Outputs (590)

Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment. House of Lords: Private Briefing Seminar. The impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation to the House of Lords' Select Committee on a National Policy for the Built Environment.

The paper aimed at scoping the work of the HL select committee

Do randomised control trials offer a solution to 'low quality' transport research? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This article responds to Graham-Rowe et al. (2011), which categorised 77 evaluations of transport interventions into 5 levels of ‘quality’. This article focuses on Graham-Rowe et al.’s treatment of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and their recom... Read More about Do randomised control trials offer a solution to 'low quality' transport research?.

Informal architecture/s (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter is a critical examination of the architecture/s of informal cities. Informal cities will house the majority of the world’s urban population by the middle of this century. The scale of this new development is unprecedented in its scale, e... Read More about Informal architecture/s.

European Healthy City Network Phase V: Patterns emerging for healthy urban planning (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. There is a tradition of planning cities and their infrastructure to successfully tackle communicable disease arising from urban development. Non-communicable disease follow... Read More about European Healthy City Network Phase V: Patterns emerging for healthy urban planning.

Trending now: Future directions in digital media for the public health sector (2014)
Journal Article

© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. Background Digital media usage is expanding enormously and is starting to be used as a public health intervention and communication tool. It has an ability... Read More about Trending now: Future directions in digital media for the public health sector.

Shared space: Research, policy and problems (2014)
Journal Article

Shared space is an approach to street design which minimises demarcations between vehicles and pedestrians. It has become particularly influential in the UK, where a comprehensive study of shared space schemes has informed recently published nationa... Read More about Shared space: Research, policy and problems.

The nature of society: Enmapping nature, space and society into a town-green hybrid (2014)
Journal Article

The paper describes the transformation of derelict land into a ‘town-green’ and the role legislation played in transforming social and natural relationships. Town-green denotes a legal status under the Great Britain Commons Act (2006) that protects c... Read More about The nature of society: Enmapping nature, space and society into a town-green hybrid.

Public health profession (2014)
Book Chapter

A study of ozone exposure across Europe: 2004–2010 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Summary
This study presents an assessment of exposure to ozone exceedences across Europe using a new methodology based around the Eurostat degree of urbanisation (DEGURBA) classification, which provides the ability to categorise exposure into ‘Urban... Read More about A study of ozone exposure across Europe: 2004–2010.

Wasted potential: The role of higher education institutions in supporting safe, sensible and social drinking among students (2014)
Journal Article

Setting: The United Kingdom (UK) government has acknowledged that there is a problem with excess alcohol consumption, in particular amongst young people. Higher education is an important health promotion setting in which to explore not only how sensi... Read More about Wasted potential: The role of higher education institutions in supporting safe, sensible and social drinking among students.

Understanding the social context of fatal road traffic collisions among young people: A qualitative analysis of narrative text in coroners' records (2014)
Journal Article

Background: Deaths and injuries on the road remain a major cause of premature death among young people across the world. Routinely collected data usually focuses on the mechanism of road traffic collisions and basic demographic data of those involved... Read More about Understanding the social context of fatal road traffic collisions among young people: A qualitative analysis of narrative text in coroners' records.

Examining the relationship between life transitions and travel behaviour change: New insights from the UK household longitudinal study (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent research has indicated that changes in travel behaviour are more likely at the time of major life events. However, there remains much to learn about the extent to which different life events trigger behavioural change and the conditions under... Read More about Examining the relationship between life transitions and travel behaviour change: New insights from the UK household longitudinal study.

Effects of interactive real-time simulations and humanoid avatars on consumers' responses in online house products marketing (2014)
Journal Article

Interactive product presentation techniques have recently gained importance in online marketing of house products. Real-time simulation offers a high level interactive presentation with more powerful features to present product functions and variatio... Read More about Effects of interactive real-time simulations and humanoid avatars on consumers' responses in online house products marketing.

Holding up the mirror: How to use quality assurance, peer review to improve sexual health (2013)
Journal Article

The Office for Sexual Health was established in the southwest of England in January 2010 as a Department of Health pilot to bring together all elements of sexual health policy to address the fragmentation of effort created by having separate national... Read More about Holding up the mirror: How to use quality assurance, peer review to improve sexual health.

Understanding the social context of fatal road traffic collisions among young people: A qualitative analysis of coroners’ records (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Qualitative insights into the effect on travel behavior of joining a carshare (2013)
Journal Article

Carsharing organizations (carshares) provide collectively available vehicles that can be booked for exclusive use on a pay-as-you-go basis. Previous research has shown that two groups join carshares: (a) accessors, who do not have a car when they joi... Read More about Qualitative insights into the effect on travel behavior of joining a carshare.

No weighting for healthy sustainable local planning: Evaluation of a participatory appraisal tool for rationality and inclusivity (2013)
Journal Article

This paper is concerned with the contribution that project, plan and policy appraisal can make to effective decision making when shaping a built environment that needs to respond to the demands of local voices and also concerns for global sustainabil... Read More about No weighting for healthy sustainable local planning: Evaluation of a participatory appraisal tool for rationality and inclusivity.

Urban planning for healthy cities a review of the progress of the european healthy cities programme (2013)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the progress made by European cities in relation to Healthy Urban Planning (HUP) during Phase IV of the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities programme (2003-2008). The introduction sets out the general p... Read More about Urban planning for healthy cities a review of the progress of the european healthy cities programme.

The walkability of Bristol: How this relates to physical activity, health and well-being (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Walking is accessible to the majority of the population; it is low cost, requires no specialist equipment or training and can be relatively easily incorporated into daily routines. A recent review of the evidence base for investment in the walking en... Read More about The walkability of Bristol: How this relates to physical activity, health and well-being.

Book review: The graphic tale of how 'Obamacare' was won (2013)
Journal Article