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‘Synthetic blood’: Entangling politics and biology (2019)
Journal Article

It is increasingly suggested that shortages in the supply chain for human blood could be met by the development of techniques to manufacture human blood ex vivo. These techniques fall broadly under the umbrella of Synthetic Biology. We examine the bi... Read More about ‘Synthetic blood’: Entangling politics and biology.

First look: A mixed methods study exploring women's initial experiences of their appearance after mastectomy and/or breast reconstruction (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives: Increasing numbers of women are undergoing appearance-altering surgery for the treatment and/or prevention of breast cancer. However, women’s experiences of seeing the results of their breast surgery for the first time, and the support a... Read More about First look: A mixed methods study exploring women's initial experiences of their appearance after mastectomy and/or breast reconstruction.

Building capacity to use and undertake applied health research: establishing a training programme for the health workforce in the West of England (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives
Increasing research capacity is important for health services as part of improving the conduct of high quality research which addresses the needs of patients and the public. It is a core function of the 13 Collaborations for Leadership in... Read More about Building capacity to use and undertake applied health research: establishing a training programme for the health workforce in the West of England.

Prefrontal brain stimulation during food-related inhibition training: Effects on food craving, food consumption and inhibitory control (2019)
Journal Article

Modulation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) activity using non-invasive brain stimulation has been shown to reduce food craving as well as food consumption. Using a preregistered design, we examined whether bilateral transcranial direct curr... Read More about Prefrontal brain stimulation during food-related inhibition training: Effects on food craving, food consumption and inhibitory control.

Improving care: The next step forward - a commentary (2019)
Book Chapter

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A data-driven study of Chinese participants' social judgments of Chinese faces (2019)
Journal Article

Social judgments of faces made by Western participants are thought to be underpinned by two dimensions: valence and dominance. Because some research suggests that Western and Eastern participants process faces differently, the two-dimensional model o... Read More about A data-driven study of Chinese participants' social judgments of Chinese faces.

The influence of body composition effects on male facial masculinity and attractiveness (2019)
Journal Article

Body mass index (BMI) and its facial correlates influence a range of perceptions including masculinity and attractiveness. BMI conflates body fat and muscle which are sexually dimorphic because men typically have more muscle but less fat than women.... Read More about The influence of body composition effects on male facial masculinity and attractiveness.

Using joint conversation analysis between clinicians and researchers: Developing reflexivity in community mental health teams (2019)
Book Chapter

Analysing data in groups is highly beneficial in ensuring the credibility and accuracy of analysis. This chapter detailed how we developed joint Conversation Analysis (CA) groups run with clinicians and researchers. We outline how data groups work wh... Read More about Using joint conversation analysis between clinicians and researchers: Developing reflexivity in community mental health teams.

Healthcare Meetings Where the Service User Is Absent: The Ethical and Values-Based Implications for Research (2019)
Book Chapter

The MDTsInAction research problem uniquely integrated three ethical contexts: firstly, the context of qualitative mental healthcare research. This emphasises service user involvement to ensure meaningful research. Challenges of benchmarking ethical s... Read More about Healthcare Meetings Where the Service User Is Absent: The Ethical and Values-Based Implications for Research.

Concern Constructions in Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Risk or Patient Focused? (2019)
Book Chapter

Risk is a high profile area in the care management of people who need consistent support to live healthily. Professionals in multidisciplinary teams need to work together to solve problems, including the chance of risk relating to a client’s care. If... Read More about Concern Constructions in Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Risk or Patient Focused?.

Techno-securitisation of everyday life and cultures of surveillance-apatheia (2019)
Journal Article

As a result of digital technologies and the internet becoming increasingly ubiquitous, security technologies and surveillance systems are progressively encroaching upon peoples’ privacy. Yet concerns about this appear to be relatively muted. Why is t... Read More about Techno-securitisation of everyday life and cultures of surveillance-apatheia.

The trust game: CRISPR for human germline editing unsettles scientists and society (2019)
Journal Article

Association of birth order with adolescent mental health and suicide attempts: A population-based longitudinal study (2019)
Journal Article

Previous cohort studies have observed higher birth order to be associated with increased risk of suicidal behaviour. However, the mechanisms underlying this association are unclear. Using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children... Read More about Association of birth order with adolescent mental health and suicide attempts: A population-based longitudinal study.

Action 3:30R: Results of a cluster randomised feasibility study of a revised teaching assistant-led extracurricular physical activity intervention for 8 to 10 year olds (2019)
Journal Article

Many children are not sufficiently physically active. We conducted a cluster-randomised feasibility trial of a revised after-school physical activity (PA) programme delivered by trained teaching assistants (TAs) to assess the potential evidence of pr... Read More about Action 3:30R: Results of a cluster randomised feasibility study of a revised teaching assistant-led extracurricular physical activity intervention for 8 to 10 year olds.

Lived experience of Silver-Russell syndrome: Implications for management during childhood and into adulthood (2019)
Journal Article

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2019. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. Objective There is limited information on the psychosocial imp... Read More about Lived experience of Silver-Russell syndrome: Implications for management during childhood and into adulthood.

Caribbean Overseas Territories: Breaches, but not yet breaks, in the Frameworks of Governance (2019)
Book Chapter

The Blue Economy in the Caribbean (2019)
Book Chapter

Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin (2019)
Journal Article

Previous studies suggest that birth order affects kinship detection ability. Kaminski et al. (2010) argued that firstborns use contextual cues (e.g., maternal perinatal association) to assess kinship in their own family, leading to a disadvantage in... Read More about Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin.

Altered body perception and comfort after stroke: An embodied interpretive phenomenological analysis (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Stroke can cause changes to how the body is perceived, and survivors often experience altered sense of limb position, movement, sensation, weight, awareness, and pain. However, there is little literature capturing experiential accounts of these chang... Read More about Altered body perception and comfort after stroke: An embodied interpretive phenomenological analysis.

Principled toleration and respectful indifference in the liberal polity: A conceptual landscape (2019)
Journal Article

This paper examines toleration at two levels. At the first level, liberal individualism is concerned that the individual must be as free as possible to pursue their own goals and lifestyles. At the second level, liberal political theory is concerned... Read More about Principled toleration and respectful indifference in the liberal polity: A conceptual landscape.