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November 18, 2016

BU Academic Delivers Invited Talk at a United Nations Organised Event in Turin, Italy

BU research, Featured academics, Global engagement, international, PG research, Post-award, Public engagement, REF Subjects, Research communication, Research news, Research themes cippm

Dr. Dinusha Mendis, Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) was invited to deliver a talk on her research into Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies, with a focus on 3D printing at an event organised by the UN Agency, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and University of Turin, Law School, Italy. The talk was delivered on 24th October 2016.

The event which formed part of the Master of Laws Programme, offered jointly with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Academy and University of Turin, was hosted in collaboration with the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITCILO) with financial support from the Government of Italy and was attended by academics, practitioners and officials from WIPO and ITCILO.

Dr. Mendis spoke about the legal status surrounding 3D printing, with a particular focus on the funded research carried out for the UK Intellectual Property Office ( completed 2015) and the current AHRC funded project titled ‘Going for Gold’ exploring the intellectual property implications surrounding 3D scanning, 3D printing and mass customisation from the point of view of cultural and business sectors.

Other speakers at the event included, Ms. Martha Chikowore (WIPO Academy, Training Officer), Mr. Ralf Kruger (Manager, Turin School of Development), Professor Alessandro Cogo (University of Turin), Professor Marco Ricolfi (University of Turin), Mr. Paolo Marzano (LUISS, University, Rome) and Dr. Thomas Margoni (CREATe, University of Glasgow).

November 16, 2016

14:Live with Dr Ashley Woodfall returns on Thursday!

BU research, Events, Featured academics, Research communication, Student Engagement hjones

Do you want to get creative for an hour? Do you have an interest in creative research methods?

14:Live is back tomorrow on Thursday 17 November with Dr Ashley Woodfall!

Join us as we get creative and discuss Mess and Mayhem: Creative/Reflective Methods at Play. This mess and discussion led session will be a space to discuss the use (and abuse) of creative research methods. How can they help trigger meaningful research interactions, and how the outcomes might be understood?

This session will be exploring research in a creative environment from drawing, to molding, to improv’ and beyond. We ask if creative reflective methods can share something of your own life world and whether these methods can help unlock metaphorical insights that are missed through more traditional approaches.

Come along on at 14:00-15:00 on Floor 5 of the Student Centre for an hour of mess and mayhem. There will be free drinks and snacks!

If you have any questions then please contact Hannah Jones

November 16, 2016

BU academic wins AHRC Research in Film Innovation Award

BU research, Research communication, Research news Rachel Bowen

Bournemouth University’s Sue Sudbury has been named a winner at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research in Film Awards.

Sue, a Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Production, received the Innovation Award for her short film Village Tales.

It is a participatory film made by four young women in rural India, who use handheld cameras to film their lives and interview friends and family about child marriage, as well as sharing their own experiences of being beaten by husbands, infant mortality, and harassment inflicted by in-laws.

“The stories and experiences of these women told first hand are shocking. However this film is a film of hope,” said Sue.

Launched in 2015 the Research in Film Awards celebrate short films, up to 30 minutes long, that have been made about the arts and humanities and their influence on our lives.

Entries for the awards this year hit a record high, with hundreds of submissions. The awards ceremony took place at BAFTA, London and the overall winner for each category will receive £2,000 towards their filmmaking.

BU Principal Academic Roman Gerodimos was also shortlisted in the AHRC Research in Film Awards, in the Utopia Award: Imagining our Future category, for his film At the Edge of the Present, which explores urban coexistence.

Jan Dalley, Arts Editor of the Financial Times and Chair of the Judging Panel, said, “The second year of AHRC’s Research in Film Awards has brought a fantastic range of powerful short documentary films of the highest quality and the judges had a really tough job to make their choices.

“Each of the winning films, which tell such amazing stories so well, beautifully illustrate the power of film-making as a medium to capture the importance and impact of research.”

Watch Sue Sudbury’s winning film Village Tales

November 14, 2016

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Tuesday 15 November

BU research, Global engagement, Impact, Public engagement, Research communication, Uncategorized Joanna Pawlik

Don’t miss our drop-in sessions where we can offer you support in planning your event for Festival of Learning 2017.

Our next session is on Tuesday 15 November and we’ll be there for you from 4pm-5pm at Executive Business Centre Cafe.

Come to see us and don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your research and expertise by being a part of the Festival!

We’re hoping to see you there!

November 13, 2016

Inaugural lecture: how supermarket scanner data reveals the secrets of the checkout

BU research, Events, Public engagement, Research communication Rachel Bowen

Most of us shop for food in supermarkets on a regular basis, but do we give enough thought to the data gathered about our shopping habits? Barcode scanners can provide supermarkets with a wealth of information about consumer behaviour and food pricing.

Professor Tim Lloyd joined Bournemouth University in 2015 and is an expert in agriculture and food pricing. His current research includes looking at the use of supermarket scanner data and the factors that lead to food price inflation within Europe. His interest in food economics stemmed from his undergraduate studies when the focus was on food mountains deriving from European subsidies, offset by starvation in Africa as highlighted by Band Aid.

Fast forward to the present day, and the issues facing us now are quite different. The prevalence of fast food and processed foods mean that people are at risk of both over-nutrition and malnutrition, while our high streets are dominated by multinationals with a keen interest in data about their consumers.

Professor Lloyd’s lecture will share insights from his research into supermarket pricing, focusing on the widespread use of price promotions in modern food retailing. It may just change how you shop.

Bournemouth University’s inaugural lecture series aims to celebrate new professorial appointments and the depth and breadth of research produced by the university. For further information on the inaugural lecture series, please visit www.bournemouth.ac.uk/public-lecture-series

About the event

To book your free ticket, click here.

Venue: Executive Business Centre, Holdenhurst Road.

Date: Monday 5 December.

Time: 6:30pm for a 7pm lecture start.

Refreshments will be provided at the event.

For more information about the event, please contact Rachel Bowen at rbowen@bournemouth.ac.uk.

November 11, 2016

14:Live with Dr Ashley Woodfall

BU research, Events, Featured, Research communication, Student Engagement hjones

Do you want to get creative for an hour? Do you have an interest in creative research methods?

14:Live is back on Thursday 17 November with Dr Ashley Woodfall.

Join us as we get creative and discuss Mess and Mayhem: Creative/Reflective Methods at Play. This mess and discussion led session will be a space to discuss the use (and abuse) of creative research methods. How can they help trigger meaningful research interactions, and how the outcomes might be understood?

This session will be exploring research in a creative environment from drawing, to molding, to improv’ and beyond. We ask if creative reflective methods can share something of your own life world and whether these methods can help unlock metaphorical insights that are missed through more traditional approaches.

Come along on at 14:00-15:00 on Floor 5 of the Student Centre for an hour of mess and mayhem. There will be free drinks and snacks!

If you have any questions then please contact Hannah Jones

November 11, 2016

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Monday 14 November

BU research, Festival of Learning, Global engagement, Impact, Public engagement, Research communication, Uncategorized Joanna Pawlik

Don’t miss our drop-in sessions where we can offer you support in planning your event for Festival of Learning 2017.

Our next session is on Monday 14 November and we’ll be there for you from 8:30am-10am at Fusion Building – coffee area.

Come to see us and don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your research and expertise by being a part of the Festival!

We’re hoping to see you there!

November 9, 2016

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Friday 11 November

BU research, Festival of Learning, Global engagement, Impact, Public engagement, Research communication, Uncategorized Joanna Pawlik

Don’t miss our drop-in sessions where we can offer you support in planning your event for Festival of Learning 2017.

Our next session is on Friday 11 November and we’ll be there for you from 12:30pm-1:30pm at EB204, Executive Business Centre.

Come to see us and don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your research and expertise by being a part of the Festival!

We’re hoping to see you there!

November 7, 2016

BU excavations at Cotswold long barrow reported in Current Archaeology

BU research, Research communication tdarvill

Current Archaeology, the UK’s best-selling archaeological magazine, features news of BU’s discovery of a previously unrecorded Neolithic long barrow in the Cotswolds in its December issue that goes on sale today. The excavations, directed by Professor Tim Darvill and Dr Martin Smith from the Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Forensic Science, revealed a large stone-built mound dating to around 3800 BC. Such mounds served as territorial markers as well as burial places for communities living in the area. The work forms part of a larger study looking at the history and development of the Cotswold landscape since prehistoric times and includes collaboration with staff from the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.

November 2, 2016

Research Professional alerts are changing

BU research, Funding opportunities, Research communication Jo Garrad

‘Research Fingerprinting’ is a new development on the Research Professional platform that delivers highly relevant funding opportunities to researchers. This will go live at BU on Tuesday, 8th November.

How does it work?

Using advanced, highly-targeted algorithms, in combination with their extensive industry knowledge and refined discipline taxonomy, Research Fingerprinting generates personal funding alerts for the majority of the researchers at our institution, based on publicly available information about your research interests and published work.

Once deployed, fingerprinting will perfectly match our researchers with their research interests and help deliver the most relevant funding opportunities into your inbox every week. You will be able to edit your fingerprint if you find that the some of the disciplines do not match your research interests.

You will already have alerts set up and so when this is switched on, you will receive two alerts on a Friday. You can compare these to see which is finding the most relelvant funding opportunities. This should be the Fingerprint and so you can then remove your previous selected alerts. The fingerprint will update as your research interests grow.

When will we get it?

Research Fingerprints will go live on Tuesday, 8th November. All academics with an account will also receive an email directly from Research Professional explaining what ‘research fingerprints’ are. If you have any queries about the changes then please contact the RKEO Funding Development Team.

November 1, 2016

My Voice, My Story: hearing students’ stories

BU research, Events, Public engagement, Research communication, Research news, Student Engagement hjones

Date: Monday 7 November

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: F105, Fusion, Talbot Campus

Register Here

What does it mean to be a student in the 21^st century? As part of ESRC’s Festival of Social Science BU researchers Dr Vanessa Heaslip, Dr Clive Hunt, Dr Maggie Hutchings and Dr Alex Wardrop will be leading a workshop to present the real-life stories of non-traditional students. The students’ stories will immerse the audience through a mix of multi-media methods made up of images, films and talks.

Bournemouth University is leading a pioneering collaborative programme of research exploring ways to make higher education more accessible and more equitable than it sometimes is. This research contributes to new, more participatory, ways of doing, thinking and learning about widening participation which is a core tenet to BU’s Fair Access Research project.

Over the past few weeks BU researchers have been working with a diverse group of non-traditional students from across the university, as they take images that tell their stories of university life. This enables the students to become the researchers of their own lives, using the photovoice methodology to share their stories.

During the research process BU researchers asked students to tell their stories to each other as a gift to help uncover insights into their experiences by talking through the images and hearing their stories retold by another. Some themes that have been emerging through the stories included the concept of homeliness, both in its history and recreation as a student.

Unsurprisingly, the students identified that the images shared by the final year students appeared more positive compared with the anxieties of first year students.

The workshop will allow you to listen to the non-traditional students’ voices, learn from the students’ stories, gain insights into different research methods and work together to develop practical responses to what we see and hear.

You will gain insights into the power of arts-based social participatory research methods for eliciting deep stories and re-represented for social action. Having engaged with storytelling, participants will discuss ways in which the students’ lived experiences could shape policy changes and interventions to better enable students to feel like they belong.

For more information about this project or BU’s innovative Fair Access Research, please email the Principal Investigators Dr Vanessa Heaslip and Dr Clive Hunt.

The 14th annual Festival of Social Science takes place from 5-12 November 2016 with more
than 250 free events nationwide. Run by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Festival provides an opportunity for anyone to meet with some of the country’s leading social scientists and discover, discuss and debate the role that research plays in everyday life. With a whole range of creative and engaging events there’s something for everyone including businesses, charities, schools and government agencies. A full programme is available at www.esrc.ac.uk/festival You can also join the discussion on Twitter using #esrcfestival.

To hear more about ESRC Festival of Social Science at Bournemouth University, then please get in touch.

October 31, 2016

Festival of Learning 2017 – What could you do?

Events, Fusion, Global engagement, Impact, Public engagement, Research communication, Uncategorized Joanna Pawlik

If you are still searching for some inspiration for Festival of Learning 2017, you can find our previous blog post here with some suggestions for engaging events. But most importantly, make sure you come along to one of our drop-in ‘Support for developing your idea sessions’ and talk to us! Additionally, we’re also offering a bookable training session for you to find out more about ‘Developing a public engagement event’. Please book your place via OD.

You may have already planned your event and now looking for ways of making it more appealing to members of the public. Regardless of the stage of event planning that you are at, we have a few extra ideas to give your event a boost!

The forefront of gene therapy

This event was a presentation from two experts Michael Linden and Nick Clarke, exploring how viruses can be used as tools to replace or repair faulty genes. To boost the interest of the audience and get them more engaged, the academics used an interactive voting system. Through the presentation they had some fun questions for the audience, related to genetics in general but not necessarily to the actual research. Examples of questions that captured audience’s attention were:

What percentage of genes do we share with a cabbage?

What percentage of genes do we share with bananas?

You may be surprised to know that humans share 50% of genes with bananas and 45% with cabbage.

Antarctic ice shelves

During this presentation Bernd Kulessa and Suzanne Bevan shared their tales from ten years of working in Antarctica. To give the audience a better idea of what life in the frozen wilderness looks like, the academics used not only photographs, but also 3D google maps. The maps show all of the stops they made on the journey to Antarctica, which not only added different dimension to the talk but also made it more personal.

The secret life of animals

How do you track whales diving deep underwater or birds flying high above us? Rory Wilson has developed pioneering electronic tags that allow researchers to monitor movement, behaviour, energy exposure, temperature and feeding patterns of hard-to-observe animals. Sounds interesting, but how do you translate these readings in simplified language to ensure your audience stays engaged? You simply organise for someone in penguin costume to copy the movement readings of actual penguin, while planking on a chair!

These events took place as part of the British Science Festival in Swansea, 2016.

October 27, 2016

InsideBU – Out Now

BU research, Impact, Research communication, Research news, Student Engagement, student research Sally Gates

The latest issue of InsideBU, the magazine for BU staff and students, is out now.

This issue brings the concept of Fusion to life through a range of features and articles including:

Celebrating undergraduate research through hosting the prestigious British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR) next year
National research into the scale and impact of financial scamming in the UK, headed by BU’s National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice
The research stories behind the Fusion mural on Talbot Campus.

Hard copies are available across both campuses and you can also read it online – simply click the arrows on the bottom right of the screen to expand it to a full page size.

If you use a screen-reader, Word and PDF versions are also available. The current issue – and all back issues – can also now be found on the Staff Intranet, under ‘Find’ on the bottom right of the homepage.

Please email insidebu@bournemouth.ac.uk if you would like hard copies sent directly to you.

We appreciate all feedback and suggestions for future issues. If you have a story for the next issue of InsideBU, email insidebu@bournemouth.ac.uk.

October 27, 2016

How universities can work with creative industries

BU research, Guidance, Research communication, Research news Jo Garrad

The University Alliance and the Arts Council England have published a guide for cultural institutions that want to work with universities along with a report on universities’ role in cultural leadership.

The guide encourages greater collaboration between cultural organisations and universities. It supports small and medium sized arts and cultural organisations on partnering with universities. Matt Robinson has written a blog about the guide and its aims.

The report is a collection of case studies highlighting existing partnerships and the ways in which universities are acting as custodians and champions of the arts. You can find those case studies here – Making Places: universities, the arts and creative industries.

October 26, 2016

Cheltenham Science Festival – Public Engagement Opportunity!

Impact, Public engagement, Research communication, Uncategorized Joanna Pawlik

With the Call for Ideas now being open for next year’s Cheltenham Science Festival, we would like to encourage you to take part in this opportunity. There are many benefits of taking part in public engagement events so make sure to apply before the deadline on Monday 21st November

You can find out more about the call and submit your ideas here http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/science-in-the-square/call-for-ideas-2017

Cheltenham Science Festival is a 6-day celebration of science with a programme of vibrant and thoughtful discussions, hot debates, mind-blowing performances, participative workshops and hands-on exhibitions.

The Festival is original and lively, and welcomes the audience to join scientists, engineers, comedians, writers, mathematicians and performers to explore science in new ways.

Each year we look for fresh new ideas to create a broad and stimulating programme. We are keen to trial new formats and inventive ways of talking about science, and to attract people who would not normally consider attending a Science Festival.

The themes for 2017 are:

Music and Sound,

Mysteries of the Mind

and Our Future World.

Whether you are a researcher in a lab looking for a place to talk about cutting edge research, a freelance science communicator with a fabulous science show, or an audience member with an idea that you think we should explore at the festival, we would love to hear from you.

Submit your idea: http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/science-in-the-square/call-for-ideas-2017

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with Hana Ayoob hana.ayoob@cheltenhamfestivals.com

Don’t forget to submit your proposal for next year’s Festival of Learning! Find out how to apply here

October 25, 2016

Are you Slacktivist? – read story of student-academic co-creation journey

BU research, Centre for Excellence in Learning, conferences, Events, Featured academics, Festival of Learning, Fusion, Global engagement, Research communication, Student Engagement, student research ebolat

For me last academic year (2015-16) was amazing in terms of fantastic things I have been working on with UG and PG students. One of these projects was study on Slacktivists’ behaviour – study initiated and conducted by brilliant BA (Hons) Business Studies with Marketing student (about to graduate), Freya Samuelson-Cramp.

Results of Freya’s study have been extensively shared with external audiences, i.e. at ‘Parallel worlds: real life vs digital personalities‘ BU Festival of Learning event organised in partnership with Barclays Digital Eagle Labs and at ‘Digital Planet and its People’ BU Global Festival of Learning in Sias Internationa, China. ‘Slacktivism’ is a term that combines the words “slacker” and “activism“, it is most commonly associated with actions like signing online petitions, copying social network statuses or changing a profile photo in aid of a cause. Freya’s study, under my supervision, haa examined how slacktivists are behaving when it comes to charity-related content and what personality traits as well influencing factors drive slacktivist behaviour.

This topic in actual fact deserves recognition in other contexts of studies as slacktivism is a norm behaviour in online, social media, context and is exercised in relation to any type of social media content.

However, the reason for this post was primarily to communicate latest recognition and progress events that both Freya and I were part of.

Firstly, Freya’s final year research project was shorlisted for the ‘Best Bachelor’ thesis category at the Digital Communications Awards (DCA) 2016. The DCAs exclusively honour achievements in the field of digital communication throughout Europe and welcomes practitioners from various industries! It is prestigious event judged and attended by world-known pioneers in the field of digital communications. Freya has defended her work and was praised for rigorous methodological approach as well as topic that has interest and relevance to all businesses involved in use of social media channels.

Secondly, on 6-7 October 2016 I have presented joint conference paper titled ‘Helping the world one ‘like’ at a time – The rise of the Slacktivist‘ at the 5th International CSR Conference which took place in Bocconi University, Milan – fantastic conference, organised and chaired by BU academic Dr Georgiana Grigore. Once again, the paper has received enormous interest with follow-up controversial discussions around the notion of slacktivism and we are now working on submission of full paper as the book chapter.

Freya now works as account executive at Good Agency and about to graduate with First-class honours degree. In contradiction to all stories of UG student-academic collaborations, which end at the graduation point, I and Freya are planning to continue working together on understanding further what constitutes stacktivism behaviour. Apart from that we invite to Digital Me photo gallery event, part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, which takes place on 5th November at the Sovereign Shopping Center.

Finally, hope this positive story can inspire you to co-create with students. We also would love to thank CEL for funding the project through Co-creation fund, GlobalBU team, Department of Marketing (Faculty of Management) and Department of Leadership, Strategy and Organisational Behaviour (Faculty of Management) for ongoing support in conducting research and disseminating results of our study.

Any questions about our story, mentioned conference paper or Digital Me event, email at ebolat@bournemouth.ac.uk

October 25, 2016

Influencing Public Policy Workshop

BU research, Impact, policy, Research communication, Research news hjones

Calling all researchers! Would you like your research to influence policy?

BU’s Policy Advisor, Jane Forster, will be running a workshop this Thursday 27 October to help you to use your research to influence policy makers.

Working alongside policy makers is a useful tool to get your research recognised and used by professionals in your relevant field, which can then have an impact on society.

Influencing policy is a great way of raising the profile of the research, this can also help benefit society and help raise the profile for the academic behind the research. This also creates room for new partnerships and future collaborations, for both the research and the academic.

Research is a useful tool to influence policy, as this provides evidence based change or amendment to legislation. This is a powerful way of developing research impact. As this can be a complex process, Jane Forster will explain the process of influencing policy and how your research can influence policy makers.

The workshop will run from 09:30-11:30 on Lansdowne Campus. You can find out more information here or you can complete the booking form here.

October 25, 2016

The past is not what it used to be: archaeological science in the 21st century

BU research, Public engagement, Research communication, Research news Rachel Bowen

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BU’s inaugural lecture series returns this autumn, with a taste of the past. Advances in technology are making a difference to all areas of our lives – even to how we understand our history. The use of technology in archaeology has been revolutionary, not just in the kinds of equipment that can be used, but also that so much can now be used in the field, giving almost instant analysis.

Bournemouth University’s Professor Kate Welham is an expert in archaeological sciences, with a particular focus on remote sensing techniques. Her work has taken her to sites all over the world – from Tanzania and Spain to Easter Island and closer to home – Glastonbury Abbey. Over the course of her career, she has seen the field of archaeology change and grow immeasurably.

Kate’s lecture will share stories of her fieldwork experiences across the world, the way technology has revolutionised the way archaeologists work and how she has involved BU students in her research. There will also be an opportunity before and after the lecture to meet some of BU’s current archaeology students and see some of the equipment used by BU’s archaeologists out in the field.

Bournemouth University’s Inaugural Lecture Series aims to celebrate new professorial appointments and the depth and breadth of research produced by the university. For further information on the Inaugural Lecture Series please visit www.bournemouth.ac.uk/public-lecture-series

About the event

To book your free ticket, click here.

Venue: The Fusion Building on Talbot Campus.

Date: Tuesday 1 November.

Time: 6:30pm for a 7:30pm lecture start.

Please do arrive early as there will be an opportunity to see and handle some of the equipment used by the Department of Archaeology, Anthropology & Forensic Science.

Refreshments will be provided at the event.

Parking is available for free on campus.

For more information about the event, please contact Rachel Bowen at rbowen@bournemouth.ac.uk.

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BU Academic Delivers Invited Talk at a United Nations Organised Event in Turin, Italy

14:Live with Dr Ashley Woodfall returns on Thursday!

BU academic wins AHRC Research in Film Innovation Award

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Tuesday 15 November

Inaugural lecture: how supermarket scanner data reveals the secrets of the checkout

14:Live with Dr Ashley Woodfall

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Monday 14 November

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Friday 11 November

BU excavations at Cotswold long barrow reported in Current Archaeology

Research Professional alerts are changing

Festival of Learning 2017 – What could you do?

How universities can work with creative industries

Cheltenham Science Festival – Public Engagement Opportunity!

Are you Slacktivist? – read story of student-academic co-creation journey

Influencing Public Policy Workshop

The past is not what it used to be: archaeological science in the 21st century

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