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2 October 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science – what have we got for you!

The ESRC Festival is a month away…

With planning underway we wanted to let you know what events you could get involved in and find out more about the Social Science research we have at Bournemouth University.

Here are a few of the events that we are organising, you can find out more about the festival and book your tickets here.

Brexit: Next Steps for Business and Trade Policy – Sangeeta Khorana and Jens Holscher are inviting policy makers to come together with academics and businesses to discuss options around pressing post-Brexit issues. 9th November, London.

Tackling Loneliness through connections and creativity – Dr. Lee-Ann Fenge and Sally Lee are raising awareness on the impact of loneliness on health and well-being in older generations. This event hopes to give Social Care workers inspiration of connecting and creating with older generations which will help to combat loneliness, whilst raising awareness of the susceptibility loneliness makes people to financial scams. 9th November, The Shelley Theatre Boscombe.

Thank you for coming: Why gratitude matters – Fiona Cownie will teach you the power of saying ‘thank you’ whilst giving you an action plan which you can implement within your work/volunteering environment. 10th November, Bournemouth University Talbot campus.

We can’t wait for you to join us at the ESRC Festival of Social Science. There are activities for everyone, without costing you a penny!

24 April 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017 – Call for proposals still open!

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Deadline if fast approaching for applications for ESRC Festival of Social Science.

To be part of a week-long celebration of social sciences across the UK, make sure to complete the application form and send it to FestivalofSocialScience@bournemouth.ac.uk by 5 pm on Friday 5th May.

Why get involved in the ESRC Festival of Social Science this year?

Benefits: Fantastic for your academic profile

Activities can range from engaging people with social science concepts through staging debates to involving key stakeholders in shaping research priorities and directions. Done well, public engagement can build trust and understanding between the social science research community and a wide range of groups, from policymakers through to school children.

Public engagement can help you strengthen your research questions or improve the response rate to data collection methods. It can also build on and support the wider activities of your strategy. One of the most profound joys of public engagement is its unpredictability: fresh perspectives, challenging questions, lateral insights – all can help to sharpen thinking, release precious energy and creativity and unlock new collaborations and resources.

Please contact Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) if you would like to discuss your event idea or for further information.

19 April 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science – Call for proposals!

Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

The call for event proposals for the ESRC Festival of Social Science is now open! This is a fantastic national festival will take place from 4^th to 11^th of November 2017. It celebrates the best of social science and engages a wide public audience with the key issues that social scientists are currently addressing. We are keen to see as many of our social scientists at BU to take part in this exciting public engagement initiative as possible.

Please contact us if you’d like to get involved – we’re open to ideas; public debates, conferences, workshops, interactive seminars, film screenings, virtual exhibitions and more. 2017 will be the fifteenth year that the ESRC will hold the Festival of Social Science and we are welcoming event proposals targeting a non-academic audience including young people, third sector, the public, business or government.

In previous years we’ve run some pretty exciting events, including this one from Dr Kip Jones whose 5th-anniversary film screening of Rufus Stone is now being mentioned on the ESRC website. Take a look here: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/public-engagement/festival-of-social-science/previous-events/

To apply, you will need to complete an application form stating details of the type of event you’d like to run. If you would like to make an application to run an event as part of the Festival or for further information, please do not hesitate to contact Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) from the Research and Knowledge Exchange Office.

Funding is available to support your event.

For more information about the Festival, visit www.esrcfestival.ac.uk

17 April 2017

Social Science Researcher? – ESRC Social Science Festival needs you!

Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

The ESRC Festival of Social Science will be back again this November (4^th-11th), and we need researchers of Social Sciences to come and get involved in running lectures, workshops, exhibitions or other engagement platforms to share your research with the wider public.

Through engaging with the wider public, they develop a range of transferable skills, for instance in leadership, communication, listening, partnership working and project management.

The call is officially open for proposals, so if you’d like to be involved, we’d love to hear from you. Funding is available to support these activities.

To apply, you will need to complete an application form, available on the staff intranet, stating details of the type of event you’d like to run. Please contact event organiser Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Engagement and Impact facilitator Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) to make an application or for further information.

10 April 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017 – Get involved!

Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

Why get involved in the ESRC Festival of Social Science this year?

Benefits: Fantastic for your academic profile

Activities can range from engaging people with social science concepts through staging debates to involving key stakeholders in shaping research priorities and directions. Done well, public engagement can build trust and understanding between the social science research community and a wide range of groups, from policymakers through to school children.

Public engagement can help you strengthen your research questions or improve the response rate to data collection methods. It can also build on and support the wider activities of your strategy. One of the most profound joys of public engagement is its unpredictability: fresh perspectives, challenging questions, lateral insights – all can help to sharpen thinking, release precious energy and creativity and unlock new collaborations and resources.

To apply, you will need to complete an application form, available on the staff intranet, stating details of the type of event you’d like to run. The application can be accessed via staff intranet

Please contact Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) if you would like to discuss your event idea or for further information.

31 March 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017 – Call for proposals!

Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

The call for event proposals for the ESRC Festival of Social Science is now open! This is a fantastic national festival will take place from 4^th to 11^th of November 2017. It celebrates the best of social science and engages a wide public audience with the key issues that social scientists are currently addressing. We are keen to see as many of our social scientists at BU to take part in this exciting public engagement initiative as possible.

Please contact us if you’d like to get involved – we’re open to ideas; public debates, conferences, workshops, interactive seminars, film screenings, virtual exhibitions and more. 2017 will be the fifteenth year that the ESRC will hold the Festival of Social Science and we are welcoming event proposals targeting a non-academic audience including young people, third sector, the public, business or government.

To apply, you will need to complete an application form stating details of the type of event you’d like to run. If you would like to make an application to run an event as part of the Festival or for further information, please do not hesitate to contact Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) from the Research and Knowledge Exchange Office.

The application form is available to download from the staff intranet.

Deadline: Friday 5th May, 5 pm

Funding is available to support your event.

For more information about the Festival, visit www.esrcfestival.ac.uk

15 March 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

The call for participants for the 2017 ESRC Festival of Social Sciences will be opening on 29^th March. The festival this year is taking place from the 4^th to the 11^th of November with events taking place across the BU Campus and in the local area. We will be looking for applications from social sciences researchers to run workshops/exhibitions/lectures/activities (we’re open to ideas) open for attendance for the wider public.

The ESRC FSS encourages to support and create the opportunity for social science researchers to engage with non-academic audiences and to promote and increase awareness of the social sciences and the contribution they make to the wellbeing and the economy of society.

Please keep an eye out for further information when the call for applicants opens on the 29^th March or contact Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) to find out more.

1 December 2016

Shelley Frankenstein Festival at BU

Student Engagement, Women's Academic Network Sara Ashencaen Crabtree

Shelley Frankenstein Festival at BU

“Fear not that I shall be the instrument of future mischief’ ~

Feminism, Frankenstein and the Future

On the 7^th November, the Women’s Academic Network in conjunction with the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences held 2 international, public research seminars at BU. These were widely promoted by Bournemouth Borough Council and the Shelley Theatre as the main intellectual course in a fanciful November feast of Shelley-Frankenstein Festival events across Bournemouth and Boscombe, marking the bicentenary of the marriage of Mary Shelley née Godwin (author of Frankenstein) and the great Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The important connection of the town to the legacy of members of this famous family is not well recognised regionally – and yet they were of monumental significance in terms of both culture and politics. Mary Wollstonecraft, the courageous and prophetic Georgian feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women, was both the mother of the younger Mary, and was married to the radical political philosopher, William Godwin. The family, including Mary and Percy’s son and daughter-in-law, are buried locally at the magnificent Grade I listed, St Peter’s Town Parish Church, where the tomb includes, befittingly, Shelley’s heart.

At the first session ‘Wollstonecraft’s legacy: feminism for then and now! With an introduction to Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’, panellists included feminist historian Dr Charlotte Gordon of Boston University USA, who has received international plaudits on her wonderful book Romantic Outlaws, which is based on the lives of the Marys, mother and daughter. The stalwart, national campaigner for a commemorative statue of Mary Wollstonecraft, Roberta Wedge, introduced the session with a most informative talk on the great feminist’s life and achievements. Christine Aziz, feminist writer and playwright on Mary Shelley, and Professor Candida Yates from the Faculty of Media & Communication completed this superb quartet of speakers, ably chaired by Dr Heather Savigny.

Sandwiched by a buffet lunch and a film showing of Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Mary

Shelley’s Frankenstein’, the second seminar followed, chaired by Professor Jonathan Parker on ‘Ethics, prosthetics and cosmeticisation: Troubling Dr Frankenstein in the 21st Century’. The highly relevant topic of cosmetic, prosthetic, genetic, and life-enhancing surgery/medicine was discussed by panellists with audience participation. Panellists included Dr Peri Bradley (editor of Food, Media and Contemporary Culture The Edible Image, Professor Iain MacRury (author of The Inner World of Doctor Who: psychoanalytic reflections in time and space), Revd Dr Ian Terry (Team Rector of St Peter’s Town Parish Church), and WAN co-convenor and feminist thinker and event organiser, Professor Sara Ashencaen Crabtree.

The reviews of this event have been excellent and bodes well for BU’s future participation in forthcoming Bournemouth-wide Shelley-Frankenstein Festivals via WAN and other scholarly initiatives. The aims of the Festival are thus to create a significant international footprint for cultural tourism in Bournemouth, to strengthen our international academic links with academics and writers who continue to be inspired by the extraordinary achievements of this family, and finally, last but not least, to extend and expand the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences’ ‘town & gown’ community engagement work in collaboration with cross-Faculty friends and community partners.

Finally Sara and Jonathan would like to extend many thanks to Professor Sam Porter, Head of Dept for Sociology & Social Work in HSS who opened the event and ably demonstrated the nimble eloquence that can only come from kissing the Blarney Stone.

Professor Sara Ashencaen Crabtree

1 November 2016

My Voice, My Story: hearing students’ stories

Public engagement, Student Engagement hjones

Date: Monday 7 November

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: F105, Fusion, Talbot Campus

Register Here

What does it mean to be a student in the 21^st century? As part of ESRC’s Festival of Social Science BU researchers Dr Vanessa Heaslip, Dr Clive Hunt, Dr Maggie Hutchings and Dr Alex Wardrop will be leading a workshop to present the real-life stories of non-traditional students. The students’ stories will immerse the audience through a mix of multi-media methods made up of images, films and talks.

Bournemouth University is leading a pioneering collaborative programme of research exploring ways to make higher education more accessible and more equitable than it sometimes is. This research contributes to new, more participatory, ways of doing, thinking and learning about widening participation which is a core tenet to BU’s Fair Access Research project.

Over the past few weeks BU researchers have been working with a diverse group of non-traditional students from across the university, as they take images that tell their stories of university life. This enables the students to become the researchers of their own lives, using the photovoice methodology to share their stories.

During the research process BU researchers asked students to tell their stories to each other as a gift to help uncover insights into their experiences by talking through the images and hearing their stories retold by another. Some themes that have been emerging through the stories included the concept of homeliness, both in its history and recreation as a student.

Unsurprisingly, the students identified that the images shared by the final year students appeared more positive compared with the anxieties of first year students.

The workshop will allow you to listen to the non-traditional students’ voices, learn from the students’ stories, gain insights into different research methods and work together to develop practical responses to what we see and hear.

You will gain insights into the power of arts-based social participatory research methods for eliciting deep stories and re-represented for social action. Having engaged with storytelling, participants will discuss ways in which the students’ lived experiences could shape policy changes and interventions to better enable students to feel like they belong.

For more information about this project or BU’s innovative Fair Access Research, please email the Principal Investigators Dr Vanessa Heaslip and Dr Clive Hunt.

The 14th annual Festival of Social Science takes place from 5-12 November 2016 with more
than 250 free events nationwide. Run by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Festival provides an opportunity for anyone to meet with some of the country’s leading social scientists and discover, discuss and debate the role that research plays in everyday life. With a whole range of creative and engaging events there’s something for everyone including businesses, charities, schools and government agencies. A full programme is available at www.esrc.ac.uk/festival You can also join the discussion on Twitter using #esrcfestival.

To hear more about ESRC Festival of Social Science at Bournemouth University, then please get in touch.

25 October 2016

RUFUS STONE to screen at historic Shelley Theatre, in Boscombe, as part of ESRC Festival of Social Science

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RUFUS STONE gay short biopic to screen at historic Shelley Theatre in Boscombe

A gala 5^th Anniversary Screening and Reception for the award-winning research based biopic, RUFUS STONE will be held at the historic Shelley Theatre in Boscombe (Bournemouth) on 7 November from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. The screening is free but registration is necessary as seating is limited.

BREAKING NEWS! Lin Blakley, who played Abigail in RUFUS STONE and is known for her work as Pam Coker on EastEnders, will be attending the gala.

The film is the story of Rufus, an ‘out’ older gay man who was exiled from his village as a youth and reluctantly returns from London to sell his dead parents’ cottage, where he is forced to confront the faces of his estranged past.

RUFUS STONE, is part of wider research from ‘The Gay and Pleasant Land? Project’ that took place at Bournemouth University as part of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme (a unique collaboration between five UK Research Councils on ageing in 21st Century Britain).

Over the past five years, RUFUS STONE has been viewed in academic, community and service provider settings throughout the U.K. Uploaded to the Internet for just over a year, the film was viewed on line by more that 12 thousand viewers in 150 countries. It has won several film festival awards and was shortlisted for the AHRC Anniversary Prize in 2015.

The gala event is expected to attract an audience of the film’s cast and crew members, past participants in the research project, community workers and service providers, and a range of citizens, young and old, gay and straight, with an interest in LGBT history and the contributions that the film has made to myriad diversity efforts.

“Whether you have seen the film before, or this will be the first time on a large theatre screen, you will enjoy the occasion,” says Dr Kip Jones, Exec Producer.

The screening is presented by Bournemouth University as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science – a week-long festival that celebrates some of the country’s leading social science research, giving an exciting opportunity to showcase the valuable work of the UK’s social scientists and demonstrate how their work has an impact on all our lives.

To find out more information about the film or the research behind it, please visit the website.

Click here to view the trailer

If you have any questions for Dr Jones, then please get in contact.

To find out more about the ESRC Festival of Social Science and all the events taking place please visit www.bournemouth.ac.uk/esrc-fss you can also email Joanna Pawlik or Naomi Kay to find out more.

Notes to editor

The 14th annual Festival of Social Science takes place from 5-12 November 2016 with more than 250 free events nationwide. Run by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Festival provides an opportunity for anyone to meet with some of the country’s leading social scientists and discover, discuss and debate the role that research plays in everyday life. With a whole range of creative and engaging events there’s something for everyone including businesses, charities, schools and government agencies. A full programme is available at esrc.ac.uk/festival. You can also join the discussion on Twitter using #esrcfestival

25 October 2016

ESRC’s Festival of Social Science- What is the Internet Hiding from you?

Public engagement hjones

Date: Tuesday 8 November 2016

Time: 2:30pm-5pm

Location: Executive Business Centre (EBC), Bournemouth University, 89 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, BH8 8EB

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, BU’s Dr Nava Tintarev and Dr Paolo Palmieri will host an information session and focus group to talk about their research into digital privacy and discuss people’s opinions on the use of their personal data

As many of us may be aware our personal data is used to filter our Facebook timeline and that Amazon personalises our suggestions. With an exponential growth of information, many online systems filter and adapt what information we are exposed to. However as users, we have not always agreed to this personalisation and we’re often left unaware whether our personal data is being used to benefit us. There is also a risk that if personalisation gets ‘too good’; this can narrow down our exposure to new things. We’re left to wonder how our personal information is being used.

Imagine a tourist visiting a city and looking for new places to explore. A recommender system would suggest several places to visit and a certain sequence to visit them in. To give good recommendations, the system needs to consider the relationship between suggested items. For example, the tourist may not want to visit more than two museums in a day, and they would not want to go from one museum straight to another one, so there should be something else to visit in-between.

Working together with adults of different backgrounds and degrees of technological experience Dr Nava Tintarev hopes to understand what factors influence a good explanation for these sequences, through the focus group and better understand how people feel about this personalisation.

One scenario is when there is no best option and the sequences have taken into account trade-offs. For example, someone travelling in a group may not see their top preference within the sequence, because the system took into account the preference of others in the group.

The second scenario in which explanations can really help is when the recommendations contain unexpected, but risky items. Often recommender systems suggest safe items, for example suggesting the latest Star Wars movie to a Star Wars fan, or inferring from a user’s consumption habits that they are similar to users that like the newly released Jurassic World movie. The problem is that even though these systems suggest novel items, these recommendations are predictable. They miss out on what potentially could be the greatest strength of recommender systems: helping users discover new items and new interests they didn’t realise they had.

It is vital to understand people’s concerns. Dr Nava Tintarev’s research looks specifically at the use of explanations to help users make good decisions about recommendations of sequences of items. It is important that they are confident that they can trust these systems. Through her research, she hopes to help users gain a better sense of how their personal data is being used. This event will help you gather a better understanding of how big data companies use personal data and the challenges they face.

The 14th annual Festival of Social Science takes place from 5-12 November 2016 with more than 250 free events nationwide. Run by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Festival provides an opportunity for anyone to meet with some of the country’s leading social scientists and discover, discuss and debate the role that research plays in everyday life. With a whole range of creative and engaging events there’s something for everyone including businesses, charities, schools and government agencies. A full programme is available at www.esrc.ac.uk/festival You can also join the discussion on Twitter using #esrcfestival.

This event is running twice on Tuesday 8 November to allow as many people as possible to attend. I if you would like to attend the 14:30-17:00 session please book your free place here. If you would prefer to attend in the evening there is a session running 18:00-20:30 for which you can book your free place here.

To find out more about the ESRC Festival of Social Science and all the events taking place please visit www.bournemouth.ac.uk/esrc-fss you can also email Joanna Pawlik or Naomi Kay to find out more.

24 October 2016

ESRC’s Festival of Social Science- Innovations in Hospitality and Travel

Public engagement hjones

Date: Thursday 10 November 2016

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB

Register Here

The International Centre of Tourism and Hospitality Research will be running an event as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. Tourism plays a major part in Bournemouth’s economy, attracting millions of visitors to the seaside town every year. In 2011 alone, the town saw 5.6 million visitors, who spent £460 million between them. BU’s Dr Giampaolo Viglia will be presenting to the audience the innovations that have been introduced to the travel and hospitality industry, via cutting edge social science research.

The workshops aim to provide some evidence on the actual behaviour of operators in the hotel and aviation industry and to ask: How much do they use dynamic pricing strategies? When is the best time to book? How should they react to the seller’s pricing strategies? What are the main drivers behind the price trend structure? What additional profit can the revenue management techniques in the hospitality industry offer? Is delegating the price decision to the consumers in restaurants appropriate?

BU’s Dr Giampaolo Viglia will be joined by Professor Claudio Piga, from Keele University and the staff from HOTS Business game to discuss dynamic pricing, the best time to book and new pricing mechanisms. This will be followed by a tea/coffee break, to recharge your batteries. We will then hear from BU researchers Dr Viachaslau Filimonau, Professor Adele Ladkin, Professor Heather Hartwell and Dr Sean Beer who will discuss innovations in food, technology and menu labeling. The event has been designed to engage professionals and consumers in discussion and to showcase the growing research agenda on the impact of innovation on the travel and hospitality industry.

Innovations are influencing the travel and hospitality industries offering more flexibility on the supply side and driving informed decisions on the consumer side. The rapid growth of online bookings has had a massive impact on the industry. The internet encourages greater price scrutiny since the relevant information is both easier to obtain and transparent, given that any party can compare the prices of several alternatives with very little effort. This is bound to have an impact on how operators set prices since they too can easily obtain this information and rapidly respond accordingly. There will also be an opportunity for debate between professionals and consumers.

The 14th annual Festival of Social Science takes place from 5-12 November 2016 with more than 250 free events nationwide. Run by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Festival provides an opportunity for anyone to meet with some of the country’s leading social scientist and discover, discuss and debate the role that research plays in everyday life. With a whole range of creative and engaging events there’s something for everyone including businesses, charities, schools and government agencies. A full programme is available at www.esrc.ac.uk/festival. You can also join the discussion on Twitter using #esrcfestival.

To find out more about the ESRC Festival of Social Science and all the events taking place please visit www.bournemouth.ac.uk/esrc-fss you can also email Joanna Pawlik or Naomi Kay to find out more.

20 October 2016

Still time to book for RUFUS STONE gala at Shelley Theatre 7 Nov.

Public engagement Kip Jones

If you haven’t yet booked to attend the screening and gala reception (wine and nibbles!) at the historic Shelley Theatre in Boscombe with a screening of the award-winning short film, RUFUS STONE, do it today!

FREE but you must register here!

BREAKING NEWS! Actor Lin Blakley, who played “Abigail” in RUFUS STONE, will be attending the gala! Lin is known for her recuring role in EastEnders as Pam Coker.

Shelley Theatre in Boscombe (map on Eventbrite where you register)

3:00 Film screening

3:30 Q & A with audience members

4-5 pm Drinks Reception

Register now!

An ESRC Festival of Social Science event.

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19 October 2016

The Shelley Frankenstein Legacy: Social Science in History and Today

Public engagement hjones

Date: Monday 7 November 2016

Time: 9am-4:30pm

Location: Executive Business Centre (EBC), Bournemouth University, 89 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, BH8 8EB

Register here

The Shelley Frankenstein Festival (BSFF) and BU’s Women’s Academic Network are joining forces to run an event exploring the Shelley Frankenstein Legacy as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. It’s nearly 200 years since the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the festival in her honour, is an opportunity to celebrate her legacy.

The joint event offers us the chance to focus on feminism and the sociology of the text from historical and contemporary perspectives. BU social scientists will argue and debate in two ‘Question Time’ style panels that will encourage wide participation and expression of views from the general public. There will also be an opportunity to watch Kenneth Branagh’s film ‘Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein’.

Many locals are unaware of the great ties Bournemouth has to the writer and her family. Interestingly, Bournemouth is the final resting place for Mary Shelley, despite never having lived or visited Bournemouth. Mary also wished to be buried with her parents, in spite of the fact that they were already buried in St Pancras, London at the time. Mary’s son, Percy Florence Shelley, subsequently had his grandparents moved to be with Mary. Mary, her parents and her husband’s heart are all currently entombed together in St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth. This event will be a great opportunity to honour both Mary and her family, especially her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, an early feminist writer.

Panel discussions:

Wollstonecraft’s legacy: feminism for then and now! With an introduction to Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Chair: Dr Heather Savigny, Associate Professor Faculty of Media and Communication

Panellists are:

Dr Charlotte Gordon (author of Romantic Outlaws),

Professor Candida Yates (author of The Play of Political Culture, Emotion and Identity),

Roberta Wedge (from Mary-on-the-Green campaign http://www.maryonthegreen.org)

Christine Aziz (local author of the play ‘Mary Shelley Goes to Hollywood’)

‘Question Time’ debate – Ethics, prosthetics and cosmeticisation: Troubling Dr Frankenstein in the 21st Century.

Panellists will take questions from the audience concerning cosmetic, prosthetic, genetic, and life-enhancing surgery/medicine.

Chair: Professor Jonathan Parker, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences

Panellists are:

Dr Peri Bradley (editor of Food, Media and Contemporary Culture The Edible Image,

Professor Iain McRury (author of The Inner World of Doctor Who: psychoanalytic reflections in time and space),

Revd Dr Ian Terry (Team Rector of St Peter’s Town Parish Church),

Professor Sara Ashencaen Crabtree (co-convenor of the BU Women’s Academic Network, author of Death of the Dragon God Lake: Voices from Tasik Chini).

To find out more about ESRC’s Festival of Social Science at BU, please visit www.bournemouth.ac.uk/esrc-fss or email esrcfestivalofsocialscience@bournemouth.ac.uk

14 November 2015

Successful ESRC Festival of Social Sciences in EBC today

Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Transfer, PG research, student research, Women's Academic Network Edwin van Teijlingen

This afternoon Prof. Jonathan Parker introduced the final of three session in the Executive Business Centre under the title ‘Enhancing social life through global social research: Part 3. Social science research in diverse communities’. This session was well attended and coveredwas a wide-range of interesting social science research topics.

Professor of Sociology Ann Brooks started off the session with her presentation on ‘Emotional labour and social change.’ She was followed by Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen who gave an overview of research in Nepal. FHSS PhD student Andy Harding introduced his thesis research into ‘Information provision and housing choices for older people.’ At this point Prof. Brooks gave her second talk on ‘Risk and the crisis of authenticity in cities’. Social Anthropologist Dr. Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers spoke about her research on ‘Reconciliation and engaged ethnography in the Balkans.’ Dr. Hyun-Joo Lim highlighted her study on ‘North Korean defectors in the UK’ and the session was completed by Dr. Mastoureh Fathi who presented her analysis of parenting books for Muslim parents in the UK.

This was the last day of the ESRC Festival of Social Science at which Bournemouth University was extremely well presented!

Thank you to my colleagues for organising this and the ESRC for funding the events!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

(medical sociologist)

13 November 2015

BUDI’s ESRC Festival of Learning event held on 11th November 2015

Public engagement mobrien

BUDI hosted a packed day of events showcasing some of our research, community-based projects and awareness-raising work. Attendees included university staff and students, people living with dementia and their family members, care home staff, members of the Alzheimer’s Society and interested members of the public. The day started with an announcement of the commitment by Bournemouth University to work towards becoming dementia friendly. This entails delivering dementia friends training to all university staff and, in time, to all students, ensuring Human Resource processes meet the needs of family members caring for people with dementia and anyone with a diagnosis of dementia working in the university, ensuring any marketing and communications are ‘dementia friendly’ and working with Estates to ensure the university meets dementia friendly design principles as much as possible.

We were delighted to see the return of the BUDI orchestra, comprising people with dementia, their family members, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra musicians John Murphy and Kevin Pritchard and led by Andy Baker, a freelance musician, who showed us techniques to support successful rehearsals and performances. This interactive workshop had everyone participating and it set the tone for an inspiring day.

BUDI orchestra and the audience playing music together.

We also heard from Dr Samuel Nyman about his recently NIHR funded Tai Chi project and had a chance to learn some basic Tai Chi from Robert Joyce. In the afternoon we were inspired to create poetry by Jonnie Seagrave ‘Fluffypunk’ and shown how to create poetry with people with dementia.

We then heard from Mary O’Malley about her Ph.D. investigating wayfinding in people with dementia, followed by a dementia friends training session delivered by Dr Michelle Heward. Throughout the day, we had visitors to our BUDI stand and the Alzheimer’s Society’s table, In the Student Centre, SportBU had a sponsored spin bike challenge to cycle 850,000 metres – a metre for every person living with Dementia in the UK. They managed this amazing feat and raised £100.00 for the Alzheimer’s Society. A huge thank you to everyone who took part and contributed.

The day finished with a screening of the film Still Alice, which portrays the journey of a woman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in her early 50s, and this was followed by a lively panel discussion (Professor Candida Yates, Professor Iain MacRury, Dr Fiona Cownie and Dr Fiona Kelly), in which the audience offered their insights, experiences and thoughts on the film.

Pictures (Learning Tai Chi, Learning Poetry, BUDI welcome desk and SportBU bike challenge)

9 October 2015

BU very well represented in this year’s ERCS Festival!

Awarded & submitted bids, Festival of Learning, Fusion, Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Transfer, PG research, Publishing Edwin van Teijlingen

The ESRC website lists its Festival events for 2015 and amongst the interetsing events is a record number of BU events! The full list can be found on the ESRC webpages, click here!

Pathways to impact: part deux!

7 November 2015 | Bournemouth | Event

This event aims to engage participants who attended a previous one-day ESRC Festival of Science event which took place in 2012 entitled, “Pathways to Impact: ageing, diversity, connectivity and community”.

Creatively mapping the coast

9 November 2015 | Bournemouth| Event

Children will have the chance to take part in a creative mapping exercise using coastal artefacts and pictures to create their own sensory and emotional maps of the topic, starting with the question of ‘how does it make me feel to be here?’

Safeguarding vulnerable adults from financial scamming

10 November 2015 | Bournemouth | Event

Older people are increasingly at risk of falling victim to financial scams that target vulnerable people, including mass marketing fraud via post, telephone or email and doorstep fraud.

This event will give practitioners, agencies and members of the public, the opportunity to come together to learn more about the threats posed.

Church as place: ethnography

11 November 2015 | Bournemouth | Event

This event asked the question:

what meanings of place and space are constructed by secular or non-specifically religious and religious visiting of church buildings?

Creativity and dementia: making a connection

11 November 2015 | Poole | Event

Bournemouth University Dementia Institute (BUDI) will bring dementia awareness to life through running creative activities including a performance from the BUDI Orchestra – made up of people affected by dementia and musicians – poetry and technology such as IPads and Nintendo Wii.

Child deaths and poverty: disadvantaged British children!

12 November 2015 | Bournemouth | Event

Are British children disadvantaged compared to children in other Western countries? An analysis of data from global sources compares the standards of mortality, poverty and health funding for children and adults in Britain vs. those in 20 other Western countries.

Copyright reform: the implications one year on

12 November 2015 | Bournemouth | Event

One year ago, in October 2014, the UK Government introduced major changes to the Copyright Law with the aim of promoting innovation and creativity. These included a range of exceptions and limitations benefiting users as well as educational and cultural institutions.

Enhancing social life through global social research – event 1

12 November 2015 | Bournemouth | Event

These exhibitions run over the course of three days presenting a showcase of Bournemouth University research projects demonstrating our research impacts on social and community wellbeing and our concern for diverse groups and work with a wide variety of stakeholders.

Fused all ways: transdisciplinary insider research

12 November 2015 | Poole | Event

A group of researchers from Bournemouth University are researching the lived experience of students entering higher education from and in ‘non traditional’ contexts. By bringing together research, educational practice and students as research co-creators, a unique lens is created through which to observe the question.

Increasing fruit and vegetable intakes: Why? How? – Event 3

12 November 2015 | Bournemouth | Event

The 5-a-day campaign went global after a recommendation from the World Health Organisation that we should all be eating a least 400g of fruit and vegetables per day. Variations on this message are repeated in countries all across the world. But does the message cause more confusion than good?

Enhancing social life through global social research – event 2

13 November 2015 | Bournemouth | Event

These exhibitions run over the course of three days presenting a showcase of Bournemouth University research projects demonstrating our research impacts on social and community wellbeing and our concern for diverse groups and work with a wide variety of stakeholders.

Enhancing social life through global social research – event 3

14 November 2015 | Bournemouth | Event

These exhibitions run over the course of three days presenting a showcase of Bournemouth University research projects demonstrating our research impacts on social and community wellbeing and our concern for diverse groups and work with a wide variety of stakeholders.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

29 April 2015

ESRC- How do people use the outdoors?

Public engagement gibsonh

The call for proposals is now open for this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Science, which will run between the 7th and 14th November. Funding of up to £1500 is available for the Festival , and with Bournemouth University becoming an official partner of the Festival, now is the time to start thinking about submitting a proposal if you wish to be involved in 2015.

If you’re struggling for inspiration for what type of event you can submit for this year, below you can find the fourth in a series of blog posts which will highlight popular events from previous Festivals.

How do people use the outdoors? Was an interesting event as a part of the 2012 ESRC Festival.

This webinar presented findings from the third year of Monitor of Engagement with the Natural Environment survey. Natural England’s social scientist Judith Hannah spoke about people’s use of the outdoors in England; how and why people use green spaces, and how patterns of use are affected by geography and socio- economic factors.

Are you inspired to run an event similar to ‘How do people use the outdoors?’ at this year’s ESRC Festival?

Once you have decided on a proposal idea and are ready to submit an event, the next step will be to complete the application form, which can be found here. If you have any further queries or would like help with ideas for your event, you can email fol@bournemouth.ac.uk and we’ll be happy to help. Alternatively, if you would like to gain more inspiration from past events from looking at previous year’s events, please click here.

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The ESRC Festival is a month away…

Deadline if fast approaching for applications for ESRC Festival of Social Science.

Why get involved in the ESRC Festival of Social Science this year?

RUFUS STONE gay short biopic to screen at historic Shelley Theatre in Boscombe

If you haven’t yet booked to attend the screening and gala reception (wine and nibbles!) at the historic Shelley Theatre in Boscombe with a screening of the award-winning short film, RUFUS STONE, do it today!

BREAKING NEWS! Actor Lin Blakley, who played “Abigail” in RUFUS STONE, will be attending the gala! Lin is known for her recuring role in EastEnders as Pam Coker.

Shelley Theatre in Boscombe (map on Eventbrite where you register)

3:00 Film screening

3:30 Q & A with audience members

4-5 pm Drinks Reception

An ESRC Festival of Social Science event.

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