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Longitudinal psychological well-being in caregivers of young children with cleft lip and/or palate (2025)
Journal Article

Introduction: Caregivers of children with chronic conditions can experience psychological distress and an impact on quality of life (QoL). Cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) is one of the most common congenital conditions worldwide. Utilising data extrac... Read More about Longitudinal psychological well-being in caregivers of young children with cleft lip and/or palate.

The validation of the ‘CARe Burn Scale: Parent/Caregiver Form’ - a Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) using Rasch Measurement Theory (RMT) to assess quality of life for parents or caregivers supporting a child with a burn injury (2025)
Journal Article

A PROM is a measure of patient needs and therapeutic progress. This paper outlines the validation of the CARe Burn Scale: Parent/Caregiver Form, a PROM that measures quality of life in parents/caregivers supporting a child with a burn injury. A liter... Read More about The validation of the ‘CARe Burn Scale: Parent/Caregiver Form’ - a Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) using Rasch Measurement Theory (RMT) to assess quality of life for parents or caregivers supporting a child with a burn injury.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries (2025)
Journal Article

Social norms approaches have been widely applied in health promotion, as a cost-effective behaviour-change strategy, but have been little evaluated as a whole. We conducted a pre-registered systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled... Read More about A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries.

The psychosocial impact of cleft lip and/or palate on caregivers and individuals in low- and middle-income countries: A narrative review (2025)
Journal Article

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) represent the highest incidence, morbidity, and Disability Adjusted Life Years for cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) globally. Most cleft care models now include psychosocial support, yet the psychosocial impacts... Read More about The psychosocial impact of cleft lip and/or palate on caregivers and individuals in low- and middle-income countries: A narrative review.

What excluded children think about their education in alternative provision – and why it matters (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine

Nearly 16,000 children in England learn in state-funded alternative provision (AP). These are educational settings for school-aged pupils who are unable to attend mainstream school. These pupils may have been excluded from their previous school, have... Read More about What excluded children think about their education in alternative provision – and why it matters.

Women from minoritised ethnicities’ perception of cervical screening information leaflets (2025)
Journal Article

Cervical screening rates are dropping in the UK, with non-attendance rates remaining higher in those from minoritised ethnicities. Amongst barriers to attendance includes a lack of awareness of risk of cervical cancer and understanding of the role of... Read More about Women from minoritised ethnicities’ perception of cervical screening information leaflets.

Developing and evaluating an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) curriculum in schools (2025)
Thesis

With statistics showing a decline in child mental health, and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) being evidenced as an effective therapeutic model, this PhD initially aimed to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of an ACT wellbeing int... Read More about Developing and evaluating an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) curriculum in schools.

Global Political Economy and New World Disorder (2025)
Book

Drawing upon a range of resources of critique (including critical realist social theory, realist international relations theory, the sociology of globalization, the Marxist critique of imperialism, and dependency theory), this book is an essential co... Read More about Global Political Economy and New World Disorder.

Body image among people living with HIV: A systematic review (2025)
Journal Article

The aim of this systematic review was to analyse, synthesise and review existing research on body image among people living with HIV (PLWH). Specifically, the review investigated the relationship of body image with sociodemographic and clinical varia... Read More about Body image among people living with HIV: A systematic review.

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.

Body image as a case topic for eliciting sensitive health experiences in men (2025)
Journal Article

Understanding the needs and experiences of men across many areas of health and wellbeing has been obstructed by an ongoing difficulty for researchers to sufficiently engage men in qualitative health research. To reach novel, broader insights and idea... Read More about Body image as a case topic for eliciting sensitive health experiences in men.

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.

The British object and action naming test for intraoperative mapping (BOATIM): A standardised and clinically tested framework for awake brain surgery (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Picture-naming tasks are widely used for identifying speech-eloquent regions during awake craniotomy. However, language-specific and culturally relevant task stimuli remain scarce. Current practices mostly rely on translated stimuli that... Read More about The British object and action naming test for intraoperative mapping (BOATIM): A standardised and clinically tested framework for awake brain surgery.

The SSB - a practice outcomes framework for services and organisations supporting and responding to sibling sexual behaviour and abuse (briefing paper) (2025)
Report

This is a briefing paper based on UWE-funded research on the development of KPIs in sibling sexual abuse research.

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.

The effect of deferring feedback on rule-based and information-integration category learning (2025)
Journal Article

Previous work has shown that deferring feedback significantly impairs two-dimensional information-integration category learning, often thought to recruit an implicit learning system, but leaves intact unidimensional rule-based learning, commonly assu... Read More about The effect of deferring feedback on rule-based and information-integration category learning.

Written evidence to the public accounts committee’s inquiry into local government financial sustainability (2025)
Report

My evidence relates to the subject of: Support for financially failing local authorities and action to tackle systemic issues. Within this, I focus specifically on the role of POCA and Accredited Financial Investigators (AFIs) in generating income fo... Read More about Written evidence to the public accounts committee’s inquiry into local government financial sustainability.

A phenomenology of hesitation, open-mindedness, and intergenerational habitus formation at older age (2025)
Journal Article

In this article, I explore how older people can experience the tensions between ‘keeping an open mind’ at older age, intergenerational shifts in cultural norms, and social separation between generations— interpreting this phenomenologically as a rupt... Read More about A phenomenology of hesitation, open-mindedness, and intergenerational habitus formation at older age.

Early maladaptive schemas (2025)
Journal Article

In this study the association of early maladaptive schemas with anxiety, depression and academic self efficacy was explored in a large sample of undergraduate psychology students. Significant correlations were observed with anxiety and depression but... Read More about Early maladaptive schemas.

Understanding the psychological impact of medical care experiences on adults with craniofacial conditions: A pilot survey of traumatic stress symptoms and resilience (2025)
Journal Article

Craniofacial conditions often require extensive medical care and surgeries throughout childhood and adolescence. However, there is limited research investigating the psychological effects of craniofacial care including risks for medical traumatic str... Read More about Understanding the psychological impact of medical care experiences on adults with craniofacial conditions: A pilot survey of traumatic stress symptoms and resilience.