BU prof speaking at the University of Sheffield
BU professor Edwin van Teijlingen from the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perianal Health (CMMPH) had the honour of being invited to speak at a workshop ran yesterday by the Sheffield Institute...
View ArticleNuffield Research Placements: “My experience at the Orthopaedic Research...
Hi, my name is Holly Coombs. I am currently doing a research placement at Bournemouth University as part of the Nuffield programme, which gives people at the end of their first year of A-levels a...
View ArticleNew research ethics paper Faculty of Health & Social Sciences
Next months sees the publication of our latest article on research ethics in developing countries [1]. Our paper argues that despite a significant increase in health research activity in low-and...
View ArticleCongratulations to Dr. Keen on new Nepal publication
Congratulations to Dr. Steve Keen in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences and BU PhD graduate Dr. Pratik Adhikary on the acceptance today of their paper ‘Risky work: Accidents among Nepalese...
View ArticleNew CMMPH publication on maternity care in Nepal
Today the journal BMC Health Services Research accepted our scientific paper ‘The contribution of female community health volunteers (FCHVs) to maternity care in Nepal: a qualitative study’ [1]....
View ArticleThe Conversation about midwifery campaign
Last week saw the publication of a piece by BU Professors Vanora Hundley and Edwin van Teijlingen in The Conversation under the title: “Why UK midwives stopped the campaign for ‘normal birth’”. The...
View ArticleCongratulations to Dr. Jane Fry & colleagues
Congratulations to Jane Fry, Janet Scammell and Sue Barker in the Faculty of Health & Social Science on the publication of their latest paper ‘ Drowning in Muddied Waters or Swimming Downstream?:...
View ArticleNew collaborative work published by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (FHSS)
Dr. Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences has just co-published a comprehensive study on state-building in Kosovo. The study has be co-created with colleagues and...
View ArticleBU Sociology article in The Conversation
Congratulations to Dr. Hyun-Joo Lim Senior Lecturer in Sociology at BU who has just written an interesting piece on human rights issues faced by North Korean female defectors in China in The...
View ArticleMy personal experience at Café Scientific
Café scientific was one of the best public engagement activities that I have done in the past years, and I do recommend going there and deliver your talk to the public. In all my past experiences...
View ArticleBU academic writes in national newspaper Nepal
Dr. Pramod Regmi, Lecturer in International Health in the Faculty of Health & Social Care, wrote in today’s edition of my Republica under the title ‘Health for all’. This article in one of Nepal’s...
View ArticleCongratulations to James Palfreman-Kay
Congratulations to BU’s Equality and Diversity Adviser James Palfreman-Kay whose application to HEFCE’s ‘Catalyst Fund: Tackling hate crime and online harassment on campus‘ has been successful. He is...
View ArticleFHSS student needs help with online questionnaire for her research
Our PhD student Orlanda Harvey is currently conducting her study on why people use Anabolic Androgenic Steroids (AAS). Since steroid use is a sensitive topic and its users are a hard-to-reach...
View ArticleCMMPH student wins The Postgraduate Research Prize
Ms. Sheetal Sharma who will be graduating from Bournemouth University with a Ph.D. on November 10th has been awarded Bournemouth University’s The Postgraduate Research Prize. This prize is for the...
View ArticleREMINDER – Cross-Research Council Mental Health Network Plus call Meeting
Just a quick reminders… We will be holding a networking event for BU academics who are interested in the Cross-Research Council Mental Health Network Plus call on 1st November 09:30-11:30 in PG140. It...
View ArticleESRC Festival event: Me and my green space
On Sunday the Kingfisher Barn, Muscliffe will be the venue for an ESRC Festival event. BU staff from the Faculties of Health and Social Sciences and Media and Communications have developed the event...
View ArticleNuffield Celebration Event at BU
The Nuffield Research Placement (NRP) provides students each year with the opportunity to work alongside professional scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians. It aims to enable students...
View ArticleThe slow process from public health research to law
We know that public health works and thinks long-term. We’ll typically see the population benefits of reducing health risks such as tobacco use, obesity and high alcohol intake in ten or twenty years’...
View ArticleNew paper by BU’s Lecturer in International Health
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi on the publication of his latest article ‘Local elections and community health care in Nepal’.[1] Pramod is our newly appointed Lecturer in International Health,...
View ArticleFake conferences are not fake news: beware predatory conferences
Introduction Academic have been warned for a decade about predatory Open Access publishers (van Teijlingen 2014). These are commercial organisations charging academics a publication fee on submission...
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