All Outputs (40574)

Five corners of reggae music, and the house where Rastafari lived (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation began with a personal exploration of what reggae music means to me, from the perspective of five areas of life - Cultural/ Educational, Spiritual, Political, Entrepreneurial/ Resourcefulness, and Social. It then goes on to discuss... Read More about Five corners of reggae music, and the house where Rastafari lived.

Thermoelectric cooling in downhole measuring tools (2017)
Book Chapter

Thermoelectric cooling is a highly effective and a novel technique used for cooling solid state circuitry inside downhole measuring equipment. A Peltier device in a deep well measuring tool works as a heat pump. The understanding of the thermal behav... Read More about Thermoelectric cooling in downhole measuring tools.

Assessing the ecological impact of banana farms on water quality using aquatic macroinvertebrate community composition (2017)
Journal Article

In Costa Rica, considerable effort goes to conservation and protection of biodiversity, while at the same time agricultural pesticide use is among the highest in the world. Several protected areas, some being wetlands or marine reserves, are situated... Read More about Assessing the ecological impact of banana farms on water quality using aquatic macroinvertebrate community composition.

Parenting and the adjustment of children born to gay fathers through surrogacy (2017)
Journal Article

Findings are presented on a study of 40 gay father families created through surrogacy and a comparison group of 55 lesbian mother families created through donor insemination with a child aged 3–9 years. Standardized interview, observational and quest... Read More about Parenting and the adjustment of children born to gay fathers through surrogacy.

Community psychology: A bridge for psychotherapy and social justice (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Community psychology is a recently re-invigorated branch of applied psychology that challenges psychology’s heretofore claims to political neutrality. Community psychologists work in diverse settings and are sensitised by a social justice agenda that... Read More about Community psychology: A bridge for psychotherapy and social justice.

Making enhanced pin-up symposium (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

On Saturday 21st January 2017, we at Making Enhanced hosted round table discussions at the Royal College of Art to inform the future of the collective. Building on the work in progress show from Collect Open 2015 (Saatchi Gallery), the four collabora... Read More about Making enhanced pin-up symposium.

The Way of Things (2017)
Other

This work turned into a commentary on human nature. Part of the brief was to write a piece of music somehow linked to Reading, Berkshire, and I quickly researched the history of the town. Being a lover of the narrative form, I cherry-picked episodes... Read More about The Way of Things.

Child sexual abuse in organisations and institutions and the critical importance of prevention (2017)
Digital Artefact

A discussion of the recent FA child abuse scandal.

Exploring pupils' perspectives on their interactions with peers and Teaching Assistants: A mixed methods study of Key Stage 1 pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs in mainstream schooling (2017)
Thesis

This project investigates the peer interactions and school experiences of pupils with SEN in receipt of high levels of support from Teaching Assistants. Data from systematic observations, followed by one-to-one interviews with primary school pupils,... Read More about Exploring pupils' perspectives on their interactions with peers and Teaching Assistants: A mixed methods study of Key Stage 1 pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs in mainstream schooling.

Potential for environmental change at community level to prevent child unintentional injuries in the home: A qualitative study (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background
Unintentional injury in the home is an important cause of death and disability among young children in Nepal. Reducing home injury hazards by changing the home environment has the potential to prevent home injuries. The aim of this study... Read More about Potential for environmental change at community level to prevent child unintentional injuries in the home: A qualitative study.

Gelatin as a promising printable feedstock for microbial fuel cells (MFC) (2017)
Journal Article

© 2016 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is an energy transducer that can directly produce electricity from bacterial oxidation of organic matter. MFCs consist of two reaction chambers (anode and cathode) separated by a s... Read More about Gelatin as a promising printable feedstock for microbial fuel cells (MFC).

From imitation to innovation: The discursive processes of knowledge creation in the Chinese space industry (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The quantum jump from ballistic missiles to space docking in recent decades symbolizes China's new product innovation potential in technologically complex industries. Drawing on theories of knowledge creation and discourse, we ex... Read More about From imitation to innovation: The discursive processes of knowledge creation in the Chinese space industry.

Micro-cultural preferences and macro-percolation of new ideas: A NetLogo simulation (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This paper provides an extension of the Schelling agent-based model (ABM) of segregation which is augmented here with a mechanism for the percolation of new ideas. The main objective of the paper is t... Read More about Micro-cultural preferences and macro-percolation of new ideas: A NetLogo simulation.

Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze (2017)
Journal Article

© 2016 This paper reflects on business travel as a contemporary form of mobility and how it relates to family life. Through qualitative research with business travellers, insights are gained into the role digital technology plays in enabling connecti... Read More about Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze.

Robust and stepwise optimization design for CO2 pipeline transportation (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Carbon capture, utilization, storage (CCUS) technology is an effective means to reduce the CO2 emissions. It has been noted that engineering and economic design of the pipeline transportation are important components for CCUS. How... Read More about Robust and stepwise optimization design for CO2 pipeline transportation.

Permissions snapshots: Assessing users' adaptation to the Android runtime permission model (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 IEEE. The Android operating system changed its security-and privacy-related permission model recently, offering its users the ability to control resources that applications are allowed to access on their devices. This major change to the tradi... Read More about Permissions snapshots: Assessing users' adaptation to the Android runtime permission model.

'One screening away from disaster': Precarity and commitment in the Radical Film Network’s community exhibition sector (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter will build on the conference paper presented at the ‘Community Filmmaking’ conference in January 2014, which discussed the Bristol Radical Film Festival in the context of community filmmaking and the emergent project to develop what was... Read More about 'One screening away from disaster': Precarity and commitment in the Radical Film Network’s community exhibition sector.

An evaluation of the Florence Nightingale Foundation scholarships (2017)
Journal Article

The Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) is a charity that awards scholarships in leadership, travel and research to nurses, midwives and other healthcare professionals to promote excellence in practice. The FNF offers mentoring support to scholars,... Read More about An evaluation of the Florence Nightingale Foundation scholarships.

Identification of infrastructure related risk factors. Deliverable 5.1 of the H2020 project SafetyCube (2017)
Report

This deliverable reports on the work in Task 5.1. This addresses one of the main objectives of WP5 by contributing towards the creation of an inventory of estimates of risk factors and safety effects for road infrastructure. The current report focuse... Read More about Identification of infrastructure related risk factors. Deliverable 5.1 of the H2020 project SafetyCube.

Attitudes towards fever amongst UK paediatric intensive care staff (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The role played by fever in the outcome of critical illness in children is unclear. This survey of medical and nursing staff in 35 paediatric intensive care units and transport teams in the United Kingdom an... Read More about Attitudes towards fever amongst UK paediatric intensive care staff.