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The Politics of Societal Impact: Community Development and Critical Scholarship
How can we do research that engages with communities in a genuinely collaborative way? What kind of research produces findings which address critical questions about the structural issues and problems...
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Collaborative ethnography and undergraduate learning
The value of providing undergraduate students with experience of conducting first hand, empirical research is widely recognised. As a social anthropologist, I’ve long been interested enabling students...
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Distinguished Social Science Public Lectures Series at BU
Presenting for the first time at this year’s Festival of Learning: the first two Distinguished Social Scientists Public Lectures at Bournemouth University. The inaugural lecture will be given by...
View ArticleGeoNet mapping for Social Change
This time Dr. Steve McFarland visited us from the University of Tampa. Steve gave us a lot of interesting food for thought – I’d never considered before that maps historically have given more power to...
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Protecting vulnerable older people from financial scams
Dr Lee-Ann Fenge Staff from the National Centre for Post-qualifying Social Work (NCPQSW) are working collaboratively with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) to develop good practice...
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Paper published based on prestigious scholarship
BU academics Ms. Lesley Milne, Prof. Vanora Hundley and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen in collaboration with BU Visiting Faculty Prof. Padam Simkhada (Liverpool John Moores University) and Ms. Jillian...
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Phone scams and ‘vishing’ on the rise – how to protect vulnerable older people
Dr Lee-Ann Fenge Following our blog last week on the work the NCPQSW is undertaking with staff from the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) to respond to the risks posed by financial scams,...
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UK Nepali Community Equality in Health & Social Care Study
Yesterday (July 9th) saw the launch of the report based on a study of the Nepali Community in the UK on Equality in Health & Social Care. The joint project between the UKNFS (UK-Nepal Friendship...
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Reminder: Monday 13th July seminar by Prof. John Holmwood
Tomorrow Prof. John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) will be the first speaker in the Distinguished Social Scientists Public Lectures Series at Bournemouth University. The topic of his presentation...
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Ethical fundraising : Protecting vulnerable adults from aggressive...
Dr Lee-Ann Fenge There is growing awareness in the government and media of the importance of recognising and responding to the risks posed by financial abuse of vulnerable older people. My last two...
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Prof. Judy Wajcman LSE speaking this evening in FoL
Prof Judy Wajcman will be the second speaker in the Distinguished Social Scientists Public Lectures Series tonight in Festival of Learning. The lecture is based on her new book Pressed for Time: The...
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Festival of Learning event demonstrates pilot Seen But Seldom heard e...
Dr Lee-Ann Fenge During last week’s Bournemouth University Festival of Learning, the team (Dr. Carrie Hodges, Faculty of Media and Communication; Wendy Cutts and Dr Lee-Ann Fenge, Faculty of Health and...
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Improving Nepali’s health & social care in the UK: Presentation of key...
Bournemouth University presents some of the key findings of the first study of its kind of the Nepali community in the UK. The report also shows the way forward for improved UK Nepali community NHS...
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UK Nepali community research dissemination event
BU and UKNFS jointly presented some of the key findings of their study into the UK’s Nepali community. The meeting (22 July) in the EBC was attended by local representatives of the NHS, the CCG and...
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New BU Research Methods paper
Yesterday the journal Health Prospect published another of our research methods papers. This latest paper on cross-national comparative research has been written by five sociologists from Northern...
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Consider the editor!
The most recent edition of the international journal Women & Birth includes a discussion paper highlighting the role of the academic journal editor, an often misunderstood ‘job’ in academic...
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New publication by BU PhD student Jib Acharya
Congratulations to FHSS Ph.D. student Mr. Jib Acharya, whose paper ‘Study of nutritional problems in preschool aged children in Kaski District in Nepal’ has just been published in the Journal of...
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BU PhD student publishes in Huffington Post
From Aspirations to Reality: How to Effectively Measure the Sustainable Development Goals PhD student Ms. Sheetal Sharma in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) published...
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Introducing Rebecca Johnson: PQSW Research Assistant
I have joined Bournemouth University as a Research Assistant for the National Centre of Post-Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice. The Centre is very dynamic and has a wide range of...
View ArticleFusion co-creation project involving BU students and partners in Kosovo:...
In post-war societies such as in the Western Balkans, war monuments may serve to preserve a single narrative of the past. Sometime the intention is to shape future generations’ understanding of...
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