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The Meaning and Experience of Gratitude for People Living with Dementia (2021)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Clarke, C., & Wolverson, E. (2022). The Meaning and Experience of Gratitude for People Living with Dementia. Dementia, 21(1), 335-352. https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012211040675

Rationale Supporting people to live well with dementia is an international government priority. People living with dementia experience a range of positive emotions despite the challenges associated with dementia. Further research is needed to explor... Read More about The Meaning and Experience of Gratitude for People Living with Dementia.

Blood, Blots and Belonging: English Heathens and their (ab)uses of folklore (2021)
Book Chapter
Smith, K. (2021). Blood, Blots and Belonging: English Heathens and their (ab)uses of folklore. In M. Cheeseman, & C. Hart (Eds.), Folklore and the Nation (262-278). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003007531

The rise of exclusionary, populist ideologies in the post-industrial Global North is a well-documented phenomenon: posing moral and physical challenges to civil society, manifestations of these ideologies occur in a diverse range of European localiti... Read More about Blood, Blots and Belonging: English Heathens and their (ab)uses of folklore.

A Systematic Review of Exercise Prescription in Patients with Intermittent Claudication: Does Pain Matter? (2021)
Journal Article
Seed, S., Harwood, A., Sinclair, J., Pymer, S., Caldow, E., Ingle, L., …Birkett, S. (in press). A Systematic Review of Exercise Prescription in Patients with Intermittent Claudication: Does Pain Matter?. Annals of vascular surgery, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avsg.2021.06.025

Background: Current guidelines for intermittent claudication advocate exercise at moderate to maximal claudication pain. However, adherence rates to supervised exercise programmes (SEP) remain poor and claudication pain is a contributing factor. Limi... Read More about A Systematic Review of Exercise Prescription in Patients with Intermittent Claudication: Does Pain Matter?.

Outcomes and measures of delirium interventional studies in palliative care to inform a core outcome set: A systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Agar, M. R., Siddiqi, N., Hosie, A., Boland, J. W., Johnson, M. J., Featherstone, I., …Rose, L. (2021). Outcomes and measures of delirium interventional studies in palliative care to inform a core outcome set: A systematic review. Palliative medicine, 35(10), 1761-1775. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211040186

Background: Trials of interventions for delirium in various patient populations report disparate outcomes and measures but little is known about those used in palliative care trials. A core outcome set promotes consistency of outcome selection and me... Read More about Outcomes and measures of delirium interventional studies in palliative care to inform a core outcome set: A systematic review.

From enforcement to engagement: The role of the EHRC and Higher Education Institutions in considering the lived experience of disabled people (2021)
Journal Article
Kember, M. (2021). From enforcement to engagement: The role of the EHRC and Higher Education Institutions in considering the lived experience of disabled people. Journal of Inclusive Practice in Further and Higher Education, 13(1), 7-19

This paper is based on the findings of a doctoral participatory research study which explored how the lived experience of disabled people is, and could be, considered in the design and delivery of equality and diversity training in UK Higher Educatio... Read More about From enforcement to engagement: The role of the EHRC and Higher Education Institutions in considering the lived experience of disabled people.

How students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to life (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Parsons, K., Halstead, F., & Jones, L. (2021). How students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to life

With the stark “code red” warnings from the world’s climate experts in the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) still ringing in our ears, it’s vital to give as many people as possible the tools with which to tac... Read More about How students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to life.

The aluminium-[18F]fluoride revolution: simple radiochemistry with a big impact for radiolabelled biomolecules (2021)
Journal Article
Archibald, S. J., & Allott, L. (2021). The aluminium-[18F]fluoride revolution: simple radiochemistry with a big impact for radiolabelled biomolecules. EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry, 6(1), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41181-021-00141-0

The aluminium-[18F]fluoride ([18F]AlF) radiolabelling method combines the favourable decay characteristics of fluorine-18 with the convenience and familiarity of metal-based radiochemistry and has been used to parallel gallium-68 radiopharmaceutical... Read More about The aluminium-[18F]fluoride revolution: simple radiochemistry with a big impact for radiolabelled biomolecules.

Coercion (2021)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2021). Coercion. Open Journal of Philosophy, 11(03), 386-409. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojpp.2021.113027

Coercion involves two or more parties who are in conflict and whose relationships are complex and uneasy. Generally speaking, people resent coercion and, when possible, rebel against it. This paper differentiates between circumstantial coercion and p... Read More about Coercion.

The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834 (2021)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Coleman, D. (in press). The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834. Atlantic Studies: Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1899745

In 1775, on a tour of the West Indies, Henry Smeathman produced a sketch entitled Creole Delicacy or The Domestic Felicity of Africans in the West Indies (published 1788). The image depicts a flogging presided over by an elegantly dressed white woman... Read More about The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834.

Pyrene-based aggregation-induced emission luminogens (AIEgens) with less colour migration for anti-counterfeiting applications (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Wang, L., Mao, X., Wang, Q., Mu, Z., An, L., …Tang, B. Z. (2021). Pyrene-based aggregation-induced emission luminogens (AIEgens) with less colour migration for anti-counterfeiting applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9(37), 12828-12838. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1tc03022a

Traditional luminescent materials are subject to aggregation-caused quenching, which limits their use for high-technological applications in the solid state. In an attempt to address such issues when using luminescent materials in fluorescent inks, b... Read More about Pyrene-based aggregation-induced emission luminogens (AIEgens) with less colour migration for anti-counterfeiting applications.

The associations between physical activity intensity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (2021)
Journal Article
Kerr, C., Waterworth, S., Brodie, D., Sandercock, G., & Ingle, L. (2021). The associations between physical activity intensity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 36(12), 3508-3514. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgh.15672

Background and Aim: High levels of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness may protect against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. We investigated whether different physical activity intensities and cardiorespiratory fitness were independent p... Read More about The associations between physical activity intensity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Impact of severe hypoglycemia on the heat shock and related protein response (2021)
Journal Article
Atkin, A. S., Moin, A. S. M., Nandakumar, M., Al-Qaissi, A., Sathyapalan, T., Atkin, S. L., & Butler, A. E. (2021). Impact of severe hypoglycemia on the heat shock and related protein response. Scientific reports, 11(1), Article 17057. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96642-8

Heat shock proteins contribute to diabetes-induced complications and are affected by glycemic control. Our hypothesis was that hypoglycemia-induced heat shock and related protein changes would be amplified in type 2 diabetes (T2D). This prospective,... Read More about Impact of severe hypoglycemia on the heat shock and related protein response.

Changes in mortality patterns and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis of mortality data across four nations (2021)
Journal Article
O’Donnell, S. B., Bone, A. E., Finucane, A. M., McAleese, J., Higginson, I. J., Barclay, S., …Murtagh, F. E. (2021). Changes in mortality patterns and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis of mortality data across four nations. Palliative medicine, 35(10), 1975-1984. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211040981

Background: Understanding patterns of mortality and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic is important to help provide appropriate services and resources. Aims: To analyse patterns of mortality including place of death in the United Kingdom (UK... Read More about Changes in mortality patterns and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis of mortality data across four nations.

Clarifying realist analytic and interdisciplinary consensus processes in a complex health intervention: A worked example of Judgemental Rationality in action (2021)
Journal Article
Rybczynska-Bunt, S., Weston, L., Byng, R., Stirzaker, A., Lennox, C., Pearson, M., …Quinn, C. (2021). Clarifying realist analytic and interdisciplinary consensus processes in a complex health intervention: A worked example of Judgemental Rationality in action. Evaluation, 27(4), 473-491. https://doi.org/10.1177/13563890211037699

Judgemental rationality is infrequently referenced within discussions of Realist Evaluations. Judgemental rationality refers to researchers’ capacity to assess which, potential, meanings provide the most credible explanations. In evaluation work, rat... Read More about Clarifying realist analytic and interdisciplinary consensus processes in a complex health intervention: A worked example of Judgemental Rationality in action.

Allosteric binding properties of a 1,3-alternate thiacalix[4]arene-based receptor having phenylthiourea and 2-pyridylmethyl moieties on opposite faces (2021)
Journal Article
Rahman, S., Tomiyasu, H., Wang, C. Z., Georghiou, P. E., Alodhayb, A., Carpenter-Warren, C. L., …Yamato, T. (2021). Allosteric binding properties of a 1,3-alternate thiacalix[4]arene-based receptor having phenylthiourea and 2-pyridylmethyl moieties on opposite faces. New journal of chemistry = Nouveau journal de chimie, 45(41), 19235-19243. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1nj02991f

The synthesis of three new heteroditopic receptors (5a-c) which are based on thiacalix[4]arenes in the 1,3-alternate conformation is reported herein. These new receptors each have two thiourea moieties linking phenyl groups, two of which are substitu... Read More about Allosteric binding properties of a 1,3-alternate thiacalix[4]arene-based receptor having phenylthiourea and 2-pyridylmethyl moieties on opposite faces.

“So, when a woman becomes ill, the total structure of the family is affected, they can’t do anything…” Voices from the community on women with breast cancer in India: a qualitative focus group study (2021)
Journal Article
Daniel, S., Venkateswaran, C., Singh, C., Hutchinson, A., & Johnson, M. J. (in press). “So, when a woman becomes ill, the total structure of the family is affected, they can’t do anything…” Voices from the community on women with breast cancer in India: a qualitative focus group study. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06475-4

Background: Psychological symptoms are common in women with breast cancer and profoundly affect their role in the family and wider community, varying across cultural backgrounds. Breast cancer is becoming the most common cancer among women in India.... Read More about “So, when a woman becomes ill, the total structure of the family is affected, they can’t do anything…” Voices from the community on women with breast cancer in India: a qualitative focus group study.

Tra azzardo e consolidamento: l’opportunismo condizionato dei clan mafiosi italiani in Europa (2021)
Journal Article
Rizzuti, A., & Sergi, A. (2021). Tra azzardo e consolidamento: l’opportunismo condizionato dei clan mafiosi italiani in Europa. Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.13130/cross-16119

Questo saggio presenta un’analisi preliminare di dati raccolti in relazione a 6 paesi europei – Germania, Svizzera, Paesi Bassi, Belgio, Spagna e Romania – per tracciare le evidenze della mobilità di clan mafiosi italiani. Tra azzardi e consolidament... Read More about Tra azzardo e consolidamento: l’opportunismo condizionato dei clan mafiosi italiani in Europa.

Life-cycle assessment of hydrogen production via catalytic gasification of wheat straw in the presence of straw derived biochar catalyst (2021)
Journal Article
Loy, A. C. M., Alhazmi, H., Yiin, C. L., Lock, S. S. M., Cheah, K. W., Chin, B. L. F., …Yusup, S. (2021). Life-cycle assessment of hydrogen production via catalytic gasification of wheat straw in the presence of straw derived biochar catalyst. Bioresource technology : biomass, bioenergy, biowastes, conversion technologies, biotransformations, production technologies, 341, Article 125796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125796

The environmental footprints of H2 production via catalytic gasification of wheat straw using straw-derived biochar catalysts were examined. The functional unit of 1 kg of H2 was adopted in the system boundaries, which includes 5 processes namely bio... Read More about Life-cycle assessment of hydrogen production via catalytic gasification of wheat straw in the presence of straw derived biochar catalyst.

PdCu single atom alloys supported on alumina for the selective hydrogenation of furfural (2021)
Journal Article
Islam, M. J., Granollers Mesa, M., Osatiashtiani, A., Manayil, J. C., Isaacs, M. A., Taylor, M. J., …Kyriakou, G. (2021). PdCu single atom alloys supported on alumina for the selective hydrogenation of furfural. Applied catalysis. B, Environmental, 299, Article 120652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120652

Single-atom catalysts serve as a skilful control of precious metals on heterogenous catalysts where all active sites are accessible for catalytic reactions. Here we report the adoption of PdCu single-atom alloys supported on alumina for the selective... Read More about PdCu single atom alloys supported on alumina for the selective hydrogenation of furfural.