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Understanding fitness professionals’ weight biases and uptake of weight-inclusive practices: Findings from a mixed-methods survey (2024)
Journal Article

Weight bias is highly prevalent in the fitness industry, posing significant challenges for fat people seeking to engage in health-promoting behaviours, such as physical activity. Despite small ideological shifts in the fitness industry towards more w... Read More about Understanding fitness professionals’ weight biases and uptake of weight-inclusive practices: Findings from a mixed-methods survey.

The ballad of the bots: Sonification using cognitive metaphor to support immersed teleoperation of robot teams (2024)
Journal Article

As an embodied and spatial medium, virtual reality is proving an attractive proposition for robot teleoperation in hazardous environments. This paper examines a nuclear decommissioning scenario in which a simulated team of semi-autonomous robots are... Read More about The ballad of the bots: Sonification using cognitive metaphor to support immersed teleoperation of robot teams.

On writing instability (2024)
Book Chapter

Abba examines the specific manners by which Ambient Literature is composed and experienced by a reader. Looking back to the canon of works produced under the project banner to date, and developing the Ambient Poetics proposed in 2016-18, he addresses... Read More about On writing instability.

Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Low energy building retrofit presents important opportunities for reducing of greenhouse gas emissions in the environment. It has been considered as one of the key approaches to achieving sustainable development in construction industry. Nevertheless... Read More about Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction.

50 years - Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books (2024)
Book Chapter

Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books accompanies the exhibition of the same name, celebrating Center for Book Arts’ 50th Anniversary.

The publication features an introduction by Robbin Ami Silverberg, essays by Carole Naggar and Kinohi N... Read More about 50 years - Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books.

Performance enhancement of floating raft system by exploiting geometric nonlinearity and motion constraint in vibration isolators (2024)
Journal Article

This paper proposes a nonlinear vibration isolator with hybrid passive elements to mitigate the vibration transmission in floating raft systems. The proposed isolator employs a combination of a geometrically nonlinear linkage mechanism, an inerter, a... Read More about Performance enhancement of floating raft system by exploiting geometric nonlinearity and motion constraint in vibration isolators.

Across landscapes and lifetimes: Perceptions of gender-based violence from survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG) (2024)
Journal Article

Violence Against Women and Girls in public spaces has become a focus for violence prevention policy since the murder of Sarah Everard but is this how survivors experience VAWG? This study listened to survivors as part of Safer Spaces funded research.... Read More about Across landscapes and lifetimes: Perceptions of gender-based violence from survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG).

SCOPING REVIEW of international approaches to child sexual abuse and exploitation prevention interventions by law enforcement (2024)
Report

The current scoping review examines law enforcement’s understanding of perspectives on and practices regarding the prevention of child sexual exploitation and abuse (in this report, child sexual exploitation and abuse is referred to as “CSEA”). The p... Read More about SCOPING REVIEW of international approaches to child sexual abuse and exploitation prevention interventions by law enforcement.

How do clients experience intensive EMDR for post-traumatic stress? An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Several studies of the intensive delivery of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) have indicated it to be an effective treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), providing improved client experience, faster reduc... Read More about How do clients experience intensive EMDR for post-traumatic stress? An interpretative phenomenological analysis.