal was successful because: we carefully considered all requirements of the call and proposed a plan that attended to these requirements and, at the same time, enabled us to start a collaboration in a new line of research that was of common interest. The plan included: a special session at a conference, workshops, purchase of software (including student licences), training to students, co-supervision of postgraduate students, and publications.

Difficulties: COVID, COVID and COVID! Remote international collaborations are intrinsically difficult due to differences in time zones, academic calendars, teaching schedules, working styles etc. It’s even more so if it’s with someone you have never worked with. During the pandemic, funds were temporarily suspended and there was little we could do. Activities were replanned but a lot of time was lost. The opportunity for Tatiana to come to BU and for us to actually meet in person took 2 years to realise. Now we are progressing well but our funding ends at the end of July and this is a predicament.

Was this worthwhile? Yes, definitely. It would have been so much better and more enjoyable without the challenges brought by the pandemic, but I believe we have formed a partnership that will be long lasting – which is a key aim of the GVF scheme. We have a number of interesting activities to finish, students have expressed interest to go for placements with Tatiana and the MoU has been approved by both BU and UFRGS, so we have a lot to look forward to. We also found out that we can work well together, which is very important.

You can read Tatiana’s blog about her experience and visit to BU here.

Lu Esteves, lesteves@bournemouth.ac.uk

March 23, 2022

Psychology & Sociology Applied to Medicine translated into Greek

BU research, Featured academics, international, Publishing, Research news, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

The popular medical textbook ‘Psychology & Sociology Applied to Medicine’ published by Elsevier has been translated into Greek. This 2022 Greek addition was, published last month, was preceded by a Spanish translation last year. Elsevier’s website call this fourth edition of the textbook, the “definitive and popular introduction to human behaviour in the context of health and illness includes three new chapters, many new contributors and a new co-editor. It is arranged in nine sections to cover the core concepts of psychology and sociology as they apply to medicine.”

Professor Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

March 23, 2022

Sustainable Ocean Economy through Smart Technology

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Come listen to innovators who aim to create a sustainable ocean economy through smart technology and even smarter ideas. Whether you are a student in supply chain management, ecology, artificial intelligence or (business) economics, we would love you to join us and discover the exciting world of smart port innovation at our virtual TomorrowPorts conference, taking place tomorrow, March 24th 2022!

Ports are becoming the worldwide frontline for the energy transition, sustainability transition and digital transition of industry. Discover how you can build a career that contributes to smarter ports with your technological or economic skills and expertise.

We organize a talent track during which you’ll have opportunities to connect with top international employers, such as MSC and CMA-CGM via virtual recruitment booths and a speed-dating carrousel.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Smart talent for smart ports track at the TomorrowPorts conference March 24 2022. Participation is free of charge for students!

https://www.smartportsecosystem.com/tomorrowports-conference-2022-24-march-smarter-ports/

March 21, 2022

Social Work Research cited in national newspaper

BU research, Featured academics, international, PG research, Publishing, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Congratulations to Dr. Orlanda Harvey who was cited last week in The Daily Telegraph in an article with the underlying question whether Vladimir Putin is experiencing so-called “roid rage” from steroid treatment. This theory has been suggested by by Western intelligence services. Orlanda’s PhD study at Bournemouth University focused on men using anabolic androgenic steroids for non-medical use. She published several academic papers on the topic [1-3].

References:

Harvey, O., Parrish, M., van Teijlingen, E, Trenoweth, S. (2021) Libido as a reason to use non-prescribed Anabolic Androgenic Steroids, Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1882940
Harvey, O., Parrish, M., van Teijlingen, E., Trenoweth, S. (2020) Support for non-prescribed Anabolic Androgenic Steroids users: A qualitative exploration of their needs Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy 27:5, 377-386. doi 10.1080/09687637.2019.1705763
Harvey, O., Keen, S., Parrish, M., van Teijlingen, E. (2019) Support for people who use Anabolic Androgenic Steroids: A Systematic Literature Review into what they want and what they access. BMC Public Health 19: 1024 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7288-x https://rdcu.be/bMFon

March 9, 2022

NIHR ARC Wessex Mental Health Research Hub

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The NIHR ARC Wessex has been awarded funding to boost mental health research. The newly established NIHR ARC Wessex Mental Health Research Hub seeks to bring together researchers from different disciplines and partners across the region to plan and conduct research. It will also encourage and support new research talent through mentorship, internships, a summer school, and new post-doctoral positions. For more details see Wessex Mental Health Research Hub gets £750,000 to boost research into mental health | NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex

The Mental Health Research hub is seeking academics from BU to join teams as co-applicants, collaborators of steering group members.

To build capacity, the following projects have been developed in the approved theme areas:

Ageing (excluding dementia) – promotion of healthy ageing by implementing and evaluating strategies to address alcohol disorders, loneliness and isolation.

Healthy Communities – developing, implementing and evaluating strategies to identify young people at risk of mental health conditions, promote early intervention and care transitions and bolster resilience.

Long-term conditions – enhancing evidence-based support for those with long term mental health disorders such as treatment resistant anxiety and depression, approaches to mobilising community systems of support and fostering resilience, include social prescribing.

Workforce and Health systems – develop and test evidence-based interventions matched to staff need and the organisational and professional context, to promote mental health, wellbeing and resilience in workforce providing care and treatment to people with mental health problems.

If you are interested in getting involved in one of these projects to boost your own research and develop collaborative opportunities for new research in mental health, please contact me ASAP and will connect you up!

Email: jmurphy@bournemouth.ac.uk

March 8, 2022

Concert of works from the Soundlapse project

BU research, Events, international, Public engagement aseddon

BU Sonic Arts presents an immersive multichannel concert of works from the Soundlapse Project, featuring works by Aki Pasoulas, Alejandro Albornoz, Brona Martin, Francisco Lopez, Pete Stollery, Rob Mackay and BU’s Ambrose Seddon.

The Soundlapse Project (2019-22) is an interdisciplinary research initiative funded in 2019 by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development. It seeks to highlight the acoustical heritage of wetlands in the south of Chile.

The project brought together artists, acousticians, biologists and computer scientists with the aim of studying these ecosystems’ unique soundscapes. As an outcome of the project’s periodic documentation of the “Parque Urbano El Bosque” wetland soundscapes in Valdivia, in 2021 eight sound artists were commissioned to compose works using these field recordings.

Date: Thursday 24th March 2022 at 1700

Venue: The Sound Stage, Poole Gateway Building, Talbot Campus

Admission free but please book a ticket! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bu-sonic-arts-presents-works-from-the-soundlapse-project-chile-tickets-292077861747

More information about the project at: www.soundlapse.net

March 7, 2022

BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth Associate Editor

BU research, Featured, Featured academics, international, open accecss, Publishing, Research communication, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

A few weeks ago I was invited as Associate Editor for BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth to draft a few paragraphs about how my research links to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth is an international scientific journal published by Springer. The edited version of my draft was put online earlier today, click here for access.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH (Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health)

Introducing the BMC Series SDG Editorial Board Members: Edwin van Teijlingen

March 1, 2022

Equality Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) toolkit – NIHR webinar

BU research, BU2025, Events, Impact, NHS, Post-award, pre-award, Research Integritiy, Research Training Louise Ward

Dear colleagues

– Are you an NIHR funded researcher?
– Are you planning to submit a grant application to NIHR?

NIHR Research Design Service East Midlands are hosting a webinar introducing the new EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity) toolkit and is a valuable starting point for researchers seeking to develop more inclusive research proposals.

The NIHR Research Design Service (RDS) has developed an EDI toolkit to support researchers to consider and embed EDI at each stage of their research project, from inception through to dissemination, implementation and impact.

The 90 minute webinar is on 30th March 2022 at 13.30.

Medical Research Council – Better methods, better research

Funding opportunities, innovation, NHS, pre-award, Research Centres Louise Ward

MRC are opening up a £2,000,000 fund on 6th May for improving the methods used by others in biomedical and health research.

Deadline: 15th June 2022

The full economic cost of your project can be up to £625,000. MRC and NIHR will fund 80% of the full economic cost.

This is an ongoing scheme. Application rounds open twice per year, closing in June and November

More details on the funding opportunity here.

Your local branch of the NIHR RDS (Research Design Service) is based within the BU Clinical Research Unit (BUCRU)

We can help with your application. We advise on all aspects of developing an application and can review application drafts as well as put them to a mock funding panel (run by RDS South West) known as Project Review Committee, which is a fantastic opportunity for researchers to obtain a critical review of a proposed grant application before this is sent to a funding body.

Contact us as early as possible to benefit fully from the advice

Feel free to call us on 01202 961939 or send us an email.

February 25, 2022

Speaking to a journalist

BU research, Featured academics, international, Publishing, Research Ethics, Research Integritiy, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

In late 2021 I was contacted by an Indonesian science journalist, Dyna Rochmyaningsih, who was investigating the ethics around international studies on human population genetics to build expand genomic libraries of people in the Global South. She highlights that “these international studies, often led by Western scientists, have contributed to a more global understanding of ancient patterns of human migration and evolution. But on some occasions, they’ve also sidestepped local regulatory agencies in the developing world, and ventured into murky research ethics terrain as a result”. The reason for contacting me was because we had published several papers here at Bournemouth University about the need for applying for ethical approval for research in developing countries [1-3]. I had a long Skype conversation with her about the various perspectives on the matter she was investigating.

Today she emailed me that her piece ‘Opinion: Genomics’ Ethical Gray Areas Are Harming the Developing World. A recent controversy in the Philippines illustrates the pitfalls and pressure points of international genomics research‘ has been published online. In the email she made a really nice comment: “It was nice talking to you even though you might see that I disagree at some of your points. However, the discussion gave me insights that there is a wide disagreement on what considers ethical research.” I think that is what science should be all about, disagreements, discussions, disputes, etc. and, at the same time, learning from these disputes and gaining greater insight.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

References:

van Teijlingen E.R., Simkhada P.P. (2012) Ethical approval in developing countries is not optional. Journal of Medical Ethics 38(7):428-30. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2011-100123. Epub 2012 Feb 16.PMID: 22345548
van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P. (2015). Failure to Apply for Ethical Approval for Health Studies in Low-Income Countries. Nepal Journal of Epidemiology, 5(3), 511–515. https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v5i3.13609
Regmi, P. R., Aryal, N., Kurmi, O., Pant, P. R., van Teijlingen, E., & Wasti, S. P. (2017). Informed Consent in Health Research: Challenges and Barriers in Low-and Middle-Income Countries with Specific Reference to Nepal. Developing World Bioethics, 17(2), 84–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/dewb.12123

February 23, 2022

NIHR Grant Applications Seminar ONLINE – 31st March 2022

BU research, ECR Network, EPSRC, ESRC, Events, Funding opportunities, NHS, pre-award, Research Centres, Research news, writing Louise Ward

Dear colleagues

– Do you have a great idea for research in health, social care or public health?
– Are you planning to submit a grant application to NIHR?

Our popular seminar continues online and will take place on Thursday 31st March 2022 from 10.00am – 12.30pm.

The seminar provides an overview of NIHR funding opportunities and research programme remits, requirements and application processes. We will give you top tips for your application and answer specific questions with experienced RDS South West advisers.

We will also be joined by colleagues from the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme. They will be talking about the HTA programme, the nature of the projects that it funds, tips for success and any upcoming changes.

We also have a limited number of 20-minute 1-to-1 appointments available after the seminar should you wish to discuss your proposed study with an RDS adviser.

Find out more and book a place.

Your local branch of the NIHR RDS (Research Design Service) is based within the BU Clinical Research Unit (BUCRU)

We can help with your application. We advise on all aspects of developing an application and can review application drafts as well as put them to a mock funding panel (run by RDS South West) known as Project Review Committee, which is a fantastic opportunity for researchers to obtain a critical review of a proposed grant application before this is sent to a funding body.

Contact us as early as possible to benefit fully from the advice

Feel free to call us on 01202 961939 or send us an email.

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