All Outputs (61)

Student loneliness: A study of UWE Bristol students’ loneliness experience and coping strategies (2024)
Report

Loneliness is a concern among university students. Although there are numerous studies on loneliness, many focus on a single aspect of this unpleasant feeling. The present research looked at loneliness from different angles: the extent and forms of l... Read More about Student loneliness: A study of UWE Bristol students’ loneliness experience and coping strategies.

The political is personal: Brexit and the career aspirations of UK undergraduates (2019)
Journal Article

Findings from a small-scale qualitative research project exploring the impact of Brexit on the career aspirations of final year students at a UK university reveal the centrality of values and emotion in career decision-making. Although not conclusive... Read More about The political is personal: Brexit and the career aspirations of UK undergraduates.

Brexit: The political is personal. Values and emotion in career thinking (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

How is Brexit impacting on the future plans of UK undergraduates? This small-scale research study, conducted in 2017,seeks to better understand the impact of political events on career thinking. Updated for this conference, we learn if the participa... Read More about Brexit: The political is personal. Values and emotion in career thinking.

Report to RCUK on open access publishing spend from block grant awarded to UWE Bristol 2018/19 (2019)
Other

Report to RCUK on open access publishing spend from block grant awarded to UWE Bristol 2017/18

Author engagement with altmetrics (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation for AULIC research and dissertation event, based on research for MSc Information Management dissertation.

This project asked researchers at UWE Bristol about their experience with, and opinions about, altmetrics and social media.

UWE Research Support annual report 2017-2018 (2018)
Report

Annual report covering the work of the Library Research Support Team, including updates on the Research Repository, Data Repository, and APC payments.

Customer service and the Future Library at the University of the West of England (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation given at the Erasmus library staff mobility week in Dublin, giving an overview of the library service’s approach to customer service and plans for the future to enhance the user experience.

Careers in times of social and political change: The impact of Brexit on UK undergraduates' perception of career (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The substantive impact of Brexit on the graduate labour market in the UK is, as yet, far from clear. However a number of recent surveys of UK graduates suggest that up to 39% believe that it will be more difficult to secure graduate employment as a r... Read More about Careers in times of social and political change: The impact of Brexit on UK undergraduates' perception of career.

Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology (2017)
Journal Article

This paper surveys the nascent experiments in political ecology underway in predominantly Kurdish areas of south-eastern Turkey, known as Bakûr, and Rojava (northern Syria). The Kurdish freedom movement is attempting to consolidate a social revolutio... Read More about Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology.

UWE Research Support annual report 2016-2017 (2017)
Report

Annual report covering the work of the Library Research Support Team, including updates on the Research Repository.

Supporting research staff and postgraduates at the University of the West of England, Bristol: The growth of library research support (2017)
Journal Article

In common with many other universities, the University of the West of England Bristol (UWE Bristol) has developed its library support for research staff and students to respond to the strategic objectives of the institution and the changing research... Read More about Supporting research staff and postgraduates at the University of the West of England, Bristol: The growth of library research support.

Supporting the library and information needs of UWE health and social care students on placement (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Health Libraries Group Objective: The aim of this research was to explore the library and information needs of health and social care students whilst on placement. Methods: Both desk and primary research were conducted and included an online q... Read More about Supporting the library and information needs of UWE health and social care students on placement.

Skill up! Supporting academic success at UWE Bristol (2016)
Journal Article

The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) Library Services launched Skill up!, a new online learning platform to support Academic Success in September 2015.

UWE Research Repository annual report Sep 2014 - Aug 2015 (2015)
Report

Power to the People: Renewable Energy in Brenda Vale’s Albion and other Literary Utopias (2015)
Book Chapter

Brenda Vale has been a leading exponent of alternative technology and green architecture since the 1970s. This essay situates her only novel, Albion (1982), within a genre of libertarian utopian literature which includes William Morris’s News from No... Read More about Power to the People: Renewable Energy in Brenda Vale’s Albion and other Literary Utopias.

Open doors: Library cross-sector co-operation in Bristol, UK (2015)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - This paper outlines the aims, activities and outcomes of a project to pilot a reciprocal borrowing scheme between public and academic libraries using existing cards, i.e. public library cards in the acade... Read More about Open doors: Library cross-sector co-operation in Bristol, UK.

Update on open access and the HEFCE requirements for the REF (2014)
Other

A presentation on UWE's response to the post 2014 HEFCE requirements for the Research Excellence Framework (REF). This presentation gives researchers the information needed to ensure their research is eligible for consideration for the next REF.

UWE Research Repository annual report Sept 2013 - Aug 2014 (2014)
Other

Inspiring library partnerships: Evaluation of a unique reciprocal borrowing scheme between Higher Education and local authorities in the West of England (2014)
Report

The SWRLS Open Doors project was a partnership between LibrariesWest (led by South Gloucestershire Library Service) and UWE Bristol Library Services and funded by SWRLS (South Western Regional Library Service). The aim was to pilot a reciprocal borro... Read More about Inspiring library partnerships: Evaluation of a unique reciprocal borrowing scheme between Higher Education and local authorities in the West of England.

The revolutionary urbanism of street farm: Eco-anarchism, architecture and alternative technology in the 1970s (2014)
Book

Stephen E Hunt has produced the definitive account of Street Farm (Graham Caine, Peter Crump and Bruce Haggart), a London-based collective of anarchist architects working in the early 1970s.

The three friends put together Street Farmer, an undergr... Read More about The revolutionary urbanism of street farm: Eco-anarchism, architecture and alternative technology in the 1970s.