The School of Design, Engineering and Computing is holding its 6th Annual Post Graduate Research Student Poster Competition Conference on Wednesday 22nd May 2013 in the Thomas Hardy Suite. This event showcases the School’s current PhD research. Judging will take place in the morning and then the display will be open to all at 14:00 hours. Bournemouth University Board Member, Don McQueen will officially open the conference at 14:30 p.m. and will be awarding the prizes for the best posters at approximately 15:00 pm. Students will be there to discuss their research until 16:00 hours. All are welcome. Refreshments available.
Category / Public engagement
The new Dorset APP: Dorset Alliance to Prevent falls and Promote independence
With Osteoporosis Dorset, BU has recently set up a forum that brings together local professionals and representatives of older people with an interest in the prevention of falls. Dorset Alliance to Prevent falls and Promote independence (Dorset APP) is an initiative led by Samuel Nyman as part of his research in this area. Membership of the alliance is growing, but to date there are 24 members including representatives of all the local hospitals, Age UK Bournemouth, Age UK Dorchester, the University of the Third Age (Bournemouth branch), Bournemouth Older People’s Forum, Dorset Partnership for Older People Programme, among others. The alliance will be working together to enhance information sharing and generation of new ideas as to prevent falls and hip fractures in the Dorset region; similar to the alliance initiated by the National Osteoporosis Society and Age UK at the national level.
Dorset APP was launched at a conference in Bournemouth hosted by Osteoporosis Dorset on the 1st of May. The conference, “A positive approach to preventing falls and broken hips in care homes”, included a presentation by Bournemouth University Dementia Institute (BUDI) members Sue Barker and Samuel Nyman on the prevention of falls among older people with dementia. There was a lot of interest about the alliance on the day and in the first meeting of the alliance to be held at BU within a few weeks.
More information about Dorset APP can be found on BU’s news page: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/newsandevents/News/2013/may/ne04-bu-helps-launch-dorset-falls-alliance.html
Samuel Nyman
BUDI and Psychology Research Centre
Child Protection in a time of Austerity – The National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work
Incorporating critical thinking and relationship based interventions with complex families.
We recognise that this is a challenging time for the social work profession and statutory social work in particular. The Munro Review of Child Protection highlighted the complex nature of child protection work and the importance of ensuring that the professional judgement of social workers working with children and families with complex problems is of a high calibre.
Set against a backdrop of welfare reform, marketisation of services and austerity measures, the National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work is pleased to bring you our first child protection conference, which will focus on:
- Critical reflection in child protection
- Reflective leadership and the consequences of diminishing services
- The role of supervision
Speakers
Gillian Ruch
Gillian Ruch has a background in professional practice as a social worker with experience of working in statutory child care teams. Her research interests relate to child and practitioner well-being and in the contribution of reflective practice to professional education, practice and research. She is particularly interested in developing understanding of reflective practice as a mode of support for professional practice and as a research method.
Find out more about Gillian / Publications
Siobhan Maclean
Siobhan qualified as a social worker in 1990. She has worked in a variety of settings including children’s services, learning disability services and mental health services. She has been a foster carer, an approved social worker and a practice educator. Siobhan now manages Kirwin Maclean Associates Limited. She acts as a researcher, trainer and consultant for a range of social care and social work organisations. Siobhan also retains practice experience by acting as a Practice Educator. Siobhan is the European Honorary Secretary for the International Federation of Social Workers.
Find out more about Siobhan
Nushra Mansuri
Nushra Mansuri currently works for the British Association of Social Workers as Professional Officer in England. One of her key responsibilities is leading on children and families social work. Nushra compiled BASW’s response to Professor Munro’s review on child protection and also BASW’s evidence to the Justice Select Committee’s Inquiry into the workings of family courts. Nushra regularly acts as BASW’s spokesperson on child protection issues and has appeared on BBC Breakfast TV, This Morning, Channel 4 News, BBC News, Sky News, Dispatches, the Tonight programme, Radio 4 and a variety of national, international and local media.
Find out more about Nushra
Jane Wonnacott
Jane Wonnacott is Director of In-Trac Training and Consultancy, UK, and is a qualified social worker, independent trainer and consultant. She has a long-standing interest in supervision and has trained social work supervisors across the UK.
Find out more about Jane /Publications
For any enquiries, please contact: Lucy Morrison (lmorrison@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Emily Rosenorn-Lanng (elanng@bournemouth.ac.uk)
Opening of Care Home Hamble Heights
The official opening ceremony of the care home Hamble Heights, located in the Southampton area, took place on the 2nd May 2013. Professor Anthea Innes, Director of Bournemouth University Dementia Institute (BUDI) was invited to give an opening speech and to cut the official ribbon with the first resident of the care home. The organisers of the event were delighted to have a high profile academic in dementia opening the care home.
Cutting of the official ribbon
We had a tour throughout the care home and as an architect I was pleased to see dementia-friendly architectural features which included high visibility of the social areas; for instance, a high percentage of residents can see the social areas when leaving their rooms. Also, the care home offers distinctive front doors to the bedrooms, which help residents with the identification of their bedrooms, and provides the possibility of personalising their own space. Another characteristic that may help residents to retain a sense of having a home are the outside spaces attached to bedrooms on the ground floor where residents can sit and take the sunlight, undertake gardening activities and have their own pets. All their gardening appliances have the seal of approval from this website.
Outside spaces of ground floor bedrooms
Hamble Heights will also be part of a PhD studentship project which takes the shape of a partnership between BU and Quantum Care entitled ‘Promoting well-being for residents with dementia living in a purpose built care environment’. This doctoral project aims to contribute to academic and practice knowledge about how to improve the lived experiences of people with dementia living in care homes. This proposal builds on current strengths and expertise within the BUDI, the Psychology department in DEC and sports science in the School of Tourism. The study will enable collaborative work between the academic community, and practitioners (Quantum Care) in line with both Government policy directives and University emphasis on cross-disciplinary and cross-school collaboration. If you would like to know more about this PhD studentship, please follow the link:
http://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/graduate-school/the-school-of-health-and-social-care/
CIPPM joins Intellectual Property Institutions across the Globe to celebrate World IP Day
The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) held its third Spring Lecture on Thursday 25th April 2013. This was CIPPM’s opportunity to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day (IP Day) 2013; a day for celebrating and promoting intellectual property and creativity.
Dr. Nicholas Saunders of Brick Court Chambers was the Guest Speaker at this event. Dr. Saunders specialises in commercial, EU and intellectual property law. His intellectual property experience has included being involved in major patent disputes such as Nichia v Seoul Semiconductors, Interdigital v Nokia and Nokia v IPCOM, confidential information cases involving departing employees, trade mark infringement cases such as Jacobson v Globe, and numerous copyright and designs cases. He has particular expertise in the relationship between competition law and intellectual property and in cases involving conflict of laws issues. 
Dr. Saunders gave an interesting and thought provoking lecture titled “Litigation of patents essential to technical standards – what is the future for patent trolls”? He discussed the relationship between competition law and patent law, then told tales of patent trolls; revealing their motivations and tactics – such as non-essential patents being more valuable. He discussed injunctive relief, the proportionality principle and questioned if this should be available for standard essential patents. He highlighted some of the patent hold up issues such as royalty stacking, patent ambush and the effect that technology has had by bringing many standards together; for example an iPhone has an estimated 54,000 patents! More standards yield more essential patents, but litigation can be risky for patent trolls enforcing their patents as the courts can render them exhausted.
The event was brought to a close with drinks and nibbles and Dr. Saunders had the honour of blowing out the candles of the CIPPM IP Day cake!
World IP Day Events Across the Globe
North Sea Dementia Group annual meeting (24-26 April 2013) by Mariela Gaete-Reyes
Photos Courtesy of Jurn Verschraegen
I had the great pleasure to attend the North Sea Dementia Group annual meeting as the ambassador of BUDI this year. It was a very productive and enjoyable time. The meeting was wonderfully organised and took place in several locations of Luxembourg. Work activities included giving updates, by attendees, on the work undertaken by the organisations we represented on the first day, presentations of particular projects on the second day and visits to care homes on the last day. Members of the group were very interested in hearing about BUDI. They highlighted the social impact of BUDI’s work as we not only carry out academic research but also projects that aim to improve directly the quality of live and well-being of people living with dementia. This year the theme for the presentations was ‘Dementia practice, research and policy’. My presentation entitled ‘New horizons in designing dementia-friendly care environments’ showcased our project ‘Decreasing spatial disorientation: towards dementia friendly environments’, which aims to investigate the factors that either facilitate or hinder orientation of people with dementia in residential care environments. I framed the presentation within the context of the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge (2012) and the National Dementia Strategy (2009). I received very constructive feedback.
We visited care homes with different design features and models of care. Most notably were the menus and freedom offered to residents living in the ‘Maison de Soins Sacre-Coeur’; the rates residents/staff in the areas for people with dementia in the ‘Centre Grande-Duchesse Josephine-Charlotte’, a care home run by the Red Cross in Luxembourg; and the person-centred care model of the ‘Maison de Séjour et de Soins’ a care home run by the National Alzheimer Association in Luxembourg. Leisure activities organised for the attendees of the meeting included wonderful meals and a Luxemburg wine testing activity.
Photo Courtesy of Jurn Verschraegen
Activities undertaken by residents and staff in the care home run by the National Alzheimer Association in Luxembourg.
Come and find out about the secret wildlife of Bournemouth… Cafe Scientifique TONIGHT!
Ever wondered what wildlife is lurking in your back garden? Well now’s your chance to find out! Heather Dixon is the coordinator of a local project that is being co-sponsored by the Bournemouth Natural Science Society as well as Bournemouth University and a variety of wildlife societies in our area. She will be telling us all about the project and what it hopes to achieve and, more importantly, how we can all get involved!
Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Enjoy listening to a short talk from a guest speaker before engaging in debate and discussion around the topic. You can find out more here or by visiting the Cafe Scientifique website.
As ever, the talk will start at 7.30pm at the fabulous Cafe Boscanova. Doors open at 6.30pm and drinks/snacks will be available for sale.
Festival of Learning… spreading the word with 217 bags of slime, 205 bags of sherbet and 164 bags of assorted soap…
…Not to mention fitness innovations (not just for the young), an ice castle and a giant jigsaw!
This weekend, the dedicated Festival of Learning team were in Bournemouth Square, spreading the word about the fantastic programme of events during the 3-14 June. Over Saturday and Sunday, colleagues spoke to hundreds of to spread the word about the Festival of Learning. You can see some pictures below of the taster activities that took place. Many thanks to all those that were involved making this event work so well!
We are running a number of activities ahead of the Festival of Learning to spread the word about all the brilliant activities that BU will be running during 3-14 June. If you would like to get involved, please do not hesitate to contact Rebecca Edwards.
ESRC Festival of Social Science – CALL NOW OPEN – up to £2,000 for a public engagement initiative
The call to run an event as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science has now opened! This is a fantastic national festival that celebrates the best of social science and engages a much wider public with the key issues that social scientists are addressing. Last year, we put Bournemouth on the Festival map, running no less than four events. We are keen to see as many of our social scientists take part in this exciting public engagement initiative as possible.
The ESRC tells us that “This year the festival will run from 2-9 November. There are two types of application:
- You are able to apply for a maximum of £2,000 support from the ESRC to run an event. The closing date for supported applications is Monday 3 June 2013.
- You are also able to hold an event but not apply for funding. Applications are being invited notify us of your event, which you would like to be included in the Festival programme. Non-funded applications are due by Friday 7 June 2012.
The Festival welcomes event applications targeting a non-academic audience including young people, third sector, the public, business or government. Please note that organisations external to the ESRC are also welcome to apply for support and to participate in the Festival.
For more information about the Festival or to make an application please visit www.esrcfestival.ac.uk“.
If you would like to make an application to run an event as part of the Festival, please do not hesitate to contact Becca in the Research and Knowledge Exchange Office. She can help you brainstorm an idea for the Festival of Social Science and draft your application form.
ups and downs of engaging with the public
We have been attempting to engage with the public in a number of ways recently. The first was via having a stand at an Alzheimers Care Show in London, not quite the same as the Care Show at the BIC which targets those working in the care world (we had a stand there too and lots of interest, but in a business sense), the show in London was different in that it was advertised and open to anyone interested in dementia. The organisors sold hundreds of tickets in advance to those working in the field but tickets were on sale on the day for anyone worried about their memory or their family members. This was a slightly novel approach and on the second day, a Saturday, there was a lot of footfall from people directly affected by dementia rather than those working in the field (who swarmed in on the first day). It was interesting to hear this audiences views about what Universities should be doing to address their concerns, and is an area that vexes me as we are not a campaigning organisation, nor are we a service, but we clearly need to engage with and work to our key stakeholders agendas and concerns to be having genuine impact. Training professionals working in the field is an obvious one (and the key issue raised at our own local carers forum last year) as was the need for more information to sign post people along their dementia journey (and is one of the areas Claire House-Norman and her team are currently fundraising for). However one of the big issues raised was the need to challenge perceptions about dementia, the assumption that people with dementia are less able, lost, require ‘special’ treatment that results in marginalisation and stigmatisation. Now this aspect was really interesting to us in BUDI as we also have an arts and dementia project on the go at the moment where we are collecting written accounts from people with dementia and the general public about what they think dementia is/means to them and peoples’ views and experiences about dementia; this will be exhibited at the Festival of Learning in June. Standing windswept at Bournemouth beach this weekend – one of our general public venues (we, BUDI staff and volunteer BU students, have been all over in the last week with further venues this coming week, for examples in supermarkets, shopping centres, hotels, sports centres, libraries, and schools) it struck me how many people steer away, physically and mentally, from the word dementia. Our pop ups and papers blowing around in the wind at the beach attracted attention and laughter from passing members of the general public as we raced around to pick stuff up and tie it down, and did result in some people stopping to talk about and write about their experiences/thoughts. Free sweets also pulled in teens and families to stop and talk but to not necesssarily write as they didn’t know what dementia was or didn’t want to write down their experiences. Also some people stopped, read the sign and made comments about dementia and did a physically body swerve. We also got a lot of people who did stop and write about their views and experiences (and we are currently at about 400 stories in total) but there seems to be a general fear? aversion? negativity? to the word dementia which makes our arts project even more important as we are trying to get people to think about dementia and question and challenge the negative stereotypes that abound about this condition. Engaging with the public about issues perceived as ‘difficult’ in some ways isn’t easy, nor is it easy to find practical ways for our University based work to have real impact, but we have started the journey and are open to any creative ideas others might have about how else we might go about engaging!
BU PhD student, Mayank Anand, presents his work to MPs the House of Commons!
Mayank Anand, a research student from DEC, has recently presented his work on Lubricant condition monitoring for the in-service lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) at the SET Conference, in the House of Commons.
Mayank’s PhD is supervised by Prof Mark Hadfield and Dr Ben Thomas from BU, Mr Steve Austen (Head of Engineering) from RNLI and in-kind supported by BP Technology Ltd.
Tobias Ellwood MP (for Bournemouth East) attended the conference to speak to Mayank has posted on his website details of his work and his experience on his website. Click here for full details.
Congratulations to Mayank and DEC for taking BU research to the heart of government!
The Poole & Purbeck Portal – now live!
The Poole and Purbeck Portal, the new fusion-funded online community from the School of Applied Sciences is now live! The Portal creates a showcase to disseminate research, from both our academics and our students, to the wider community. Jobs, placements and research opportunities can also be found on the Portal – watch our promotional video below then sign up and contribute your knowledge today!
www.pooleandpurbeckportal.co.uk
Social media and the Festival of Learning
The Festival of Learning is just just over 6 weeks away and our talented marketing and PR teams have been doing some sterling work to get the message of the Festival out to the local population in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch.
We hope you’re all as excited about this Festival as we are and would love it if you could help us promote this fantastic event via social media.
Follow us on Twitter @BUFestivals and talk about us to your friends using #BUFest13.
Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BUFestivalofLearning
Or connect with us on Linked In by joining the Festival of Learning Group
Please spread the word far and wide to all your networks and remember you can see the full range of events on our website
Festival of Learning – website now live!
Registrations are now open for all the events included within the Festival of Learning.
There are a huge number of free to attend events.There are too many to list here, but they include:
- How to self publish (staying solvent and sane).
- Waiting for the monsoon: Nepal through my lens, a photo and storytelling exhibition
- Bioblitz
- Social media for the terrified
- Rufus Stone the movie: Community screening and feedback
- Science and the media: Issues, debates and controversies
- The fastest men on no legs: Disability, prosthesis and the role of technology in elite sport
- 20 years of law at BU
- Equipping the business leaders of the future
- Walking in the footsteps of our ancestors
- Public engagement in renewable energy and technology issues
To download an overview of what will be happening on which days, please click here. For a copy of the full Festival programme, you can download this here or contact Naomi Kay to request hard copies are sent to you.
Public engagement is at the heart of Bournemouth University – we are committed to ensuring the knowledge we create is shared with society. With this in mind, please do tell your friends, family and colleagues outside of BU all about the wide range of activities that are on offer – all are welcome!
The British Psychological Society: Public Engagement Grants
The Society’s public engagement grants aim to support members promoting psychology to wider audiences either through direct public engagement or by organising interesting and relevant communications activities.
Past recipients have received grants to work on projects such websites, workshops and public engagement events.
Information and application forms for the scheme will be available to download from 1 May 2013, with a 1 July 2013 deadline.
For further information contact the Society’s Policy Advisor (Education and Public Engagement).
CCIG Forum 30: Enacting public engagement: collaboration and critique within/beyond the university
The Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance (CCIG) at the Open University is holding a one forum (co-organised by the Creating publics project and Enactments programme) exploring enacting public engagement, with a fantastic line up of speakers. Which include:
Re-enacting the public university
Professor Rebecca Boden (University of Roehampton): ‘Rethinking an “open university”‘, embedding the academy in a social economy’
Dr Joel Lazarus (People’s Political Economy and University College, Oxford): An analysis of the recent flourishing of critical education initiatives in the UK: critical education at the heart of social transformation
Co-production and co-authorship in research
Dr Morag McDermont (University of Bristol): Productive Margins? Problematics of academics and community organisations co-producing research
Professor Les Back (Goldsmiths, University of London): title tbc
Digital articulations
Dr Aristea Fotopoulou & Dr Kate O’Riordan(University of Sussex) : Sustaining networked knowledge: expertise, feminist media production, art and activism
Dr Nick Mahony & Dr Hilde Stephansen (Open University): Making participation public: building agendas and sites for collective action
Full details, including how to register, can be found on CCIG’s website.
The event will take place in Milton Keynes on 23rd April
FIF – Poole & Purbeck Portal – now live!
The new scientific community brought to you by the School of Applied Sciences is now online.
Watch the promotional video now and sign up today to engage the public with your research!
Stop Press: BU involved in first ever national health promotion conference in Nepal
(c) Sheetale “Ishwori and women in a health promotion group laughing when asked if men would help in the housework; part of addressing women’s status @GTNHP”
BU Professor Edwin van Teijlingen is involved in organisation of the first National Health Promotion conference in Nepal. The conference is held in Kathmandu over the Easter weekend (March 30th-April 1st). This is a unique collaboration between Bournemouth University, the Government of Nepal, international organisations such as the World Health Organization, USAID, the Nepalese media, and several universities and colleges; and will highlight the importance of health promotion at all levels in Nepal.
One of the opening plenary will be given by Prof. van Teijlingen, we will outline health promotion from a global perspective. A total of 75 papers will be presented at the conference, including one by HSC BU PhD student Ms. Sheetal Sharma. She will also present findings from the long-term research project that aimed to improve the uptake of maternity services in rural Nepal. Her PhD research is supervised by HSC’s Prof. Vanora Hundley, Dr. Catherine Angell & Prof. van Teijlingen as well as Dr. Padam Simkhada from The University of Sheffield and Visiting Faculty at HSC. As part of the conference Prof. van Teijlingen and Dr. Simkhada will also run a skills-building workshop which offers training on writing up of findings health promotion research for academic journals.
There will be 250 participants from seven different countries including the USA, Canada, UK, India, Nigeria, the Netherlands and Nepal. This is the first ever conference of its kind to held in Nepal in the field of health promotion.
Prof. van Teijlingen said: “Nepal has a double burden of diseases. It experiences both the kind of infectious diseases associated with being a low-income country, and a growing burden of the kind of diseases commonly associated with lifestyles in high-income countries. Therefore, is it is encouraging to see that so many different organisations have signed up to the principles of health promotion.”
Ms. Sharma commented: “Nepal is an exciting country to conduct research in, with the diverse castes and motivated rural community volunteers; also among South Asian countries, its speed of development is considerable: the Maternal Mortality rate was halved despite a decade long civil war, Abortion is legal since 2002, same sex marriage since 2008. It is important to disseminate findings to relevant stakeholders.”
Dr. Simkhada and Prof. van Teijlingen are both Visiting Professor at two Nepalese universities. They have more than sixty of research articles publish in international journals on health-related issues in Nepal. Sheetal Sharma was funded by BU to travel to Nepal and attend the conference. Prof. van Teijlingen was interviewed for national television in Nepal regarding the Public Health conference.
The Health Promotion conference has its own web site see: http://hpconference.org.np/
Prof. van Teijlingen has been conducting research in Nepal for nearly a decade. Some of the work he is evaluating is supported by Green Tara UK, a Buddhist organization based in London.
The staff web pages for Edwin van Teijlingen: http://bit.ly/13zLRyc
Web page Sheetal Sharma: http://bit.ly/101TLuU
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