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Congratulations to Shafkat Hossain on his first PhD paper
This week the editor of the International Journal of Social Sciences and Management emailed that the paper ‘Drowning Pr ...
Late 2023 paper reaches 400 reads!
Yesterday ResearchGate informed us that our paper ‘The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic revi ...
Evaluating complex interventions
There are several different methods or approaches to help researchers when evaluating of complex public health intervent ...
New nursing paper published
Congratulations to Emeritus Prof. Jonathan Parker, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences Visiting Faculty Prof. Vaness ...
Dementia in Nepal: new publication
Congratulations to Dr. Shanti Farrington, Principal Academic in Psychology, on the publication of her latest paper ‘Th ...
Research methods training in Qatar
Bournemouth University collaboration with in the field of ageing research in Qatar is going from strength to strength. ...
BU Emeritus Professor contributes to Transforming Society
Congratulations to Prof. Jonathan Parker, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, who was inv ...
Latest CMWH newsletter online now
Our latest CMWH newsletter (autumn 2024 edition) is out now. Click here! This edition includes news items and storie ...
Reaching 10,000 reads!
Last Sunday ResearchGate informed us that the paper ‘Health facility preparedness of maternal and neonatal health serv ...
GLOW poster presentation by CMWH’s Dr. Rebecca Neal
Dr. Rebecca Neal in the Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH) who has a poster accepted for presentation ...
Upcoming BU systematic review training
With the upcoming Bournemouth University systematic review module co-ordinated lead by Prof. Vanora Hundley, the follo ...
New editorial Nepal Journal Epidemiology out now
A few days ago we published the editorial for the latest issues of the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology. This editorial und ...
Congratulations to BU Visiting Faculty Dr Ans Luyben
Congratulations to Dr. Ans Luyben on the publication of her latest midwifery article ‘How to promote midwives’ recog ...
Drowning prevention poster at Safety 2024 (in India)
This week Notan Dutta, from our collaborating research organisation CIPRB (Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Ban ...
Paper with a difference
Last night ResearchGate informed us that our paper ‘Understanding health education, health promotion and public health ...
Meeting about collaborative research in Nepal
The University of Huddersfield recently hosted the 2nd annual meeting for the Global Consortium for Public Health Resea ...
First EPPOCH study paper accepted for publication
This afternoon the editorial office of Frontiers in Psychiatry informed us that our manuscript “Prenatal maternal ment ...
BU PhD graduate paper cited 40 times
The paper ‘Health and well-being of Nepalese migrant workers abroad’ [1], which was part of the PhD work of Dr. Prat ...
New midwifery publication
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Joanne Rack on the publication today of her paper ‘Understanding perceptions and comm ...
BMJ Global Health Blog online
Today BMJ Global Health posted a blog (read it here!) about our recently publish paper ‘Socio-economic experiences of ...
Human Centred Design presentation at Safety 2024
As part of the interdisciplinary Sonamoni project our collaborator Mirza Shibat Rowshan will be presenting at Safety 202 ...
The role of a journal editor
Am I getting grumpier or are academic getting lazier? Or both? This morning I had to write an email in my role as on ...
BU PhD student invited to Safety 24 conference in India
Bournemouth University PhD student Md. Shafkat Hossain has been invited to attend the international Safety 2024 conferen ...
New qualitative research methods paper now online
I am delighted to share that our most recent methods paper in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods entitled ...
New paper on female migrant workers from Nepal
This week the Global Health Journal accepted the latest article on female migrant workers from Nepal [1]. The paper i ...
PLoS ONE paper on kidney disease in Nepal’s migrant workers
Our research project on kidney disease in Nepalese migrant workers funded by the Colt Foundation has been published th ...
4th Int Conf on Medical & Health Sciences 2024
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen in the Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH) has been invited to give a key note ...
School WASH facilities and menstruation in Nepal
Access to safe and sufficient drinking Water, Sanitation, and good Hygiene (WASH) facilities in schools play a crucial r ...
New BU women’s health workers’ paper
Today we saw the publication of our latest paper about FCHVs (Female Community Health Volunteers) in Nepal [1]. This ...
BU e-health paper read 4,000 times
Our paper ‘Midwives’ views towards women using mHealth and eHealth to self-monitor their pregnancy: A systematic rev ...
Drowning prevention meeting for NIHR-funded study
This week our collaborators on the Sonamoni project traveled from Bangladesh and Uganda to Dorset for a set of research ...
Sonamoni collaborator recognised for services rendered to water safety
All the members of the Sonamoni team would like to congratulate Dr. Aminur Rahman, the Co-PI of our project for his awar ...
Authorship paper
Our paper ‘Academic authorship: who, why and in what order?‘ [1] has been cited 40 times according to ResearchGate. ...
Research Priorities for Nepal: Planning meeting
Last Friday (July 26) members of the GCPHR (Global Consortium for Public Health Research) held their second Annual Meeti ...
Request for your paper: A historical perspective
Any publishing academic will irregularly receive emails for copies of their papers, usually for papers which researchers ...
Workshop on longitudinal studies in three countries
Today and yesterday (24-25 July) the Global Consortium for Public Health Research (GCPHR) met at the University of Hudde ...
New Bournemouth University public health paper
The journal PLOS Global Public Health informed us that our paper ‘Exploring the motivations of female community health ...
New editorial Journal of Asian Midwives published
The latest issue of the Journal of Asian Midwives was published last week. In the accompanying editorial we focused o ...
Research capacity building
Last week I attended Bournemouth University’s Research Conference which focused on collaboration and participation. ...
Impact Factor for Nepal Journal of Epidemiology
The Nepal Journal of Epidemiology achieved its first proper Web of Science impact factor this month. The Nepal Journ ...
Positionality in qualitative research
At the online editorial board meeting today [Saturday 29th June] of the Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology ...
BU academic visiting Malaysia
Dr. Nirmal Aryal, who is a part-time researcher in the Department of Nursing Sciences, is in Malaysia this week to prepa ...
FHSS academics’ paper cited 1,000 times
This morning ResearchGate alerted us that our paper published two decades ago ‘The Importance of Pilot Studies’ has ...
Health of Nepalese migrants workers research
Today, Sunday 9th June, our paper ‘Health and well-being of Nepalese migrant workers abroad was highlighted by Researc ...
Another rejection…
Rejection is a key part of an academic’s life. Typically, your scientific paper gets rejected at least one before ge ...
BU professor keynote speaker at international conference
The fourth International Conference on Medical and Health Sciences in September 2024 aims to bring together researchers ...
Growing volume of migrant workers’ health research
Last week we found out that the paper ‘Moral panic, fear, stigma, and discrimination against returnee migrants and Mus ...
BU graduate’s paper read 600 times
Today ResearchGate informed us that the academic paper `Whose Shoes?` Can an educational board game engage Ugandan men i ...
BU academic listed on Research.com
Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has just released its 2024 Edition of the Ranking of Best Sci ...
Congratulations to Social Workers Drs. Oliver & Harvey
Congratulations to Dr. Orlanda Harvey and Dr. Louise Oliver on the publication of their latest article ‘The use of poe ...
Questioning AI
Today the Open Access journal Health Prospect published our paper ‘ChatGPT: Challenges to editors and examiners’ [ ...
Nepal Study Days 2024
Tomorrow (Monday 13th May) and Tuesday BNAC (Britain-Nepal Academic Council) will held its annual conference. The conf ...
Studying for M.Res. in CMWH
Now accepting research students in the Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH) A Master’s by Research (M.Re ...
Fifteen years at BU
Fifteen years ago I started as a professor in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences. I have had three different ...
New eBook published in April
Two weeks ago our eBook Evidence-based approaches in aging and public health was published online by Frontiers Media [1] ...
Dr Rachel Arnold on Appreciative Inquiry
In March of this year I had the pleasure of announcing in a BU Research Blog the publication of Dr. Rachel Arnold’s co ...
Methods or Methodology?
Yesterday our latest methodological paper ‘Methods or Methodology: Terms That Are Too Often Confused’ appeared onlin ...
BU involved in new MRF dissemination grant
Bournemouth University of part of a research consortium that has recently been awarded a Dissemination Award from the Me ...
New COVID-19 publication
This week the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health (APJPH) accepted our latest paper from our research on the impact o ...
BU professor speaking at Aberdeen Centre for Women’s Health Research (ACWHR)
Looking forward to speaking at the University of Aberdeen this week, unfortunately not in person. This one-hour sessi ...
Dr Shanti Farrington presenting on dementia
Today Dr. Shanti Farrington, Principal Academic in Psychology, presented our research work on dementia in India today. ...
Requests to speak to the media are like buses….
Last week for the first time in over a year I received a request for a mass media interview in the UK on our research. ...
Ph.D. paper cited 40 times
Today ResearchGate notified us that our paper ‘Caste Exclusion and Health Discrimination in South Asia: A Systematic R ...
Celebrating with the RNLI
Staff in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences at Bournemouth University (BU) would like to take this opportunity ...
It’s only a name…
Yesterday my co-author Dr. Orlanda Harvey received an email from a sociology journal informing her that “The below co- ...
Appreciative Inquiry Resource
Today we received a copy of the book Appreciating Health and Care in the post. This book has a sub-title ‘A practica ...
New BU migrants’ health paper
Drs. Pramod Regmi and Nirmal Aryal in the Department of Nursing Sciences published a new paper with colleagues from Mala ...
Writing some blurb
Publisher Routledge announced the forthcoming edited volume Menstruation in Nepal: Dignity Without Danger, which is edi ...
Collaborative midwifery paper cited 40 times
Two days ago ResearchGate informed us that that the paper ‘Midwifery-led antenatal care models: mapping a systematic r ...
Interdisciplinary Research Teams/ Interdisciplinarist
The Interdisciplinary Research Team not the Interdisciplinarist Worldwide there is a growing interest in multidisciplina ...
New BU Public Health publication
Yesterday we received the proofs of the recently accepted paper ‘Improved Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Facilities at ...
Paper by BU MSc student accepted for publication
Congratulations to Mr. Musa Lewis Nhlabatsi whose paper ‘Clinicians’ barriers to screening and diagnosing diabetes d ...
New Nepalese migrant health paper published
New paper on migrant workers from Nepal was published this week in KMC Journal. The paper ‘Risk Perception and Prote ...
Health Promotion article is being read
Our article ‘Understanding health education, health promotion & public health’ [1] is getting read according to ...
Media coverage in Nepal
Last week Mr. Yogesh Dhakal, who is Deputy Editor at Shilapatra, an online newspaper in Nepal, interviewed three UK prof ...
A tale of two ministries
Yesterday in Nepal we attempted to meet two government ministers to present policy recommendations generated by the stud ...
Research methods capacity building in Nepal
Yesterday, Sunday 14th January, I was invited by Bournemouth University’s former PhD student Dr. Pratik Adhikary to ru ...
TV interview in Nepal
Two days ago Professor Edwin van Teijlingen from BU’s Faculty of Health & Social Sciences was interviewed by the n ...
Labour migration: desperation & exploitation
On my latest trip to Nepal I noticed a number of related newspaper stories about those wanting to migrate abroad for wor ...
Newspaper coverage in Nepal
One print daily English-language newspaper The Annapurna Express and one online newspaper Gazzabkoo Magazine publish ...
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 an ...
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 d ...
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, ...
Partnership planning meeting in Kathmandu
This afternoon Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen attended a partnership meeting with colleagues from Nepal’s Manmohan Memoria ...
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-Migra ...
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 ...
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 du ...
Migration and mental health meeting in Kathmandu
Yesterday (29th December) Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen attended a workshop on ‘Current situation of migration and its im ...
Interview with BU professor published
Today Madhusudan Subedi and Man Bahadur Khattri published their Interview with Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen in the Dhaulag ...
Paper published on ‘living evidence’
The Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published today carries an article on so-called ‘living evidence’ as an on-going ...
New Nepal paper published
BMJ Global Health published our latest paper today under the title ‘The impact of decentralisation on health systems: ...
Viewpoint on free birthing
This week the Journal of Asian Midwives published our short article ‘Out-of-hospital births: A small but growing phen ...
Methods paper: Online questionnaire surveys
The paper ‘Guide to the design and application of online questionnaire surveys‘ [1] led by Dr. Pramod Regmi, Prin ...
Promoting interdisciplinary research
This week’s Bournemouth University (BU) advertised a forthcoming event in February 2024 ‘Early Career Researchers an ...
Paper in BMJ Global Health
Today we received notice that our paper ‘The impacts of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of rev ...
New sociology book published late November
Congratulations to Dr. Hyun-Joo Lim on the publication of her latest book North Korean Women and Defection: Human Rights ...
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Arnold
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Arnold, whose paper ‘Parallel worlds: An ethnography of care in an Afghan maternity hosp ...
BU Sociology professor invited to speak at Royal Holloway
Professor Edwin van Teijlingen in the Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH) has been invited to speak at Ro ...
New health policy paper published this week
This week the Nepal Federal Health System Team published its latest paper the international journal Health Research Poli ...
New publication on positionality
Today the journal Health Prospect published Raksha Thapa’s paper ‘Researching Dalits and health care: Considering ...
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 jou ...
PhD training workshop in Kathmandu
Yesterday (Sunday 15th October) Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen from BU’s Department of Midwifery and Health Sciences pres ...
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 mig ...
Dissemination kidney-disease research Kathmandu
Yesterday, Sunday 8th October we held an event in the capital of Nepal to disseminate the findings of our study of the k ...
Training on federalisation in Nepal
Today our collaborators Drs Sujata Sapkota and Sujan Gautam from Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS) ...
Non-code sharing: Academic travel
Selective Travel offers interesting combinations of airlines to fly to far away destinations. This is great as it offe ...
The end of an era
Yesterday I wrote my resignation letter to the journal BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth. After acting as Associate Edito ...
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 o ...
Advertising BU’s Systematic Review Masterclass
The Faculty of Health & Social Sciences shall be running the two-day ONLINE Masterclass ‘Introduction to conductin ...
New paper on academic-industry research partnerships
Yesterday the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published our editorial on ‘Strengthening Healthcare through Academic and ...
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 ...
Publishing papers takes time
Today we were informed by Razi International Medical Journal that the paper ‘Management capacity in the Ministry of ...
Two papers based on ERASMUS+ exchange
In the latest issue of the Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences appeared two articles focusing on ...
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 f ...
Midwifery paper read 2,500 times
Today ResearchGate alerted me that our paper ‘Women, Midwives, and a Medical Model of Maternity Care in Switzerland’ ...
BU top in health-related research in Nepal
A few days ago a group of researchers from the UK, Nepal and South Korea listed as the top five authors writing on migra ...
Sociology journal seeks second book review editor
The British Sociological Society’s (BSA) journal Sociological Research Online is seeking a new second book review ed ...
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 Drownin ...
New ways of publishing: Qeios one more time!
In May I wrote a BU Research Blog under the title ‘New ways of publishing?’ on the first time we published an acad ...
Reflections from visiting Erasmus+ students to Bournemouth University
Late last week my colleague Dr. Pramod Regmi, Senior Lecturer in International Health, returned home from his Erasmus+ e ...
BU team meets with Green Tara Nepal in Kathmandu
A team of academics from Bournemouth University (BU) on the Erasmus+ exchange met with the Non-Governmental Organisation ...
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 mee ...
Bournemouth University mentioned in Pakistan
Last week The Aga Khan University (AKU) in Pakistan put a news story on its website highlighting a first for Pakistan. ...
BU graduate speaks at 2023 World Health Assembly in Geneva
On Friday 26th May Dr. Sheetal Sharma (BU PhD awarded in 2017) was invited to speak at a Strategic Round Table “A sa ...
Using participatory asset mapping and PhotoVoice in Nepalese alcohol study
This week we received an email from the editorial office of Perspectives in Public Health with congratulations on the ...
Congratulations to Heidi Singleton
Dr. Heidi Singleton, Programme Lead for Children’s and Young People’s Nursing in the Faculty of Health & Socia ...
Erasmus+ visitors from Nepal teaching at BU
This week we had the luxury of four exchange visitors from Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS) in Nep ...
BU Workshop on Health Systems in Nepal
You are invited to a two-hour ‘Workshop on Health Systems in Nepal’ at Bournemouth University (BU) on Thursday 25th ...
New ways of publishing?
Last we took a new step into the academic publishing by submitting a paper to Qeios. This Open Access journal publish ...
The Journal of Asian Midwives accepted for inclusion by Scopus
Today one of my co-editors of the Journal of Asian Midwives emailed me to announce that our journal has been accepted ...
New COVID-19 paper on Nepal
Yesterday Plos ONE published our latest study on the health system in Nepal under the title ‘Barriers in accessing f ...
Erasmus exchange visit to Nepal by Dr. Jon Williams
Dr Jonathan Williams, Principal Academic and Deputy Head of the Department of Rehabilitation & Sports Science is the ...
PhD paper on health management in pre-Taliban Afghanistan
Yesterday FHSS graduate Dr. Shaqaieq Ashrafi Dost heard from Razi International Medical Journal the the paper from her ...
BU PhD student publishes in The Conversation
Congratulations the Abier Hamidi, PhD student in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS) whose PhD work was p ...
Several BU papers at this week’s BNAC Nepal Study Days
The BNAC (Britain-Nepal Academic Council) twentieth Nepal Study Days (24-25 April) start today in Huddersfield. BU is ...
Extensive media coverage in Nepal last week
The interdisciplinary research project ‘The impact of federalisation on Nepal’s health system: a longitudinal analys ...
New publication Abier Hamadi, PhD student in FHSS
Congratulations to Abier Hamidi on the acceptance of her Ph.D. paper ‘Facilitators and barriers to condom use in Middl ...
Sonamoni (golden pearl) research project
Today we decided on the name of our interdisciplinary research project on ‘Drowning Prevention for newly mobile infant ...
ERASMUS+ exchange with Nepal
The first half of April I have been in Nepal on the ERASMUS+ exchange with Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Science ...
Successful event with senior policymakers in Nepal
Today, the last day of the Nepalese year 2079, we held a well attended event to discuss the preliminary findings of the ...
Dementia research in Nepal
Yesterday (April 11th) Dr. Bibha Simkhada presented key findings from our research project on ‘Cultural practice and p ...
Conference presence in Nepal
Our study on the impact of federalism on the health system in Nepal got great coverage at the ‘Ninth National Summit o ...
Speaking at this week’s Nepal Health Research Council conference
Professor Edwin van Teijlingen in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) has been invited to ...
Erasmus+ exchange visit to Nepal by Dr. Rebecca Neal
Last weekend Dr. Rebecca Neal, from the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS) arrived in Kathmandu on her Erasm ...
Future of Complex Innovative Trial Design
The latest Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS) publication on the last day of March is an editorial in the Ne ...
A global health journal with a diverse editorial board
A recent study of 43 journals in the global health field found that PLOS Global Public Health has the joint highest d ...
Establishing an evidence-based centre in Nepal
A team of Nepal and UK-based researchers are in the process of setting up a National Evidence Synthesis Centre under su ...
Applying FUSION in Bangladesh
Photo: RNLI /Kate Eardley Late in 2022 we started a new interdisciplinary study funded by the UK National Institute for ...
Setting up a longitudinal health & lifestyle study in Nepal
The Nepal Family Cohort Study (NeFCoS) is a multidisciplinary cohort study into the prevalence, incidence, and determin ...
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi for his appointment this month as Visiting Faculty at Manmohan Memorial Institute of ...
New paper on COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy in Western Nepal
This weekend saw the publication of our paper ‘ Perceptions around COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy: A qualitative study ...
Peer review picking up weaknesses in a scientific paper
Peer review is the the key pillar of academic publishing. Peer reviewers will read the submitted paper and assess its ...
British Academy Writing Workshop in Nepal in 2022
Two days ago one of the participants of our British Academy funded Academic Writing Workshops announced on Facebook that ...
50th PhD viva as external
Late last week I had the pleasure of conducting my 50th Ph.D. viva as an external examiner. The first Ph.D. viva as ex ...
New sociology paper led by Dr. Orlanda Harvey
Congratulations to Dr. Orlanda Harvey and Dr. Margarete Parrish in the Department of Social Sciences & Social Work ...
The PhD viva and then….
Today the Journal of Education and Research published online our paper ‘Reflections on Variations in PhD Viva Regulat ...
It is all about experience
This week we published a paper on the experience of conducting fieldwork in the public health field in the Journal of He ...
Nepal publication PhD student Yayga Adhikari
Congratulation to FHSS PhD student on the publication of his article ‘Forgotten health and social care needs of left-b ...
BU research mentioned in The Washington Post
Today The Washington Post mentioned Bournemouth University’s research into kidney disease in migrant workers from Nepa ...
First BU paper of 2023
The first paper in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences (FHSS) for 2023 appeared online today. The open access jo ...
Tourism, marketing and health in 2022
In his overview of 2022 on LinkedIn Professor Dimitrios Buhalis reminded us that: “The Encyclopedia of Tourism Managem ...
Last BU paper of 2022
On the very last day of 2022 the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published our editorial ‘Guidance to applying for healt ...
Journals, editors and censorship
On the day that The Sun took down an column in which Jeremy Clarkson spat vitriol at Meghan Markle, it seems odd to ques ...
Two rejections in one week
This week I had the pleasure of receiving two rejection emails from two different national organisations. On Monday the ...
Fifty citations announced: Great timing
This week the network ResearchGate alerted us that our paper ‘Identifying the gaps in Nepalese migrant workers’ heal ...
Migrant labour, the not so nice side of the FIFA World Cup
Football has been referred to as ‘the beautiful game’. And to be fair, there has been some brilliant football at t ...
Congratulations to BU PhD student Yagya Adhikari
Congratulations to Yagya Adhikari, PhD student in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, who had his protocol for ...
Remember the stadium builders
With the men’s FIFA football world cup starting on Sunday in Qatar it important to remember the human costs of those w ...
Congratulations to Dr. Orlanda Harvey on her new publication
This morning the editor of the international journal Sociological Research Online email to inform us that the paper “U ...
New paper on ‘writing a reflective paper’
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Arnold working at RDS on the publication of the paper ‘Writing and publishing a reflecti ...
New Public Health publication on Nepal
Over the weekend the Journal of the Nepal Public Health Association published our latest paper on the federalisation a ...
Erasmus+ students from Nepal arrived at BU
Last Thursday the seven Erasmus+ exchange students arrived in Bournemouth from Nepal. The exchange is between Bournemo ...
Two little mishaps in a row
All research has its costs, we spend a lot of time as academics planning for and budgeting our studies. This starts wi ...
The difference between two editorials
Yesterday the editors of the Journal of Asian Midwives published published a short editorial in the latest issue of thi ...
New BU PhD education paper
This week the editor of the journal Journal of Education & Research informed us that our paper ‘Reflections on var ...
Two BU professors speaking at Qatar Dementia Conference
At the end of the month (Friday 30th September) Professor Jane Murphy and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen are both speaking ...
Media coverage of BU workshops in Nepal
Earlier this week the Chitwan Post Daily in southern Nepal reported on our Writing Workshops conducted in Pokhara and K ...
British Academy Academic Writing Workshop well attended in Kathmandu
Today was the second day of our three-day Writing Workshop organised in Kathmandu Nepal. The project builds research c ...
Erasmus+ workshop at BU by Prof. Marahatta from Nepal
Yesterday (10th August) Prof. Sujan Marahatta from Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS) gave an insigh ...
Dealing with difficult reviewers
This week saw the publication of another Bournemouth University paper on academic writing and publishing. This latest ...
New paper on COVID-19 rumours in Nepal
Today the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health accepted the latest COVID-19 paper from an ...
Can you help, sir?
Working in South Asia over the past two decades I have learnt to expect emails asking for help. Often from people I ha ...
Celebrating FHSS Visiting Faculty’s contribution
Some people are unsure (or unaware) of the contribution of Bournemouth University’s Visiting Faculty. At many UK uni ...
Building International Partnerships
On Monday 27th June Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen will be presenting at the ‘Global Partnership for International Researc ...
Sorry, the publication of your paper is being delayed because….
Yesterday a colleague in Nepal notified me that the publication of our latest paper has been delayed. This paper ‘Writ ...
New paper on federalisation of health system in Nepal
Earlier this week the editor of the Journal of Nepal Public Health Association informed us the journal had accepted ...
British Academy Writing Workshop in Nepal: Call for participants
We are inviting expressions of interest for Nepal-based academic with an interest in gender and development issue to par ...
Another CMMPH COVID-19 publication on fathers
Congratulations to Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) Visiting Faculty members Prof. Minesh K ...
Teaching exchange through ERASMUS+ with Nepal
Professors Vanora Hundley and Edwin van Teijlingen just completed their ERASMUS Plus exchange with Manmohan Memorial Ins ...
Successful GCRF Systematic Reviewing in Dementia Research Workshop in Nepal
Last Sunday (29th May) Professors Vanora Hundley and Edwin van Teijlingen from the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & ...
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Arnold on her latest paper
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Arnold in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) on the publica ...
Two new academic papers on COVID-19 research
This month CMMPH has two new research papers focusing on COVID-19. The first one published in World Medical & He ...
Dr. Shanti Shanker publishes book chapter
Last week Dr. Shanti Shanker, senior lecturer in Psychology, published ‘Selecting an Appropriate Journal and Submittin ...
Collaboration with MMIHS in Nepal
This past three weeks Bournemouth University (BU) has strengthened our existing collaboration with MMIHS (Manmohan Mem ...
GRCF supported migration and health workshop in Nepal
Earlier this week Bournemouth University (BU) ran the ‘Migration and Health Research Capacity Building Workshop for Ea ...
Successful book launch in Kathmandu
Two days ago Bournemouth University (BU) Professors Vanora Hundley and Edwin van Teijlingen together with University of ...
Happy Nepali New Year
All of us at Bournemouth University working with Nepalese students, colleagues and collaborators wish to them a Happy Ne ...
Summit of Health & Population Scientists in Nepal 2022
Today say the start of the Eight National Summit of Health & Population Scientists in Nepal. Bournemouth Universit ...
New CMMPH publication
Congratulations to Charlotte Clayton, PhD student in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) o ...
Latest BU publication on academic writing
Today the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published our latest paper on academic writing, under the title ‘The Art of t ...
Psychology & Sociology Applied to Medicine translated into Greek
The popular medical textbook ‘Psychology & Sociology Applied to Medicine’ published by Elsevier has been transla ...
Social Work Research cited in national newspaper
Congratulations to Dr. Orlanda Harvey who was cited last week in The Daily Telegraph in an article with the underlying ...
BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth Associate Editor
A few weeks ago I was invited as Associate Editor for BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth to draft a few paragraphs about how ...
Speaking to a journalist
In late 2021 I was contacted by an Indonesian science journalist, Dyna Rochmyaningsih, who was investigating the ethics ...
Congratulations again to PhD student Sulochana Dhakal-Rai
Congratulations to Bournemouth University’s PhD student Sulochana Dhakal-Rai on the publication today of the latest pa ...
New BU publication on academic writing
Congratulations to Dr. Orlanda Harvey in the Department of Social Sciences & Social Work, Dr. Pramod Regmi in the De ...
Last BU paper of 2021
The scientific journal Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published its fourth and final issue of 2021 on December 31. Th ...
Research papers: A game of Happy Families
Recently I completed a game of Happy Families, to be more precise I added a paper with my fourth family member to a ‘c ...
Expert in Health Service Accessibility
Received a lovely tweet this Sunday morning from Expertscape, an organisation in the USA, announcing that: ” As part o ...
Two health and migration papers published in two days
Congratulations to dr. Pramod Regmi on the publication today of our research article ‘Risk of Kidney health among retu ...
Peer-reviewing ten years on
The process of peer review is widely recognised as the key element of quality control in academic publishing and the sci ...
Free training sessions for dementia researchers
Bournemouth University is involved in a wider collaboration which organises the Advanced Dementia Research Conference (A ...
Bournemouth research cited in The Sunday Times
Today Bournemouth University’s research on Nepali migrant workers and kidney problems was cited in The Sunday Times. ...
Academic publishing and numbers
Yesterday our team published new paper on academic writing, this time the focus was on the various indices in the field. ...
Reflections on examining a PhD by Publications or hybrid PhD
Writing for publication in peer-reviewed journals is increasingly recognised as important for postgraduate students’ c ...
Writing references: The hidden work of academics
Halfway through October I have written several academic references for three people already. This is one of the more h ...
A small or a large national survey?
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi and Dr. Nirmal Aryal on the acceptance of their paper ‘Risk of kidney health among ...
Congratulations to FHSS PhD student Abier Hamidi
Today FHSS’s PhD student Abier Hamidi was notified that the manuscript “HIV epidemic in Libya: Identifying gaps” w ...
Risk of kidney problems in migrant workers
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi, Lecturer in International Health & Global Engagement Lead, Department of Nursi ...
New interdisciplinary paper
Congratulations to Dr. Shanti Shanker in BU’s Department of Psychology and Dr. Pramod Regmi in the Department of Nursi ...
Health is not in a vacuum
Last night I misread a call from BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth. To be fair the email included two different request ...
Pilot studies paper reaches 90,000 reads
Today ResearchGate informed Prof. Vanora Hundley and I that our paper in the Nursing Standard of 2002 had reached 90,0 ...
Two international midwifery publications by Prof. Vanora Hundley this month
Yesterday the international journal Midwifery (published by Elsevier) announced that our paper “Male Involvement in ...
Unsatisfactory conference attendance?
Over the 15 months many academics have learnt to use online tools to communicate with colleagues, students, the media, p ...
New obstetrics publication by PhD student Sulochana Dhakal Rai
Congratulations to Mrs. Sulochana Dhakal Rai on the publication today of her PhD article ‘Classification of Caesarean ...
International Confederation of Midwives online conference started today
The ICM (International Confederation of Midwives) planned its tri-annual conference for 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pand ...
Qualitative methods training in Nepal
The national health ethics organisation in Nepal, the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), invited Prof. Edwin van Tei ...
Two education chapters published by BU academics
This week saw saw the publication of two book chapters on very different aspects of university education. First, Prof. ...
New international midwifery paper
Today the editor of the European Journal of Midwifery emailed to announce the acceptance of the paper ‘Slovenian midw ...
BU celebrates International Day of the Midwife 2021
Today, with midwives across the globe, the Centre of Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) celebrates the I ...
BU’s THET project showcased by WHO Collaborating Centre
The THET (Tropical Health & Education Trust)-funded project ‘Mental Health Training for Rural Community-based Mate ...
Happy New Year 2078 (in Nepal)
Bournemouth University wishes all its Nepali students, staff and collaborators in both the UK and in Nepal a Healthy and ...
FHSS team wins British Academy award
The British Academy informed us yesterday that we have been successful in our application to the Writing Workshops 2021. ...
Graduation: End of an Era
Four PhD students, whom I had the pleasure of supervising, graduated yesterday with a Ph.D. I never had so many Ph.D. ...
Two new COVID-19 papers in FHSS
Today FHSS Prof. Jonathan Parker published an article (online first) on structural discrimination and abuse associated w ...
Chapter published today: ‘Birth systems across the world’
Today our chapter: Birth Systems across the World: Variations in maternity policy and services across countries was p ...
2021: More COVID-19 publications
The year 2021 started in many ways in the same way as it had ended with a country gripped in COVID-19 and a national loc ...
COVID-19 in Qatar
Peer reviewing is the backbone of academic publishing. It is this peer review process to ensure that papers/publications ...
New interdisciplinary COVID-19 paper
An evidence-based, multidisciplinary approach on risk zoning, personal and transmission risk assessment in near real-tim ...
Community Hospitals: An international perspective
BU Visiting Faculty Dr. Emma Pitchforth (Senior Lecturer in Primary Care, University of Exeter) spoke this week at Inter ...
Steady stream of Nepal migration papers
Today we added to our growing pool of publications on aspects of labour migration in Nepal. The Open Access journal ...
Insensitive question?
Last week I sent a reminder email to a health journal in Nepal enquiring about the progress of our submitted manuscript, ...
The PhD examiner
Being asked to examine a PhD thesis is a honour for most academics. As an examiner you always learn something new. I ...
Congratulations to Prof. Bouchachia on latest paper
Yesterday the scientific journal Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published in its latest edition a paper co-authored by BU ...
Productive week CMMPH
Some weeks are more productive than others and this week the academics in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & ...
Interdisciplinary Public Health
Yesterday the Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences published our editorial ‘Public Health is t ...
Building Strong Primary Health Care in Nepal
New BU co-authored article ‘Building Strong Primary Health Care to Tackle the Growing Burden of Non-Communicable Dis ...
Online COVID-19 Conference Assam, India
Updated message (8 July 2020): due to floods in Assam this week this international conference has been postponed by a fe ...
New COVID-19 publication by FHSS academics
Congratulations to Dr. Preeti Mahato, Dr. Nirmal Aryal and Dr. Pramod Regmi in the Faculty of Health & Social Scie ...
Widespread media coverage in Nepal for BU researcher
This week Dr. Preeti Mahato in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) appeared in several new ...
New FHSS co-authored COVID-19 publication
In the last week of May the Journal of Advanced Internal Medicine published our paper: ‘Impact of COVID-19 on communit ...
Misinformation: a visible enemy of public health
“We are not fighting an epidemic, we are fighting an infodemic.” These are the words of the Director General of th ...
Publication success BU postgraduate researchers
Congratulations to Bournemouth University researchers Adam Spacey, Orlanda Harvey and Chloe Casey on the acceptance of t ...
COVID-19 online session in Nepal
This morning (UK time, as it was afternoon in Kathmandu) Bournemouth University’s Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen and ...
New BU publication on birth centres in Nepal
Congratulations to Dr. Preeti Mahato in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perintal Helath (CMMPH) on the acceptan ...
New BU breastfeeding research paper
Congratulations to Dr. Alison Taylor in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) the publicat ...
Pregnancy and COVID-19: Lessons so far
Last week a team of researchers from Bournemouth University and the University of Huddersfield published a blog on the ...
Congratulation to BU nutritionists
This week Elsevier Publishers sent the proofs for a book chapter written by two Bournemouth University nutrition resea ...
BU midwifery paper cited in WHO report
Last week the Regional Office for South East Asia of the WHO (World Health Organization) published its strategy for stre ...
COVID-19 and the rise of Virtual Conferences
Yesterday we had a conference paper accepted by the EUPHA (European Public Health Association) International Conference. ...
Motor Neurone Disease
Last night I watched the film ‘The Theory of Everything’ on television. This Oscar-winning film about the live of th ...
Psychological skills for health workers in Nepal
Yesterday Dr. Shanti Shanker (Lecturer in Psychology), BU Visiting Faculty Jillian Ireland and I produced a short thre ...
Congratulations to Psychology colleagues
This week the journal BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth accepted a new paper written by three Bournemouth University Psy ...
Three-and-a-half years to get published
Abstract Junior colleagues or PhD students submitting their first manuscript often ask: “How long will it take before ...
Nepal reproductive health paper published yesterday
Congratulations on the latest paper published yesterday by Dr. Preeti Mahato in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & ...
Medical textbook translated into Spanish
This week saw the publication of Psicología y sociología aplicadas a la medicina [1]. This is a translated version o ...
Book review published by BU sociologist
The international journal Sociological Research Online published (online first) a review of the book The Mood of ...
New reproductive health paper Dr. Preeti Mahato
Congratulations to Dr. Preeti Mahato in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) on the accepta ...
More BU migration research success
Last week migration researchers in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences were awarded two competitive grants throu ...
Three successful cross-faculty Health-Psychology collaborations
In the last month we had several FHSS-Psychology success stories. The first one was a recently accepted joint publicat ...
New paper published on Spirituality & Childbirth
Congratulations to an international team of midwifery researchers including Dr. Jane Fry in the Centre for Midwifery, Ma ...
BU academic feature article in national paper Nepal
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi, lecturer in International Health, whose article ‘Hazards of Beauty’ featured in ...
Prof. Steve Tee invited as keynote speaker in Nepal
Congratulations to Professor Steve Tee, Executive Dean in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, who has been invi ...
Congratulations to Dr. Pratik Adhikary
Congratulations to Dr. Pratik Adhikary on the fifth (and final paper) from his PhD in the Faculty of Health & Social ...
Academic capacity building in Nepal
Last week FHSS’s Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen held a workshop on ‘academic publishing and writing’ with BU Visiting ...
The last Christmas present
“On the twelfth day of Christmas ….” the editor of the Journal of Health Research Ms Sunanta Wongchalee informe ...
Nepal’s migrant workers & risk at the workplace
For nearly a decade BU researchers have published widely about the hazards and risk of Nepali migrant workers in Asia an ...
Final BU publication of 2019?
The Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published its final edition of 2019 today, on the final day of the year. This issu ...
Migration & mental health research in Nepal
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi and Dr. Nirmal Aryal, both in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS), wh ...
New publication by Orlanda Harvey (FHSS)
This is the second time in a week that I have the pleasure of announcing a paper by our PhD student Orlanda Harvey. T ...
Latest Nepal publication CMMPH
In early December the Maternal & Child Health Journal accepted our latest research paper on maternity care based in ...
Growing wealth of migration publications at Bournemouth University
Yesterday saw the latest publication based on Bournemouth University (BU) migration research. The international journa ...
Academia is becoming more demanding
Academia has become more demanding than twenty years ago, particularly, the job outwith university. Just this morning ...
More pilots please!
“More pilots please!” is not a call from British Airways, Ryanair or the Royal Air Force. No, it a reminder to stu ...
Congratulations to BU sociologist
Congratulations to Dr. Shovita Dhakal Adhikari on the publication of her paper ‘Understanding ‘trafficking vulnerabi ...
Newly accepted paper on Nepal in BMJ Open
Congratulations to Dr. Pramod Regmi in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS) who is the lead author of the ...
Midwifery models in the Netherlands
This autumn the Dutch journal for midwives Tijdschrift voor Verloskundigen published a paper on the risk associated wit ...
Nepali migrants’ health & wellbeing: Setting research priorities
Work-related migration is a common livelihood strategy for many young people in Nepal. It is estimated that about 3.5 mi ...
BU articles on academic writing & publishing
Last Friday ResearchGate informed us that ‘Writing an Abstract for a Scientific Conference’ [1] published by three B ...
Migration & health research in Middle East & Malaysia
Yesterday the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health published the final version of Dr. Pratik Adhikary’s paper ‘W ...
Not all fieldwork goes to plan
Hardly ever does a research trip go smoothly and completely to plan. Our latest trip to Nepal was no different. It s ...
CMMPH presents at Nepal Sociological Association in Kathmandu
Yesterday Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen from CMMPH (Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health) gave a presentat ...
Promoting Nursing CPD in Nepal
Bournemouth University facilitated a Strategic planning meeting to develop a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) F ...
BU PhD student Peter Wolfensberger has article accepted in Brit J Mental Health Nursing
Congratulations to FHSS PhD student Peter Wolfensberger whose article ‘Uncertainty in illness among people living with ...
Congratulations on academic paper by BU PhD student Orlanda Harvey
Congratulations to Orlanda Harvey, PhD student in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences on her PhD publication “ ...
IOM or IOM: it can be rather confusing
This month’s fieldtrip to Nepal has a rather confusing element, namely the two separate organisations the BU team is w ...
New CMMPH publication on health promotion in post-earthquake Nepal
Today saw the publication of a new paper from an international research team from the UK, Japan and Nepal. Our resear ...