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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.

To study religion and media, we need to teach religion and media: economic realities, challenges, and future directions (2025)
Journal Article
Ornella, A. (2025). To study religion and media, we need to teach religion and media: economic realities, challenges, and future directions. Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 11(1), 27-48. https://doi.org/10.25364/05.11%3A2025.1.3

Universities in the United Kingdom, and also in the United States, Austria, and Germany, are facing increased financial pressures. This has already led to the closure of religious studies departments and courses. Course closures impact not only the s... Read More about To study religion and media, we need to teach religion and media: economic realities, challenges, and future directions.

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.

Platelets Image Classification Through Data Augmentation: A Comparative Study of Traditional Imaging Augmentation and GAN-Based Synthetic Data Generation Techniques Using CNNs (2025)
Journal Article
Abidoye, I., Ikeji, F., Coupland, C. A., Calaminus, S. D. J., Sander, N., & Sousa, E. (2025). Platelets Image Classification Through Data Augmentation: A Comparative Study of Traditional Imaging Augmentation and GAN-Based Synthetic Data Generation Techniques Using CNNs. Journal of Imaging, 11(6), 183. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging11060183

Platelets play a crucial role in diagnosing and detecting various diseases, influencing the progression of conditions and guiding treatment options. Accurate identification and classification of platelets are essential for these purposes. The present... Read More about Platelets Image Classification Through Data Augmentation: A Comparative Study of Traditional Imaging Augmentation and GAN-Based Synthetic Data Generation Techniques Using CNNs.

Effectiveness of biomarker-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection: the BATCH RCT (2025)
Journal Article
Waldron, C.-A., Pallmann, P., Schoenbuchner, S., Harris, D., Brookes-Howell, L., Mateus, C., Bernatoniene, J., Cathie, K., Faust, S. N., Henley, J., Hinds, L., Hood, K., Huang, C., Jones, S., Kotecha, S., Milosevic, S., Nabwera, H., Patel, S., Paulus, S., Powell, C. V., …Carrol, E. D. (in press). Effectiveness of biomarker-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection: the BATCH RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 29(16), https://doi.org/10.3310/mbva3675

Background
Procalcitonin is a biomarker specific for bacterial infection, with a more rapid response than other commonly used biomarkers, such as C-reactive protein, but it is not routinely used in the National Health Service.

Objective
To deter... Read More about Effectiveness of biomarker-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection: the BATCH RCT.

Exploring supply chain sustainability practices in the Gulf Cooperation Council Petrochemical Sector (2025)
Journal Article
Alsaif, A., Grant, D., & Shaw, S. (2025). Exploring supply chain sustainability practices in the Gulf Cooperation Council Petrochemical Sector. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2025.2508998

Oil & gas companies in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are critical to improving their sustainability through enacting regulation, developing standards and practices, and monitoring environmental performance. The study investigated h... Read More about Exploring supply chain sustainability practices in the Gulf Cooperation Council Petrochemical Sector.

An independent view: rebuilding trust and confidence in policing within minority communities (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
McKue, M. (2025). An independent view: rebuilding trust and confidence in policing within minority communities

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To understand the current situation between minority communities and policing in the UK, we must first examine the historical context. In the UK, the legacy of colonialism and the over-policing of Black and Asian communities durin... Read More about An independent view: rebuilding trust and confidence in policing within minority communities.

Conceptual design and thermodynamic investigation of novel energy and fuel generation systems from municipal waste coupled with carbon capture and storage (2025)
Journal Article
Arifianti, Q. A. M. O., Michailos, S., Michaga, M. F. R., Rabea, K., Hughes, K. J., Ma, L., Ingham, D., & Pourkashanian, M. (2025). Conceptual design and thermodynamic investigation of novel energy and fuel generation systems from municipal waste coupled with carbon capture and storage. Energy Nexus: Water. Food. Power, 18, Article 100460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nexus.2025.100460

Waste generation and energy demand are increasing and both require innovative energy symbiosis strategies to meet climate targets. Traditional waste-to-energy processes rely on incineration, but more efficient and sustainable solutions are needed. Th... Read More about Conceptual design and thermodynamic investigation of novel energy and fuel generation systems from municipal waste coupled with carbon capture and storage.

Palliative care – what’s the evidence? (2025)
Journal Article
Pask, S., Murtagh, F. E., & Boland, J. W. (2025). Palliative care – what’s the evidence?. Clinical Medicine, 25(4), Article 100320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinme.2025.100320

Palliative care is essential for people with an advanced life-limiting illness. Most palliative care is delivered by healthcare professionals who do not specialise in palliative care (‘non-specialists’). Multidisciplinary specialist palliative care s... Read More about Palliative care – what’s the evidence?.

What Constitutes High-Quality Paediatric Palliative Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Children, Young People, and Parents (2025)
Journal Article
Braybrook, D., Coombes, L., Scott, H. M., Harðardóttir, D., Roach, A., Bariuan, J., Ellis-Smith, C., Downing, J., Murtagh, F. E. M., Bluebond-Langner, M., Fraser, L. K., Harding, R., & Bristowe, K. (2025). What Constitutes High-Quality Paediatric Palliative Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Children, Young People, and Parents. Patient, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-025-00744-8

Background
Globally, over 21 million children need palliative care each year. Although guidelines exist to support paediatric palliative care delivery, they are not informed by the experiences of children themselves.

Objective
We aimed to determ... Read More about What Constitutes High-Quality Paediatric Palliative Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Children, Young People, and Parents.

Registered Report Stage 2. How Well Do Children Remember Fast-Mapped Words? A Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response (2025)
Journal Article
Mather, E., & Lindsay, S. (2025). Registered Report Stage 2. How Well Do Children Remember Fast-Mapped Words? A Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response. Infant and Child Development, 34(3), Article e70019. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70019

There is widespread evidence that children display a mutual exclusivity response upon encountering new words. Children displaying this behaviour will select a novel, name-unknown object in response to a novel label, rather than a familiar, name-known... Read More about Registered Report Stage 2. How Well Do Children Remember Fast-Mapped Words? A Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response.

A psychometric study of the Flourishing Scale for people living with dementia (2025)
Journal Article
Clarke, C., Baird, K., Moniz-Cook, E., Mountain, G., Wolverson, E., Lee, E., & Hewitt, C. (2025). A psychometric study of the Flourishing Scale for people living with dementia. Alzheimer's and Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions, 11(2), Article e70097. https://doi.org/10.1002/trc2.70097

INTRODUCTION
There are few validated strengths-based outcome measures for evaluations of psychosocial interventions in dementia and measurement of the concept of flourishing has not been directly explored. This study therefore examined the psychomet... Read More about A psychometric study of the Flourishing Scale for people living with dementia.

Optimizing Vertical Unidirectional Airflow in Cleanrooms: An Integrated Approach to Floor Perforation, Plenum, and Fan Filter Unit Configurations (2025)
Journal Article
Huang, Z., Zeng, C., Wang, Z., Lu, J., Xiang, Q., Huo, X., Tan, T., Li, Y., Feng, W., & Zhang, G. (2025). Optimizing Vertical Unidirectional Airflow in Cleanrooms: An Integrated Approach to Floor Perforation, Plenum, and Fan Filter Unit Configurations. Atmosphere, 16(6), Article 632. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16060632

Maintaining vertically unidirectional airflow in cleanrooms is crucial for achieving air cleanness and protecting occupants inside, from industrial semiconductor technicians to hospital surgeons and patients. This study investigates airflow inclinati... Read More about Optimizing Vertical Unidirectional Airflow in Cleanrooms: An Integrated Approach to Floor Perforation, Plenum, and Fan Filter Unit Configurations.

Onset of large-scale terrestrial organic carbon burial driven by Early Devonian changes in vascular plants and environments (2025)
Journal Article
Yin, L., Yang, M., Lu, J., Ling, Z., Hu, X., Bian, X., Zhou, K., Zhang, P., Liu, L., Shao, L., Hilton, J., & Bond, D. (2025). Onset of large-scale terrestrial organic carbon burial driven by Early Devonian changes in vascular plants and environments. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 674, Article 113039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113039

The Early Devonian witnessed a major phase in the terrestrialization of land by plants. Understanding the implications for organic matter formation and accumulation during this interval is key to understanding global carbon burial. Existing research... Read More about Onset of large-scale terrestrial organic carbon burial driven by Early Devonian changes in vascular plants and environments.