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Direct on-swab metabolic profiling of vaginal microbiome host interactions during pregnancy and preterm birth (2021)
Journal Article

The pregnancy vaginal microbiome contributes to risk of preterm birth, the primary cause of death in children under 5 years of age. Here we describe direct on-swab metabolic profiling by Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (DESI-MS)... Read More about Direct on-swab metabolic profiling of vaginal microbiome host interactions during pregnancy and preterm birth.

Inhibiting integration and strengthening inequality? The effects of UK policy making on refugees and asylum seekers in Wales (2021)
Journal Article

In 2001, following the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, four towns and cities in Wales became asylum dispersal locations. Whilst immigration and asylum remain matters reserved to the Westminster government, the Welsh Government has devolved responsib... Read More about Inhibiting integration and strengthening inequality? The effects of UK policy making on refugees and asylum seekers in Wales.

Altering facial movements abolishes neural mirroring of facial expressions (2021)
Journal Article

People tend to automatically imitate others’ facial expressions of emotion. That reaction, termed “facial mimicry” has been linked to sensorimotor simulation—a process in which the observer’s brain recreates and mirrors the emotional experience of th... Read More about Altering facial movements abolishes neural mirroring of facial expressions.

Early experience with MR‐guided adaptive radiotherapy using a 1.5 T MR‐Linac: First 6 months of operation using adapt to shape workflow (2021)
Journal Article

Introduction
The magnetic resonance linear accelerator (MRL) offers improved soft tissue visualization to guide daily adaptive radiotherapy treatment. This manuscript aims to report initial experience using a 1.5 T MRL in the first 6 months of opera... Read More about Early experience with MR‐guided adaptive radiotherapy using a 1.5 T MR‐Linac: First 6 months of operation using adapt to shape workflow.

Emerging technologies in emergency situations (Guest editorial) (2021)
Journal Article

The world is witnessing an unprecedented upheaval in global operations and supply chains (Azadegan & Dooley, 2021; Scholten et al., 2020). Increasingly occurring natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic have plunged organisations into a state of e... Read More about Emerging technologies in emergency situations (Guest editorial).

Sustainability solutions – green jobs in engineering and technology (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Net Zero 2030 isn’t going to happen by itself – it will require a lot of work, with lots of amazing engineers to solve a myriad of challenges.
From figuring out how to insulate old houses well, to designing and building new energy distribution grids... Read More about Sustainability solutions – green jobs in engineering and technology.

University responses to the climate emergency (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Determinants of physical activity among adults and older adults from the Somali Community in Bristol, UK (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Backgrounds: Adults and older-adults from BME communities in the UK are less likely than their non-BME counterparts to meet the physical-activity recommendations

Purpose: To investigate the factors associated with physical-activity among adults an... Read More about Determinants of physical activity among adults and older adults from the Somali Community in Bristol, UK.

Inform involve empower - Experiences of citizen engagement from ClairCity and WeCount (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The session titled “Citizen science - tools to achieve a real impact on policy-making” was held on the 12th of October 2021. The panel was attended by more than 60 people and successfully showcased how different approaches in response to the same ch... Read More about Inform involve empower - Experiences of citizen engagement from ClairCity and WeCount.

How riots spread between cities: Introducing the Police pathway (2021)
Journal Article

Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in... Read More about How riots spread between cities: Introducing the Police pathway.

Using a social marketing approach to influence sexual behaviours of Vietnamese adolescents (2021)
Thesis

My motivation to conduct this research began with an article entitled 'The cemetery of 50,000 dead infants' which related how buried baby corpses are collected from the roadside, clinics, or public trash bins. One of the reasons for this problem is t... Read More about Using a social marketing approach to influence sexual behaviours of Vietnamese adolescents.

International conference and foundation fellowship. ‘Optimising care and human connectivity for sustainable development’ (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The risk of risk management: Adopting critical theories to explore clinical risk concerns in mental health care (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to outline several critical risk theories and explore their application to risk concerns in mental health care. This will contribute to the on-going debate about risk management practices and the impact these mig... Read More about The risk of risk management: Adopting critical theories to explore clinical risk concerns in mental health care.

Two-sided institutional impacts and informal entrepreneurship motivation in Nigeria (2021)
Journal Article

Institutions are developed to direct individuals’ behaviours in ways that lead to their fulfilment. However, either by deliberate human design or other factors, institutions can also either impact positively or negatively on individuals with entrepre... Read More about Two-sided institutional impacts and informal entrepreneurship motivation in Nigeria.

The use of 3D printed foundry patterns for aluminum casting with oil bonded sand molds (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presentation outlines early-stage results from research into the use of low-cost 3D printing to create foundry patterns for Aluminum metal casting with oil bonded sand molds. The paper outlines findings and observations in relation to the... Read More about The use of 3D printed foundry patterns for aluminum casting with oil bonded sand molds.

Psychological Assessment (2021)
Book Chapter

Although research relating to the psychology of the cosmetic surgery patient is still in its infancy, there is a consensus amongst researchers that various combinations of psychological factors play a key role in the recent increase in demand for cos... Read More about Psychological Assessment.

Neurocognitive function following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review (2021)
Journal Article

Objectives: The primary aim of this review was to investigate neurocognitive outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Specifically, the focus was on identifying the different neurocognitive domains that are assessed, the measures use... Read More about Neurocognitive function following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review.

Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This themed paper develops the findings of Indicators of Healthy Architecture—a Systematic Literature Review (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00469-z) including consideration of implications for built environment practitioners and how this informs... Read More about Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review.

One and many: Wet-Collodion and Woodburytype (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The invention of photography in the 19 th century changed our perception of reality for ever. Without the interpretation of an artist, an image could be recorded within minutes representing 'unfiltered' reality. Besides the scientific challenge how t... Read More about One and many: Wet-Collodion and Woodburytype.

The arbitration of nature: State, water, and civil engineering in Northern Ireland directly after partition (2021)
Journal Article

Begun in the summer of 1923, the Silent Valley Reservoir was the first large scale civil engineering project after the division between the North and the South of Ireland. It was the continuation of a previous project. In the late Nineteenth Century... Read More about The arbitration of nature: State, water, and civil engineering in Northern Ireland directly after partition.