All Outputs (1073)

Healthy streetlife: An ecologic exploration of residents' health practices in the street environment (2023)
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Good health is a human right and the built environment is recognised as a wider determinant of health but many studies focus only on physical health not mental or social health. The street is a microscale of the built environment yet r... Read More about Healthy streetlife: An ecologic exploration of residents' health practices in the street environment.

Interviewing vulnerable suspects arrested for homicide offences: The working practices of detectives and third parties (2023)
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The aim of this research is to critically explore the working practices of detectives and third parties involved in the detention and interviewing of vulnerable suspects, who have been arrested on suspicion of committing homicide (and attempted murde... Read More about Interviewing vulnerable suspects arrested for homicide offences: The working practices of detectives and third parties.

Male reproductive trends in the novel equine model: Investigations into anthropogenic environmental chemical exposure (2023)
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Introduction: Adverse trends are reported in human, canine, and bovine reproductive health, associated with exposure to environmental chemicals (ECs). Poor testicular function in stallions poses an economic, health and welfare concern. Assessing equi... Read More about Male reproductive trends in the novel equine model: Investigations into anthropogenic environmental chemical exposure.

Acceptability of memory-aid technological devices for community-dwelling older adults with dementia to maintain quality of life (2023)
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The rising prevalence of dementia cases due to ageing population presents a global challenge. Despite different types of memory aid devices available, evidence reveal that it is not widely accepted (Thordardottir et al., 2019). The current study aime... Read More about Acceptability of memory-aid technological devices for community-dwelling older adults with dementia to maintain quality of life.

Use of drones for landscape-scale surveys to meet conservation organisation needs (2023)
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Monitoring is an important part of current conservation work but is currently overlooked over other aspects of conservation due to a lack of resources. Drones represent a potential solution to this lack of monitoring and have been shown to be more ac... Read More about Use of drones for landscape-scale surveys to meet conservation organisation needs.

‘Plan Z and then off the edge of a cliff’: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of mothers’ experience of living with a slow-to-heal Caesarean wound (2023)
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Studies indicate that complex postsurgical wound healing can significantly alter biopsychological markers responsible for recovery, such as pain perception and sense of self-coherence. Yet, there is a lack of research investigating women’s experien... Read More about ‘Plan Z and then off the edge of a cliff’: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of mothers’ experience of living with a slow-to-heal Caesarean wound.

A qualitative study on how therapists negotiate gendered perceptions of the division of parental responsibility and labour, using a story completion and vignette task (2023)
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Aims: The argument that therapeutic practice affirms a reductionist paradigm of distress and overlooks socio-environmental understandings of suffering suggests that Psychology may collude with systems of power, privilege, and oppression. As key propo... Read More about A qualitative study on how therapists negotiate gendered perceptions of the division of parental responsibility and labour, using a story completion and vignette task.

Therapists experiences of delivering treatment to patients with co-morbid mental and physical health conditions within an IAPT service (2023)
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The number of people who have a Long-Term Health Condition (LTC) is increasing. There is a high prevalence of those who have a LTC who are also experiencing a Mental Health Condition. There has been a recent focus on The Improving Access to Psycholog... Read More about Therapists experiences of delivering treatment to patients with co-morbid mental and physical health conditions within an IAPT service.

Methodologies and practice for improving measurement in urodynamics – quantifying accuracy, quality and contractility (2023)
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Any clinical practitioner using a physiological measurement relies on assurance of the quality of that measurement. In urodynamics, the measurement of lower urinary tract function, poor quality results leading to incorrect diagnoses could result in m... Read More about Methodologies and practice for improving measurement in urodynamics – quantifying accuracy, quality and contractility.

How central banks shape liquidity production: The case of India (2023)
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This thesis develops a theoretical framework to study the role of central banks in shaping liquidity production in different financial structures and applies the framework to India. The theoretical framework draws on the three different ways in which... Read More about How central banks shape liquidity production: The case of India.

Exploring the interaction between online practices and offline domestic food practices in family homes: Implications for food waste reduction campaigns (2023)
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Food waste is a significant problem in the food system, contributing to the environmental impact of food production and distribution as well as food inequality. In the UK and other high-income countries, a high proportion of the food waste in the foo... Read More about Exploring the interaction between online practices and offline domestic food practices in family homes: Implications for food waste reduction campaigns.

Learning to improvise: The lived experience of music and music therapy students (2023)
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This study investigates the lived experience of learning to improvise for music and music therapy students on postgraduate courses in UK Higher Education. Findings demonstrate that learning is complex: engendering changes to identity, increased emoti... Read More about Learning to improvise: The lived experience of music and music therapy students.

Body-mapping with therapeutic practitioners: An embodied exploration of therapists’ perceptions of the body, and use of embodiment within therapy (2023)
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Alongside the growth of body-oriented approaches to therapy over the past couple of decades, ‘embodiment’ and the ‘embodied relationship’ have become increasingly cited constructs within the therapeutic and psychological worlds, and yet, the use of e... Read More about Body-mapping with therapeutic practitioners: An embodied exploration of therapists’ perceptions of the body, and use of embodiment within therapy.

How do clients experience intensive EMDR for PTSD? A phenomenological analysis (2023)
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There is a dearth of qualitative research exploring the benefits and challenges of intensive Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) from the clients’ perspective. Currently, research into intensive EMDR, which involves multiple therapy... Read More about How do clients experience intensive EMDR for PTSD? A phenomenological analysis.

A qualitative study investigating the impact of flexible working on a sample of UK employees' physical activity, sedentary behaviours and healthy eating habits during the first 12-months of the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
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Objectives: Between March 2020 and July 2021, many UK employees transitioned to more flexible work arrangements in response to a series of lockdown rules and restrictions implemented by UK Governments to tackle the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (... Read More about A qualitative study investigating the impact of flexible working on a sample of UK employees' physical activity, sedentary behaviours and healthy eating habits during the first 12-months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sustainable stabilisation of expansive road pavement foundations, pavement thickness optimisation and defects analysis (2023)
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Expansive road subgrade has been in existence for decades resulting in major road pavement defects, high maintenance/construction costs and detrimental environmental effects associated with using traditional cement and lime in subgrade stabilisation.... Read More about Sustainable stabilisation of expansive road pavement foundations, pavement thickness optimisation and defects analysis.

Individuals with intellectual disabilities experiences of the therapeutic relationship (2023)
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Background: In the UK higher rates of mental health difficulties are experienced by those with intellectual disabilities (ID) than by those without. Despite this there is a lack of understanding about how best to support these individuals. Recently,... Read More about Individuals with intellectual disabilities experiences of the therapeutic relationship.

'Consider the object of offering refuge' when exploring the therapist experience of working with refugees supported by an interpreter 'a mille fois' of experience. An exploration using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (2023)
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The world is experiencing an ever-increasing growth in the number of displaced refugee persons across the globe; individuals who have fled their homeland due to force and fear for their life. It is widely acknowledged these individuals have often exp... Read More about 'Consider the object of offering refuge' when exploring the therapist experience of working with refugees supported by an interpreter 'a mille fois' of experience. An exploration using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.

Using the theoretical domains framework and COM-B model in identifying barriers and facilitators to addressing smoking cessation in improving access to psychological therapies services: A qualitative study (2023)
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Objectives: Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide, and the prevalence rates of smoking in individuals with mental health conditions remains high. Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT) services could be a pl... Read More about Using the theoretical domains framework and COM-B model in identifying barriers and facilitators to addressing smoking cessation in improving access to psychological therapies services: A qualitative study.

Profiling the DNA damage response dynamics at sub-lethal and lethal temozolomide doses (2023)
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Confronted with DNA damage, cells can undergo cell cycle arrest and DNA repair, or cell death. However, communal DNA damage response (DDR) proteins involved in each of these cell fates, has confounded attempts to unravel the molecular nuances that dr... Read More about Profiling the DNA damage response dynamics at sub-lethal and lethal temozolomide doses.