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Improving sessional teachers’ reliability and consistency in marking through processes of standardisation and moderation (2025)
Book Chapter

It is rare, but quite possible, that a mark that is low by just a few percentage points in one module can alter a student’s final degree classification. Consequently, seeking consistency across a marking team assessing a cohort of students is as much... Read More about Improving sessional teachers’ reliability and consistency in marking through processes of standardisation and moderation.

Development of low carbon concrete and a machine learning integrated model tool for predicting strength and embodied carbon for lightweight concrete production (2025)
Thesis

The use of Ground Granulated Blast-furnace Slag (GGBS) as an alternative cement replacement material has shown good results in producing near green concrete. While GGBS exhibits good cementitious properties, concerns regarding slow strength developme... Read More about Development of low carbon concrete and a machine learning integrated model tool for predicting strength and embodied carbon for lightweight concrete production.

Drawing on translation studies to advance cross-language research in organisation studies: Enriching transdisciplinary dialogue (2025)
Journal Article

Despite longstanding calls for more transdisciplinary dialogue, there is still much to be gained from a closer collaboration between translation and organisation studies scholars. In this paper, we discuss how insights from translation studies can he... Read More about Drawing on translation studies to advance cross-language research in organisation studies: Enriching transdisciplinary dialogue.

Head-mounted display based teleoperation of a humanoid robot surrogate for users with life-limiting illnesses (2025)
Thesis

Individuals with life-limiting illnesses are at an increased risk of social isolation, and this became particularly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social robots are often used to provide companionship, but are rarely used to facilitate social... Read More about Head-mounted display based teleoperation of a humanoid robot surrogate for users with life-limiting illnesses.

Voices at the Margins: An exploration of the perceptions of 'vulnerable' children, their families’ and library professionals regarding reading for pleasure and public libraries (2025)
Thesis

Reading for pleasure is defined by Cremin (2014) as volitional, in which there is an anticipated satisfaction from such an activity. However, why children read and how it benefits them, has only been receiving attention in the policy space in the la... Read More about Voices at the Margins: An exploration of the perceptions of 'vulnerable' children, their families’ and library professionals regarding reading for pleasure and public libraries.

Organizing and official development assistance in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Contested conceptions of participation (2025)
Thesis

Participatory approaches to organizing have become standard in development assistance, building on the work of Robert Chambers and rooted in the work of Paulo Fiere on participatory pedagogy. Adopted by organizations ranging from the United Nations t... Read More about Organizing and official development assistance in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Contested conceptions of participation.

Implementation of a hospice community service redesign: Qualitative research identifying lessons learned (2025)
Journal Article

Background:
The need to improve equity of access to palliative care is well recognized; however, much less is known about how new models of hospice community services can be successfully introduced.
Aim:We aimed to capture learning from the impleme... Read More about Implementation of a hospice community service redesign: Qualitative research identifying lessons learned.