Outputs (1077)

Guided self-help for bulimia nervosa: A comparison of individual and group provision (2025)
Journal Article

This service evaluation explores the implementation of Guided Self-Help (GSH), the first line recommended treatment for Bulimia Nervosa, in both individual and group formats, in an NHS community eating disorder service. The study aimed to examine the... Read More about Guided self-help for bulimia nervosa: A comparison of individual and group provision.

Hive mind for Net Zero: Towards a social engagement model for collective home energy behaviour change (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives (2025)
Journal Article

Managing complex disaster risks requires interdisciplinary efforts. Breaking down silos between law, social sciences, and natural sciences is critical for all processes of disaster risk reduction. It is essential to explore how AI enhances understand... Read More about Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Assessing barriers and opportunities for the improvement of laboratory performance and robust surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria – A quantitative study (2025)
Journal Article

Background
Good quality data is essential in optimising containment strategies for antimicrobial resistance, a global public health threat estimated to cause around 10 million deaths yearly and up-to 5% loss in GDP by 2050 if left unaddressed. The l... Read More about Assessing barriers and opportunities for the improvement of laboratory performance and robust surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria – A quantitative study.

From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends (2025)
Journal Article

This aim of this article is to trace the concept of ‘social value’ in public procurement (purchasing by the public sector from private and third sector contractors of goods, services and works) in the UK through four decades of the incorporation of s... Read More about From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends.

Understanding the psychological impact of medical care experiences on adults with craniofacial conditions: A pilot survey of traumatic stress symptoms and resilience (2025)
Journal Article

Craniofacial conditions often require extensive medical care and surgeries throughout childhood and adolescence. However, there is limited research investigating the psychological effects of craniofacial care including risks for medical traumatic str... Read More about Understanding the psychological impact of medical care experiences on adults with craniofacial conditions: A pilot survey of traumatic stress symptoms and resilience.

Heart failure and participation in physical activity (The HAPPY + study): Health professional support and availability of community physical activity services (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract

Background Nearly 1 million people in the UK are living with heart failure (HF). Most people diagnosed with HF are managed in primary care. Physical activity can increase wellbeing, reduce hospitalisation and improve mortality rates for... Read More about Heart failure and participation in physical activity (The HAPPY + study): Health professional support and availability of community physical activity services.

Longitudinal psychological well-being in caregivers of young children with cleft lip and/or palate (2025)
Journal Article

Introduction: Caregivers of children with chronic conditions can experience psychological distress and an impact on quality of life (QoL). Cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) is one of the most common congenital conditions worldwide. Utilising data extrac... Read More about Longitudinal psychological well-being in caregivers of young children with cleft lip and/or palate.

Early maladaptive schemas (2025)
Journal Article

In this study the association of early maladaptive schemas with anxiety, depression and academic self efficacy was explored in a large sample of undergraduate psychology students. Significant correlations were observed with anxiety and depression but... Read More about Early maladaptive schemas.

Putting Social Justice and Equity at the Heart of Reading for Pleasure (2025)
Book

This essential book discusses what reading for pleasure is and what it is not, introducing some fundamental ideas about how we learn to read and how this process can impact on a child’s identity as a reader in classrooms that promote equality, inclus... Read More about Putting Social Justice and Equity at the Heart of Reading for Pleasure.

From classroom to clinic: Innovating radiotherapy treatment planning education through real-world end-to-end case study simulation with an anthropomorphic phantom (2025)
Journal Article

Background: The incorporation of simulation-based learning in healthcare education, particularly in radiotherapy, is
necessary for enhancing training and professional competencies to serve patient safety and treatment accuracy. This
study aimed to... Read More about From classroom to clinic: Innovating radiotherapy treatment planning education through real-world end-to-end case study simulation with an anthropomorphic phantom.

Physical activity support for people with heart failure: mixed-methods study protocol (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Heart failure (HF) is a common condition affecting 1-2 in every hundred adults in the UK and one in six people aged over 85 years. Physical activity is important for people with HF (PWHF) as
it can increase exercise capacity and is show... Read More about Physical activity support for people with heart failure: mixed-methods study protocol.

A centre specific Quality Improvement Project (QIP) to decrease ‘temperature spike to needle time’ for first dose empiric antibiotics to within 60 minutes for inpatients in a haematology and autologous stem cell transplant unit within a UK District General Hospital (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background

Neutropenic sepsis following systemic anti-cancer therapy and autologous stem cell transplant is a life-threatening emergency, with a mortality rate of 40% among haematology patients (Klastersky et al 2016, NICE 2024), due to deeper and... Read More about A centre specific Quality Improvement Project (QIP) to decrease ‘temperature spike to needle time’ for first dose empiric antibiotics to within 60 minutes for inpatients in a haematology and autologous stem cell transplant unit within a UK District General Hospital.

Understanding the impact of a cleft camp in Aotearoa New Zealand on sociability, self-esteem and confidence (2025)
Journal Article

Objective: Although camps have been offered previously for cleft and craniofacial conditions, few have been evaluated empirically. This study sought to determine whether a community-led camp peer support event led to improved sociability and self-est... Read More about Understanding the impact of a cleft camp in Aotearoa New Zealand on sociability, self-esteem and confidence.

Cortrak feeding tube safety: Criteria for interpreting lung misplacement (2025)
Journal Article

Abstract
Background
Pneumothorax occurs in 0.52% of blind tube placements, with 97% occurring in-procedure. Post-procedure pH or X-ray checks cannot prevent these but CO2 checks or guided tube placement can. Cortrak guided tube placement is widespr... Read More about Cortrak feeding tube safety: Criteria for interpreting lung misplacement.

Defining the recommended gray zone in MGMT promoter methylation pyrosequencing reporting: A robust translatable method to implement new EANO guidelines (2025)
Journal Article

Background
The DNA repair protein O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) may cause resistance of tumour cells to alkylating agents, and is a predictive biomarker in high-grade gliomas treated with temozolomide. Recent EANO guidelines recommen... Read More about Defining the recommended gray zone in MGMT promoter methylation pyrosequencing reporting: A robust translatable method to implement new EANO guidelines.

Psychological mechanisms of commuting: A cognitive dissonance approach to intercontinental commuting discomfort in Istanbul (2025)
Journal Article

This study explores the psychological mechanisms relevant for reducing commute dissonance, i.e., the psychological discomfort due to an inconsistency between commute-related cognitions and behaviour, based on Cognitive Dissonance Theory. The study is... Read More about Psychological mechanisms of commuting: A cognitive dissonance approach to intercontinental commuting discomfort in Istanbul.

Rethinking economic growth: The impact of media narratives on inequality, wealth and growth (2025)
Digital Artefact

High levels of inequality are harmful to economic growth (Alesina & Perotti, 1996) yet claims about growth often focus on increases at the ‘top’, which can lead to increased inequality (Phillips, 2020). By exploring how talk about poverty, wealth and... Read More about Rethinking economic growth: The impact of media narratives on inequality, wealth and growth.

Combining speech language therapy and clinical psychology for adolescents and adults with CL/P: A pilot clinic in New Zealand (2025)
Journal Article

Objective: This pilot study sought to determine whether adolescent and adult patients benefit from weekly cleft-specific Speech Language Therapy (SLT) services, and to understand how concurrent psychology clinic services influence patient-reported ou... Read More about Combining speech language therapy and clinical psychology for adolescents and adults with CL/P: A pilot clinic in New Zealand.

The transformative potential of Ricoeur's narrative self (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores how Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity responds to the problem of identifying a self through change by developing a dynamic concept of the self which is always open to transformation. Ricoeur aims to provide a descript... Read More about The transformative potential of Ricoeur's narrative self.