Empowering future care workforces: Scoping capabilities to leverage assistive robotics through co-design (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This project aims to understand what kind of capabilities care professionals need to use physically assistive robotics on their own terms, and in ways that are safe, trustworthy, and meet the legal and ethical standards of their profession. Empowerin... Read More about Empowering future care workforces: Scoping capabilities to leverage assistive robotics through co-design.

Within-day intrarater and interrater reliability of portable ultrasound measurements of supraspinatus muscle thickness in healthy people: A preliminary study (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Glenohumeral subluxation (GHS) and hemiplegic shoulder pain (HSP) are common post-stroke complications reported in up to 81% and 65% of patients respectively. Rotator cuff muscle weakness, especially supraspinatus muscle inactivity is a p... Read More about Within-day intrarater and interrater reliability of portable ultrasound measurements of supraspinatus muscle thickness in healthy people: A preliminary study.

Effects of electrical stimulation combined with rotator cuff rehabilitation for the management of hemiplegic shoulder pain and glenohumeral subluxation in people with chronic stroke (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Hemiplegic shoulder pain (HSP) and Glenohumeral subluxation (GHS) are common post-stroke complications reported in up to 65% and 81% of patients. Poor motor function and prevalence of rotator cuff (RC) muscle weakness increases the risk o... Read More about Effects of electrical stimulation combined with rotator cuff rehabilitation for the management of hemiplegic shoulder pain and glenohumeral subluxation in people with chronic stroke.

A machine learning model for predicting sit-to-stand trajectories of people with and without stroke: towards adaptive robotic assistance (2022)
Journal Article

Sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit transfers are fundamental daily motions that enable all other types of ambulation and gait. However, the ability to perform these motions can be severely impaired by different factors, such as the occurrence of a stroke,... Read More about A machine learning model for predicting sit-to-stand trajectories of people with and without stroke: towards adaptive robotic assistance.

Role of assistive devices in rehabilitation of people with stroke (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation provides an overview on role of assistive devices - Lycra Arm sleeves/accelerometers/ GripAble Gaming Device for the rehabilitation of upper limb function in people with stroke.

Of the 80% of people with stroke who lose upper-l... Read More about Role of assistive devices in rehabilitation of people with stroke.

Remote provision of 'next steps' exercise class in people with stroke: An online survey of participants' experience (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Physiotherapy rehabilitation is a fundamental component of multidisciplinary management following stroke, for biopsychosocial exercise benefits and secondary prevention. Bristol After Stroke and the University of the West of England’s Bri... Read More about Remote provision of 'next steps' exercise class in people with stroke: An online survey of participants' experience.

“What we need is to be held when we’re falling, but allowed to get on with it when we’re well”: What do individuals with a diagnosis of 'Borderline Personality Disorder' really need from Counselling Psychologists? (2022)
Thesis

Individuals diagnosed with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’ (‘BPD’) suffer both psychological distress and rejection from professionals. Though the qualitative literature highlights many beneficial therapeutic qualities for this clinical group, it i... Read More about “What we need is to be held when we’re falling, but allowed to get on with it when we’re well”: What do individuals with a diagnosis of 'Borderline Personality Disorder' really need from Counselling Psychologists?.

Lesbian feminism (2022)
Book Chapter

Lesbianism is the term used to describe a sexual orientation, sexual acts and desires, and romantic and sexual love between women. During the period known as the feminist Second Wave across the Western world, roughly from the late 1960s and into the... Read More about Lesbian feminism.

Exploring the value of group dream experience (GDE): A qualitative study of psychotherapists’ experiences of group dream sharing and dream work (2022)
Thesis

Despite the longstanding interest of psychological research and practice in group dream sharing and group dream work, to date no research has been conducted examining group dream experience (GDE) of psychotherapists. Furthermore, GDE has not been con... Read More about Exploring the value of group dream experience (GDE): A qualitative study of psychotherapists’ experiences of group dream sharing and dream work.

Drug education as diversion: A mixed methods evaluation of the Avon & Somerset drug education programme (2022)
Report

This evaluation was undertaken on behalf of the Office of the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner to evaluate Avon and Somerset Constabulary’s Drug Education Programme (DEP). The DEP is an education programme that has operated in South We... Read More about Drug education as diversion: A mixed methods evaluation of the Avon & Somerset drug education programme.

A thin line divides victims and perpetrators in the war on drugs in Mexico (2022)
Digital Artefact

Fifteen years ago, Mexico declared war on drugs. However, the country must still reflect on the factors that lead drug traffickers to engage in violence, and reconsider their strategy to break this long cycle of abuse, argues Karina García Reyes.

Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women (2022)
Journal Article

Women’s safety from sexual violence whilst at university is a global issue and the UK is no exception. Whilst the authors of this paper acknowledge that sexual violence can occur across the gender spectrum, most sexual violence ‘victims’ are women an... Read More about Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women.

The problem with picking: Permittance, escape and shame in problematic skin picking (2022)
Thesis

Problematic skin picking is a poorly understood experience characterised by a drive to repeatedly pick the skin and related psychosocial impact. Researchers have sought to understand and conceptualise this picking through noting its common characteri... Read More about The problem with picking: Permittance, escape and shame in problematic skin picking.

Salutogenesis in Prison (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter concludes Part VII, with a focus on salutogenesis in prisons. In this chapter, the authors present and debate how prison health rhetoric, policy and practice are influenced by a pathogenic view of prisoner “health.” The authors comment t... Read More about Salutogenesis in Prison.

Solidarity today: A problem-based approach (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter aims at establishing a problem-based approach to solidarity by describing its main characteristics and by testing its effectiveness in light of three pivotal issues today: immigration, the future of work, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The c... Read More about Solidarity today: A problem-based approach.

Solidarity and data access: Challenges and potentialities (2021)
Journal Article

This paper provides an account of the challenges and potentialities of a solidarity-based approach to data access and governance. To do that, it offers an infraethical understanding of solidarity that describes it as a structural moral enabler that c... Read More about Solidarity and data access: Challenges and potentialities.

Reassessing the social benefits of lifelong learning in light of the COVID pandemic (2021)
Journal Article

Community based technology enriched high intensity upper limb rehabilitation programme (HIULRP) in chronic stroke (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background and Aims: Post Stroke High Intensity Upper Limb Rehabilitation Programmes (HIULRP)
benefits have been reported from the Queen Square Upper Limb Programme. This case study evaluates
if an outpatient/day-case service in Wales is able to ge... Read More about Community based technology enriched high intensity upper limb rehabilitation programme (HIULRP) in chronic stroke.

The psychosocial risk factors of developing perinatal mental health issues in birth mothers of compulsory adopted children (2021)
Thesis

Perinatal mental health (PMH) issues are a common public health concern effecting 10-20% of women during pregnancy and up to one year after birth (Public Health England, 2017). Various biopsychosocial risk factors can increase the likelihood of devel... Read More about The psychosocial risk factors of developing perinatal mental health issues in birth mothers of compulsory adopted children.

Incorporating quaternary prevention: Understanding the full scope of public health practices in sexual abuse prevention (2021)
Journal Article

This discussion piece argues for a refinement in our understanding of prevention in sexual abuse, suggesting that we include quaternary prevention on the grounds that this concept from medical literature has potential and helpful application to crimi... Read More about Incorporating quaternary prevention: Understanding the full scope of public health practices in sexual abuse prevention.