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Helpful risk management practices acording to service user views (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Deering, K. (2020, February). Helpful risk management practices acording to service user views. Poster presented at AWP Research Matters: Research and Development Conefrence 2020, Bristol

Given the limited presence of service user perspectives in the risk management literature (Eidhammer et al., 2014), the review employed a mixed studies design to maximise the capture of relevant studies. To ensure quality of reporting PRISMA guid... Read More about Helpful risk management practices acording to service user views.

Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies? (2020)
Journal Article
Carmichael, L., Prestwood, E., Marsh, R., Ige, J., Williams, B., Pilkington, P., …Michalec, A. (2020). Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies?. Science of the Total Environment, 719, Article 137146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137146

Research has demonstrated that housing quality is a key urban intervention in reducing health risks and improving climate resilience, addressing a key ambition of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Yet housing quality remains a problem... Read More about Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies?.

AHP leadership in academia: Opportunities, challenges and current positioning (2020)
Journal Article
Gibbs, V., & Griffiths, M. (2021). AHP leadership in academia: Opportunities, challenges and current positioning. Studies in Higher Education, 46(11), 2216-2229. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1716320

The aim of this research was to gain a deeper understanding of the perceptions of key stakeholders in relation to the current extent of Allied Health Professionals in leadership roles within academia. The researchers undertook an exploration of the p... Read More about AHP leadership in academia: Opportunities, challenges and current positioning.

Urban form and human behavior in context of livable cities and their public realms (2020)
Journal Article
Haas, T., Littke, H., & Karimnia, E. (2020). Urban form and human behavior in context of livable cities and their public realms. Scholarly Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 3(4), https://doi.org/10.32474/sjpbs.2020.03.000167

In what ways are cities things that happen to us, and in what ways are cities things we do together, with more or less art and purpose? How do we understand both the geometries of cities and the ways that form might be connected-or not-to their socia... Read More about Urban form and human behavior in context of livable cities and their public realms.

Voice, agency and identity: A positive discourse analysis of ‘resistance’ in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah (2020)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2020). Voice, agency and identity: A positive discourse analysis of ‘resistance’ in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah. Language and Intercultural Communication, 20(2), 193-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2020.1722686

This paper uses positive discourse analysis to examine an independence leader's resistance rhetoric against colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism. It analyses speeches delivered by Ghana's independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, and finds that he a... Read More about Voice, agency and identity: A positive discourse analysis of ‘resistance’ in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah.

Comparative analysis of hybridized solutions to water resources management in Burkina Faso, India and Peru (2020)
Journal Article
Everard, M., Loayza Muro, R., Bunclark, L., & Taboada, R. (2021). Comparative analysis of hybridized solutions to water resources management in Burkina Faso, India and Peru. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 37(1), 94-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1712192

Hybridization of ‘green’ and engineered infrastructure, informed by protecting or restoring catchment processes, can resolve interconnected demands on catchment ecosystems, potentially also reversing historic degradation of socio-ecological systems.... Read More about Comparative analysis of hybridized solutions to water resources management in Burkina Faso, India and Peru.

British immigration policy, depoliticisation and Brexit (2020)
Journal Article
Donmez, P. E., & Sutton, A. (2020). British immigration policy, depoliticisation and Brexit. Comparative European Politics, 18, 659 - 688. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-020-00204-7

This paper seeks to problematise the historical significance of the EU for British governing strategy with reference to immigration policy and the concept of depoliticisation. Situating British governing strategy in terms of the crisis-prone nature o... Read More about British immigration policy, depoliticisation and Brexit.

Inside Mexico’s war on drugs: Conversations with ‘el narco’ (2020)
Digital Artefact
Garcia-Reyes, K. (2020). Inside Mexico’s war on drugs: Conversations with ‘el narco’. [The Conversation]

I am from northern Mexico, one of the regions most affected by the global war on drugs. From 2008 to 2012 my hometown – which I’m not naming here for safety reasons – went through one of the most violent times in its history. Shootings between car... Read More about Inside Mexico’s war on drugs: Conversations with ‘el narco’.

Irish ex-prisoner reflections on their psychological wellbeing whilst in prison in England and Wales (2020)
Journal Article
Gavin, P. (2020). Irish ex-prisoner reflections on their psychological wellbeing whilst in prison in England and Wales. Advancing Corrections Journal, 9(1), 101-118

Over the past 25 years the prison population of England and Wales has doubled and this has resulted in a significant proportion of the prisoner population suffering from mental ill-health. This paper considers the position of an under-researched grou... Read More about Irish ex-prisoner reflections on their psychological wellbeing whilst in prison in England and Wales.

Reconsidering laminate nonsymmetry (2020)
Journal Article
O’Donnell, M. P., & Weaver, P. M. (2020). Reconsidering laminate nonsymmetry. AIAA Journal, 58(4), 1811-1820. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J058751

Nonsymmetric laminates are commonly precluded from composite design due to perceptions of reduced performance arising from in- and out-of-plane coupling. This coupling introduces warpage during cure—leading to raised stresses, together with diminishe... Read More about Reconsidering laminate nonsymmetry.

Do passive houses need passive people? Evaluating the active occupancy of Passivhaus homes in the United Kingdom (2020)
Journal Article
Zhao, J., & Carter, K. (2020). Do passive houses need passive people? Evaluating the active occupancy of Passivhaus homes in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 64, 101448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101448

The Passivhaus model emphasises a high standard of building fabric insulation and controlled ventilation with heat recovery in order to achieve comfort and reduce energy use. The implication is that environmental control is achieved by the building f... Read More about Do passive houses need passive people? Evaluating the active occupancy of Passivhaus homes in the United Kingdom.

Estimation of groundwater recharge in savannah aquifers along a precipitation gradient using chloride mass balance method and environmental isotopes, Namibia (2020)
Journal Article
Uugulu, S., & Wanke, H. (2020). Estimation of groundwater recharge in savannah aquifers along a precipitation gradient using chloride mass balance method and environmental isotopes, Namibia. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 116, Article 102844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2020.102844

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd The quantification of groundwater resources is essential especially in water scarce countries like Namibia. The chloride mass balance (CMB) method and isotopic composition were used in determining groundwater recharge along a prec... Read More about Estimation of groundwater recharge in savannah aquifers along a precipitation gradient using chloride mass balance method and environmental isotopes, Namibia.

Improving the quantitative research skills of Welsh Baccalaureate teachers through university engagement (2020)
Journal Article
Brookfield, C., & Parker, S. (2020). Improving the quantitative research skills of Welsh Baccalaureate teachers through university engagement. Research for All, 4(1), 102-116. https://doi.org/10.18546/rfa.04.1.08

In 2015 the re-designed Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification (WBQ) was launched and, for the first time, students undertaking the qualification were required to complete the Skills Challenge Certificate (SCC). Consisting of four components: the Individu... Read More about Improving the quantitative research skills of Welsh Baccalaureate teachers through university engagement.

Bank lending and the business cycle: Does ownership matter in ASEAN countries? (2020)
Journal Article
Sahul Hamid, F. (2020). Bank lending and the business cycle: Does ownership matter in ASEAN countries?. Journal of Asian Economics, 66, 101153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2019.101153

We analyze the lending cyclicality of 213 ASEAN commercial banks over the period 2001–2015. The findings indicate that lending by private banks is procyclical while lending by state banks is countercyclical. Long-term liabilities also move countercyc... Read More about Bank lending and the business cycle: Does ownership matter in ASEAN countries?.

Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife: A Biosocial Approach (2020)
Book
Hill, C., Webber, A., & Priston, N. (Eds.). (2020). Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife: A Biosocial Approach. Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvw04h12

Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed and understood as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, a greater depth of analysis reveals that many instances of human-wildlife conflict are often b... Read More about Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife: A Biosocial Approach.

Evidence head tilt has dissociable effects on dominance and trustworthiness judgments, but does not have category-contingent effects on hypothetical leadership judgments (2020)
Journal Article
Torrance, J. S., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., DeBruine, L. M., & Jones, B. C. (2020). Evidence head tilt has dissociable effects on dominance and trustworthiness judgments, but does not have category-contingent effects on hypothetical leadership judgments. Perception, 49(2), 199-209. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006619898589

Previous research has found that physical characteristics in faces that influence perceptions of trustworthiness and dominance have context-contingent effects on leadership perceptions. People whose faces are perceived to be trustworthy are judged to... Read More about Evidence head tilt has dissociable effects on dominance and trustworthiness judgments, but does not have category-contingent effects on hypothetical leadership judgments.

Value co-destruction: Exploring the role of actors’ opportunism in the B2B context (2020)
Journal Article
Pathak, B., Ashok, M., & Tan, Y. L. (2020). Value co-destruction: Exploring the role of actors’ opportunism in the B2B context. International Journal of Information Management, 52, Article 102093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102093

This exploratory study investigates value co-destruction in the Business-to-Business (B2B) context and examines the impact of actors’ opportunistic behaviour on value co-creation. The research undertakes an in-depth case study based approach. It uses... Read More about Value co-destruction: Exploring the role of actors’ opportunism in the B2B context.

Photography: Using Instagram in participant-led field studies (2020)
Book Chapter
Shortt, H., & Warren, S. (2020). Photography: Using Instagram in participant-led field studies. In Using Arts-based Research Methods: Creative Approaches for Researching Business, Organisation and Humanities (237 - 270). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33069-9_9

In this chapter we discuss how Instagram can be employed as a tool through which researchers may gather visual data during participant-led field studies, as well as how the images available from such platforms usefully shed light on the everydayness... Read More about Photography: Using Instagram in participant-led field studies.

Feasibility and face validity of outcome measures for use in future studies of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR): An OMERACT Study (2020)
Journal Article
Owen, C. E., Goodman, S. M., Mackie, S. L., Simon, L. S., Hill, C. L., Yates, M., …Hill, C. L. (2020). Feasibility and face validity of outcome measures for use in future studies of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR): An OMERACT Study. Journal of Rheumatology, 47(9), 1379-1384. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.190575

OBJECTIVE: To survey participants with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) to evaluate the face validity, acceptability, and domain match of proposed candidate outcome measures. METHODS: A structured, online, anonymous survey was disseminated by patient sup... Read More about Feasibility and face validity of outcome measures for use in future studies of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR): An OMERACT Study.