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Putting the pieces together in Reuniting Planning and Health – Lessons from an ESRC seminar series (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited presentation for the Launch event of the Town & Country Planning special edition on planning for health, 1st December 2016, TCPA London

Improving the student experience through feedforward dialogic assessment (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Assessment exercises a major influence on student learning and achievement (Boud 2007). Yet QAA subject reviews identify assessment practices as one of the weakest features of Higher Education (Rust et al. 2005). In terms of the student learning expe... Read More about Improving the student experience through feedforward dialogic assessment.

Conflict, contradiction, and concern: Judges' evaluation of sustainability in architectural awards (2016)
Journal Article

This paper explores how judges evaluate sustainability of buildings in RIBA award settings in the UK. A qualitative approach drawing on institutional theory is used to understand the ways judges legitimate particular evaluative views. Aesthetics and... Read More about Conflict, contradiction, and concern: Judges' evaluation of sustainability in architectural awards.

Women in senior post-graduate medicine career roles in the UK: a qualitative study (2016)
Journal Article

Objectives:

This qualitative study sought to elicit the views, experiences, career journeys and aspirations of women in senior post-graduate medical education roles to identify steps needed to help support career progression.

Design:

In-dept... Read More about Women in senior post-graduate medicine career roles in the UK: a qualitative study.

The effects of over-education on returns in the graduate labour market (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Using a Household Income Survey (HIS), this study examines the private returns to education in Malaysian
financial sector. First, we estimate the private returns to education using the highest certificate qualification or
“sheepskin effects". Sec... Read More about The effects of over-education on returns in the graduate labour market.

What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this study is to present the analysis of an online survey that was conducted in order to investigate individual attitudes and requirements from an online financial awareness platform. The survey aimed to elicit users’ self-assessed financi... Read More about What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey.

Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. An individual's performance on cognitive and perceptual tasks varies considerably across time and circumstances. We investigated neural mechanisms underlying such performance variability using regression-based analyses to examin... Read More about Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity.

Abuse is abuse (2016)
Digital Artefact

A piece discussing the complexity of sexual abuse in modern society and our reaction to it.

Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter explored relevant literature and touched on a variety of tools that can contribute to the estimation of the costs of implementing and maintaining SuDS, and the evaluation of flood damage reduction, stormwater management and other benefit... Read More about Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage.

South Gloucestershire diabetes prevention pilot project: Full evaluation report (2016)
Report

Introduction
Type 2 diabetes is a serious, expensive and growing public health challenge. In England, national guidance recommends intensive lifestyle interventions promoting weight loss for people at risk of diabetes, and programmes of individualis... Read More about South Gloucestershire diabetes prevention pilot project: Full evaluation report.

Renewing acquaintance with James Britton (2016)
Journal Article

John Hodgson reports on LATE’s celebration of the work of one of NATE’s founding figures, James Britton, and explains the crucial importance of his work for contemporary English teaching.

Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers. Construction industry insolvency studies have failed to stem the industry's high insolvency tide because many focus on big civil engineering firms (CEF) when over 90% of firms in the industry are small or m... Read More about Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors.

Parameter sensitivity of a surface water quality model of the lower South Saskatchewan River—Comparison between ice-on and ice-off periods (2016)
Journal Article

Little is known about seasonal differences (ice-on vs. ice-off periods) and the sensitivity of in-stream processes to surface water quality constituents in rivers that have a persistent ice cover in winter. The goal of this study is to investigate th... Read More about Parameter sensitivity of a surface water quality model of the lower South Saskatchewan River—Comparison between ice-on and ice-off periods.

Multi degree-of-freedom successive stiffness increment approach for high stiffness haptic interaction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In haptic interaction, stability and the object’s hardness perception are of great significance. Although numerous studies have been done for stable haptic interaction, however, most of them sacrifice the actual displayed stiffness as a cost of stabi... Read More about Multi degree-of-freedom successive stiffness increment approach for high stiffness haptic interaction.

Schmidt-hammer exposure ages from periglacial patterned ground (sorted circles) in Jotunheimen, Norway, and their interpretative problems (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography Periglacial patterned ground (sorted circles and polygons) along an altitudinal profile at Juvflya in central Jotunheimen, southern Norway, is investigated using Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating... Read More about Schmidt-hammer exposure ages from periglacial patterned ground (sorted circles) in Jotunheimen, Norway, and their interpretative problems.

Hard, soft and now smart Brexit? Leaving the EU but not the EEA, is it that simple? (2016)
Journal Article

On 28 November 2016 the think tank British Influence announced that it will write to the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Rt Hon David Davis MP, to find out what is the position of the UK government regarding its membership to the A... Read More about Hard, soft and now smart Brexit? Leaving the EU but not the EEA, is it that simple?.

Integrating Critical and Contextual Studies in Art and Design: Possibilities for Post-Compulsory Education (2016)
Book

Integrating Critical and Contextual Studies in Art and Design examines the relationship between two aspects of art education that appear at times inseparable or even indistinguishable, and at others isolated and in conflict: Critical and Contextual S... Read More about Integrating Critical and Contextual Studies in Art and Design: Possibilities for Post-Compulsory Education.

Design of sliding-mode observer for a class of uncertain neutral stochastic systems (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The problem of robust H∞ control for a class of uncertain neutral stochastic systems (NSS) is investigated by utilising the sliding-mode observer (SMO) technique. This paper presents a n... Read More about Design of sliding-mode observer for a class of uncertain neutral stochastic systems.

Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation (2016)
Journal Article

This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financi... Read More about Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation.

New methodology for the prediction of motor starting effect on bus voltages of interconnected power systems (2016)
Journal Article

A new methodology is proposed in this paper capable of predicting the impact of induction motor load starting on the bus voltages of an interconnected power system. The profile of the voltage sag is predicted for each bus, which is used to improve t... Read More about New methodology for the prediction of motor starting effect on bus voltages of interconnected power systems.