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 Ph.D. study had been accepted for publication. Her paper ‘Management capacity in...
View ArticleThe 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 for inclusion by Scopus. Scopus, which is owned by the publishing house Elsevier,...
View ArticleBU PhD student receives OpenBright grant
I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a grant from OpenBright to take part in a short summer course on “Data Science: Network Science” at Utrecht University, located in the Netherlands....
View ArticleNew ways of publishing?
Last we took a new step into the academic publishing by submitting a paper to Qeios. This Open Access journal publishes papers for free, more or less immediately and after the paper has appeared...
View ArticleBU 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 safer and healthier tomorrow by restoring essential immunization today”, at the UN...
View ArticleBroadening horizons: Network Science at Utrecht Summer School
We are thrilled to announce that Assemgul Kozhabek, one of our PhD candidates, recently had the opportunity to participate in the Utrecht Summer School on “Data Science: Network Science” from July...
View ArticleBU PhD candidate is the Winner of the British Computer Society (BCS) GreenIT...
BU Ph.D. candidate Assemgul Kozhabek from the SciTech Computing and Informatics department has won the HE Class GreenIT 2023 competition run by the British Computer Society (BCS) – the chartered...
View ArticleINRC seminar by Dr Jie Sui, Friday the 8th of September at 14.00 h, Share...
We want to draw your attention to a seminar organized by the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research Centre on Friday, the 8th of September, from 14:00 h to 15:00 h at the Share Lecture Theatre (Fusion...
View ArticlePublishing 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...
View ArticleINRC seminar by Dr Jie Sui, Friday the 8th of September at 14.00 h, Share...
We want to draw your attention to a seminar organized by the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research Centre on this Friday, the 8th of September, from 14:00 h to 15:00 h at the Share Lecture Theatre...
View ArticleMismatched Expectations & The Impact of Eastern Europeanism
On Tuesday 12th September BU’s Women’s Academic Network is hosting an online talk by Dr Sara Jones and Dr Natalia Kogut from the University of Birmingham. Dr Jones and Dr Kought will be sharing...
View ArticleNew publication on positionality
Today the journal Health Prospect published Raksha Thapa’s paper ‘Researching Dalits and health care: Considering positionality’ [1]. This methodological paper is based on Dr. Raksha Thapa’s recently...
View ArticleCongratulations 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...
View ArticleCongratulations to BU sociology professors
Congratulations to Professors Sara Ashencaen Crabtree and Jonathan Parker on the publication of their book chapter ‘Social work with children and human rights’ in the edited collection Change Agents:...
View ArticleNew 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 Violations and Activism which was published last week by Bristol University...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleNew book about EDI in health and biomed research careers is out!
Dr Ola Thomson of BUBS, People and Organisations, is pleased to announce her new book: “Nurturing equality, diversity and inclusion: Support for research careers in health and biomedicine”. The book...
View ArticleCollaborative midwifery paper cited 40 times
Two days ago ResearchGate informed us that that the paper ‘Midwifery-led antenatal care models: mapping a systematic review to an evidence-based quality framework to identify key components and...
View ArticleWriting some blurb
Publisher Routledge announced the forthcoming edited volume Menstruation in Nepal: Dignity Without Danger, which is edited by Sara Parker, Madhusudan Subedi and Kay Standing. This book examines the...
View ArticleCongratulations to Prof. Sara Ashencaen Crabtree
Congratulations to Sara Ashencaen Crabtree, Professor of Social and Cultural Diversity, on the publication of her latest book An Historiography of Women’s Missionary Nursing Through the Lives of Two...
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