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The 'social re-use' of confiscated assets: Advancing towards a much-needed definition (2025)
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There are growing calls to ensure that assets confiscated through proceeds of crime legislation are used for the public interest or social purposes (aka 'social re-use'). The social re-use of confiscated assets is promoted by politicians, government... Read More about The 'social re-use' of confiscated assets: Advancing towards a much-needed definition.

Environmental policy instruments analysis on England’s food strategies in the 21st century (2025)
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The new UK government announced their intention to create a new food policy strategy which will focus on four key areas: food security, health, environment, and economy. This would be the fourth time since the creation of the Department for Environme... Read More about Environmental policy instruments analysis on England’s food strategies in the 21st century.

The cabinet of curiosities: New materialities, narratives and storytelling across cultures (2025)
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Printmaking is often referred to as a democratic visual medium (Roberts, 2024; Jones, 2024), as an opportunity for making creative connections, addressing complex subjects, as an effective tool for social engagement (Georgieva, 2023; Raczek-Karcz, 20... Read More about The cabinet of curiosities: New materialities, narratives and storytelling across cultures.

Leveraging Behavioural Economics to Optimize Personal Insolvency Policies  (2025)
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Personal insolvency is a multifaceted issue shaped by legal, economic, psychological, and social factors. Despite its complexity, existing scholarship often relies on rigid theoretical frameworks, offering limited practical insights into how individu... Read More about Leveraging Behavioural Economics to Optimize Personal Insolvency Policies .

Empowering youth: Communicating sustainability and green skills through Minecraft (2025)
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This presentation explores the innovative use of Minecraft as a multifaceted tool for engaging children and young people in sustainability education. By integrating game-based learning, we have developed programs that allow participants to design and... Read More about Empowering youth: Communicating sustainability and green skills through Minecraft.

Risk management in Chinese hotel projects: A qualitative exploratory study (2025)
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Purpose: The objective of this research is to identify risk issues in hotel projects in China as seen through the views of hotel managers and to propose targeted recommendations. We use the lens of project management to understand the risks in the Ch... Read More about Risk management in Chinese hotel projects: A qualitative exploratory study.

Going against the grain? Exploring EdD students' engagement with arts-based research (2025)
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Despite growing interest in the potential value of arts-based research (ABR) for educational inquiry (Culshaw, 2019; Everley, 2021), limited consideration exists regarding its accessibility, and relevance, to practice-based professional doctorate in... Read More about Going against the grain? Exploring EdD students' engagement with arts-based research.

Towards industrial applications of single-sample characterisation for piezoelectric materials (2025)
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The simulation of devices implemented with piezoelectric materials is often a challenge due to the need for characterisation of the materials. The only standard approach (IEEE) which can produce a full elastopiezodielectric matrix, requires multipl... Read More about Towards industrial applications of single-sample characterisation for piezoelectric materials.

Precision single-camera eye tracking towards cognitive health assessment (2025)
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Eye tracking has been increasingly recognised as a valuable
tool for assessing cognitive health. However, many existing eye tracking systems are often expensive, imprecise, and inconvenient, which limits their accessibility and effectiveness in clin... Read More about Precision single-camera eye tracking towards cognitive health assessment.

Material characterisation for design with piezoelectric materials (2025)
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Piezoelectric materials are used in many different industries. Often, a material type will be chosen for convenience, with adequate performance and wellknown material characteristics. However, opportunities for new materials have emerged, e.g. lead-f... Read More about Material characterisation for design with piezoelectric materials.

MAKERS: Providing real-world practice-based learning for students in a repair café to enable a just transition to net zero (2025)
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There is a growing need for employees with the necessary skills to deliver a just transition to net zero through sustainable technologies, infrastructure, and practices. Practice Based Learning (PBL) provides a suitable teaching method to develop sus... Read More about MAKERS: Providing real-world practice-based learning for students in a repair café to enable a just transition to net zero.

Co-designing ‘ROMI’, a people-driven AI-Intervention with people living with type 2 diabetes from underserved communities (2025)
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Rationale and aims: In the UK, over 4.3 million people live with Type 2 diabetes (T2D). Uncontrolled diabetes leads to 930 strokes, 184 amputations, 660 heart attacks, 2,990 cases of heart failure each week. Guidance (NICE 2015, 2022) recommends inte... Read More about Co-designing ‘ROMI’, a people-driven AI-Intervention with people living with type 2 diabetes from underserved communities.

An integrated approach to mitigate poisoning attacks in federated learning frameworks (2025)
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While Federated learning (FL) is considered privacy-preserving by nature, it remains vulnerable to many attacks, such as data and model poisoning, that compromise data integrity and model accuracy. Conventional privacy-preserving federated learning (... Read More about An integrated approach to mitigate poisoning attacks in federated learning frameworks.

Heart failure and participation in physical activity (The HAPPY + study): Health professional support and availability of community physical activity services (2025)
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Abstract

Background Nearly 1 million people in the UK are living with heart failure (HF). Most people diagnosed with HF are managed in primary care. Physical activity can increase wellbeing, reduce hospitalisation and improve mortality rates for... Read More about Heart failure and participation in physical activity (The HAPPY + study): Health professional support and availability of community physical activity services.

A centre specific Quality Improvement Project (QIP) to decrease ‘temperature spike to needle time’ for first dose empiric antibiotics to within 60 minutes for inpatients in a haematology and autologous stem cell transplant unit within a UK District General Hospital (2025)
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Background

Neutropenic sepsis following systemic anti-cancer therapy and autologous stem cell transplant is a life-threatening emergency, with a mortality rate of 40% among haematology patients (Klastersky et al 2016, NICE 2024), due to deeper and... Read More about A centre specific Quality Improvement Project (QIP) to decrease ‘temperature spike to needle time’ for first dose empiric antibiotics to within 60 minutes for inpatients in a haematology and autologous stem cell transplant unit within a UK District General Hospital.

Enhancing public participation in urban planning: The role of VR, HBIM, and gamification (2025)
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The study demonstrates a novel method of urban planning through a col-laborative digital platform that promotes engagement and interaction among people, technicians, and administrators. Utilizing the suggested digital plat-form, the citizen acts as a... Read More about Enhancing public participation in urban planning: The role of VR, HBIM, and gamification.

Children's participation in schools embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales (2025)
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The following slides are from a presentation from the Children's Participation in Schools team given at a CRN Seminar.

The use of ChatGPT in essay writing: A literature review on the role of instructors and institutions in preventing academic misconduct (2025)
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The research explored student-related factors influencing the increase of academic misconduct through the utilisation of AI tools like ChatGPT in academia, alongside the roles of educators and institutions in deterring such behaviour. By reviewing ex... Read More about The use of ChatGPT in essay writing: A literature review on the role of instructors and institutions in preventing academic misconduct.

'Trusted to the ends of the earth'; Or Not. The solicitor's facilitating role in financial crime : A case study approach (2025)
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Jonathan presented on the facilitating role that solicitors can have in the commission and reproduction of financial crime in the UK. Jonathan draws from his own unique lived experience of financial crime and considers criminological theory to identi... Read More about 'Trusted to the ends of the earth'; Or Not. The solicitor's facilitating role in financial crime : A case study approach.

HomeLabs: A critical social practice perspective on household water and energy infrastructure (2025)
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Utility companies are increasingly focused on understanding the complex nature of household water and energy usage patterns. Traditional “demand management” approaches usually rely on an “information deficit” model of behaviour change, which is often... Read More about HomeLabs: A critical social practice perspective on household water and energy infrastructure.