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24 April 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017 – Call for proposals still open!

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Deadline if fast approaching for applications for ESRC Festival of Social Science.

To be part of a week-long celebration of social sciences across the UK, make sure to complete the application form and send it to FestivalofSocialScience@bournemouth.ac.uk by 5 pm on Friday 5th May.

Why get involved in the ESRC Festival of Social Science this year?

Benefits: Fantastic for your academic profile

Activities can range from engaging people with social science concepts through staging debates to involving key stakeholders in shaping research priorities and directions. Done well, public engagement can build trust and understanding between the social science research community and a wide range of groups, from policymakers through to school children.

Public engagement can help you strengthen your research questions or improve the response rate to data collection methods. It can also build on and support the wider activities of your strategy. One of the most profound joys of public engagement is its unpredictability: fresh perspectives, challenging questions, lateral insights – all can help to sharpen thinking, release precious energy and creativity and unlock new collaborations and resources.

Please contact Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) if you would like to discuss your event idea or for further information.

19 April 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science – Call for proposals!

Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

The call for event proposals for the ESRC Festival of Social Science is now open! This is a fantastic national festival will take place from 4^th to 11^th of November 2017. It celebrates the best of social science and engages a wide public audience with the key issues that social scientists are currently addressing. We are keen to see as many of our social scientists at BU to take part in this exciting public engagement initiative as possible.

Please contact us if you’d like to get involved – we’re open to ideas; public debates, conferences, workshops, interactive seminars, film screenings, virtual exhibitions and more. 2017 will be the fifteenth year that the ESRC will hold the Festival of Social Science and we are welcoming event proposals targeting a non-academic audience including young people, third sector, the public, business or government.

In previous years we’ve run some pretty exciting events, including this one from Dr Kip Jones whose 5th-anniversary film screening of Rufus Stone is now being mentioned on the ESRC website. Take a look here: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/public-engagement/festival-of-social-science/previous-events/

To apply, you will need to complete an application form stating details of the type of event you’d like to run. If you would like to make an application to run an event as part of the Festival or for further information, please do not hesitate to contact Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) from the Research and Knowledge Exchange Office.

Funding is available to support your event.

For more information about the Festival, visit www.esrcfestival.ac.uk

17 April 2017

Social Science Researcher? – ESRC Social Science Festival needs you!

Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

The ESRC Festival of Social Science will be back again this November (4^th-11th), and we need researchers of Social Sciences to come and get involved in running lectures, workshops, exhibitions or other engagement platforms to share your research with the wider public.

Through engaging with the wider public, they develop a range of transferable skills, for instance in leadership, communication, listening, partnership working and project management.

The call is officially open for proposals, so if you’d like to be involved, we’d love to hear from you. Funding is available to support these activities.

To apply, you will need to complete an application form, available on the staff intranet, stating details of the type of event you’d like to run. Please contact event organiser Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Engagement and Impact facilitator Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) to make an application or for further information.

10 April 2017

World Class defined!

Business Engagement, Public engagement John Oliver

“World Class defined and enabled” is the strapline used by the leading global business transformation consultancy, The Hackett Group.

Christopher Davenport, a Director at the The Hackett Group, recently co-hosted a business engagement event on Digital Strategy and Business Transformation with Dr John Oliver from the Advances in Media Management research group. The event was held in London and formed part of a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust funded project into the successful digital transformations of media firms.

The event was attended by senior business executives from the likes of Ofcom, The Financial Times, Astrazeneca and Bell Pottinger who commented that is was an “excellent event” that provided not only different perspectives on digital transformation, but new ideas and tools that will help them to be more effective in managing business transformation within their firms.

Dr Oliver commented that “Chris Davenport and The Hackett Group have been immensely helpful and supportive in developing methodological ideas and ultimately the dissemination of the research findings”. The feedback from the event participants was highly positive and that it provided a useful platform to discuss and share their experiences of managing the complexity of the digital environment.

10 April 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017 – Get involved!

Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

Why get involved in the ESRC Festival of Social Science this year?

Benefits: Fantastic for your academic profile

Activities can range from engaging people with social science concepts through staging debates to involving key stakeholders in shaping research priorities and directions. Done well, public engagement can build trust and understanding between the social science research community and a wide range of groups, from policymakers through to school children.

Public engagement can help you strengthen your research questions or improve the response rate to data collection methods. It can also build on and support the wider activities of your strategy. One of the most profound joys of public engagement is its unpredictability: fresh perspectives, challenging questions, lateral insights – all can help to sharpen thinking, release precious energy and creativity and unlock new collaborations and resources.

To apply, you will need to complete an application form, available on the staff intranet, stating details of the type of event you’d like to run. The application can be accessed via staff intranet

Please contact Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) if you would like to discuss your event idea or for further information.

6 April 2017

International Women’s Day Events at Bournemouth University: Developing Women Leaders of the future

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In September 2016, the Faculty of Management at Bournemouth University launched a Developing Women Leaders (DWL) programme to support final year female business and management students entering their first graduate roles and transitioning into early career professionals. Twenty-eight women students self-nominated to the programme which has been delivered through workshops and guest speaker talks. Based on ‘Shine Theory’; the belief that supporting other women to shine helps all women to shine, the cohort also have their own closed Facebook group to provide a source of ongoing support beyond the programme. The philosophy of the DWL is to provide tools and tips for women when negotiating what Eagly & Carli (2007) calls the ‘leadership labyrinth’; the complex nature of women’s careers.

Research tells us that women will face a number of barriers in their career such as dealing with the ‘think-manager, think-male unconscious biases, negotiating organisational politics and the ‘old-boys club’ and managing stereotypes. We know for example, that there is a negative correlation between success and likeability for women, so the barriers come in many forms. We have been surprised by the level of inequality female students have reported during their work placements with students facing comments regarding their looks/dress and struggling to find senior level role models. Whilst business has clearly made great strides over the last forty years, there are many unconscious biases that still need to be addressed.

International Women’s Day 2017 saw the culmination of the DWL programme with a panel event and Palgrave were invited along to take part. The event was opened to an audience of staff, students, organisations and members of the public, followed by a networking event for both students and organisations.

On the panel were Louise Barton; Head of SRP Operations at Barclays, Tara Flynn; Managing Director at Ratio, Jane Newall; Chief Superintendent at Dorset Police and Diana Parkes; business owner of Women’s Sat Nav to Success. The panel answered a range of questions, exploring the barriers and challenges they had faced in their own careers and how they had overcome them, advice for young women starting out on their careers and their views of gender inequality in the UK.

See the full article here: http://www.palgrave.com/gp/palgrave/developing-women-leaders/12183950

3 April 2017

Written Submission to UK Parliament’s Defence Sub-Committee by Sascha Dov Bachmann on Russian Law fare Capabilities As A Threat To The Arctic

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Dr Sascha-Dominik Bachmann, Associate Professor in International Law (Bournemouth University, UK) and extraordinary Associate Professor in War Studies (Swedish Defence University, SWE) jointly with Andres Mosquera, Director Legal Advisor to NATO’s Commander of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) had their written evidence accepted for publication by the UK Parliament’s Defence Sub-Committee.

The submission titled Russian Law fare Capabilities As A Threat To The Arctic discusses the use of lawfare (abuse of the rule of law) to achieve strategic objectives. It can be viewed at the Defence Committee’s website and here.

31 March 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017 – Call for proposals!

Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

The call for event proposals for the ESRC Festival of Social Science is now open! This is a fantastic national festival will take place from 4^th to 11^th of November 2017. It celebrates the best of social science and engages a wide public audience with the key issues that social scientists are currently addressing. We are keen to see as many of our social scientists at BU to take part in this exciting public engagement initiative as possible.

Please contact us if you’d like to get involved – we’re open to ideas; public debates, conferences, workshops, interactive seminars, film screenings, virtual exhibitions and more. 2017 will be the fifteenth year that the ESRC will hold the Festival of Social Science and we are welcoming event proposals targeting a non-academic audience including young people, third sector, the public, business or government.

To apply, you will need to complete an application form stating details of the type of event you’d like to run. If you would like to make an application to run an event as part of the Festival or for further information, please do not hesitate to contact Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) from the Research and Knowledge Exchange Office.

The application form is available to download from the staff intranet.

Deadline: Friday 5th May, 5 pm

Funding is available to support your event.

For more information about the Festival, visit www.esrcfestival.ac.uk

31 March 2017

PPI Seminar 3: Recruitment and support in patient and public involvement

PG research, Public engagement jgavin

Recruiting and supporting participants to engage in meaningful patient and public involvement

Dr Mel Hughes & Angela Warren

Overview

Drawing on BU PIER’s experience of coordinating around 175 involvement activities each year, this interactive session will explore the what, why and how of recruiting and supporting people to be meaningfully involved in research.

Date Monday 3^rd April 2017

Time 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Location EB708, Executive Business Centre, 89 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth University

As part of the Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) in Research seminar series

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. Queries please contact:

Dr James Gavin
Email jgavin@bournemouth.ac.uk
Phone +44 (0)1202566303

29 March 2017

New report on the state of local news in the UK

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement, Publishing Daniel Jackson

Last night at a packed house at Westminster we launched a new report: Mapping changes in local news 2015-2017 More bad news for democracy?

By Gordon Neil Ramsay, Des Freedman, Daniel Jackson and Einar Thorsen.

Speakers included Aasma Day, the investigative reporter and lifestyle editor at the Lancashire Post, professor Robert McChesney, Justin Schlosberg from the Media Reform Coalition and NUJ president Tim Dawson.

PDF of the report available from:http://bit.ly/LocalNewsMatters-Report_v1

Published by the Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community (at Bournemouth University) in collaboration with the National Union of Journalists, the Political Studies Association and the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power (at King’s College London) this report maps recent changes in the state of local news provision in the UK including newspapers, broadcast and digital.

We document how:

▶ The majority of the UK (57.9%) is not served by a local daily newspaper.

▶ 45% of local authority districts are served by a single publisher.

▶ Local daily papers are overwhelmingly located in major urban areas.

▶ 77.1% of local newspaper titles are owned by the big five local newspaper publishers.

▶ Another 418 local journalism jobs have been lost in the last 17 months.

And argue for a range of interventions that could help alleviate the democratic crisis that is emerging through a lack of local journalism in the UK.

This report will interest academics, journalists, activists and policymakers concerned with the state of local news in the the UK.

More details of the local news mapping project and 2015 report at: http://localnewsmapping.uk

To learn more about the NUJ Local News Matters campaign and to find out how to get involved, please visit: https://www.nuj.org.uk/campaigns/local-news-matters-week/

And tomorrow in parliament, MPs will debate the state of the UK’s local media and an early day motion has been tabled calling for sustainable investment in professional local and regional news provision online, in newspapers and on radio and television.

20 March 2017

Research and HE Collaboration(s) at the 2017 Polish-British Belvedere Forum

Business Engagement, Public engagement psurowiec

Upon invitation of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr Paweł Surowiec attended the Polish-British Belveder Forum held on 8 and 9 March 2017 in Warsaw. The focus of the debate was placed on political and business interests, social issues (people-to-people relations) as well as research and education. The forum aimed at furthering the ongoing discussion of civic societies’ organizations, and it was crucial to the deepening of non-governmental relations between both societies in the era of post-Brexit referendum. Dr Surowiec contributed to the section on the development of research and collaboration in the higher education sector(s).

Apart from academics and policy-makers, the 2017 Belvedere Forum was attended by representatives of business organizations (e.g. PwC), senior management of selected universities, think-tanks (e.g. the Chatham House, the Centre for European Reforms), the BBC as well as the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the United Kingdom. On the Polish side, this Forum’s steering committee was headed by Ryszard Czarnecki whereas on the British side, it was led by Sir Malcolm Rifkind. Next year, the forum is going to be held in London. For more info see: https://twitter.com/Belvedere_Forum

20 March 2017

Free Patient and Public Involvement training for Parkinson’s researchers

Info Days, Public engagement, Training Joanna Pawlik

Parkinson’s UK are offering any Parkinson’s researchers (basic and clinical) a free half-day Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) training session:

When: 9.30am-1pm, Thursday 20^th April

Where: Cambridge University

This morning session will help researchers to understand:

How to involve people and at what stage using case study examples
The numerous different methods of involvement they can use
Tips for communicating well with people they involve

This session will also give researchers an opportunity to plan involvement in their own research, and will include a networking lunch with people affected by Parkinson’s.

Register to attend the event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patient-and-public-involvement-training-for-researchers-tickets-32495715560

Please note, researchers do not need to be based at Cambridge University to attend.

15 March 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

The call for participants for the 2017 ESRC Festival of Social Sciences will be opening on 29^th March. The festival this year is taking place from the 4^th to the 11^th of November with events taking place across the BU Campus and in the local area. We will be looking for applications from social sciences researchers to run workshops/exhibitions/lectures/activities (we’re open to ideas) open for attendance for the wider public.

The ESRC FSS encourages to support and create the opportunity for social science researchers to engage with non-academic audiences and to promote and increase awareness of the social sciences and the contribution they make to the wellbeing and the economy of society.

Please keep an eye out for further information when the call for applicants opens on the 29^th March or contact Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) to find out more.

15 March 2017

Going for Gold: 3D Printing, Jewellery and the Future of Intellectual Property Law

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Date: Friday 24 March 2017

Time: 10.00 am – 5pm

Venue: EB708, Executive Business Centre, Bournemouth University

The event is free to attend, however, places are limited and registration is required.

About the Event:

Additive Manufacturing or 3D printing as it is more commonly known, continues to push the boundaries of Intellectual Property (IP) law whilst raising questions relating to the protection and exploitation of IP.

There have been various attempts to address these questions through legal and empirical studies; yet at the same time, there continues to be limited literature and debate on the implications of 3D printing surrounding IP law, industry, society, technology and policy.

This challenge, which extends to the lucrative jewellery sector raises further questions in relation to creativity, design, copyright and licensing and these issues will be addressed at the event by bringing together experts from the cultural and business sectors including designers, manufacturers, distributors, policy makers and legal professionals.

This multi-disciplinary event which will explore the above issues will also provide the platform for a discussion of the ‘Going for Gold’ project carried out by researchers at CIPPM (Bournemouth University) in collaboration with Museotechniki Ltd and Uformia AS and will be complemented by a demonstration of 3D printed jewellery artefacts resulting from the project.

The event, based on the ‘Going for Gold’ project led by Professor Dinusha Mendis, is supported by the RCUK funded Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe), AHRC Grant Number AH/K000179/1 and builds on the BU/CIPPM-led UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) Commissioned Study on 3D Printing and IP law completed in 2015.

Confirmed Participants and Speakers:

Mark Bloomfield (Electrobloom); Roger Brownsword (Bournemouth University / Kings College London); Ruth Burstall (Baker & McKenzie LLP); Frank Cooper (Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre, Birmingham Jewellery School); Lionel Dean (De Montfort University); Damian Etherington (Ipswich Museum); Nikolaos Maniatis (Museotechniki Ltd); Dids McDonald (Anti Copying in Design); Dinusha Mendis (Bournemouth University); Cherie Stamm (Uformia AS); Andrea Wallace (CREATe, University of Glasgow); Michael Weinberg (Shapeways Inc).

For inquiries, please contact Dinusha Mendis at dmendis@bournemouth.ac.uk

13 March 2017

Glastonbury Festival 2017 – Take your research to the Green Futures Field

Festival of Learning, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Genna West

Do you want to run a public engagement activity at Glastonbury Festival this year? We have the opportunity to form part of the Science Tent at Glastonbury’s Green Futures Field – this is a great experience for researchers of all career stages to showcase their research to an engaged and well-informed public audience.

Activities should be interactive with some hands-on elements, and have aspects that will appeal to children, the general festival audience and to experts. If you’d like to be involved, you’ll need to be able to commit to being on-site for at least 5 days, from Wednesday 21^st June to Sunday 25^th June, and be happy camping for this time, whatever the weather!

If you are interested in this fantastic opportunity, please send an expression of interest by email to Genna West, providing an activity title, and a brief description of your research area and proposed activity by Friday 17^th March.

Please note that there is a small amount of funding that can be used to develop your activity. All expenses will be covered and there is plenty of time in the evenings to explore the excitement of Glastonbury festival.

13 March 2017

Pint of Science – Calling all Tech researchers and Health Researchers!

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Share your research over a pint!

Pint of Science is hosting a series of events taking place across UK from the 15^th-17th May in local pubs around Bournemouth. The Pint of Science festival aims to deliver interesting and relevant talks on the latest science research in an accessible format to the public – all in the comfort of pub!

We’re currently looking for speakers with Technology based research who would be interested in joining ‘Tech me out’ nights to deliver a talk on one of the 3 evenings – 15^th ,16^th , or 17th – The talks will be taking place in Chaplin’s in Boscombe.

We are also looking for health related speakers to take part in ‘Our body’ nights, also taking place over the 15^th, 16^th and 17^th but this time in the Goat and Tricycle pub in the Triangle, Bournemouth

This is a great public engagement opportunity with an interesting crowd, enabling the opportunity for open discussion and questions with the wider public.

For more information or to get involved please contact Shanti Shanker sshanker@bournemouth.ac.uk or Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk

To find out more please visit Pint of Science website

Partners include British Heart Foundation, Elsevier and British Pharmacological Society. List of all partners

13 March 2017

PPI Seminar 2: How the Public can Inform Research Design – A Case Study

PG research, Public engagement jgavin

Importance of public involvement in research design: An orthopaedic case study

Lisa Gale-Andrews & Dr Zoe Sheppard

Date Monday 15th March 2017

Time 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Location EB708, Executive Business Centre, 89 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth University

Overview
This workshop will highlight the importance of patient and public involvement (PPI) throughout the research cycle, using an orthopaedic example.

As part of the Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) in Research seminar series

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. Queries please contact:

Dr James Gavin
Email jgavin@bournemouth.ac.uk
Phone +44 (0)1202566303

10 March 2017

BU’s Sascha Dov Bachmann to present at seminar The Impact of Armed Conflict on the Environment and Natural Resources: A Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 Perspective

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Dr Sascha Dov Bachmann, Associate Professor in International Law and Extraordinary Associate Professor in War Studies (Swedish Defence University) will present a paper on environmental threats, hybrid warfare and law fare at the seminar “The Impact of Armed Conflict on the Environment and Natural Resources: A Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 Perspective” at the University of West of England.

This interactive seminar, organised by the University of West of England (UWE) Environmental Law Unit and partially funded by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) and UWE Centre for Applied Legal Research, will take place from 10.45am-4.30pm.

Speakers will present their views on particular sub-topics related to the Armed Conflict, the Environment, Natural Resources and SDG 16. Each speaker will have 20 minutes to present their views followed by comments from discussants (staff members of the Law School) and a Q&A session with the audience.

Speakers include:

Professor Karen Hulme, University of Essex
Doug Weir, Toxic Remnants of War Project, Manchester
Dr Sascha-Dominik Bachmann, University of Bournemouth
Professor Jona Razzaque, UWE, Bristol

Refreshments during registration and lunch are provided and the event is free to attend.

Registration at: http://uwe.formstack.com/forms/impact_of_armed_conflict

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World Class defined!

International Women’s Day Events at Bournemouth University: Developing Women Leaders of the future

Written Submission to UK Parliament’s Defence Sub-Committee by Sascha Dov Bachmann on Russian Law fare Capabilities As A Threat To The Arctic

New report on the state of local news in the UK

Research and HE Collaboration(s) at the 2017 Polish-British Belvedere Forum

Free Patient and Public Involvement training for Parkinson’s researchers

Going for Gold: 3D Printing, Jewellery and the Future of Intellectual Property Law

Glastonbury Festival 2017 – Take your research to the Green Futures Field

Pint of Science – Calling all Tech researchers and Health Researchers!

BU’s Sascha Dov Bachmann to present at seminar The Impact of Armed Conflict on the Environment and Natural Resources: A Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 Perspective

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