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Sensing solutions in soil biodiversity and carbon monitoring; from acoustics to biosensing (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation formed an overview of the current research into the technologies we are developing in SOAS at UWE for the analysis of soil carbon dynamics and soil biodiversity. It highlights three main strands; electrochemical (bio)sensing, gas s... Read More about Sensing solutions in soil biodiversity and carbon monitoring; from acoustics to biosensing.

Towards the acceptance of autonomous vehicles: The role of government and vehicles manufacturers government and vehicles manufacturers (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Self-driving vehicles continue to attract scholarly attention, yet understanding beyond technological barriers is crucial. This study, using critical review and interviews with 21 participants, explores factors influencing UK user acceptance of auton... Read More about Towards the acceptance of autonomous vehicles: The role of government and vehicles manufacturers government and vehicles manufacturers.

Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The first year of architectural education marks a period of foundational exploration, where students encounter a multitude of firsts and advance quickly. It marks their first exposure to design briefs and concepts, diagramming techniques, and the app... Read More about Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions.

Trusted research environments for health data (2024)
Digital Artefact

This video captures the workshop on 'Trusted Research Environments for Health Data', delivered by David Western, Felix Ritchie, and Andy Gibson. This was part of the Connect, Collaborate, Create with Data and AI 2023 event organised by UWE Bristol an... Read More about Trusted research environments for health data.

Scope and arbitration in machine learning clinical EEG classification (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A key task in clinical EEG interpretation is to classify a recording or session as normal or abnormal. In machine learning approaches to this task, recordings are typically divided into shorter windows for practical reasons, and these windows inherit... Read More about Scope and arbitration in machine learning clinical EEG classification.

Acceptability of the COVID-19 contact-tracing app – Does culture matter? (2022)
Journal Article

During the pandemic, several countries deployed contact-tracing apps in order to contain or reduce the community spread of COVID-19. However, the success rate in terms of acceptance and use of these apps was reportedly low. Using information gathered... Read More about Acceptability of the COVID-19 contact-tracing app – Does culture matter?.

A more ‘inclusive’ approach to module delivery and assessment (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2020, Covid and the introduction of an alternative blended learning approach, provided a welcome opportunity for implementing innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the module Construction Technology and Services 1, at UWE Bristol. A fl... Read More about A more ‘inclusive’ approach to module delivery and assessment.

A study on the effects of cognitive overloading and distractions on human movement during robot-assisted dressing (2022)
Journal Article

For robots that can provide physical assistance, maintaining synchronicity of the robot and human movement is a precursor for interaction safety. Existing research on collaborative HRI does not consider how synchronicity can be affected if humans are... Read More about A study on the effects of cognitive overloading and distractions on human movement during robot-assisted dressing.

Etude Neuropsychologique dans la Caraibe (2022)
Book Chapter

This article is based on an invited keynote presentation to the conference of Caribbean psychologists in Martinique.

The Christmas Lectures: extending the experience outside the lecture theatre (2022)
Journal Article

Traditionally, the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures have always adopted a deficit model for communication, with one or two invited scientists giving lectures to an audience present at the Royal Institution (Ri) and, since 1936, an audience watc... Read More about The Christmas Lectures: extending the experience outside the lecture theatre.

RETHINKING Science communication education and training: Towards a competence model for science communication (2021)
Journal Article

Science communication is at a pivotal stage in its development due to the emergence of digital communication platforms that are not only presenting new opportunities but are also leading to new challenges. In this context, science communicators, who... Read More about RETHINKING Science communication education and training: Towards a competence model for science communication.

Organisational forms of science communication: The UK and Spanish European higher education systems as paradigms (2021)
Journal Article

As key elements in research and development systems, higher education institutions have been taking a leading role when it comes to communicating science and technology, but their performance has been inconsistent so far. In this critical and compara... Read More about Organisational forms of science communication: The UK and Spanish European higher education systems as paradigms.

Creative exploitation of laser processing: A new toolbox for textile design (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this talk, Laura will discuss her design-led research on innovative digitally-driven surface treatments for colouration, 3D finishing and surface design of materials. She has developed multiple new opportunities to harness infrared laser irradiati... Read More about Creative exploitation of laser processing: A new toolbox for textile design.

Experiments in artificial culture: from noisy imitation to storytelling robots (2021)
Journal Article

This paper presents a series of experiments in collective social robotics, spanning more than 10 years, with the long-term aim of building embodied models of (aspects) of cultural evolution. Initial experiments demonstrated the emergence of behaviour... Read More about Experiments in artificial culture: from noisy imitation to storytelling robots.

Transforming tradition: how the iconic Christmas Lectures series is perceived by its audiences (2021)
Journal Article

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a landmark in the history of science communication. With today’s changing media landscape, it is important to know who is currently watching, how they are watching, and how they are perceiving the content.... Read More about Transforming tradition: how the iconic Christmas Lectures series is perceived by its audiences.

Citizen science on urban mobility - A practitioner's guide to evaluation, engagement and policy change (2021)
Other

This guide emerged from the WeCount project and sets out to scale general guidelines for evaluating similar citizen science projects for improved urban mobility, and draw best practice models for engagement and policy recommendations. It accompanies... Read More about Citizen science on urban mobility - A practitioner's guide to evaluation, engagement and policy change.

WeCount Advocacy Toolkit (2021)
Report

This toolkit is for all citizens who want to advocate for change to urban mobility. Within you will learn about data collection and analysis and the types of advocacy we can be a part of. You'll also learn how to diversify both campaign groups and au... Read More about WeCount Advocacy Toolkit.

WhiskEye: A biomimetic model of multisensory spatial memory based on sensory reconstruction (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present WhiskEye, a visual tactile robot supporting a neurorobotic investigation of spatial memory as a multisensory reconstructive process. This article outlines the motivation for building WhiskEye; the technical details of the physical robot, a... Read More about WhiskEye: A biomimetic model of multisensory spatial memory based on sensory reconstruction.

The light fantastic: Laser technology for textile surface coloration and patterning (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

The consumption of water and energy used in current dyeing and finishing processes in the textile industry poses significant environmental concern. By offering alternative solutions to traditional textile wet processing through dry laser technology,... Read More about The light fantastic: Laser technology for textile surface coloration and patterning.

The arbitration of nature: State, water, and civil engineering in Northern Ireland directly after partition (2021)
Journal Article

Begun in the summer of 1923, the Silent Valley Reservoir was the first large scale civil engineering project after the division between the North and the South of Ireland. It was the continuation of a previous project. In the late Nineteenth Century... Read More about The arbitration of nature: State, water, and civil engineering in Northern Ireland directly after partition.