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How can teaching and learning experiences of secondary school teachers and students in England change so well-being can improve? (2024)
Thesis

This research contributes to the body of knowledge that currently exists around teacher and student well-being in secondary schools in England. It achieves this through the perceptions of both teachers and students and their joint engagement in conve... Read More about How can teaching and learning experiences of secondary school teachers and students in England change so well-being can improve?.

Protecting everyday nature (2024)
Journal Article

‘Everyday nature’, understood as people’s ability to access nature nearby, should be protected in law and planning policy, facilitating three key benefits: (1) human health and wellbeing; (2) intrinsic and extrinsic ecological advantages; and (3) sup... Read More about Protecting everyday nature.

Impact of corruption on achieving sustainable development goals within Africas construction industry (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Corruption is prevalent across the construction industry in developing countries. This is due to converging factors such as (a) the sector’s requirement for substantial capital investment, (b) government involvement, (c) time pressures to deliver new... Read More about Impact of corruption on achieving sustainable development goals within Africas construction industry.

Re-establishing historic ecosystem links through targeted species reintroduction: Beaver-mediated wetlands support increased bat activity (2024)
Journal Article

Despite the global significance of wetlands, conservation strategies often fall short in preserving these ecosystems due to failures in incorporating processes that sustain the ecosystem functioning, hydrological dynamics, ecological processes, and b... Read More about Re-establishing historic ecosystem links through targeted species reintroduction: Beaver-mediated wetlands support increased bat activity.

Trends in transport injuries burden and risk factors among children under 14 years old in China: 1990–2019 (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Transport injuries (TI) remains one of leading causes of death in children in China. This study aimed to analyze the temporal trend of disease burden and associated risk factors of TI among children aged 0–14 years in China, utilizing dat... Read More about Trends in transport injuries burden and risk factors among children under 14 years old in China: 1990–2019.

Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis (2024)
Journal Article

Engaging young people with the effects and potential future impacts of climate crisis is essential for facilitating the changes required. These topics and their consequences can be overwhelming, and the emotional responses equally diverse, from anxie... Read More about Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis.

An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability (2024)
Journal Article

Assumptions about fostering human capital for national competitiveness underpin higher education policy drivers regarding employability. Departing from this focus on human capital development, research has highlighted the importance of relationality... Read More about An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability.

Neurons as autoencoders (2024)
Journal Article

This letter presents the idea that neural backpropagation is exploiting dendritic processing to enable individual neurons to perform autoencoding. Using a very simple connection weight search heuristic and artificial neural network model, the effects... Read More about Neurons as autoencoders.

Men accepting rewards for sex, sexual content and performance: A qualitative study of the health and wellbeing needs of 'male sex workers' (2024)
Thesis

Background
Male sex workers continue to be underrepresented in both the academic literature and across health care provision. Previous attempts to address health and wellbeing needs are limited to a sexual health focus or are based on the comparativ... Read More about Men accepting rewards for sex, sexual content and performance: A qualitative study of the health and wellbeing needs of 'male sex workers'.

Deletions in the MAL gene result in loss of Mal protein, defining the rare inherited AnWj-negative blood group phenotype (2024)
Journal Article

The genetic background of the high prevalence red blood cell antigen AnWj has remained unresolved since its identification in 1972, despite reported associations with both CD44 and Smyd1 histone methyltransferase. Development of anti-AnWj, which may... Read More about Deletions in the MAL gene result in loss of Mal protein, defining the rare inherited AnWj-negative blood group phenotype.