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The Bristol referendum 2022: Thinking through the options (2022)
Digital Artefact

This short article outlines the differences between the mayoral model of decision-making (in which citizens directly elect the city leader) and the committee system of decision-making (in which elected councillors choose who will be the leader of the... Read More about The Bristol referendum 2022: Thinking through the options.

The role of the paramedic in mental health crisis care (2022)
Book Chapter

Throughout, the book:
• Promotes understanding of the various roles each of the key services play within the crucial first 24-hours of a mental health crisis and the challenges they face
• Fosters interprofessional collaboration to create a whole-s... Read More about The role of the paramedic in mental health crisis care.

Policing the mental health crisis (2022)
Book Chapter

Learning from carers to inform the design of safe physically assistive robots - Insights from a focus group study (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research investigates how professional carers physically assist frail older adults. Carers were asked to discuss their approach and steps for providing safe physical assistance and highlight hazards that assistive robots would have to deal with... Read More about Learning from carers to inform the design of safe physically assistive robots - Insights from a focus group study.

A robotic test rig for performance assessment of prosthetic joints (2022)
Journal Article

Movement within the human body is made possible by joints connecting two or more elements of the musculoskeletal system. Losing one or more of these connections can seriously limit mobility, which in turn can lead to depression and other mental issue... Read More about A robotic test rig for performance assessment of prosthetic joints.

What is the future for gender diversity in the pilot trainer role? Myth or reality? (2022)
Report

Over the last six years initiatives have been put in place to address the lack of female pilots within the airline industry by understanding the pilot pipeline and by using initiatives that directly attract the attention of potential female pilots. E... Read More about What is the future for gender diversity in the pilot trainer role? Myth or reality?.

The spatio-temporal influence of atmospheric circulations on monthly precipitation in Great Britain (2022)
Journal Article

It has long been understood that the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a key driver of regional climate in Great Britain and across Europe. However, studies have also noted that there is spatio-temporal variability in NAO-rainfall signatures which... Read More about The spatio-temporal influence of atmospheric circulations on monthly precipitation in Great Britain.

Mondragon Team Academy and LEINN Degree: From an educational revolution to a global social innovation inter-cooperation network (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter studies Mondragon Team Academy (MTA) as a whole and the LEINN Degree, in particular, which started in 2008 in Mondragon University (MU) as a teampreneurship education revolution that aimed to reconnect with the MONDRAGON youth creating... Read More about Mondragon Team Academy and LEINN Degree: From an educational revolution to a global social innovation inter-cooperation network.

The Bristol referendum 2022: Thinking through the options (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

In May 2022 there will be a referendum on Bristol City Council’s governance arrangements. The citizens of Bristol will be asked to decide if they wish to retain the mayoral system of decision-making or replace it with a committee system of decision-m... Read More about The Bristol referendum 2022: Thinking through the options.

Team Academy in Practice (2022)
Book

In his quote “It is impossible to export pedagogical practices without reinventing them” Freire (1997) emphasized the idea that educators should pay careful attention to “cultural differences”, insisting that education should neither impose nor colon... Read More about Team Academy in Practice.

Programme evolution, success factors and key challenges: The case of Team Entrepreneurship at UWE, Bristol (2022)
Book Chapter

UWE was a pioneer in the UK launching and implementing a Team Entrepreneurship undergraduate degree in 2013. Since then, the programme has been adapting and restructuring considering the feedback obtained from educators, partners and students. This c... Read More about Programme evolution, success factors and key challenges: The case of Team Entrepreneurship at UWE, Bristol.

Partnerships of prevention: Beyond regulation (2022)
Book Chapter

The public health agenda provided new impetus and opportunities to tackle health inequalities and a framework for revisiting policy and practice in the PRS to deliver better health outcomes. However, the national picture is erratic, and the extent to... Read More about Partnerships of prevention: Beyond regulation.

The gendered migrant experience: A study of Family Language Policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali Community, Bristol (2022)
Journal Article

This article adopts a gendered take on Family Language Policy (FLP) by questioning the way that gender impacts on the issues faced by refugee woman during and after flight. For this reason, the ethnographically informed research addresses the concern... Read More about The gendered migrant experience: A study of Family Language Policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali Community, Bristol.

Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was "canonised" as the White Witch of English Literature following her death, which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This paper wi... Read More about Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast?.

A scalable deep learning system for monitoring and forecasting pollutant concentration levels on UK highways (2022)
Journal Article

The construction of intercity highways by the government has resulted in a progressive increase in vehicle emissions and pollution from noise, dust, and vibrations despite its recognition of the air pollution menace. Efforts that have targeted roadsi... Read More about A scalable deep learning system for monitoring and forecasting pollutant concentration levels on UK highways.

Socioeconomic determinants of cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and diabetes among migrants in the United Kingdom: A systematic review (2022)
Journal Article

There has been little agreement on the role that socioeconomic factors play in the aetiology of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), obesity, and diabetes among migrants in the United Kingdom (UK). We systematically reviewed the existing evidence on this... Read More about Socioeconomic determinants of cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and diabetes among migrants in the United Kingdom: A systematic review.

The Role of Mental Health Social Workers in Crisis Work (2022)
Book Chapter

Bond and stardom (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Bond has become a modern and enduring folk hero and cultural icon, which has profound implications for the six actors who have played the role. In examining this, somewhat neglected, facet of that phenomenon – Bond and stardom – I argue that playing... Read More about Bond and stardom.

IEEE Standard for Transparency of Autonomous Systems (2022)
Other

Measurable, testable levels of transparency, so that autonomous systems can be objectively assessed, and levels of compliance determined, are described in this standard.

Integrating single-shot fast gradient sign method (FGSM) with classical image processing techniques for generating adversarial attacks on deep learning classifiers (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Deep learning architectures have emerged as powerful function approximators in a broad spectrum of complex representation learning tasks, such as, computer vision, natural language processing and collaborative filtering. These architectures bear a hi... Read More about Integrating single-shot fast gradient sign method (FGSM) with classical image processing techniques for generating adversarial attacks on deep learning classifiers.