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MIDIRS reproduced Afghanistan paper
Dr. Rachel Arnold’s paper ‘Parallel worlds: an ethnography of care in an Afghan maternity hospital’ [1] originally published in Social Science & Medicine (Elsevier) has been reprinted in full in...
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Successful Away Day for the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal and Perinatal Health
CMMPH held its annual away day on the 12th December and was led by the Centre leads, Professors Edwin van Teijlingen and Susan Way. It is an opportunity for BU staff, PGR students and Visiting Faculty...
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Congratulations to FHSS student Raksha Thapa
On the last working day of 2018 at Bournemouth University we congratulate FHSS student Raksha Thapa on the publication of her first PhD paper in her first PhD year. The paper Uptake of Health Services...
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Final publication of 2018
Congratulations to Orlanda Harvey on the publication of her paper ‘Shades of Grey’: The Ethics of Social Work Practice in Relation to Un-prescribed Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Use. Orlanda Harvey is a...
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Developing our partnership in Nepal
Last year BU signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS) in Kathmandu, Nepal. This week Dr. Bibha Simkhada, Lecturer in Nursing, Dr. Shanti...
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Migration research dissemination in Kathmandu
Last week we presented key findings from our various research projects on health and migration in Nepal. The research meeting was held in a hotel in central Kathmandu. More than seventy people turned...
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Beautiful Work Challenge: Podcast on Birth
A few months ago Dr. Ann Luce (Faculty of Media & Communication) and I were interviewed by the US-based organisation Catalysta TM on the issue of the portrayal of childbirth in the media. This...
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Migrant workers & mental health in Nepal
Congratulations to Dr. Nirmal Aryal and Dr. Pramod Regmi in BU’s Faculty of Health & Social Sciences on the acceptance of their latest paper ‘Adolescents left behind by migrant workers: Call for...
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Reflections on doing interdisciplinary research
Conducting interdisciplinary or even transdisciplinary research has become more to the fore in many academic fields. As a result of the steady rise of multidisciplinary research It has been made more...
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New textbook for medical students
Experts from universities across the UK have contributed to a new edition of a best-selling textbook which is out this month. This is the fourth edition of Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine...
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Expanding BU’s India links
Dr. Pramod Regmi and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen (both in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences) have been invited to join the scientific committee of the International Conference on Mixed Methods...
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Descent or dissent? Social work education in post-Brexit UK
Congratulations to Prof. Jonathan Parker on the publication of his article ‘Descent or dissent? A future of social work education in the UK post-Brexit‘ in the European Journal of Social Work. In true...
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New epilepsy paper by BU academics
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Collard and Dr. Pramod Regmi whose paper ‘Qualitative insights into feelings, knowledge, and impact of SUDEP: A narrative synthesis’. The paper has been accepted by the...
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NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) Roadshow – 10th April 2019
NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) Roadshow We are offering a number of events which offer an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied...
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BU contributes to International Conference in India.
This past weekend saw BU Visiting Professor Padam Simkhada, who is a Professor of International Public Health in the Public Health Institute at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), delivering the...
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Dr. Aryal funded to attend international workshop on migration & health
Congratulations to Dr. Nirmal Aryal in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences has been selected to participate in an international workshop targeting early career researchers (ECRs) on...
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Interdisciplinary and REF2021
Over the past decades interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research has grown in popularity. REF2021 promises that all types of research shall be assessed on a fair and equal basis, including...
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Discharged from hospital back to the streets – homeless and forgotten.
In 2012, a study by The Housing Link and St. Mungo’s identified that two thirds of homeless patients were discharged from hospital straight back onto the streets. Despite it being included within the...
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Congratulations to Prof. Parker on his latest publication
Congratulations to Sociology Prof. Jonathan Parker on the publication of his book review of Society of Fear. This book is written by Jessica Spengler & Heinz Bude and published by Polity Press....
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Ten years at BU
A decade ago my family and I arrived from Aberdeen to a rented house in Dorset to start my professorship at BU. Prior to my job interview I had never been to Bournemouth in my life. So it was truly a...
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