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Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Dyer, S., Hill, J., Walkington, H., Couper, P., McMorran, C., Oates, Y., …West, H. (in press). Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2266999

This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key re... Read More about Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic.

A systematic review on adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in individuals with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease dementia (2023)
Journal Article
Oliver, C., Li, H., Biswas, B., Woodstoke, D., Blackman, J., Butters, A., …Coulthard, E. (2024). A systematic review on adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in individuals with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease dementia. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 73, Article 101869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2023.101869

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is highly prevalent in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). The gold standard treatment for OSA is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Long-term, well-powered efficacy trials are require... Read More about A systematic review on adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in individuals with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease dementia.

Jaw claudication and jaw stiffness in giant cell arteritis: Secondary analysis of a qualitative research dataset (2023)
Journal Article
Lim, J., Dures, E., Bailey, L. F., Almeida, C., Ruediger, C., Hill, C., …MacKie, S. L. (2024). Jaw claudication and jaw stiffness in giant cell arteritis: Secondary analysis of a qualitative research dataset. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 8(1), Article rkad082. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkad082

Objective: Jaw symptoms can be a vital clue to the diagnosis of GCA. Guidelines recommend more intensive treatment if jaw claudication is present. We sought to explore how patients with GCA described their jaw symptoms. Methods: We carried out a seco... Read More about Jaw claudication and jaw stiffness in giant cell arteritis: Secondary analysis of a qualitative research dataset.

Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions (2023)
Journal Article
Johnston, C., & Nolty, T. (2023). Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions. Youth, 3(4), 1183-1193. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth3040075

In the context of rising interest in Alternative Provisions (APs) amongst policymakers and researchers in England, this article examines social capital and accountability in this ‘new’ field of enquiry. APs stress the value of supportive relationship... Read More about Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions.

Social connectedness in a locked-down world: A phenomenological study of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Beardmore, A., Beynon, P., Crabbe, C., Fullforth, J., Groome, J., & Jones, M. (2023). Social connectedness in a locked-down world: A phenomenological study of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Ageing and Longevity, 3(4), 465-482. https://doi.org/10.3390/jal3040020

Background: Whilst qualitative research has previously been conducted on older people’s personal resilience and wellbeing during COVID-19, there are fewer empirical studies on the impact it had on social connectedness for this age group. In this pape... Read More about Social connectedness in a locked-down world: A phenomenological study of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Engaging Nepali journalists in good road safety reporting: Evaluation of the impact of training workshops (2023)
Journal Article
Pant, P. R., Dahal, S., Joshi, S. K., & Mytton, J. (2023). Engaging Nepali journalists in good road safety reporting: Evaluation of the impact of training workshops. SAGE Open, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231204161

Most road traffic crash reports published in Nepali media provide little information about their causes, impacts, or preventability. Three workshops involving 31 journalists from diverse media platforms were held using published World Health Organisa... Read More about Engaging Nepali journalists in good road safety reporting: Evaluation of the impact of training workshops.

A review of the performance of CHIRPS and future research directions in hydro-climatic studies (2023)
Journal Article
Du, H., Tan, M. L., Zhang, F., Chun, K., Li, L., & Humayun Kabir, M. (in press). A review of the performance of CHIRPS and future research directions in hydro-climatic studies. Theoretical and Applied Climatology,

Long-term gridded precipitation products (GPPs) are crucial for climatology and hydrological research to overcome the limitations of gauge observations. Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) provides long-term daily... Read More about A review of the performance of CHIRPS and future research directions in hydro-climatic studies.

Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: Dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings (2023)
Journal Article
Yusuff, K., Whittle, A., & Mueller, F. (in press). Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: Dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-11-2022-6165

Purpose: Existing literature has begun to identify the agonistic and contested aspects of the ongoing development of accountability systems. These “contests” are particularly important during periods of change when an accountability “deficit” has bee... Read More about Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: Dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings.

Developing a complex intervention to reduce subsequent healthcare use for patients presenting to UK emergency departments with acute headache (2023)
Thesis
Roberts, T. Developing a complex intervention to reduce subsequent healthcare use for patients presenting to UK emergency departments with acute headache. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10888287

Understanding the factors that drive subsequent healthcare resource use in patients who have presented to UK Emergency Departments (EDs) with acute headache, has potential patient and health system benefits. It is important that clinicians provide th... Read More about Developing a complex intervention to reduce subsequent healthcare use for patients presenting to UK emergency departments with acute headache.

“None of us are islands”: A thematic analysis of navigating emotional engagement with climate change through social relationships (2023)
Thesis
Souissi, S. “None of us are islands”: A thematic analysis of navigating emotional engagement with climate change through social relationships. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10708694

Background: Much existing research attempting to explain (in)action in the face of climate change constructs a false separation between individuals and society. A relational perspective is comparatively absent in existing research. Aims: This quali... Read More about “None of us are islands”: A thematic analysis of navigating emotional engagement with climate change through social relationships.

Cognitive emotion regulation: Exploring the non-stress mediated relationship between mindfulness and physical health (2023)
Thesis
Lennon, P. Cognitive emotion regulation: Exploring the non-stress mediated relationship between mindfulness and physical health. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9322888

Mindfulness, the practice of bringing one’s attention to the present moment with open curiosity, has gained much attention over the past couple of decades for its measurable impact on psychological and physical health. There have been many studies th... Read More about Cognitive emotion regulation: Exploring the non-stress mediated relationship between mindfulness and physical health.

Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Akyelken, N., Beyazit, E., Kayaoğlu, A., Yıldırım, Ş. N., & Tanyeri, F. N. (2023). Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic. Habitat International, 141, Article 102903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102903

This paper explores the everyday mobilities of low-income populations during the Covid-19 pandemic through a mixed-methods study in İstanbul. It shows how additional economic burdens brought by the Covid-19 pandemic interplay with low-income resident... Read More about Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The value of twinned pollinator-pollen metabarcoding: Bumblebee pollination service is weakly partitioned within a UK grassland community (2023)
Journal Article
Ronca, S., Ford, C. S., Allanguillame, J., Szabo, C., Kipling, R., & Wilkinson, M. J. (2023). The value of twinned pollinator-pollen metabarcoding: Bumblebee pollination service is weakly partitioned within a UK grassland community. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 18016. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44822-z

Predicting ecological impact of declining bumblebee (Bombus) populations requires better understanding of interactions between pollinator partitioning of floral resources and plant partitioning of pollinator resources. Here, we combine Cytochrome Oxi... Read More about The value of twinned pollinator-pollen metabarcoding: Bumblebee pollination service is weakly partitioned within a UK grassland community.

What will make misinformation spread: An XAI perspective (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Bo, H., Wu, Y., You, Z., McConville, R., Hong, J., & Liu, W. (2023). What will make misinformation spread: An XAI perspective. In L. Longo (Ed.), Explainable Artificial Intelligence (321-337). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44067-0_17

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques can provide explanations of how AI systems or models make decisions, or what factors AI considers when making the decisions. Online social networks have a problem with misinformation which is known... Read More about What will make misinformation spread: An XAI perspective.

Neural network-enhanced fault diagnosis of robot joints (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., & Zhu, Q. (2023). Neural network-enhanced fault diagnosis of robot joints. Algorithms, 16(10), Article 489. https://doi.org/10.3390/a16100489

Industrial robots play an indispensable role in flexible production lines, and the faults caused by degradation of equipment, motors, mechanical system joints, and even task diversity affect the efficiency of production lines and product quality. Aim... Read More about Neural network-enhanced fault diagnosis of robot joints.

An automated machine learning approach for classifying infrastructure cost data (2023)
Journal Article
Dopazo, D. A., Mahdjoubi, L., Gething, B., & Mahamadu, A. (2024). An automated machine learning approach for classifying infrastructure cost data. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 39(7), 1061-1076. https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13114

Data on infrastructure project costs are often unstructured and lack consistency. To enable costs to be compared within and between organizations, large amounts of data must be classified to a common standard, typically a manual process. This is time... Read More about An automated machine learning approach for classifying infrastructure cost data.

The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Johnston, C. (2023, October). The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline. Paper presented at Westminster Insights: Tackling School Exclusions Conference, London

Both school exclusion, poverty and disability are prospective markers for increased risk of subsequent contact with criminal justice system in general and justice-involved samples. However, relationships between school exclusion and these factors hav... Read More about The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline.

Understanding factors influencing the implementation of medicine risk communications by healthcare professionals in clinical practice: A systematic review using the Theoretical Domains Framework (2023)
Journal Article
Alharbi, A. B., Berrou, I., Umaru, N., Al Hamid, A., & Shebl, N. A. (2024). Understanding factors influencing the implementation of medicine risk communications by healthcare professionals in clinical practice: A systematic review using the Theoretical Domains Framework. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 20(2), 86-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2023.10.004

Background: Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are known to cause hospitalisation, longer hospital stays, as well as higher healthcare costs and mortality. Unrecognised ADRs are anticipated throughout the medicine lifecycle as, before the medicine reaches... Read More about Understanding factors influencing the implementation of medicine risk communications by healthcare professionals in clinical practice: A systematic review using the Theoretical Domains Framework.

Written evidence: Home affairs committee’s fraud inquiry (2023)
Report
Ryder, N., & Bourton, S. (2023). Written evidence: Home affairs committee’s fraud inquiry. Home Affairs Committee

This inquiry sought evidence on the prevalence of fraud, the reporting, investigation and prosecution of fraud, and the Government's response to fraud. This submission provides an analysis of the law relating to the reporting of fraud and the exchang... Read More about Written evidence: Home affairs committee’s fraud inquiry.