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2 March 2017

Public Engagement Opportunity at the Poole Maritime Festival!

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

It’s that time of year where The Festival of Learning is heading back on-tour and taking BU’s research out to some exciting locations. One of our stops this year includes the Poole Maritime Festival on Saturday 20^th May.

Whatever stage you’re at in your research career, academic or PhD, we’re looking for participants to display and promote their research at the festival. This could be through table-top activities, posters, interactive displays – we’re open to ideas! It would be fantastic if your activities fitted into the theme of maritime heritage and environment but if your research isn’t directly related, we’d still love for you to get involved.

We’re expecting lots of interested members of the public with Poole Harbour Boat Show and the Seven Seas Festival forming part of Poole Maritime Festival’s exciting programme. The Boat Show alone attracted over 15,000 people in 2015! The Festival is linked with European Maritime Day, originally created in 2008 to give Europe’s community of maritime professionals a forum to meet, exchange knowledge and forge partnerships. It is a unique opportunity to promote Poole, local businesses and Bournemouth University’s research to an international audience!

If you’d like to get involved, need some idea inspiration or for any more information, drop me an email jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk. If you can’t get involved this year, still make sure that you head down to the Maritime Festival this year, taking place from the 15^th-21^st May.

1 March 2017

Being Human Festival call for Participants 17–25 November 2017

Funding opportunities, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Take part in the Being Human Festival 2017!

This year, the festival will return between 17-25 November with a new theme, ‘Lost and Found’. Applicants are invited to respond creatively and in ways that probe the rich intellectual possibilities of the theme. The festival is a celebration of the

Humanities, highlighting research in this area in fun, hands-on, immersive ways to

Demonstrate its relevance to our everyday lives.

There are a number of grants to support public engagement activities being offered.

These opportunities to run an event are for researchers at any career stage, background, disciplinary expertise or experience of delivering public engagement events.

For more information on the call and to apply for a “Small Award” or a “Hub Award”, please click here.

You can also find a number of case studies here that could prove useful if you’d like to apply!

24 February 2017

Festival of Learning on-tour at RNLI College Food and Drink Festival: get involved!

Festival of Learning, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

Are you interested in getting to know the local community, and sharing your research and expertise with others? Do you have exciting research to talk about or would you like to gain some valuable experience in public engagement?

Join us in a lead up to Festival of Learning and be part of RNLI College Food and Drink Festival on 30^th April! The festival is focused on great quality food, sourced and produced here in Dorset, and supports Mayday campaign, which is a nationwide community fundraising campaign.

There is a community theme to the Festival so we’re looking for activities that may be of interest to the local community or are around community based research. We’d also be keen to take along any food and drink related activities about. However, if your activity is not directly related then we’d still love to hear from you. Please drop me an email on jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk to express your interest in joining us and I will be able to provide you with more details.

We’re also looking for activities for Poole Maritime Festival and are looking forward to hearing from you! To find out more please click here.

20 February 2017

Flying the KEIT for knowledge exchange and impact at BU

HEIF Joanna Pawlik

It’s been a busy month for BU’s Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team and below is a small selection of our activities. If you’d like to find out more about our team and how we can support your research, do get in touch or come and see us (We’re based in Melbury House).

Research Communications

Our new research magazine has been published and is now available to share! It can be found online here and there are a number of print copies available for anyone who wants them – just talk to Rachel Bowen.We also have a partnership with the Conservation, which is a news site designed to support academics to comment on stories in the news, based on their expertise. Beginning of February one of the business editors came down to talk to the Faculty of Management and the health editor will be coming to talk to HSS this month. If you would like to reach a wider audience, make sure to talk to Rachel Bowen or PR team.

Knowledge Exchange (KE) – Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF)

The latest round of HEIF funding is HEIF 5+1+1, and runs from 1 August 2016 until 31 July 2017. There are twelve projects currently live and more information on each project can be found using this link to the BU Research Blog. Subject areas are broad, ranging from forensics to environmental sciences to health apps, musical technologies and virtual sculpting tools. January 2017 marks the half-way stage of this current HEIF funding round with reporting well underway in advance of the next committee meeting in March.

BU submitted to the call for proposals for HEIF 6 . These results are due to be announced by March 2017.HEIF in the media spotlight

HEIF projects continue to be featured in the media including the latest edition of the Bournemouth Research Chronicle (P22/23).

We are currently working with previous RKEO work placement Oliver Cooke (Ollie) as part of his final year project. Ollie is an undergraduate media production student who is developing a number of digital channels including social media, web and video content to showcase the HEIF projects and the HEIF journey at BU. This will form part of his final year assessment. He was part of the Research & Knowledge Exchange Team last year as he was successful in securing a 12 month placement with the department.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

Student Research Assistantship scheme is now live for academic applications. There is a post about the scheme and if you have any questions, make sure to get in touch with Rachel Clarke.

Student engagement

Submissions closed for the Research Photography Competition at the end of January. We’ve seen some fantastic entries this year and voting is now open with the winner being announced at an exhibition on 9 March, in the Atrium Art Gallery.

First of this month 14:Live saw BU students and staff learning more about osteoarthritis and what is ORI currently working on to make a real difference for people suffering from this common form of joint disease. As well as having a chance to hear about the life changing research and work from ORI, attendees were able to test out the Laser Speckle Contrast Imager (LSCI) which is used to visualise blood flow and measure micro circulation just below the skin’s surface. The presentation also included videos of ORI’s specialist equipment and lab which is going to be open for the public during Festival of Learning 2017.

Next 14:Live with FoodSMART is on 28 February.

Public Engagement

This month’s Cafe Scientifique with Dr Sharon Docherty was very popular and seen many new faces. Next month we are back with Dr Darren G. Lilleker and talk about facts and beliefs: ‘It’s just the way it is: ‘ why humans doubt facts if they contrast belief’ – 7th March, Cafe Bosconova at 7:30pm.

We are currently looking for activities for Festival of Learning on-tour event taking place as part of Poole Maritime Festival. There is a blog about this opportunity and if you’re interested please get in touch with Joanna Pawlik.

Naomi Kay who has joined us as a Public Engagement Officer in 2014 has recently left BU so if you have any queries please get in touch with Genna West or Joanna Pawlik instead.

Feeling inspired? You can get in touch with KEIT below.Becca Edwards– Knowledge Exchange and Impact ManagerCharlene Parrish– Student Project Bank Project CoordinatorGenna West– Engagement and Impact FacilitatorHannah Jones– Student Engagement and Communications Coordinator

Jayne Codling– Knowledge Exchange Adviser

Joanna Pawlik– Public Engagement Events Organiser

Rachel Bowen– Research Communications Manager

Rachel Clarke– Knowledge Exchange Adviser (KTP)

5 February 2017

CPD study findings presented in Kathmandu

Centre for Excellence in Learning, Fusion, international, Public engagement, Training Edwin van Teijlingen

Today we offered preliminary feedback to key stakeholders in Kathmandu as part of our research into CPD (Continuous Professional Development) for nurses in Nepal. Today’s presentation is party funded by LJMU (Liverpool John Moores University) and partly funded by BU’s Centre for Excellence in Learning (CEL). Late 2016 CEL funded the qualitative part of our research project. In this CPD project we work with representatives of the Ministry of Health , the Ministry of Education, the Nepal Nursing Association and the Nursing Council, and providers of Nursing Education (both Government-run universities and private colleges).

Today key presenter was BU Visiting Faculty Dr. Bibha Simkhada (based at LJMU). The event was opened by Associate Professor Chandra Kala Sharma, who is also the president of the Nepal Nursing Association (lighting the traditional lamp in photo right).

Our BU contributors, Dr. Catherine Angell and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen, are both based in the Centre for Midwifery and Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH). We are grateful to our collaborators in Nepal, especially Dr. Sujan Marahatta at Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, for organising this event in our absence. The CPD research project is truly a FUSION project in the field of nursing & midwifery since it links Research in the field of Education to help improve Practice in Nepal. Further information can be found on a previous blog post, click here!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

10 January 2017

Writing academic papers: Workshop in Nepal

international, Knowledge Exchange, open access, Public engagement, Publishing, Training, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Bournemouth University has been working on a small research project with Pourakhi, a voluntary organisation which helps female migrant workers returning to Nepal, for over a year. Pourakhi advocates for the rights of women migrant workers. Last week they invited me to present a workshop session on Academic Writing & Publishing, this morning I run such workshop. The content of the workshop is based on years of experience of running similar workshops at Bournemouth University, many Higher Education colleges across Nepal and a COST-funded workshop in Malta a few years ago. The eight people (staff and volunteers) who attended the workshop were generally inquisitive and keen to get their work into print. Most of the paper we have written about aspects of academic writing and the publishing process have been published in Open Access journals. [1-8] Therefore, we can easily give workshop attendees copies and/or give them the links to the online version on the web.

Prof Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

References:

Hundley V, van Teijlingen E, Simkhada P (2013) Academic authorship: who, why and in what order? Health Renaissance 11 (2):98-101 www.healthrenaissance.org.np/uploads/Download/vol-11-2/Page_99_101_Editorial.pdf
Pitchforth E, Porter M, Teijlingen van E, et al. (2005) Writing up & presenting qualitative research in family planning & reproductive health care, J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 31(2): 132-135.
Simkhada P, van Teijlingen E, Hundley V. (2013) Writing an academic paper for publication, Health Renaissance 11 (1):1-5. www.healthrenaissance.org.np/uploads/Pp_1_5_Guest_Editorial.pdf
van Teijlingen, E., Ireland, J., Hundley, V., Simkhada, P., Sathian, B. (2014) Finding the right title for your article: Advice for academic authors, Nepal J Epidemiol 4(1): 344-347.
van Teijlingen, E., Hundley, V., Bick, D. (2014) Who should be an author on your academic paper? Midwifery 30: 385-386.
van Teijlingen, E, Simkhada PP, Rizyal A (2012) Submitting a paper to an academic peer-reviewed journal, where to start? (Guest Editorial) Health Renaissance 10 (1): 1-4.
van Teijlingen, E, Simkhada. PP, Simkhada, B, Ireland J. (2012) The long & winding road to publication, Nepal J Epidemiol 2(4): 213-215 http://nepjol.info/index.php/NJE/article/view/7093/6388
Hall, J., Hundley, V., van Teijlingen, E. (2015) The journal editor: friend or foe? Women & Birth 28(2): e26-e29.

9 January 2017

Digital Agenda Impact Awards

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The Digital Agenda Impact Awards, celebrating innovations that make a positive impact on the way the UK lives, learns and does business, are open for entries. The awards, sponsored by Nominet Trust, take place at London’s Barbican Centre on Thursday March 2, 2017.

The Impact Awards are open to any business, government or non-profit using digital products or services to make the world a better place. The awards are free to enter and open until January 20 2017.

There are 12 award categories under three broad headings – people, places and business.

People

Education
Employment and skills
Health
Money

Places

Cities
Climate
Food
Smart

Business

Business transformation
Sharing and partnership
Social and economic transformation

Click here for more information and to apply.

29 December 2016

Promoting evidence-based policy-making in Nepal

Knowledge Transfer, Public engagement, Publishing, Training Edwin van Teijlingen

We had the honour to speak to Parliamentarians (MPs) in Kathmandu today (December 29th) as part of workshop to promote evidence-based policy-making. The workshop was organised by a consortium of three UK universities: Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Bournemouth University and the University of Sheffield. Fund the Fund supported this Advocacy Workshop with Parliamentarians and Policy Experts on HV and AIDS (Discussion series IV) in the Himalayan Hotel in Lalitpur in Kathmandu Valley. The workshop was attended by some 30 MPs from all major parties and three or four former ministers. The drive to increase evidence-based policy-making in Nepal is led by Dr. Gangalal Tuladhar MP.

Prof. Padam Simkhada from LJMU and BU Visiting Professor addressed ‘key challenges on evidence-based health care delivery in Nepal’ and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen from the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences compared selected different health-care systems in high-income countries.

29 November 2016

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Thursday 1 December

Festival of Learning, international, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Don’t miss our drop-in sessions where we can offer you support in planning your event for Festival of Learning 2017.

Our next session is on Thursday 1 December and we’ll be there for you from 8:30am-5pm at Talbot Campus, FG19.

Come to see us and don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your research and expertise by being a part of the Festival!

We’re hoping to see you there.

28 November 2016

Festival of Learning 2017 – What could you do? Only few more days left to apply!

Festival of Learning, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

The deadline to submit your proposals for Festival of Learning 2017 is fast approaching, and we would like to remind you that you have only few more days to apply!

Planning your own public event can be a bit of a challenge when you try putting together an event that is interactive and lasts several hours, so how about a film screening followed by a short debate? We all love watching films…who does not like going to the cinema? Film screening is a fantastic way of showcasing your research and let’s be honest, planning it is not that complicated!

Fog of Sex: stories from the front line of student sex work

This event was a screening of an award winning docudrama that brings the real-life testimonies of students currently working within sex industry to the screen. The film was made as part of a pioneering new study called The Student Sex Work Project. The project has transformed understanding about the motivations and needs of student sex workers. The screening was followed by Q&A with criminologist Debbie Jones, who co-led the study, producer Chris Britten and clinical sexologist Sam Geuens.

You do not necessarily need to create your own film to be able to screen a film. Film screening can be an addition to your event that effectively illustrates your research by putting it into different perspective which can trigger some interesting discussion with the audience. As an example we would like to mention ‘The Shelley- Frankenstein legacy: Social science in history and today’ event which was part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2016 at Bournemouth University. This event was in a form of a ‘question time’ style debate with a film screening that aimed to explore the feminism and sociology of the body from historical and contemporary perspectives. The film illustrated what had been discussed and helped people to gain a better understanding.

There is only one support session left so make sure to come and talk to us about your event idea

Thursday 1 December 8:30am-5pm Talbot Campus Drop In

Remember that the deadline for event submissions is 4pm on Friday 2 December

Find out more about how to apply Here.

If you have any questions about the global Festival of Learning, please contact the Global Engagement Hub: 01202 965112 globalbu@bournemouth.ac.uk

If you have any questions about the UK Festival of Learning, or difficulties using the online application form, please contact the Festival of Learning Team: 01202 961342 FoL@bournemouth.ac.uk

25 November 2016

Festival of Learning 2017 – What could you do? Apply before Friday 2nd December!

Festival of Learning, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Do you have a fantastic piece of research that you’d like to develop into a public engagement event? You still have one more week to apply for Festival of Learning 2017!

What you research often determines how you will engage with the public and who your work will impact; nevertheless people love to learn about what you do and appreciate short demonstrations.

Getting drunk with 302 brain cells – what we learn from a worm?

Prof Lindy Holden-Dye from Southampton University studies the brain of a simple nematode worm, which has just 302 brain cells, to learn how alcohol affects the human nervous system. In October she gave a talk to Café Scientifique’s audience in which she talked about her research but also showed the equipment she used in a lab. Prof Lindsy Holden-Dye also talked about her relations with the worms and event brought few with her to show them to the audience.We have appreciated short demonstrations on how to handle nematode worms as well as the process of getting them drunk.

Make sure to come to one of our drop-in support sessions to talk to us about your event idea!

There are only two sessions left:

Monday 28 November 9am-11am, Executive Business Centre Cafe

and

Thursday 1 December 8:30am-5pmTalbot Campus

Remember that the deadline for event submissions is 4pm on Friday 2 December

Once you are ready to submit your event proposal you will need to complete the online application form. Applications for both the global Festival of Learning and the UK Festival of Learning will be handled via one form. The form can be saved and edited up until the point you submit. To help make the process as easy as possible we have also provided a planning document that includes a list of questions and requested response lengths.

Find out more, download the planning document and take a look at dates for our drop-in sessions.

If you have any questions about the global Festival of Learning, please contact the Global Engagement Hub: 01202 965112 globalbu@bournemouth.ac.uk

If you have any questions about the UK Festival of Learning, or difficulties using the online application form, please contact the Festival of Learning Team: 01202 961342 FoL@bournemouth.ac.uk

23 November 2016

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Thursday 24 November

Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Don’t miss our drop-in sessions where we can offer you support in planning your event for Festival of Learning 2017.

Our next session is on Thursday 24 November and we’ll be there for you from 11am-12pm at Naked Coffee Shop (next to RLH, Lansdowne).

Come to see us and don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your research and expertise by being a part of the Festival!

We’re hoping to see you there!

21 November 2016

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Wednesday 23 November

Festival of Learning, international, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Don’t miss our drop-in sessions where we can offer you support in planning your event for Festival of Learning 2017.

Our next session is on Wednesday 23 November and we’ll be there for you from 2pm-3pm at Poole House Atriume.

Come to see us and don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your research and expertise by being a part of the Festival!

We’re hoping to see you there!

14 November 2016

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Tuesday 15 November

Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Don’t miss our drop-in sessions where we can offer you support in planning your event for Festival of Learning 2017.

Our next session is on Tuesday 15 November and we’ll be there for you from 4pm-5pm at Executive Business Centre Cafe.

Come to see us and don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your research and expertise by being a part of the Festival!

We’re hoping to see you there!

11 November 2016

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Monday 14 November

Festival of Learning, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Don’t miss our drop-in sessions where we can offer you support in planning your event for Festival of Learning 2017.

Our next session is on Monday 14 November and we’ll be there for you from 8:30am-10am at Fusion Building – coffee area.

Come to see us and don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your research and expertise by being a part of the Festival!

We’re hoping to see you there!

9 November 2016

Support for developing your event idea – Drop-in session Friday 11 November

Festival of Learning, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Don’t miss our drop-in sessions where we can offer you support in planning your event for Festival of Learning 2017.

Our next session is on Friday 11 November and we’ll be there for you from 12:30pm-1:30pm at EB204, Executive Business Centre.

Come to see us and don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your research and expertise by being a part of the Festival!

We’re hoping to see you there!

31 October 2016

Festival of Learning 2017 – What could you do?

Fusion, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

If you are still searching for some inspiration for Festival of Learning 2017, you can find our previous blog post here with some suggestions for engaging events. But most importantly, make sure you come along to one of our drop-in ‘Support for developing your idea sessions’ and talk to us! Additionally, we’re also offering a bookable training session for you to find out more about ‘Developing a public engagement event’. Please book your place via OD.

You may have already planned your event and now looking for ways of making it more appealing to members of the public. Regardless of the stage of event planning that you are at, we have a few extra ideas to give your event a boost!

The forefront of gene therapy

This event was a presentation from two experts Michael Linden and Nick Clarke, exploring how viruses can be used as tools to replace or repair faulty genes. To boost the interest of the audience and get them more engaged, the academics used an interactive voting system. Through the presentation they had some fun questions for the audience, related to genetics in general but not necessarily to the actual research. Examples of questions that captured audience’s attention were:

What percentage of genes do we share with a cabbage?

What percentage of genes do we share with bananas?

You may be surprised to know that humans share 50% of genes with bananas and 45% with cabbage.

Antarctic ice shelves

During this presentation Bernd Kulessa and Suzanne Bevan shared their tales from ten years of working in Antarctica. To give the audience a better idea of what life in the frozen wilderness looks like, the academics used not only photographs, but also 3D google maps. The maps show all of the stops they made on the journey to Antarctica, which not only added different dimension to the talk but also made it more personal.

The secret life of animals

How do you track whales diving deep underwater or birds flying high above us? Rory Wilson has developed pioneering electronic tags that allow researchers to monitor movement, behaviour, energy exposure, temperature and feeding patterns of hard-to-observe animals. Sounds interesting, but how do you translate these readings in simplified language to ensure your audience stays engaged? You simply organise for someone in penguin costume to copy the movement readings of actual penguin, while planking on a chair!

These events took place as part of the British Science Festival in Swansea, 2016.

26 October 2016

Innovation awards

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SME innovation awards (2016) – small business were honoured on Tuesday evening at an awards ceremony at the Houses of Parliament.

The awards recognise the many innovative successful projects that Innovate UK has co-funded. They celebrate the projects and companies that show the impact of innovation on business growth and the economy.

There were 5 categories – 4 specific and 1 overall award for inspirational innovation. Could we consider research and collaboration at BU for such an award? KTP’s also form part of this funding and contributed to Mech Tool Engineering Ltd, Gaist Solutions Limited and University of York and Phasefocus being shortlised.

Read the blog post in full including the winners and organisations shortlisted and how their areas of innovation became award winning.

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How to apply for funding.

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