All Outputs (262)

"Surprisingly helpful": An exploration of trainee and registered music therapists' perspectives on the current role of personal therapy in music therapy training in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article

Music therapy training programmes in the United Kingdom are accredited by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). The HCPC requires registered music therapists to have experience and understanding of the value of therapy for developing insigh... Read More about "Surprisingly helpful": An exploration of trainee and registered music therapists' perspectives on the current role of personal therapy in music therapy training in the United Kingdom.

The impact of androgen deprivation therapy on men diagnosed with prostate cancer: A mixed-method analysis of body image, masculine identities, exercise habits and coping strategies (2021)
Thesis

Androgen Deprivation Therapy is one of the gold standard treatments for Prostate Cancer (PCa). By suppressing testosterone production, ADT slows down cancer growth, but can also lead to several side effects affecting bodily functions and appearance (... Read More about The impact of androgen deprivation therapy on men diagnosed with prostate cancer: A mixed-method analysis of body image, masculine identities, exercise habits and coping strategies.

Road safety and heavy goods vehicle driving in LMICs: Qualitative evidence from Nepal (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Heavy goods vehicle drivers are an influential driving population in Nepal, with over 90% of goods in the country are transported by road. Due to the time spent on the road, drivers have long periods of exposure to the risk of crash invol... Read More about Road safety and heavy goods vehicle driving in LMICs: Qualitative evidence from Nepal.

Falkland Islands: 40 years on (2021)
Digital Artefact

2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War, an event which still shapes many people’s view of the islands. However, the Falkland Islands has, over the past 40 years, looked outward to assume a role of strategic significance as the ‘gateway... Read More about Falkland Islands: 40 years on.

Attachment styles and mate-retention: Exploring the mediating role of relationship satisfaction (2021)
Journal Article

This study investigated whether relationship satisfaction mediates the association between attachment styles and mate-retention strategies. Four-hundred and twenty individuals in a heterosexual committed relationship participated in this study (79.7%... Read More about Attachment styles and mate-retention: Exploring the mediating role of relationship satisfaction.

Using in-seat electrical potential sensors for non-contact monitoring of heart rate, heart rate variability, and heart rate recovery (2021)
Journal Article

Detecting transient changes in heart rate and heart rate variability during experimental simulated autonomous driving scenarios can indicate participant arousal and cognitive load, providing valuable insights into the relationship between human and v... Read More about Using in-seat electrical potential sensors for non-contact monitoring of heart rate, heart rate variability, and heart rate recovery.

Tackling ageism in the workplace (2021)
Book Chapter

Many countries have encouraged policies to promote the labor market participation of older workers, who tend to be defined as those aged 50 and over . Yet despite the existence of equality legislation which outlaws age discrimination in employment, a... Read More about Tackling ageism in the workplace.

Attended dementia: Managing the terror of dementia (2021)
Journal Article

Do 3D face images capture cues of strength, weight, and height better than 2D face images do? (2021)
Journal Article

Objectives: A large literature exists investigating the extent to which physical characteristics (e.g., strength, weight, and height) can be accurately assessed from face images. While most of these studies have employed two-dimensional (2D) face ima... Read More about Do 3D face images capture cues of strength, weight, and height better than 2D face images do?.

Gadamer’s Heidegger: On language and metaphysics (2021)
Book Chapter

Gadamer has been the viewed as follower, appropriator, and urbanizer of the wilder elements of Heidegger’s thought, with his explicit resistance to certain aspects of Heidegger’s thought often only present between the lines. This chapter examines Gad... Read More about Gadamer’s Heidegger: On language and metaphysics.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 3 (2021)
Journal Article

Covid has made us increasingly familiar with using digital technologies, from work team meetings to social and clinical interactions; where might the novel tech opportunities lie? Social anxiety disorders (SAD) can limit individuals’ abilities to lea... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 3.

Gender in the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist (2021)
Journal Article

We are a group of researchers working in the Medical Sciences division at the University of Oxford. Many of us regularly use Equator’s Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist [1] when reporting results from our stud... Read More about Gender in the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist.

Literature review on the impacts of infrastructure on quality of life (2021)
Report

An IPA study exploring clients’ experiences of living with complex mental health needs in a residential care home: Some voices are harder to hear (2021)
Thesis

Objectives
The aim of the research was to hear the voices of participants with complex mental health needs, gaining insight into the experience of living in residential care homes. These voices often get lost; as people with complex mental health ne... Read More about An IPA study exploring clients’ experiences of living with complex mental health needs in a residential care home: Some voices are harder to hear.

Facilitating family engagement in older people's home-based reablement: A realist inquiry (2021)
Thesis

An ageing population brings pressures and opportunities. Since 2010, the UK Government has invested substantially in reablement, to release pressure in health and social care services and to promote wellbeing. When a deterioration in an individual’... Read More about Facilitating family engagement in older people's home-based reablement: A realist inquiry.

Book review - Overwhelming injustice and posttraumatic blame theory: Psychological wellbeing in frontline services (2021)
Journal Article

Polemos, logos, plurality: Hannah Arendt's phenomenological reading of the Greeks (2021)
Journal Article

The following examines Hannah Arendt’s interpretations of Greek thought, specifically her phenomenological reading of Homer and Socrates as proto-phenomenological thinkers of objectivity, plurality, and logos. Drawing inspiration from these thinkers,... Read More about Polemos, logos, plurality: Hannah Arendt's phenomenological reading of the Greeks.

The impact of completing body image assessments on adolescents’ body image and engagement in body change strategies: Harmful or harmless? (2021)
Journal Article

Parents and educators have raised concerns that participating in body image research may cause or increase poor body image and engagement in body change strategies. This quasi-experimental study compared body image and body change strategy outcomes a... Read More about The impact of completing body image assessments on adolescents’ body image and engagement in body change strategies: Harmful or harmless?.

“It’s such a hard and lonely journey”: Women’s experiences of perinatal loss and the subsequent pregnancy (2021)
Thesis

Background: Perinatal losses are devastating life changing events for mothers, with psychological consequences both after loss and in the following pregnancy. Societal taboos result in disenfranchised grief, with inconsistent support available.

Ai... Read More about “It’s such a hard and lonely journey”: Women’s experiences of perinatal loss and the subsequent pregnancy.

Social media reactions of nurses to the documentary Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward (2021)
Journal Article

Abstract
Background/Aims
Mental health nursing is becoming a more transparent discipline. Increasingly, documentaries have provided the general public with insights regarding these therapeutic ward environments. The opinions of staff working in suc... Read More about Social media reactions of nurses to the documentary Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward.