BU Research Blog

Kayleigh Jones graduated with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Events Management in 2017. She did extremely well in her dissertation which focused on how event managers create prestige value for corporate VIPs. Kayleigh’s tutor Dr Miguel Moital challenged her to prepare a manuscript based on her dissertation to be submitted to the European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation. To Kayleigh’s and Miguel’s delight, the paper was accepted after very minor modifications (which shows the high quality of the submission). The article is free to download from the publishers website. In this post on the undergraduate blog, Kayleigh talks about the experience of doing her dissertation and shares her feelings upon seeing it published.

Publishing a journal article based on my dissertation – Kayleigh’s story

At the next Café Scientifique (Bournemouth) in April Dr Varuni Wimalasiri will be talking about some of the early findings from her project ‘Woman’s work’ which looks at women’s journey’s back to working lives following displacement due to war.  Come and along and join the conversation.

The project is funded by ‘ The Lloyds Bank Social entrepreneurs start up programme, in partnership with the school of social entrepreneurs (SSE) and jointly funded by the Big Lottery’

The Centre for Qualitative Research congratulates one of its postgrad Affiliates, Louise Oliver, who has won third prize for her oral presentation in the recent Doctoral College Conference.

Louise’s PhD is entitled, “Family Narratives of Child-to-Parent Violence and Abuse: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy”. She is supervised by Lee-Ann Fenge and Kip Jones.

Professor Jens Holscher gave an interview on Brexit and Trade War in the Express:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/929542/brexit-news-eu-uk-trade-war-brexit-negotiations-liam-fox-theresa-may-brussels

We’ve only got a few spaces left for this workshop! We’d be delighted if you can join us in Boscombe for a fascinating day (with lunch!) looking at different creative processes to adapt and align to our practice! More details here . To book your place on this workshop please email Organisational Development.

Professor Jens Holscher gave on interview on the effects of Brexit on Financial Services in the Bournemouth Echo:

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/16072967.Brexit__financial_services_jobs___39_going_abroad__39__as_chancellor_seeks_deal/

On the 28^th February, JEC’s Narrative Research Group was host to not one but two speakers; Dr Hywel Dix (Principal Academic in English, BU), and Dr Tom Masters (Lecturer in English & Communication, BU).

Hywel Dix introduces his research.

In the first half of the session, Hywel presented a short overview of his most recent publication, The Late-Career Novelist: Career Construction Theory, Authors and Autofiction (Bloomsbury, 2017). As Hywel explained, the book explores the ways in which bestselling contemporary novelists look back and respond to their earlier successes in their subsequent writings. Exploring the work of major novelists such as Angela Carter, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt and Graham Swift, the book considers the self-reflexive process by which these writers ‘write back’ to their earlier works, as well as address their public personas and status as significant contemporary writers. Further, in its approach to these writers and their work, the book draws for the first time on social psychology and career construction theory in an interdisciplinary examination of how the dynamics of a literary career play out in the fictional worlds of these novelists.

Tom Masters performs his poetry.

Following Hywel’s presentation and discussion amongst the group, Tom Masters then gave a recital of a number of his poems, followed by discussion of their themes and imagery. At the centre of Tom’s performance was a work in progress that he is writing as part of the bicentenary celebrations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818). Drawing on a range of influences, including Joseph Wright’s 1768 painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, and Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare (1781), the poem explores the conjoined intellectual and artistic contexts of the Enlightenment period, and the resonance of their Gothic overtones. When completed, the poem will be exhibited alongside Shelley’s original manuscript as part of a collection of works commissioned to acknowledge the influence of Shelley’s work. For those of us who have taught and lectured with Tom across units within JEC, it was a pleasure to learn more about his creative work in this forum.

Our next meeting will be Wednesday 21^st March when we will welcome Dr Maxine Gee (Lecturer in Sceenwriting, FMC), who will give a talk on her research into science fiction and Anime. A further event in May will see Alexandra Alberda and Stephen Allard, first year PhD researchers in JEC, introduce their respective work on graphic medicine and digital poetics.

The Narrative Research Group and its meetings are open to all (staff and students); if you are interested in joining the group, attending the seminars, or being added to the mailing list then please email its convener, Dr Sam Goodman (sgoodman@bournemouth.ac.uk).

Professor Jens Holscher Jas joined the review team of the Journal of Common Market Studies, a journal in which he had a number of articles published in the past.

BU are hosting a Doctoral Summer School between 4th – 6th July 2018!

The summer school is applicable to PhD candidates and early stage post-docs. Whilst the event is being sponsored by the European Media Management Association, we welcome applications from candidates whose research is located within a broad range of subject disciplines including: Business and Management, Communication, Creative and Cultural Industries, Journalism and Media Studies.

You can contact Dr John Oliver (joliver@bournemouth.ac.uk) in the Faculty of Media & Communications for further information or visit the following link:

https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/our-faculties/faculty-media-communication/emma-doctoral-summer-school-2018

The application deadline is Friday 30th March 2018.