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A numerical and experimental investigation into the generation of residual stress in fracture specimens using local compression (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The influence of residual stresses on the fracture behaviour of materials is of fundamental importance for accurate and reliable structural integrity assessments of components and structures In this paper residual stress fields are introduced into st... Read More about A numerical and experimental investigation into the generation of residual stress in fracture specimens using local compression.

Does it run in the family? - Improving radiological risk assessment in the coastal environment using taxonomic and phylogenetic perspectives in macroalgae species (2024)
Journal Article

Marine macroalgae are widely used indicator species for monitoring environmental radioactivity. Empirical studies have demonstrated a range in radionuclide transfer coefficients, or concentration ratios (CRs), between taxonomic groups, however the CR... Read More about Does it run in the family? - Improving radiological risk assessment in the coastal environment using taxonomic and phylogenetic perspectives in macroalgae species.

Video gaming and sleep in adults: A systematic review (2024)
Journal Article

Video games (VGs) are one of the most common forms of entertainment and their diffusion is constantly increasing. Although largely studied in the framework of their relationship with mental and physical health, the relationship of VGs with sleep are... Read More about Video gaming and sleep in adults: A systematic review.

Exploring the Aventine: An autoethnography on making sense of immersive daydreaming in the context of developmental trauma (2025)
Thesis

Immersive daydreaming is fantasy activity that is vivid, intricate and highly absorptive. Akin to an ongoing ‘movie-in-the-mind’, it often has the quality of feeling real and can continue over a period of months or years. The term ‘maladaptive’ daydr... Read More about Exploring the Aventine: An autoethnography on making sense of immersive daydreaming in the context of developmental trauma.

Comparison between residual stress induced by waterjet peening and shot peening (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Surface modification techniques have received much attention among the researchers around the world. Yet, finding the best way to enhance the surface properties remains one of the challenges in engineering. Most of the fatigue cracks begins from the... Read More about Comparison between residual stress induced by waterjet peening and shot peening.

A novel cutting strategy for measuring two components of residual stresses using slitting method (2014)
Journal Article

An exact knowledge of residual stresses that exist within the engineering components is essential to maintain the structural integrity. All mechanical strain relief (MSR) techniques to measure residual stresses rely on removing a section of material... Read More about A novel cutting strategy for measuring two components of residual stresses using slitting method.

Combined effect of residual stress and loading history on brittle fracture (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of residual stress (RS) and loading history on the subsequent low-temperature cleavage fracture resistance of ferritic steel structures such as pressure vessels. Three dimensional finite element analy... Read More about Combined effect of residual stress and loading history on brittle fracture.

Vibratory stress relief of welded austenite stainless steel plates: Numerical and experimental approach (2021)
Journal Article

Residual stresses are one of the most important factors in the integrity of welded structures. There have been vast majorities of research conducted on the mechanism of vibratory stress relief method (VSR), but the lack of a specific mechanism, expla... Read More about Vibratory stress relief of welded austenite stainless steel plates: Numerical and experimental approach.

“You just can’t do that in dementia care”: Barriers to partnership working within dementia services for people from South Asian communities (2024)
Journal Article

Background: People from South Asian communities are under-represented at all levels of dementia services. Consequently, there is pressure for the statutory sector to deliver services in partnership with Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterpri... Read More about “You just can’t do that in dementia care”: Barriers to partnership working within dementia services for people from South Asian communities.

Will I ever learn Chinese (2024)
Digital Artefact

This is an auto-ethnographic podcast, following the author's processes of learning Mandarin Chinese and linking to 'traditional' research. It has 30 episodes, first published September - October 2024 (a new episode is published every 2 days). The pod... Read More about Will I ever learn Chinese.

Reconceptualising graduate resilience – an integrated multi-level framework for future research (2024)
Journal Article

This paper draws on Bourdieusian social theory to reconceptualise graduate resilience in post-industrial societies to provide a fresh perspective on a concept that has gained increasing prominence in recent years. Through a review of sociological cri... Read More about Reconceptualising graduate resilience – an integrated multi-level framework for future research.

An anodic stripping voltammetric approach for total mercury determination in sea sponges from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria (2024)
Journal Article

Mercury pollution from ongoing crude oil refining and waste disposal activities threatens aquatic ecosystems and human health in the Niger Delta. Mercury monitoring exercise in this region is challenging due to the high cost of traditional instrument... Read More about An anodic stripping voltammetric approach for total mercury determination in sea sponges from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Spherical indentation, part II: Experimental validation for measuring equibiaxial residual stresses (2015)
Journal Article

It is occasionally important or even inevitable to measure residual stresses without harming engineering components. Spherical indentation can be categorized as a nondestructive method to measure residual stresses, as it causes very little damage to... Read More about Spherical indentation, part II: Experimental validation for measuring equibiaxial residual stresses.

Stress variations effect on the accuracy of slitting method for measuring residual stresses (2015)
Journal Article

To maintain the structural integrity of the engineering components, having an exact knowledge of residual stresses is important. Among all mechanical strain relief techniques to measure residual stresses, slitting is one of the youngest. This techniq... Read More about Stress variations effect on the accuracy of slitting method for measuring residual stresses.

Effect of gauge volume on the residual stress measurement using deep hole drilling technique (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Accurate evaluation of residual stress is essential if is to be taken into account in structural integrity assessments. For thick components, many non-destructive residual stress measurement techniques cannot be used since they are unable to measure... Read More about Effect of gauge volume on the residual stress measurement using deep hole drilling technique.

Measurement and prediction of residual stress generated by local compression (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In order to assess the effect of a residual stress field on the fracture behaviour of materials, a well-defined residual stress field, with known characteristics, such as triaxiality, must be generated in a controllable and reproducible manner. In th... Read More about Measurement and prediction of residual stress generated by local compression.

Going against the grain: EdD students’ engagement with arts-based research in the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article

Despite growing interest in the potential value of arts-based research (ABR) for educational inquiry in the UK, limited consideration exists regarding its accessibility, and relevance, to practice-based professional doctoral researchers in this field... Read More about Going against the grain: EdD students’ engagement with arts-based research in the United Kingdom.

Residual stresses measurement in hollow samples using contour method (2020)
Journal Article

Residual stresses are created usually undesirably during manufacturing processes, including casting, welding, metal forming, etc. Residual stresses alone or in combination with other factors can cause the destruction and fracture of components or sig... Read More about Residual stresses measurement in hollow samples using contour method.

Influence of residual stress on the fracture behaviour of an aluminium alloy (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Influence of residual stresses on fracture response of an Aluminum alloy is investigated. Cylindrical flat ended punching tools are employed to introduce residual stresses on 15mm thick C (T) specimens. The residual stress field resulting from Local... Read More about Influence of residual stress on the fracture behaviour of an aluminium alloy.

"How can you think about losing your mind?": A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem group intervention for couples and families living with dementia (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction: Despite the psychological challenges that dementia creates, comparatively little attention has been paid to how individuals or families can be helped to adjust to dementia. One of the few interventions to do this is the Living well with... Read More about "How can you think about losing your mind?": A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem group intervention for couples and families living with dementia.

Effect of surface roughness on brinell hardness and load-displacement curves using a macro indentation (2023)
Journal Article

Surface roughness significantly affects the scattering of load-displacement curves and the measurement of mechanical properties by the macro-scale indentation. Many mechanical properties such as modulus of elasticity, yield stress, strain hardening e... Read More about Effect of surface roughness on brinell hardness and load-displacement curves using a macro indentation.

Flood susceptibility assessment for improving the resilience capacity of railway infrastructure networks (2024)
Journal Article

Floods often cause significant damage to transportation infrastructure such as roads, railways, and bridges. This study identifies several topographic, environmental, and hydrological factors (slope, elevation, rainfall, land use and cover, distance... Read More about Flood susceptibility assessment for improving the resilience capacity of railway infrastructure networks.

Rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP): Semi-structured patient interviews to explore the barriers and enablers to rehabilitation exercises (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose: RCRSP accounts for 50-85% of diagnoses for shoulder pain and rehabilitative exercises are recommended for management. In practice, 50-70% of patients are either non-adherent or only partially adherent to exercise. This study aimed to explore... Read More about Rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP): Semi-structured patient interviews to explore the barriers and enablers to rehabilitation exercises.

Embedding sustainability in built environment curricula: Opportunities and challenges (2024)
Book Chapter

In the face of climate emergency, the built environment professional is required to engage meaningfully with a range of emotive topics across pollution, tackling inequalities, resource scarcity, acute weather events, ecological damage and financial c... Read More about Embedding sustainability in built environment curricula: Opportunities and challenges.

A novel hybrid framework for realistic UAV detection using a mixed RF signal database (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) empower a plethora of applications but also raise significant security and privacy challenges. Effective UAVs detection systems are crucial for mitigating these risks. This paper deals with this problem and... Read More about A novel hybrid framework for realistic UAV detection using a mixed RF signal database.

A lightweight integrity-driven federated learning approach to mitigate poisoning attacks in IoT (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite its distributed nature and being privacy-preserving by nature, Federated Learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks in which malicious actors can inject fake model parameters or false data to compromise the learning process. This articl... Read More about A lightweight integrity-driven federated learning approach to mitigate poisoning attacks in IoT.

Agents’ perceptions of the potential use of virtual reality in sales of residential real estate (2024)
Book Chapter

The residential real estate market is critical for the UK economy. Yet, transaction processes are overly complex. Emerging technologies such as virtual reality (VR) can help modernise this market whilst saving time and money for all parties involved.... Read More about Agents’ perceptions of the potential use of virtual reality in sales of residential real estate.

Recording and reporting of ultra-high dose rate “FLASH” delivery for preclinical and clinical settings (2024)
Journal Article

Treatments at ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) have the potential to improve the therapeutic index of radiation therapy (RT) by sparing normal tissues compared to conventional dose rate irradiations. Insufficient and inconsistent reporting in physics and... Read More about Recording and reporting of ultra-high dose rate “FLASH” delivery for preclinical and clinical settings.

“Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940) (2025)
Journal Article

My Favorite Wife (1940) exemplifies the more “sex suggestive” style of screwball comedy in the late 1930s, posing significant problems for the Production Code Administration (PCA). Strategies for handling taboo content onscreen depended on ambiguity,... Read More about “Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940).

Neurodivergence, autism and the appropriate adult safeguard in police custody (2024)
Journal Article

Neurodivergent suspects and defendants may be disadvantaged by the processes and procedures within the criminal process. Whilst these disadvantages may emerge at any point of the process, they are particularly pertinent during detention in police cus... Read More about Neurodivergence, autism and the appropriate adult safeguard in police custody.

U-control – a universal platform for control system design with inversion/cancellation of nonlinearity, dynamic and coupling through model-based to model-free procedures (2024)
Journal Article

This paper presents the key components in the Universal(U)-control framework for designing dynamic control systems from model-based to model-free paradigms, in which the pillars include U-control system configuration, open-loop dynamic inversion, clo... Read More about U-control – a universal platform for control system design with inversion/cancellation of nonlinearity, dynamic and coupling through model-based to model-free procedures.

ProxiMix: Enhancing fairness with proximity samples in subgroups (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Many bias mitigation methods have been developed for addressing fairness issues in machine learning. We have found that using linear mixup alone, a data augmentation technique, for bias mitigation, can still retain biases present in dataset labels. R... Read More about ProxiMix: Enhancing fairness with proximity samples in subgroups.

Natural soundscapes enhance mood recovery amid anthropogenic noise pollution (2024)
Journal Article

In urbanised landscapes, the scarcity of green spaces and increased exposure to anthropogenic noise have adverse effects on health and wellbeing. While reduced speed limits have historically been implemented to address traffic safety, their potential... Read More about Natural soundscapes enhance mood recovery amid anthropogenic noise pollution.

“Tell me a story and make me a picture”: Incorporating innovative visual methods in story completion design (2024)
Book Chapter

In this chapter we set out a novel use of story completion in our study of young people's understandings of sexuality and appearance. In our story completion design, we incorporated a visual element where participants were invited to produce a visual... Read More about “Tell me a story and make me a picture”: Incorporating innovative visual methods in story completion design.

On complexity of colloid cellular automata (2024)
Journal Article

The colloid cellular automata do not imitate the physical structure of colloids but are governed by logical functions derived from them. We analyze the space-time complexity of Boolean circuits derived from the electrical responses of colloids-specif... Read More about On complexity of colloid cellular automata.

Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action (2024)
Journal Article

This paper investigates how top-down policy direction setting is interpreted and implemented within horizontal networks of practice. This is an under-investigated issue, yet vital for delivering ultimately transformative outcomes. It seeks to unpack... Read More about Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action.

Investigation of proteinoid microspheres for cellular nanonetworks based on frequency response (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

There is a growing interest in proteinoid (thermal proteins) microspheres as a potentially valuable components for creating nano-scale sensing and computing networks. This research aims to investigate how proteinoid microspheres respond to different... Read More about Investigation of proteinoid microspheres for cellular nanonetworks based on frequency response.

Risks and opportunities of the metaverse (2024)
Report

Expert memorandum prepared by Verity McIntosh and Catherine Allen, at the request of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, Parliamentary Authority of the Council of Europe.

The ‘metaverse’ represents a new frontier for digital te... Read More about Risks and opportunities of the metaverse.

Who is the true wife? The recognition of overseas marriage and divorce (2024)
Journal Article

In Uchechukwu-Onwukibo v Onwukibo and others [2023] EWHC 2812 (Fam) the Family Division of the High Court had to determine whether the applicant or first respondent was the ‘true wife’ of Mr Onwukibo who died in September 2021. The parties and the de... Read More about Who is the true wife? The recognition of overseas marriage and divorce.

KLANG: Live and expressive C++ for audio [ADC24 Workshop] (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop provides a practical introduction to two technologies developed to support C++ audio development: klang, a C++ dialect (language extension) that adds audio DSP semantics to modern C++, and rapIDE (rapid audio prototyping IDE), a complet... Read More about KLANG: Live and expressive C++ for audio [ADC24 Workshop].

Promoting corporate citizenship through clinical legal education (2024)
Journal Article

With the conversation regarding corporations and their role in society becoming mainstay in the public discourse, the broad consensus appears to be that the corporation does in fact owe a duty to more than its investor constituency, even though there... Read More about Promoting corporate citizenship through clinical legal education.

FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA is a response to crises and ongoing global conﬂicts humanity is facing today. Artists were invited to speak up on issues related to human rights, war, violence, social and racial injustice. The mission of this important and t... Read More about FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA.

Exploring teacher understandings of participatory pedagogies via approaches to children's rights in Wales (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation took place at EECERA 2024 in Brighton - the presentation was on initial findings from Work Package 2 of the Children's Participation In Schools Project

Human rights education: Teachers’ perceptions about the value of children’s participation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presented at BERA 2024 - this presentation focused on our findings from teachers in Work Package 2 of the Children's Participation in Schools project.

Embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presented at BERA 2024, this presentation focused on the results of a legislative and policy analysis of Welsh educational documents as well as a survey administered to ITE providers across Wales

Understanding Urban Cycling: Exploring the Relationship Between Mobility, Sustainability and Capital (2020)
Book

Academic interest in cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the necessity for cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling.

Based up... Read More about Understanding Urban Cycling: Exploring the Relationship Between Mobility, Sustainability and Capital.

Complexity and causation: Sustainable architecture through the lens of deconstructivism (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper critically re-examines sustainability in architecture through Derrida’s deconstructivist lens, challenging the reductive focus on efficient resource use and carbon consciousness. Current approaches often prioritise fixed, material criteria... Read More about Complexity and causation: Sustainable architecture through the lens of deconstructivism.

FLASH proton therapy (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Conference teaching session: The FLASH effect is a normal tissue sparing induced by ultra-high dose rate irradiation. This effect has the potential to create a step change in the therapeutic ratio, however the exact parameters which induce normal tis... Read More about FLASH proton therapy.

Counter terrorism measures in the classroom: The importance of professionalism, agency and autonomy when enacting the Prevent duty (2024)
Book Chapter

The Prevent policy was singular and “simple”: to prevent individuals from getting drawn into terrorism, to identify and stop this process before it begins. In the context of the global war on terror and the shadow of terrorist attacks in the USA and... Read More about Counter terrorism measures in the classroom: The importance of professionalism, agency and autonomy when enacting the Prevent duty.

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