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My Voice, My Story: Festival of Social Science
I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes – Sonia Sanchez...
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New inter-interdisciplinary media & health paper
The week saw the publication of multi-disciplinary paper ‘Media, Health & Health Promotion in Nepal’, co-written by Faculty of Media & Communication academic Dr. Ann Luce, Centre for...
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ESRC event Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults from Financial Scamming
Date: Wednesday 9th November 2016 10 – 3pm Location: EB306, Executive Business Centre, Bournemouth University, Holdenhurst Road The National Centre for Post-qualifying Social Work is pleased announce...
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Festival of Social Science: widening participation and photography
“I want to take a break… stop autopiloting … everything that you do makes you feel” Student, 10/10/2016 In My Voice, My Story, we explore what it means to be a non-traditional student at university...
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FHSS Dr. Vanessa Heaslip awarded Florence Nightingale Travel Scholarship
Dr. Vanessa Heaslip in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS) has been awarded a Florence Nightingale Travel Scholarship. She will be using this prestigious award to travel to New Zealand...
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Earlier this year a Fusion-funded series of public events at BU was organised by Professors Ann Brooks (FHSS), Candida Yates (FMC) and Barry Richards (FMC). For these ‘Dialogues in the Social...
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EU award for PhD student Preeti Mahato
FHSS PhD student Preeti Mahato in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) has been awarded a funded place on the COST Action Training School BEYOND BIRTH COHORTS: from study...
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BU THET Nepal project presented at RCM conference
Our THET (Tropical Health & Education Trust) funded project which trains community health worker such as Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) on mental health issues related to pregnancy was presented...
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BU Sociology graduate invited speaker at the World Youth Buddhist Symposium
Alexandra Jarrett is a former BU student who is graduating this year from the BA (Hons) Sociology & Anthropology programme in HSS. Prior to taking up her MA studies at the highly prestigious School...
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Visitors from Nepal at FHSS
As part of FHSS’s sustained research in Nepal Dr. Sujan Marahatta and Mr. Jiwan Sharma from Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS) came to the UK to discuss further future...
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InsideBU – Out Now
The latest issue of InsideBU, the magazine for BU staff and students, is out now. This issue brings the concept of Fusion to life through a range of features and articles including: Celebrating...
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Helping Nepal to establish its midwifery profession
The international journal Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (Elsevier publication) published the online first version of our latest maternity-care research paper on Nepal [1]. This paper is part of...
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Islam and Social Work: Culturally sensitive practice in a diverse world
The complexities of multiculturalism as a social ontology and as a political discourse have taken a rapid and alarming turn to the right in a political moment of increasing social turbulence on issues...
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Shelley Frankenstein Festival at BU
Shelley Frankenstein Festival at BU “Fear not that I shall be the instrument of future mischief’ ~ Feminism, Frankenstein and the Future On the 7th November, the Women’s Academic Network in...
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History and Biography in the Sociology of Welfare: The importance of student...
Sociology, as an emerging discipline, developed within the crucible of historical studies of changing lives, transforming events and a search for alternative ways to understand history. We see this in...
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Congratulations to Dr. Regmi new publication
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi in FHSS on the publication of the editorial ‘Need and Scope of Global Partnership on Public Health Research’ published this week. [1] As a global partnership, it is...
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New publication CMMPH student Donna Wixted
Congratulations to CMMPH’s Donna Wixted, Joint BU-Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, doctoral student who just had a paper published in MIDIRS.[1] The paper is titled ‘Drinking in pregnancy: poor...
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Top three most accessed 2016 paper BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth
It is always nice to receive some good news just before Christmas. The journal BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth informed us that our paper ‘“Is it realistic?” the portrayal of pregnancy and childbirth...
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New blog on Open Access publishing
Some months ago Andy Nobes asked my colleague Prof. Padam Simkhada and I if we could write a blog about why we had so many papers in freely available online journals in Nepal. Andy is the Programme...
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Worldwide media coverage BU co-authored paper
Many prestigious newspapers across the globe re-published a very interesting Associate Press article called ‘At soaring rate, Nepalis seeking jobs abroad come home dead’ on the plight of Nepali migrant...
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