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Improved vocabulary production after naming therapy in aphasia: Can gains in picture naming generalise to connected speech? (2009)
Journal Article

Background: Naming accuracy for nouns and verbs in aphasia can vary across different elicitation contexts, for example, simple picture naming, composite picture description, narratives, and conversation. For some people with aphasia, naming may be mo... Read More about Improved vocabulary production after naming therapy in aphasia: Can gains in picture naming generalise to connected speech?.

The disempowerment of empowerment: How stakeholding clogs up rural decision-making (2009)
Journal Article

In the context of a growth in both participatory democracy and responsible participation, rural decision-making in England has become increasingly complex over the past 30 years, fuelled by national polices relating to regionalism, citizenship and re... Read More about The disempowerment of empowerment: How stakeholding clogs up rural decision-making.

Inside information: researching long-term breastfeeding (2009)
Journal Article

Synthesis of the West Midland Health Technology Assessment Collaboration February 2009 report providing public health information to prevent skin cancer: review of effectiveness and cost effectiveness (incorporating before and after studies). Report prepared for the National Institute of Health & Clinical Excellence, December 2009 (2009)
Report

Social-marketing based sun protection intervention strategy for Cornwall PCT. Report for South West Public Health Observatory (2009)
Report

Facilitating cancer patients’ decision making about breast reconstruction: The feasibility of BRECONDA, an interactive, computer-based intervention (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

South Asian community views about individuals with a disfigurement (2009)
Journal Article

There is a paucity of research exploring the views of
different cultural and ethnic groups about individuals
with a visible difference. This research is a priority
area given that issues of disfigurement, stigma and shame may be particularly bound... Read More about South Asian community views about individuals with a disfigurement.

Implementing information and consultation: developments in medium szed organisations (2009)
Report

Implications of information and consultation: evidence from longitudinal case study (2009)
Report

The making of mundane bus journeys (2009)
Book Chapter

Changing Auntie - a case study in managing and regulating user generated content at the BBC (2009)
Book Chapter

This chapter identifies case studies within the BBC of how the organisation is adapting its content to the user-led environment of the internet.

Inventing rituals, inhabiting places: Ritual and community in public art (2009)
Journal Article

Based on the public art projects for Holy Hiatus 2008, this article explores the possibilities for ritual to be employed creatively in public art practice, and to examine the ways that artists can draw audiences into unexpected and potentially ‘limin... Read More about Inventing rituals, inhabiting places: Ritual and community in public art.

Social marketing-based strategy for sun protection interventions: supplementary document: Quantitative benchmark Cornwall PCT region. Report prepared for South West Public Health Observatory (2009)
Report

Organic growth and shareholder value: A case study of the insurance industry (2009)
Journal Article

This paper examines organic growth and its impact on shareholder value creation. At a conceptual level, organic and external growth are readily defined; yet, at a practical level, decomposing revenue growth into its constituent elements presents meth... Read More about Organic growth and shareholder value: A case study of the insurance industry.

Rediscovering educational purpose in educational evaluation (2009)
Journal Article

This paper argues that evaluation methodology should reflect the character of the field it is proposing to look at. People have the right to be evaluated in their own terms, and evaluation methodologies which are judged for their rigour against abstr... Read More about Rediscovering educational purpose in educational evaluation.

'A woyage o' diskivery': Thomas J. Williams' The Peep-Show Man (1868) and the victorian performative text (2009)
Journal Article

This article focuses upon the variant manuscripts of a play concerning a travelling peep-show man. The evidence reveals that like the hero, the text travels widely and undergoes significant textual changes according to the medium in which it appears.

Learning to work together: Health and social care students' learning from interprofessional modules (2009)
Journal Article

This paper reports on a study of student learning about collaboration and discusses the effectiveness of different forms of assessment in facilitating learning. The study was conducted in a large health and social care faculty in which all students o... Read More about Learning to work together: Health and social care students' learning from interprofessional modules.

Risky business or safety net? Trainee perceptions of personal therapy: A qualitative thematic analysis (2009)
Journal Article

Participation in personal therapy during training is required by British accreditation bodies for counselling psychology as well as by most psychotherapy trainings. By contrast, trainee clinical psychologists are not required to undertake personal th... Read More about Risky business or safety net? Trainee perceptions of personal therapy: A qualitative thematic analysis.

'No matter what I did I would still end up in the same position': Age as a factor defining older women's experience of labour market participation (2009)
Journal Article

This article explores age as a factor defining the labour market experience of older women. Drawing upon work histories it argues that discrimination on the grounds of age is bound up with gender, race and class. Older women described how all three c... Read More about 'No matter what I did I would still end up in the same position': Age as a factor defining older women's experience of labour market participation.

Improving Memory after Interruption: Exploiting Soft Constraints and Manipulating Information Access Cost (2009)
Journal Article

Forgetting what one was doing prior to interruption is an everyday problem. The recent soft constraints hypothesis (Gray, Sims, Fu, & Schoelles, 2006) emphasizes the strategic adaptation of information processing strategy to the task environment. It... Read More about Improving Memory after Interruption: Exploiting Soft Constraints and Manipulating Information Access Cost.