This is a report on the RE-AIM evaluation of a healthy weight extended brief intervention (EBI), a pilot project developed by Bristol City Council, North Somerset Council, and South Gloucestershire Council, with Sirona care and health, which ran from... Read More about School Health Assistant delivery of an extended brief intervention for parents and carers of verweight children aged 4-5 years: Evaluation report.
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Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning ‘stick’ for tutees and tutors? (2024)
Journal Article
Teaching reading is a key element of initial teacher education programmes in England. This study contributes to the research about the most effective way to ensure preservice teachers have the necessary skills and knowledge to teach reading. One-to-o... Read More about Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning ‘stick’ for tutees and tutors?.
Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style (2024)
Book Chapter
This chapter considers Cusk’s style across her most recent fiction and non-fiction, examining it as a site of discrepant tensions, torn between silence and expression, passivity and participation, objectivity and subjectivity, or as Cusk puts it, wit... Read More about Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style.
Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter
Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experime... Read More about Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction.
Talking men's health: Understanding and supporting men with long-term conditions (2024)
Book
This book explores male health psychology in relation to chronic health conditions. Using data from men with rheumatic diseases as a starting point, this book draws on the wider literature to focus on how men talk about different aspects of living wi... Read More about Talking men's health: Understanding and supporting men with long-term conditions.
Exploring Black women’s experiences in UK psychotherapeutic training and practice (2024)
Thesis
Discussions around racial disparities and social injustice have gained increasing prominence in Western societies. However, psychotherapeutic research is increasingly criticised for its omission of Black women’s intersecting experiences, this include... Read More about Exploring Black women’s experiences in UK psychotherapeutic training and practice.
Investigating a deep learning approach to real-time air quality prediction and visualisation on UK highways (2024)
Thesis
The construction of intercity highways by the United Kingdom (UK) government has resulted in a progressive increase in vehicle emissions and pollution from noise, dust, and vibrations amid growing concerns about air pollution. Existing roadside pollu... Read More about Investigating a deep learning approach to real-time air quality prediction and visualisation on UK highways.
Staking is a cold metal joining process widely used in the manufacture of self-lubricating spherical plain aerospace bearings. These are used to form components such as tie-rod links or threaded rod ends as often seen on control surfaces for rotary w... Read More about Characterising the amplitude and mechanisms responsible for the pushout load and torque for a staked self-lubricating spherical plain bearing.
Determination of a pilot sample size to determine the sample size of a substantive trial (2024)
Thesis
This research intends to determine the appropriate sample sizes for two-arm pilot studies to help correctly determine the required sample size for the corresponding substantive or definitive trial. Previous research in the area has been reviewed. R p... Read More about Determination of a pilot sample size to determine the sample size of a substantive trial.
From mandate to co-create: Leading the development of inclusive performance evaluation criteria (2024)
Journal Article
Purpose
Annual performance evaluations of faculty are a routine, yet essential, task in higher education. Creating (or revising) performance criteria presents an opportunity for leaders to work with their teams to co-create evaluation metrics that b... Read More about From mandate to co-create: Leading the development of inclusive performance evaluation criteria.
Exploring discrete space-time models for information transfer: Analogies from mycelial networks to the cosmic web (2024)
Journal Article
Fungal mycelium networks are large scale biological networks along which nutrients, metabolites flow. Recently, we discovered a rich spectrum of electrical activity in mycelium networks, including action-potential spikes and trains of spikes. Reasoni... Read More about Exploring discrete space-time models for information transfer: Analogies from mycelial networks to the cosmic web.
Development and demonstration of a “SWOT in a Box” card game to help socialise Triple Access Planning (2024)
Journal Article
In a changing world, not being able to simply carry on doing what we have always done and getting what we have always got gives rise to an appetite for alternative approaches. Yet an alternative approach must contend with established practice and the... Read More about Development and demonstration of a “SWOT in a Box” card game to help socialise Triple Access Planning.
The impact of the initial teacher education reaccreditation process on teacher educator identity (2024)
Journal Article
This article reports initial findings from a research project that focused on the impact of the reaccreditation process and its outcomes on teacher educators in four institutions in England where Qualified Teacher Status accreditation was removed, de... Read More about The impact of the initial teacher education reaccreditation process on teacher educator identity.
Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study (2024)
Journal Article
Background: Reducing anxiety and depression of adolescents is a global health priority. Personal and social resources (e.g., hobbies, socializing) may reduce distress. Yet, there is insufficient understanding of how adolescents use such resources to... Read More about Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study.
Connectedness and inequitable access to formal financing in Uzbekistan (2024)
Book Chapter
The belief that a centrally planned system results in wastefulness whilst a market-based system yields an efficient allocation of resources was central to post-Communist economies’ decisions to transform from a centrally planned to a market-based sys... Read More about Connectedness and inequitable access to formal financing in Uzbekistan.
Review – Through the Darkest of Times (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
This emotive and thought-provoking videogame successfully recognises the complexities and significance of lesser-known efforts to resist the Nazi regime within Germany.
Scripting mortgage fraud for the motion picture: “Fraud and its interrelationship with the financial services sector in the UK” (2024)
Journal Article
This article examines how mortgage fraud is organised in the United Kingdom, what the crime-commissioning processes are for its occurrence and what exogenous conditions and influences support its existence and its capacity to reproduce. The article a... Read More about Scripting mortgage fraud for the motion picture: “Fraud and its interrelationship with the financial services sector in the UK”.
Seismic vulnerability assessment of pre-1945 unreinforced masonry buildings located in Queensland, Australia, using an index-based approach (2024)
Journal Article
The Australian state of Queensland (QLD) is home to numerous unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings constructed more than 120 years ago. Many of these masonry structures hold heritage value and are significant cultural assets, leading to their inclusio... Read More about Seismic vulnerability assessment of pre-1945 unreinforced masonry buildings located in Queensland, Australia, using an index-based approach.
‘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 (2024)
Journal Article
Background: Studies indicate that complex postsurgical wound healing can significantly alter biopsychological markers responsible for recovery. Yet, there is a lack of research investigating women's experience of living with slow-to-heal Caesarean bi... 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.
Academic anomie: Implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education (2024)
Journal Article
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has ignited a near universal rethink of what is tolerable or desirable in work settings. In higher education – where discontent has been exacerbated by the pandemic – the potential for a 'great resignation' is... Read More about Academic anomie: Implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education.