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Developing a capacity to engage in critical reflection: Students' 'ways of knowing' within an undergraduate business and accounting programme (2013)
Journal Article

The development of a capacity to engage in critical reflection is central to higher education. However, students vary in this capacity and its development requires students to move from an absolute towards a contextual way of knowing. Using 32 semi-s... Read More about Developing a capacity to engage in critical reflection: Students' 'ways of knowing' within an undergraduate business and accounting programme.

Gaps in the intersections: Methodological approaches to continuity of care research (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop introduces intersectionality theory, its relevance to nursing practice, and its practical application in a research study. The facilitators will explore the underlying ideas and assumptions of intersectionality, what to consider when us... Read More about Gaps in the intersections: Methodological approaches to continuity of care research.

Screening for cardiovascular risk in patients with severe mental illness in primary care: A comparison with patients with diabetes (2013)
Journal Article

Background People with severe mental illness (SMI) have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared with the general population. Clinical guidelines recommend annual screening for CVD risk factors with appropriate lifestyle coun... Read More about Screening for cardiovascular risk in patients with severe mental illness in primary care: A comparison with patients with diabetes.

An exploration of the experiences of mothers who breastfeed long-term: What are the issues and why does it matter? (2013)
Journal Article

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) promotes breastfeeding for 2 years and beyond. Despite this, only 25% of women in the United Kingdom are breastfeeding at all by 6 months postpartum, with a minority of women breastfeeding beyond the fi... Read More about An exploration of the experiences of mothers who breastfeed long-term: What are the issues and why does it matter?.

Tracing the Democratic Narrative: Big Society, Localism and Civic Engagement (2013)
Journal Article

This paper engages with recent policy changes in the UK surrounding the government's Big Society and localism agenda. Examining the framework and condition through which these programmes are developing in England, the article traces the conceptual de... Read More about Tracing the Democratic Narrative: Big Society, Localism and Civic Engagement.

Survey of context provisioning middleware (2013)
Journal Article

In the scope of ubiquitous computing, one of the key issues is the awareness of context, which includes diverse aspects of the user's situation including his activities, physical surroundings, location, emotions and social relations, device and netwo... Read More about Survey of context provisioning middleware.

The Attitudes, Perceptions and Concerns of Pedestrians and Vulnerable Road Users to Shared Space: A Case Study from the UK (2013)
Journal Article

The concept of shared space is increasingly being incorporated into urban areas in the UK, promoting a major change in the way streets are designed. Shared space is a design feature that aims to encourage pedestrians, cyclists and drivers to share th... Read More about The Attitudes, Perceptions and Concerns of Pedestrians and Vulnerable Road Users to Shared Space: A Case Study from the UK.

Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children with speech difficulties: Findings from a prospective population study (2013)
Journal Article

Techniques for the inference of mileage rates from MOT data (2013)
Journal Article

Mathematical and computational techniques are developed for the processing and analysis of annual Ministry of Transport roadworthiness (MOT) test data that the UK Department for Transport has placed in the public domain. First, techniques are given t... Read More about Techniques for the inference of mileage rates from MOT data.

Strategies to prevent unintentional injuries among children and young people aged under 15: Evidence update February 2013 (2013)
Other

Young people’s perceptions of visible difference (2013)
Journal Article

Visible facial differences (VFDs) can pose a number of psychosocial challenges for those affected by them. In particular, the experience of being stigmatised may have a harmful effect on the psychological adjustment of the individual concerned. This... Read More about Young people’s perceptions of visible difference.

Extending the role of technology enhanced learning within an undergraduate radiography programme (2013)
Journal Article

This study was undertaken in 2011, set against a background of increasing pressures to integrate Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), both in higher education and the NHS. The primary aim of the study was to produce a user-friendly guide for academics... Read More about Extending the role of technology enhanced learning within an undergraduate radiography programme.

The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990 (2013)
Thesis

This thesis explores radical left-wing documentary produced in Britain since 1990. Despite constituting a lively and diverse part of contemporary British film culture, oppositional documentary has been overlooked by film and media scholars for much o... Read More about The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990.

Educational achievements in Pierre Robin Sequence (2013)
Journal Article

The aim of this retrospective population-based study was to determine if there is any significant difference in academic achievement between students with a Pierre Robin Sequence (PRS) compared with the general population of Swedish students at the t... Read More about Educational achievements in Pierre Robin Sequence.

Women's use of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy: A journey to normal birth (2013)
Journal Article

This paper presents some findings of a research study which explored women’s motivations and experiences of use complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy and childbirth. A narrative approach was chosen as through story telling it is possib... Read More about Women's use of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy: A journey to normal birth.

The deep roots of undigified care (2013)
Journal Article

Leadership Matters: Tensions in Evaluating Leadership Development (2013)
Journal Article

The Problem. This article explores some of the tensions that required careful management in the design and delivery of a leadership development program. This discussion draws particularly upon a formal evaluation of two cohorts, each comprising appro... Read More about Leadership Matters: Tensions in Evaluating Leadership Development.

The influence of a fluid-porous interface on solar pond stability (2013)
Journal Article

The linear instability of the gradient zone of a solar pond containing a fluid-porous interface is investigated. It is found that the gradient zone can retain the same stability for lower values of the solute Rayleigh number with the introduction of... Read More about The influence of a fluid-porous interface on solar pond stability.

Searching the Internet for help with pain: Adolescent search, coping, and medication behaviour (2013)
Journal Article

Objectives To explore a community sample of adolescents for engagement with online pain resources. To assess if the use of the Internet to search for health information correlated with measures of coping, risk taking, catastrophizing about pain, and... Read More about Searching the Internet for help with pain: Adolescent search, coping, and medication behaviour.

Ansel Adams’s Born Free and Equal (1944): The social and ethical context (2013)
Book Chapter

The project was launched in 2008 and is funded by the Dr. Carlo Fleischmann Foundation. “Geography of Photography” aims to study the photographic cultures of different countries and different continents. In the long-term this will allow the creation... Read More about Ansel Adams’s Born Free and Equal (1944): The social and ethical context.