Dr Sascha Dov Bachmann, Associate Professor in International Law, FMC, and Extraordinary Associate Professor in War Studies, FHS, will present on Russian Information Operations in Ukraine during NATO’s EUCOM/SHAPE International Legal Conference (2016)
“The Legal Aspects of the National Security Response to Russian Aggression”. The event brings together 100 experts who are to dicsuss the legal aspects of Russia’s aggressive politics in Eastern Europe. Sascha will reflect on his ongoing work on Hybrid Warfare, http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/defence-committee/russia-implications-for-uk-defence-and-security/written/28402.html, http://www.ajol.info/index.php/smsajms/article/view/117421 and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277953401_RUSSIA’S_HYBRID_WARFARE_IN_THE_EAST_USING_THE_INFORMATION_SPHERE_AS_INTEGRAL_TO_HYBRID_WARFARE?_iepl[viewId]=5SEnEq26z9n23PZ8z1IVu0EN&_iepl[contexts][0]=timeline&_iepl[data][activityData][activityId]=277953401&_iepl[data][activityData][activityType]=Publication&_iepl[data][activityData][activityTimestamp]=1434326400&_iepl[data][viewType]=self&_iepl[interactionType]=publicationClickThrough.
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New comparative paper India-Nepal
This week saw the publication of a new paper co-written by BU staff in the Sociological Bulletin. This is the first paper comparing Indian and Nepali Maoist rebels providing health services and health promotion to the communities under their influence. It presents the key provisions either made by rebel health workers themselves or by putting political pressure on government health workers to deliver better services in the areas controlled by rebels. Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen’s co-authors are based in India and Nepal. Prof. Gaurang R. Sahay is based at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, whilst Bhimsen Devkota is Professor in Health Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
This sociological paper is based on a mixed-method approach comprising 15 interviews and a questionnaire survey with 197 Nepalese Maoist health workers and a secondary analysis of policy documents and other published materials on the Maoist health services of India. The paper suggests that rebel health services in India and Nepal followed a fairly similar approach to what and how they offered health care services to local populations. Maoists becoming a government party changed the political landscape for the rebel health workers in Nepal. However, not incorporating the Maoist rebel health workers into the government health system was a missed opportunity. There are lessons that India and Nepal can learn from each other. Should the Maoist rebels and the Government of India come to an agreement, potential for rebel health workers to be integrated in the official health care system should at least be considered.
The paper benefitted from an earlier review through eBU: Online Journal. The feedback from the eBU: Online Journal’s reviewers helped shape and polish the paper before submission to the Sociological Bulletin.
Edwin van Teijlingen
CMMPH
References:
- Sahay, G., Devkota, B., van Teijlingen, E.R. (2016) Rebel Health Services in South Asia: Comparing Maoist-led Conflicts in India & Nepal, Sociological Bulletin 65(1):19-39.
‘Re-Imagining Conflict-Transformation: Making Memory Meaningful’ – A one-day Workshop on 6th May 2016
This one-day workshop explores interdisciplinary and innovative approaches to dealing with a country’s troubled past through memorialisation as a key aspect of transitional justice. It is organised by the Conflict Transformation Studies team as part of the Centre for Conflict, Rule of Law and Society (Bournemouth University).
Location: Executive Business Centre (7th Floor, EB706), 89 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, BH8 8EB
Programme:
9.00 Arrival and registration
9.30 Introduction and Welcome by Melanie Klinkner and Welcome by Sascha Bachmann (Director of the Centre for Conflict, Rule of Law and Society)
9.40 Key Note Address by Nora Ahmetaj, Co-founder of the Centre for Research, Documentation and Publication (Kosovo): ‘Critical approaches to ‘reconciliation’ and transitional justice in Kosovo’s post-war memory’
10.40 Coffee Break
11.00 Panel 1: Chair Avital Biran
Ellie Smith, Newcastle University Forum for Human Rights and Social Justice: ‘Commemoration and Memory: specific justice needs of victims in the aftermath of international crimes and gross violations’
Robyn Leslie, King’s College London: ‘Remember Marikana: apportioning blame or accepting complicity?’
Nina Fischer, University of Edinburgh: ‘National Memory of Trauma and the Perpetuation of Conflict: Israel/Palestine’
12.30 Lunch
13.15 Panel 2: Chair Melanie Klinkner
Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics: ‘War Crimes Talk: Transitional Justice and Communication’
Hanna Kienzler, School of Social Science and Public Policy, King’s College (London): ‘Embodied struggles for societal change’
Linda Gusia, University of Prishtina: ‘Breaking the Silence – Recognition of the survivors of wartime sexual violence in Kosovo’
Laura Grace and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Bournemouth University: ‘Quests into post-war Kosovo’s memoryscapes: the interdisciplinary, anthropological and co-creative challenges of BU’s fusion project for a serious game’
15.15 Coffee Break
15.45 Roundtable discussion
What and/or who can make transitional justice initiatives work? How can contested memories be integrated to support conflict transformation? Reflections and insights from past, present and towards the future. Facilitated by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and Melanie Klinkner (Bournemouth University).
Confirmed panel Members include:
Nora Ahmetaj (Centre for Research, Documentation and Publication),
Nina Fischer (University of Edinburgh),
Eric Gordy (University College London),
Hanna Kienzler (King’s College London),
Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics), and
Christian Pfeifer (Forum Civil Peace Service).
17.00 Closing remarks
Tabled Paper(s): Vjollca Krasniqi, University of Prishtina: ‘War, Law, and Justice in Kosovo’.
Contact: For more information, please contact the organisers Melanie Klinkner (mklinkner@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (sssievers@bournemouth.ac.uk). For urgent matters on the day, please contact Reception at the Executive Business Centre on 01202 968003
Registration: this event is free of charge. However, spaces are limited. For participation please register by 27 April 2016 with the organisers.
BU Academic appointed as Extraordinary Visiting Professor (AP) at Swedish Defence University
Sascha Dov Bachmann, Associate Professor in International Law, FMC, has been made Extraordinary Visiting Professor (AP) in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University (FHS). This appointment recognizes his contribution to the work of the Department of Military Studies at FHS on the subject of Hybrid War and Hybrid Threats. He continues to collaborate with colleagues from Sweden, Germany and NATO on the subject.
HRA Approval for NHS Research
HRA Approval is the new process for the NHS in England that simplifies the approvals process for research, making it easier for research studies to be set up. It replaces the need for local checks of legal compliance and related matters by each participating organisation in England. This allows participating organisations to focus their resources on assessing, arranging and confirming their capacity and capability to deliver the study.
Laura Purandare, Research Monitor RBCH, has kindly agreed to run a seminar on 4th May at 2pm in BG14 to explain the changes.
The session will cover:
- What HRA approval is
- The implementation of changes
- The difference it proposes to make to health research in England
- What it means for our researchers
- Key resources
The session will last approximately an hour, and Laura will be available for questions following the session. We hope to see you there.
Security Research & Innovation Event 2016
The 2016 Security Research and Innovation Event will take place at the World Forum in The Hague on 1 and 2 June. The event aims to provide a forum for discussion between European Policy Makers, industry and knowledge institutions on the key security challenges for Europe.
The programme includes the Security Research Event (conference) organised by the European Commission, thematic workshops, an innovation room and a matchmaking programme. The topics for discussion cover:
- Cybercrime and Law enforcement technologies
- Financial Investigations and Fraud
- Space and Security
- Forensics
- Integrated border management
- Terrorism
The event is free of charge to attend but registration is mandatory.
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BU hosts public debate on the future of universities
‘Increasing inequality? Widening opportunity? Debating higher education reforms’
Wednesday 27th April sees the first of a series of high profile public events at BU, called Dialogues in the Social Sciences. Organised by Profs. Ann Brooks, Candida Yates and Barry Richards, their aim is to bring insights from the social sciences to bear on major areas of current concern: higher education, crime, violent extremism, and psychological well-being. In the first, two speakers from the Institute of Education in London offer their views on the Green Paper and where the HE sector may be heading. Professor Sir Peter Scott has been editor of the Times Higher and V-C of Kingston University; he is an authoritative commentator on key issues facing universities today. He is joined in this event by Professor Ann Phoenix, psychologist and leading researcher on education and identity. BU’s Dr Mastoureh Fathi (HSS) and Ellie Mayo-Ward (SUBU V-P) will be discussants. Professor Iain MacRury of FMC will chair what promises to be a highly informative and potentially controversial session, starting at 5.15 in the EBC (EB206). Refreshment available. Book your seat now, here: Eventbrite
Rewilding Dorset Meeting
A one-day discussion meeting to explore the application of rewilding concepts to Dorset.
Date: Thursday 5th May
Meeting commences: 10:00 am
Meeting finishes: 5.30 pm
Venue: Charlton Down Village Hall, near Dorchester, Dorset. DT2 9UA
In recent years, rewilding has become a major theme in conservation, stimulated by publications such as George Monbiot’s Feral and the launch of rewilding organisations both in the UK and at the European scale. While a number of rewilding initiatives have been launched in the UK, most of these are predominantly located in upland areas in the north and west of the country. Elsewhere in Europe, many rewilding initiatives are seeking to encourage ecological recovery on agricultural land that has been abandoned. This raises the question of whether rewilding concepts are applicable to intensive agricultural landscapes such as Dorset, and if so, how they might best be implemented.
The aim of this meeting is to examine concept of rewilding: how it is defined, which approaches can be used, and whether such concepts and approaches might be relevant to Dorset.
We are delighted to be able to welcome a number of speakers who will present at the meeting, including leading researchers with expertise in rewilding, and practitioners with experience in implementing rewilding projects. The meeting will also involve representatives from a number of conservation organisations in Dorset, who will be invited to share their perspectives on rewilding. We hope to provide an opportunity to learn about what rewilding entails and to examine its strengths and weaknesses as a concept, and also to discuss its potential application in Dorset.
Speakers:
- Dr Paul Jepson, Oxford University – “Rewilding policy: risk and opportunities”
- Dr Christopher Sandom, University of Sussex – “Putting rewilding into practice”
- Dr Matthew Heard, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology – “Ecological impacts of rewilding using extensive grazing: the case of Knepp Estate”
- Fiona Bowles, Poole Harbour Catchment Initiative – “Is there space for Dorset Rivers to run wild?”
- Helen Meech, Rewilding Britain – “Why Rewild Britain?”
- Professor Richard Brazier, Exeter University – “Quantifying the ecohydrological impacts
- of reintroducing Eurasian Beaver to intensively managed, lowland agricultural landscapes”
- Alison Turnock, Dorset AONB – “The Wild Purbeck Nature Improvement Area – towards bigger, better, more, joined”
It is essential you book a ticket if you wish to attend, please visit: rewilding-dorset.eventbrite.co.uk.
For all enquiries email Arjan Gosal (agosal@bournemouth.ac.uk)
Photo credit:
European beaver (Castor fiber) by Per Harald Olsen/ NTNU (CC BY)
Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network (CHAIN) Demonstration THIS COMING WEDNESDAY 23rd March 2016
CHAIN – Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network – is an online mutual support network for people working in health and social care. It gives people a simple and informal way of contacting each other to exchange ideas and share knowledge.
The online Directory can be used to identify and communicate with other members. You might wish to do this to draw from their experience, or to elicit an opinion on an issue or something you are doing. Or you might wish to find collaborators or liaise with fellow-travellers or people with specific skills or interests for a wide range of purposes. You can do this quickly and easily with CHAIN, and part of the advantage is that the people you find will usually be happy to help you if they can.
We are delighted to welcome a representative from CHAIN to BU on 23rd March at 2:30pm in Wollstone Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth House (BG10) to demonstrate how to make the most of being part of the network. All staff are welcome to attend, and please pass the invitation on to students who may be interested in learning more about what CHAIN has to offer.
Contact Lisa Gale-Andrews at lgaleandrews@bournemouth.ac.uk for more information.
Digital vision of future local government – connecting our lives in 2025
The report , Connected Councils, explores how councils can use digital tools to transform the way they work and save a potential £14.7 billion every year.
Digital technologies, from apps to online platforms, can help councils provide better services for their residents and mobilise communities to work alongside these services, as well as find new ways of collecting and analysing data, which could have a significant impact on the quality of future services.
Through a series of case studies the report imagines what life might be like in 2025 for ‘digital by default’ councils and their citizens – from retirees to young graduates and new parents.
Key Findings
Local government has made huge progress in enabling residents to carry out basic transactions online. But most councils have a long way to go to deliver smooth, frictionless services and fully digitise their back offices. Digitisation isn’t just about developing digital services; depending on the level of ambition, digital tools can help:
- Save money and deliver better outcomes by intervening earlier and helping people manage their own conditions.
- Transform the way that councils work internally, commission services and partners, diagnose and solve problems, use public space, and attract talent.
- Make services smoother and easier to access, more personalised and user-responsive.
- Put residents at the heart of local problem-solving and decision-making and create an environment which supports businesses to startup and scale.
The 2025 vision
Like the best tech companies, future councils will be lean, agile and data-driven. Siloed services will be replaced with multi-agency teams that form around specific local challenges. A truly mobile workforce has freed up public space. Almost all transactions take place online. Instead of two-dimensional council websites, interactive platforms connect users with third-party apps and services, and stream personalised content on local democracy, jobs and services.
Relational services (such as social care) still rely heavily on face-to-face contact. But digital tools help people to manage their own long-term conditions and connect to a broader network of support, such as peer mentors, health coaches, friends and family, volunteers and group-based activities. Digital technologies have helped councils take a more ambitious approach to place-shaping. A larger share of public contracts go to high-growth SMEs. Councils systematically engage residents in decisions about how services are commissioned, delivered and evaluated.
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Towards human worth and dignity
Today, Tuesday 15th March 2016, is World Social Work Day. Whilst the growth in ‘world this’ or ‘world that’ day may cause some to groan and turn off, there is tremendous importance in World Social Work Day because of it focus on social justice, wellbeing and positive change for individuals, families, communities and states.
This year’s theme for World Social Work Day is Human Worth and Dignity, something important to all our hearts, and central to contemporary concerns as the Syrian crisis continues and, unfortunately, exemplifies the state of much of the world. As a precursor to celebrating the day, the Department of Social Science and Social Work has been fortunate to host two important international speakers. On March 3rd, our visiting fellow and co-author with Prof Jonathan Parker, Prof Dr Maria Luisa Gomez Jimenez from the University of Malaga introduced aspects of the housing crisis in Spain, outlining some of the ways in this problem might be addressed. Yesterday, Dr Bala Raju Nikku, founding director of the Nepal School of Social Work (NSSW) and visiting senior lecturer at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, where he worked alongside Prof Sara Ashencaen Crabtree and Prof Jonathan Parker, took time off from his COFUND fellowship at the University of Durham to speak about disaster social work. He used the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal as his focus. The NSSW and Dr Bala were active in providing social work support after the earthquakes and responding rapidly so that students could engage in the work and learn through service delivery, whilst being able to understand and theorise at the same time.
Human worth and dignity are central concepts which are often trivialised or ignored in contemporary society. If we are to engender social trust, positive relationships and a co-produced future not based on profit alone but on reciprocity, compassion and sustainability we must engage with these concepts. This year’s World Social Work Day helps us do so.
Jonathan Parker & Sara Ashencaen Crabtree
Written Submission to Parliament by Sascha Dov Bachman
Written evidence submitted by Brigadier (Rtd) Anthony Paphiti, former ALS officer and Visiting Researcher at BU’s CRoLS and Dr Sascha Dov Bachmann, Associate Professor in International Law and Visiting Research Fellow at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, to Parliament’s Defence Select Committee has been published and can be viewed at the Defence Committee’s website.
Russia: implications for UK defence and security inquiry
Inquiry status:open
Accepting written submissions. The deadline for submission of written evidence has been extended for three weeks until 8 March
Scope of the inquiry
The House of Commons Defence Select Committee will be conducting an inquiry into Russian defence policy and the implications of this for UK defence and security.
The submitted evidence is the result of some ongoing collaborations on various aspects of Hybrid Warfare and its impact on Media, Law, Society undertaken by Sascha Dov Bachmann and colleagues from Exeter, Stockholm, NATO and Austria. More information on these collaborations can be found in BU’s 2016 Research Chronicle.
CfP: Lifestyle and communities: sharing in the digital era
It’s with great pleasure that we invite you to submit an abstract to a special track on “Lifestyle and communities: sharing in the digital era” of the ATLAS annual conference. It will take place in Canterbury, Kent, UK, 14th-16th September 2016.
Please see below for details, or click here… and share!
Led by: Lenia Marques, Jules Hecquet and Dimitrios Buhalis (Bournemouth University, UK)
Supported by: ETourism Lab
The leisure and tourism landscape has been subject to rapid changes in a world where internet and technologies have contributed to shape experiences, relationships, practices and lifestyles. In the network society, the sense of community is also varied and we can interrogate different meanings, values and practices at the heart of changing social interactions. The boundaries between online and offline communities seem to be blurred and they present new societal challenges, which also affect the industry, namely with sharing economy / collaborative consumption practices and communities (such as AirBnB, Uber, Couchsurfing, Meetup, Mealsharing, etc.).
The causes and consequences of such platforms in terms of lifestyle and the sense of community is yet to be studied. Therefore, we welcome papers which may explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Online/offline communities and lifestyle
- Sharing economy / collaborative consumption and lifestyle
- Social interaction in the digital era
- Leisure digital practices
- Events as online/offline communities of practice
- Digital technologies in the tourism experience
- Lifestyle challenges in leisure and tourism
- Impacts of sharing economy / collaborative consumption in conventional industry production systems
- Research methods in the context of sharing economy / collaborative consumption
The convenors are looking at possibilities for publication.
For more details, click here or contact Dr Lenia Marques, lmarques@bournemouth.ac.uk .
http://www.atlas-euro.org/event_2016_canterbury/tabid/248/language/en-US/Default.aspx#track6
*Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network (CHAIN) Demonstration 23rd March 2016
CHAIN – Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network – is an online mutual support network for people working in health and social care. It gives people a simple and informal way of contacting each other to exchange ideas and share knowledge.
The online Directory can be used to identify and communicate with other members. You might wish to do this to draw from their experience, or to elicit an opinion on an issue or something you are doing. Or you might wish to find collaborators or liaise with fellow-travellers or people with specific skills or interests for a wide range of purposes. You can do this quickly and easily with CHAIN, and part of the advantage is that the people you find will usually be happy to help you if they can.
A representative from CHAIN will be visiting BU on 23rd March at 2:30pm in Wollstone Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth House (BG10) to demonstrate how to make the most of being part of the network. All staff are welcome to attend, and please pass the invitation on to your final year students who may be interested in learning more about what CHAIN has to offer.
Contact Lisa Gale-Andrews at lgaleandrews@bournemouth.ac.uk to book your place.
CEMP publishes Digital Capabilities research with Samsung
CEMP’s research for Samsung and IPACA, conducted with students, teachers, families and community stakeholders on the island of Portland, has been published in this project report.
The findings have been shared at BETT and the Media Education Summit and are in development for academic journals. A formal presentation to Samsung is scheduled for 17th March, followed by a launch event and impact tracking of adoption of the transferable digital capability model through the Samsung and Technknowledge networks.
For background information, visit the project site.
CEMP News
A crop of CEMP news all in one post …
Here’s the March 2016 CEMP newsletter
Here’s the call for abstracts for our 2016 Media Education Summit, to be held in Rome.
And here’s the March 2016 CEMP / CEL funding bulletin. CEMP CEL bulletin March 16
Thanks to Marcellus Mbah and Richard Berger for putting this one together.
As always, to find out more about CEMP research or to follow up one of the ‘leads’ in the bulletin, please contact Richard Berger or Julian McDougall.
For more information about BU research for REF UoA25 (education) co-led by CEMP and CEL contact Julian McDougall (MC faculty) or Debbie Holley (non MC / cross BU).
Post-Doc Research Opportunities in Politics at BU
The Centre for Politics and Media Research in the Faculty of Media & Communication, Bournemouth University welcomes interest from recently qualified post-doctoral researchers to come and work in the Centre as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow.
Research projects of interest are:
- Political talk and the online public sphere
- Global citizenship, public engagement with global affairs and political participation (particularly engagement via digital media)
- The media framing of politics and its impacts
- The politics of public space
- Extremist politics, security and social cohesion, fundamentalism, freedom of speech
Specialist skills training we can offer at Bournemouth University:
- Quantitative and qualitative methodologies
- Web platform and social media data capture and analysis
- Mass media data capture and analysis
- Psychological and sociological approaches to the study of politics
- Consumer behaviour/psychology approaches to the study of political participation
Full details about the call can be found at the below link.
Initial expressions of interest should be sent to the Centre Director, Dr Darren Lilleker (dlilleker@bournemouth.ac.uk) including a summary of the proposed research project and accompanying curriculum vitae.
The planned opening of the call is April 12th 2016 with a submission deadline of 14th September 2016.
Involving patients and the public in your research. Registration for NIHR webinar now open!
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Training and Coordinating Centre will be hosting a live one hour webinar about involving patients and the public in research on Tuesday 23 February at 11am.
This is an introductory webinar for researchers with little or no experience of patient and public involvement (PPI). This webinar is aimed at aspiring NIHR trainees and early career researchers.
This webinar will include:
- An overview of what PPI is and why it is important in research
- Why PPI is important to the NIHR and how best to demonstrate PPI in an application – including signposts to NIHR resources around PPI
- Q&A session
The webinar will be presented by Philippa Yeeles, Director of Involvement and Engagement at the NIHR Central Commissioning Facility alongside Anne-Laure Donskoy, an NIHR Panel Member and independent researcher.
You can register for the webinar via the following link:
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