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Drowning prevention poster at Safety 2024 (in India)
This week Notan Dutta, from our collaborating research organisation CIPRB (Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh) presented a poster on ‘Identifying the strengths and challenges from the...
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Successful human-centred design workshop at Safety 2024 in India
Last week colleagues from our Sonamoni project co-hosted a workshop with TGI Australia (The George Institute for Global Health) at the 15th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion...
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New editorial Nepal Journal Epidemiology out now
A few days ago we published the editorial for the latest issues of the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology. This editorial under the title ‘Urgent need for better quality control, standards and regulation...
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Over the summer, Jane Healy (Principle Academic in Criminology at Bournemouth University) led an inter-disciplinary research team at Bournemouth University and Royal Holloway which has conducted a...
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Kidney disease in migrant workers from Nepal
Twenty reads may not look a lot, but this paper on kidney disease in Nepalese migrant workers was only published in the second half of last month. Our paper ‘Exploring lifestyles, work environment and...
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Reaching 10,000 reads!
Last Sunday ResearchGate informed us that the paper ‘Health facility preparedness of maternal and neonatal health services: a survey in Jumla, Nepal‘ [1] published in the international journal BMC...
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BU Emeritus Professor contributes to Transforming Society
Congratulations to Prof. Jonathan Parker, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, who was invited to contribute a post to the influential social science blog Transforming...
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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...
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New 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...
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Dementia 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...
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BU 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...
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Late 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...
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Congratulations 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...
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Seventh 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...
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BU 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...
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Sonamoni 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...
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Congratulations 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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Capacity building with CIPRB staff in Bangladesh
Yesterday I had the pleasure to delivery two research capacity building workshop sessions in Dhaka with staff at CIPRB (Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh). I was in Bangladesh as...
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Methods or Methodology paper: 300+ reads
Last month ResearchGate informed us that our paper ‘Methods or Methodology: Terms That Are Too Often Confused’ has been read 300 times [1]. This paper started as a discussion among the authors about...
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Race Equity Month: Disparities in maternity care
Race Equity Month – Can the UK finally tackle health disparities in maternity care? Last week Prof. Hora Sultani, who leads the joint bid submitted by Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) and Bournemouth...
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