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Please see the calls currently open, or forthcoming, being offered through the Newton Fund scheme. Some calls are newly opened whilst others have been promoted previously via the BU Research blog. In each case, please refer to the call website for full details including eligibility requirements and thematic priorities:
If you are interested in applying to any of these calls then please contact your RKEO Funding Development Officer, in the first instance.
RCUK GCRF Global Engagement Meeting – applications to attend are now live!
The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) is running a series of international Global Engagement Meetings. RCUK is pleased to announce that the application form to attend the Meetings is now open and can be found at the link below. Applications are open to UK and non-UK academics and non-academics who have an interest in international development research.
More details about the Meetings and application form can be found here: www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding/gcrf/gcrf-global-engagement-events/
The aim of these large scale events is to showcase the opportunities available through the GCRF; to bring together developing country and UK researchers and representatives from other organisations to forge networks; and to discuss opportunities for maximising the contribution of GCRF research into policy and practice.
The Meetings will be held on the following dates and locations:
Applications are open until Thursday 27th July, and successful applicants will hear in early August.
For all queries and further information please contact gcrf@rcuk.ac.uk.
BU Staff – There is no need to involve RKEO in your application but do follow normal overseas travel requirements and faculty approvals.
There are a number of calls now open through the Newton Fund. In each case, please refer to the call website for full details including eligibility requirements and thematic priorities:
Newton Institutional Links aims to build UK-partner country research and innovation collaborations centred on shared research and innovation challenges which have direct relevance to social welfare and economic development. Grants awarded are between £50,000 – £300,000. For this round, applications are accepted for collaborations between the UK, Egypt, Thailand and Turkey. The call for Turkey will open on 17/07/17. The deadline for submissions is 19th September 2017, 16:00 UK time.
There is a separate call, Institutional Links Grants for the UK and Russia. In this case, the funding is up to £300,000 with a maximum of £150,000 requested on the UK side and £150,000 requested on the Russian side. The deadline for submissions is 19th September 2017, 16:00 UK time.
Researcher Links Travel Grants provide financial support for early-career researchers to undertake an international research placement to strengthen links for future collaboration, build research capacity in developing economies, and enhance the researcher’s career opportunities. The researcher will spend 1-6 months abroad depending on the country, which is one of the Philippines, Indonesia and South Africa. Travel may only be between the UK and partner country, but can be in either direction. The deadline for submissions is 19th September 2017, 16:00 UK time.
Newton Researcher Links Workshops bring together early-career researchers from the UK and a partner country to make international connections that can improve the quality of their research. Workshops can be proposed between the UK, China and the Philippines. There is also a separate call for workshops between the UK and Russia. The deadline for submissions is 19th September 2017, 16:00 UK time.
Funding is available to support attendance at the UAE Science Symposium on Clean and Renewable Energy (30 October – 1 November 2017). The deadline for receiving applications is 19 August 2017.
PhD Placements and Supervisor Mobility Grants China-UK: The UK-China joint Research and Innovation Partnership Fund (known in the UK as the Newton Fund) PhD placement programme is delivered by the British Council China and the China Scholarship Council on behalf of the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and China’s Ministry of Education. This programme is a sponsorship opportunity for UK and Chinese PhD students and their supervisors to spend a period of study of three to 12 months (for PhD students) and up to three months (for supervisors) at higher education institutions in China or the UK. The application process closes at 12:00 (UK time) on 20th September 2017.
On behalf of the Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy, UK and the Ministry of Science and Technology, India, British Council- India, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) India are pleased to invite applications for funding to support short-term PhD placements between UK and Indian institutions. The deadline for receipt of applications is 21 August 2017, 16:00 UK time.
Research Environment Links (REL) Grants aim to support international collaboration through training programmes, the exchange of knowledge and best practice, the development and implementation of pilot activities in the areas relevant to the Newton capacity building strands. The partnerships are led by institutions in Vietnam in conjunction with an expert counterpart organisation in the UK. The grant can be £50,000 to £140,000. The deadline is 21 July 2017, 16:00 UK time.
The British Council in Germany is looking for UK-based researchers to deliver interactive, engaging and hands-on science workshops in English on the topic of Seas and Oceans. Ideally the funder is looking for UK-based science researchers, engineers, Ph.D. students and STEM Ambassadors with a science background and a track record of outreach work with schools. The deadline for submitting proposals is 30 September 2017. The workshops will take place between spring 2017 and autumn 2017.
The British Council is providing funding to attend a number of selected workshops. Various deadlines apply.
If you are planning to apply to any of these schemes, please contact your Research Facilitator for help and support.
Please see the calls currently open, or forthcoming, being offered through the Newton Fund scheme. Some calls are newly opended whilst others have been promoted previously via the BU Research blog.
If you are considering applying to any thse calls, please contact Ehren Milner (FM and FMC) or Lisa Gale-Andrews (HSS and SciTech) for further support.
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi on his appointment as Visiting Research Fellow in International Health at Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences which is part of Deemed University in Maharashtra, India. Dr. Regmi is currently Post-Doctoral Researcher and Early Career Researcher in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinal Health (CMMPH).
Over the past year FHSS has submitted several grant applications with academics based at Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences. Moreover, we are running a joint BU-Datta Neghe project in Maharashtra on the health and well-being of Nepali migrant workers in India. This collaborative migration project was highlighted in the recent Festival of Learning India presentations in New Delhi. Dr. Regmi has published several papers on Nepali migrant workers and their health and well-being.
Well done!
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen
CMMPH
| 6 September 2017 | 12pm BST | NEW! MALAYSIA – UK-Malaysia Urban Innovation Challenge (Innovate UK) |
| APPLICATIONS ON A ROLLING BASIS | TURKEY – Fellowships for UK Researchers (British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society) | |
| Forthcoming | FORTHCOMING: CHINA – UK-China Joint Research and Innovation Partnership Fund PhD Placement Programme (British Council) | |
| Forthcoming | FORTHCOMING: INDIA – Bio-technological solutions for reducing industrial waste (BBSRC, EPSRC) | |
| Forthcoming | FORTHCOMING: CHINA – UK-China Agri-Tech (BBSRC) | |
| Forthcoming | FORTHCOMING: INDIA – Ganga Delta – Bay of Bengal Interactions (NERC) | |
| Forthcoming | FORTHCOMING: INDONESIA – Wallacea understanding biodiversity and evolutionary responses to environmental change (NERC) | |
| Forthcoming | FORTHCOMING: SOUTH EAST ASIA – Increasing resilience to hydrometeorological hazards (NERC) |
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On the last day of BU’s Global Festival of Learning-India 2017 Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen presented the following paper: ‘Nepali migrant workers: trials & tribulations’. The Global Festival of Learning-India 2017 took place at Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts in Pune and at the India Habitat Centre in the capital Delhi. The session offered insight from various studies on Nepali migrant workers conducted by Bournemouth University staff and students.[1-3] It included preliminary results from an on-going study of Nepali migrant workers in India. The latter study is a close collaboration between Pramod Regmi and Edwin van Teijlingen) in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Indian colleagues at Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Deemed University in India (Quazi Syed Zahiruddin, Abhay M. Gaidhane), and Padam Simkhada at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU).
The presentation also highlighted some of the key findings form our recently published paper ‘Identifying the gaps in Nepalese migrant workers’ health and well-being: A review of the literature’ in the Journal of Travel Medicine.[1] The paper is co-authored by BU’s Pramod Regmi and Edwin van Teijlingen, and Padam Simkhada (LJMU) and our Nepali colleague Nirmal Aryal based in New Zealand.
Dr. Shweta Sinda Deshpande, who chaired the session, originated from an Indian village a few miles from the Nepali border. Moreover, she is also an anthropologist who had done fieldwork with Nepali migrant workers in India. Her informed contribution was very much welcomed by the audience.
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The Newton Fund has announced the following funding opportunities:
To find out more, please follow the links given above. For general information about the Newton Fund, please go to their website.
If you are intending to apply for a Newton call, please contact your respective Research Facilitator – Lisa Gale-Andrews (HSS & SciTech) or Ehren Milner (FMC and FM)
Two BU papers and a poster at the International Conference on Transforming Lives & Healthcare through Technology
On 9th January 2017, I presented a paper entitled ‘Qualitative research in health technology assessment’ in a scientific session at the International Conference on Transforming Lives and Health Care through Technology (TLHTicon 2017), Wardha, India. This paper was prepared jointly with by Prof Edwin van Teijlingen and BU’s Visiting Prof Padam Simkhada (Liverpool John Moores University). At the same conference Mrs. Preeti Mahato’s poster on ‘Factors affecting health facility delivery in rural Nawalparasi, Nepal’ was also displayed. Preeti is a PhD student in FHSS. In another scientific session, BU visiting faculty Prof Padam Simkhada presented a paper around global public health and health technology assessment. Prof Edwin van Teijlingen and Dr Pramod Regmi co-authored this presentation.
The conference, which attracted more than 180 oral scientific papers and 97 posters, was organized jointly by Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, DU, Datta Meghe Institute of Engineering, Technology & Research and Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering in association with the Global Consortium for Public Health Research. The Global Consortium for Public Health Research was recently formed [1]. Prof Edwin van Teijlingen, Dr Pramod Regmi, both from HSS, BU are part of it among the 14 academics/researchers from UK, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and few other Low and Middle-Income Countries. Some of them are BU visiting faculty too. Unfortunately, Prof Edwin van Teijlingen could not get a visa in time for India, so he recorded a good-luck message. This pre-recorded message was played to the conference goers.
I found the scientific sessions were a nice blend of scientific talks, plenary sessions, symposia and scientific track sessions. Overall, this conference provided a much-needed platform for academicians, researchers, practitioners and professionals from medical, engineering and industry to disseminate their innovations in interdisciplinary field of health sciences through technology. The conference show-cased innovations in health-care through technology, which shall be useful in transforming lives of people in Low and Middle Income Countries. In these two days; I have been able to all refreshed with thought-provoking & informative talks rendered by experienced researchers around technology in health care.
Dr Pramod Regmi, Post Doc Research Fellow, HSS
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Many prestigious newspapers across the globe re-published a very interesting Associate Press article called ‘At soaring rate, Nepalis seeking jobs abroad come home dead’ on the plight of Nepali migrant workers in countries such as Malaysia, Korea, India and the Middle East. This article cited our co-author Nirmal Aryal who is a Nepali researcher based in New Zealand. This newspaper piece also quoted our recent paper ‘Injury and Mortality in Young Nepalese Migrant Workers: A Call for Public Health Action’, which was published earlier this year in the Asian-Pacific Journal of Public Health [1
]. This scientific journal has an Impact Factor of 1.72
We have received email message and tweets from colleagues and friends who spotted this article in newspapers in the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand (NZ), Taiwan, Nepal, India and many more countries as well as on several news websites. The article was sighted in North American papers such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Billings Gazette, Dothan Eagle, The Daily Times, The Roanoke Times, Union Times, The Daily Courier, The Journal Times, Medicine Hat News. and many more. Whilst in Britain the article can be found on the webpages of the Mail Online. In the Philippines the piece is on Inquirer.net
Elsewhere we were alerted to The Hindustan Times in India, which is incidently one of the few papers that changed the original title of the Associated Press piece to ‘Mysterious deaths: 
Nepalis working abroad come back home in caskets’. Furthermore, as our colleague Nirmal Aryal is based in NZ it is not surprising that several newspaper there reported on the issue: The New Zealand Herald, The Dominion Post (NZ), and as expected several English-language daily newspaper in Nepal picked up the story, including The Himalayan Times, and The Kathmandu Post.
It’s a pity that the original Associated Press article only refers to the BU collaborators as ‘colleagues in the United Kingdom’. We have a long-standing interest in the health and well-being of Nepali migrant workers in various host countries. Dr. Pramod Regmi is post-doctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS). He is part of the BU India-HUB, which involves the study of Nepali migrant workers in India. Prof. Padam Simkhada from Liverpool John Moores University is also BU Visiting Faculty in FHSS. Dr. Pratik Adhikary is a recent BU PhD graduate who has published several articles on Nepalis migrant workers [2-3]. Finally, our work on Nepali migrants has also been submitted as a contribution to the BU’s Global Festival of Learning.
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen & Dr. Pramod Regmi
Faculty of Health & Social Sciences
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Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi in FHSS on the publication of the editorial ‘Need and Scope of Global Partnership on Public Health Research’ published this week. [1] As a global partnership, it is our intention to make a tangible impact upon major public health challenges, whilst strengthening the participating institutions in a sustainable manner. Our collaboration came to a consensus on a number of priority research areas, based on our strengths and collective experience and on our knowledge of the key global issues for the next decades (Table 1). The paper is led by BU Visiting Faculty Prof. Padam Simkhada and co-authored by another BU Visiting Faculty Dr. Bibha Simkhada. The editorial is in an Open Access journal hence freely available to any researcher or practitioner (or policy maker) with internet-access in our collaborating countries.
Table 1 : Key areas of research focus of the consortium
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This week saw the publication of a new paper co-written by BU staff in the Sociological Bulletin. This is the first paper comparing Indian and Nepali Maoist rebels providing health services and health promotion to the communities under their influence. It presents the key provisions either made by rebel health workers themselves or by putting political pressure on government health workers to deliver better services in the areas controlled by rebels. Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen’s co-authors are based in India and Nepal. Prof. Gaurang R. Sahay is based at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, whilst Bhimsen Devkota is Professor in Health Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
This sociological paper is based on a mixed-method approach comprising 15 interviews and a questionnaire survey with 197 Nepalese Maoist health workers and a secondary analysis of policy documents and other published materials on the Maoist health services of India. The paper suggests that rebel health services in India and Nepal followed a fairly similar approach to what and how they offered health care services to local populations. Maoists becoming a government party changed the political landscape for the rebel health workers in Nepal. However, not incorporating the Maoist rebel health workers into the government health system was a missed opportunity. There are lessons that India and Nepal can learn from each other. Should the Maoist rebels and the Government of India come to an agreement, potential for rebel health workers to be integrated in the official health care system should at least be considered.
The paper benefitted from an earlier review through eBU: Online Journal. The feedback from the eBU: Online Journal’s reviewers helped shape and polish the paper before submission to the Sociological Bulletin.
Edwin van Teijlingen
CMMPH
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The UK HE International Unit has advised us of the following Newton Fund international opportunities:
If you are interested in applying for any of these calls, please contact Emily Cieciura, RKEO Research facilitator: EU & International or your Faculty Funding Development Officer.
To keep up to date with Newton Funding and share experiences with other academics, why not join the Newton Fund Network or sign up for their Newton Newsletter? For more general news on international HE activities, take a look at the UK HE International Unit’s International Focus Newsletter. Another way to participate is to attend the international research workshops delivered by The British Council.
The UK HE International Unit has advised us of the following Newton Fund international opportunities with closing dates in early 2016:
| 08 January 2016 | 4.30pm GMT | CHILE- Newton-Picarte Chile-UK Experimental Development Call 2015 |
| 11 January 2016 | SOUTH AFRICA- DST – NRF Fellowships for Early Career Researchers from the UK 2016 | |
| 18 January 2016 | 9am GMT | NEW OPPORTUNITY! KAZAKHSTAN- Industry Academia Partnership Programme – Kazakhstan |
| 20 January 2016 | 6pm Brasília time | NEW OPPORTUNITY! BRAZIL- Institutional Skills grants – Brazil-UK training programmes |
| 27 January 2016 | 12pm GMT | INDIA- UK- India research and innovation bridges competition: Agri-food |
| 04 February 2016 | 12pm GMT | MEXICO- UK- Mexico Collaborative Industrial R&D Competition |
| 23 March 2016 | 12pm GMT | NEW OPPORTUNITY! CHINA- UK-China research and innovation bridges competition |
| 20 April 2016 | 12pm GMT | INDIA- UK-India collaborative industrial research and development competition: Clean-tech, affordable healthcare and ICT |
| APPLICATIONS ON A ROLLING BASIS | N/A | TURKEY- Fellowships for Visiting Scientists and Scientists on Sabbatical Leave |
If you are interested in applying for any of these calls, please contact Emily Cieciura, RKEO Research facilitator: EU & International or your Faculty Funding Development Officer.
To keep up to date with Newton Funding and share experiences with other academics, why not join the Newton Fund Network or sign up for their Newton Newsletter? For more general news on international HE activities, take a look at the UK HE International Unit’s International Focus Newsletter. Another way to participate is to attend the international research workshops delivered by The British Council.
The UK HE International Unit has advised us of the following Newton Fund international opportunities:
If you would like to apply for any of the above calls, please contact Emily Cieciura, Research Facilitator: EU & International or your Faculty’s Funding Development Officer.
To keep up to date with Newton Funding and share experiences with other academics, why not join the Newton Fund Network or sign up for their Newton Newsletter? For more general news on international HE activities, take a look at the UK HE International Unit’s International Focus Newsletter. Another way to participate is to attend the international research workshops delivered by The British Council.
Global BUzz is celebrating BU’s relationship with India on 11th November – Diwali and Global BUzz India – 11th November.
If you are interested in exploring funding from India or with India as an element of the funding call, why not check out the new workgroup for India within ResearchProfessional. You will need to be on campus or have your login available to view this page. By signing up to this group, you will automatically receive updates on funding from India or involving India in some way. You can access this group when you are logged in to ResearchProfessional by clicking on ‘Bournemouth University’, next to where your name appears at the top right of the screen. There is also a news feature, so that you can keep up to date with political, social and economic trends.
Current funding opportunities include:
If you are conducting research with a partner based in India, why not blog about that experience so that other BU academics can find out more about the challenges and benefits of international collaboration? Or you can tell us about it at #GlobalBUzzIndia.
If you want to talk about research opportunities relating to India, please contact Emily Cieciura, Research Facilitator: EU and International. You can also find out more about how BU is engaging with the global agenda, check out the Global Hub pages.
In addition to the Newton Fund opportunities previously announced, the following new calls have been added, with their closing dates:
INDIA- Cultural Heritage and Rapid Urbanisation in India 22/09/15 (4pm GMT)
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) are pleased to announce a joint call for Research Networking projects addressing the theme of ‘Cultural Heritage and Rapid Urbanisation in India’.
PHILIPPINES- Newton PhD Placements Programme 22/09/15 (4pm GMT)
On behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills of the UK Government (BIS), the British Council, Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Commission on Higher Education (CHED) are pleased to offer the Newton PhD Programmes. The aim of the Newton PhD Programmes is to facilitate the capacity building of individuals, and the building of sustainable, long-lasting links between the UK and the Philippines through the DOST-Newton PhD Scholarships and the Newton PhD Placements with CHED.
CHINA- PhD Placements and Supervisor Mobility Grants China-UK 10/10/15 (11:59 pm GMT)
Grants to sponsor PhD students and their supervisors from the UK and China to spend a period of study of between three and 12 months (for PhD students) and up to three months (for supervisors) at higher education institutions in China or the UK. Placements must start between January and December 2016
If you wish to apply for any of these, please contact Emily Cieciura, Research Facilitator – EU & International, as soon as possible.
The Euraxess July newsletter is promoting the following opportunities that are relevant to Bournemouth University:
Brazilian State Funding Agencies, articulated by its National Council (CONFAP), have launched a call for proposals offering support to researchers based in UK Universities and Research Institutions to spend from two weeks to four years working in research in Brazil, in collaboration with local colleagues.
The call offers support for researchers in the UK through:
a) Fellowships
b) Research Mobility Grants
c) Young Investigator Grants comprising a scholarship plus a research funding grant.
These Newton Fund activities offer an opportunity for UK researchers to develop the strengths and capabilities of their research groups through training, collaboration and reciprocal visits with a partner in some of the best research groups in the Brazil.
The second round of applications is now open and will close on 23 October 2015.
Do you have links with an Early Stage Researcher based in ASEAN, Brazil, China, India, Japan or North America? Then direct them to this scheme. First prize is a free trip to Europe, a one-day science communication workshop and a meeting with European Commission representatives in Brussels, Belgium, and a meeting at a European research institution of their choice! Closing dates are in September but applicants will need to check the information for their region.
Environmental sustainability in Europe and India
TECO “Technological Eco-Innovations for the Quality Control of Polluted Waters and Soils” is a new project funded by the European Union and coordinated by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) with the partnership of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI – India).
The goal of TECO is to improve and promote collaborations between Europe and India in the field of environmental sustainability.
Grants are provided for the mobility of European researchers, engineers and experts to spend up to three months in Indian research institutes or private companies to open new professional collaborations and to develop innovative ideas in the field of new technologies applied to the decontamination of waters and soils.
The deadline is 15 September 2015. The mobility program will start from January 2016.
Newton Funding Opportunities (see also previous blog post)
There are currently 24 opportunities listed as open for applications by the Newton fund.
Locations include: Egypt, India,Indonesia,Kazakhstan,Mexico,Philippines,South Africa,Vietnam, Brazil, Turkey and Chile. A wide range of disciplines is also represented, from Agriculture to Rapid Urbanisation.
British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowships (see also previous blog post)
Newton Advanced Fellowships provide early to mid-career international researchers with an opportunity to develop their research strengths and capabilities, and those of their group or network, through training, collaboration and visits with a partner in the UK.
Sign up to receive your own copy of the Euraxess Newsletter so that you are the first to know about international opportunities.
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Conversation article: Why so many people drown at the water’s edge
Workshop on longitudinal studies in three countries
New Bournemouth University public health paper
New ACORN-funded paper published. When time is short but passion for food is strong, food day-tripping may be the answer!
Last reminder – MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 internal deadline next week MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 – internal deadline approaching
Horizon Europe – EuroHPC and MSCA PF webinars MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024
Research Information Network
Royal Society of Chemistry Outreach Fund: Open for Applications