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Attentional biases towards body expressions of pain in men and women (2021)
Journal Article
Keogh, E., Attridge, N., Walsh, J., Bartlett, J., Francis, R., Bultitude, J. H., & Eccleston, C. (2021). Attentional biases towards body expressions of pain in men and women. Journal of Pain, 22(12), 1696-1708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2021.06.003

This study investigated whether there are gender differences in attention to bodily expressions of pain and core emotions. Three experiments are reported using the attentional dot probe task. Images of men and women displaying bodily expressions, inc... Read More about Attentional biases towards body expressions of pain in men and women.

‘Where are all the men?’ Working-class male students and care-based degrees (2021)
Journal Article
Johnston, C., & Bradford, S. (2022). ‘Where are all the men?’ Working-class male students and care-based degrees. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 46(6), 753-765. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2021.2002283

This article draws on data from a small qualitative study of men on care-based degree pathways in one university in England. There is little research that specifically considers the experiences of working-class men on these courses. The article explo... Read More about ‘Where are all the men?’ Working-class male students and care-based degrees.

Isolation, uncertainty and treatment delays: Parents’ experiences of having a baby with cleft lip/palate during the Covid-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Costa, B., McWilliams, D., Blighe, S., Hudson, N., Hotton, M., Swan, M. C., & Stock, N. M. (2023). Isolation, uncertainty and treatment delays: Parents’ experiences of having a baby with cleft lip/palate during the Covid-19 pandemic. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 60(1), 82-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/10556656211055006

Objectives: Previous literature finds that having a child with a cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) may pose social and emotional challenges for parents. For parents of children born during the Covid-19 pandemic, such challenges may be heightened. Furthe... Read More about Isolation, uncertainty and treatment delays: Parents’ experiences of having a baby with cleft lip/palate during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Collective securitization and crisification of EU policy change: Two decades of EU Counterterrorism Policy (2021)
Journal Article
Kaunert, C., & Léonard, S. (2021). Collective securitization and crisification of EU policy change: Two decades of EU Counterterrorism Policy. Global Affairs, 7(5), 687-693. https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2021.2002098

One of the founding fathers of the European Union (EU) was very correct in suggesting that people would only recognize the necessity of change once a crisis was upon them, as the “war on terror” would show. The EU, as this special issue shows, joi... Read More about Collective securitization and crisification of EU policy change: Two decades of EU Counterterrorism Policy.

The collective securitization of aviation in the European Union through association with terrorism (2021)
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Kaunert, C., Callander, B., & Léonard, S. (2021). The collective securitization of aviation in the European Union through association with terrorism. Global Affairs, 7(5), 669-686. https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2021.2002099

This article analyses the expansion of European Union cooperation on aviation security using the framework of collective securitization. It establishes how 9/11 was a precipitating event that put terrorism and aviation security in the spotlight. 9/11... Read More about The collective securitization of aviation in the European Union through association with terrorism.

Improving body image at scale among Brazilian adolescents: Study protocol for the co-creation and randomised trial evaluation of a chatbot intervention (2021)
Journal Article
Matheson, E., Smith, H., Amaral, A., Meireles, J., Almeida, M., Mora, G., …Diedrichs, P. (2021). Improving body image at scale among Brazilian adolescents: Study protocol for the co-creation and randomised trial evaluation of a chatbot intervention. BMC Public Health, 21(1), Article 2135. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12129-1

Background: Body image concerns are prevalent among Brazilian adolescents and can lead to poor psychological and physical health. Yet, there is a scarcity of culturally-appropriate, evidence-based interventions that have been evaluated and made widel... Read More about Improving body image at scale among Brazilian adolescents: Study protocol for the co-creation and randomised trial evaluation of a chatbot intervention.

Recruiting hard-to-engage groups to online psychosocial interventions: Experiences from an RCT study targeting adolescents with a visible difference (2021)
Journal Article
Kling, J., Nordgreen, T., Kvalem, I. L., Williamson, H., & Feragen, K. B. (2021). Recruiting hard-to-engage groups to online psychosocial interventions: Experiences from an RCT study targeting adolescents with a visible difference. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 24, Article 100869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2021.100869

Online interventions have the potential to reach individuals who are otherwise difficult to engage due to stigma and sensitive topics. However, these individuals also tend to be hard to recruit in clinical trials, a crucial step in order to provide e... Read More about Recruiting hard-to-engage groups to online psychosocial interventions: Experiences from an RCT study targeting adolescents with a visible difference.

‘Dove Confident Me Indonesia: Single Session’: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a school-based body image intervention among Indonesian adolescents (2021)
Journal Article
Craddock, N., Garbett, K. M., Haywood, S., Nasution, K., White, P., Saraswati, L. A., …Diedrichs, P. C. (2021). ‘Dove Confident Me Indonesia: Single Session’: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a school-based body image intervention among Indonesian adolescents. BMC Public Health, 21(1), Article 2102. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11770-0

Background: Due to the prevalence and associated adverse health consequences of negative body image among adolescents globally, there is a need to develop acceptable, effective, and scalable interventions. School-based body image interventions delive... Read More about ‘Dove Confident Me Indonesia: Single Session’: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a school-based body image intervention among Indonesian adolescents.

A multi-centred sequential trial comparing PEGASUS, an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with usual care (2021)
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Paraskeva, N., Tollow, P., Clarke, A., White, P., Powell, J. E., Cox, D. M., & Harcourt, D. M. (2022). A multi-centred sequential trial comparing PEGASUS, an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with usual care. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 75(4), 1342-1351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2021.11.033

Decision making about breast reconstruction (BR) is complex. The Patients’ Expectations and Goals: Assisting Shared Understanding of Surgery (PEGASUS) intervention aims to support shared decision making by helping women and clinicians clarify and dis... Read More about A multi-centred sequential trial comparing PEGASUS, an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with usual care.

Predictors of school students’ leisure-time physical activity: An extended trans-contextual model using Bayesian path analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Polet, J. J., Schneider, J., Hassandra, M., Lintunen, T., Laukkanen, A., Hankonen, N., …Hagger, M. S. (2021). Predictors of school students’ leisure-time physical activity: An extended trans-contextual model using Bayesian path analysis. PLoS ONE, 16(11), Article e0258829. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258829

The present study aimed to examine effects of motivational and social cognition constructs on children’s leisure-time physical activity participation alongside constructs representing implicit processes using an extended trans-contextual model. The s... Read More about Predictors of school students’ leisure-time physical activity: An extended trans-contextual model using Bayesian path analysis.

Testing the responsiveness of and defining MID (minimal important difference) values for the CARe Burn Scales: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess quality of life for children and young people affected by burn injuries, and their parents/caregivers (2021)
Journal Article
Griffiths, C., Tollow, P., Cox, D., White, P., Pickles, T., & Harcourt, D. (2021). Testing the responsiveness of and defining MID (minimal important difference) values for the CARe Burn Scales: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess quality of life for children and young people affected by burn injuries, and their parents/caregivers. European Burn Journal, 2(4), 249-280

Background: The CARe Burn Scales are a portfolio of burn-specific PROMs for people affected by burns, including a Child Form (for children < 8 years (Parent-proxy)), a Young Person Form (for young people aged 8 -17 years), an Adult Form, and a Parent... Read More about Testing the responsiveness of and defining MID (minimal important difference) values for the CARe Burn Scales: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess quality of life for children and young people affected by burn injuries, and their parents/caregivers.

How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic (2021)
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Rydström, L. L., Ångström-Brännström, C., Blake, L., Brayl, L., Carter, B., Forsner, M., …Lindholm Olinder, A. (2022). How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 50(1), 144-151. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948211051884

Aim: To describe how children in Sweden accessed and perceived information about SARS-CoV2 and Covid-19 during the first phase of the outbreak. Methods: This study is a substudy of an international cross-sectional online mixed methods survey examinin... Read More about How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Factors associated with patient activation in inflammatory arthritis: A multisite cross-sectional study (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, B., Ndosi, M., Hunt, A., Harcourt, D., & Dures, E. (2021). Factors associated with patient activation in inflammatory arthritis: A multisite cross-sectional study. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 5(Supplement_2), ii35-ii44. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkab053

Objectives Patient activation covers the skills, abilities and behaviour that impact how able and willing someone is to take an active role in self-managing their health. This study explored clinical and psychosocial factors associated with patient a... Read More about Factors associated with patient activation in inflammatory arthritis: A multisite cross-sectional study.

A new perspective on robot ethics through investigating human–robot interactions with older adults (2021)
Journal Article
van Maris, A., Zook, N., Dogramadzi, S., Studley, M., Winfield, A., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2021). A new perspective on robot ethics through investigating human–robot interactions with older adults. Applied Sciences, 11(21), Article 10136. https://doi.org/10.3390/app112110136

This work explored the use of human–robot interaction research to investigate robot ethics. A longitudinal human–robot interaction study was conducted with self-reported healthy older adults to determine whether expression of artificial emotions by a... Read More about A new perspective on robot ethics through investigating human–robot interactions with older adults.

Refugee flows and terrorism in the European Union: Securitization through association (2021)
Journal Article
Léonard, S., & Kaunert, C. (2021). Refugee flows and terrorism in the European Union: Securitization through association. International Politics, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-021-00359-4

This article contributes to the debates on the securitization of asylum and migration in Europe by focussing on the securitization of asylum-seekers through their association with terrorism during the ‘refugee crisis’, which coincided with a ‘terrori... Read More about Refugee flows and terrorism in the European Union: Securitization through association.

Burglars as optimal foragers: Exploring modern-day tricks of the trade (2021)
Journal Article
Addis, N., Evans, A., & Malleson, N. (2021). Burglars as optimal foragers: Exploring modern-day tricks of the trade. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 23(4), 359-380. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41300-021-00125-x

Based on semi-structured interviews with 23 incarcerated burglars, this paper details findings from a qualitative examination into how the principles of Optimal Forager Theory (to minimise time and effort, minimise risk of detection, and maximise rew... Read More about Burglars as optimal foragers: Exploring modern-day tricks of the trade.

Student mental health in higher education: The contextual influence of “cuts, competition & comparison” (2021)
Journal Article
Thompson, M., Pawson, C., Delfino, A., Saunders, A., & Parker, H. (2022). Student mental health in higher education: The contextual influence of “cuts, competition & comparison”. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 92(2), Article e12461. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12461

Background: The mental health of students in UK higher education (HE) is receiving increased attention, and support services for students are under increased pressure. Aims: Drawing on ecological systems theory (EST), this study sought to explore pos... Read More about Student mental health in higher education: The contextual influence of “cuts, competition & comparison”.