Research methods training in Qatar
Bournemouth University collaboration with in the field of ageing research in Qatar is going from strength to strength. BU staff have been working with academics and clinicians at Hamad Medical...
View ArticleNew BU Social Work publication
Growing international interest in approaches to social work focussing on human growth and development and including each social actor’s real freedoms to act, such as the capabilities approach, has...
View ArticleDementia in Nepal: new publication
Congratulations to Dr. Shanti Farrington, Principal Academic in Psychology, on the publication of her latest paper ‘The impact of cultural practice and policy on dementia care in Nepal’ [1]. This...
View ArticleBU does well in offering Open Access publications
The latest online CWTS Leiden Ranking Open Edition lists Bournemouth University (BU) high among European universities when it comes to making academic papers easily available through Open Access. For...
View ArticleLate 2023 paper reaches 400 reads!
Yesterday ResearchGate informed us that our paper ‘The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews‘ [1] had reached 400 reads. This paper, published in BMJ Global...
View ArticleCongratulations to Shafkat Hossain on his first PhD paper
This week the editor of the International Journal of Social Sciences and Management emailed that the paper ‘Drowning Prevention should be a Public Health Issue in Nepal‘ [1] had been published. This...
View ArticleSeventh edition of Social Work textbook
Congratulations to Bournemouth University’s Emeritus Professor Jonathan Parker who has just published the 7th edition of his best-selling Social Work Practice. This latest edition of Social Work...
View ArticleBU contribution to Qatar International Evidence Synthesis Workshop
Early next week Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen from the Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH) has been invited to present online at the International Evidence Synthesis Workshop on November 13th...
View ArticleSonamoni project field visit
This week I had the pleasure of visiting one of the two major research sites of our Sonamoni project. Sonamoni is jointly coordinated by Bournemouth University in collaboration with the Centre for...
View ArticleCongratulations to three former BU staff
Bournemouth University Emeritus Professor, Jonathan Parker, now Health Services University, UK, former BU academic Professor Vanessa Heaslip, now Salford University and Professor Sarah Hean and Pravin...
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