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Creating a low carbon, environmentally sustainable and socially just value chain for rare earth magnets. Final Report, Project 1008431 (2025)
Report
Wadhawan, J., Lawrence, N., McNeice, D., Dias, D., Martin, F., Smith, L., Winter, T., Van Alstine, J., Busch, J., Izod, W., & Tucker, B. (2025). Creating a low carbon, environmentally sustainable and socially just value chain for rare earth magnets. Final Report, Project 1008431. Innovate UK

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The Project aimed to explore the potential effectiveness of socio-economic extended input-output modelling and to explore the possible overall impacts of potential interventions across the rare earth magnet value chain to decrease... Read More about Creating a low carbon, environmentally sustainable and socially just value chain for rare earth magnets. Final Report, Project 1008431.

End-of-life Care and the Human Researcher: The Emotional Impact of Sensitive Research on Researchers (2025)
Book Chapter
Bayley, Z. (2025). End-of-life Care and the Human Researcher: The Emotional Impact of Sensitive Research on Researchers. In P. Liamputtong (Ed.), Handbook of Sensitive Research in the Social Sciences. Edward Elgar Publishing

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Conducting sensitive research in the social sciences requires meticulous attention to ethical considerations, methodological rigour, and emotional intelligence. In this comprehensive Handbook, Pranee Liamputtong brings together a diver... Read More about End-of-life Care and the Human Researcher: The Emotional Impact of Sensitive Research on Researchers.

Differentiating Between Unutilised Gaps And Gaps For Access In Hedgerow Using Remote Sensing (2025)
Report
Wolstenholme, J., Nolan, J., Townsend, E., Ahmed, J., Parsons, K., Davidson, G., Thomas, R., & Parsons, D. (2025). Differentiating Between Unutilised Gaps And Gaps For Access In Hedgerow Using Remote Sensing. The Tree Council

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Hedgerows are present throughout the majority of the United Kingdom, predominantly delineating boundaries, borders or limits of land (Baudry et al., 2000). They provide landscape-scale connectivity as well as increased biodiversity, po... Read More about Differentiating Between Unutilised Gaps And Gaps For Access In Hedgerow Using Remote Sensing.

Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England (2025)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B., Worthen, H., & Mottram, S. (2025). Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England. Journal of Historical Geography, 89, 13-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.001

The paper explores how early modern people lived with and responded to extraordinary flood events at a time of environmental, social and political crisis. By focusing on a period when flood risk management ‘failed’ and houses, land and businesses sat... Read More about Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England.

Larval and juvenile fish abundance, habitat, water quality, flow and climate data from English rivers, 1984-2017 (2025)
Data
(2025). Larval and juvenile fish abundance, habitat, water quality, flow and climate data from English rivers, 1984-2017. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5285/c904c5f0-7f21-4759-a7d4-c262da230b53

This dataset contains monthly/annual time series of species-specific abundances and covariates for 137 targeted larval/juvenile fish surveys at sites in a range of English lowland rivers. Larval/juvenile fish data come from two different sources: The... Read More about Larval and juvenile fish abundance, habitat, water quality, flow and climate data from English rivers, 1984-2017.

Attitudes Before Actions: How Music Teachers’ Technological Acceptance and Competence Shape Technological Behaviour in China (2025)
Journal Article
King, A., Zhang, X., & Prior, H. (2025). Attitudes Before Actions: How Music Teachers’ Technological Acceptance and Competence Shape Technological Behaviour in China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, Article 1222. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05582-5

Technology can be a key aspect in facilitating progress and development in education that sometimes debates the factors that determine the use of technology and its impact on teaching and learning. For example in education technology integration can... Read More about Attitudes Before Actions: How Music Teachers’ Technological Acceptance and Competence Shape Technological Behaviour in China.

Relationships Between Boldness and Husbandry in Captive Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) (2025)
Journal Article
Legard, M., Henri, D., Hill, G., George, D., & Breithaupt, T. (2025). Relationships Between Boldness and Husbandry in Captive Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua). Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research, 13(3), Article 141-151. https://doi.org/10.19227/jzar.v13i3.849

Personality traits have been identified in many species and the benefits of a greater understanding of personality for animal conservation and welfare is becoming increasingly apparent. First, we aimed to determine if the boldness trait is present in... Read More about Relationships Between Boldness and Husbandry in Captive Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua).

Probing Charge Trapping Sites in M-N-C Electrocatalysts via Time-Resolved Transient Absorption Spectroscopy (2025)
Journal Article
Nisar, L., Kusdhany, M. I. M., Nishihara, M., Hussain, F., Burnett, A. D., Lyth, S. M., Pourkashanian, M., Ismail, M. . S., & Chauvet, A. A. P. (in press). Probing Charge Trapping Sites in M-N-C Electrocatalysts via Time-Resolved Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ta02913a

Among non-platinum group metal (non-PGM) electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), the class of metal-decorated nitrogen-doped carbon (M–N–C) materials is most promising. The active site is generally accepted to be a metal coordinated... Read More about Probing Charge Trapping Sites in M-N-C Electrocatalysts via Time-Resolved Transient Absorption Spectroscopy.

A watershed fragility index for assessing the vulnerability of river ecosystems (2025)
Journal Article
Lira, K. C., Jong, M. V. Z. D., King, M., & Cowx, I. G. (2025). A watershed fragility index for assessing the vulnerability of river ecosystems. Ecological Indicators, 178, Article 113908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113908

Accelerating impacts of climate change have heightened the vulnerability of ecosystems, posing critical challenges to biodiversity conservation. While current climate change vulnerability assessment frameworks provide valuable insights, they often fa... Read More about A watershed fragility index for assessing the vulnerability of river ecosystems.

Persistent informality: preparing the EU’s input into international climate negotiations (2025)
Journal Article
Wurzel, R., Liefferink, D., & di Lullo, M. (online). Persistent informality: preparing the EU’s input into international climate negotiations. Journal of European Public Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2536548

In 2004 a largely informal system for preparing the European Union’s (EU’s) input into and representation at the international climate change negotiations was introduced. This system has persisted largely unchanged for over two decades. At its core a... Read More about Persistent informality: preparing the EU’s input into international climate negotiations.

PolicyMamba: Localized Policy Attention With State Space Model for Land Cover Classification (2025)
Journal Article
Ahmad, M., Mazzara, M., Distefano, S., Mehmood Khan, A., Hassaan Farooq Butt, M., & Hong, D. (in press). PolicyMamba: Localized Policy Attention With State Space Model for Land Cover Classification. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2025.3586836

Multihead self-attention and cross-attention mechanisms often suffer from computational inefficiencies, limited scalability, and suboptimal contextual understanding, particularly in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. These mechanisms struggle... Read More about PolicyMamba: Localized Policy Attention With State Space Model for Land Cover Classification.

Stakeholder solutions to human-wildlife conflicts: Co-created adaptive impact management for wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the English Lake District (2025)
Journal Article
Logan, T. W., Ward, A. I., & Hopkins, C. R. (2025). Stakeholder solutions to human-wildlife conflicts: Co-created adaptive impact management for wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the English Lake District. Biological Conservation, 310, Article 111380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111380

Human-wildlife conflicts are often symptomatic of underlying human-human conflicts, characterised by opposing viewpoints, unclear or limited communication, and failure to compromise. Participatory approaches towards resolving human-wildlife conflict... Read More about Stakeholder solutions to human-wildlife conflicts: Co-created adaptive impact management for wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the English Lake District.

Plasmon Mediated Long‐Range Interaction Between Quantum Emitters and Metasurface: Angle‐Controlled Unidirectional Emission Outcoupling (2025)
Journal Article
Muravitskaya, A., Kostcheev, S., Baudrion, A., Adam, P., Wang, Z., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. G., & Movsesyan, A. (online). Plasmon Mediated Long‐Range Interaction Between Quantum Emitters and Metasurface: Angle‐Controlled Unidirectional Emission Outcoupling. Laser and Photonics Reviews, Article e00656. https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202500656

The unidirectional emission of quantum dots (QDs) positioned near a plasmonic metasurface is demonstrated. By exploiting surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) excited on a gold film beneath the emitter, emission with a controlled angle and reduced depend... Read More about Plasmon Mediated Long‐Range Interaction Between Quantum Emitters and Metasurface: Angle‐Controlled Unidirectional Emission Outcoupling.

From Science to Storytelling: Advancing a climate knowledge-action framework through reflections on youth-focused, participatory action research in Vietnam (2025)
Journal Article
Jones, L., Lê, H., Parsons, K. J., Võ, T., & Halstead, F. (online). From Science to Storytelling: Advancing a climate knowledge-action framework through reflections on youth-focused, participatory action research in Vietnam. British Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.70004

Climate change presents urgent global challenges that demand swift and transformative responses. However, current efforts often fall short, revealing a crisis not only of environmental concern but also of social action. Responses to this have include... Read More about From Science to Storytelling: Advancing a climate knowledge-action framework through reflections on youth-focused, participatory action research in Vietnam.

Opportunities to better integrate inland fish and fisheries in multilateral environmental agreements (2025)
Journal Article
Lynch, A. J., Bartley, D., Beard, T. D., Borba, G., Cooke, S. J., Cowx, I. G., Elliott, V., Embke, H., Gondwe, E., Hogan, Z., Low, J. G., Madden, J. C., Phang, S., Rice, E. D., Sievert, N., Stokes, G. L., Akwany, L., Allison, E. H., Arlinghaus, R., Arthur, R., …VanWynen, C. M. (2025). Opportunities to better integrate inland fish and fisheries in multilateral environmental agreements. Environmental science & policy, 171, Article 104089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104089

Inland fish and fisheries are globally important to environmental function and human services, yet their persistent lack of recognition in global agreements, especially multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), may hinder progress towards biodive... Read More about Opportunities to better integrate inland fish and fisheries in multilateral environmental agreements.