Challenges and New Directions in Journalism Education
“What journalism should we teach?” “How can the academy drive and lead change in practice?” These questions run like a red thread through a new publication produced by a collective of BU academics....
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Public Engagement Opportunity: Share your research with the public at Café...
Would you like to share your research with a public audience? Get involved with our Café Scientifique series Café Scientifique is a public event that takes place at The Black Cherry in Boscombe on the...
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Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Arnold
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Arnold, whose paper ‘Parallel worlds: An ethnography of care in an Afghan maternity hospital‘ has been cited twenty times according to a message from ResearchGate. This...
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Dorset Farming Community Network to present at Community Voices webinar...
December’s community voices webinar welcomes Nick Viney – Dorset farmers ‘Lookout’ coordinator. The farming community in Dorset had developed a new initiative to encourage people to be ‘Lookouts’ in...
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Celebrating the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2023 – a look back
This autumn BU put on a diverse range of events as part of the annual ESRC Festival of Social Science, which saw 387 events held nationwide. The Festival, which celebrates the research of social...
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New internal seed fund for public engagement with research launching in 2024
Enabling meaningful engagement with stakeholders Research is more likely to lead to impact if there is engagement with beneficiaries and research users from the outset. To help foster the development...
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New sociology paper
Congratulations to Professors Sara Ashencaen Crabtree and Jonathan Parker who, together with academic colleagues from Cost Rica and Malaysia, published in the journal Debates En Sociología [1]. Their...
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CMWH leads the way with latest evidence on early labour
It has been a busy month for researchers in the Centre for Midwifery and Women’s Health. Academics have been reporting their findings on improving care and support for women in early / latent phase...
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New Nepal paper published
BMJ Global Health published our latest paper today under the title ‘The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews‘ [1]. This so-called review of reviews is part of a...
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Paper published on ‘living evidence’
The Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published today carries an article on so-called ‘living evidence’ as an on-going synthesis approach that provides up-to-date rigorous research evidence [1]. This...
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Interview with BU professor published
Today Madhusudan Subedi and Man Bahadur Khattri published their Interview with Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen in the Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology & Anthropology [1]. This academic journal is...
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Migration and mental health meeting in Kathmandu
Yesterday (29th December) Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen attended a workshop on ‘Current situation of migration and its impact on Mental health’ in a hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal. This workshop was organised...
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Well-being of Nepal’s migrant workers no longer on global agenda
A few days ago were alerted by ResearchGate that our article ‘Migrant Workers in Qatar: Not just an important topic during the FIFA World Cup‘ has reached 300 reads [1]. We (Padam Simkhada, Pramod...
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The last BU blog of 2023
First of all: Happy New Year! One of the first message I received this morning was that our editorial ‘Addressing the inequalities in global genetic studies for the advancement of Genetic Epidemiology’...
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New migration paper related to Nepal
On the last day of 2023 the Journal of Health Promotion published the paper ‘Sexual Harassment Among Nepali Non-Migrating Female Partners of International Labor Migrant Men’ [1]. This paper, in an...
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Partnership planning meeting in Kathmandu
This afternoon Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen attended a partnership meeting with colleagues from Nepal’s Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS) in Yak & Yeti Hotel in Kathmandu. The...
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Media: press presentation in Nepal
Today we sent out a press release in both English and Nepali prior to a face-to-face media event in Hotel Yak and Yeti, Kathmandu. This media coverage highlights our interdisciplinary study ‘The...
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Forum on Post-Federalisation Health System Strengthening
Today and tomorrow our research team is engaged in discussions with those responsible for running the health system at different levels of the new federal system in Nepal. The aim today and tomorrow...
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Latest paper from Federalisation & Health System in Nepal
The sixth paper from our interdisciplinary research team focuses on the effective way we applied participatory policy analysis in a study on the effects on the health system in Nepal. In the research...
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Newspaper coverage in Nepal
One print daily English-language newspaper The Annapurna Express and one online newspaper Gazzabkoo Magazine published articles this week on our project on strengthening the health system in Nepal....
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