All Outputs (35)

Moving beyond the individual: The impact and importance of sociocultural influences on visible difference (2025)
Journal Article

This paper examines sociocultural factors that shape the experiences of people living with visible differences, highlighting the impact of stigma, societal judgment and appearance-based discrimination, traditional and social media, and the importance... Read More about Moving beyond the individual: The impact and importance of sociocultural influences on visible difference.

Cortrak feeding tube safety: Criteria for interpreting lung misplacement (2025)
Journal Article

Abstract
Background
Pneumothorax occurs in 0.52% of blind tube placements, with 97% occurring in-procedure. Post-procedure pH or X-ray checks cannot prevent these but CO2 checks or guided tube placement can. Cortrak guided tube placement is widespr... Read More about Cortrak feeding tube safety: Criteria for interpreting lung misplacement.

Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China (2025)
Journal Article

Purpose: Design for Safety (DfS) has been studied as an effective method to reduce injuries and fatalities in construction. Although the benefits of implementing DfS are gradually being recognised, there is limited research on DfS in developing count... Read More about Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China.

What is currently known about female genital mutilation and incontinence: A narrative literature review (2025)
Journal Article

Background: An estimated 230 million girls and women are living with female genital mutilation (FGM) which causes ongoing physical and psychological harm. This review aims to explore what is known about FGM and incontinence, including the underexamin... Read More about What is currently known about female genital mutilation and incontinence: A narrative literature review.

Positive humanity, when? Is masculinity worth saving? (2025)
Journal Article

Women have demanded their humanity as full human beings; perhaps it is because this is a women’s demand that so much policy aimed at saving men and alleviating men’s suffering is instead focussed on saving masculinity. Many programmes addressed at th... Read More about Positive humanity, when? Is masculinity worth saving?.

Podcast - everything is so very much connected - Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman (2025)
Digital Artefact

Audio from an artists' talk for World Collage Day:

Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman invited the public to join them on Zoom for an informal talk about their recent collaborative collage project for World Collage Day - Saturday 10th May 2025. Their m... Read More about Podcast - everything is so very much connected - Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman.

A systematic review of occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction (2025)
Journal Article

The construction industry is facing increased pressure to enhance efficiency and safety, owing to its high incident rates. Modular integrated construction (MiC) has gained significant attention from scholars and practitioners as a viable means of enh... Read More about A systematic review of occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction.

Master protocol for a series of cohort-based randomized controlled trials to test tools to communicate research results to study participants and others with relevant lived experience: The SPIN-CLEAR Trials (2025)
Journal Article

Background
Research results are often not communicated to study participants or others with relevant lived experience. Effective communication of research results would help study participants understand their contribution to research and could impr... Read More about Master protocol for a series of cohort-based randomized controlled trials to test tools to communicate research results to study participants and others with relevant lived experience: The SPIN-CLEAR Trials.

OA34 The contributions of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement groups to the conduct of a scoping review of non-pharmacological interventions for reducing fatigue in children and young people with musculoskeletal conditions (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background/Aims Fatigue is an important symptom for people of all ages with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. This includes the 234,000 children and young people (CYP) in England and Scotland currently living with conditions such as juvenile inflamma... Read More about OA34 The contributions of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement groups to the conduct of a scoping review of non-pharmacological interventions for reducing fatigue in children and young people with musculoskeletal conditions.

User-centered design of Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) for people living with dementia (2025)
Journal Article

As the population of persons living with dementia (PwDs) continues to rise, technological advancements offer an unprecedented opportunity to enhance their independence and quality of life while lowering the burden on the caregivers. Notably, the Inte... Read More about User-centered design of Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) for people living with dementia.

Higher education matters vodcast: The evolution of the student experience (2025)
Digital Artefact

In this episode, host James Hazzard is joined by Antony Hill, Cathy Minett-Smith, and Jackie Rogers for a timely discussion on how universities are reimagining what it means to support, empower, and engage students in a post-pandemic world.

From p... Read More about Higher education matters vodcast: The evolution of the student experience.

Hive mind for Net Zero: Towards a social engagement model for collective home energy behaviour change (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Assessing barriers and opportunities for the improvement of laboratory performance and robust surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria– a quantitative study (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Good quality data is essential in optimising containment strategies for antimicrobial resistance, a global public health threat estimated to cause around 10 million deaths yearly and up-to 5% loss in GDP by 2050 if left unaddressed. The l... Read More about Assessing barriers and opportunities for the improvement of laboratory performance and robust surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria– a quantitative study.

unfolding library (2025)
Exhibition / Performance

Tricia Treacy + Denise Bookwalter curators of a collaborative project, unfolding library. We prompted a handful of artists + designers to make a book object within the past six weeks about a passage of time. We are excited to "table" as a method to e... Read More about unfolding library.

Heart failure and participation in physical activity (The HAPPY + study): Health professional support and availability of community physical activity services (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract

Background Nearly 1 million people in the UK are living with heart failure (HF). Most people diagnosed with HF are managed in primary care. Physical activity can increase wellbeing, reduce hospitalisation and improve mortality rates for... Read More about Heart failure and participation in physical activity (The HAPPY + study): Health professional support and availability of community physical activity services.

Physical activity support for people with heart failure: mixed-methods study protocol (2025)
Journal Article

Heart failure (HF) is a common condition affecting 1-2 in every hundred adults in the UK and one in six people aged over 85 years. Physical activity is important for people with HF (PWHF) as it can increase exercise capacity and is shown to improve q... Read More about Physical activity support for people with heart failure: mixed-methods study protocol.

Early maladaptive schemas (2025)
Journal Article

In this study the association of early maladaptive schemas with anxiety, depression and academic self efficacy was explored in a large sample of undergraduate psychology students. Significant correlations were observed with anxiety and depression but... Read More about Early maladaptive schemas.

Hybrid graph convolutional LSTM model for spatio-temporal air quality transfer learning (2025)
Journal Article

The short-term air quality forecasting models serve as an early warning system for local agencies, aiding in preparing mitigation strategies against severe pollution episodes. This paper explores the application of Transfer Learning to enhance short-... Read More about Hybrid graph convolutional LSTM model for spatio-temporal air quality transfer learning.

Patient perspectives on the impact of appearance and weight changes attributed to systemic glucocorticoid treatment of rheumatic diseases (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives To explore patients’ perspectives on the impact of appearance changes attributed to glucocorticoid treatment. Methods We conducted a secondary inductive thematic analysis of the ‘Steroid PRO’ semi-structured interviews with patients with r... Read More about Patient perspectives on the impact of appearance and weight changes attributed to systemic glucocorticoid treatment of rheumatic diseases.

Moderating effects of coping behaviors on stressors–Stress relationships of ethnic minority construction workers (2025)
Journal Article

To overcome the shortage of construction workers in developed countries, the construction industry recruits a minority workforce from developing countries. However, ethnic minority construction workers (EM-CWs) experience numerous stressors in the h... Read More about Moderating effects of coping behaviors on stressors–Stress relationships of ethnic minority construction workers.