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The driverless cars emulsion: Using participatory foresight and constructive conflict to address transport’s wicked problems (2022)
Journal Article

This paper introduces a novel methodology to the transport sector to foster dialogue between actors holding different perspectives on issues pertinent to the future of mobility that might be termed ‘wicked’. The case of driverless cars is considered.... Read More about The driverless cars emulsion: Using participatory foresight and constructive conflict to address transport’s wicked problems.

Decision-making experiences of health professionals in withdrawing treatment for children and young people: A qualitative study (2022)
Journal Article

Objective: To explore factors that influence professionals in deciding whether to withdraw treatment from a child and how decision making is managed amongst professionals as an individual and as a team. Study Design: Semi-structured interviews were c... Read More about Decision-making experiences of health professionals in withdrawing treatment for children and young people: A qualitative study.

Saying what must not be said: Exploring communication in the script development process (2022)
Book Chapter

The script development process relies on a series of formal and informal conversations between financiers, producers, writers and other key industry players. Ostensibly, the goal of these conversations is simply to create the best films possible. How... Read More about Saying what must not be said: Exploring communication in the script development process.

GGene drives in the U.K., U.S., and Australian press (2015–2019): How a new focus on responsibility is shaping science communication (2022)
Journal Article

Gene drive is a controversial biotechnology for pest control. Despite a commitment from gene drive researchers to responsibility and the key role of the media in debates about science and technology, little research has been conducted on media report... Read More about GGene drives in the U.K., U.S., and Australian press (2015–2019): How a new focus on responsibility is shaping science communication.

On the fairness of generative adversarial networks (GANs) (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the greatest advances in AI in recent years. With their ability to directly learn the probability distribution of data and then sample synthetic realistic data. Many applications have emerged, using G... Read More about On the fairness of generative adversarial networks (GANs).

The great lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 and its implications: Lessons for low and middle-income countries (2022)
Journal Article

Concern for public health has been growing with the increasing volume of cases of COVID-19 in India. To combat this pandemic, India has implemented nationwide lockdowns, and unlocking phases continue with certain restrictions in different parts of th... Read More about The great lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 and its implications: Lessons for low and middle-income countries.

Marimo actuated rover systems (2022)
Journal Article

Background: The potential to directly harness photosynthesis to make actuators, biosensors and bioprocessors has been previously demonstrated in the literature. Herein, this capability has been expanded to more advanced systems — Marimo Actuated Rove... Read More about Marimo actuated rover systems.

Equivalent circuit model of a non-faradaic impedimetric ZnO nano-crystal biosensor (2022)
Journal Article

This paper describes the development of an equivalent electrical circuit (EEC) model of a unique co-planar electrode PET-ZnO biosensor platform. This non-faradaic ZnO biosensor had a PET insulating layer between the electrodes and the active ZnO sens... Read More about Equivalent circuit model of a non-faradaic impedimetric ZnO nano-crystal biosensor.

Survival of the synthesis—GPU accelerating evolutionary sound matching (2022)
Journal Article

Manually configuring synthesizer parameters to reproduce a particular sound is a complex and challenging task. Researchers have previously used different optimization algorithms, including evolutionary algorithms to find optimal sound matching soluti... Read More about Survival of the synthesis—GPU accelerating evolutionary sound matching.

Assessment and treatment of nocturia in endocrine disease in a primary care setting; systematic review and nominal group technique consensus (2022)
Journal Article

Context: Salt and water homeostasis is regulated hormonally, so polyuria can result from endocrine disease directly or via secondary effects. These mechanisms are not consistently considered in primary care management of nocturia. Objective: To condu... Read More about Assessment and treatment of nocturia in endocrine disease in a primary care setting; systematic review and nominal group technique consensus.

Intelligent data processing to support self-management and responsive care (2022)
Thesis

This research is situated in the area of ambient intelligent systems for assisted living. The motivation for the research was to understand how ambient intelligent systems could be used to support people with learning disabilities in providing more p... Read More about Intelligent data processing to support self-management and responsive care.

Confident leaders– by design: A case study of self-efficacy in educational leadership development (2022)
Thesis

Effective leadership is second only to the quality of teaching as a lever for improving educational outcomes (National College of School Leadership, 2006) and is vital to the success of most school improvement efforts (Leithwood et al., 2019). Leader... Read More about Confident leaders– by design: A case study of self-efficacy in educational leadership development.

The Prick & The Sting (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

On-line binaural sound narrative for blind and visually impaired audiences.

Mechanical behaviour of additively manufactured elastomeric pre-buckled honeycombs under quasi-static and impact loading (2022)
Journal Article

Selective laser sintering has been used to manufacture different structural variations of a pre-buckled circular honeycomb. The mechanical behaviour of these structures has been examined under both quasi-static and dynamic impact loading. Pre-buckled... Read More about Mechanical behaviour of additively manufactured elastomeric pre-buckled honeycombs under quasi-static and impact loading.

Political and constitutional issues for the contemporary Falkland Islands (2022)
Journal Article

Understandably much of the academic literature on the Falkland Islands relates to its relationship with Argentina and the allied territorial dispute, but that can ignore broader and equally important aspects of the Falklands’ political and constituti... Read More about Political and constitutional issues for the contemporary Falkland Islands.

Tactile Sensing, Skill Learning, and Robotic Dexterous Manipulation (2022)
Book

Tactile Sensing, Skill Learning and Robotic Dexterous Manipulation focuses on cross-disciplinary lines of research and groundbreaking research ideas in three research lines: tactile sensing, skill learning and dexterous control. The book introduces r... Read More about Tactile Sensing, Skill Learning, and Robotic Dexterous Manipulation.

Adaption-Innovation theory: A tribute to Dr Michael J. Kirton (2022)
Journal Article

When Dr. Michael J. Kirton died, on August 18th 2020, he left behind a major contribution to the field of problem solving. In 2019, one of our authors visited Dr. Kirton to understand more about the early influences that shaped the development of Ada... Read More about Adaption-Innovation theory: A tribute to Dr Michael J. Kirton.

Multi-criteria decision making optimisation framework for positive energy blocks for cities (2022)
Journal Article

The Positive Energy Block (PEBlock) is a new paradigm towards low-carbon cities. However, there is a paucity of literature about methods and tools to develop PEBlocks in practice. This study proposes a multi-criteria decision making optimisation fram... Read More about Multi-criteria decision making optimisation framework for positive energy blocks for cities.

Residents' comfort perceptions in domestic heritage buildings (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reducing energy and associated carbon emissions from the existing built environment is critically important to meet our climate goals. Heritage buildings are often presented in the literature as energy inefficient, and uncomfortable to inhabit. There... Read More about Residents' comfort perceptions in domestic heritage buildings.

Driving openness – the myths about data and software access in the data and cloud policy (2022)
Journal Article

Significance: This article responds to the highly controversial recently published Draft National Policy on Data and Cloud and the related stakeholder commentary from a cyberlaw perspective. Selected issues regarding the ownership of scientific data,... Read More about Driving openness – the myths about data and software access in the data and cloud policy.