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Using an ecosystem services lens to explore a broader funding base for laneways (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Lamond, J., Everard, M., & Everett, G. (2020). Using an ecosystem services lens to explore a broader funding base for laneways. In Urban Water Systems & Floods III (155-165). https://doi.org/10.2495/friar200141

Greening small urban street spaces such as alleys and laneways is increasingly popular with city authorities. Motivation for starting these projects varies and this may hold implications in terms of the responsible function and department overseeing... Read More about Using an ecosystem services lens to explore a broader funding base for laneways.

Body dissatisfaction predicts the onset of depression among adolescent females and males: A prospective study (2020)
Journal Article
Bornioli, A., Lewis-Smith, H., Slater, A., & Bray, I. (2021). Body dissatisfaction predicts the onset of depression among adolescent females and males: A prospective study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75(4), 343-348. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-213033

Rationale: Body dissatisfaction is prevalent in mid-adolescence and may be associated with the onset of depression. Objective: The study assessed the influence of body dissatisfaction on the occurrence of later depressive episodes in a population-bas... Read More about Body dissatisfaction predicts the onset of depression among adolescent females and males: A prospective study.

Panel discussion: Inclusivity in Academia (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Adukwu, E. (2020, December). Panel discussion: Inclusivity in Academia. Presented at Research Staff Conference 2020, University of Liverpool

Investigating the feasibility of using wearable technologies and machine learning techniques to recognise distress and agitation in people living with dementia (2020)
Journal Article
Steer, Z., Pipe, A., Battle, S., & Cheston, R. (2020). Investigating the feasibility of using wearable technologies and machine learning techniques to recognise distress and agitation in people living with dementia. Alzheimer's and Dementia, 16(S7), Article e039705. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.039705

Bootstrapping artificial evolution to design robots for autonomous fabrication (2020)
Journal Article
Buchanan, E., Le Goff, L. K., Li, W., Hart, E., Eiben, A. E., De Carlo, M., …Tyrrell, A. M. (2020). Bootstrapping artificial evolution to design robots for autonomous fabrication. Robotics, 9(4), Article 106. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics9040106

A long-term vision of evolutionary robotics is a technology enabling the evolution of entire autonomous robotic ecosystems that live and work for long periods in challenging and dynamic environments without the need for direct human oversight. Evolut... Read More about Bootstrapping artificial evolution to design robots for autonomous fabrication.

Assessing bird collisions in the United Kingdom: Modelling frequency of bird-strike from road and rail mortality using a Bayesian hierarchical approach (2020)
Report
Freire, S., Read, L., & Lewis, T. R. (2020). Assessing bird collisions in the United Kingdom: Modelling frequency of bird-strike from road and rail mortality using a Bayesian hierarchical approach. Kingston Maurward College

Roads are an important way to transport people and goods, but they sometimes have negative impacts on wildlife. One of the leading causes of mortality for several species is identified as road strikes, and the most significant remains bird-vehicle co... Read More about Assessing bird collisions in the United Kingdom: Modelling frequency of bird-strike from road and rail mortality using a Bayesian hierarchical approach.

New pedagogical models (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Evans, M. (2020, December). New pedagogical models. Paper presented at Association of Journalism Education Annual Conference, Online

The research examines a model of situated learning adopted by one UK university in teaching journalism through practice by looking at perceptions of students. Through analysing data collected in focus groups and interviews with students it will eva... Read More about New pedagogical models.

Social media, body satisfaction and well-being among adolescents: A mediation model of appearance-ideal internalization and comparison (2020)
Journal Article
Jarman, H. K., Marques, M. D., McLean, S. A., Slater, A., & Paxton, S. J. (2021). Social media, body satisfaction and well-being among adolescents: A mediation model of appearance-ideal internalization and comparison. Body Image, 36, 139-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.11.005

Despite adolescents’ prolific use of social media, relationships between social media and body satisfaction and well-being are not yet well understood, especially among boys. This study tested a sociocultural model of body image within the context of... Read More about Social media, body satisfaction and well-being among adolescents: A mediation model of appearance-ideal internalization and comparison.

Challenges and reflections from a multi-centre trial of a psycho-oncology intervention to support shared decision-making in breast reconstruction (2020)
Journal Article
Tollow, P., Paraskeva, N., Clarke, A., White, P., Powell, J., Cox, D., & Harcourt, D. (2021). Challenges and reflections from a multi-centre trial of a psycho-oncology intervention to support shared decision-making in breast reconstruction. European Journal of Cancer Care, 30(2), Article e13384. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13384

IoT for predictive assets monitoring and maintenance: An implementation strategy for the UK rail industry (2020)
Journal Article
Gbadamosi, A., Oyedele, L., Davila Delgado, J. M., Kusimo, H., Akanbi, L., Olawale, O., & Muhammed-Yakubu, N. (2021). IoT for predictive assets monitoring and maintenance: An implementation strategy for the UK rail industry. Automation in Construction, 122, Article 103486

With about 100% increase in rail service usage over the last 20 years, it is pertinent that rail infrastructure continues to function at an optimal level to avoid service disruptions, cancellations or delays due to unforeseen asset breakdown. In an e... Read More about IoT for predictive assets monitoring and maintenance: An implementation strategy for the UK rail industry.

Impact of home food production on nutritional blindness, stunting, wasting, underweight and mortality in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials (2020)
Journal Article
Bassey, C., Crooks, H., Paterson, K., Ball, R., Howell, K., Humphries-Cuff, I., …Lee Hooper, J. A. &. (2022). Impact of home food production on nutritional blindness, stunting, wasting, underweight and mortality in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 62(7), 1856-1869. https://doi.org/10.1080/10408398.2020.1848786

Vitamin A deficiency is highly prevalent and remains the major cause of nutritional blindness in children in low-and middle-income countries, despite supplementation programmes. Xeropthalmia (severe drying and thickening of the conjunctiva) is caused... Read More about Impact of home food production on nutritional blindness, stunting, wasting, underweight and mortality in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials.

How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt (2020)
Journal Article
Gohar, A., & Kondolf, G. (2020). How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt. Sustainability, 12(23), 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122310139

Eco-tourism is a growing part of the tourism industry. However, there are no agreed-upon criteria of what constitutes eco-tourism, so the industry is currently self-identified, with eco-lodges simply declaring themselves so. Here we present the first... Read More about How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt.

Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Boons, S. (2020, December). Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds. Presented at Art of Research 2020, Aalto, Finland

The aim of the presentation is to explore and question the definitions assigned to materials and their promotion as natural’ and ‘real’. When it comes to identifying materials, how many processes applied to the material can be justified for it to be... Read More about Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds.

In search of territorial cohesion: An elusive and imagined notion (2020)
Journal Article
Atkinson, R., & Pacchi, C. (2020). In search of territorial cohesion: An elusive and imagined notion. Social Inclusion, 8(4), 265-276. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i4.3377

Territorial cohesion has figured in the lexicon of the European Union for some years. However, there has never been a clear definition of the notion, not even after its inclusion in the Lisbon Treaty. Moreover, within the European Union Cohesion Repo... Read More about In search of territorial cohesion: An elusive and imagined notion.

A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership (2020)
Journal Article
Marco, E. (2020). A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership. Buildings & Cities,

The B&C special issue EDUCATION & TRAINING: MAINSTREAMING ZERO CARBON raised three challenges: How can education and training be rapidly changed to ensure the creation of zero-carbon built environments? How can this transition be implemented success... Read More about A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership.

Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion (2020)
Journal Article
Jørgensen, A., Fallov, M. A., Casado-Diaz, M., & Atkinson, R. (2020). Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion. Social Inclusion, 8(4), 229-241. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i4.3364

This article is a comparative study of the contextual conditions for collective efficacy and territorial governance of social cohesion in two different rural localities: West Dorset in England and Lemvig in Denmark. The objective is to understand the... Read More about Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion.

ShearTouch - Towards a wearable tactile feedback device to provide continuous shear force sensation in real time (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Wells, O., Pipe, T., Dogramadzi, S., & Studley, M. (2020). ShearTouch - Towards a wearable tactile feedback device to provide continuous shear force sensation in real time. In Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (287-298). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63486-5_30

Force feedback in current teleoperation systems typically only provides haptic/kinaesthetic feedback to operators in the form of normal forces. However, it is proposed in this paper that the introduction of shear (or lateral) force feedback to operat... Read More about ShearTouch - Towards a wearable tactile feedback device to provide continuous shear force sensation in real time.

One-shot 3D printed underactuated gripper (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Cormack, J., Fotouhi, M., Adams, G., & Pipe, A. (2020). One-shot 3D printed underactuated gripper. In A. Mohammad, X. Dong, & M. Russo (Eds.), Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (400-404). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63486-5_41

Underactuated gripping mechanisms allow a wide range of objects to be grasped, with relatively simple control and input. Current 3D printed underactuated grippers are often composed of multiple parts that need assembly before use. Consolidating many... Read More about One-shot 3D printed underactuated gripper.

COVID-19 opens a new political window (2020)
Journal Article
Hambleton, R. (2020). COVID-19 opens a new political window. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, 89(11/12), 366-370

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense suffering and misery. However, at the same time, it has created new possibilities for rethinking the kind of society that we want to create in the future. This article adopts an international perspective and... Read More about COVID-19 opens a new political window.

Can practitioners adopt a mental health equality imagination for recovery? (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Lomax, R. (2020, December). Can practitioners adopt a mental health equality imagination for recovery?. Presented at AWP NHS Trust & British Association of Social Work: Building a Movement for Social Approaches to Mental Health, Online

The lectured explored ways in which social work practitioners might seek to address the social determiants of mental health in their practice. An extension of C. Wright Mill's (1959) Socialogical Imagination to consider health inequalities was discu... Read More about Can practitioners adopt a mental health equality imagination for recovery?.