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How do patient information documents present dialysis and conservative kidney management? A document analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Sowden, R., Shaw, C., Robb, J., Winterbottom, A., Bristowe, K., Bekker, H. L., Tulsky, J., Murtagh, F. E., Barnes, R., Caskey, F. J., & Selman, L. E. (2025). How do patient information documents present dialysis and conservative kidney management? A document analysis. Clinical Kidney Journal, 18(6), Article sfaf136. https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfaf136

Background Most older people with advanced kidney disease face a decision between conservative kidney management (CKM) or dialysis and must weigh their potential benefits, risks and impacts on quality and length of life. Patient information documents... Read More about How do patient information documents present dialysis and conservative kidney management? A document analysis.

Innovative Pathways: Rethinking Higher Education Through Inclusion and Participation (2025)
Digital Artefact
Walker, J., Spencer Grey, S., Oxley, L., & Cowperthwaite, L. (2025). Innovative Pathways: Rethinking Higher Education Through Inclusion and Participation. [Blog post]

Opening paragraph:
Higher education should be a space of opportunity for all, yet for many people, particularly those without formal qualifications, from disadvantaged backgrounds, or balancing work and caring responsibilities, it remains an unreach... Read More about Innovative Pathways: Rethinking Higher Education Through Inclusion and Participation.

Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for People Living with Dementia (PLWD) in the UK (2025)
Journal Article
Papavasiliou, E., Marshall, J., Allan, L., Bradbury, K., Fox, C., Hawkes, M., Irvine, A., Moniz-Cook, E., Pick, A., Polley, M., Rathbone, A., Reeve, J., Robinson, D. L., Robinson, L., Rook, G., Sadler, E., Wolverson, E., Walker, S., Cross, J., & On behalf of the SPLENDID Collaboration. (2025). Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for People Living with Dementia (PLWD) in the UK. Health Expectations, 28(3), Article e70289. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70289

Introduction: Dementia is a complex medical condition that poses significant challenges to healthcare systems and support services. People living with dementia (PLWD) often face complex needs, exacerbated by social isolation and difficulty accessing... Read More about Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for People Living with Dementia (PLWD) in the UK.

Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal (2025)
Journal Article
Coelho, D. P., Ham, M., & Jones, S. L. (2025). Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal. British Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4155

The purpose of ‘doing’ education is often unconsidered or assumed in educational thinking and practice, despite the diversity of understandings. Gert Biesta's perspective that education has a threefold purpose of qualification, socialisation and subj... Read More about Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal.

Masculinity and ethnicity in intersection: Implications for men’s health and palliative care services (2025)
Journal Article
Salifu, Y., & Bamidele, O. (2025). Masculinity and ethnicity in intersection: Implications for men’s health and palliative care services. Palliative medicine, 39(6), 640-643. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163251341116

Introduction
The intersection of masculinity, ethnicity and palliative care highlights an urgent and underexplored area for future research – particularly in understanding how societal and culturally-specific constructs of masculinity shape men’s ex... Read More about Masculinity and ethnicity in intersection: Implications for men’s health and palliative care services.

Implementation of the Cognitive Daisy (COG-D) for improving care planning and delivery for residents with dementia in care homes: results of a feasibility randomised controlled trial (2025)
Journal Article
Pollux, P. M., Surr, C., Cohen, J., Huang, C., Wolverson, E., Mountain, P., Clarke, R., Hawkesford-Webb, E., Winter, B., & Hudson, J. M. (2025). Implementation of the Cognitive Daisy (COG-D) for improving care planning and delivery for residents with dementia in care homes: results of a feasibility randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 11, Article 66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-025-01637-1

Background: Many residents in care homes for older adults live with dementia. Understanding the unique profiles of cognitive impairments for each resident is important for person-centred care, yet information about specific cognitive problems is limi... Read More about Implementation of the Cognitive Daisy (COG-D) for improving care planning and delivery for residents with dementia in care homes: results of a feasibility randomised controlled trial.

A Feminist Political Ecology of household waste management in an urban township, South Africa (2025)
Journal Article
Pewa, M., Robson, E., & Deutz, P. (2025). A Feminist Political Ecology of household waste management in an urban township, South Africa. South African Geographical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2025.2496264

In the Global South, women disproportionately shoulder the burden of household waste management. Development Studies suggest that this persistent feminization of waste-related activities is rooted in cultural, social, and economic factors that confin... Read More about A Feminist Political Ecology of household waste management in an urban township, South Africa.

Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for Carers of People Living with Dementia (PLWD) in the United Kingdom (2025)
Journal Article
Marshall, J., Papavasiliou, E., Allan, L., Bradbury, K., Fox, C., Hawkes, M., Irvine, A., Moniz-Cook, E., Pick, A., Polley, M., Rathbone, A., Reeve, J., Robinson, D. L., Robinson, L., Rook, G., Sadler, E., Wolverson, E., Walker, S., Cross, J., & On behalf of the SPLENDID Collaboration. (2025). Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for Carers of People Living with Dementia (PLWD) in the United Kingdom. Health Expectations, 28(3), Article e70286. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70286

Introduction: Carers of people living with dementia (PLWD) face a range of complex needs, including medical, emotional, social and practical challenges, often exacerbated by social isolation and barriers to accessing support. Social prescribing (SP)... Read More about Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for Carers of People Living with Dementia (PLWD) in the United Kingdom.

Volatile learning environments: Exploring the barriers to inclusion in prison education through collaborative writing (2025)
Journal Article
Thomas, S., & Glazzard, J. (online). Volatile learning environments: Exploring the barriers to inclusion in prison education through collaborative writing. Policy Futures in Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103251341407

Education in prisons is intended to transform lives. It fulfils a major role in rehabilitation and is critical to ensuring that incarcerated people have the necessary knowledge and skills to lead meaningful, productive and economically active lives w... Read More about Volatile learning environments: Exploring the barriers to inclusion in prison education through collaborative writing.

Frailty-free life expectancy and its association with socio-economic characteristics: an analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing cohort study (2025)
Journal Article
Sinclair, D. R., Maharani, A., Kingston, A., O’Neill, T. W., & Matthews, F. E. (2025). Frailty-free life expectancy and its association with socio-economic characteristics: an analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing cohort study. BMC medicine, 23(1), Article 276. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04112-z

Background: Frailty is more prevalent in socio-economically disadvantaged groups; however, little is known about how this translates to differences in the number of years people live with and without frailty. We investigate differences in frailty-fre... Read More about Frailty-free life expectancy and its association with socio-economic characteristics: an analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing cohort study.

Learning for Sustainability: Challenges and Progress of Embedding Sustainability into Teaching and Learning and Beyond (2025)
Book
Gamage, K., & Gordon, N. (Eds.). (2025). Learning for Sustainability: Challenges and Progress of Embedding Sustainability into Teaching and Learning and Beyond. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-3945-2

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the education sector, disrupting traditional teaching models and prompting a rapid shift to remote and hybrid learning. Amidst these challenges, the crisis has also opened up new possibilities for embe... Read More about Learning for Sustainability: Challenges and Progress of Embedding Sustainability into Teaching and Learning and Beyond.

Book Review: The Hamas Intelligence War Against Israel Netanel Flamer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025. pp. 207. Pb. £30.99. ISBN: 9781009499408 (2025)
Journal Article
Dover, R. (2025). Book Review: The Hamas Intelligence War Against Israel Netanel Flamer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025. pp. 207. Pb. £30.99. ISBN: 9781009499408. Asian Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2025.2499148

Opening paragraph:
This book is a decisive contribution to our previously partial and fragmented understanding of the trajectory and capabilities of the intelligence services of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) since its inception... Read More about Book Review: The Hamas Intelligence War Against Israel Netanel Flamer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025. pp. 207. Pb. £30.99. ISBN: 9781009499408.

Exploring health visitors' role in partnering with parents to reduce alcohol-related developmental disorders in England: a mixed-methods study (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Walker, J. (2025, May). Exploring health visitors' role in partnering with parents to reduce alcohol-related developmental disorders in England: a mixed-methods study. Presented at Institute of Health Visiting Evidence-Based Practice Conference, Manchester

Extract: Health Visitors' Role in Discussing Alcohol

Addressing alcohol consumption from the antenatal period through the first 5 years aligns with Making Every Contact Count.
This rarely happens due to organisational and individual-level barrier... Read More about Exploring health visitors' role in partnering with parents to reduce alcohol-related developmental disorders in England: a mixed-methods study.

Characterising acute and chronic care needs: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2025)
Journal Article
Zuniga, Y. M. H., Zumla, A., Zuhlke, L. J., Zoladl, M., Ziaeian, B., Zhong, C., Zhao, X. J. G., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, J., Zepro, N. B., Zenebe, G. A., Zeitoun, J. D., Zegeye, Z. B., Zastrozhin, M. S., Zareshahrabadi, Z., Zarea, K., Dehnavi, A. Z., Zare, I., Zangiabadian, M., Zangeneh, A., …Soyiri, I. N. (2025). Characterising acute and chronic care needs: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Nature communications, 16(1), Article 4235. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56910-x

Chronic care manages long-term, progressive conditions, while acute care addresses short-term conditions. Chronic conditions increasingly strain health systems, which are often unprepared for these demands. This study examines the burden of condition... Read More about Characterising acute and chronic care needs: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

Vasectomy, Management, and Pain: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Online Communities (2025)
Journal Article
Pimbblet, K. A. (2025). Vasectomy, Management, and Pain: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Online Communities. International Journal of Urological Nursing, 19(2), Article e70016. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijun.70016

Is the use of vasectomy in the United Kingdom experiencing a significant decline due to knowledge of post-vasectomy pain syndrome transmitted through online public forums? Although vasectomy is regularly used as a form of contraception and is general... Read More about Vasectomy, Management, and Pain: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Online Communities.

LAMPrey: a standardised method for analysing quantitative LAMP (qLAMP) and qPCR reactions using the inflection cycle threshold iCt (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Bates, A., Li, J., Rivero, F., & Wollenberg Valero, K. C. (2025). LAMPrey: a standardised method for analysing quantitative LAMP (qLAMP) and qPCR reactions using the inflection cycle threshold iCt

Quantitative Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (qLAMP) is a relatively new method that has gained popularity in recent years, particularly in disease identification, including during the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Unlike conventional quantitati... Read More about LAMPrey: a standardised method for analysing quantitative LAMP (qLAMP) and qPCR reactions using the inflection cycle threshold iCt.

Environmental and financial cost of surgical-site infection by severity after lower limb vascular surgery (2025)
Journal Article
Lathan, R., Daysley, H., Ravindhran, B., Lim, A., Cutteridge, J., Sidapra, M., Long, J., Hitchman, L., Beltran-Alvarez, P., Carradice, D., Smith, G., & Chetter, I. (2025). Environmental and financial cost of surgical-site infection by severity after lower limb vascular surgery. BJS Open, 9(3), Article zraf015. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zraf015

BACKGROUND: There is sparse evidence of the relationship between environmental and financial costs of surgical-site infection. Identifying areas of high-cost burden would enable key targets for clinical interventions to aid in achieving the UK nation... Read More about Environmental and financial cost of surgical-site infection by severity after lower limb vascular surgery.

Developing a decision support tool for the continuation or deprescribing of antithrombotic therapy in patients receiving end-of-life care: Protocol for a European Delphi study". (2025)
Journal Article
Deneche, I., Couffignal, C., Si Mohammed, N., Arbjerg Højen, A., Font, C., Konstantinides, S., Kruip, M., Maiorana, L., Szmit, S., Abbel, D., Bertoletti, L., Edwards, A., Edwards, M., Gava, A., Gussekloo, J., Johnson, M. J., Kumar, R., Langendoen, J., Lifford, K., Mooijaart, S., …Mahé, I. (2025). Developing a decision support tool for the continuation or deprescribing of antithrombotic therapy in patients receiving end-of-life care: Protocol for a European Delphi study". Thrombosis Update, 19, Article 100209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tru.2025.100209

ABSTRACT
Introduction: To develop a European shared decision support tool (SDST), a Delphi process will be used to reach consensus about aspects relating to the continuation or deprescribing of antithrombotic therapy (ATT) in cancer patients at the... Read More about Developing a decision support tool for the continuation or deprescribing of antithrombotic therapy in patients receiving end-of-life care: Protocol for a European Delphi study"..

Developing a decision support tool for the continuation or deprescribing of antithrombotic therapy in patients receiving end-of-life care: Protocol for a European Delphi study (2025)
Journal Article
Deneche, I., Couffignal, C., Mohammed, N. S., Højen, A. A., Font, C., Konstantinides, S., Kruip, M., Maiorana, L., Szmit, S., Abbel, D., Bertoletti, L., Cannegieter, S., Edwards, A., Edwards, M., Gava, A., Gussekloo, J., Johnson, M. J., Kumar, R., Langendoen, J., Lifford, K., …Mahé, I. (2025). Developing a decision support tool for the continuation or deprescribing of antithrombotic therapy in patients receiving end-of-life care: Protocol for a European Delphi study. Thrombosis Research, 19, Article 100209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tru.2025.100209

Introduction: To develop a European shared decision support tool (SDST), a Delphi process will be used to reach consensus about aspects relating to the continuation or deprescribing of antithrombotic therapy (ATT) in cancer patients at the end of lif... Read More about Developing a decision support tool for the continuation or deprescribing of antithrombotic therapy in patients receiving end-of-life care: Protocol for a European Delphi study.

Reflection of wind turbine noise from rough ground using 3D multiple scattering theory (2025)
Journal Article
Naylor, J., & Qin, Q. (2025). Reflection of wind turbine noise from rough ground using 3D multiple scattering theory. Wind, 5(2), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/wind5020011

Ground roughness is investigated for its influence on the propagation of wind turbine noise by using a proposed multiple scattering theory to predict the reflection of sound waves from a deterministic distribution of hemispheres. By using a distribut... Read More about Reflection of wind turbine noise from rough ground using 3D multiple scattering theory.