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The United Kingdom and its caribbean overseas territories: Present relations and future prospects (2013)
Journal Article

This paper considers the relationship between the UK and its Caribbean Overseas Territories (OTs) since the Conservative-led coalition government won power in May 2010. There is discussion of the UK government’s recent White Paper on the OTs; the bal... Read More about The United Kingdom and its caribbean overseas territories: Present relations and future prospects.

Epidemiology, impact and prevention of unintentional child injuries in Makwanpur district of Nepal (2013)
Thesis

Background: Injury is a major health problem in children throughout the world and its burden is borne particularly in poor countries. Nepal not only has a challenging economic environment but has a uniquely challenging physical environment, which exp... Read More about Epidemiology, impact and prevention of unintentional child injuries in Makwanpur district of Nepal.

Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review (2013)
Journal Article

Youth justice is an important public health issue. There is growing recognition of the need to adopt effective, evidence-based strategies for working with young offenders. Music interventions may be particularly well suited to addressing risk factors... Read More about Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review.

Happy being me in the UK: A controlled evaluation of a school-based body image intervention with pre-adolescent children (2013)
Journal Article

This study evaluated an adapted version of 'Happy Being Me', a school-based body image intervention, with girls and boys aged 10-11 years. Forty-three children participated in a three-week intervention, and 45 children formed a control group. Both gr... Read More about Happy being me in the UK: A controlled evaluation of a school-based body image intervention with pre-adolescent children.

Supporting rehabilitation for people affected by visible difference (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Assessing the impact of the LinkAge hub in Whitehall and St.George, Bristol: Briefing report (2013)
Report

This is a briefing report. Briefing reports are typically used to keep those who make decisions appraised of an issue they wish to focus on. They are often used to appraise an organization of a particular project or piece of work. LinkAge, Bristol co... Read More about Assessing the impact of the LinkAge hub in Whitehall and St.George, Bristol: Briefing report.

Action 3:30: Protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention (2013)
Journal Article

Background: Many children do not meet physical activity (PA) guidelines. Extracurricular programmes could provide a mechanism to increase the PA levels of primary-school aged children. Teaching assistants (TAs) are a valuable resource in all UK prima... Read More about Action 3:30: Protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention.

The world after men: The rise of matriarchy (2013)
Digital Artefact

Carol Gilligan, Matthew Hancock, Finn Mackay. Katie Derham hosts.

Feminism has been focused on equal status for women. But does this limit the horizon? With girls outperforming boys in education and with little social requirement for physical stre... Read More about The world after men: The rise of matriarchy.

Rewards can be used effectively with repeated exposure to increase liking of vegetables in 4-6-year-old children (2013)
Journal Article

Abstract Objective To examine whether parents offering a sticker reward to their child to taste a vegetable the child does not currently consume is associated with improvements in children's liking and consumption of the vegetable. Design A randomize... Read More about Rewards can be used effectively with repeated exposure to increase liking of vegetables in 4-6-year-old children.

Visual expertise: Insights gained by comparing professional populations (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Professionals whose careers depend on visual skills typically demonstrate superior performance on career-related tasks; farmers better determine the sex of day-old chicks (Biederman & Shiffrar, 1987), and bank tellers better detect counterfeit curren... Read More about Visual expertise: Insights gained by comparing professional populations.

Whole school food programmes and the kitchen environment (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the impact of the Food For Life Partnership (FFLP) whole school food programme on kitchen staff employment and professional development. Design/methodology/approach: This exploratory research involved... Read More about Whole school food programmes and the kitchen environment.

Emotions and learning: In praise of a forum (2013)
Journal Article

21 staff and students from across the university participated in an invited forum organised under the UWE Student Experience Programme.

The subject of ‘Emotions, Learning and Student Development’ was explored through stimulus presentations, str... Read More about Emotions and learning: In praise of a forum.

The psychosocial impact of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in black and south asian women (2013)
Thesis

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women of all ethnic groups. The diagnosis and treatment of the disease can be challenging and distressing for any individual. Research in this area has documented a range of physical, psychological a... Read More about The psychosocial impact of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in black and south asian women.

Money, commodification and complementary health care: Theorising personalised medicine within depersonalised systems of exchange (2013)
Journal Article

Across the United Kingdom and other Western nations, complementary health care has become big business, with pressure to commercialise and technologise its goods and services. Economic liberalisation and the democratisation of health care have encour... Read More about Money, commodification and complementary health care: Theorising personalised medicine within depersonalised systems of exchange.

Assessing tactile acuity in rheumatology and musculoskeletal medicine-How reliable are two-point discrimination tests at the neck, hand, back and foot? (2013)
Journal Article

Objective. Chronic pain from rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions is associated with cortical changes and altered tactile acuity. Tactile acuity is considered a clinical signature of primary somatosensory representation. The two-point discriminat... Read More about Assessing tactile acuity in rheumatology and musculoskeletal medicine-How reliable are two-point discrimination tests at the neck, hand, back and foot?.

Chronic tension-type headache is associated with impaired motor learning (2013)
Journal Article

Background: Supraspinal activity-dependent neuroplasticity may be important in the transition from acute to chronic pain. We examined neuroplasticity in a cortical region not considered to be a primary component of the central pain matrix in chronic... Read More about Chronic tension-type headache is associated with impaired motor learning.

Kant and Kierkegaard on freedom and evil (2013)
Journal Article

A process evaluation of student participation in a whole school food programme (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose – Health promotion programmes are widely held to be more effective when the subjects of them actively participate in the process of change. The purpose of this paper is to report on an evaluation of the Food for Life Partnership programme, a... Read More about A process evaluation of student participation in a whole school food programme.

European Security, Terrorism, and Intelligence (2013)
Book

The new security challenges that have arisen as a result of the rise in prominence of global terrorism have presented the European Union with a unique opportunity to rebrand itself as dominant force on the international stage. Traditionally viewed as... Read More about European Security, Terrorism, and Intelligence.

‘I was quite amazed’: Donor conception and parent-child relationships from the child's perspective (2013)
Journal Article

Donor conception and parent–child relationships were explored from the child's perspective. At ages 7 and 10, interview data were obtained from children in 31 donor insemination, 28 egg donation and 51 natural conception families. Children were also... Read More about ‘I was quite amazed’: Donor conception and parent-child relationships from the child's perspective.