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Effectiveness and acceptance of assistive technologies for people with tetraplegia: A systematic review (2025)
Journal Article

Individuals with tetraplegia rely on assistive devices to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and enhance independence. This review evaluates their effectiveness and user acceptance for supporting independence. A systematic literature search wa... Read More about Effectiveness and acceptance of assistive technologies for people with tetraplegia: A systematic review.

The Chinese-Think Brain Health community intervention for dementia prevention in the UK: From theoretical cultural adaptation to evaluation (2025)
Journal Article

People from different ethnic minorities in the UK are experiencing a steeper increase in dementia diagnosis compared to their white counterparts but are more likely to have a higher risk of dementia, to be diagnosed at a younger age and to die earlie... Read More about The Chinese-Think Brain Health community intervention for dementia prevention in the UK: From theoretical cultural adaptation to evaluation.

Immanent idealism (2025)
Journal Article

This article introduces immanent idealism as an alternative path in social ontology and theory. It argues for a distinction between three basic ontological dimensions, the ideational, the institutional and the structural. This approach highlights the... Read More about Immanent idealism.

Emotional Skills Groups: A qualitative study exploring client experiences of online emotional skills group interventions in an NHS Talking Therapies service (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Many people treated in Talking Therapies services have highly complex needs which are not always met by the treatment offered. Emotional skills groups based on adaptations of dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) have been offered to meet... Read More about Emotional Skills Groups: A qualitative study exploring client experiences of online emotional skills group interventions in an NHS Talking Therapies service.

Invasive urodynamic investigations in the management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms: FUTURE, a superiority RCT and economic evaluation (2025)
Journal Article

Background Overactive bladder is a common problem affecting the United Kingdom adult female population. Symptoms include urinary urgency, with or without urgency incontinence, increased daytime urinary frequency and nocturia. Initial conservative tre... Read More about Invasive urodynamic investigations in the management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms: FUTURE, a superiority RCT and economic evaluation.

Transforming programming education: The effectiveness of motivational scenario-based design in serious games (2025)
Journal Article

Programming education faces persistent challenges, particularly in sustaining learner engagement and motivation while teaching abstract concepts like algorithms, data structures, and problem-solving skills. Traditional methods, focused heavily on the... Read More about Transforming programming education: The effectiveness of motivational scenario-based design in serious games.

Bridging the gap: Exploring the potential of virtual reality for supporting autistic individuals in interview and recruitment processes through a realist review (2025)
Journal Article

The aim of this realist review was to systematically analyse the peer-reviewed academic literature, reports and blogs to determine: (1) the mechanisms and contexts by which recruitment and early employment experiences lead to poor outcomes for autist... Read More about Bridging the gap: Exploring the potential of virtual reality for supporting autistic individuals in interview and recruitment processes through a realist review.

The visible difference parenting toolkit: Development of an ACT-based intervention to improve the wellbeing of parents and caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives: Caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions or injuries can experience common psychosocial challenges, regardless of the cause or nature of their child’s visible difference. Despite these common challenges, there is a lack... Read More about The visible difference parenting toolkit: Development of an ACT-based intervention to improve the wellbeing of parents and caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries.

The organisation of mortgage frauds: an empirical insight into the social networks of organised crime groups involved in mortgage and property fraud in the UK (2025)
Journal Article

This article examines the role of organised crime groups (OCGs) in the organisation and commission of mortgage and property related frauds. Whilst conventionally in criminological and policing studies, serious and organised crime has been associated... Read More about The organisation of mortgage frauds: an empirical insight into the social networks of organised crime groups involved in mortgage and property fraud in the UK.

Computational polyphony and diffractive ethnography: An emergent set of methods for futures-centred work in visual anthropology (2025)
Journal Article

This paper proposes an emergent set of methods for Visual Anthropology through which to generate new encounters with and knowledge in possible and uncertain futures. These methods are grounded in ‘computational polyphony’, a mode of practice that the... Read More about Computational polyphony and diffractive ethnography: An emergent set of methods for futures-centred work in visual anthropology.

How is ‘wokeness’ constructed in newspaper articles about British heritage institutions move to be more diverse? (2025)
Journal Article

Increasing use of the term ‘wokeness’ in the UK has arisen from the Black Lives Matter movement that challenges anti-Black racism from police. BLM has led to the challenging of decision-making around how heritage is presented such as the toppling of... Read More about How is ‘wokeness’ constructed in newspaper articles about British heritage institutions move to be more diverse?.