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When is organisational resizing helpful or harmful for innovation outputs? (2024)
Journal Article

Studies on the effect of downsizing on organisational innovation have generated mixed and often contradictory results. Recent evidence has attempted to reconcile such inconsistencies by showing that downsizing has a dual effect on innovation, contin... Read More about When is organisational resizing helpful or harmful for innovation outputs?.

Comparing the school curriculum across the UK (2024)
Report

The school curriculum in England is the responsibility of the Westminster Government. Since devolution (1997-99), the respective state school curriculums in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, have been a devolved matter. Education policy in Scotl... Read More about Comparing the school curriculum across the UK.

Reacting, retreating, regulating, and reconnecting: How autistic adults in the United Kingdom use time alone for well-being (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Firsthand accounts by autistic people describe a need for regular time alone. However, there is little in the literature that explores (1) why time alone is desired, (2) how that time is spent, or (3) where that time is spent. This articl... Read More about Reacting, retreating, regulating, and reconnecting: How autistic adults in the United Kingdom use time alone for well-being.

Practitioner views on transport planning's evolution – A Sisyphean task still ahead? (2024)
Journal Article

Transport planning as a formalised profession is relatively young and there is no doubt it has evolved over time. In Europe, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans reflect a change in emphasis from keeping traffic moving to place-based, people-centric plan... Read More about Practitioner views on transport planning's evolution – A Sisyphean task still ahead?.

School health assistant delivery of an extended brief intervention for parents and carers of overweight children aged 4-5 years. Evaluation report: Executive Summary (2024)
Report

This is an executive summary of the evaluation of a healthy weight extended brief intervention (EBI), a pilot project developed by Bristol City Council, North Somerset Council, and South Gloucestershire Council, with Sirona care and health, which ran... Read More about School health assistant delivery of an extended brief intervention for parents and carers of overweight children aged 4-5 years. Evaluation report: Executive Summary.

School Health Assistant delivery of an extended brief intervention for parents and carers of verweight children aged 4-5 years: Evaluation report (2024)
Report

This is a report on the RE-AIM evaluation of a healthy weight extended brief intervention (EBI), a pilot project developed by Bristol City Council, North Somerset Council, and South Gloucestershire Council, with Sirona care and health, which ran from... Read More about School Health Assistant delivery of an extended brief intervention for parents and carers of verweight children aged 4-5 years: Evaluation report.

Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning ‘stick’ for tutees and tutors? (2024)
Journal Article

Teaching reading is a key element of initial teacher education programmes in England. This study contributes to the research about the most effective way to ensure preservice teachers have the necessary skills and knowledge to teach reading. One-to-o... Read More about Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning ‘stick’ for tutees and tutors?.

Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers Cusk’s style across her most recent fiction and non-fiction, examining it as a site of discrepant tensions, torn between silence and expression, passivity and participation, objectivity and subjectivity, or as Cusk puts it, wit... Read More about Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style.

Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experime... Read More about Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction.

Talking men's health: Understanding and supporting men with long-term conditions (2024)
Book

This book explores male health psychology in relation to chronic health conditions. Using data from men with rheumatic diseases as a starting point, this book draws on the wider literature to focus on how men talk about different aspects of living wi... Read More about Talking men's health: Understanding and supporting men with long-term conditions.

Exploring Black women’s experiences in UK psychotherapeutic training and practice (2024)
Thesis

Discussions around racial disparities and social injustice have gained increasing prominence in Western societies. However, psychotherapeutic research is increasingly criticised for its omission of Black women’s intersecting experiences, this include... Read More about Exploring Black women’s experiences in UK psychotherapeutic training and practice.

Investigating a deep learning approach to real-time air quality prediction and visualisation on UK highways (2024)
Thesis

The construction of intercity highways by the United Kingdom (UK) government has resulted in a progressive increase in vehicle emissions and pollution from noise, dust, and vibrations amid growing concerns about air pollution. Existing roadside pollu... Read More about Investigating a deep learning approach to real-time air quality prediction and visualisation on UK highways.

Characterising the amplitude and mechanisms responsible for the pushout load and torque for a staked self-lubricating spherical plain bearing (2024)
Thesis

Staking is a cold metal joining process widely used in the manufacture of self-lubricating spherical plain aerospace bearings. These are used to form components such as tie-rod links or threaded rod ends as often seen on control surfaces for rotary w... Read More about Characterising the amplitude and mechanisms responsible for the pushout load and torque for a staked self-lubricating spherical plain bearing.

Determination of a pilot sample size to determine the sample size of a substantive trial (2024)
Thesis

This research intends to determine the appropriate sample sizes for two-arm pilot studies to help correctly determine the required sample size for the corresponding substantive or definitive trial. Previous research in the area has been reviewed. R p... Read More about Determination of a pilot sample size to determine the sample size of a substantive trial.

From mandate to co-create: Leading the development of inclusive performance evaluation criteria (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose
Annual performance evaluations of faculty are a routine, yet essential, task in higher education. Creating (or revising) performance criteria presents an opportunity for leaders to work with their teams to co-create evaluation metrics that b... Read More about From mandate to co-create: Leading the development of inclusive performance evaluation criteria.

Exploring discrete space-time models for information transfer: Analogies from mycelial networks to the cosmic web (2024)
Journal Article

Fungal mycelium networks are large scale biological networks along which nutrients, metabolites flow. Recently, we discovered a rich spectrum of electrical activity in mycelium networks, including action-potential spikes and trains of spikes. Reasoni... Read More about Exploring discrete space-time models for information transfer: Analogies from mycelial networks to the cosmic web.

Development and demonstration of a “SWOT in a Box” card game to help socialise Triple Access Planning (2024)
Journal Article

In a changing world, not being able to simply carry on doing what we have always done and getting what we have always got gives rise to an appetite for alternative approaches. Yet an alternative approach must contend with established practice and the... Read More about Development and demonstration of a “SWOT in a Box” card game to help socialise Triple Access Planning.

The impact of the initial teacher education reaccreditation process on teacher educator identity (2024)
Journal Article

This article reports initial findings from a research project that focused on the impact of the reaccreditation process and its outcomes on teacher educators in four institutions in England where Qualified Teacher Status accreditation was removed, de... Read More about The impact of the initial teacher education reaccreditation process on teacher educator identity.

Connectedness and inequitable access to formal financing in Uzbekistan (2024)
Book Chapter

The belief that a centrally planned system results in wastefulness whilst a market-based system yields an efficient allocation of resources was central to post-Communist economies’ decisions to transform from a centrally planned to a market-based sys... Read More about Connectedness and inequitable access to formal financing in Uzbekistan.

Review – Through the Darkest of Times (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

This emotive and thought-provoking videogame successfully recognises the complexities and significance of lesser-known efforts to resist the Nazi regime within Germany.