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July 9, 2014

Cyber Security Seminar: Reduction of Access Control Decisions

Public engagement, Uncategorized lrossiter

Staff, students and members of the public are invited to join us for the next Cyber Security Seminar on…

Tuesday, 29th July

Coyne Lecture Theatre

4pm – 5pm

“Reduction of Access Control Decisions”

Speaker: Dr. Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Access control has been proposed as “the” solution to prevent unauthorized accesses to sensitive system resources. Historically, access control models use a two-valued decision set to indicate whether an access should be granted or denied. Many access control models have extended the two-valued decision set to indicate, for instance, whether a policy is applicable to an access query or an error occurred during policy evaluation. Decision sets are often coupled with operators for combining decisions from multiple applicable policies. Although a larger decision set is more expressive, it may be necessary to reduce it to a smaller set in order to simplify the complexity of decision making or enable comparison between access control models. Moreover, some access control mechanisms like XACML v3 uses more than one decision set. The projection from one decision set to the other may result in a loss of accuracy, which can affect the final access decision. In this talk, we present a formal framework for the analysis and comparison of decision sets centered on the notion of decision reduction. In particular, we introduce the notion of safe reduction, which ensures that a reduction can be performed at any level of policy composition without changing the final decision. We demonstrate the framework by analyzing XACML v3 against the notion of safe reduction. From this analysis, we draw guidelines for the selection of the minimal decision set with respect to a given set of combining operators.

Should you wish to attend this seminar, please book your place via Eventbrite.

Speaker Bio: Nicola Zannone received the Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Trento in 2007. He won the IBM PhD fellowship award for the 2006-07 academic year. He visited the Center for Secure Information Systems at George Mason University in 2005 and at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in 2006. In 2007-2008, he was a post-doc at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Toronto. In 2008-2012, he has a post-doc position in the Security Group at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Since November 2012, he is assistant professor in the same group. His research interests include computer security, formal methods, privacy and data protection.

July 8, 2014

New CEMP Bulletin

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Here’s the new CEMP research bulletin, the last of this academic year.CEMP bulletin July August 2014

As always, if you are interested in working with us to respond to any of the funding calls here, or if you have an idea for a project that CEMP could help with, please contact Julian, Richard or one of the CEMP Fellows (Milena Bobeva, Anna Feigenbaum, Richard Wallis, Neal White, Ashley Woodfall).

July 3, 2014

Fury: Brad Pitt and BU Research meet at the cross roads

BU research, Fusion, Public engagement, Research news Zulfiqar Khan

Brad Pitt’s new movie “Fury” which is soon to be released is based upon a story in the 2^nd World War. Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank in this movie.

Some of the scenes of this movie were filmed in The Tank Museum Bovington mainly on two historically significant tanks the Sherman and Tiger 1. These are the same tanks which were subjects of SRDC widely published research by Adil Saeed (lead researcher), Zulfiqar Khan, Mark Hadfield and Richard (supervisors). These tanks can be seen in action in the movie trailer Brad Pitt – FURY in around 2 minutes and 26 seconds.

This movie reflects the importance of our research that “how can we preserve vehicles in a valuable state for the benefit of society for lengths of time that far exceed the basis any normal design intent”. As with the imminent centenaries of the First World War and the passing of the Generation that fought in the Second World War, the conservation of significantly degrading vehicle collections has taken on a new importance.

The Tank Museum at Bovington is arguably one of the largest museums in the world. There is a collection of over 300 historic military vehicles with historic significance. Structural deterioration through corrosion, corrosion fatigue, stress corrosion cracking and mechanical failures are a threat to these vehicles in terms of conservation.

Tiger and Sherman are some of the prominent collections. The only operational Tiger tank in the world is currently at The Tank Museum at Bovington. These artefacts had to be conserved sustainably while operating modestly to enthuse spectators during the annual Tank Fest, other events and engaging new generation in science, technology and maths through the interactive ingenuity of the early 20^th century to develop mechanical engineering design solutions and above all conserve them sustainably for the future generations to come.

Team from the Sustainable Design Research Centre with The Tank Museum, academics from Oxbridge, Bath, Cardiff universities and stakeholders from industry met in 2008-09 at the Tank Museum to discuss/brain storm on how to develop a framework. This will allow to formulate sustainable methodology of conserving these vehicles.

These early discussions incubated The Tank Museum match funded (£25K + £3600) PhD programme in “Sustainable Methodology of Conserving Historic Vehicles”. The successful completion of the project provided an understanding of military vehicle conservation from a predominantly technical viewpoint.

The research between BU and The Tank Museum was focused to address increasing problems of corrosion and component failures in The Tank Museum military tanks including the Tiger 1, Sherman, Centaur, King Tiger, Wolverine M10 and BT – R 60, which have significant cultural, heritage and historical value.

This research has delivered immense impact through scientific findings and benefits to the British Heritage. Research led by Dr Adil Saeed with supervisory team Zulfiqar Khan, Mark Hadfield and Richard Smith has delivered a framework of condition monitoring and conservation of ageing military vehicles. This is the first kind of research which has resulted in the development of new conservation facility, installation of relative humidity and temperature monitoring sensors, live-corrosion condition monitoring sensors and the implementation of a control environment.

The findings have also attracted international industrial players in corrosion, structural deterioration and materials’ characterisation, who have been involved through in-kind support such as NASA Materials Testing and Corrosion Control Branch (joint research publication), Systems Technology, PANalytical Ltd, Analatom, PMI Analytical, Carl-Zeiss Cambridge and West-Dean Chichester (in kind support totalling £21Kl) in experimental resources.

The successful delivery of this project produced measurable significant societal and academic impacts. Defence Science and Testing Laboratories (DSTL), Ministry of Defence is match funding (£22.5K) PhD studentship in “In-situ corrosion health monitoring and prediction in military vehicles” (Dr Khan PI).

This work led to collaborative research postdoctoral research programme in “Polarisation and Coating Data research” with Wessex Institute of Technology. This work is led by Dr Adil Saeed as postdoc researcher, Mark Hadfield & Zulfiqar Khan (PI, Co-I) and Professor Carlos A. Brebbia and Dr Robert A Adey from WIT.

A first BU-Tank Museums EU Conference was held at BU on Monday 2^nd July 2012. The following participated in a hugely successful conference

BU
The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK
Oxford University, UK
Military Museum, Munster Panzer Museum, Germany
Finnish Tank Museum, Finland
Swedish Tank Museum, Sweden
Belgian Military Museum
Military Museum, Dresden, Germany

Sustainable Design Research Centre has developed advanced labs which will play a significant role in future research. This is a major source of raising BU profile as International leader in Structural Integrity.

Level C Design Methods & Projects (40 credit unit led by Dr Khan) in Design Engineering course benefits from research informed education through their live project (50% of course work) in collaboration with The Tank Museum.

A newly developed level M unit “Structural Integrity” (20 credit led by M Koohgilani) will benefit from this research.

If you would like to know more about this research or SDRC activities in research, education and professional practice please contact

Dr Zulfiqar Khan (Associate Professor)

Director SDRC

July 1, 2014

Epidurals PhD researcher wins EPSRC award

BU research, PG research, Research news Sally Gates

Congratulations to SciTech’s Dr Neil Vaughan who has won the EPSRC’s ICT Pioneers ‘Transforming Society’ award. The accolade, which recognises the most exceptional UK PhD students, was awarded to Neil at a ceremony in Westminster last week for his innovative epidural simulator project.

The simulator uses software to replicate the epidural process, thereby assisting in training for this delicate procedure that is performed over 1000 times each day in the UK.

Neil’s supervisor Dr Venky Dubey said: “This is an exceptional achievement for BU and the collaborating partner Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Neil was up against stiff competition from top universities, including the University of Oxford, University College London and the University of Bath.”

The clinical project was proposed by the senior consultant anaesthetist at Poole Hospital, Professor Michael Wee, who also co-supervised the PhD.

Neil’s work was judged by a panel of technical experts from academia and industry. He triumphed through a rigorous selection process over a six month period, which included a written proposal, video and poster presentation. This culminated in a high-profile research showcase, where finalists pitched their project to representatives from the EPSRC, Hewlett Packard, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), BT and an audience of hundreds.

For more information about the project view the news item on the research webpages.

June 30, 2014

Strong Presence of our Computing Research at RCIS’14 Conference in Morocco

BU research, PG research, Research news Mahmood Hosseini

Our research in the area of Human-Centred Software Systems has been presented through three full papers in the IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), which was held on May 28-30 2014 in Marrakesh, Morocco.

http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2014/

Our presented papers in RCIS 2014 are:

Mahmood Hosseini, Keith Phalp, Jacqui Taylor, Raian Ali. The Four Pillars of Crowdsourcing: A Reference Model.
Malik Almaliki, Cornelius Ncube, Raian Ali. The Design of Adaptive Acquisition of Users Feedback: an Empirical Study.
Raian Ali, Nan Jiang, Sherry Jeary, Keith Phalp. Consideration in Software-mediated Social Interaction.

The papers were presented by Dr. Nan Jiang, and the PGRs Mahmood Hosseini and Malik Almaliki. It was a great opportunity for knowledge exchange and to maximize impact and visibility of our research. Interesting ideas as a follow up of our research were discussed and a number of overseas colleagues expressed interest in visiting us to do a joint work.

To get the presentations, please visit our Slideshare at: http://www.slideshare.net/Sociad-BU/

June 6, 2014

Ferndown & Uddens Business Improvement District collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team from BU

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The Business Improvement District (BID) yesterday hosted their first breakfast meeting on business continuity and information assurance.

Staff from the Business School, The Disaster Management Centre and the Cyber Security Unit presented a knowledgeable insight to identify collective responsibilities of businesses within the district, giving examples where one business problem may affect other enterprises across the estate. The Dorset Fire & Rescue Service and Dorset Police further supported BU’s representations concerning crisis management; business resilience; disaster recovery and cybercrime. In addition, A&T Insurance Group provided a comprehensive study on insuring business resilience.

BUCSU introduced the availability of TSB Innovation Vouchers to meet the recently published ‘Cyber Essentials’ issued by the Information Commissioners Office.

June 5, 2014

Energy Scarcity and the Role of Renewable Technologies

BU research, Featured, Festival of Learning, Fusion, PG research, Public engagement, REF Subjects Zulfiqar Khan

BU Festival of Learning

Energy Scarcity and the Role of Renewable Technologies

Date: Friday 13 June

Time: 18:00-20:00

Venue: EB306 (Bournemouth University Executive Business Centre)

Introduction

European initiative to generate 20% in the total energy supply from renewable sources by 2020 leads to a strong need for research and development of low carbon technologies. For the successful delivery of this objective through a sustainable mechanism wider community and stakeholders’ engagement is important.

The proposed event will initiate discussion and understanding of the energy issues, sustainability and potentials of providing engineering and technological solutions to generate energy through solar thermal, tidal, fluvial and wind turbines. The potentials of generating heat energy through heat pumps will also be discussed. It is also important to fully understand and assess the socio-economic, political, geographical and environmental implications of the future needs of energy and supply chain.

This event will provide a networking opportunity for public engagement, local/regional businesses, government, community and local council representatives, cross-channel collaborators, academics and researchers.

Brief presentations from the Renewable Energy and Technology theme will be delivered. There will be a number of key interventions from local advocates for and against the proposed theme.

The audience will then be invited to ask questions from the panellists to learn more about the issues around topic.

Programme

18:00 Arrival, Registration, Informal Networking

18:30 Presentation: BU Sustainable Design Research Centre’s Community Engagement, Research & Education activities in Renewable Technologies – Dr Zulfiqar Khan

18:50 Q&A

19:00 Introduction of Q&A Panel – Professor Mark Hadfield (Host)

19:05 Q&A session with panel– Professor Mark Hadfield (Host)

19:35 Informal Networking

20:00 Close

For further info and how to book for the event please visit following links

Eventbrite

Event Lead/Organiser: Dr Zulfiqar Khan

Associate Professor

Director Sustainable Design Research Centre

Dr Zulfiqar Khan is leading Sustainable Design Research Centre (SDRC) as Director. He has interests in Nano-materials/tech, tribology, durability of interacting systems through surface engineering, corrosion, corrosion simulation and modelling, solar thermal technologies and mechanical current devices. SDRC has developed a significant portfolio of research (fully funded/match funded research projects), education (UG Design Engineering live projects) and professional practice (joint collaborative industrial projects, engagement with professional institutions/forums) within Renewable Technology.

Panel Host: Professor Mark Hadfield

Deputy Dean Research, Enterprise & Internationalisation

Faculty of Science & Technology

Professor Mark Hadfield has been the Deputy Dean REI for almost five years and a Professor at Bournemouth for ten years. During the last five years he has led research within the School which includes Computing, Psychology and Engineering at a period of changing academic emphasis. He joined Bournemouth University in 1997 as a Senior Lecturer teaching Materials and Manufacture and also started an MSc programme in the area of sustainable product design. During this period he has received grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, The Royal Academy of Engineering, international research centres, charities and industry.

Panel Member: Pete West

Renewable Energy Development Officer

Dorset County Council

Pete West has 10 years’ previous experience as Renewable Energy Project Manager at not-for-profit energy advice centres in West Wales and Gloucestershire. During that time he worked on projects covering energy crops, wood fuel, locally owned wind turbines, training for renewable energy installers and community sustainable energy.

Pete was also a member of the management board of the Danish-based International Network for Sustainable Energy and has extensive renewable energy contacts in a number of European countries.

He has been employed as Dorset County Council Renewable Energy Development Officer since 2008 and whilst in post has been secretary of the Dorset Energy Partnership’s Community Sustainable Energy Group, Planning Working Group and Bioenergy Working Group.

He has led Dorset County Council’s participation in a number of successful European funding bids to support sustainable energy in Dorset.

Panel Member: Dr Nigel Garland

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Technology

A member of the Sustainable Design Research Centre, Nigel’s areas of interest include tribology and sustainable system design. He has developed new technical models in the area beyond the “eco-design” philosophies of environmental and economic impacts to focus upon the long term success of projects through social usefulness and effective resource utilisation.

Contact

If you would like more information about this event, Sustainable Design Research Centre or have any question please contact

Dr Zulfiqar Khan Associate Professor

Director

Sustainable Design Research Centre

Faculty of Science & Technology SciTech

Bournemouth University Poole House – 330

Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK

zkhan@bournemouth.ac.uk

Tel: +44-1202-961645

June 4, 2014

Erasmus+ partner universities e-workshops

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3^rd Sustainable e-Tourism Research and Applications

Virtual Workshop

25 June 2014
Participating Erasmus Mundus partner Universities:

Bournemouth University (UK), University Lyon2,
Staffordshire University (UK), Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1
and Universita degli Studi del Sannio (Italy)

Aims & Subjects

Workshop Aims

The workshop is organized under the Erasmus-Mundus Action 2 “Sustainable e-tourism program”.

This third edition of the workshop aims to promote knowledge exchanges, discussion, and dialogue on innovative management issues in e-tourism, effective and more efficient approaches to the Sustainable e-Tourism programs our partner universities.

The workshop series mainly involves PhD students of the program. The first and second edition of the workshop took place at June 2012 and May 2013.

Master, PhD as well as Post-Doc members of the program were involved.

The overall objectives of these workshops under the Erasmus Mundus Action 2, Sustainable e-tourism are:

To enhance the capacity for international cooperation between universities in Asia and universities in EU countries by facilitating mobility of people, transfer of know-how and best practices by training the researchers and academic staff of the next generation.

To develop new co-operative teaching and research links in the tourism sector and to enhance knowledge and skills of teaching staff, students and researchers in promoting a sustainable e-Tourism philosophy.

To transfer the technology and knowledge in the following fields: business and strategy in the tourism industry, knowledge management, advanced ICT, cross-cultural analysis among the research patterns.

To set up innovative management policies based on the use of ICT, which enhance sustainable development in the tourism sector in Europe and Asia and help to create and spear knowledge in both directions.

Workshop topics

Knowledge management and related topics for e-tourism – Mobile technology for e-tourism – The reputation and trust model in social network – Product lifecycle management – Product data management and Eco-product lifecycle management – Multi agent system for dynamic web service composition -Customer relation management for e-tourism -e-Commerce – e-Business for e-tourism – e-Learning and human capital for e-tourism – Sustainable Management for e-tourism – Sustainable Supply chain – Tourism Destination Images – Tourist behaviour and e-tourism marketing – Semantic Web/Web services/ontology – Information retrieval / Service recommendation –
Web search personalization / customization – User profile management / context management – Social networks / collaborative filtering – User privacy protection – Natural language processing – Classification / clustering algorithms – Location based services – Robotics and Applications

Workshop Committee:

General Co-Chair:

Xi YU, University of Lyon 2, France

Program Co-Chair:

Fei YUAN , Staffordshire University, UK
Lei MU, Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1
Trung Hien NGUYEN International School Vietnam National University, Italy
Vivek Chacko, Bournemouth University, UK
Xi YU , University of Lyon 2, France

Scientific Committee:

Prof.Abdelaziz Bouras, University of Lyon 2, France
Prof.Hongnian Yu, Bournemouth University, UK
Prof. Lbath Ahmed, Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, France
Prof. Yacine Ouzrout, University of Lyon 2, France
Prof. Matteo Mario Savino ,Universita degli Studi del Sannio, BIOGEM, Italy
Prof. Paul Jean-Jacques, Royal University of Law and Economics ,Cambodia
MA. Do Thu Huong,International School – Vietnam National University,Vietnam
Dr. Garidkhuu Ariuntuul,Health Sciences University of Mongolia, Mongolia
Dr. Nouansavanh Khamlusa,National University of Laos, Laos
Mr Ou Yusong, Chengdu University, China
Dr.Nopasit Chackpitak, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Dr. Aurélie Charles, University of Lyon 2, France
Dr. Néjib Moalla, University of Lyon 2, France
Dr. Antoine Nongaillard, University of Lyon 2, France
Dr. Vincent Renner, University of Lyon 2, France
Dr. Aicha Sekhari, University of Lyon 2, France
Dr. Wided Batat, University of Lyon 2, France

Contacts at BU: Prof. Hongnian Yu and Vivek Chacko

May 23, 2014

BUDI’s 2014 Open Pubilc Meeting

BU research, Info Days, Public engagement, Uncategorized mobrien

Bournemouth University Dementia Institute (BUDI) held its third open meeting at the university on 14^th May, with this year’s theme being dementia friendly environments. The day was well attended by practitioners, family carers, the general public and people with dementia. It started with a lovely buffet lunch sponsored by Alzheimer Research UK, providing an opportunity for delegates to network and to browse the information stands hosted by themselves and BUDI Ph.D. students. The open meeting was formally opened by Professor Gail Thomas who praised the innovative work being carried out by the BUDI team. Delegates then heard presentations from Dr Fiona Kelly on dementia friendly design, Dr Jan Wiener on the use of eye tracking technology to explore navigation skills and difficulties, Kathrin Büter on using computer technology to support dementia friendly design in hospitals. This session closed with a presentation by architect Niall McLaughlin on his work with communities and older people to design care homes that meet everyone’s needs and are inspirational, therapeutic spaces. The final part of the day involved a question and answer session where delegates and presenters discussed some of the issues raised during the day including how to ensure that the concept of good design filters down to those commissioning, designing and using buildings that people with dementia also use. This successful event is sure to have got people thinking and sharing some of what they heard and we look forward to holding similar events in the future.

May 22, 2014

SciTech postgraduate conference and poster presentation

BU research, PG research, Research news Sally Gates

Yesterday the postgraduate researchers in the Faculty of Science and Technology (SciTech) held their annual showcase of their research projects. For the applied sciences students this took the form of 15 minutes presentations and the design, engineering and computing students presented posters.

Former PhD student Kathryn Ross opened the presentations in the Lawrence Lecture Theatre and likened the process of studying for a doctorate to taking part in a 100 mile walk. Kathryn was an inspiration to her peers, showing how hard work and persistence can get results. Her own PhD project investigating the effects of sea-level rise on the avocet population in Poole Harbour yielded new and interesting findings about the birds’ diet.

The subsequent presentations were outstanding, covering a wide variety of topics including how parasites impact eco-systems, volunteer engagement, the process of ageing fish and the spread of the domestic chicken through Europe.

The posters were equally impressive, featuring rescue robots, intelligent call routing and lie detector technology among others.

The work of the Bournemouth University Dementia Institute (BUDI) postgraduate researchers was strongly represented, including a remarkable project looking at adapted home environments for people living with dementia.

It was wonderful to see the amazing research being carried out by BU’s postgraduate community, with the support of their dedicated supervisors. I have no doubt many of them will make valuable contributions to their field in the future.

And to any postgraduate researchers reading this… If you would like to share your research more widely via the BU website or other channels, please do email me. I’d love to help you with that. Additionally, if you are interested in taking part in any public engagement activity, we have some great opportunities including a tent at Camp Bestival. If you like to find out more please email our Public Engagement Manager Barry Squires.

May 20, 2014

Facebook User Interface to suit Saudi Arabian culture

BU research, PG research, Research news djohn

We would like to invite you to the next research seminar of the Creative Technology Research Centre that will be delivered by Hana Almakky.

Title: Facebook User Interface to suit Saudi Arabian culture

Time: 2:00PM-3:00PM

Date: Wednesday 28^th May 2014

Room: P302 (Poole House, Talbot Campus)

Abstract: Social media has continued growing in Saudi Arabia. Millions of businesses and trades are now using social media for entertainment, advertisement and promoting themselves internationally. Social networking sites, like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc., have gained huge popularity at personal as well as professional scale. Therefore, work is being done to evolve the modes of communication over these platforms, extensively. My research explores the effect of Saudi cultures on the design of social media site of Facebook. The expected outcome of this research will be a theoretical framework that guides the design of a user interface for Facebook to meet the Saudi’s expectations.

We hope to see you there,

Dr. David John

May 19, 2014

Dragons’ Den: Pitch to the Editors

BU research, PG research, Research news Sally Gates

Do you have a science news story worthy of appearing in Nature, The Times or Research Fortnight?

Organisers of the UK Conference of Science Journalists are running a ‘Dragons’ Den: Pitch to the Editors’ session, open to students, recent graduates or scientists with a great story.

This is your chance to stand up in front of top journalists and ‘sell’ your story idea. It can be about any aspect of science, as long as it is suitable for Nature, the Times or Research Fortnight. (Do make sure you research the publications before submitting)!

Successful applicants will pitch their story idea to Helen Pearson (Nature), Ehsan Masood (Research Fortnight) and Hannah Devlin (The Times) in front of a live audience at the conference on Wednesday 18th June in London.

For more information and details of how to apply, visit http://www.ukcsj.org/dragons-den.html. Applications are open until 23rd May.

If you would like to discuss your pitch, email Sally Gates (Research Communications Manager).

May 13, 2014

Understanding Crowdsourcing and CCTV surveillance

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Staff, students and members of the public are invited to join us for the next Cyber Security Seminar…

‘Understanding Crowdsourcing and CCTV surveillance’

Tuesday, 27th May

Coyne Lecture Theatre

4pm – 5pm

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) has many different uses but is often considered an archetypal surveillance technology. These infrastructures generate large amounts of data; so much so that the technique of crowdsourcing has recently been applied to the problem of searching for abnormalities in live surveillance video; the premise being that many inexpert watchers are cheaper but as efficient as a small number of experienced security experts. However, the merits of crowdsourcing watchers of surveillance video are largely unknown.

In this talk Dr. Paul Dunphy will describe exemplar infrastructures of this type, and two user studies that assess the performance of the watchers of CCTV video online. The results prompt a discussion regarding the effectiveness of using crowdsourcing in such contexts, and the role such infrastructures can play in society.

Speaker Bio: Paul is a postdoctoral researcher in the Culture Lab at Newcastle University. He is interested in multi-disciplinary approaches to understand and design security and privacy technologies.

If you would like to join us for this presentation, please book your place via Eventbrite.

May 12, 2014

Puerto Rico welcomes a new BUDI

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Every year the prestigious Alzheimer’s Disease International conference welcomes practitioners, academics, people living with dementia, medical professionals and clinicians from all over the world to share their latest knowledge, experience and research about dementia careThis year I was lucky enough to attend and represent BUDI at the 29th International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International Dementia: Working Together for a Global Solution, hosted in San Juan on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico.

Three abstracts were accepted to be orally presented, so this was a great opportunity to showcase some of BUDI’s innovative research projects to world leading dementia specialists. The three presented projects were the Technology Club (Dementia Care and Technology), Tales of the Sea (Empowering people with dementia) and (Dont) Mention Dementia (Voices of people with dementia and their families).

All three presentations were well received and stimulated discussion and many questions. The feedback I received after my presentations and during the conference was that BUDI’s projects were seen as innovative, creative and great examples of how to engage people with dementia in research and how people with dementia should be at the core of all research.

Above and beyond presenting, I had the opportunity to catch up with Peter, an Australian colleague (who I have been working on the international GRIID research project with for around two years and have never met!) Peter presented the GRIID project (Gateway to Rural International Initiatives in Dementia) at this conference. After his presentation we were able to meet and come up with some really innovative ideas to take the GRIID project to the next level.

To top off a very successful conference, I won a huge kangaroo courtesy of the Australian Alzheimer’s Association. He was unfortunately a bit too big to fit into my case so he to travelled home with another colleague…I wonder if I will ever get him back as he was very cute!

Since returning home I have started to get in touch with some of the many contacts I made at this conference and look forward to potential international collaborations. This conference highlights all the good work currently being undertaken but also emphasises the amount of work we still need to do. I invite you to check out the below clip of Richard Taylor PhD, who presented numerous times at the conference. Richard is extremely funny and has a great approach and attitude to life. It is very thought provoking as he shares his thoughts about living with dementia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHQfc3KJ9qE.

Clare Cutler, BUDI Project Manager

April 29, 2014

Latest CEMP Research Bulletin

BU research, Funding opportunities jmcdougall

Here is the updated CEMP Research / Innovation bulletin for May / June 2014. CEMP bulletin May June 2014

Please contact Julian or Richard in CEMP if you are interested in any of the funding opportunities here, or have other ideas for collaborative projects with CEMP.

April 1, 2014

Fusion – Establishment of research collaboration, student and staff exchanges with the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

vtauringana

My application to the Fusion Investment Fund (FIF) has been successful. The funds will be used to establish research collaboration, student and staff exchanges with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. I will be travelling to the UKZN during Easter this month for an exploratory visit. While at UKZN, I will present a paper to the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance. This will be followed by a series of meetings with students and staff. On my return, I will apply to Bournemouth University to put in place the three relationships.

A successful establishment of the three aforesaid relationships will have many enormous benefits to the students and staff of BU and UKZN. For example, students should benefit culturally in terms of spending sometime in South Africa and UK respectively due to differences in the two countries’ cultures. In addition to cultural awareness, the staff exchange will benefit the staff involved through observing how lecturers in a different country deliver lectures. Apart from co-authoring academic journal articles, research collaboration between BU and UKZN staff should be beneficial where the research call (e.g. Horizon 2020) requires that researchers from Europe collaborate with a partner from South Africa.

At an institution level, the relationships should help BU in two main ways. Firstly, student exchange should increase awareness of BU in Africa which may translate into increase in percentage of African students enrolled at BU. Increasing the percentage of students from Africa is important for BU because currently less than 4% of our students are from Africa compared to 8% UK universities average. Secondly, the increase in student population from Africa will also help BU achieve the strategic plan objective of increasing overseas students’ recruitment by 15% by 2015.

UKNZ is the third largest university in South Africa and a very good university and also shares great similarities in university teaching, research and enterprise activities with those of the Business School, School of Tourism, Design, Engineering and Computing, School of Health and Social Care. Further information about the university can be found on: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/.

Dr Ven Tauringana, Associate Professor of Accounting – The Business School

March 21, 2014

Sustainable Design Research Centre New Experimental Resources for Research & Education

BU research, Fusion, PG research Zulfiqar Khan

Sustainable Design Research Centre

Faculty of Science & Technology

Newly Added and Commissioned Experimental Resources for Research & Education

The following new equipment have been recently added to the lab resources for both research & education. Two PhD research projects in Renewable Technology (Heat Transfer and Thermodynamic Expansion) and one Research Assistant within SDRC are fully funded by industrial partner FES Ltd [Dr Zulfiqar Khan, PI]. This research informs education within the Design & Engineering Framework, MEng Programme, through Level I Thermo-fluids & Heat Transfer (20 Credit) unit led by Dr Zulfiqar Khan.

These equipment are significant addition for enhancing students’ experience and providing a vehicle for realising BU Fusion initiative.

PIPE FRICTION APPARATUS

The experimentation stand can be used to investigate pipe frictional losses with laminar and turbulent flows. The pipe section is a brass pipe with an internal diameter of 3 mm. The distance between the pressure measuring fittings and thus the length of the experimental pipe section is 400 mm.

The pressure losses for laminar flow are measured using a water manometer. The static pressure difference is displayed. A head tank is available to create a laminar flow and ensures a constant water inlet pressure in the pipe section at a constant water level.

For turbulent flow, the pressure difference is measured using a dial manometer. The head tank is not used to create a turbulent flow. The water is fed directly into the pipe section from the water supply via a bypass. The flow is adjusted using shut-off valves at the beginning and end of the pipe. The water supply is provided either by the Basic Hydraulics Module or from the mains supply in the laboratory.

BERNOULLI’S PRINCIPLE DEMONSTRATOR

The equipment is used to investigate Bernoulli’s law. The measurement object is a Venturi nozzle with six pressure measurement points. The six static pressures are displayed on a board with six water pressure gauges. The overall pressure can also be measured at various locations in the Venturi nozzle and indicated on a second water pressure gauge. Measurement is by way of a probe which can be moved axially with respect to the Venturi nozzle. The probe is sealed by way of a compression gland. Water is supplied either from the Fluid Mechanics Basic Module or from the laboratory mains.

The equipment enables a closed water circuit to be constructed.

Possible experiments:

Demonstration of Bernoulli’s law
Pressure measurements along Venturi nozzle
Determination of flow rate factor K

[The above information are provided by GUNT Publication-no.: 917.000 01 A 150 12 (A) Experiment instructions HM 150.01 Pipe Friction Apparatus & Experiment Instructions HM 150.07 Bernoulli’s Principle Demonstrator].

If you have interest in Renewable Technology research & education and would like to find more about the activities within the Sustainable Design Research Centre, then please contact.

Dr Zulfiqar Khan (Associate Professor)

Director SDRC

March 20, 2014

BU Researchers launch a new online copyright resource at the AHRC Creative Economy Showcase London

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Following the internal launch at BU on the 14th February 2014, BU Researchers at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) launched the Copyrightuser.org at The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Creative Economy Showcase.

The event was held at Kings Place, London, on Wednesday 12^th March 2014. The Showcase demonstrated the outputs and innovations of AHRC investments in the Creative Economy through presentations, workshops and exhibitions. The sectors exhibited on the day, included fashion, design, video games, architecture, broadcasting, archives, digital technologies and dance.

Amongst the various funded initiatives showcased on the day, Copyrightuser.org held a prominent exhibition stand and exhibited the website which was complemented by large posters, bookmarks and myth/reality cards (illustrated below) which explained the most common myths about copyright.

This high-profile event was attended by over 450 delegates and included policy-makers, business leaders in the creative industries, knowledge exchange practitioners, directors of research in universities, senior representatives from partner organisations in the Creative Economy, other strategic funding agencies in the sector, representatives from the AHRC’s investments in the Creative Economy and other stakeholders.

Keynote speakers included amongst others Sebastian Conran (Designer), the Hon David Willetts (Minister of State for Universities and Science), Ed Vaizey MP (Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries) and Professor Rick Rylance (CEO, AHRC).

Highlights from the day can be streamed here.

Copyrightuser.org was funded by the BU Fusion Investment Fund in 2012 and was developed by the Business School’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) in collaboration with Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP). Following the success of the Fusion Funded project, the CIPPM-led team went on to secure RCUK funding provided by CREATe in August 2013 to extend the scope of the project. Phase II of the copyrightuser.org is now underway.

The launched online resource aims to make UK copyright law accessible to creators and members of the public. This 1-minute video captures the concept behind the Copyrightuser.org project.

Using quantitative and qualitative methods the site aims to provide answers to the most pressing concerns that creators and the public have about copyright law. To achieve these aims, interviews with creators where conducted and a video for each creative sector was produced demonstrating their thoughts and questions about copyright, see the musicians video here for example. Secondly, 200 frequently asked questions posted by users online were sourced, analysed and coded down to the 20 most common.

The Copyrightuser.org has so far been received very well as evidenced by the positive feedback from various organisations, individuals, legal professionals and the creative industries.

During the launch, the website received 232 visits; and has now received over 1,558 visits to date.

Please also visit our twitter page – @copyrightuser to keep up with the Copyrightuser.org developments.

The copyrightuser.org team consists of:

Dr. Dinusha Mendis (Principal Investigator & Co-Director CIPPM)

Mr. Bartolomeo Meletti (Lead Multimedia Producer and CIPPM Research Assistant)

Ms. Hayleigh Bosher (PhD Candidate (Copyright) and CIPPM Research Assistant)

Professor Martin Kretschmer (Principal Investigator & Director CREATe)

Dr. Kris Erickson (Co-Investigator, CREATe).

The team is further assisted by a Production Team consisting of Marco Bagni (Art Direction, Design and Animation), Sar:co (Music and SoundFX), Davide Bonazzi (Illustrations) amongst others and an Editorial Board consisting of Professor Maurizio Borghi (Director, CIPPM); Professor Ruth Towse (Co-Director, CIPPM); and Professor Ronan Deazley (Professor of Copyright Law, University of Glasgow) amongst others.

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