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Editorial accepted by Frontiers in Public Health
As part of the special issue in Frontiers in Public Health on ‘Evidence-based approaches in Aging and Public Health’ the guest editors included 15 academic papers. These 15 contributions to the...
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Celebrating with the RNLI
Staff in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences at Bournemouth University (BU) would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the charity the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) on its...
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Ph.D. paper cited 40 times
Today ResearchGate notified us that our paper ‘Caste Exclusion and Health Discrimination in South Asia: A Systematic Review’ has been cited 40 times [1]. This paper is based Dr. Raksha Thapa’s work...
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Requests to speak to the media are like buses….
Last week for the first time in over a year I received a request for a mass media interview in the UK on our research. On Easter Monday (1 April) I received an email to appear on Sky TV that very...
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Dr Shanti Farrington presenting on dementia
Today Dr. Shanti Farrington, Principal Academic in Psychology, presented our research work on dementia in India today. She was invited to speak to the ‘Research Participation Group of the Ageing &...
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Congratulation on new interdisciplinary publication
Congratulation to Dr. Orlanda Harvey (Social Work), Dr. Terri Cole (Psychology) and Dr. Jane Healy (Criminology) who in collaboration with Jade Levell, a colleague at the University of Bristol, had...
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2nd HSS PGR Conference – submission deadline 19th April
Last chance to submit… The Conference Committee welcome all PGRs in HSS to submit an abstract to present at the 2nd annual department conference, which will be held on Tuesday 4th June. Last year’s...
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New COVID-19 publication
This week the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health (APJPH) accepted our latest paper from our research on the impact of the federalisation of the health care system in Nepal. This paper ‘COVID-19 as...
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Fifteen years at BU
Fifteen years ago I started as a professor in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences. I have had three different job titles without moving jobs, starting in 2009 with ‘Professor of Maternal &...
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Research reaching non-academic audiences
Most grant awarding bodies expect a well thought through communications and dissemination plan. As Research Culture Champion in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS) I thought it might be...
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Paper with 160,000 reads
Occasionally we have the pleasure to announce that one of our papers has been read 300 times or 2,000 times or has been cited 40 times. However, some papers are in a different category. Today...
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Nepal Study Days 2024
Tomorrow (Monday 13th May) and Tuesday BNAC (Britain-Nepal Academic Council) will held its annual conference. The conference is called the 21st BNAC Nepal Study Days, which will be in Edinburgh this...
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Questioning AI
Today the Open Access journal Health Prospect published our paper ‘ChatGPT: Challenges to editors and examiners’ [1]. The past year saw an exponential growth in the use of machine learning using AI...
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Congratulations to Social Workers Drs. Oliver & Harvey
Congratulations to Dr. Orlanda Harvey and Dr. Louise Oliver on the publication of their latest article ‘The use of poetry in form of haikus as a tool for critical reflection’ [1]. This latest academic...
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BU academic listed on Research.com
Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has just released its 2024 Edition of the Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities. BU is listed as 509th...
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Resilience, Advocacy and Wellbeing: Voices from the Frontline
On the 17.05.24 Tilia Lenz, Senior Lecturer presented her research project ‘Reclaiming Resilience- voices from the frontline’ to the UCU Equality Research conference in Manchester. The hybrid...
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Growing volume of migrant workers’ health research
Last week we found out that the paper ‘Moral panic, fear, stigma, and discrimination against returnee migrants and Muslim populations in Nepal: analyses of COVID-19 media content’ was published by the...
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Needing Time & Space: The Innovation Common Room
NEED SOME TIME & SPACE TO CONTEMPLATE, INNOVATE & GENERATE? THE INNOVATION COMMON ROOM is at Fusion again TODAY – SAME TIME, SAME SPACE A RELAXED PLACE FOR RESEARCHERS TO MEET, DISCUSS &...
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FHSS academics’ paper cited 1,000 times
This morning ResearchGate alerted us that our paper published two decades ago ‘The Importance of Pilot Studies’ has now been cited one thousand times [1]. This methods paper in the Nursing Standard is...
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BU academic visiting Malaysia
Dr. Nirmal Aryal, who is a part-time researcher in the Department of Nursing Sciences, is in Malaysia this week to prepare further migrant-health research collaborations and plans. His trip is part of...
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