New BU mental health publication
Congratulations to Faloshade Alloh (PhD student in Faculty of Health and Social Science), Dr. Pramod Regmi (Lecturer in International Health), Abe (Igoche) Onche (BU graduate MSc in Public Health) and...
View ArticleSuccessful Midwifery Education conference at BU
In the first week of July Bournemouth University ran its second international midwifery education conference in the Executive Business Centre. This year’s conference was called ‘What works in...
View ArticleNew publication by CMMPH Visiting Faculty Dr. Luyben
Congratulations to Dr. Ans Luyben on her latest co-authored midwifery publication: ‘Conscientious objection to participation in abortion by midwives and nurses: a systematic review of reasons’ in the...
View ArticleMidwifery education article by Prof. Hundley
Congratulations to Prof. Vanora Hundley of FHSS on the publication of her ‘Editorial midwifery special issue on education: A call to all the world’s midwife educators!’ in Midwifery (Elsevier). This...
View ArticleResearch methods paper published by CMMPH student Preeti Mahato
Congratulations to PhD student Mrs Preeti Mahato who has a research methods paper published based on her PhD study in Nepal [1]. In the areas of health promotion and health education, mixed-methods...
View ArticleNew BU publication disability & pregnancy
Two days ago the Open Access journal BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth published an important article on women with disabilities and their experiences with the maternity services when pregnant [1]. The...
View ArticleNew BU publication on maternity care and culture in Afghanistan
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Arnold on the acceptance by Social Science & Medicine (published by Elsevier) of the second paper based on her PhD on maternity care in Afghanistan [1]. This...
View ArticleNIHR Research Design Service – new contract
We were pleased to announce earlier in the year that the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has awarded us a further five years of funding to continue our work as the RDS South...
View ArticleCongratulations to Dr. Alison Taylor
Congratulations to Dr. Alison Taylor whose PhD paper ‘The therapeutic role of video diaries: A qualitative study involving breastfeeding mothers‘ has just appeared online [1]. This paper, in Women and...
View ArticleParliament – nursing and midwifery
Nursing and midwifery both featured in Parliament last week. Last Wednesday the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, announced an increase in bursaries (to £10,000) for Scottish student...
View ArticleJournal of Asian Midwives
As co-editor of the Journal of Asian Midwives I receive occasional updates from the Aga Khan University (AKU) library in Pakistan on the number of downloads of articles published in the journal. The...
View ArticleFHSS student awarded Chiropractor of the Year 2018-19
Congratulations to Amy Miller! At the British Chiropractic Council’s annual conference 13-14th October, Bournemouth University PhD student Amy Miller was awarded the British Chiropractic...
View ArticleNepal paper by Lesley Milne (CMMPH)
Congratulations to Lesley Milne, senior lecturer in midwifery, on the acceptance of her latest paper on maternity care in Nepal. This new paper ‘Gender inequalities and childbearing: A qualitative...
View ArticleCQR Lunchtime Go Create! Seminar this Wed at 1pm RLH 409
Always engaging, the Centre for Qualitative Research’s Lunchtime Seminar Go Create! Series continues with: Jen Leamon presenting “Creating and sharing stories: Students’ creation of digital stories in...
View ArticleCongratulations to Denyse King
Congratulations to Denyse King, who is currently attending the Future Technologies Conference, FTC 2018; Vancouver, BC; Canada (15-16 November). Her conference paper ‘NoObesity apps – From approach to...
View ArticleBU PhD student PROSPERO publication
Congratulations to BU PhD student Dimitrios Vlachos who had his PROSPERO protocol published [1]. Dimitrios working on a project promoting the Mediterranean-style diet in childbearing age, he is...
View ArticleTwo papers rejected the day after submission in same week
This week we had this enviable record of two academic papers on health topics being rejected the day after submission. The first paper was submitted on Monday to Issues in Mental Health Nursing. Our...
View ArticleMIDIRS reproduced Afghanistan paper
Dr. Rachel Arnold’s paper ‘Parallel worlds: an ethnography of care in an Afghan maternity hospital’ [1] originally published in Social Science & Medicine (Elsevier) has been reprinted in full in...
View ArticleCongratulations to Dr. Mariam Vahdaninia
Congratulations to Dr. Vahdaninia in FHSS on the publication of her PhD paper ‘ω-3 LCPUFA supplementation during pregnancy and risk of allergic outcomes or sensitisation in offspring: a systematic...
View ArticleCongratulations to FHSS student Raksha Thapa
On the last working day of 2018 at Bournemouth University we congratulate FHSS student Raksha Thapa on the publication of her first PhD paper in her first PhD year. The paper Uptake of Health Services...
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