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Global Consortium in Public Health meets in Huddersfield
On Monday and Tuesday 18-19 June the University of Huddersfield will organize its Global Consortium in Public Health meeting. This meeting is the brain child of Prof. Padam Simkhada, he is Visiting...
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Fitness to Practise paper published
Congratulations to Megan Jadzinski, Sara White, Sue Way and Dominique Mylod on the acceptance of their paper ‘How are Fitness to Practise processes applied in UK Higher Education Institutions? – A...
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BU PhD student presents at Royal Life Saving Society event in London
FHSS PhD student Md. Shafkat Hossain was invited last week to speak at the event’Accelerating Action on Global Drowning Prevention’ in London. On the 12th July the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS)...
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World Drowning Prevention Day Bournemouth University
Worldwide drowning has caused over 2.5 million deaths in the last decade. The overwhelming majority of these deaths (90%) happen in low-middle-income countries. Globally, the highest drowning rates...
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New BU migration and health publication
Congratulations to Drs. Pramod Regmi and Nirmal Aryal in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences who published their latest paper this week [1]. This peer-reviewed paper ‘Assessing the knowledge...
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The Journal of Asian Midwives’ 10th anniversary
This week the Journal of Asian Midwives published its latest issue. Celebrating a decade of publishing, this is the first issue of volume 10. The journal is Open Access and freely available online...
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Publishing papers takes time
Today we were informed by Razi International Medical Journal that the paper ‘Management capacity in the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) Afghanistan: Political and socio-cultural issues’ [1] is finally...
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Dedicated to drowning prevention in Bangladesh
Today we held the first International Advisory Group for the Sonamoni project. Sonamoni is a BU research project with CIPRB (the Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh) which aims to...
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New paper on academic-industry research partnerships
Yesterday the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published our editorial on ‘Strengthening Healthcare through Academic and Industry Partnership Research’ [1]. The editors put the editorial on the cover of...
View ArticleNIHR Be Part of Research platform
The NIHR Be Part of Research platform is an online service that makes it easy for research participants to find and take part in health and social care research. Participants may search for trials and...
View ArticleImproving information for people taking part in clinical research
The Health Research Authority (HRA) has launched new Quality Standards to improve information given to people who are invited to take part in research. The Quality Standards have been launched...
View ArticleIntroduction to Patient and Public Involvement
This half day course is an introduction to PPI and will: 1. Define PPI and why it matters 2. Explore the links between PPI and health equity 3. Explain how to deliver PPI and support those involved It...
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Proofreading your article accepted for publication
It is always a pleasure to see you paper in print. If all is properly organised at the publisher, the first time you see you paper as it will look in its final version when you receive the proof copy....
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Emerging Leaders in Drowning Prevention: BU PhD student Shafkat Hossain
Congratulations to BU’s PhD student Mr. Md. Shafkat Hossain who has been selected by Bloomberg Philanthropies as one of the Emerging Leaders in Drowning Prevention programme. This programme has been...
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After predatory journals & conferences, now predatory academic prizes
After many emails about predatory journals and conferences, today I received an email about a predatory academic prize. Over the years there have been many BU Research Blogs warning readers about...
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Training on federalisation in Nepal
Today our collaborators Drs Sujata Sapkota and Sujan Gautam from Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS) organised and ran another training and orientation session for Female Community...
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Media coverage BU’s kidney research in Nepal
This week Bournemouth University organised two dissemination events for our risk of kidney disease study in Nepalese migrant workers in the Middle East and Malaysia. A previous blog reported on the...
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Interview with BU’s Dr. Nirmal Aryal in main Nepalese newspaper
Dr. Nirmal Aryal, who is a part-time researcher in the Department of Nursing Sciences, was interviewed in Nepal by a journalist for Kantipur, the largest Nepali-language newspaper of the country....
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New health policy paper published this week
This week the Nepal Federal Health System Team published its latest paper the international journal Health Research Policy & Systems [1]. This Open Access paper ‘Overcoming the challenges facing...
View ArticleReminder: Portland Global Friendship Group to present at Community Voices...
November’s Community Voices webinar welcomes Laney White from Portland Global Friendship Group When the concept of the Bibby Stockholm barge for asylum seekers was announced in Portland without any...
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