Latest research and knowledge exchange news at Bournemouth University
The next Global Café will be on Wednesday 11 March 2020 at the third floor of BU’s Executive Business Centre, It starts at 18.30 with a light Buffet Dinner followed by a series of short talks at 19.00. These short talks will be from a range of four speakers and there will be time to network with other participants. We aim the finish at 21.00.
All welcome, please book your space here!
Dr. Emer Forde
Tuesday 25th February 10:00 – 12:00 Talbot Campus
BU is committed to promoting and upholding the highest quality academic and ethical standards in all its activities, and requires that all research is subject to ethical consideration.
If ethical approval is needed, approval must be obtained before any data collection activities commence.
This workshop is designed to assist Researchers in the process of obtaining ethical approval.
See here for more information and to book. If you have any queries, please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk
Elsevier, the manufacturers of SciVal, will be coming to BU to deliver a number of workshops on their research performance online tool.
SciVal shows bibliometric data for individuals and organisations and is used by some funders and organisations when assessing research grants, informing research evaluation and identifying collaborators worldwide.
27th February 2020 at Talbot Campus
There are two sessions running during the day as follows:
09:30 – 11:00 SciVal for REF purposes
11:30 – 12:30 SciVal Introduction (for Researchers and Professional Support Staff)
13:30 – 14:30 SciVal Introduction (for Researchers and Professional Support Staff)
15:00 – 16:30 SciVal for REF purposes
To register book your place for one of these workshops, please e-mail Organisational Development stating which session(s) you wish to attend.
If you have any queries, please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Collard in the Department of Psychology, Dr. Pramod Regmi in the Department of Nursing Science and FHSS Visiting Professor Katherine Barnard-Kelly on their publication: ‘Exercising with an automated insulin delivery system: qualitative insight into the hopes and expectations of people with type 1 diabetes’ [1]. This paper in Practical Diabetes is a joint publication with several North American scholars.
The authors of this qualitative paper distilled three themes related to the benefits of automated insulin delivery systems: (a) more freedom and spontaneity in the individual’s ability to exercise; (b) relief
from worry of hypoglycaemia as a result of exercise; (c) removing the ‘guesswork’ of adjusting insulin for exercise, as well as two further themes relating to potential concerns with regard to safely exercising while wearing an automated insulin delivery system.
Well done!
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen
CMMPH
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Tuesday 18th February 13:00 – 17:00 Talbot Campus
This session is for all authors or producers of research outputs in non-traditional formats to work through the key information required and make a start in preparing this ready for submission to a future REF mock exercise. The topics covered will be :
See here for more information and to book. Contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk if you have any queries.
We have some great events coming up in the next few weeks to help support you in your research activities.
| Tuesday 18th February | RKEDF: Preparing Practice-Based Research Outputs for Assessment |
| Wednesday 19th February | RKEDF: Advanced Literature Search Techniques |
| Thursday 20th February | RKEDF: Environment Narrative Writing Day |
| Monday 24th February | Global Visiting Fellowship Fund – Best Practice Workshop |
| Tuesday 25th February | RKEDF: Research Ethics @ BU |
| Wednesday 26th February | RKEDF: Measuring the Impact of Your Research with Advanced Citation Tools |
| Thursday 27th February | BRIAN training – nominating your outputs for the REF mock exercise |
| Thursday 27th February | RKEDF: SciVal |
| Friday 6th March | RKEDF: Research Outputs – Writing Day |
| Monday 9th March | RKEDF: Global Visiting Fellowship – Drop in sessions |
| Wednesday 11th March | RKEDF: Getting started in public engagement with research |
| Monday 16th March | RKEDF: Global Visiting Fellowship – Drop in sessions |
| Thursday 19th March | RKEDF: Environment Narrative Writing Day |
| Tuesday 24th March | NIHR Grant Applications Seminar & Support Event |
| Wednesday 25th March | RDS Academic and Researcher Induction Event |
| Monday 30th March | RKEDF: Building Evidence for REF Impact Case Studies |
You can see all the Organisational Development and Research Knowledge Development Framework (RKEDF) events in one place on the handy calendar of events.
Please note that all events are now targeted, so look closely at the event page to ensure that the event is suitable for you. In addition, most RKEDF events now require the approval of your Head of Department (or other nominated approver). Please follow the instructions given on the event page and the template email for you to initiate the booking request.
If you have any queries, please get in touch!
Thursday 13th February 09:30 – 16:00 Poole House
Systematic and scoping reviews are a great way of publishing quality publications. They are also highly valued as REF submissions, especially in the health field.
One of the most important aspects for a systematic review is to create an effective and professional search strategy.
This session will provide information on effective search strategies – with advice from the library to specific researchers, as well as advice on writing scoping and systematic reviews from academics with experience in this field.
Both staff and postgraduate students should consider writing up their literature reviews as journal articles. For more information about how scoping and systematic reviews can help improve your academic career please see the blog.
Click to book. Any queries, please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk.
Congratulations to an international team of midwifery researchers including Dr. Jane Fry in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) and former CMMPH member of staff Dr. Jenny Hall on the acceptance of their paper ‘Spirituality and Childbirth: an international virtual co-operative inquiry’ [1] by the journal Women & Birth (Elsevier).
Congratulations!
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen
CMMPH
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All email addresses at the HRA are changing in the coming weeks and this change will be complete by March 2020.
HRA staff email addresses will be standardised as firstname.lastname@hra.nhs.uk. A full list of contact email addresses for the Research Ethics Committees is now available here.
If you use the HRA staff member’s @nhs.net email address to contact them after they have moved to their new email address, you will receive a response containing their new details but your email won’t be automatically forwarded.
If you are unsure which contact information to use for the individual or service you require, please contact the HRA mainline on 020 797 22545 or use their contact form.
Make sure to check your junk mail if you are expecting emails from the HRA or an NHS REC as they often are sent there instead. Please add them to your safe senders list if this is the case to make sure you don’t miss any important study emails!
Are you interested in running your own research project within the NHS or healthcare? Good Clinical Practice, or ‘GCP’, is a requirement for those wishing to work on clinical research projects in a healthcare setting.
GCP is the international ethical, scientific and practical standard to which all clinical research is conducted. By undertaking GCP, you’re able to demonstrate the rights, safety and wellbeing of your research participants are protected, and that the data collected are reliable.
The next GCP full day session is scheduled for Tuesday 17th March, at Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester – 8:45am – 4:30pm.
The day will comprise of the following sessions:
If you’re interested in booking a place, please contact Research Ethics.
Remember that support is on offer at BU if you are thinking of introducing your research ideas into the NHS – email the Research Ethics mailbox, and take a look at the Clinical Governance blog.
Are you currently undertaking research within the NHS, and your Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training is due to expire? Or has it expired recently?
GCP certification lasts for two years, so if your training is due to expire, has expired, or you want to validate your learning, then take advantage of the upcoming refresher half day session, taking place at Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester on Tuesday 18th February, 9:00am – 12:30pm.
Spaces are still remaining, so if you’d like to enrol, get in touch with Research Ethics.
The Leverhulme have launched their Doctoral Scholarships scheme offering UK universities funding of 15 Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships in a priority research area for that institution. As a university we may submit one application only and therefore the university will be coordinating expressions of interest from Academic Staff.
By 11th February 2020, those who are interested in making an application to the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships are invited to submit the following expression of interest – Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships EOI to Alexandra Pekalski .
Further information about the scheme is available from the Leverhulme Trust. Applicants are advised to check the eligibility criteria very carefully.
Purpose of funding
The Leverhulme will fund 15 doctoral scholarships in a priority research area for that institution. Each award funds 15 Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships at that institution, with 5 scholarships to be offered in each year of the first three years of the grant.
Each scholarship is for a fixed sum of £90,000 for each student for up to 48 months of full-time doctoral study. This covers:
Any remaining funds are to be used for the Leverhulme Scholar’s research and training expenses.
While the scholarships may be held by students of all nationalities, the Trust has a particular interest in supporting UK or EU students.
Process for selecting applications to be submitted
Should you be interested in applying, please note that your expression of interest application will be assessed by Doctoral Funding Panel. Further details of the assessment criteria can be found within the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships EOI . Candidates can expect feedback by 25th February 2019.
Timetable
| 21-01-2020 | RDS advertise Expression of Interest (EoI)competition for call |
| 11-02-2020 | EoI deadline (EoIs to be sent to RDS) |
| 13-02-2020 | Papers (applications) sent to Doctoral Funding panel (RDS to administer) |
| 20-02-2020 | Doctoral Funding panel meeting (virtual) |
| 25-02-2020 | Doctoral Funding panel decision and feedback disseminated to applicants |
| 25-02-2020 | RDS to contact Leverhulme to provide the Trust with the principal applicant’s name, departmental affiliation and email address. Access will then be granted to the Leverhulme Trust Grants Management System |
| March/April/May-2020 | Applicants develop proposals with the support of RDS and Doctoral College |
| 22-05-2020 | Application finalised for APF financial sign-off by UET |
| 05-06-2020 | Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Deadline |
If you have further questions or queries please contact Alexandra Pekalski (apekalski@bournemouth.ac.uk) and/or Lisa Andrews (andrewsl@bournemouth.ac.uk ). For queries relating to Doctoral colleague support please contact Fiona Knight (fknight@bournemouth.ac.uk) and/or Julia Taylor (jtaylor@bournemouthac.uk).
Congratulation to Dr Francesco Ferraro, who published his latest paper on Plos One.
The paper “Comparison of balance changes after inspiratory muscle or Otago exercise training” comes from Dr Ferraro`s PhD where, under the supervision of Professor McConnell, Dr Gavin and Associate Professor Wainwright, he looked at the effects of inspiratory muscle training on balance and physical performance with older adults.
This latest paper looks at the potential benefit of inspiratory muscle training as an alternative to standard balance training intervention. The findings of this pragmatic parallel study support the hypothesis that 8 weeks of unsupervised, individual, home-based inspiratory muscle training, improves balance ability to a similar extent to supervised, group-based balance training in healthy older adults.
The article is now fully available as open access here
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227379
Dr Ferraro.
fferraro@bournemouth.ac.uk
ICTHR has recently been re-approved for another three years. If your research is in (or partly overlapping with) tourism or hospitality or related subjects such as events and leisure, join with other researchers in this centre.
What does membership involve?
What does it give you?
Simply email Adam Blake to be included.
SPACES STILL AVAILABLE
Wednesday February 5th
11:00 – 13:00
7th floor of the Executive Business Centre
The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science. The Society performs a number of roles including influencing policymaking, promoting public engagement with science and funding leading scientists. Over £40 million is spent annually by the Royal Society across the grant-making schemes.
This event, presented by the Royal Society’s Grants Operations Manager and the Grant Impact and Promotions Officer, will deliver an overview of the society’s funding schemes and provide advice on putting together a successful funding application. Academics with a successful track record will also discuss their personal experiences, and there will be a Q&A session followed by a networking lunch.
The intended learning outcomes of this session are:
For more information and to book, please see the staff intranet. If you have any queries, please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk.
The NIHR have recently released another of their podcasts in their Health Research Futures series, this time from Professor Martin Rosser.
Professor Rosser founded Join Dementia Research, a national system for linking patients and public to research studies. He is also the Director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network for Dementia and Neurodegenerative diseases.
In this podcast he discusses dementia research and its importance in the clinical research landscape.
Congratulation to FHSS PhD student Sulochana Dhakal Rai who just published her latest article in the Journal of Asian Midwives. The paper ‘Caesarean Section rates in South Asian cities: Can midwifery help stem the rise?‘ [1] is highly topical in this Year of the Nurse and Midwife (see Bournemouth University’s earlier event on YouTube).
Caesarean section (CS) is a life-saving surgical intervention for delivering a baby when complications arise in childbirth. The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests a rate of CS from 10% to 15%. However, CS rates increased steadily in recent decades and have almost doubled from 12.1% in 2000 to 21.1% in 2015. Therefore, this has become a global public health problem. This scoping review gives an analysis of the rising CS use in four South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The authors conclude that the increasing CS rates in South Asian cities, particularly in specific groups of women, present a challenge to hospital staff and managers and policy-makers. The challenge is to avoid ‘Too Much Too Soon’ in otherwise healthy urban women and avoid ‘Too Little Too Late’ in women living in remote and rural area and in poor urban women.
This paper is co-authored by Dr. Juliet Wood and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH), Dr. Pramod Regmi Lecturer in International Health in the Department of Nursing Science, Dr. Amudha Poobalan at the University of Aberdeen, Dr. Malin Bogren at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, Prof. Rafat Jan at the Aga Khan University in Pakistan and Dr. Ganesh Dangal at Kathmandu Model Hospital in Nepal and Dr.Keshar Bahadur Dhakal based at Karnali Academy of Health Science also in Nepal. This is Sulochana’s second PhD paper, her first paper was published last year [2].
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The Royal College of Physicians have recently published a set of articles that reflect the crucial role clinical research plays in the NHS.
This article comes from a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust in which he talks about the transformational effect that clinical research had on his career.
You can see the article here.
Remember – support and guidance is on offer at BU if you are thinking of conducting clinical research, whether in the NHS, private healthcare or social care – get in touch with Research Ethics. You can also take a look at the Clinical Governance blog for resources and updates.
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