End of the 2015-2016 course. Some key points and events

Last week we held our last POBICS meeting on this 2015-2016. It has been an interesting course, where we have learnt and also carry out a lot of events and things. In order to close down this course, we want to point off some of the main events we have participated this year.

• Writing. We have written several papers, some of them have been published (Biocapitalism and norm suspension, Fear in refugees by a possible outbreak of scabies), other are in reviewing (citizenship and epidemic surveillance, from biopower to kinepower); others are about to be send (ebola and images, new kind of biopolitics in the epidemics realm, syndromic observation) and others have been rejected (epidemiological factor, scenarios as states of emergency). About the last ones, we are reviewing them and we want to re-sent to other journals this fall.
• Congress. We have participated in the ESHHS-CHEIRON congress with a communication about the epidemiological factor (extracted from the rejected paper), and next month, as you know, we will be in the 4S/EASST Congress. Finally, the first days of September we will be in the II International AIBR Anthropology Congress.
• Seminaries. We have went to some of the UAB seminaries, organized by the Social Psychology Deparment, like the Jorge-Castillo Seminary and the Andrés G. Seguel Seminary.
• POBICS web. As we announced, POBICS has a new domain for his web: www.pobics.com
• Topics researched. Epidemics and State of Emergency; Ebola and Images, Big Data in Epidemics; Virtual Platforms to report about epidemics our communicable diseases by lay-people; new kinds of biosurveillance; historical approachs to epidemics; drones and health; fear and panic within epidemics.
• Grants & projects. We have continued with our FPI project, achieved last year. On the other hand, our second application to the FPU grant has been rejected :(

And that is all! We will post again next month at the 4S/EASST Congress. Until then, we will re-posting old post in our social networks.

Have a good summer and see you soon!

Thanks for reading us every week.

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Course addressed to young (pre)researchers: Introduction to research

At the end of this course (final days of May/ beginning of June), Enrique, one POBICS member will carry out a talk addressed to young researcher and students of postgraduate courses in order to exchange opinions, doubts and clear some issues related to the research world. 

This talk will take place at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, on the Psychology Faculty. The room and time will be announced when it would be scheduled (we recommend subscribing to his blog here).

This talk is free but it has limited capacity, so is important to book your seat contacting with him (in the last link or via email: contacto@ebaes.es). Furthermore, the talk will be in Spanish. If you have some important question to discuss or resolve in the talk, please send it in the book email.

INDEX (it could be modified or include last hour topics):

1) What is research? And a PhD Program?

2) Who to start to research?

3) Useful and practical tools: From Writing to Online Collaborative Tasks.

4) Helpful resources (Zotero, Web of Science, Google milieu, etc.)

5) Grants and scholarships in Spain.

6) Social Media on Academic Research

7) Two applied cases: POBICS and ebaes

This is all for now. If you are very interesting in any other topic related with research, please tell us and we will include in the talk. We wait your assistance. If you know someone interested in this talk, please share this post!

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New interesting post-graduate course on UAB: One Health

Next course, the faculty of Veterinary of our university, the Autonomous University of Barcelona will begin a new master called: "Official Master's Degree in Zoonoses and One Health". This master is lead by our colleagues we are currently collaborating in some projects like focus groups o a possible joint-project.

You can acces to the master's webpage here. In this page you will find how to apply to the admission, what is about it (content, teaching staff, etc), grants and a lot of more things. We leave a little sample from the official page:

The Master's Degree in Zoonosis and One Health is a professionally oriented programme that responds to a need for professionals with a well-rounded, multidisciplinary training encompassing human, animal and environmental health, who can work effectively and collaboratively on the prevention, control, management and communication of biological hazards and threats. This is the concept behind the new term "One Health". It means seeking to defend and improve the health and welfare of all species (humans, animals and plants) through greater cooperation between professionals working in public health, animal health and environmental health, and so to promote a multidisciplinary approach to health risk at the interface between humans, animals and the ecosystem.
 
The University Master's degree in Zoonosis and One Health will serve to train up highly qualified professionals to work in both the public and the private sector, with a multidisciplinary vision of One Health, in line with the requirements of the major international health bodies, like the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). It is the first official master's degree in One Health in the whole of the Mediterranean area.

For anyone that does not know anything about One Health, it is a concept related with the creation of a unique-single health, composed by animal, human, public and any other kind of health. In this vein, borders between species, disciplines or realms of knowledge are proposed to be broken.

From wikipedia: "One Health has been defined as "the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines — working locally, nationally, and globally — to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment"

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