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Hard to reach or hard to engage?

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Congratulations to FHSS PhD students Aniebiet Ekong and Nurudeen Adesina on the acceptance of their paper by MIDIRS Midwifery Digest [1]. This methodological paper reflects on their data collection approaches as part of their PhD involving African pregnant women in the UK.

This paper provides a snapshot of some of the challenges encountered during the recruitment of pregnant Black African women living in the UK for their research. Though there are several strategies documented to access/invite/recruit these ‘hard-to-reach population’ these recruitment strategies however were found to be unsuitable to properly engage members of this community. Furthermore, ethical guidelines around informed consent and gatekeeping seem to impede the successful engagement of the members of this community. It is believed that an insight into the experience and perceptions of ethnic minorities researchers will enhance pragmatic strategies that will increase future participation and retention of Black African women across different areas of health and social care research. This paper is co-authored with their BU PhD supervisors: Dr Jaqui-Hewitt Taylor, Dr Juliet Wood, Dr Pramod Regmi and Dr Fotini Tsofliou.

Well done !

Pramod Regmi

  1. Ekong, A., Adesina, N., Regmi, P., Tsofliou, F., Wood, J. and Taylor, J., 2022. Barriers and Facilitators to the recruitment of Black African women for research in the UK: Hard to engage and not hard to reach. MIDIRS Midwifery Digest (accepted).

Work-life balance through the eyes of women in academia with caring responsibilities – participants needed!

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Achieving work-life balance is a struggle that many women in academia face and those with competing demands, such as caring responsibilities, will have unique ideas and experiences of work life-balance. Despite the varied care experiences of women, work conducted with women in academia has tended to focus on childcare responsibilities and there is a scarcity of research examining the experiences of those with other caregiving responsibilities.

In the hope of gaining in-depth insight into diverse experiences of work-life balance, we are currently conducting a photo-production study “Work-life balance through the eyes of women in academia with caring responsibilities” and would like to invite our colleagues to take part and help us spread the word about our study among their networks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are looking for UK-based women academics who have caring responsibilities. While we would like to particularly encourage those who provide regular care for an adult (partner, parent, another member of their family, friend etc.), we will be very happy to hear from women with childcare responsibilities. The study involves taking a few photos illustrating participant’s idea of work-life balance and then taking part in an online interview (approx. 45-60 minutes) to talk about the photos and participant’s understanding and experience of work-life balance. We appreciate that women academics are incredibly busy and so we are very flexible in terms of arranging the interviews within or outside working hours. We have got Amazon vouchers to thank our participants for their time and effort 🙂

The findings from our study aim to inform universities practices and policies to promote better support for women academics. Also, the photos – at participants’ permission and after necessary anonymisation – will be used to create a traditional and online exhibition that will hopefully provide space for reflection, discussion, and inspiration for the general public including academic and non-academic staff in HE.

If you are interested in taking part please email Agata (awezyk@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Catherine (ctalbot@bournemouth.ac.uk). If you know someone who would be willing to participate, please share our contact details with them.

Future Learn Introduction to Health Economics – Online Course

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Introduction to Health Economics – Online Course – FutureLearn

The study of health economics is important in helping to ensure the efficient use of available resources for maximising health benefits. It is also essential to improving health care delivery, outcomes, and lifestyle patterns through interactions with individuals and health care providers, in different clinical settings.

www.futurelearn.com

 

Digital Arts | Refugee Engagement: Invitation to Virtual Event

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11th February 2022, 11-1 (UK time)

Digital Arts and Refugee Engagement (DA-RE)

The DA-RE project is led by the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice.

This virtual event on 11.2 will be chaired by Isabella Rega from CEMP and Sara Marino from London College of Communication.

Digital Arts and Refugee Engagement (DA-RE) is a Global Challenges research project using arts-based activities in combination with digital literacy for developing the capabilities of refugee youth in Turkey and Bangladesh.

DA-RE’s participants co-create arts and media and connect and share using digital tools and platforms to narratives from their situated perspectives and lived experiences to develop the skills of engagement and agency in a digital ‘third space’.

DARE’s research team brings together expertise in digital literacies, arts, literacy and agency, adult learning and vocational education, with academic partners and community practitioners working with refugee youth and research assistants in Turkey and Bangladesh.

This panel will connect the refugee youth participants in Turkey and Bangladesh to share the creative work generated by the project, followed by an academic panel with the project partners and facilitators in the two refugee youth settings.

During this virtual event, we will explore the role of digital literacy in combination with the arts in developing the capabilities of refugee youth and facilitating ethical listening to the seldom heard.

Link to join (11-1, UK time, on 11th February 2022)

https://bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88189140123?pwd=VzhQeXA4QVBIMW5ZcXdkMmVibG9YQT09

More about the project

See the DA-RE project website.

The project has two centres of activity:

Turkey

Gate of Sun works with young Syrian refugees on the production of digital artistic projects, delving into the lived experience of the young participants to address issues related to their lives as refugees and the interaction with the host community.

Bangladesh

The DARE research activities in Bangladesh take place in the Kutupalang and Balukhali Rohingya refugees camps located in Ukhia, a sub-district of Cox’s Bazar, a Southeastern part of Bangladesh.  Rohingya refugee youth participants are painters, photographers, youtubers, social media activists, musicians and digital storytellers. They work with  a Rohingya youth research assistant and four anthropology graduates from the host community who are trained and skilled in the documentation of refugee art-based activities.   

In both settings, DA-RE seeks to better understand how refugee youths’ digital literacies can be combined with arts-based approaches for learning, narrating and voicing pain & pleasure, past & future, identity, ethnicity and aspiration. 

The Project Team

Amr Ajlouni is a filmmaker from Damascus, Syria. In 2012, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Damascus University, Faculty of Media and Communication. In 2017, he established Gate of Sun production House. Since then, he has been widening his experience in entrepreneurship and start-up with experts from Inno Campus, Habitat Turkey, and Impact Hub Istanbul.

Dr Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong. His latest book is “The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life” (The Oxford University Press, 2020).

Dr H. Özden Bademci holds an associate professorship in clinical psychology at Maltepe University in Istanbul. She is the Founder Director for Research and Application Centre for Street Children (SOYAÇ) at Maltepe University.

Dr Sara Marino is Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media at London College of Communication, University of the Arts. Her research focuses on the intersections between migration, material cultures and media technologies. Her latest book “Mediating the refugee crisis. Digital Solidarity, Humanitarian Technologies and Border Regimes” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) uniquely examined how communication technologies have become central to governance, resistance, humanitarianism and activism.

Dr Isabella Rega is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University (UK). Her research focuses on the role of digital media to promote community development and social change. She is also involved as Co-I in two GCRF projects, one funded by Leicester University, Lockdown Stories and one by Bournemouth University, Sister Communities, both exploring the potential of community tourism and digital storytelling.

Mohammad Zarzour is a filmmaker and Television program director from Damascus, Syria. he is the manager of the Creative Production Department at Gate of Sun Film Production Company

Professor Julian McDougall is Head of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, leads the Professional Doctorate (Ed D) in Creative and Media Education at Bournemouth University and convenes the annual International Media Education Summit.  In the fields of media education and media literacy, he is the author of a wide range of books, articles, chapters and research reports and has provided numerous research projects for research councils, media industry, charities and non-profit organisations, most recently the British Council and BBC Media Action.

 

 

Research Seminar Series (AKA Having Fun With Research!)

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The BU Law Community is launching its Research Seminar Series (AKA Having Fun With Research!) which will run on Wednesday afternoons throughout this semester.

It will bring together law academics and students to meet as fellow legal scholars and share an exciting smorgasbord of our research and demonstrate research methodologies in practice.

Full details can be found at: www.bournemouth.ac.uk/law-community

Being a course validation expert for the Portuguese Higher Education Accreditation Agency

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During 2021 I was actively involved in a number of programme accreditations for the Portuguese Higher Education Accreditation Agency (A3ES). Unlike the UK, in Portugal all course validations and revalidations are centralised in this agency. To help the Agency do the work, nearly 1500 experts have been recruited (in all areas of knowledge), both national and international.

Each assessment is performed by a Commission (CAE or External Assessment Commission) which is made up 3 members: the President and two supporting experts. Each CAE must have an international expert, which may or may not be the President of the CAE.

I was invited to become an international expert back in 2018 and since then I participated in all sorts of validation exercises for degrees in two assessment areas: 811 – hospitality and catering and 812 – tourism and leisure.

There are three types of validation exercises:

  1. New course validations: The Higher Education Institution (HEI) submits a proposal and the CAE meets remotely to assess it and produce its recommendation report
  2. Regular schedule course revalidations: The HEI produces a progress report which is assessed by the CAE. This type of assessment includes a visit to the University premises by the CAE, where progress and future developments are discussed with all main stakeholders (students, staff, course and university management and the community). The committee for this type of revalidation also includes a student from outside the institution being assessed.
  3. Special schedule course revalidations: When a new course is validated, it won’t enter the regular schedule until it completes at least six years. The regular schedule for courses in the 811 and 812 areas is every 6 years (2017, 2023, 2029 etc). At the same time, new courses have to be revalidated six years after they receive their first validation. This special schedule revalidation exercise is an interim exercise until the programme catches up with the regular revalidation schedule. For example, if a new course was validated in 2015, it is up to its first revalidation six years later (2021). Since the next regular schedule is in 2023, it requires an interim revalidation in 2021, before being subjected to the regular validation in 2023 and joining this schedule thereafter. This exercise is a lighter version of the regular revalidation exercise.

In 2021 I was involved in exercises 1 and 3, either as the President of the CAE or the international expert.  The CAE I was involved in were mostly for undergraduate and masters programmes, however for the first time I was involved in a PhD programme validation, as the international expert.

Since 2019 there are special validation rules for distance learning (courses with more than 75% of the content delivered virtually), and in 2021 I was also involved in the validation of one of these courses. As opposed to the ‘in person’ courses, where the CAE is led by an expert in the area of the course, the CAE for the distance learning courses is led by an expert in distance learning, supported by two experts in the field of the course.

The validation process is quite different from the UK. To start with, there is a quantitative performance analysis that needs to be carried out. For example, the ‘staff qualification’ ratios require that for an UG degree, 50% of all the staff need to hold PhDs, and that 60% need to be working at the institution for more than 3 years (Stability index). For a PhD all staff must have doctorates and the stability index is set at 75%.  The CAE checks that the course meets these criteria and not meeting them usually leads to the non-validation (new course) or a conditional revalidation (the HEI is given time to correct the insufficiency).

In addition to the more objective assessment, there’s a lot of areas that need to be looked at that are perhaps more subjective. This includes non-academic staff, internationalisation, student performance and retention, research performance, community links and quality assurance mechanisms.

I thoroughly enjoy being a member of CAE for several reasons. First, it’s an opportunity to (re) connect with many different Portuguese academics and exchange ideas about higher education. Second, it’s also an opportunity to help HEI improve because the CAE have a lot of scope in terms of making recommendations. Third and finally, it helps to keep up with the latest developments in the Portuguese higher education sector as far as my areas of interest is concerned (tourism, hospitality and events).

I’m already scheduled to do some more assessments in 2022, and I’m looking forward to continue contributing to the exercise.

Dr. Miguel Moital, BUBS (Department of Sport & Events Management)

Funds now available to support Global Staff Mobility: Erasmus+

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Global staff mobility, including training and teaching, leads to professional development and networking and brings great value to BU and our students, whilst offering invaluable international experience.

We are pleased to announce that staff, both academic and professional support, can now apply for funds to support these activities through Erasmus+.

Erasmus+ funds are a great way to build networks and gain experience

 

 

 

Erasmus+ staff mobility funds can be used to support travel, accommodation and subsistence of academic and professional support staff attending training at an organisation or institution in Europe. It can also be used for academic staff wishing to teach at a European university.
Erasmus+ funds are a great way to build networks and gain experience.

To be eligible for teaching (not training) mobilities, BU needs to have an agreement with the proposed University – you can check which organisations we have inter-institutional agreements with in the globalBU database.

The call for applications is now open – with a closing deadline of 23:59 GMT on Sunday 13 February 2022.

There are 2 different sets of application documents: one for activities between January 2022 and May 2022 and one for activities between June 2022 and May 2023, and so please contact globalstaffmobility@bournemouth.ac.uk for the necessary application forms, FAQs and guidance.

This year we are running two online Information Sessions on MS Teams for interested staff members on:

Thursday 3rd February 2022 1pm – 2pm  Click here for MS Teams link to session 1
Friday 4th February 2022 3pm – 4pm Click here for MS Teams link to session 2

 Please don’t hesitate to contact globalstaffmobility@bournemouth.ac.uk if you have any queries.

New BU social sciences and social work publication

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Congratulations to Jane Healy and Rosslyn Dray, both in the Department of Social Sciences & Social Work on their publication today in The Journal of Adult Protection.  Their paper’ Missing links: Safeguarding and disability hate crime responses’ considers the relationship between disability hate crime and safeguarding adults [1]. It critically considers whether safeguarding responses to disability hate crime have changed following the implementation of the Care Act 2014. Historically, protectionist responses to disabled people may have masked the scale of hate crime and prevented them from seeking legal recourse through the criminal justice system (CJS). This paper investigates whether agencies are working together effectively to tackle hate crime.  The authors conclude that raising the profile of disability hate crime within safeguarding teams could lead to achieving more effective outcomes for adults at risk: improving confidence in reporting, identifying perpetrators of hate crimes, enabling the CJS to intervene and reducing the risk of further targeted abuse on the victim or wider community.

Well done!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

 

Reference:

  1. Healy, J.C.,Dray, R. (2022), Missing links: safeguarding and disability hate crime responses, The Journal of Adult Protection, Online first ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-09-2021-0030

New BU publication on academic writing

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Congratulations to Dr. Orlanda Harvey in the Department of Social Sciences & Social Work, Dr. Pramod Regmi in the Department of Nursing Science and FHSS Visiting Faculty Jillian Ireland, Professional Midwifery Advocate in Poole Maternity Hospital (UHD/University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust) whose paper ‘Co-authors, colleagues, and contributors: Complexities in collaboration and sharing lessons on academic writing‘ was published today.[1] 

The paper argues that academic writing, especially in the health field, is usually an interdisciplinary team effort. It highlights some of the trials, tribulations, and benefits of working with co-authors. This includes collaborations and co-authorship between academics from different disciplines, academics of different level of careers, and authors from countries of varying economies i.e., high-income countries (HICs) and from low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper also provides advice in the form of several useful tips to lead authors and co-authors to support collaborative working.  Our other co-authors are: Aney Rijal, postgraduate student and Executive Editor of the journal Health Prospect based in Nepal, and Alexander van Teijlingen postgraduate student in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland).

 

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health

 

Reference:

  1. Harvey, O., van Teijlingen, A., Regmi, P.R., Ireland, J., Rijal, A., van Teijlingen, E.R. (2022) Co-authors, colleagues, and contributors: Complexities in collaboration and sharing lessons on academic writing Health Prospect 21(1):1-3.

HEIF Funding – Additive Manufactured Multiaxial Specimens for Ultrasonic Fatigue Testing

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Summary

Bournemouth University has a small amount of HEIF (Higher Education Innovation Fund) funding available to facilitate and enhance research and development collaboration with external partners.

Dr Diogo Montalvão, Professor Phil Sewell and Ms Abi Batley have been awarded £2,710 HEIF funding in July 2021 with the aim to pump-prime research through getting the engagement and commitment from industry in a future research grant application we intend to submit to the EPSRC under the Manufacturing the Future Scheme. The proposal intends to develop UK capability in Multiaxial Ultrasonic Fatigue Testing (UFT) to get predictability of advanced material properties, namely metal AM (additive manufacturing) materials.

This HEIF funding has been pivotal on the demonstration of our advanced manufacturing and testing capability.

 

Our Mission

Having as primary SIA Sustainability, Low Carbon Technology & Materials Science, our mission is to contribute to reducing global waste by extending the life and enhancing the optimisation of any engineered systems through incorporating novel advanced materials tested under ultrasonic fatigue for quick and reliable predictability of properties to extend their lives. Therefore, the project addresses the UN sustainability goals of Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Responsible Production and Consumption; and, Climate Action.

 

Background

The Design & Engineering Innovation Centre has acquired a Metal Additive Manufacturing 3D printer (figure 1) that is capable of printing steel, aluminium, cobalt, nickel and titanium based alloys. The machine was commissioned in July 2021 and this HEIF funding is promoting the very first case study where metal 3D printed parts are produced with a purpose.

Figure 1. Orlas Creator Metal Additive Manufacturing machine in the Design & Engineering Innovation Centre.

 

 

Ultrasonic Fatigue Testing (UFT) in a nutshell

Little is known about the lifetime properties of novel advanced materials, such as metal 3D printed ones. Knowing that approximately 90% of all metallic failures are due to cyclic loadings (a layman’s example would be what happens with a paper clip when we bend it many times – it will eventually snap), we are leading global research into the application of ultrasonics for fatigue testing of advanced materials. This is the only method to quickly determine the predictability of material properties that will be subjected to cyclic loading: Ultrasonic fatigue testing (UFT) enable tests to be extended to 1 billion cycles in just a few days compared to months or years (figure 2). This allows engineering products with confidence to last for extended lifetimes, which was not so easy in the past.

Figure 2. Comparison between the duration different fatigue testing methods need to be completed, assuming tests can run uninterruptedly.

One example of specimens that have been used to determine material properties are specimens that are cruciform, as they account for loads in two different directions to better replicate real working conditions in the lab. The PI, Dr Diogo Montalvão, has been leading research in adapting these specimens to ultrasonic fatigue testing (figure 3) and, under this HEIF, has redesigned them to be produced, for the very first time ever, by additive manufacturing (i.e., on a 3D printer) rather than by subtractive manufacturing (i.e., from machining in a CNC mill)..

Figure 3. Ultrasonic fatigue testing equibiaxial cruciform specimens (i.e., enable testing two equal loads in two perpendicular directions).

Results

It took about 18 hours to 3D print the specimen represented in figure 3 on the right in the Orlas Creator printer in the Design and Engineering Innovation Centre. Material used was a stainless-steel alloy. According to Mr Richard Glithro (CAD Demonstrator) and Ms Abigail Batley (Additive and Virtual Manufacturing Technician), this very first specimen did push the envelope during the manufacturing process as it was designed to fit the maximum available space in the machine chamber (the specimen occupies the area of a circle with 100 mm diameter).

 

Video 1. 3D printing in progress in the Design and Engineering Innovation Centre: .

One interesting result, which corroborates the hypothesis that metal additive manufacturing is more eco-friendly with up to 4 times lower scrap material generated in parts manufactured, is that the buy-to-fly ratio was 1.25:1 only for the part in figure 3 on the right, with the produced part produced weighing 191 gf (a little bit under the 223.8 gf initially predicted due to some defects discussed below), whereas the scrap material was measured to weigh 47.4 gf. When the machined part represented in figure 3 on the left was produced (from subtractive manufacturing), the buy-to-fly ratio was determined to be 3.85:1, producing 3.1 times as much waste (in proportion) when compared to the metal additive manufactured counterpart.

 

Challenges and Future steps

There were a few problems with the printing with large defects appearing in one of the arms. While it is not yet known what the issue(s) is(are), Mr Richard Glithro and Ms Abigail Batley are determined to get a “perfect” part and are investigating what parameters need to be changed in the printing (or design) process. A new part is being sent to manufacturing and, once the intended design specification is achieved, specimens are meant to be tested in Ultrasonic Fatigue Testing. That will be done within the ADDISONIC research project that has been funded this Summer by the University under the Strategic Investment Areas game changing call.

The ADDISONIC is a project that counts with the International collaboration from the University of Lisbon in Portugal. Betta Della Giustina and Ryan Mappledoram are two BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering students who are driven by research and who have embraced projects in this exciting field as their final year projects. We expect that their contributions will bring valuable insights into the project’s future.

As an external outreach goal, which was part of HEIF’s initial objectives, it is expected that the outcomes from this work will attract local as well as Nationwide businesses who are concerned with the life of their products.

Last BU paper of 2021

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The scientific journal Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published its fourth and final issue of 2021 on December 31.  This issue included our systematic review ‘Epidemiologic characteristics, clinical management and Public Health Implications of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and meta-analysis’.  This review covered the published literature on the epidemiology, clinical management and public health prevention aspects of pregnancy and childbirth and coronavirus (COVID-19) up until December 2020.  We worked hard and fast to submit the paper as soon as possible after the end of 2020 to be able to publish up-to-date findings.  We managed this and submitted the paper on March 5th, the peer-review took some months and so did the making of the revisions.  As a result we resubmitted the manuscript of 29 September and we got the acceptance email within a week.  We made it into the next issue of the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology which published exactly one year after the data collection period had ended for our systematic review.

There are two lessons here, first even when submitting to an online journal one will experience a delay in publishing.  Secondly, the 36 papers we had appraised and included were published in 2020, meaning these scientific  papers were submitted in mid-2020 at the latest in order to make it through the peer-review process, get accepted and formatted for online publication.

In the resubmitted version we had to add as a weakness of this review that: “It is worth noting that this extensive systematic review only cover papers published in 2020, and hence studies conducted in or before 2020. This was before the emergence of variants of COVID-19, especially the delta and omicron variants.”

 

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH (Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health).

Research papers: A game of Happy Families

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Recently I completed a game of Happy Families, to be more precise I added a paper with my fourth family member to a ‘collection’.  I got the idea from Prof. Jonathan Parker  and Prof. Sara Ashencaen Crabtree (both based in the Department of Social Sciences & Social Work) who published a paper with their children a few years ago [1].  When Jonathan told me about this achievement I had already published two dozen of scientific and practitioners’ papers with my partner  Jilly Ireland, Professional Midwifery Advocate in University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust and FHSS Visiting Faculty (for example 2-5).

Two years ago, Dr. Preeti Mahato (in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health) and I published a paper with my middle son about ‘Vaping and e-cigarettes: A public health warning or a health promotion tool?’ [6].  The following year, Prof. Hamid Bouchachia (Faculty of Science & Technology) and I co-authored a paper with my oldest son on AI and health in Nepal [7], followed by a paper this year on academic publishing with FHSS’s Dr. Shovita Dhakal Adhikari (Department of Social Sciences & Social Work , Dr. Nirmal Aryal (CMMPH) and Dr. Pramod Regmi (Department of Nursing Sciences  [8].  And to complete the four family members in the Happy Families set, I published a paper late last month with my daughter under the title ‘ Understanding health education, health promotion and public health’ [9].

 

 

 

References:

  1. Parker, J., Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Crabtree Parker, M. and Crabtree Parker, I., 2019. ‘Behaving like a Jakun!’ A case study of conflict, ‘othering’ and indigenous knowledge in the Orang Asli of Tasik Chini. Journal of Sociology and Development, 3 (1): 23-45.
  2. Ireland, J., Bryers, H., van Teijlingen E., Hundley, V., Farmer, J., Harris, F., Tucker, J., Kiger, A., Caldow, J. (2007) Competencies and Skills for Remote & Rural Maternity Care: A Review of the Literature, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 58(2): 105-115.
  3. van Teijlingen E., Simkhada, P., Ireland, J. (2010) Lessons learnt from undertaking maternity-care research in developing countries. Evidence-based Midwifery 8(1): 12-6.
  4. Ireland, J., van Teijlingen, E, Kemp J. (2015) Twinning in Nepal: the Royal College of Midwives UK and the Midwifery Society of Nepal working in partnership, Journal of Asian Midwives 2 (1): 26-33. http://ecommons.aku.edu/jam/vol2/iss1/5/
  5. Ireland, J., Khashu, M., Cescutti-Butler, L., van Teijlingen, E, Hewitt-Taylor, J. (2016) Experiences of fathers with babies admitted to neonatal care units: A review of literature, Journal of Neonatal Nursing 22(4): 171–176.
  6. van Teijlingen, E., Mahato, P., Simkhada, P., van Teijlingen, C., Asim, M., & Sathian, B. (2019). Vaping and e-cigarettes: A public health warning or a health promotion tool? Nepal Journal of Epidemiology, 9(4), 792-794. https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v9i4.26960
  7. van Teijlingen, A., Tuttle, T., Bouchachia, H., Sathian, B., & van Teijlingen, E. (2020). Artificial Intelligence and Health in Nepal. Nepal Journal of Epidemiology, 10(3), 915–918. https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v10i3.31649
  8. van Teijlingen, E.R., Dhakal Adhikari, S., Regmi, P.R., van Teijlingen, A., Aryal, N., Panday, S. (2021). Publishing, identifiers & metrics: Playing the numbers game. Health Prospect, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.3126/hprospect.v20i1.37391
  9. van Teijlingen, K., Devkota, B., Douglas, F., Simkhada, P., van Teijlingen, E. (2021) Understanding health education, health promotion and public health, Journal of Health Promotion 9(1):1-7.  https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/jhp/article/view/40957

British Academy ECR Hub brings new opportunities for BU ECRs

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CALLING ALL HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ECRs:  

  • Do you want to supercharge your skills development?
  • Do you want access to a range of free training and mentoring? 
  • Do you want to engage in networking opportunities?

Take a look at this…

THE BRITISH ACADEMY’S ECR NETWORK EXPANDS INTO SOUTH WEST WITH NEW HUB. 

The British Academy has expanded its Early-Career Researcher (ECR) Network via a pilot programme aimed at UK-based postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences – into the Southwest region with a new hub comprising the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Bath Spa, Bournemouth, Gloucestershire, Plymouth and UWE.  

This two-year pilot programme aims to establish an inclusive, UK-wide Network for ECRs in the humanities and social sciences, providing opportunities for skills development and networking across the whole country. 

As you can imagine we are all very BU Proud to be part of this consortium so please make the most of this opportunity and sign up to supercharge your trajectory…

The link to join the network is here: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/BAECRN/ 

Information about the network, including FAQs is here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career-researcher-network/ 

Design and Engineering SWAN Application Success!

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Following achievement of BU’s Department of Design & Engineering  the Athena SWAN bronze award, in recognition of commitment to working towards gender equality in higher education, we would like to share the journey, briefly.

We are very proud that the Athena SWAN  Panel from Advance HE commends the Department for its work to progress gender equality, including the development of an organisational structure to carry this work forward.

Athena SWAN was introduced in May 2019 by two members of the BU SWAN steering group to Design and Engineering Department. The Self-Assessment Team (SAT) leaders were appointed after an open call for expressions of interest by the HoD in October 2019.  A call for SAT membership was made in December 2019. The SAT was formally introduced by the SAT leaders in January 2020, and seven individuals with various backgrounds (academic, professional & support, and students (UG and PGR)) were appointed and contributed to the development of the application.

For the preparation of the application there had been several face to face and virtual Self-Assessment Team meetings and two focus groups conducted virtually to further explore the related topics. There has been a high level of interest from D&E SAT members who are from diverse backgrounds in addressing gender equality within the department during the pandemic. Although the lockdown caused cancellation of some outreach activities, virtual SAT activities enabled everyone to take pride in being part of a community that is contributing to engineering and technology advancements.

During this journey, Dr James Palfreman-Kay, BU Equality and Diversity Advisor, has acted as the advisor of the the teamwork leading to an action plan which was used as the basis for the Athena SWAN bronze award submission.

The Design & Engineering department is committed to a fully inclusive environment to work and study in addressing fusion, Research, Education and Professional Practice. This award gives us confidence that the actions we are undertaking will enable us to achieve this aim.