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The Network aims to build and nurture a community that brings together industry, the public sector, funders, research organisations, individual researchers and innovators to support the UK in becoming the global leader in trust and responsible innovation with personal data.
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Immerse UK is a new cross-sector network for business and research organisations across all part of the UK economy that are interested in the way that augmented and virtual reality can help drive productivity, social and economic growth.
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Are you working with a business that would be interested in this funding opportunity? Research organisations can participate as project collaborators. (The level of total research participation is set at a maximum of 30% of total eligible project costs.)
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £15 million to deliver transformational innovations with potential for impact on the UK economy.
The competition is now live and open to the best business-led, innovative or disruptive ideas or concepts. These can be drawn from any technology, engineering or industrial area. This area can be one that fits into, or be outside of, any one or more of Innovate UK’s 4 priority sectors for growth. (Emerging and Enabling Technologies, Health and Life Sciences, Infrastructure Systems, Manufacturing and Materials.)
To be in scope, a proposal must:
Priority will be given to proposals that are likely to lead to sustainable gains in productivity and/or access to new overseas markets through export-led business growth.
To lead a project you must:
For more information click here for:
or more information on knowledge exchange at BU contact Jayne Codling within RKEO.
This 3 day course is aimed at innovators and entrepreneurs who are looking to start or expand a healthcare related business.
Dates: 9, 10 & 14 February 2017
Location: University of Southamption Science Park
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2017* – places will be filled on a first come first serve basis
For more information: click here
To apply: click here
Open call
Digital Catapult and the RCUK Digital Economy (DE) Theme is now accepting applications for the Researchers in Residence Programme, to be hosted at the Digital Catapult Centre in London or at one of the local centres (Northern Ireland, Yorkshire, Brighton and North East & Tees Valley).
Projects can either be applied or more strategic in nature:
Applied projects will generally be user-centred and focused on impact generation in the short to medium term. Proposals should be relevant to one or more of the current Digital Catapult technology layers.
Strategic projects will help shape current Digital Catapult projects, and drive the creation of new activities or projects relevant to Digital Catapult’s overall mission. Proposals that highlight potential new directions, new users and novel means of impact generation are encouraged. The focus should be impact generation in the broadest sense. Projects could be undertaken on either a full time basis or via a series of short secondments to Digital Catapult.
Eligibility: Open to those with a contract of employment at a UK university, or PhD students who have submitted their thesis by the closing date, Sunday 8 January 2017.
Timeline: The closing date is 23:59, Sunday 8 January 2017 with decisions due by early March. The programme will run until 2018, with two funding calls each year. The next round will open for applications in summer.
Funding: all residencies will benefit from a grant of up to £25,000 to cover expenses, including travel and accommodation.
Further information
Newsletter and more information about Digtal Catapult
The SHIVA Project has received Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) that runs for 12 months from August 2016 until July 2017. (HEIF 5+1+1.)
The HEIF funding will be critical in terms of supporting the development of networks locally, nationally and beyond. The key aims will be to link user groups and stakeholders in education, health and wellbeing related to children, young people and adults, through the creative digital innovations offered by the SHIVA project.
This project which brought innovative virtual sculpting tools to children with complex disabilities, enabling them to partake in creative digital activities from which they had previously been excluded was recognised in the Time Higher Awards last November winning the Outstanding Digital Innovation in Teaching or Research Category.
Originally the SHIVA project on 3D modelling and 3D printing for young people with disabilities was funded by the EU Interreg programme with the duration from 2010 to 2015.
The original project team worked with the Victoria Education Centre (VEC) in Poole. As the project ended in 2015, it was clear there was scope to take this project beyond the initial funding and the SHIVA project has successfully been awarded impact acceleration funding and more recently HEIF funding.
A new Research Assistant, Michelle Wu, an NCCA graduate (2016), is the latest member to join this team. Michelle will be involved in turning the SHIVA system into a deployable product with proper installation, configuration and usage instructions. This area of work will help make SHIVA accessible to all potential users in the UK and further afield and strengthen the potential for developing networks that will benefit from this award winning technology.
For more information on this project contact Alexander Pasko or Oleg Fryazinov within the Faculty of Media and Communication.
Jayne Codling within RKEO co-ordinates the HEIF project portfolio for BU. Feel free to contact Jayne if you have any questions regarding HEIF at BU or knowledge exchange activities including business engagement and innovation funding.
New projects are available in the Student Project Bank! We have a wide variety of projects in the bank with organisations such as Macmillan Caring Locally, Volunteer Centre Dorset, Pause Cat Cafe and Faithworks Wessex. Projects are available to all undergraduate and postgraduate students at BU and can be used for their dissertation, assignment, unit or group work. Members of staff may also choose a project to set to their students.
The complete list of projects is available here.
SPB033: Promotional video for Faithworks Wessex
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Create a video that showcases the work Faithworks does in the local community. There will be the opportunity to interview staff, volunteers and clients of Faithworks. This video will be used to raise the profile of the charity in the community and to attract volunteers.
SPB034: Video series to raise awareness of addiction and The Recovery Course
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Create a series of short videos to educate people around addiction and to promote St Swithuns Recovery Course. There will be the opportunity to work with the recovery ministry head, observe the course and to interview some members of the recovery course. These videos will be used as part of a national marketing and promotion campaign.
SPB035: Alcohol: Friend or Foe? Research project
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Identify and review existing research on the impact of alcohol consumption on the drinker and others. Identify gaps in the current literature and create a research methodology to address these gaps. Produce a report on your findings.
If you would like to find out more and apply for one of the above projects, send us an email to request a project brief and an application form.
In partnership with Life Changing Events, we are inviting staff and students to help shape and run one of the largest cancer survivorship events of 2017 – Thrivership UK Convention.
As part of the Festival of Learning, Bournemouth University will bring together leading organisations representing cancer related charities and survivorship projects, sport and physical activity, NHS and local governments to share best practice, research and innovative ideas to improve the services, experience and outcomes for people living with a cancer diagnosis. This event will also host a health and wellbeing clinic for 200 people living with cancer.
In order to make this event a success, Life Changing Events needs support with:
We would like to make these opportunities available to staff and students. This is a great opportunity for BU students to gain real-world project experience, enhance their CVs and contribute to people’s potential to live active and happy lives with and beyond cancer.
Interested in taking part?
Then join us for a Q&A session with the founder of Life Changing Events, Layne Hamerston, on 6 December at 11:00am in the Lawrence Lecture Theatre, Talbot Campus.
Please register to attend by Friday 2 December.
Refreshments will be provided.
Would you like to be a part of the largest collaborative event in 2017 to improve the quality of life for those who have been affected by cancer? Living Well Active and the Student Project Bank are inviting students and staff from across BU to register their interest in helping shape the Thrivership UK 2017 Four Nations Convention: From Survivor to Thriver.
On 13th July 2017 Bournemouth University will bring together leading organisations from the four nations representing cancer related charities and survivorship projects, sport and physical activity, NHS and local governments to share best practice, research and innovative ideas to improve the services, experience and outcomes for people living with a cancer diagnosis. This event will also host a health and wellbeing clinic for 200 people living with cancer.
In order to make this event a success, Living Well needs support with:
Interested in taking part?
There will be a presentation and Q&A session with the founder of Living Well Agency on 6th December at 11:00 in the Lawrence Lecture Theatre, Talbot Campus. Register your attendance here. Refreshments will be provided.
Taking part in this event is a great way for students to enhance their CV, gain real-world project experience and contribute to people’s potential to live active and happy lives with and beyond cancer.
HEFCE have launched a new portal which aims to support higher education institutions to continuously improve their practice in the areas of knowledge exchange.
This includes sections on:
HEFCE will continue to populate these pages are further information becomes available.
If you have any queries about the portal and its contents, or wish to discuss any elements of knowledge exchange, please do not hesitate to contact Rebecca Edwards.
There are new projects in the Student Project Bank for the following subject areas:
Projects are available to all undergraduate and postgraduate students at BU and can be used for their dissertation, assignment, unit or group work. Members of staff may also choose a project to set to their students. A complete list of projects is available here.
SPB025: Marketing strategy for Pause Cat Cafe
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Create a marketing strategy for Pause Cat Café. Pause are particularly interested in reaching markets that are not generally aware of the concept of a cat café and markets that could benefit from the therapeutic effects of spending time with cats. They are open to new and innovative ideas. This project can be combined with SPB026 if required.
SPB026: Social media strategy for Pause Cat Cafe
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Create a social media strategy for Pause Cat Café. Identify new and unusual ways Pause could build upon the current ways cats are featured on social media. The strategy will need to identify ways to approach and resolve negative press that may be directed towards the café. This project can be combined with SPB 025 if required.
SPB027: Develop a website for Pause Cat Cafe
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Develop a website for Pause Cat Café to promote their business and share news of their projects.
SPB028: Research project into the benefits of interaction with cats on mental and physical health and well being
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Research the benefits of interaction with cats on mental and physical health and wellbeing using quantitative and qualitative methods. Produce a report on your findings.
SPB029: Create a documentary about Pause Cat Café
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Create a 20 minute documentary about Pause Cat Café that can be used for promotional purposes. The documentary will focus on the welfare and care of the cats that live at the café and the community work the café aims to do in the future.
SPB030: Create a short documentary about the community living on Bourne estate
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Create a 6-10 minute video capturing the activities and the voices of the people living on Bourne estate from January-June 2017. This will be used to demonstrate the success of a six year neighbourhood management project in the area. The film will be shown to the community and local agencies.
SPB031: Create an app or online platform to increase engagement in the Count On Me community carbon-counting campaign
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Count On Me (a Transition Bournemouth project) is a community carbon-counting campaign designed to promote and encourage sustainable behaviour. It helps tackle climate change by celebrating the positive steps people are taking. Develop an app for iPhone/Android or an online platform that will capture data from Bournemouth residents about their activities that produce carbon savings such as cycling or eating less meat.
If you would like to find out more and apply for one of the above projects, send us an email to request a project brief and an application form.
The Freud Museum in association with
The Centre for Politics and Media, Bournemouth University
Media and the Inner World Research Network
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-play-psychoanalysis-and-political-culture-tickets-28694219182
We are surrounded by political culture as never before and yet never felt so powerless. In this special conference we look at a broad idea of political culture and psychoanalysis, discussed as history (Zaretsky), as a state of mind (Stokoe), as televisual culture (Davies) and as the cultures of political practice (Hollins), exploring how these different areas feed into the political imagination and the unconscious processes that shape it. And as political culture seeps into people’s minds so ‘politics’ becomes a factor in the therapeutic relationship itself.
PROGRAMME
Morning session chaired by Barry Richards (biog)
Candida Yates (biog)
Opening Remarks
Eli Zaretsky (biog)
The Three Faces of Political Freud (abstract)
Philip Stokoe (biog)
A psychoanalytic approach to understanding the state of mind in societies that can produce Brexit and Trump (abstract)
Afternoon Session chaired by Prof. Candida Yates
Andrew Davies (biog)
in Conversation with Iain MacRury (biog)
Baroness Sheila Hollins (biog)
in Conversation with Brett Kahr (biog)
Plenary Discussion
Ends 5pm
Drinks Party at the Freud Museum to follow
To purchase tickets go to:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-play-psychoanalysis-and-political-culture-tickets-28694219182
There is a reduction for students and BU colleagues.
There are new projects in the Student Project Bank! Projects are available to all undergraduate and postgraduate students at BU and can be used for their dissertation, assignment, unit or group work. They are also available for extra-curricular experience. Members of staff may also choose a project to set to their students. New projects are listed below, these will be added to the list of available projects on the website shortly.
SPB017: Next Economy Project: How can the resources, assets and influence of historical organisations with social purpose be unlocked to support the growth of a new economy?
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Research project exploring how the resources, assets and influence of historical organisations with social purpose, especially churches, could be ‘unlocked’ to support the growth of a new economy that is sustainable, resilient and more equitable.
SPB018: Produce a series of articles exploring the challenges facing the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector (VCSE)
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Dorset Community Action is working with Dorset Communities Forum to raise awareness of the challenges facing the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector (VCSE) through a series of stories/ case studies linking the work of local VCSEs, and relating the challenges they face, with public sector service cuts, and the importance of the role of VCSE organisations in how public services will be delivered for years to come. There is potential these articles will be published in local magazines and online.
SPB019: Create a brand identity for Dorset Communities Forum’s campaign to raise awareness of challenges facing Dorset’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Create a brand identity than can be used to promote Dorset Communities Forum’s campaign. This will be used to influence the look and feel of their website and marketing materials.
SPB020: Create a website for Dorset Communities Forum’s campaign to raise awareness of challenges facing Dorset’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Create a website than can be used to promote Dorset Communities Forum’s campaign. The website will host a series of articles and case studies about Dorset’s VCSE sector.
SPB021: Create social media campaign strategy for Dorset Community Action and Dorset Communities Forum’s campaign to raise awareness of challenges facing Dorset’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Design a social media campaign to raise awareness of challenges facing Dorset’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector
SPB022: Create an evaluation strategy for Dorset Community Action and Dorset Communities Forum’s campaign to raise awareness of challenges facing Dorset’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: A series of articles will be published in local magazines, as well as a social media campaign and a website to raise awareness of the challenges facing the VCSE sector. Create a strategy to evaluate the reach, impact and efficacy of this campaign.
SPB023: Create a short promo video introducing Ododow and The Community Pledge
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Ododow is an interactive community map that aims to make it easier for people in crisis to find the right support at the right time. Create a short (approx. 3 minutes) two-part promo video introducing Ododow and The Community Pledge. The video will be able to be split into two sections, one for introducing Ododow and one for The Community Pledge.
SPB024: Develop a marketing campaign to raise awareness of Ododow and The Community Pledge
Suitable for: Undergraduate/ postgraduate
Description: Ododow is an interactive community map that aims to make it easier for people in crisis to find the right support at the right time. Develop a marketing campaign to raise awareness of Ododow and The Community Pledge.
If you would like to find out more and apply for one of the above projects, send us an email to request a project brief and an application form.
Are you working with engineering companies that would be interested in this funding opportunity?
Why not send them this information in order that they can consider making an application ?
The Royal Academy of Engineering, sponsored through the Enterprise Hub, invites applications for its small- and medium-sized enterprises leaders programme. This supports promising leaders of high growth engineering SMEs. Recipients receive a grant of between £10,000 to £15,000 towards the cost of training courses and executive education for themselves.
This scheme is open for applications by SMEs until 4pm on 24 November 2016. For further details on the scheme click on this link.
We would like to welcome Dr Caitlin Potter who joined our Eco-Coding team from Bangor University on the 31st October. Her previous work has been on microbial communities of peatlands using metagenomic techniques and she will bring expertise and experience to the Eco-coding project.
Now that Caitlin is with us we look forward to the next stage of the project; discovering what our urban pollinators have been feeding on.
Click here for more information on this project and check out our new project page on the BU Research Website.
The Stern review of the REF was published in July 2016. The government have accepted the main recommendations, and we are expecting in November a HEFCE technical consultation on implementation – to affect the next REF exercise (probably in 2021). It is expected that the new arrangements will be settled by the summer of 2017.
So what did Stern recommend – and what is likely to be in the consultation?
So watch this space – once the consultation is launched the Research and Knowledge Exchange team will be working with the policy team to prepare a BU response. You can read more about BU’s policy and public affairs work on our intranet pages.
The newly launched Pollinator Exchange is your one-stop resource
With pollinator numbers in decline in rural areas, there has been increasing focus on the many ways in which towns and cities can be made more pollinator-friendly. Urban green spaces such as amenity grassland in parks, gardens, verges or roundabouts offer plenty of opportunities for pollinators, provided they are managed correctly.
While much academic research has gone into this field in recent years, this is not always readily available to the people in charge of managing urban green spaces. Local councils, highway agencies and other authorities need clear, evidence-based practical advice to turn our towns and cities into places abuzz with pollinators.
The Pollinator Exchange website, www.pollinatorexchange.org developed by Bournemouth University, fulfils this role. It provides an interactive database of the latest research, practical guidance and projects connected to pollinators in urban areas. All resources come with a brief summary of their main points, allowing those with limited time to follow recent developments and implement key recommendations. Website users can browse the existing catalogue and also add their own resources, thereby contributing to ongoing knowledge exchange on this important topic.
Gill Perkins, Chief Executive at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, was one of many staff from conservation and land management organisations who generously gave their time to help test and develop the website. She said: ‘Bumblebee Conservation Trust recognises that urban environments are becoming crucially important to reverse the decline in pollinators. The Pollinator Exchange site will facilitate communication and knowledge exchange between groundsmen and contractors, biodiversity officers and everyone who influences decisions on what to grow, making it a vital resource for all to learn best techniques.’
The Pollinator Exchange was funded through the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s knowledge exchange programme: the Higher Education Innovation Funding scheme. (HEIF 5+1 August 2015 – July 2016.)
Please visit www.pollinatorexchange.org for a closer view.
For more information on this project please contact the Project Lead Kathy Hodder.
Date: Wednesday 16 November
Location: The Fusion Building, Bournemouth University
Event information:
Building on the successful Game Changer event held earlier in the year, Bournemouth University and NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group present The Game Changer Reloaded – promoting innovation and fostering collaboration across Dorset. Join Richard Dolan, Dr Phil Richardson and Professor Jim Roach and a diverse collection of speakers to learn more about the art of the possible and the power of innovation to transform health services within the region.
Places are going fast for both sessions so make sure you book your space. Academics are encouraged to attend both sessions but if you are looking for potential funding partners / research collaborators session 2 is a must.
It’s free: book now for sessions 1 and/or 2
Timings:
Session 1 – 9.00 am -3.00 pm: Speakers from BU and external organisations share their innovation journeys throughout the day providing inspiration and ideas to those attending as to how to get involved.
Session 2 – 3.15 pm – 4.15 pm: Facilitation and networking: This session offers the opportunity to share ideas and develop future collaborations. There’s also the chance to begin to consider research ideas that could subsequently be progressed in order to obtain external funding in the future.
Each session will need to be booked separately.
Throughout the day there’s a pop-up innovation exhibition for guests to enjoy and to share and refine ideas.
It’s free: book now for The Game Changer Reloaded
This event forms a number being run at the university as part of the Festival of Enterprise.
BU staff can login below:
Events taking place as part of UK National Postdoc Appreciation Week
Drowning prevention poster at Safety 2024 (in India)
Paper with a difference
MaGMap: Mass Grave Mapping
ERC grants – series of webinars
Last reminder – MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 internal deadline next week MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 – internal deadline approaching
Horizon Europe – EuroHPC and MSCA PF webinars
Research Information Network
Blindness and Media Engagement
Royal Society of Chemistry Outreach Fund: Open for Applications