All Outputs (3923)

Well-being and resilience in children with speech and language disorders (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. All rights reserved. Purpose: Children with speech and language disorders are at risk in relation to psychological and social well-being. The aim of this study was to understand the experiences of... Read More about Well-being and resilience in children with speech and language disorders.

Women like me: Role modelling and outreach for women and girls in engineering (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Three projects which use evidence- and research-based practice to engage and support three under-served audiences: children with SEN; young carers; and girls in engineering. Our outcomes offer findings and insights into engaging these audiences and m... Read More about Women like me: Role modelling and outreach for women and girls in engineering.

Making STEM for everyone: Reaching under-served audiences (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Three projects which use evidence- and research-based practice to engage and support three under-served audiences: children with SEN; young carers; and girls in engineering. Our outcomes offer findings and insights into engaging these audiences and m... Read More about Making STEM for everyone: Reaching under-served audiences.

Engaging an under-represented group through science and textile crafts: Science from the Start young carer workshops at Cotton On (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Three projects which use evidence- and research-based practice to engage and support three under-served audiences: children with SEN; young carers; and girls in engineering. Our outcomes offer findings and insights into engaging these audiences and m... Read More about Engaging an under-represented group through science and textile crafts: Science from the Start young carer workshops at Cotton On.

Science hunters: Widening participation through computer games (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Three projects which use evidence- and research-based practice to engage and support three under-served audiences: children with SEN; young carers; and girls in engineering. Our outcomes offer findings and insights into engaging these audiences and m... Read More about Science hunters: Widening participation through computer games.

The effects of music therapy on cognition, psychiatric symptoms, and activities of daily living in patients with Alzheimer's disease (2018)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, affecting millions of older people worldwide. However, pharmacological therapies have not achieved desirable clinical efficacy in the past decades. Non-pharmacological therapie... Read More about The effects of music therapy on cognition, psychiatric symptoms, and activities of daily living in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Understanding former heroin users' experience of change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2018)
Thesis

This study aimed to explore the experiences of those who have been involved in change from problematic heroin use and how they have made sense out of their experiences.
Seven participants, who had been abstinent from heroin for a minimum of two year... Read More about Understanding former heroin users' experience of change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Dispositional mindfulness and its relationship with distress and functioning in adolescents with chronic pain and low-level pain (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. Objective Dispositional mindfulness is the general tendency to pay attention to present-moment awareness without judgment. The main aim of th... Read More about Dispositional mindfulness and its relationship with distress and functioning in adolescents with chronic pain and low-level pain.

E-letter: Follow-up after arthroplasty of the hip and knee: Are we over-servicing or under-caring? (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery. The number of arthroplasties of the hip and knee is predicted to increase rapidly during the next 20 years. Accompanying this is the dilemma of how to follow-up these patients appropriat... Read More about E-letter: Follow-up after arthroplasty of the hip and knee: Are we over-servicing or under-caring?.

Cognition associated with use of and belief in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) (2018)
Thesis

The use of and belief in the effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is associated with two cognitive biases: over-reliance on intuitive thinking and ontological mistakes. This thesis reports seven studies which explore the natu... Read More about Cognition associated with use of and belief in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

A novel electroanalytical approach to the measurement of B vitamins in food supplements based on screen-printed carbon sensors (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This paper describes the development of a novel electrochemical assay for the measurement of water-soluble vitamins in food and pharmaceutical products. The optimum conditions for the determination of vitamin B1 (thiamine), B2 (r... Read More about A novel electroanalytical approach to the measurement of B vitamins in food supplements based on screen-printed carbon sensors.

Science Hunters - using Minecraft as an engagement tool (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Science Hunters is an outreach project based in Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, which uses Minecraft to engage children in science learning and environmental science research. We offer opportunities across all year groups in schoo... Read More about Science Hunters - using Minecraft as an engagement tool.

Living well with chronic pain: The role of pain-management programmes (2017)
Journal Article

- Chronic pain conditions may not be adequately managed by medications alone
- Chronic pain states are driven by well understood neurophysiological mechanisms and are not ‘psychosomatic’
- Patient behaviours and coping styles will determine functio... Read More about Living well with chronic pain: The role of pain-management programmes.

Perioperative passport: empowering people with diabetes along their surgical journey (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Diabetes UK Aim: To determine whether a handheld ‘perioperative passport’ could improve the experience of perioperative care for people with diabetes and overcome some of the communication issues commonly identified in inpatient extracts. Meth... Read More about Perioperative passport: empowering people with diabetes along their surgical journey.

Prevalence of somatisation as a determinant of burnout amongst staff working in drug and alcohol services (2017)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the prevalence of somatisation as a determinant of burnout amongst drug and alcohol staff in the UK.

Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a cross-sectional design utilising a self-comple... Read More about Prevalence of somatisation as a determinant of burnout amongst staff working in drug and alcohol services.

Evidencing the value of patient and public involvement in inter-organisational health networks (2017)
Thesis

Patient and public involvement (PPI) and inter-organisational networks (IONs) such as the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) are parallel policy responses to “wicked problems” (Rittel and Weber, 1973, p. 155) in health. The two policy responses h... Read More about Evidencing the value of patient and public involvement in inter-organisational health networks.

Quantitation of cocaine on banknotes (2017)
Thesis

Money suspected of being involved with drug related crime can be seized by law enforcement agencies and forensically tested for traces of drug contamination. Forensic experts compare these results with background levels found on ‘normal’ banknotes,... Read More about Quantitation of cocaine on banknotes.

The role of empowerment in recovery from the experience of severe psychological distress: A grounded theory exploration (2017)
Thesis

Empowerment has been identified as important in recovery from severe psychological distress by policy makers, mental health services and by service users. However, while there has been a huge amount of research into the role of empowerment in recover... Read More about The role of empowerment in recovery from the experience of severe psychological distress: A grounded theory exploration.

The effect of exogenous in vitro expression of wild type and mutant JAK2 in erythroblast progenitors (2017)
Thesis

Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion has become a routine and indispensable procedure for many clinical purposes. As there is no appropriate alternative, the in vitro manufacture of RBCs is a potential means to ensure an adequate and safe supply of blood... Read More about The effect of exogenous in vitro expression of wild type and mutant JAK2 in erythroblast progenitors.

A relational systems psychodynamic approach to the understanding of group and organisational processes: The construction of 'the relational terrain' (2017)
Thesis

Abstract:

This submission comprises a body of published works which update and extend the range of theories-in-use in the practice of Group Relations experiential learning, bringing a relational psychoanalytic framework to the understanding of gro... Read More about A relational systems psychodynamic approach to the understanding of group and organisational processes: The construction of 'the relational terrain'.