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New paper BU PhD student Sheetal Sharma
Congratulations to FHSS PhD student Sheetal Sharma on her latest paper [1]. The paper ‘Measuring What Works: An impact evaluation of women’s groups on maternal health uptake in rural Nepal’ appeared...
View ArticleAnnouncement BU Humanisation Conference 2016
BU Humanisation Conference 21st June 2016 Venue: Room EB708, Executive Business Centre, 89 Holdenhurst Road, BH8 8EB Please find the Programme for the Humanisation conference on the 21st June...
View ArticleBU hosts public meeting on ‘radicalisation’
The third BU ‘Dialogue in the Social Sciences’ will be held at 5.15 on Wednesday 22 June, in the EBC. This series of public meetings is bringing together social scientists and experts from outside...
View ArticleSeminar today: Dr Marcellus Mbah,R301, 13:00-14:00
All welcome to the seminar happening today. Room R301 (Royal London House), 13:00-14:00. Feel free to bring your lunch with you. An exploration into the dynamics of being an international student and...
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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 15th June 2016
Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, a day set aside by the United Nations for governments and civil society worldwide to acknowledge the problem of abuse against some of the oldest and most...
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New collaborative Nepal paper
Today BU staff and post-graduate students published our latest diabetes paper. In the International Journal of Food, Nutrition and Public Health (IJFNPH) publish by the World Association for...
View ArticleThe various forms of terrorist violence
The murder of Jo Cox MP last week draws our attention to neglected dimensions of the problem of ‘radicalisation’. While a threat of neo-Nazi terrorist activity has existed in Britain for some time, we...
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New HSS PhD paper!
HSS PhD student Andrew Harding and fellow authors Jonathan Parker, Sarah Hean and Ann Hemingway have recently had a paper accepted for publication in Social Policy & Society, the sister...
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New Harding and Pritchard paper in international health policy journal
Andrew Harding and Colin Pritchard have recently had a paper published in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management. The paper, titled ‘UK and Twenty Comparable Countries...
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New CMMPH paper by PhD student Sheetal Sharma
Today saw the publication in BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth of the paper ‘Dirty and 40 days in the wilderness: Eliciting childbirth and postnatal cultural practices and beliefs in Nepal’ with as lead...
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FoL debate highlighted on USA website
Last week’s Festival of Learning debate on the motion: “Advising pregnant women to avoid drinking alcohol during pregnancy is symptom of the Nanny State and another step towards the medicalisation of...
View ArticleMaking the Most of Writing Week Part 2: Research grant applications –...
Next week (25-29 July) is Writing Week in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. A whole week dedicated to freeing up some time for academic writing. So, how can you make the most of this...
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Making the Most of Writing Week Part 3: Research grant applications –...
Since next week (25-29 July) is Writing Week in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences (but anyone interested in health research can come and see us), we’ll be giving you some tips on ways to make...
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CEMP report for LSE Media Policy blog on Global Media Literacy Alliance
Following the recent Unesco global media and information literacy alliance event in Latvia and looking ahead to CEMP’s Media Education Summit in Rome, Julian McDougall reports here for the LSE Media...
View ArticleMaking the Most of Writing Week Part 4: Research grant applications – not...
With the start of FHSS writing week, we are continuing our series of blogs providing you with some (hopefully) useful advice on how to make the best of this dedicated time. Remember, there are members...
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New paper Dr. Pramod Regmi
Dr. Pramod Regmi in FHSS published his latest paper today in the South East Asia Journal of Public Health. The paper ‘Priority public health interventions and research agendas in post-earthquake...
View ArticleMaking the Most of Writing Week Part 5: Designing your study
So you have formed a strong team, chosen a funder and involved some service users to help develop a research idea with impact. What’s next? Step 5 is designing your study. The heart of a good piece of...
View ArticleMaking the Most of Writing Week Part 6: What to do with your data
You don’t have to spend Writing Week working on grant applications. You may already have a dataset and now you finally have some time to do something with it. But where to start? It’s often a good idea...
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Consortium on Global Health Research established
Prof. Padam Simkhada (Visiting Faculty at FHSS) brought together a group of like-minded health researchers from South Asia and Africa at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). The overseas’...
View ArticleMaking the Most of Writing Week Part 7: BUCRU – not just for Writing Week!
We’re coming to the end of Writing Week in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences and by now you will have made a good start or have put the finishing touches to your academic writing projects. Over...
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