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Space, place and pace (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Turner, A. F. (2015, December). Space, place and pace. Presented at Space, place and pace, Univerisity of South Wales, Pontypridd, Wales

An invited experiential lecture at the University of South Wales Department of Social Geography

Update on outcome measure development for large vessel vasculitis: Report from OMERACT 12 (2015)
Journal Article
Merkel, P. A., Mackie, S. L., Aydin, S. Z., Direskeneli, H., Sreih, A., Alibaz-Oner, F., …Kamali, P. A. M. (2015). Update on outcome measure development for large vessel vasculitis: Report from OMERACT 12. Journal of Rheumatology, 42(12), 2465-2469. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.141144

© Copyright 2015 The Journal of Rheumatology. All rights reserved. Objective. The rarity of large vessel vasculitis (LVV) is a major factor limiting randomized controlled trials in LVV, resulting in treatment choices in these diseases that are guided... Read More about Update on outcome measure development for large vessel vasculitis: Report from OMERACT 12.

Toward ensuring health equity: Readability and cultural equivalence of OMERACT patient-reported outcome measures (2015)
Journal Article
Tugwell, P. S., Singh, J. A., Duruöz, M. T., Sreih, A. G., Flurey, C., Maxwell, L. J., …Guillemin, F. (2015). Toward ensuring health equity: Readability and cultural equivalence of OMERACT patient-reported outcome measures. Journal of Rheumatology, 42(12), 2448-2459. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.141168

© Copyright 2015 The Journal of Rheumatology. All rights reserved. Objective. The goal of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) 12 (2014) equity working group was to determine whether and how comprehensibility of patient-reported outcome mea... Read More about Toward ensuring health equity: Readability and cultural equivalence of OMERACT patient-reported outcome measures.

Public health approaches to sexual harm (2015)
Presentation / Conference
McCartan, K. (2015, December). Public health approaches to sexual harm. Paper presented at Notting Trent Study Day, University of Nottingham, UK

A research paper discussing current approaches to public health interventions in the sexual abuse field

Effectiveness of lycra sleeve for the management of glenohumeral subluxation in people with stroke – A feasibility study (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kumar, P., Gibson, R., Greet, J., Mills, M., Rossall, F., & Whales, R. (2015, December). Effectiveness of lycra sleeve for the management of glenohumeral subluxation in people with stroke – A feasibility study. Poster presented at UK Stroke Forum Conference, Liverpool ACC Centre, Liverpool, UK

Introduction: Glenohumeral subluxation (GHS) is reported to occur in 81% of patients post stroke. The aims of the study were to assess the effectiveness of Lycra sleeves on GHS and explore patients’ perceptions regarding the practicality of applying... Read More about Effectiveness of lycra sleeve for the management of glenohumeral subluxation in people with stroke – A feasibility study.

Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: Multicentre case–control study (2015)
Journal Article
Kendrick, D., Majsak-Newman, G., Goodenough, T., Hayes, M., Hindmarch, P., Watson, M., …Kendrick, D. (2015). Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: Multicentre case–control study. Injury Prevention, 21(6), 381-388. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041581

© 2015, BMJ. All rights reserved. Background Childhood falls are an important global public health problem, but there is lack of evidence about their prevention. Falls on one level result in considerable morbidity and they are costly to health servic... Read More about Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: Multicentre case–control study.

Psychological impact of visible differences in patients with congenital craniofacial anomalies (2015)
Journal Article
Singh, V. P., & Moss, T. P. (2015). Psychological impact of visible differences in patients with congenital craniofacial anomalies. Progress in Orthodontics, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40510-015-0078-9

© 2015, Singh and Moss; licensee Springer. Background: Patients with craniofacial anomalies often have appearance concerns and related social anxiety which can affect their quality of life. This study assessed the psychological impact of facial and d... Read More about Psychological impact of visible differences in patients with congenital craniofacial anomalies.

The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers (2015)
Journal Article
Pant, P. R., Budhathoki, B., Ellis, M., Manandhar, D., Deave, T., & Mytton, J. (2015). The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers. BMC Public Health, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1783-5

© 2015 Pant et al.; licensee BioMed Central. Abstract Background Injuries accounted for 23% of all deaths in children and adolescents in Nepal during 2010 (n = 3,700). Despite this, there is no national death registration or injury surveillance syste... Read More about The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers.

Stability and reliability of anodic biofilms under different feedstock conditions: Towards microbial fuel cell sensors (2015)
Journal Article
Walter, X. A., You, J., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Stability and reliability of anodic biofilms under different feedstock conditions: Towards microbial fuel cell sensors. Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 6, 43-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbsr.2015.11.007

© 2015 The Authors. Stability and reliability of microbial fuel cell anodic biofilms, consisting of mixed cultures, were investigated in a continuously fed system. Two groups of anodic biofilm matured with different substrates, acetate and casein for... Read More about Stability and reliability of anodic biofilms under different feedstock conditions: Towards microbial fuel cell sensors.

Mental health stigmatisation in deployed UK Armed Forces: A principal components analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Fertout, M., Jones, N., Keeling, M., & Greenberg, N. (2015). Mental health stigmatisation in deployed UK Armed Forces: A principal components analysis. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 161(Suppl), i69-i76. https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2015-000587

© 2015, Royal Army Medical College. All rights reserved. Introduction UK military research suggests that there is a significant link between current psychological symptoms, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care (stigma/BTC). Few... Read More about Mental health stigmatisation in deployed UK Armed Forces: A principal components analysis.

The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology, and Politics in Jan Patočka (2015)
Book
Tava, F. (2015). The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology, and Politics in Jan Patočka. London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield International

he Risk of Freedom presents an in-depth analysis of the philosophy of Jan Patočka, one of the most influential Central European thinkers of the twentieth century, examining both the phenomenological and ethical-political aspects of his work. In parti... Read More about The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology, and Politics in Jan Patočka.

The contributions of stereotype threat research to social psychology (2015)
Journal Article
Pennington, C. R. (2015). The contributions of stereotype threat research to social psychology. PsyPAG Quarterly, 10-14

Stereotype threat describes the experience of being viewed through the lens of a negative stereotype. This social psychological phenomenon demonstrates the deleterious effects that negative societal stereotypes can exert on performance. The current a... Read More about The contributions of stereotype threat research to social psychology.

Ensuring green infrastructure for all (2015)
Book Chapter
Greed, C. (2015). Ensuring green infrastructure for all. In S. Burgess, N. Smith, & D. Sinnett (Eds.), Handbook on Green Infrastructure: Planning, Design and Implementation. Edward Elgar

The city [within] the drawing: The urban in the space of representation (2015)
Journal Article
Banou, S. (2015). The city [within] the drawing: The urban in the space of representation

This paper presents the installation The City [within] The Drawing, the conclusive piece in a series of four installations that engage in exploring the material and temporal limits of architectural drawing conventions. Consisting of both drawn and mo... Read More about The city [within] the drawing: The urban in the space of representation.

Impact of board independence on the quality of community disclosures in annual reports (2015)
Journal Article
Yekini, K. C., Adelopo, I., Andrikopoulos, P., & Yekini, S. (2015). Impact of board independence on the quality of community disclosures in annual reports. Accounting Forum, 39(4), 249-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2015.05.004

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This study investigates the link between board independence and the quality of community disclosures in annual reports. Using content analysis and a panel dataset from UK FTSE 350 companies the results indicate a statistically si... Read More about Impact of board independence on the quality of community disclosures in annual reports.

Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011 (2015)
Journal Article
Marlow, R., Mytton, J., Maconochie, I. K., Taylor, H., & Lyttle, M. (2015). Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 100(12), 1136-1140. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-308615

Background The number of children admitted to hospital is increasing year on year, with very short-stay admissions doubling in the last decade. Childhood head injury accounts for half a million emergency department attendances in the UK every year. T... Read More about Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011.

Nursing culture: An enemy of evidence-based practice? A focus group exploration (2015)
Journal Article
Henderson, E. M., & Fletcher, M. (2015). Nursing culture: An enemy of evidence-based practice? A focus group exploration. Journal of Child Health Care, 19(4), 550-557. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493514530956

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is challenging for most nurses due to the time constraints of caring for patients and the emerging pressures of a changing health service. To explore these challenges, and thus to establish... Read More about Nursing culture: An enemy of evidence-based practice? A focus group exploration.

Defining tafoni: Re-examining terminological ambiguity for cavernous rock decay phenomena (2015)
Journal Article
Paradise, T. R., Allen, C. D., Groom, K. M., Mol, L., & Hall, K. (2015). Defining tafoni: Re-examining terminological ambiguity for cavernous rock decay phenomena. Progress in Physical Geography, 39(6), 775-793. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133315605037

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Cavernous rock decay processes represent a global phenomenon, ubiquitous to all environments, with the viewable-in-landscape form usually being the final descriptor (e.g. “alveoli”), sometimes alluding to the specific de... Read More about Defining tafoni: Re-examining terminological ambiguity for cavernous rock decay phenomena.

Electro-osmotic-based catholyte production by Microbial Fuel Cells for carbon capture (2015)
Journal Article
Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Santoro, C., Li, B., Cristiani, P., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Electro-osmotic-based catholyte production by Microbial Fuel Cells for carbon capture. Water Research, 86, 108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2015.08.014

© 2015 The Authors. In Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), the recovery of water can be achieved with the help of both active (electro-osmosis), and passive (osmosis) transport pathways of electrolyte through the semi-permeable selective separator. The elec... Read More about Electro-osmotic-based catholyte production by Microbial Fuel Cells for carbon capture.

Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (1): Socio-economic progress and lessons for groundwater-dependentareas (2015)
Journal Article
Everard, M. (2015). Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (1): Socio-economic progress and lessons for groundwater-dependentareas. Ecosystem Services, 16, 125-135

Groundwater is a vital resource in arid and semi-arid regions, increasingly relied upon for year-round access, though lack of both study and regulation contribute to unsustainable pressures potentially contributing to a negative spiral of ecological,... Read More about Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (1): Socio-economic progress and lessons for groundwater-dependentareas.