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Proposed New Research Centre: Centre for Social and Cultural Research
Expressions of Interest sought: A new interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary Research Centre is proposed by Professor Ann Brooks, Prof of Sociology and Head of Research and Professional Practice in...
View ArticleI like a good spreadsheet!
I’m Sharon Docherty and I have just joined the Bournemouth University Clinical Research Unit (BUCRU) team as a Research Fellow in Quantitative Methods. My background is in Biology with a particular...
View Article“Performative Social Science: What it is, What it isn’t, and What it has...
All staff and students welcome. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Abstract: “Performative Social Science” was a term first coined by Norman Denzin in 2001, the year that Kip Jones received his PhD...
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Sociology presentation at Dutch Annual Midwifery Conference (22 Jan. 2016)
On Friday January 22nd 2016 FHSS Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen delivered a keynote address at the Annual Research Conference of the Dutch Midwifery Schools. The Dutch name for the event is ‘conferentie...
View ArticleContact, Help, Advice and Information Network (CHAIN) Demonstration 23rd...
CHAIN – Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network – is an online mutual support network for people working in health and social care. It gives people a simple and informal way of contacting each...
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New taskforce launched to combat fraud across the UK
Dr Lee-Ann Fenge – Deputy Director NCPQSW lfenge@bournemouth.ac.uk The Home Office is setting up a new taskforce to combat financial fraud which will include banks, the police and government officials...
View ArticleSocial Science Seminar Series, Dr Sarah Collard, 17th Feb 16, 1-2pm.
All welcome to the February social science seminar series, Royal London House, Lansdowne Campus, R301, 13:00-14:00. How do you exercise with epilepsy?Insights into the psychosocial impact of exercising...
View ArticleInvolving patients and the public in your research. Registration for NIHR...
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Training and Coordinating Centre will be hosting a live one hour webinar about involving patients and the public in research on Tuesday 23 February at...
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New health editorial on Sustainable Development Goals & Nepal
Since late 2015 the world strives to achieve towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The SDGs bring together the social, economic and environmental aspects of development. There are 17 SDGs...
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New BU multidisciplinary media & health paper out today!
Today saw the publication “Is it realistic?” the portrayal of pregnancy and childbirth in the media, a paper which is truly interdisciplinary, both in terms of its authorship as well as its topics[1]....
View ArticleContact, Help, Advice and Information Network (CHAIN) Demonstration 23rd...
CHAIN – Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network – is an online mutual support network for people working in health and social care. It gives people a simple and informal way of contacting each...
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CfP: Lifestyle and communities: sharing in the digital era
It’s with great pleasure that we invite you to submit an abstract to a special track on “Lifestyle and communities: sharing in the digital era” of the ATLAS annual conference. It will take place in...
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Written Submission to Parliament by Sascha Dov Bachman
Written evidence submitted by Brigadier (Rtd) Anthony Paphiti, former ALS officer and Visiting Researcher at BU’s CRoLS and Dr Sascha Dov Bachmann, Associate Professor in International Law and Visiting...
View Article‘Voices of the Secret State': Seminar presentation by Dr Hyun Joo Lim, 16th...
All staff and students welcome. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Voices of the Secret State: Human Rights Activism among North Korean Defectors in the UK Abstract: My paper aims to highlight...
View ArticleSustainability in Higher Education
BU is a member of IUSDRP – an Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. As part of that network, I am sharing with colleagues information in relation to publications and forthcoming...
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The importance of leadership strategy in Children’s Services
By Lee-Ann Fenge, Deputy Director National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work It is difficult to under-estimate the importance of effective leadership and leadership style within children’s...
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Towards human worth and dignity
Today, Tuesday 15th March 2016, is World Social Work Day. Whilst the growth in ‘world this’ or ‘world that’ day may cause some to groan and turn off, there is tremendous importance in World Social Work...
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Guide to develop understanding of financial scamming launched at recent...
A recent awareness raising event at the House of Commons, hosted by Conor Burns MP, discussed the problem of financial scamming and mass marketing fraud in the UK and highlighted the work being...
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Happy World Social Work Day!
This year the theme of World Social Work Day is ‘Promoting the Dignity and Worth of Peoples’ This relates to the second pillar of the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development which was...
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BU BMC paper followed up by BMC Series Blog
Our latest paper in the international journal BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth published late last month was highlighted yesterday in a BMC Series Blog.[1] The blog post reminds us that the media plays...
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