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March 11, 2024

Recent paper – the conflict between research impact and traditional ‘excellence’ in ECR careers

BU research, Doctoral College, ECR Network, Impact, innovation, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement, Research assessment, Research communication, Research news, Research Training, RKE development framework Adam Morris

A recent paper looks at the difficulty and conflict that ECRs experience around achieving impact outside academia – something that they feel passionate about – while meeting more traditional and narrow ideas of ‘research excellence’ in academia.

The paper also looks at ‘publish or perish’ pressures, confidence and imposter syndrome in presenting your research as an ECR, and how focusing on impact can affect careers.

Read the paper (open access) at The conflict of impact for early career researchers planning for a future in the academy.

February 22, 2024

British Academy Early Career Researcher Network event brings together researchers from across medical and health humanities

BU research, ECR Network, Events, Featured, Research communication, research staff, Research Training, RKE development framework ematthews

BU hosted the British Academy’s Early Career Researcher Network for an event exploring medical and health humanities, addressing some of the challenges and opportunities of working within this varied and interdisciplinary field.

Early career researchers from across the South West came together to network and discuss topics including publishing, funding opportunities, and finding their research identity.

The event took place on BU’s Talbot Campus and was opened by Interim Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Knowledge Exchange Professor Sarah Bate, who spoke about the importance of supporting the next generation of researchers to grow and develop.

A panel of Professors in front of an audience sat at tables

BU Professors shared their experiences and advice

Professor Sam Goodman (Professor of English & Communication), Professor Ann Hemingway (Professor of Public Health), Professor Chris Chapleo (Professor of Societal Marketing), Professor Ann Luce (Professor of Journalism and Health Communication) and Professor Edwin van Teijlingen (Professor of Reproductive Health Research) took part in a panel discussion, sharing their experiences of working across medical and health humanities and taking questions from the audience.

Advice included how to manage multiple stakeholders who may have different interests, publishing widely across different disciplines, how to deal with rejection, and the importance of building networks and contacts.

While the panel were honest about some of the difficulties and challenges of being an interdisciplinary researcher, they also spoke about the opportunities for applied interdisciplinary research and exploring different passions and interests. As Prof. Goodman put it: ‘Where’s the fun in colouring between the lines?’

Groups of early career researchers sat at tables

Roundtable discussions took place as part of the event

Following a networking lunch, attendees moved into breakout groups to discuss opportunities and challenges around publishing, grant capture and bidding, and developing a research identity as an interdisciplinary researcher.

The event was organised by the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network (BA ECRN) and Joelle Fallows and Katerina Kakaounaki of RDS, supported by Professor Sam Goodman and Professor Ann Hemingway who lead the ECR Network at BU.

The BA ECRN brings together ECRs across the humanities and social sciences disciplines, supporting their development through events and workshops. BU is a member of the BA ECRN’s South West Hub.

Find out more about the BA Early Career Researcher Network

February 22, 2024

Bid-generating Sandpit: Interdisciplinary Research towards Sustainable Development Goals

BU research, ECR Network, research opportunities, Research Training lskains

Illustration of a lightbulb with a group of people inside around a circular table, with computers and papers. They are clearly working together.

Register here

Calling early career researchers (including practice-led) for two days of sparking ideas, discovering new project partners, and developing interdisciplinary funding bids!

30 April – 1 May 2024

Bournemouth

Day 1 begins at 1230, Day 2 finishes at 1630, to enable travel from external universities.

The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network and Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion, and Social Justice invite applicants for a two-day research collaboration, networking, and grant development event.

Participate in dynamic and interactive sessions to develop innovative research concepts addressing any of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), leading to funding bids across institutions and disciplines. Your goal is to form an interdisciplinary project team and build a funding proposal in only two days.

This two-day sandpit will be supplemented with two online follow-up sessions (summer and autumn 2024) to share your project progress and experiences.

We welcome any South West-based early career (as you choose to define it) researcher, artist, practitioner or anyone with a general interest in sustainability and emerging interdisciplinary projects. You must be based at one of the South West Cluster Universities. You should be keen to work in a multidisciplinary team, and willing to commit to attending the full sandpit, on both days. No prior experience of research funding is required.

To secure your spot in the Sandpit, please complete and submit the following application – note that all participants must commit to attending both full days:

APPLY HERE BY 8 MARCH 2024: https://forms.office.com/e/AkaeieQHKx

The event is facilitated by Dr. Catalin Brylla and Dr. Lyle Skains, with advisors to be drawn from senior Bournemouth University staff based on participant disciplines and interests.

If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

February 22, 2024

Two workshops coming up in March under the Post Award pathway

BU research, Post-award, research staff, Research Training, Training Katerina Kakaounaki

Two workshops coming up in March under the Post Award pathway

Principal Investigation – Post Award for RKE

This session is aimed at any researcher who is, who plans to be, a Principal Investigator. Topics covered include:

· What is post award?

· Roles and responsibilities

· Systems

· Key policies

· Starting your awarded project

· Making changes to your project and reporting

· Hints and tips

Book your place here – under “Principal Investigation – Post Award for RKE 06/3/24″ in the drop-down menu

Introduction to RED – The Research & Enterprise Database

This session is aimed at all academics to provide an overview of the Research & Enterprise Database.

· including how to access the system,

· the information available to view,

· budget management via RED,

· how to use RED to identify your supporting pre and post award officers.

Book your place here under ‘Introduction to RED – The Research & Enterprise Database – 07/03/2024’ in the drop-down menu.

For any queries regarding this workshop, please contact RKE Development Framework

February 19, 2024

Create Something New at Coffee and Konfer – Wednesday 20 March

BU research, Events, Industry collaboration, Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Transfer, Public engagement, Research communication, Research Training ballen

Join experts from Konfer for a Faculty-specific session, offering a guided tour of the platform and support to set up your profile or your Research Centre page for powerful research and knowledge exchange connections.

Konfer offers an efficient way to navigate around resources, technology and innovation capabilities that exist in the UK innovation eco-system. Through Konfer, you can discover and engage with experts beyond your typical reach and discuss new ideas and opportunities for projects.

This is an opportunity to meet with the Konfer team, have a guided tour of the platform and its full functionality, enabling you to create and connect to the UK research collaborations with other universities, businesses and other organisations. By the end of your session you will have set up your own profile, with guidance and support from Ranbir and Shivaun from Konfer, and be ready to post or respond to collaboration opportunities.

As well as a Faculty specific session, you can also attend the Konfer Drop-In Surgery in the afternoon.

The Coffee and Konfer event will take place on Wednesday 20 March 2024. The faculty specific sessions will take place from 9am. Rooms to be confirmed.

A networking lunch and light refreshments will be provided.

The Coffee & Konfer Surgery will take place from 2pm. Location to be confirmed.

Schedule

BUBS Workshop – 9:00 – 9:50am

FMC Workshop – 10:00 – 10:50am

HSS Workshop – 11:00 – 11:50am

FST Workshop – 12:00 – 12:50pm

Facilitators – Ranbir Jabanda and Shivaun Meehan – National Centre for Universities and Business/Konfer. Dr. Wendelin Morrison – BU Knowledge Exchange Manager

Networking Lunch – 1:00 – 2:00pm

For Deputy Deans, BEKES, Faculty and RDS Knowledge Exchange and/or Innovation Leads

Coffee & Konfer Surgery – 2:00 – 4:30pm

Aimed at academics from any faculty including those with no experience or some experience of using Konfer.

Drop in and join us for a coffee and support in:

Maximising your use of Konfer
Creating or developing your current Konfer profile
Creating a Research Centre Page as a ‘Window to the World’
Finding Funding or Collaborators on Konfer
Building Konfer into your research culture

Ranbir Jabanda and Shivaugn Meehan – National Centre for Universities and Business/Konfer

Dr. Wendelin Morrison – BU Knowledge Exchange Manager

Book your place here

If you have any questions, please contact: Wendelin Morrison wsmorrison@bournemouth.ac.uk

February 19, 2024

UK Research Integrity Office – Free Webinar – Social Media and Ethics – Last chance to book

BU research, Research Concordat, Research Ethics, Research Ethics Panels, research integrity, Research Supervision, Research Training sbell

UKRIO Logo UKRIO has announced details of a forthcoming Free Webinar “Social Media and Ethics” on Wednesday 21st February from 10:00 – 11:00 BST.

Research using social media data presents several ethical issues that researchers must navigate to ensure the responsible and respectful use of this data. Some of the primary ethical issues in research using social media includes privacy and informed consent, anonymity and confidentiality, data ownership and terms of use, ethical use of algorithms and AI, sensitive topics and vulnerable populations, consent and minors, deception and online identity, unintended consequences, and transparency and reproducibility.This webinar discusses these ethical concerns that require a combination of thoughtful consideration, adherence to research guidelines, and engagement with relevant stakeholders, including social media platforms and users.

Dr Nicolas Gold, Associate Professor in Computer Science will lead the webinar, which will cover:

The identification of some key ethics issues when using social media data.
An approach to constructing arguments for ethically defensible research in this space.
A brief “tour” of some platform terms and their potential impact on research.

This webinar is aimed at all researchers using social media and those involved in the ethical review process of projects.

As BU subscribes to UKRIO services, UKRIO webinars are free and open to anyone who may be interested in research integrity and ethics, good research practice and improving research culture and avoiding misconduct.

To register – please click here (takes you to external website).

February 19, 2024

Spaces available: Evaluation of Engagement workshops delivered by Dr Jamie Gallagher

Impact, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement, research staff, Research Training Katerina Kakaounaki

Evaluation of Engagement
Mon 18 March, 1-4pm, Talbot Campus

Successful public engagement can benefit research, researchers and the public – but how do you go about demonstrating this change? This workshop will guide you through the best evaluation processes, showing you when, why and, crucially, how to use evaluation to provide reliable, clear data. It will highlight how to demonstrate success to funders, record impact for the REF, help improve your processes, and give you a better understanding of the people you are connecting with.

To book a place on this workshop, please complete the booking form under Impact Essentials: Evaluating Public Engagement – 18/03/2024, in the drop down menu

Advanced Evaluation
Tues 19 March, 9am-12pm, Lansdowne Campus

Taking an in-depth look at evaluation, participants will explore data capture, analysis and reporting. From surveys to focus groups, you will learn how to format powerful questions and report meaningful data. Discover how to develop evaluation plans for even the most complex topics. You will also learn how to write evaluation reports for funders or for the REF. This workshop requires good base knowledge of evaluation, ideally from attending the previous Evaluation of Engagement workshop.

To book a place on this workshop, please complete the booking form under Impact Essentials: Advanced Evaluation of Public Engagement – 19/03/2024, in the drop down menu

NB: While we recommend you attend both sessions, you may judge the first session on its own as appropriate for your needs. However, as the advanced session will build on the knowledge and skills gained in the first session, we do advise against only attending the second.

If you have any queries about either session, please contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk.

February 9, 2024

RKEDF Evaluation of Engagement workshops coming up in March: book now

BU research, ECR Network, Impact, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement, Research Training, RKE development framework, Training Amanda Edwards

Evaluation of Engagement
Mon 18 March, 1-4pm, Talbot Campus

Advanced Evaluation
Tues 19 March, 9am-12pm, Lansdowne Campus

Sign up for a place on these workshops, delivered by Dr Jamie Gallagher, one of the most experienced public engagement trainers in the UK. Jamie has previously provided training sessions for BU researchers in evaluation and communication, which have been extremely well-received by attendees:

‘Informative and highly relevant to research practice’

‘Insightful and useful session’

‘Benefitted from meeting and learning from other people’s experiences. Glad to have the opportunity to do this’.

Evaluation of Engagement

This workshop will highlight what you need to ask yourself, and the public, to ensure you can demonstrate the success of your intervention and capture the long term impact of it.

Successful public engagement can benefit research, researchers and the public – but how do you go about demonstrating this change? This workshop will guide you through the best evaluation processes, showing you when, why and, crucially, how to use evaluation to provide reliable, clear data. It will highlight how to demonstrate success to funders, record impact for the REF, help improve your processes, and give you a better understanding of the people you are connecting with.

To book a place on this workshop, please complete the booking form.

Advanced Evaluation

Taking an in-depth look at evaluation, participants will explore data capture, analysis and reporting. From surveys to focus groups, you will learn how to format powerful questions and report meaningful data. Discover how to develop evaluation plans for even the most complex topics. You will also learn how to write evaluation reports for funders or for the REF. This workshop requires good base knowledge of evaluation, ideally from attending the previous Evaluation of Engagement workshop.

To book a place on this workshop please complete the booking form.

NB: While we recommend you attend both sessions, you may judge the first session on its own as appropriate for your needs. However, as the advanced session will build on the knowledge and skills gained in the first session, we do advise against only attending the second.

If you have any queries about either session, please contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk.

February 5, 2024

RED – The Research & Enterprise Database – online workshop

Post-award, research staff, Research Training Katerina Kakaounaki

The “Research Enterprise Database- RED” online workshop is aimed at all research staff to provide an overview of the Research & Enterprise Database.

Indicative Content

– how to access the system

– the information available to view

– budget management via RED

– how to use RED to identify your supporting pre and post award officers.

Online, Thursday 10:00-10:30

You can book your place here, under ‘Introduction to RED – The Research & Enterprise Database – 08/02/2023’ in the drop-down menu.

For any queries regarding this workshop, please contact Alex Morrison, Post Award Programme Manager (morrisona@bournemouth.ac.uk)

Please note that this workshop will be repeated on a monthly basis and you could find a suitable date and book your space here.

January 26, 2024

Free Training – Preparing for Impact in REF 2029

BU research, Events, Impact, policy, Public engagement, Research communication, Research Training, Training Adam Morris

A reminder that the three-part webinar series from hivve titled Preparing for Impact in REF 2029 starts next week.

Following the December 2023 announcement from UKRI that REF would be postponed until 2029, this free series is aimed at UK academics who want to get to grips with research impact in general, what the REF requirements are, and how they can begin preparing to ensure maximum success and minimal stress for the 2029 assessment.

The hivve team has been working with institutions since REF 2014 to help prepare for the impact element of the assessment, including the development of Impact Case Studies (ICS), and we are looking forward to sharing our experience with you in the new year.

31/01/24

9:15-10am GMT

Introduction to Research Impact, Impact Case Studies (ICS) and the Research Excellence Framework (REF)

Research impact from REF 2014 to 2029 – a look at how the guidelines and expectations have evolved
What is impact? An exploration of key definitions + the Logic Model
Preparing academics, Impact Officers/Managers and Research Officers/Managers for REF 2029

28/02/24

9:15-10am GMT

Engaging with Stakeholders and Collecting Data and Evidence

Understand how to identify your stakeholders
Recognise the impact data you should collect and what you should start recording immediately
Learn what evidence to gather and how to approach capturing this

10/04/24

9:15-10am GMT+1

Structuring Compelling Impact Case Studies (ICS) for REF 2029

Understand what a 4* Impact Case Study looks like
Identify key dos and don’ts and top tips
Learn how to run valuable internal mock reviews of Impact Case Studies

January 26, 2024

UK Research Integrity Office – Free Subscriber Only Webinar – Social Media and Ethics

BU research, Postgraduate Research, Research Ethics, Research Ethics Panels, research integrity, Research Supervision, Research Training sbell

UKRIO Logo UKRIO has announced details of a forthcoming Free Webinar “Social Media and Ethics” on Wednesday 21st February from 10:00 – 11:00 BST.

Research using social media data presents several ethical issues that researchers must navigate to ensure the responsible and respectful use of this data. Some of the primary ethical issues in research using social media includes privacy and informed consent, anonymity and confidentiality, data ownership and terms of use, ethical use of algorithms and AI, sensitive topics and vulnerable populations, consent and minors, deception and online identity, unintended consequences, and transparency and reproducibility.This webinar discusses these ethical concerns that require a combination of thoughtful consideration, adherence to research guidelines, and engagement with relevant stakeholders, including social media platforms and users.

Dr Nicolas Gold, Associate Professor in Computer Science will lead the webinar, which will cover:

The identification of some key ethics issues when using social media data.
An approach to constructing arguments for ethically defensible research in this space.
A brief “tour” of some platform terms and their potential impact on research.

This webinar is aimed at all researchers using social media and those involved in the ethical review process of projects.

As BU subscribes to UKRIO services, UKRIO webinars are free and open to anyone who may be interested in research integrity and ethics, good research practice and improving research culture and avoiding misconduct.

To register – please click here (takes you to external website).

January 15, 2024

The Conversation: one-to-one training sessions available

BU research, Events, Featured, Research communication, Research Training, the conversation ematthews

BU is a partner of The Conversation, a news analysis and opinion website with content written by academics working with professional journalists.

As a partner organisation, our academics and researchers can write for The Conversation on their areas of expertise. Conversation journalists are offering one-to-one training sessions for BU academics to understand more about The Conversation, or to discuss and pitch an article to them.

Two training dates are available, on Wednesday 28 February from 2–4pm or Tuesday 19 March from 10:30am – 12:30pm.

You can book a fifteen minute session with a Conversation journalist using the links below:

Book your place for 28 February

Book your place for 19 March

Why write for The Conversation?

The Conversation is a great way to share research and informed comment on topical issues. Academics work with editors to write pieces, which can then be republished via a Creative Commons licence. Since we first partnered with The Conversation, articles by BU authors have had over 9.5 million reads and been republished by the likes of The i, Metro, National Geographic Indonesia and the Washington Post.

You can learn more about working with The Conversation on the Research and Knowledge Exchange Sharepoint site.

January 9, 2024

Would you like to develop your public involvement in research approach and skills?

Doctoral College, ECR Network, Public engagement, Research Training mhughes

Applications are now open for the April delivery of the Public involvement in research CPD unit co-delivered twice a year with the BU PIER Partnership. The focus of the 5 week unit is on harnessing lived experience expertise in health and social care research, service improvement and/or professional practice and developing an evidence informed public involvement strategy for your own study, project or role. The unit places specific emphasis on collaborating with groups currently under-served by research.

The national online unit is open to practitioners, researchers, public involvement leads and academics at all career stages with free places offered to BU PhD students through the research development programme.

To find out more, including dates and fees, please see here. Please share with your colleagues, PGRs and external networks including anyone you are supporting to develop fellowship scheme applications who may wish to include this unit within their training plan.

December 15, 2023

Some great RKEDF training opportunities coming up in January

BU research, Events, Research Training Katerina Kakaounaki

A colorful cubes with iconsDescription automatically generated We’re excited to share some great RKEDF training opportunities coming up in January 2024

Click on the titles to find details and book your place to the upcoming events.

♦ Online RSA Drop-In meeting

Wednesday 3rd January, 10:30-11:00 Online

Meet your RSA reps, hear updates on how BU is implementing the Research Concordat and give feedback or raise concerns that will help to develop and support the research community at BU

♦ Principal Investigation

Wednesday 10th January, 12:00-13:00 at Talbot Campus

This session is aimed at any researcher who is, who plans to be, a Principal Investigator for an externally funded research or knowledge exchange project.

♦ ECR Network-Surgery

Wednesday 10th January, 13:00-14:00 Hybrid session

This is an open session for all BU ECRs and PGRs to discuss any issues around career development.

♦ Evidencing Impact

Wednesday 17th January, 10:00-11:10 Online

This interactive online session is aimed at researchers at all stages of their careers who wish to learn how to provide evidence for the impact of their research – whether for funders’ reports or future REF impact case studies.

♦ Engaging with the Media for Impact

Thursday 18th January, 14:00-15:30 Online

Explore how working with the media can help to raise the profile of your work and research and lead to impact.

♦ RSA Writing Day

Tuesday 25th January, 09:00-16:00 at Talbot Campus

This Writing Day aims to provide a dedicated space and time, to help support BU researchers work on their publications by providing some dedicated time and space, away from everyday distractions.

♦ Engaging with Parliament for Impact

Friday 26th January, 10:00-14:30, Talbot Campus

This session will include information-sharing alongside practical tasks which are designed to help you take the first steps to engage with policy through Parliament.

♦ Introducing Knowledge Exchange in Research

Wednesday 31st January, 13.30-15.00 Talbot Campus

An introduction to the different activities which come under the umbrella of ‘knowledge exchange’ for research: consultancy and contract research, enterprise, external engagement, CPD and Specialist Facilities.

♦ BA ECRN event – Med Hums

Wednesday 21st February 2024, 11:00 – 16:00 at Talbot Campus

This event brings together researchers in Medical and Health Humanities at BU from across the faculties of HSS, MMC and SciTech, inviting them to highlight the main challenges of working within this varied and interdisciplinary field.

A yellow triangle with a black exclamation markDescription automatically generated In November, 23% of colleagues who booked a session did not actually attend. Please, help us to avoid any waste of resources; make sure you can attend or cancel your booking in time.

For any further information, please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk

December 7, 2023

Promoting interdisciplinary research

conferences, ECR Network, Featured academics, Global engagement, humanities, international, Publishing, REF Subjects, research integrity, research methods, research staff, Research Training, Training, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

This week’s Bournemouth University (BU) advertised a forthcoming event in February 2024 ‘Early Career Researchers and Interdisciplinarity in the Medical Humanities – South West‘. To promote this event I would like to highlight some papers published recently by BU academics on interdisciplinarity.

First, Dr. Shanti Shanker in the Department of Psychology and Dr. Pramod Regmi in the Department of Nursing Science and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen in the Department of Midwifery & Health Sciences published the paper ‘The Interdisciplinary Team Not the Interdisciplinarist: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research’ [1]. This interesting paper is co-authored with two BU Visiting Faculty, Ms. Jillian Ireland, Professional Midwifery Advocate in Poole Maternity Hospital (University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust) and Prof. Padam Simkhada based at the University of Huddersfield. This paper argues that interdisciplinary working is within the team, not the person being interdisciplinary . Multidisciplinary teams provide unique opportunities for researchers from different disciplines (and hence different ways of working and thinking) to collaborate with one another. We need to be careful not to try to create interdisciplinarists, or at least, not too many. The worlds needs people who are strong in their discipline and open-minded/flexible/reflective enough to see the value of other people’s disciplines.

Secondly, the Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences published our editorial ‘Public Health is truly interdisciplinary’ [2]. This editorial was largely written to counteract some of the jurisdictional claims made in Nepal by certain people in Public Health. These claims express themselves in arguments around the question whether Public Health is a single academic discipline or a broad interdisciplinary profession comprising many different individual academic disciplines. There are two quite distinct and opposing views. Some argue that Public Health is a broad-ranging single discipline covering sub-disciplines such as Epidemiology, Management, Medicine, Nursing, Health Psychology, Medical Statistics, Sociology of Health & Illness and Public Health Medicine. Those who support this argument, typically see: (a) Public Health is the overarching dominant discipline, which brings these sub-disciplines together; and (b) that a true Public Health practitioner amalgamates all these individual elements. Others argue that Public Health is more an overarching world view or interdisciplinary approach for wide-ranging group of professionals and academics [2]. In this view some Public Health professionals are first trained as clinicians, others as psychologists, health economists, health management, statisticians, or demographers, and so on and have later specialised in Public Health.

Thirdly, doing multidisciplinary research is not without its problems, hence we reflect on some of these in the paper ‘Interdisciplinary Research in Public Health: Not quite straightforward’ [3]. The authors are BU’s Dr. Pramod Regmi, Dr. Nirmal Ayral in the Department of Nursing Science and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen, and BU Visiting Professor Padam Simkhada and BU graduate Dr. Pratik Adhikary (currently at the University of the West of England). We all are Public Health researchers, with very different educational backgrounds and training, reflecting the diversity of and interdisciplinarity in the field. Several of us have a first degree in Education or Health Education, but one has a first degree in Sociology. Whilst four of the five authors have Master degree in Public Health and/or Health Promotion, two have a Master in Education. Most of the authors have a Ph.D. in Public Health, but again the Ph.D. of one of us is in Sociology. The key point is that we are all working in Public Health.

Unfortunately the ‘Early Career Researchers and Interdisciplinarity in the Medical Humanities – South West’is for ECRs from the South West Hub only.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMWH

References:

Shanker, S., Wasti, S.P., Ireland, J., Regmi, P., Simkhada, P., van Teijlingen, E. (2021) The Interdisciplinary Team Not the Interdisciplinarist: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research, Europasian Journal of Medical Sciences 3(2):1-5.
Wasti, S.P., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P. (2020) Public Health is truly interdisciplinary. Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences 6(1): 21-22.
van Teijlingen, E., Regmi, P., Adhikary, P., Aryal, N., Simkhada, P. (2019). Interdisciplinary Research in Public Health: Not quite straightforward. Health Prospect, 18(1), 4-7.

November 24, 2023

RKEDF training opportunities coming up in December

BRIAN, BU research, Events, Impact, Knowledge Exchange, Research Training, RKE development framework Katerina Kakaounaki

We’re excited to share …

some great RKEDF training opportunities coming up in December

Please, click on the post titles to see details and book your place on to upcoming events.

Introduction to BRAIAN Wednesday 6^th December, 10:00-11:00

By the end of the session, attendees will have an understanding of BRIAN and how it relates to Staff Profile Pages, how to create and update items and activities, how to claim/create/import publications, as well as how to upload full text articles to BURO (Bournemouth University Research Online).

Online RSA Drop-In meeting Wednesday 6^th December, 10:30-11:00

Meet your RSA reps, hear updates on how BU is implementing the Research Concordat and give feedback or raise concerns that will help to develop and support the research community at BU

What is REF Wednesday 6th December, 13:30-14:30

This session will provide an overview of the REF, it’s purpose and how it is carried out, as well as looking ahead to the next REF2028 assessment.

Create Something New at Coffee and Konfer Thursday 7^th December

This is an opportunity to have a guided tour of the Konfer platform and its full functionality, enabling you to create and connect to the UK research collaborations with other universities and businesses.

Anatomy of an Impact Case Study Tuesday 12^th December

By the end of this session, you will be familiar with the structure of an impact case study, what makes an excellent case study and what you will need in order to start building an impact case study from your own research.

Principal Investigation – Post Award for RKE  Wednesday 13th December

By the end of this session, attendees will have a strong foundation of what to expect when being responsible for their awarded projects.

Introduction to RED – The Research & Enterprise Database 30-nin online session, Friday 15^th December, 15:30-14:00

This session is aimed at all academics to provide an overview of the Research & Enterprise Database, including how to access the system, the information available to view, budget management via RED.

Please make sure you inform us in advance if you cannot attend an event that you have already booked onto, at RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk

November 23, 2023

Book your place now for a policy influencing workshop (and networking lunch!)

BU research, ECR Network, Impact, Knowledge Exchange, parliament, policy, Research Training, RKE development framework, Training Amanda Edwards

RKEDF: Engaging with Parliament for Impact 26th January, 10:00-14:30, Fusion Building

Sign up for this practical training session led by Sarah Carter-Bell, Knowledge Exchange Manager at UK Parliament, which also provides the opportunity to network with colleagues from AECC University College and Arts University Bournemouth.

This is particularly suitable for those with little or no experience of engaging with Parliament. As well as providing insights and information on how to get your research in front of the right policymakers, the session will provide time for you to identify key committees or APPGs relevant to your research, start a list of key contacts and write an introduction to a Parliamentary team.

If you have any specific questions you would like addressed during the workshop, please email them to impact@bournemouth.ac.uk by 5pm, Thursday 4th January.

Lunch is provided. Please indicate if you have any dietary requirements.

For full details of the session and to book, click here.

November 22, 2023

What is REF

BU research, REF Subjects, research staff, Research Training, RKE development framework, Training Katerina Kakaounaki

The Research Excellence Framework (REF), is the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions.

This introductory session is aimed at anyone who wants to know more about the REF and what is means for research and researchers at BU. It will provide an overview of the REF, it’s purpose and how it is carried out, as well as looking ahead to the next REF2028 assessment.

What is REF : Wednesday 6th December

from 13:30 – 14:30 at Talbot Campus

Book your place here – under “What is REF – 06/12/2023” in the drop-down menu

For any queries regarding the content of this session, please contact RKE Dev Framework

Category / Research Training

Schedule

Evaluation of Engagement Mon 18 March, 1-4pm, Talbot Campus

Advanced Evaluation Tues 19 March, 9am-12pm, Lansdowne Campus

Evaluation of Engagement Mon 18 March, 1-4pm, Talbot Campus

Advanced Evaluation Tues 19 March, 9am-12pm, Lansdowne Campus

Evaluation of Engagement

To book a place on this workshop, please complete the booking form.

Advanced Evaluation

To book a place on this workshop please complete the booking form.

Online, Thursday 10:00-10:30

Why write for The Conversation?

Click on the titles to find details and book your place to the upcoming events.

♦ Online RSA Drop-In meeting

♦ Principal Investigation

♦ ECR Network-Surgery

♦ Evidencing Impact

♦ Engaging with the Media for Impact

♦ RSA Writing Day

♦ Engaging with Parliament for Impact

♦ Introducing Knowledge Exchange in Research

♦ BA ECRN event – Med Hums

RKEDF: Engaging with Parliament for Impact 26th January, 10:00-14:30, Fusion Building

For full details of the session and to book, click here.

What is REF : Wednesday 6th December

from 13:30 – 14:30 at Talbot Campus

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