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Fieldwork preparation in Nepal
If you have a number of research projects running in the same location it pays to combine some of the preparation. Thus as part of five different studies and one PhD project, I’m currently in...
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New Book Published on Our Research with the Indigenous Community of Tasik...
Following from our successful study leave in 2014, Professors Sara Ashencaen Crabtree and Jonathan Parker have published a monograph charting their ethnographic research with the Jakun people, an...
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THET-project planning meeting in Kathmandu
This week we had our latest planning meeting for the BU-led and THET-funded project in Nepal. The project has been running for over a year (following a six-month delay due to the terrible 2015...
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Health Promotion intervention planning in rural Nepal
Today and yesterday Green Tara Nepal (GTN) staff spent discussing and planning their health promotion intervention in the district of Dhading. The sessions included feedback by the GTN on progress...
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Harding & Pritchard paper has over 1,000 views in first month it is openly...
The Harding and Pritchard paper titled ‘UK and Twenty Comparable Countries GDP-Expenditure on Health 1980-2013: The Historic and Continued Low Priority of UK Health-Related Expenditure’, and published...
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Public Health in Nepal: Vitamine A
This week we published an editorial in the Journal of Biomedical Sciences on the question: “Is early diagnose for Vitamin A deficiency better than the current supplementation programme of Nepal?” The...
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THET maternal mental health training in Kathmandu
Today we completed the second day of training of health teachers, lecturers in nursng, public health and the like in Kathmandu. We called it the National Workshop on Mental Health Education &...
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100+ Nepal health publications
At a television interview this morning in Kathmandu I was asked how many papers I had published on health and health-related issues in Nepal. I told the interviewer from BTV Business that it was around...
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Mental health project in Nepal highlighted in national media
At the National Workshop on Mental Health Education & Research in Kathmandu organised by Tribhuvan University, Bournemouth University and Liverpool John Moores University last week we had quite a...
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Informed consent in health research: new paper
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi as the lead author of the paper ‘Informed consent in health research: challenges and barriers in low-and middle-income countries with specific reference to Nepal’...
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Bringing FUSION to Nepal
We have written in many previous BU blogs about progress of our THET-funded project in southern Nepal (e.g. here AND here ). Today’s blog reflects on the use on BU’s unique FUSION approach in our...
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New paper by Dr. Pramod Regmi
Congratulations to FHSS’s Dr. Pramod Regmi on the publication of his latest paper in the SAARC Journal of Tuberculosis, Lung Diseases and HIV/AIDS under the title ‘Knowing is not enough: Migrant...
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Widening Participation Fieldnotes: Emotional Work
BU’s Fair Access Research project concentrates on the idea of learning and working together to transform higher education. We are interested in how widening participation works differently in...
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Congratulations to Prof. Brooks
Congratulations to FHSS Prof. Ann Brooks on her latest academic article in the July issue of Cultural Politics. The article ‘The Cultural Production of Consumption as Achievement’ is co-authored with...
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CQR Kicks Off “In Conversation” Seminars this Wed 7 Sept
The Centre for Qualitative Research is kicking off its new seminar series on Wednesday 7 September at 1 pm in Royal London House RLH 201 Masterclass Suite. New to BU and FHSS, Prof. Sam Porter (Head of...
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Women Academics Centre Stage in Presidential Roles in Major International...
Women Academics Centre Stage in Presidential Roles in Major International Professional Bodies and Conference Organisation 3rd International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology 10-14 July2016,...
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Public Health England Physical Activity Tool
Public Health England has launched a Physical Activity Tool which brings together data at the local level for the whole of England on physical activity, including walking and cycling, as well as data...
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FHSS PhD student Jib Acharya presented at University of Chester
Mr. Jib Acharya presented at The Nutrition Society Student Conference in Chester last week. He presented from his PhD work Healthy eating among mothers in Nepal: A qualitative exploration, which is...
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FHSS seminar Prof McKie
Prof. Linda McKie who is professor of Sociology at Durham University gave an excellent paper today in FHSS on Revitalising Spatial and Temporal Frameworks in the Analysis of Unpaid Care and Paid Work....
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New sociology book by Prof Ann Brooks
Congratulations to Prof. Ann Brooks in FHSS on the publication of her latest book Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire: Theries of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late...
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