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Living well with Dementia - Dementia research and me presentation (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation given at the Dementia Research and Me, NIHR ARC West public engagement event in Weston-super-Mare.
Presented to people living with dementia, their family members, paid supporters and dementia researchers.

Narrating constitutional futures: Comparative emotional and identity dynamics in the Scottish independence and EU referendums (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This article explores the emotional, symbolic, and identity-based dimensions of constitutional referendums by comparing qualitative data from the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and the 2016 UK European Union Referendum. Drawing on original foc... Read More about Narrating constitutional futures: Comparative emotional and identity dynamics in the Scottish independence and EU referendums.

The 'social re-use' of confiscated assets: Advancing towards a much-needed definition (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Precision single-camera eye tracking towards cognitive health assessment (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Shame, Psychology and ME (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2008, when she was 15, Katharine Cheston became ill with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or ME. Over the next decade and more Katharine, and ourselves as a family, encountered many different psychological ideas and therapies, often being offered by non-... Read More about Shame, Psychology and ME.

An exploration of greenspace metric proximity and NDVI vs configurational accessibility from residential postcodes in the West of England (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Greenspaces are recognised as important features of an urban environment which are visited by residents for different purposes. This paper investigates the relationship between residents in the West of England and their surrounding greenspaces, by st... Read More about An exploration of greenspace metric proximity and NDVI vs configurational accessibility from residential postcodes in the West of England.

Building a digital twin framework for EEG neurofeedback in cricket batting motor imagery using simulated data (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a digital twin framework designed to provide neurofeedback for a cricket batting motor imagery (MI) study. The framework uses simulated EEG data to establish a computational model that can be extended to real-time data integration... Read More about Building a digital twin framework for EEG neurofeedback in cricket batting motor imagery using simulated data.

Class in the lecture room: Equitable initiations of knowledges (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This article investigates higher education (HE) lecturers’ understandings of their own and others’ social class positioning and its impact on redistributing knowledge in the lecture-room. The literature on class and HE underscores the subtle processe... Read More about Class in the lecture room: Equitable initiations of knowledges.

Working class men on care based degrees (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk draws on data from a small qualitative study of men on care-based degree pathways in one university in England. There is little research that specifically considers the experiences of working-class men on these courses. The talk explores as... Read More about Working class men on care based degrees.

Mapping the social reuse of assets confiscated from organized crime (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The ‘social reuse’ of assets confiscated from organised crime groups is a practice gaining increasing influence worldwide. While a precise definition has yet to be established, the broad concept – that of reusing the proceeds of crime for the benefit... Read More about Mapping the social reuse of assets confiscated from organized crime.

Priorities for physical activity among under-served populations with musculoskeletal conditions: Findings from a Q-methodology study (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background:
Twenty million individuals (in UK) have a musculoskeletal (MSK) condition, for which physical activity (PA) is a core treatment. People from minority ethnic communities are disproportionately impacted, experiencing higher levels of pain... Read More about Priorities for physical activity among under-served populations with musculoskeletal conditions: Findings from a Q-methodology study.

Nigeria at sixty-four: Protest, (bad) governance and change (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines the socio-political landscape of Nigeria as it marks sixty-four years of independence. It delves into the persistent issues of governance that have plagued the nation, highlighting the patterns of corruption, inefficiency, and lac... Read More about Nigeria at sixty-four: Protest, (bad) governance and change.

Longitudinal and idiographic methods of developing and evaluating tailored psychological interventions for people with MS: Findings from a pilot study and future directions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a complex and heterogeneous condition which makes the development of effective psychological interventions a challenging task. Research so far has focused on well-established protocols which do not always fit the individual... Read More about Longitudinal and idiographic methods of developing and evaluating tailored psychological interventions for people with MS: Findings from a pilot study and future directions.

Does one-size-fit-all? Considering individual and contextual factors in psychotherapy research (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Climate change, war, populism, growing economic inequalities… these are just some of the major challenges facing the world today. Does psychotherapy research have any contribution to make to addressing these problems and, if so, what? This semi-plena... Read More about Does one-size-fit-all? Considering individual and contextual factors in psychotherapy research.

Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions (2024)
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In the context of rising interest in Alternative Provisions (APs) amongst policymakers and researchers in England, this article examines social capital and accountability in this ‘new’ field of enquiry. APs stress the value of supportive relationship... Read More about Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions.

Promoting university to the parents of students -  Normative youth transitions and intensification of  ‘ideal’ parenting into HE (2024)
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This paper draws on recent marketing moves within the English universities to increasingly promote Higher Education (HE) to the parents of students. Changes to the HE landscapes in England – including the massification and commodification of the sect... Read More about Promoting university to the parents of students -  Normative youth transitions and intensification of  ‘ideal’ parenting into HE.

Test-retest reliability for multiple-target visual search: Eye-tracking and performance metrics (2024)
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Visual search plays a critical role in life-saving careers such as radiology and airport security. There has been growing interest in exploring factors specific to individual observers (e.g., personality, strategy) that can affect search accuracy; ho... Read More about Test-retest reliability for multiple-target visual search: Eye-tracking and performance metrics.

Sexual health and gender based violence needs of refugees and asylum seekers (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction

An overview of sexual health and gender-based violence (GBV) for refugees and asylum seekers (R+AS) in the UK will be presented. Sparse data and large research gaps allow only a glimpse of the context of global movement and the experi... Read More about Sexual health and gender based violence needs of refugees and asylum seekers.

Other lives: Young people on the margins of school exclusion (2024)
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This paper draws on a qualitative data analysis of the experiences of a small group of so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ disabled young men in Alternative Provisions (APs). Supporting young people has largely focused on the use of professional interventions.... Read More about Other lives: Young people on the margins of school exclusion.

News media framing of cultural and political expression in public policing in England and Wales (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As a public institution at the heart of the modern liberal democratic political economic model, policing has traditionally aligned with notions of impartiality and neutrality. Thus, the role of the police is to prevent social conflicts without taking... Read More about News media framing of cultural and political expression in public policing in England and Wales.