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Retail company voluntary arrangements: A dubious remedy? (2024)
Journal Article

Despite much debate on Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVA) among UK retailers, understanding of retail CVAs remains limited. There is continuing uncertainty about the uptake of CVAs, what aspects lead to successful outcomes and whether CVAs can be v... Read More about Retail company voluntary arrangements: A dubious remedy?.

Business insights using RAG–LLMs: A review and case study (2024)
Journal Article

As organizations increasingly rely on diverse data sources like invoices and surveys, efficient Information Extraction (IE) is crucial. Natural Language Processing (NLP) enhances IE through tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER), Relation Extra... Read More about Business insights using RAG–LLMs: A review and case study.

Mitigating child exposure to traffic-related air pollution on the school commute: Views of parents and teachers in England (2024)
Journal Article

Children are particularly vulnerable to the adverse health effects of traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) due to their developing physiologies. A survey was distributed to schools in England for completion by parents and teachers. The survey examine... Read More about Mitigating child exposure to traffic-related air pollution on the school commute: Views of parents and teachers in England.

Developing an evaluation strategy in Kashmir: Assessing the impact of an arts intervention with school children in an area of conflict (2024)
Journal Article

This 'in practice' article describes and reflects on the mixed methodology used in a realist evaluation of the impact of an arts intervention for children (aged 10-15) in a school in Kashmir, an area of conflict. The evaluation focused on art based... Read More about Developing an evaluation strategy in Kashmir: Assessing the impact of an arts intervention with school children in an area of conflict.

Enhancing water recycling adoption in South African residential properties: a multi-dimensional analysis for sustainable water management (2024)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the challenges and adoption rates of water recycling systems as a sustainable water management strategy within residential properties in South Africa. Employing a quantitative approach, the research incorporates a comprehensiv... Read More about Enhancing water recycling adoption in South African residential properties: a multi-dimensional analysis for sustainable water management.

Baseline synthesis: Transforming cities fund national evaluation (2024)
Report

Between 2018/19 and 2022/23, the Department for Transport allocated the £2.45bn Transforming Cities Fund across 18 English city regions – to support delivery of sustainable transport improvements which would enhance intra-city connectivity and boost... Read More about Baseline synthesis: Transforming cities fund national evaluation.

A new vision for city centres: Lessons from the Sparks project (2024)
Report

This interim evaluation report delves into the innovative ‘meanwhile use’ of urban spaces, a critical response to the revitalisation challenges faced by high streets, amidst financial austerity and the changing landscape of retail and cultural consum... Read More about A new vision for city centres: Lessons from the Sparks project.

Sub-national transport bodies: Evaluation of initiatives to support local authority capacity and capability (2024)
Report

During 2021/22 the Department for Transport (DfT) made additional funding available to Sub-national Transport Bodies (STBs). The funding was to enable STBs to support their local authorities (LAs) in delivering transport policies in four priority are... Read More about Sub-national transport bodies: Evaluation of initiatives to support local authority capacity and capability.

The transformation of mobility in Europe: Technological change and social conditionings (2024)
Journal Article

The mobility of persons is changing due to technological innovation linked to autonomous and electric vehicles or to connectivity and data communication technologies. Furthermore, it is being conditioned by social behaviours. Qualitative research bas... Read More about The transformation of mobility in Europe: Technological change and social conditionings.

Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness (2024)
Journal Article

Crises such as water quality, pollution, climate change, overfishing, biodiversity, energy, waste, and carbon sequestration mean that legislation protecting the marine environment is under intense pressure to be effective and to demonstrate positive... Read More about Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness.

A practitioner’s introduction to LCA databases: EPiC and ICE (2024)
Digital Artefact

This short comparative review of two construction material databases explains their potential use for assessing embodied carbon to designers and practitioners not yet expert in the field. It introduces and examines the Australian Environmental Perfor... Read More about A practitioner’s introduction to LCA databases: EPiC and ICE.

The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice (2024)
Journal Article

Many interventions have been developed by staff to support students in understanding assessment task requirements and summative and formative feedback. However, to various extents, these approaches assume a shared understanding of the, often indeterm... Read More about The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice.

Participatory backcasting towards desirable co-produced mobility futures: A case study of MaaS in Greater Manchester (2024)
Journal Article

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) has emerged as a model supported by popular discourse on achieving greener, more efficient and equitable future mobility. While technological change is a primary driver for models of development, the policy pathways, impl... Read More about Participatory backcasting towards desirable co-produced mobility futures: A case study of MaaS in Greater Manchester.

Deputised objects (2024)
Digital Artefact

RESEARCH STATEMENT - draft for forthcoming folio

Originality
Deputised Objects is an interactive installation documented through a film, developed in the context of the architectural/art/psychological transdisciplinary research project titled Psy... Read More about Deputised objects.

Embedding sustainability in built environment curricula: Opportunities and challenges (2024)
Book Chapter

In the face of climate emergency, the built environment professional is required to engage meaningfully with a range of emotive topics across pollution, tackling inequalities, resource scarcity, acute weather events, ecological damage and financial c... Read More about Embedding sustainability in built environment curricula: Opportunities and challenges.

Fuzzy lines: Defining an architecture project office by its barriers and boundaries (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A collective mapping exercise of the fuzzy lines that position and border the contemporary Project Office when positioned within the institutional context of the UK architecture school. The aim of this workshop would be to collective map these bound... Read More about Fuzzy lines: Defining an architecture project office by its barriers and boundaries.

Prevention through Design (PtD) educational elements in engineering, architectural and construction domain: A review (2024)
Journal Article

Despite the increasing emphasis on early Prevention through Design (PtD) education, the extent to which educational elements need to be embedded in tertiary education remains unclear. To address these issues, a scoping review of the literature relate... Read More about Prevention through Design (PtD) educational elements in engineering, architectural and construction domain: A review.

Cycling in the West of England: Nature, sustainability and wellbeing (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cycling and nature offer individuals health and wellbeing benefits, as well as the potential to contribute to local, national and global sustainability goals. Sometimes cycling and nature coincide, e.g., cycling through natural landscapes or on urban... Read More about Cycling in the West of England: Nature, sustainability and wellbeing.

Exploring inner-outer sustainability competencies with young people: The TAKE ACTION report (2024)
Report

This report explores green career aspirations and how they relate to competency development and learning approaches. 669 young people were engaged during this project, exposed to various engagement approaches. The report finds that empowering approac... Read More about Exploring inner-outer sustainability competencies with young people: The TAKE ACTION report.

Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action (2024)
Journal Article

This paper investigates how top-down policy direction setting is interpreted and implemented within horizontal networks of practice. This is an under-investigated issue, yet vital for delivering ultimately transformative outcomes. It seeks to unpack... Read More about Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action.