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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 published in the renowned series of books: FIGO Continuous Textbook of Women’s...
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BU submits to REF2021!
We are delighted to announce that BU has made a submission to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. The REF is hugely important to the University in terms of both funding and reputation. The...
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BU expert Dr. Anna Feigenbaum helps in Amnesty Webby award win
An Amnesty International project, which received support from BU’s Dr Anna Feigenbaum, has won the 2021 People’s Voice award at The Webby Awards. Tear Gas: An Investigation – an interactive explainer...
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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 pandemic this conference was postponed and this year summer it is being held online....
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Congratulations to Debora Almeida in FHSS
Congratulations to Debbie Almeida (in the Department of Midwifery & Health Sciences) who had another article published last month. This latest academic article “Dominant versus non-dominant hand...
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Congratulations to Sara Stride
Congratulations to Sara Stride and her PhD supervisors on the publication of ‘Identifying the factors that influence midwives’ perineal practice at the time of birth in the United Kingdom’ in the...
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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 Section: A Scoping Review of the Robson classification‘ in the Nepal Journal of...
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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 Promotion of Safe Motherhood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A Scoping Review”...
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New FHSS nutrition publication
Congratulations to Faculty of Health & Social Sciences’ PhD student Karim Khaled and supervisors Prof. Vanora Hundley and Dr. Fotini Tsofliou on the acceptance of your manuscript ‘Perceived Stress...
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BU conference presentation on migration and COVID-19 in Nepal
Yesterday Dr. Pramod Regmi, Dr. Shovita Dhakal Adhikari, Dr. Nirmal Aryal and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen, all based in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, presented at the tenth Annual...
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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 to contribute to two different kinds of blog posts with different set of...
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BU contribution to development of Nepali academics
Yesterday we had the pleasure of running an Academic Writing Workshop for academics and postgraduate students in the Department of Health & Physical Education based at the Sanothimi campus of...
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And the publication date is….
You may have seen the BU Research Blog two years ago congratulating Bournemouth University’s MSc Public Health graduate Hana Dinh on the acceptance of her paper ‘‘Factors influencing engagement in...
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Nepal research published
Yesterday saw the publication of a new scientific paper on the health care system in Nepal. The latest BU paper ‘Health facility preparedness of maternal and neonatal health services: A survey in...
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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” was accepted for publication by the editor of the Journal of the International...
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National appointments for Prof. Vanora Hundley
Prof. Vanora Hundley in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) has been appointed to the Chief Midwifery Officer’s (CMidO) National Research Strategy Board. The key aim of...
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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. Academics from three different departments in the Faculty of Health &...
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Not going in!
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the online workshop ‘500 Years of Childbirth’ together with by CMMPH (Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health) colleges Dr. Juliet Wood and Dr....
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Expert in Health Service Accessibility
Received a lovely tweet this Sunday morning from Expertscape, an organisation in the USA, announcing that: ” As part of International Universal Health Coverage Day (Dec 12, 2021), we congratulate Dr....
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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 ‘collection’. I got the idea from Prof. Jonathan Parker and Prof. Sara Ashencaen...
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