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Category / Public engagement
Public & Patient Involvement (PPI) – Seminar Series
Bournemouth University will be hosting a Public Involvement seminar series throughout March and April, which focusses upon the public/patients working with staff to: 1) prioritise research; 2) advise upon project methodology; 3) design recruitment campaigns; 4) develop research materials; and 5) promote the impact of findings.
Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) has broad application to research beyond Health and Social Care, allowing the public actively act as participants. Direct benefits to researchers include: ensuring research quality, credibility and relevance; public accountability and insights; and enhancing research funding.
Students, staff and the public are invited to the seminar series. UGR and PGR students attending three or more seminars will be eligible to apply for an opportunity to run their own PPI advisory group with hip-replacement patients. This will be supported by ORI and the Department of Sport and Physical Activity, and has ongoing potential for conference presentation and journal article preparation.
Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) Seminar Series
Location EB708, Executive Business Centre, Lansdowne Campus
Monday 6th March, 3-4.30 pm
Why PPI is crucial to designing effective health research studies
Professor Jo Adams, Professor Musculoskeletal Health, University of Southampton
Wednesday 15th March, 3-4.30 pm
Importance of public involvement in research design: an orthopaedic case study
Lisa Gale-Andrews & Dr Zoe Sheppard, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University
Monday 3rd April, 3-4.30 pm
Recruiting and supporting participants to engage in meaningful PPI
Dr Mel Hughes & Angela Warren, Carer and Service User Partnership, Bournemouth University
Monday 24th April, 11-12.30 pm
How can today’s patient help research tackle tomorrow’s health challenges?
Simon Denegri National Director, Patients and the Public in Research (INVOLVE)
Book your place now: https://patientandpublicinvolvement.eventbrite.co.uk
Refreshments are available and there will be plenty of time for discussion at the seminar end. Any questions please contact:
Dr James Gavin
Email jgavin@bournemouth.ac.uk
Phone +44 (0)1202566303
Phone +44 (0)1202566303
Festival of Learning on-tour at RNLI College Food and Drink Festival: get involved!
Are you interested in getting to know the local community, and sharing your research and expertise with others? Do you have exciting research to talk about or would you like to gain some valuable experience in public engagement?
Join us in a lead up to Festival of Learning and be part of RNLI College Food and Drink Festival on 30th April! The festival is focused on great quality food, sourced and produced here in Dorset, and supports Mayday campaign, which is a nationwide community fundraising campaign.
There is a community theme to the Festival so we’re looking for activities that may be of interest to the local community or are around community based research. We’d also be keen to take along any food and drink related activities about. However, if your activity is not directly related then we’d still love to hear from you. Please drop me an email on jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk to express your interest in joining us and I will be able to provide you with more details.
We’re also looking for activities for Poole Maritime Festival and are looking forward to hearing from you! To find out more please click here.
Why not get involved in Being Human Festival of humanities?
The UK’s only national festival of the humanities, will be returning for fourth year between 17-25 November 2017 and number of grants to support public engagement activities is being offered!
The festival theme this year is ‘Lost and Found’.
To apply for a ‘Small Award’, a ‘Hub Award’, or apply to take part with an event that does not require funding from the festival visit the Being Human festival website
There are also now a number of case-studies on the website which should be useful if you are thinking of applying.
Why not get involved in the British Science Festival 2017?
The call for proposals for this year British Science Festival is open till 9am Monday 27 March 2017.
Help the British Science Association to curate a vibrant programme of events! Nominations for the annual Award Lectures and the call for proposals for the British Science Festival 2017 are now open. Please click on the links below to find out more:
Propose an event
Nominate an Award Lecture
The deadline for submissions is 9am Monday 27 March 2017. To submit a proposal for events please fill in the proposal form.
In 2016 the festival took place in Swansea and you can watch highlights film from that event Here
Festival of Learning on-tour at Poole Maritime Festival: get involved!
Festival of Learning on-tour is taking BU’s research and expertise to some exciting locations this year so if you are interested in engaging with the public look no further!
The Poole Maritime Festival will run from 15 – 21 May this year, and Festival of Learning on-tour will join the festivities on Saturday 20 May at Baiter Park in Poole. We’re expecting lots of interested members of the public with Poole Harbour Boat Show and the Seven Seas Festival forming part of Poole Maritime Festival’s exciting programme. The Boat Show alone attracted over 15,000 people in 2015!
The Festival is linked with European Maritime Day, originally created in 2008 to give Europe’s community of maritime professionals a forum to meet, exchange knowledge and forge partnerships. It is a unique opportunity to promote Poole, local businesses and Bournemouth University’s research to an international audience!
We are looking for public engagement activities that fit into the theme of maritime heritage and environment, but if your activity is not directly related we’d still love for you to be involved. You can express your interest in running an activity by dropping me an email on jpawlik@gbournemouth.ac.uk and I will be able to provide you with more details and help you develop your activity.
HEIF project on managing peatlands for biodiversity and cultural heritage
Improving the Condition of Natural and Cultural Capital in Dorset and Hampshire: A HEIF project
By Alexander Lovegrove
Dorset and Hampshire are counties rich in natural beauty, biodiversity, and sites of archaeological importance. Within both counties, there are organisations dedicated to either conservation or preserving areas of historical importance, but they rarely work together or manage both. This new HEIF-funded project, led by Dr. Phillipa Gillingham, aims to bring these organisations and BU students together to change this and use their collective knowledge to preserve areas of natural beauty and historical importance. “We want to be able to manage them both for conservation purposes and for their rich archaeological heritage,” says Dr Gillingham. This project focusses on peatland ecosystems, which have significant importance both locally and internationally for their biodiversity, ecosystem services and cultural value. “Ultimately, we hope to be able to develop a case study of the area to demonstrate how you can manage peatlands for the benefit of both archaeologists and conservationists. This will make a difference locally and for the further research we hope to do in the Atlantic regions.”
Key objectives of the project will include collecting data on the pressures reducing these natural and cultural assets, such as recreational use and land use change – including a Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis of land managers (which has already begun) and Student Environment Research Team (SERT) work by students carried out over the easter break. This will lead to scientific output documenting the pressures and impacts facing these valuable environments. Further scientific work will investigate the changes in condition of these ecosystems over time, using palaeoecological and archaeological evidence together with recreation of ecological surveys carried out in the 1950s.
One of the most important aspects of the project will be the opportunity to bring together several different conservation organisations in the local area in order to share knowledge and build new relationships. This will involve building a network with stakeholders to exchange knowledge on current approaches to assessing the condition and trends of natural and cultural capital assets in peatlands. Additionally, sharing of best practice guidelines for monitoring and managing the condition of natural and cultural capital assets will be carried out through this network, an exhibition on Dorset and Hampshire peatlands, an event at the Festival of Learning and reports from the SERT teams.
The project, led by Dr Pippa Gillingham, includes ecologists (Dr Anita Diaz, Prof. Adrian Newton, Alexander Lovegrove), archaeologists (Prof. Mark Brisbane) and Palaeoecologists (Dr John Stewart). The team also includes in its network Dr Lawrence Shaw from the New Forest National Park Authority, Toby Branston at the RSPB and David Brown from the National Trust, who manage land locally for both cultural heritage and biodiversity, and Prof. Nigel Webb from Dorset Wildlife Trust. “We hope that the knowledge we develop will be of real benefit to them.” Funding is provided through HEIF – HEIF 5+1+1 – with funding running from 1 August 2016 until 31 July 2017. Please contact P.I. Dr Phillipa Gillingham (pgillingham@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Research Assistant Alexander Lovegrove (alovegrove@bournemouth.ac.uk) if you have any questions about the project.
Applications open to attend NERC’s Community consultation event
Community consultation event – 6 April 2017 Manchester
NERC are currently planning a large-scale funding call under their Public Engagement Strategy, to achieve national impact in public engagement with contemporary issues of environmental science.
Registration has opened for applications to attend a community consultation event on 6 April 2017 in Manchester, the outputs of which will challenge NERC to be bold and ambitious, directly informing the call, which is planned to launch shortly after.
The event will bring together a diverse set of people who have the potential to shape and be involved in NERC’s bold plans going forward, including environmental scientists, public engagement specialists and also contributors from the social sciences, arts and humanities.
To apply to attend the consultation event, please complete the online registration form.
The closing date for applications to attend is 16:00 on Wednesday 15 March 2017. Invited participants will be notified by Friday 17 March 2017.
For more information please go to Community consultation event page.
We can support 1 or 2 members of staff to attend the consultation event.
CPD study findings presented in Kathmandu
Today we offered preliminary feedback to key stakeholders in Kathmandu as part of our research into CPD (Continuous Professional Development) for nurses in Nepal. Today’s presentation is party funded by LJMU (Liverpool John Moores University) and partly funded by BU’s Centre for Excellence in Learning (CEL). Late 2016 CEL funded the qualitative part of our research project. In this CPD project we work with representatives of the Ministry of Health , the Ministry of Education, the Nepal Nursing Association and the Nursing Council, and providers of Nursing Education (both Government-run universities and private colleges).
Today key presenter was BU Visiting Faculty Dr. Bibha Simkhada (based at LJMU). The event was opened by Associate Professor Chandra Kala Sharma, who is also the president of the Nepal Nursing Association (lighting the traditional lamp in photo right).
Our BU contributors, Dr. Catherine Angell and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen, are both based in the Centre for Midwifery and Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH). We are grateful to our collaborators in Nepal, especially Dr. Sujan Marahatta at Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, for organising this event in our absence. The CPD research project is truly a FUSION project in the field of nursing & midwifery since it links Research in the field of Education to help improve Practice in Nepal. Further information can be found on a previous blog post, click here!
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen
CMMPH
Call For Papers: Que(e)rying Gender and Tourism Research
Call For Papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 29th August -1st September 2017.
Que(e)rying Gender and Tourism Research
Eveleigh Buck-Matthews, Coventry University
Dr Jaeyeon Choe, Bournemouth University
Dr Claudia Eger, University of Warwick
Heather Jeffrey, University of Bedfordshire
Dr Caroline Scarles, University of Surrey
Sponsored by the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group (GLTRG) and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG)
There is a growing body of knowledge concerned with gender and tourism, but still many voices remain unheard. Feminists are as varied as the subjectivities they so often research, but are joined together within a common emancipatory project. Queer theory can aid in an emancipatory project by destabilising foundational assumptions of normality (de Souza, Brewis & Rumens, 2016; Rumens & Tyler, 2016), and yet it has received little attention from tourism scholars. This session is designed to engage participants in a critical conversation on gender and feminism within tourism, hospitality and events research, to explore contentious issues among feminists and pave the way for collaboration. Papers concerning any aspect of gender within tourism, hospitality and events research are invited, as well as papers investigating multiple voices and perspectives within gender and tourism, which may relate to but not be confined by the following areas:
• Female hosts as guests and the reification of roles
• Masculinities in tourism, hospitality, and events
• LGBTQ voices in tourism, hospitality, and events
• Casual/precarious gendered workers
• Postcolonial feminism and subaltern studies in tourism
• Insights from queer theory for gender and tourism
• Feminist theory and practice
We are currently seeking contributions for a paper presentation session involving presentations each lasting around 15 minutes with time for questions. The presentation may be executed in a traditional or innovative style, and we actively encourage a wide range of styles; including snapshots and pechakucha.
Please send abstracts (approx. 250 words) with author contact details to Heather Jeffrey (heather.jeffrey@beds.ac.uk) by the 14th February 2017.
Faculty of Media and Communication academic participates in a workshop at the LSE
A Faculty of Media and Communication academic contributed to a workshop organised by the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Department of Media and Communication. This policy focused workshop, held on 27th January 2017, was entitled ‘The media policies of Europe’s new authoritarianism’. Its purpose was to develop policy response strategies to changing media legislations among the European Union member states among which democracy is drifting away from liberal agendas, and where the principles of media freedom are at risk. Participants of the workshop put forward strategies and tactics to address controversial developments among selected media regimes. Above all, the significance of media policy developments was discussed in a broader context of governance, democracy and media freedoms.
The workshop was attended by scholars, journalists, regional and international policy-makers as well as representatives of a number of policy think-tanks. The workshop was held under the Chatham House rule. This event was part of the Media Policy Project hosted by the LSE.
Migrant & Refugee Leisure Spaces and Community Well-being project
‘We Love EU: Migrant & Refugee Leisure Spaces and Community Well-being’ project
Bournemouth University academics and community organization partners had a first meeting for an internally funded project (QR Fund), ‘We Love EU: Migrant and Refugee Leisure Spaces and Community Well-being’ on January 25. The ‘We love EU’ project is focused on building research capacity to respond to policy changes with regard to migrant wellbeing and Brexit. The project is based in the Department of Events and Leisure (Faculty of Management) and hence the project has a leisure focus. Previous research indicates that leisure spaces and practices are productive to marginalised and excluded communities and individuals in terms of generating resilience and well-being.
The BU academics are: Janet Dickinson, Jayne Caudwell, Kat King and Jaeyeon Choe (Department of Events and Leisure), Adele Ladkin (Department of Tourism and Hospitality), Darren Lilleker (Media School), Nicola De Martini Ugolotti (Department of Sport and Physical Activity), Rosie Read and Holly Crossen-White (Faculty of Health and Social Sciences). We have come together as a very interdisciplinary group with different backgrounds and knowledge. The external partners are: Sally Watkins and Sandy Kirkby from Bside, Nathalie Sherring from Dorset Race Equality Rep, Trudie Cole from Poole Museum, Samineh Richardson, researcher with Citizen’s Advice Bureau, Steph Farr from Corporate Policy and Performance Officer (Syrian Resettlement Programme), Mark Forsyth, Cenan Chappell and Gwen Scolding from the British Red Cross / City of Sanctuary. The partners are working with refugees/migrants or involved with community leisure related activities to explore how we can make research work as a tool to help and address current challenges.
In our three hour meeting, we primarily discussed the community input for the project and planning for collaborative activities to make a broad and meaningful impact. The community partners shared their challenges and issues working with migrant and refugee communities in Dorset. For example, they reported that one of the challenges migrants are facing is ‘Uncertainty’ and we should seek ‘two-way integration’ and think about how to encourage the two way integration. It was a good opportunity to think of what integration or inclusion really means, and how we should approach these concepts. Discussion centred around addressing community partner challenges, including organizing awareness, conducting research projects and publicizing or communicating some significant issues through various media.
The productive meeting revealed many collaboration opportunities with the community along with potential short-medium to long term positive impacts. For example, the community partners value the development of a network and we will organize a community art event with b-Side during Refugee Week (19-25, June 2017). As the organizations have lots of hands-on research opportunities, we are also thinking of liaising with our students to get them involved in research projects alongside community organizations. I personally thought that there is great hope if 20 community partners and academics are passionately discussing what we can we do about these issues on a cold foggy Wednesday for three long hours.
We just have to keep asking, what makes migrants feel belonging, and try to understand what they need, and how leisure spaces (public or private) can help them feel more welcome and healthy.
We look forward to co-producing positive impacts in our community and beyond through this project.
Please follow us on twitter @migrantspaces or join us on Facebook, ‘Migrant Leisure Spaces’ if you are interested in our work or want to share your stories or comments.
#migrantleisurespaces
Janet Dickinson, Jayne Caudwell, Kat King & Jaeyeon Choe
Register Today – BU Postgraduate Conference Wednesday 8 March 2017
The annual Postgraduate Conference showcases the best of BU’s postgraduate research – a great opportunity to learn about the varied research, methods and experiences from current students, as well as hear from key academics from all faculties, including a keynote address on public engagement and having an impact. For all PGRs and postgraduate taught Master’s students – a valuable personal and professional development opportunity!
The conference is also open to academic and related professional services, supporting BU’s growing postgraduate community.
Register your FREE place today
Full details on the Graduate School web pages. For enquiries, email Debbie in the Graduate School: pgconference@bournemouth.ac.uk
Nominate Award Lecture at the 2017 British Science Festival
Do you know of or work with a promising early career scientists? Nominations are currently being accepted for Award Lectures at the British Science Festival! The deadline is 9 am Monday 6 March 2017
Previous Award Lecturers include Brian Cox, Richard Wiseman and Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
Awards are available in seven different areas:
- Margaret Mead – social sciences
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel, supported by Siemens – engineering, technology and industry
- Charles Lyell – environmental sciences
- Charles Darwin – agricultural, biological and medical sciences
- Rosalind Franklin, supported by Siemens – physical sciences and mathematics
- Daphne Oram – digital innovation
- Jacob Bronowski – science and the arts
To propose a nomination, fill out this form
Public Engagement Evaluation Course
Would you like to know whether your public engagement activity is effective?
Public engagement evaluation course introduces you to the process of public engagement evaluation, available tools and practical guidance about how to gather accurate evaluation data.
It offers flexible 24-40 hours of training which means it was organized to be completed at your own pace, with each Module comprising 5-10 hours of learning tasks and activities.
The course has been created by Dr. Eric Jensen (Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Warwick), who is a leading social scientist specializing in innovative methods of conducting impact evaluation research in informal learning and public engagement contexts.
For more details and to reserve your place click here
Scottish Government publishes Maternity Review
Yesterday the Scottish Government has published its national maternity review ‘The Best Start – A Five Year Forward Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Care in Scotland’. The report has been widely welcomed and gained, among others, the full support from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). Mary Ross-Davie, RCM Director for Scotland noted: “This is a defining moment for maternity services in Scotland and will be a seismic shift for our maternity services. The plan has the potential to revolutionise maternity care, to deliver safer and better services for women, babies and their families, and to improve the health of our population.”
The Best Start recognises that maternity and neonatal services matter to the health and wellbeing of Scotland’s people. The report’s underpinning is more of a social model of childbirth as it observes that “The health, development, social, and economic consequences of childbirth and the early weeks of life are profound, and the impact, both positive and negative, is felt by individual families and communities as well as across the whole of society.”
Having lived for 25 years in Scotland I am happy to have made a small contribution to this import report.
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen
Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health
Public Engagement Opportunity – Speakers needed for Cafe Scientifique!
We’re currently looking for speakers for Cafe Scientifique and you can choose which month suits you best!
Cafe Scientifique is a popular and relaxed event that runs on the first Tuesday of the month at cosy Cafe Boscanova. Speakers give a short presentation around a chosen topic/area of research (roughly 30 minutes) before opening up to the audience for questions.
To find out more about Cafe Scientifique please visit our website here.
We’re also on Youtube and Facebook
If you’d like to get involved or if you have any questions, please drop me an email on jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk
I hope to hear from you soon!
How we’re flying the KEIT for the new year!
Now the festivities are over and the new year is upon us, KEIT are looking forward to what 2017 brings and we already have a busy year ahead.
Research Communications
Our sixth edition of the Bournemouth Research Chronicle (BRC) will be published in early February. The chronicle features examples of the fantastic research coming from both our academics and students across BU.
Knowledge Exchange (KE)
Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF)
The latest round of HEIF funding is HEIF 5+1+1, and runs from 1 August 2016 until 31 July 2017. There are twelve projects currently live and more information on each project can be found using this link to the BU Research Blog. Subject areas are broad, ranging from forensics to environmental sciences to health apps, musical technologies and virtual sculpting tools. January 2017 marks the half-way stage of this current HEIF funding round. The results of HEIF 6 are due to be announced early in 2017.
Innovation, university and business collaboration
On 20 December, the government published its response to The Dowling Review of Business-University Research Collaborations. HEFCE welcomes the government response and sees this as reaffirming its long-term commitment to knowledge exchange, recognising the role HEIF has in supporting university-business collaboration. It also provided additional detail about the £100 million of funding to incentivise universities’ collaboration in technology transfer and in engaging with business that was first announced in October .
Public Engagement
After a short break, Cafe Scientifique is returning to the new year with Dr Sharon Docherty on Tuesday 7 February. ‘How well can you hang a picture frame?’ will be exploring how different age groups may perceive the concept of being ‘vertical’. Dr Docherty will also outline how this can be affected by clinical conditions, such as neck pain and diabetes. Cafe Scientifique will take place in Cafe Bosconova at 7:30pm.
Student Engagement
Now in its third year the Research Photography Competition is still open for submissions. The competition will be closing on Friday 27 January, at 5pm, so it’s not too late to submit.
14:Live is taking a break through January and will be returning with two session in February. The first is with ORI on 16 February and gives staff and students the chance to hear from ORI’s research project manager Shay Bahadori. Come along to Floor 5, Student Centre, at 14:00 to hear from ORI and get a chance to test out the Laser Speckle Contrast Imager (LSCI).
The 28 February will see Dr Heather Hartwell introduce the project FoodSMART, which will uses QR coding on your smartphone to provide nutritional information and personalised advice when eating out. Come along to Floor 5, Student Centre, at 14:00, to hear all about FoodSMART and get a chance to test out the prototype.
Research Impact
As part of the RKE Development Framework we’re starting off the new year with two impact workshops, which is open to both academics and postgraduate researchers. The workshops aim to help you explore the potential of your research impact and how you can develop your creative ideas to ensure your research is informed by society, for the benefit of society.
24 January- Introducing research impact: the basics
21 February- Research Impact and the REF
Feeling inspired? You can get in touch with KEIT below.
Becca Edwards– Knowledge Exchange and Impact Manager
Charlene Parrish– Student Project Bank Project Coordinator
Genna West– Engagement and Impact Facilitator
Hannah Jones– Student Engagement and Communications Coordinator
Jayne Codling– Knowledge Exchange Adviser
Joanna Pawlik– Public Engagement Events Organiser
Naomi Kay– Public Engagement Officer
Rachel Bowen– Research Communications Manager
Rachel Clarke– Knowledge Exchange Adviser (KTP)
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