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Radiography as a sociotechnical system – improving patient identification with a multi-level human factors approach (2022)
Journal Article

Irradiation of the wrong patient or wrong site is a reportable adverse event for hospitals. Improvement efforts to date have been narrowly targeted, often without consideration of wider contextual factors. This study applied a systems human factors/e... Read More about Radiography as a sociotechnical system – improving patient identification with a multi-level human factors approach.

Digital design of automatically wound shear reinforcement for non-prismatic concrete beams (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Concrete is the world’s most widely used man-made material, accounting for around 7% of global CO2 emissions. Currently, up to half of the concrete used in buildings is unnecessary, as it is there because it is shaped using prismatic formworks, which... Read More about Digital design of automatically wound shear reinforcement for non-prismatic concrete beams.

Downstream UK (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

‘Downstream UK – a Pilot’ Dec’22-Dec’23:
A community play: a drama piece about local water resilience and climate change, co-created with community members of Tewkesbury and in partnership with The Roses Theatre and acta Community Theatre. It was m... Read More about Downstream UK.

Co-designing a social robot in a special educational needs school: Listening to the ambitions of autistic children and their teachers (2022)
Journal Article

Social robots have the potential to support autistic school children with their wellbeing. This research reveals how a co-design approach with autistic children and their teachers was undertaken. Focus groups with autistic children and teachers colla... Read More about Co-designing a social robot in a special educational needs school: Listening to the ambitions of autistic children and their teachers.

Investigating the fatigue behaviour of quasi-isotropic pseudo-ductile thin-ply carbon/glass epoxy hybrid composites (2022)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the fatigue behaviour of pseudo-ductile Quasi-Isotropic (QI) interlayer hybrids with un-notched and open-hole configurations. Two different types of QI pseudo-ductile hybrids were evaluated; HighC, with carbon to glass thickne... Read More about Investigating the fatigue behaviour of quasi-isotropic pseudo-ductile thin-ply carbon/glass epoxy hybrid composites.

Retention of limitation of liability in maritime claims in modern business environment in the UK, USA, and Nigeria (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines the relevance of limitation of liability in maritime claims in today’s business environment in the UK, USA, and Nigeria. The paper finds that the concept is well entrenched in the legislation of many countries especially the ones... Read More about Retention of limitation of liability in maritime claims in modern business environment in the UK, USA, and Nigeria.

Applications of immersive technologies for occupational safety and health management in the construction industry: A systematic review (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The construction industry contributes significantly to workplace fatalities and injuries despite multiple interventions implemented by governments and construction companies. Recently, immersive technologies as part of a suite of industry 4.0 technol... Read More about Applications of immersive technologies for occupational safety and health management in the construction industry: A systematic review.

Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children (2022)
Journal Article

Diachronic studies of discourse markers suggest they follow a unidirectional developmental path, from propositional to textual and expressive uses. The present study tests whether children acquire the propositional (literal) before the expressive (pr... Read More about Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children.

Post-Pandemic study spaces: Post occupancy evaluation of BREEAM excellence rated university building (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents preliminary findings from a Post Occupancy Evaluation research of a BREEAM excellence-rated university building, to understand the experience of the students using university study spaces under a post-pandemic teaching and learnin... Read More about Post-Pandemic study spaces: Post occupancy evaluation of BREEAM excellence rated university building.

A critical route for documenting the seismic vulnerability on Mexican historical cities on GIS databases (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Caracterizar la vulnerabilidad de las construcciones históricas en el contexto de acciones sísmicas es una actividad primordial para su salvaguarda. A pesar de las numerosas experiencias para evaluar construcciones históricas, la aplicación de evalua... Read More about A critical route for documenting the seismic vulnerability on Mexican historical cities on GIS databases.