Latest research and knowledge exchange news at Bournemouth University
Please be aware that there will be a planned upgrade to BURO taking place 11-12th February. During this time, authors will not be able to deposit outputs into BURO via BRIAN.
Please do plan your use of the outputs deposit function in BRIAN accordingly to take this period of disrupted functionality into account.
For all BURO and BRIAN related queries, please email BURO@bournemouth.ac.uk and BRIAN@bournemouth.ac.uk respectively.
We are welcoming your proposals for the upcoming BA/Leverhulme Small grants call.
The below deadlines will be in place to ensure that the pre-award team can provide all interested academics with optimal support.
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26th February 2025
26th Feb – 9th April
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Guidance Session – follow the link below-
Work on your proposal between the allotted time- things to accomplish during that time by the 9th April: -Brainstorm idea with peers/mentors and discuss the design, methods and approach you are planning to take -Consider if you require additional funding development support, ie Research Facilitator support, External Application Reviewers, Bid writing – speak to RDS -Organise your team, will you have a coi or the max of two at hand, do you need any further wider team (panel). -Start a Flexi-Grant account and start an application in the system
-Submit your ITB and attach your draft proposal |
| 9th April 2025 | Call Opens -expected- |
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9th April 2025
10th -25th April |
Latest date to submit your ITB
Remember to advise your referee that you will be sending them your completed application on Flexi-Grant and that their expected statement to be submitted by the 23rd May
Internal Peer review taking place |
| 25th April 2025 | If you are Grade 8 or below and you wish to use the support of an External Application Reviewer (EAR), you must submit your quality approved by the Faculty draft application to RDS by this date. |
| 23rd May 2025 | Nominated referee supporting statement to be completed via Flexi-Grant |
| 24th May 2025 | Your final application must be submitted on Flexi-Grant by this date at the latest.
Click ‘submit’ and the form will be sent to BU’s accounts for RDS checks. |
| 24th May – 4th June 2025 | Institutional checks to take place by RDS and final submissions. – submission final dates estimated currently till call opens. |
This case study shares the knowledge gained from working with an individual having lived experience of a health condition contributing toward an occupational therapy education module through the reflections of an occupational therapy academic and a PIER partner working at Bournemouth university. The primary goal was to establish an empirical evidence base for involvement of people with lived experience in occupational therapy education and to encourage other educators and individuals with lived experience to follow this model of teaching and learning in their curricula.
Based on the belief that teaching and learning through co-production creates a ‘triangle’ of benefit for individuals with lived experience, students and academics. Individuals with lived experience are seen as powerful, independent, and strong despite their medical condition. Students learn more about important aspects of service provision beyond direct medical and therapy knowledge and academics learn about and model this new way of working.
This case study aims to promote development of co-production learning activities in occupational therapy education.
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BU has signed up to Research Connect, a new platform to search for external research funding. It replaces Research Professional.
Please join us on Monday 10th February at 11am for an online training session run by Research Connect to demonstrate the new platform, its powerful functions, and how to set up email alerts.
Registration for the webinar can be found here.
All staff have access to Research Connect. No specific registration is required as login can be done via single sign on with your BU account.
A €10 million research project is exploring how digital duplicates called ‘virtual twins’ could help in managing and treating metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD).
MAFLD is the leading cause of chronic liver disease in Europe, surpassing viral hepatitis and alcohol-related causes. It can also play a role in the development and progression of cardiovascular disease.
Bournemouth University is one of the partners on ARTEMIs, a four-year research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon programme.
The project will explore how ‘virtual twins’ – digital duplicates of the liver, heart and other organs – can be used to track the development of the disease, leading to better and more personalised diagnosis and management of the condition.
This could help enable early detection of the disease, better prediction of the disease’s progression and more effective management of MAFLD and associated conditions.
The ARTEMIs project consortium22 institutions from across Europe and beyond – ranging from hospitals to SMEs, academic partners and a patients’ association – are working together on the project.
Experts in data science and medical imaging at Bournemouth University are developing AI-based digital tools to support the digitisation and personalisation of the virtual twins.
“Through AI, we will investigate various clinical questions such as the progression of liver disease in MASLD patients and cardiovascular complications,” said Professor Hamid Bouchachia, Professor in Data Science and Intelligent Systems, who is the principal investigator for BU
“We will also develop the machine learning and AI tools to recognise and analyse patterns in patients and related factors, using data from various sources – including clinical data, imaging, and biological molecules.
“The outcome of such investigations will be integrated in a multi-scale computational virtual twin to facilitate the diagnosis and management of patients with MALFD. Such research will undoubtedly benefit patients suffering from this prevalent disease.”
To find out more about the project, please visit: www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ARTEMIS
This session is aimed at Academics, Researchers and PGRs with an interest in discussing work/life balance within Academic roles and careers.
The session aims to discuss approaches to setting and maintaining healthy work/life balance whilst also managing the demands of their role. It will follow an open, discursive model and invite responses with input from the Academic leads.
By the end of the session, attendees will have acquired knowledge of models and techniques to healthy professional practice with regards to time management, wellbeing and working practices, and have had the opportunity to discuss their specific circumstances with peers and experienced Academic mentors.
Book your place here
For further information on this event please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk
Image Copyright Dorset Wildlife Trust. Dr George McGavin (President of the Dorset Wildlife Trust) during a visit to a local school.
Join Dr George McGavin https://www.georgemcgavin.com/, one of the UK’s leading entomologists and authorities on the natural world, as well as an acclaimed TV and radio presenter, along with Prof Genoveva Esteban (microbial ecologist from SciTech in Life and Environmental Sciences), at the Dorset Wildlife Trust’s Kingcombe Visitor Centre. Together, they will examine the captivating world of pond life, including microbes. Find full details about the event and location here: Dipping into Pond Life | Dorset Wildlife Trust
Date: Saturday 8th March 2025. Two drop-in sessions: 10:30am to 12:30pm; and 1:30pm to 3:30pm
The event is free. No booking required. Everyone is welcome. Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
We will meet at Kingcombe Visitor Centre, Kingcombe Rd, Toller Porcorum, Dorchester DT2 0EQ. Parking is available on site.
This event is organised by Prof G. Esteban in collaboration with the Dorset Wildlife Trust as part of the Dorchester Science Festival https://discoverdorchester.co.uk/dorchester-science-festival/, an exciting programme of events to celebrate British Science Week, 7 – 16 March 2025.
Join us for our ECR Networking event!
The Centre for Midwifery and Women’s Health invites you to a fantastic opportunity to meet fellow researchers, share ideas, and start meaningful collaborations!
Pop along for a cuppa and some exciting brainstorming.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Abier Hamidi recently conducted the first of two Patient and Public Involvement workshops with Arabic women. Mentored by Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen and Dr. Pramod Regmi, and funded by FHSS QR Pump Prime, Abier explores Arabic women’s understanding of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWGs) and their access to health services. During this initial workshop, three Arabic women actively contributed their insights and experiences to refine the questionnaire, design the survey dissemination strategy, and ensured ethical, linguistic, and cultural considerations were met.
The survey is set to launch in May, and with the help of the women, will be distributed nationwide. Once the survey closes, the women will be invited to the second workshop, where they will collaborate with Abier to interpret the results.
Abier Hamidi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Wellbeing & Long-term Health, working on a Cancer Research UK-funded study under the supervision of Professor Steven Ersser, researching Early Detection of Skin Cancer. Her PhD thesis is titled ‘Understanding the gender and religious context of women and HIV in Libya: A mixed-methods study’. Supervisors: Dr. Pramod Regmi and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen.
The next Centre for Wellbeing and Long-Term Health (CWLTH) Research Seminar and Centre Meeting will be 13:00-14:00 on Tuesday 25/02/2025. Dr and Dr Katey Collins will be leading a discussion about the Centre’s newest work stream ‘Rehabilitation and Prevention’. All are welcome to join this meeting … click HERE to join the meeting on Teams. Contact CWLTH@bournemouth.ac.uk for more information about the Centre.
New research paper published on DIGITAL NOMADS
Rainoldi, M., Buhalis, D., Ladkin, A., 2025, Digital nomads’ work-leisure management practices, Annals Tourism Research, Volume 111, March 2025, 103904, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2025.103904
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly advanced digital technology adoption, transforming the knowledge work market and mainstreaming digital nomadism. While digital nomads often enjoy autonomy in choosing when, where, and how they perform their work, they face unique challenges in managing the intersection of work and leisure. Yet, literature on the practices digital nomads use to manage the boundaries between work and leisure is limited. This study combines the sociomaterial lens within practice theory and border theory to explore digital nomads’ workleisure management practices, analyzing 224 digital diary entries and 32 semi-structured in-depth online interviews to identify 25 practices. This study offers insights into digitally mediated workleisure practices of digital nomads, highlighting key aspects and implications for the tourism sector.
The Doctoral College Postgraduate Research Showcase is scheduled to take place at the Atrium Gallery from 3 to 28 February 2025. This exhibition will showcase a selection of the posters presented at the 16th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference.
To launch the showcase, we are hosting the PGR Showcase Celebration event, as part of our 3C event series (Culture, Community & Cake). PGRs and Supervisors are invited to this social gathering and this time we are swapping out the cake for cheese and wine!
Date: Wednesday 5 February
Time: 15:00-16:00
Location: Atrium Galley, Poole House, Talbot Campus
Meet fellow researchers and academics, support your PGR community and celebrate some of the amazing research that is taking place at BU!
Don’t miss out, book your place below:
Any Questions please contact pgconference@bournemouth.ac.uk
Best wishes,
The Doctoral College
Book now for RKEDF training in February 2025
Click on the titles to find further details and book your place
ECRN: Demonstrating Research Impact
Monday 3rd February 14.00-16.00 – in person, online
Are you hopeful that you research is going to make a difference? Have you considered the variety of ways your research can have an impact? This session will help you consider the ways in which you can demonstrate the impact your research is having and start you off on planning an impact strategy. Facilitated by RDS expert Adam Morris.
Thursday 6th February 14:00 – 15:30 – in person, Talbot Campus
We invite you to an in-person training session, featuring Anna Dent-Davies and Shivaun Meehan from the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB). They will introduce Konfer, a powerful platform for navigating the UK innovation ecosystem. For those unfamiliar, Konfer connects users with resources and potential collaborators perfectly aligned with their research or innovation projects.
RKEDF: ECRN – Work life balance
Wednesday 12th February 13:00-14:00, in person, Talbot Campus
This session is aimed at Academics, Researchers and PGRs with an interest in discussing work/life balance within Academic roles and careers. The session aims to discuss approaches to setting and maintaining healthy work/life balance whilst also managing the demands of their role. It will follow an open, discursive model and invite responses from ECRs with input from the Academic leads.
Wednesday 12th February 13:00-14:30, in person, Talbot Campus
Looking to secure European funding? Then this Horizon Europe event is for you!
This session will cover:
KTP Development – Public Sector KTPs
Wednesday 19th February 13:00-14:00, in person, BGB, Lansdowne
Public Sector KTPs: Developing the ‘Business Case’ – Providing Persuasive Evidence of Impact
Sometimes organisations can see an opportunity for growth, something that will supercharge their business, but they don’t quite know where or how to start. That’s when a Knowledge Transfer Partnership could help. As part of ongoing work to grow our KTP numbers and to coincide with their milestone birthday, we are hosting a series of developmental sessions for staff (and businesses) to debunk myths, provide insights, and forge connections.
Please help us in avoiding any waste of resources; make sure you can attend or cancel your booking prior to the session. For any further information, please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk
Links for further RKE information and support are below:
RKE SharePoint page: RKE – Home
RKEDF SharePoint for development opportunities: Research and Knowledge Exchange Development Framework RKEDF – Home
RKEDF Brightspace: Homepage – Research & Knowledge Exchange Development Framework
Funded by the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network and organised by the Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion, and Social Justice, we are inviting applications for the:
2025 Bid-generating Sandpit: Interdisciplinary Research towards Sustainable Development Goals
26 – 27 March 2025
Bournemouth University, Executive Business Centre (TBC)
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. You will then be allocated a mentor and have two online follow-up sessions to share your project progress and experiences.
We welcome early career (as you choose to define it) researchers, artists, practitioners or anyone with a general interest in sustainability and emerging interdisciplinary projects. You must be based at one of these universities: Bournemouth University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff University, University of Exeter, University of Bath, Bath Spa University, University of Bristol, University of Gloucestershire, University of Plymouth, University of the West of England or University of Wales Trinity Saint David. 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 by 6th February 2025 – note that all participants must commit to attending both full days in person: https://forms.office.com/e/AQiAsf5Wxn
The event is facilitated by Dr. Catalin Brylla and Dr. Lyle Skains, with advisors and mentors 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.
Would you like to build a media profile and take your research to a global audience by writing for The Conversation?
The Conversation is a news analysis and opinion website with content written by academics, researchers and PhD candidates working with professional journalists.
Since we first partnered with The Conversation, articles by BU authors have had close to 11 million reads and been republished by news outlets across the world.
Find out more about working with The Conversation and have the chance to pitch your ideas directly to one of their editors in our upcoming training sessions:
In this interactive session, you’ll find out more about communicating your research to the public, what The Conversation is looking for, and have the chance to discuss your research with a Conversation editor and pitch potential story ideas.
This one-to-one session with one of The Conversation’s editors is tailored to you and your research.
You’ll have the chance to discuss potential pitches and receive personalised advice and feedback on communicating your research to a general audience and turning your expertise into articles.
Places on each training session are limited so please cancel your place via Eventbrite if you are no longer able to attend.
Find out more about our partnership and the benefits of working with The Conversation
Before I dive into the work programmes, please note that there will be an in-person event dedicated to Horizon Europe funding on 12 February 2025 at 1 PM.
The session will begin with an introduction to Horizon Europe, showcasing where and how to find EU funding opportunities, followed by a panel discussion on the most effective ways to build international partnerships and engage with peers across Europe. The event will conclude with a Q&A session.
Although the event is primarily aimed at those who are relatively unfamiliar with Horizon Europe funding, even more experienced academics will have the opportunity to ask questions to the hosts — Horizon Europe expert Ainar Blaudums and Prof Hamid Bouchachia with a strong track record of successfully applying for EU funding.
For more details, please read this announcement or book your place HERE in advance, as space for this event, held in the Fusion Building, is limited.
And now, back to the topic.
It’s time to start planning and aligning your research with Horizon Europe’s potential opportunities. Many of you may already know that we are still waiting for the Horizon Europe 2025 work programme to be finalised and officially released.
Apart from the European Innovation Council’s 2025 work programme, which was published earlier, the official final versions of other work programmes are expected to be released by March/April 2025. In the meantime, we continue to keep an eye on the European Commission’s website and other sources for updates.
Some 2025 draft work programmes have been leaked, and the Science Business portal has collated them. Please note that these draft Horizon Europe work programmes for 2025 are subject to change, possibly significantly. However, they provide an early look at the research topics, timing, and budgets that the European Commission is considering, offering valuable insight into upcoming funding opportunities. For now, here’s what we know so far:
The available version appears to be from October 2024. This draft work programme outlines opportunities in areas such as social cohesion, digital culture, and the role of creative industries.
Link to the document: HORIZON-CL2-2025_10_29_2024.pdf
The available version is from October 2024. Focusing on AI, space research, and industrial innovation, this cluster will be highly relevant for researchers in engineering, technology, and cybersecurity.
Link to the document: HORIZON-CL4-2025_v3[77].pdf
This version was available in April 2024. This draft work programme focuses on green technologies, climate action, sustainable energy, and mobility solutions.
Link to the document: HORIZON-CL5_WP 2025_PC version_2024-04-29.pdf
The October 2024 version. This part of the programme aims to increase research excellence across all EU regions, particularly focusing on less-represented areas.
Link to the document: HORIZON-WIDERA-2025_10_04_2024_Advanced draft.pdf
The available version is from December 2024. With a focus on healthcare innovation, disease prevention, and mental health, the Health cluster will remain highly competitive and provide many new opportunities for research.
Link to the document: HORIZON-CL1-2025_12_20_2024.pdf
The November 2024 version. This part of the work programme covers public safety, security technologies, and disaster management.
Link to the document: Cluster 3 Draft
The EIC continues to fund high-risk, innovative technologies and support start-ups and entrepreneurs. This work programme has already been officially released.
Link to the document: European Innovation Council (EIC) Work Programme
If you have any EU funding-related questions, feel free to get in touch with me – Research Facilitator International. For general pre-award or non-EU queries, please email them to the Pre-award Enquiries mailbox.
Thank you very much for all those who attended last Wednesday’s monthly online session organised by BU’s Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH). This event featured PhD student Mr. Shafkat Hossein who spoke about his thesis research ‘Using Human-Centred Design (HCD) to develop community-led interventions to prevent drowning among children under the age of 2 in rural Bangladesh’. 
His work is part of an interdisciplinary study called ‘Sonamoni’ in which BU collaborates with CIPRB (Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh), the University of the West of England (in Bristol), the University of Southampton, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), and Design Without Borders (DWB) in Uganda. Sonamoni aims to design and develop interventions to reduce the number of young children drowning in Bangladesh.
This public health project is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) through its Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation programme. For more information, visit the NIHR website.
The second speaker at the CMWH event was Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen, who spoke about trials and tribulations of conducting, running and managing interdisciplinary studies. His talk was largely based on three three published papers co-written with BU academic and Faculty of Health & Social Sciences Visiting Faculty members on interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary working [1-3]. There are, of course, differences between multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary and the even more integrated level of working called transdisciplinary. At the same time the individual member of an interdisciplinary team needs to have individual field-based expertise in their own discipline, e.g. sociology, nursing, chemistry or law to bring required knowledge and skills to that team.
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BRIAN drop-in surgery – Lansdowne
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 Call
ERC Advanced Grant 2025 Webinar MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
Update on UKRO services
European research project exploring use of ‘virtual twins’ to better manage metabolic associated fatty liver disease
Research Information Network
Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025 Published
Horizon Europe 2025 Work Programme pre-Published