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Portable treatment technologies for urgent care (2011)
Journal Article

Background: In recent years UK government policy has increased the provision of urgent care in the community. As part of this initiative the emergency ambulance service is gradually changing from an organisation designed to convey patients to hospita... Read More about Portable treatment technologies for urgent care.

Trafficking Internet brides (2011)
Journal Article

This article critically examines the world of international marriage agencies who operate on the Internet, selling women for profit to men to buy from one end of the world to the other. It examines the relationship between capitalism and choice with... Read More about Trafficking Internet brides.

Collaborative digital and wide format printing: Methods and considerations for the artist and master printer (2011)
Thesis

This thesis investigates the collaborative production of fine art digital prints for artists,a process which is used by many contemporary practitioners including Richard Hamilton and Damien Hirst. Digital print as a fine art process has emerged over... Read More about Collaborative digital and wide format printing: Methods and considerations for the artist and master printer.

Exploring the ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ worlds: Steps along the scholarly journey (2011)
Book Chapter

Acts of piracy: Black ey'd Susan, theatrical publishing and the Victorian stage (2011)
Book Chapter

This chapter argues that the plethora of nautical dramas that figured pirates in the mid-Victorian era were a result of the complex relationship between theatre practitioners and publishers. The publisher T.H. Lacy in particular was adept at printing... Read More about Acts of piracy: Black ey'd Susan, theatrical publishing and the Victorian stage.

Epidemiology of injuries in primary school aged children (2011)
Thesis

Care pathway records with ontologies: Potential uses in medical research and health care (2011)
Journal Article

This is one of a series of papers arising in part out of the SHARE (Supporting and structuring Healthgrid Activities and Research in Europe) project; in previous work, we have examined the use of integrated care pathways (ICPs), a fine-grained form o... Read More about Care pathway records with ontologies: Potential uses in medical research and health care.

Representation in the appointed state: The case of councillors in the West Midlands Regional Assembly (2011)
Thesis

The rise of indirectly elected institutions, such as the West Midlands Regional Assembly, has democratic implications for notions of accountability, legitimacy and representation. The representative function of these bodies must be explicitly fulfill... Read More about Representation in the appointed state: The case of councillors in the West Midlands Regional Assembly.

Review of ‘Timmermans, H. (2009) Pedestrian Behaviour: Models, data collection and applications. Emerald Group publishing: Bingley. ISBN 9781848557505’ (2011)
Journal Article

Colour coded (2011)
Book

This 300 word publication to be published by the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) is a collection of the best papers from a 4-year European project that has considered colour from the perspective of both the arts and sciences. The notion of art... Read More about Colour coded.

The difficulties of supplying new technologies into highly regulated markets: The case of tissue engineering (2011)
Journal Article

This study provides an insight into the difficulties companies encounter in transposing basic science into commercially viable healthcare technologies, focusing on the issue of establishing a dominant supply model within a highly regulated market. Th... Read More about The difficulties of supplying new technologies into highly regulated markets: The case of tissue engineering.

Assessment of cosmesis after breast reconstruction surgery: A systematic review (2011)
Journal Article

Background. Breast reconstruction (BR) is undertaken to improve cosmetic outcomes, but how this is optimally assessed is uncertain. This review summarises current methods for assessing cosmesis after reconstructive surgery and makes recommendations f... Read More about Assessment of cosmesis after breast reconstruction surgery: A systematic review.

Convenient credit and consumer protection - a critical review of the responses of labour and coalition governments (2011)
Journal Article

This article highlights how the overreliance on access to 'convenient credit' in the United Kingdom has illustrated the inherent low levels of consumer protection afforded to consumers by the Consumer Credit Act. Furthermore, this has also been fuell... Read More about Convenient credit and consumer protection - a critical review of the responses of labour and coalition governments.

Finanical Crime in the 21st century: Principles and policies (2011)
Book

Training in hospitals: What do GP specialist trainees think of workplace-based assessments? (2011)
Journal Article

Background Workplace-based assessment (WBPA) was introduced in 2007 as a new approach to monitoring competence of GP Specialist Trainees (GP STs). It includes a raft of assessments carried out in the workplace to assess what a trainee actually does... Read More about Training in hospitals: What do GP specialist trainees think of workplace-based assessments?.

Place narratives and heritage management: The modernist legacy in Manchester (2011)
Journal Article

The built heritage of most cities is heterogeneous, hybrid and multiple. However, certain heritage objects and meanings are invariably privileged over others in place-making strategies. In this paper we are interested in the production of local herit... Read More about Place narratives and heritage management: The modernist legacy in Manchester.

Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market? the case of business and management graduates (2011)
Journal Article

Two dominant rationales are offered by UK policymakers for the continued expansion of higher education: to service the high-skill labour requirements of a knowledge economy, and to increase educational and employment opportunities for under-represent... Read More about Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market? the case of business and management graduates.

Using art installations as action research to engage children and communities in evaluating and redesigning city centre spaces (2011)
Journal Article

This paper discusses learning from a project that set out to explore how the general public perceived the value of public art in the context of urban regeneration of a city centre space. Whilst not set up explicitly as an action research project, the... Read More about Using art installations as action research to engage children and communities in evaluating and redesigning city centre spaces.

Anticipating ubiquitous computing: Logics to forecast technological futures (2011)
Journal Article

Visions of the future predict spaces apparently teaming with ever more novel and pervasive technologies. Significant amongst such forecasts is the notion of 'ubiquitous computing' (ubicomp), understood as an affordance or capacity tied (in)to people,... Read More about Anticipating ubiquitous computing: Logics to forecast technological futures.

Planning cycling networks: Human factors and design processes (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Developing a network for cycle traffic is a complex process, particularly in a dense and heavily motor trafficked city such as London. The London Cycle Network Plus has delivered cycle routes on strategic highways, and local cycling stakeholders have... Read More about Planning cycling networks: Human factors and design processes.