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Transactions costs in rural decision-making: The cases of funding and monitoring in rural development in England (2012)
Journal Article

Public domain decisions in rural England have become more complex as the number of stakeholders having a say in them has increased. Transactions costs can be used to explore this increasing complexity. The size and distribution of these costs are hig... Read More about Transactions costs in rural decision-making: The cases of funding and monitoring in rural development in England.

Expensive and failing? The role of student bursaries in widening participation and fair access in England (2012)
Journal Article

English universities currently spend £355m each year on bursaries to student groups who are under-represented in higher education. However, there is little evidence to suggest that this investment has had any meaningful impact on patterns of student... Read More about Expensive and failing? The role of student bursaries in widening participation and fair access in England.

Think of your art-eries: Arts participation, behavioural cardiovascular risk factors and mental well-being in deprived communities in London (2012)
Journal Article

Objectives: To investigate the association of participation in arts and cultural activities with health behaviours and mental well-being in low-income populations in London. Study design: Cross-sectional, community-based observational study. Methods:... Read More about Think of your art-eries: Arts participation, behavioural cardiovascular risk factors and mental well-being in deprived communities in London.

Modeling the Computing Based Testing domain extending IMS QTI: Framework, models and exemplary implementations (2012)
Journal Article

Using technology to create new types of questions is important, but also exploring new types of test representations or analyzing the most adequate technological device to support a specific assessment activity based on tests. This paper presents a c... Read More about Modeling the Computing Based Testing domain extending IMS QTI: Framework, models and exemplary implementations.

'To Suddenly Have a Name for this Thing... Was Wonderful': The Patient's Experience of Receiving a Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (2012)
Journal Article

Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the patient's perception of receiving a diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) and reports on their experience of the period between onset of symptoms and receiving a definitive diagnosis. M... Read More about 'To Suddenly Have a Name for this Thing... Was Wonderful': The Patient's Experience of Receiving a Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Deconstructing 'barriers' to access: Minority ethnic women and medicalised maternal health services in Vietnam (2012)
Journal Article

Low maternal health service utilisation amongst minority ethnic women in Vietnam is often attributed to 'traditional customs'. Drawing on secondary data and original, qualitative research amongst Hmong and Thai communities, this paper analyses minori... Read More about Deconstructing 'barriers' to access: Minority ethnic women and medicalised maternal health services in Vietnam.