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A comparative study of prior learning for serving police officers in Canada and England and Wales, UK: Bridging the academic gap (2021)
Journal Article

The professionalisation of the police in Canada, and England and Wales has highlighted a gap in the education levels of new recruits and current serving police officers, motivating many of these officers
to complete a university degree. The prior ex... Read More about A comparative study of prior learning for serving police officers in Canada and England and Wales, UK: Bridging the academic gap.

“Will you still feel beautiful when you find out you are different?” Parents’ experiences, reflections, and appearance-focused conversations about their child’s visible difference (2021)
Journal Article

To investigate parents’ reflections and experiences of having a child born with an appearance-altering condition, interviews with 33 parents of children born with rare craniofacial conditions were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Three the... Read More about “Will you still feel beautiful when you find out you are different?” Parents’ experiences, reflections, and appearance-focused conversations about their child’s visible difference.

Mental health professionals' experiences of provision of health behaviour change interventions to people with schizophrenia: A thematic analysis (2021)
Thesis

Abstract
People living with schizophrenia have disproportionately high rates of comorbidities and significantly reduced life expectancy as compared to the general population. The evidence suggests that the elevated risk of multi-morbidity and premat... Read More about Mental health professionals' experiences of provision of health behaviour change interventions to people with schizophrenia: A thematic analysis.

The organisation of mortgage fraud and the regulation of financial services in England and Wales (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the autumn of 2021, the Partnership for Conflict, Crime & Security Research (PaCCS) was delighted to welcome researchers, policymakers, industry professionals, and members of the third sector to our virtual conference on Serious Organised Crime. T... Read More about The organisation of mortgage fraud and the regulation of financial services in England and Wales.

Patient perceptions of physical activity after a diagnosis of giant cell arteritis: Analysis of multinational qualitative data (2021)
Journal Article

Objective: To explore patient perceptions of physical activity in giant cell arteritis (GCA). Methods: This was a multinational qualitative study, analyzing interview data collected from participants from the UK (n=25) and Australia (n=11) with a def... Read More about Patient perceptions of physical activity after a diagnosis of giant cell arteritis: Analysis of multinational qualitative data.

Ordinal Logistic Regression as an alternative analysis strategy for the comparison of two independent samples (2021)
Journal Article

The two group between subjects design is pervasive with analyses often performed using the Mann Whitney Rank Sum test or using the Welch variant of the t-test. Using simulation it is shown that a dummy variable ordinal logistic regression (OLR) mode... Read More about Ordinal Logistic Regression as an alternative analysis strategy for the comparison of two independent samples.

Views of professional stakeholders on readiness for a safe road system in Nepal; an exploratory qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article

Road traffic injuries in Nepal are increasing despite being largely preventable. Little evidence exists regarding the barriers and facilitators to a safer road system. This study aimed to explore the perspectives of professionals whose jobs had the p... Read More about Views of professional stakeholders on readiness for a safe road system in Nepal; an exploratory qualitative study.

Establishing the informational requirements for modelling open domain dialogue and prototyping a retrieval open domain dialogue system (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Open domain dialogue systems aim to coherently respond to users over long conversations through multiple conversational turns. Modelling open domain dialogue is challenging as both the syntactic and semantic features of language play a role in respon... Read More about Establishing the informational requirements for modelling open domain dialogue and prototyping a retrieval open domain dialogue system.

Brenneria (2021)
Book Chapter

The genus Brenneria was created to accommodate bacteria causing disease on woody hosts. Species cause a range of cankers, wilts and necroses on willow, oak, alder, walnut and are also associated with disease-causing species of Lonsdalea. Cells are Gr... Read More about Brenneria.

Calculation and validation of sector-shaped conductor cable parameters in LV distribution systems (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The exact determination of faults in underground power distribution networks requires accurate cable parameter data. Accuracy depends on how the cable parameters have been derived, which in turn is a function of the core shape. This paper schematical... Read More about Calculation and validation of sector-shaped conductor cable parameters in LV distribution systems.

Supporting preservice teachers to become informed teachers of reading through one-to-one tutoring in an English initial teacher education setting (2021)
Journal Article

Training preservice teachers as teachers of reading is a complex task, as is reading itself. Preservice teachers need to understand the theory that underpins practice; the cognitive skills and knowledge required to read and the contextual factors tha... Read More about Supporting preservice teachers to become informed teachers of reading through one-to-one tutoring in an English initial teacher education setting.