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Improving sessional teachers’ reliability and consistency in marking through processes of standardisation and moderation (2025)
Book Chapter

It is rare, but quite possible, that a mark that is low by just a few percentage points in one module can alter a student’s final degree classification. Consequently, seeking consistency across a marking team assessing a cohort of students is as much... Read More about Improving sessional teachers’ reliability and consistency in marking through processes of standardisation and moderation.

Ink For Printmakers (2025)
Book

Inks have remained a fundamental aspect of the printing process for thousands of years. In this comprehensive and accessible guide, Stephen Hoskins and Michael Craine trace the development of inks from ancient China, through the Middle Ages and the i... Read More about Ink For Printmakers.

Ink for Printmaking (2025)
Book

The ultimate guide to printing inks and processes, from the pigment to the printmaker.

Since printing's invention in the sixth century, inks have remained a fundamental aspect of the printing process. In this comprehensive and accessible guide, St... Read More about Ink for Printmaking.

The possible worlds of VR documentary (2025)
Book Chapter

Producers have been drawn to virtual reality (VR) for its potential to render vivid experiences of nonfiction content. The politics of the platform’s affective operation, particularly in relation to distant human others, has been analysed and critiqu... Read More about The possible worlds of VR documentary.

Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter reflects on research using MG Leonard’s Beetle Boy to consider how reading for pleasure has the potential to impact upon social and environmental action. Research with children and teachers revealed how reading the book supported them to... Read More about Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure.

‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2025)
Book Chapter

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was ‘canonized’ as the ‘Good Witch’ of English literature following her death which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This chapter... Read More about ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization.

The megamachine and its social costs (2025)
Book Chapter

This preface discusses the social costs of capitalism as megamachine. The focus is on linking the book's main thesis on capitalist double-entry book keeping as essence of the megamachine with the heterodox economics theory of social costs. The social... Read More about The megamachine and its social costs.

Should we reconcile with the far right? The 2024 race riots in Britain and the end of post-fascism (2025)
Journal Article

Ernst Wiechert's poet's faith and art philosophy (2025)
Journal Article

How can we recover from Christian-capitalist-rationalist metaphysics if it is understood as an expression of the suffering from fear? German novelist and concentration camp survivor Ernst Wiechert provides an answer. His philosophy of art proposes a... Read More about Ernst Wiechert's poet's faith and art philosophy.

On oscillations in the external electrical potential of sea urchins (2025)
Journal Article

Sea urchins display complex bioelectric activity patterns, even with their decentralized nervous system. Electrophysiological recordings showed distinct spiking patterns. The baseline potential was about 8.80 mV. It had transient spikes with amplitud... Read More about On oscillations in the external electrical potential of sea urchins.

Chondroitin sulfate and proteinoids in neuron models (2025)
Journal Article

This study examines the relationship between chondroitin sulfate, proteinoids, and computational neuron models, with a specific emphasis on the Izhikevich neuron model. We investigate the effect of chondroitin sulfate-proteinoid complexes on the beha... Read More about Chondroitin sulfate and proteinoids in neuron models.

Cleft lip and palate research in the United Kingdom: Advances in clinical psychological knowledge and future directions (2025)
Journal Article

In 2012, the James Lind Alliance (JLA) worked with individuals with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P), their families and clinicians to identify priority areas for future research. This article reviews progress conducted in [country] in the three JLA pr... Read More about Cleft lip and palate research in the United Kingdom: Advances in clinical psychological knowledge and future directions.

Domain-specific implications of error-type metrics in risk-based software fault prediction (2025)
Journal Article

Context: In software development, Software Fault Prediction (SFP) is essential for optimising resource allocation and improving testing efficiency. Traditional SFP methods typically use binary-class models, which can provide a limited perspective on... Read More about Domain-specific implications of error-type metrics in risk-based software fault prediction.

Exploring the Aventine: An autoethnography on making sense of immersive daydreaming in the context of developmental trauma (2025)
Thesis

Immersive daydreaming is fantasy activity that is vivid, intricate and highly absorptive. Akin to an ongoing ‘movie-in-the-mind’, it often has the quality of feeling real and can continue over a period of months or years. The term ‘maladaptive’ daydr... Read More about Exploring the Aventine: An autoethnography on making sense of immersive daydreaming in the context of developmental trauma.

Engineering living materials: Development of functional hybrid living materials with advanced capabilities (2025)
Thesis

The field of materials is constantly evolving. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the development of advanced materials that upon exposure to environmental, chemical, mechanical and electrical stimulation, they exhibit capabilities such a... Read More about Engineering living materials: Development of functional hybrid living materials with advanced capabilities.

Sexual health, pleasure, justice, and well-being in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: A scoping review protocol (2025)
Journal Article

Introduction
Sexual health, pleasure, justice (equity in sexual rights and experiences), and well-being are crucial determinants of health and life quality, yet often overlooked in the rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) field. However, thi... Read More about Sexual health, pleasure, justice, and well-being in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: A scoping review protocol.

Hypoxia compromises the differentiation of human osteosarcoma cells to CAR-R, a hydroxylated derivative of lithocholic acid and potent agonist of the vitamin D receptor (2025)
Journal Article

The active metabolite of vitamin D3, calcitriol (1,25D), is widely recognised for its direct anti-proliferative and pro-differentiation effects. However, 1,25D is calcaemic, which restricts its clinical use for cancer treatment. Non-calcaemic agonist... Read More about Hypoxia compromises the differentiation of human osteosarcoma cells to CAR-R, a hydroxylated derivative of lithocholic acid and potent agonist of the vitamin D receptor.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the Production Code (2025)
Journal Article

In this hybrid article, the authors examine Preston Sturges’s ability to outmanoeuvre the Production Code Administration (PCA), specifically in relation to the handling of sex, pregnancy and childbirth in The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek. Our approach i... Read More about The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the Production Code.

“Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940) (2025)
Journal Article

My Favorite Wife (1940) exemplifies the more “sex suggestive” style of screwball comedy in the late 1930s, posing significant problems for the Production Code Administration (PCA). Strategies for handling taboo content onscreen depended on ambiguity,... Read More about “Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940).

Gender under scrutiny – Whose gender? (2025)
Journal Article

This article will argue that there is no war on gender, in the context of the so-called ‘gender wars’. The dominant binary model of gender as male, masculine, heterosexual or female, feminine, heterosexual is not under scrutiny. There is an old and o... Read More about Gender under scrutiny – Whose gender?.