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A question of standards: adapting carbon and other PES markets to work for community seagrass conservation   (2021)
Journal Article
Shilland, R., Grimsditch, G., Ahmed, M., Bandeira, S., Kennedy, H., Potouroglou, M., & Huxham, M. (2021). A question of standards: adapting carbon and other PES markets to work for community seagrass conservation  . Marine Policy, 129, Article 104574. h

Seagrass meadows deliver multiple ecosystem services that are of particular importance to resource-poor coastal communities, yet they are rapidly declining globally. The Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) approach has been used to fund the protect... Read More about A question of standards: adapting carbon and other PES markets to work for community seagrass conservation  .

Simulated biological fluids – a systematic review of their biological relevance and use in relation to inhalation toxicology of particles and fibres (2021)
Journal Article
Innes, E., Yiu, H. H. P., McLean, P., Brown, W., & Boyles, M. (2021). Simulated biological fluids – a systematic review of their biological relevance and use in relation to inhalation toxicology of particles and fibres. Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 5

The use of simulated biological fluids (SBFs) is a promising in vitro technique to better understand the release mechanisms and possible in vivo behaviour of materials, including fibres, metal-containing particles and nanomaterials. Applications of S... Read More about Simulated biological fluids – a systematic review of their biological relevance and use in relation to inhalation toxicology of particles and fibres.

Immune Response of Elite Enduro Racers to Laboratory and Racing Environments: The Influence of Training Impulse and Vibration (2021)
Journal Article
Kirkwood, L., Ingram-Sills, L., Taylor, M. D., Malone, E., & Florida-James, G. (2021). Immune Response of Elite Enduro Racers to Laboratory and Racing Environments: The Influence of Training Impulse and Vibration. International Journal of Environmental Re

Introduction: Understanding the sport-specific immune response elicited during both training and competition is imperative to maximise athlete health and performance. Despite a growing population of professional enduro mountain bike athletes, little... Read More about Immune Response of Elite Enduro Racers to Laboratory and Racing Environments: The Influence of Training Impulse and Vibration.

Inter-Programme Peer Mentoring to Enhance Employability (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haddow, C., & Meldrum, S. (2021, April). Inter-Programme Peer Mentoring to Enhance Employability. Paper presented at QAA Enhancement Themes Collaborative Cluster on Programme Leadership, Webinar

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Can we do better? A guide to pandemics – some Dos and Don'ts for the next one (2021)
Journal Article
Tang, J. W., Kwok, K. O., Loh, T. P., Lee, C. K., Heraud, J., & Dancer, S. J. (2021). Can we do better? A guide to pandemics – some Dos and Don'ts for the next one. Journal of Infection, 83(1), 119-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2021.04.017

Specific features of any rapidly spread pathogen needs early recognition and assessment for possible pandemic potential. These include: inter-person transmissibility and exponential spread, which results in significant morbidity, mortality. These a... Read More about Can we do better? A guide to pandemics – some Dos and Don'ts for the next one.

Progression from youth to professional soccer: A longitudinal study of successful and unsuccessful academy graduates (2021)
Journal Article
Dugdale, J. H., Sanders, D., Myers, T., Williams, A. M., & Hunter, A. M. (2021). Progression from youth to professional soccer: A longitudinal study of successful and unsuccessful academy graduates. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports,

To optimize use of available resources, professional academies develop strategies to assess, monitor, and evaluate players as they progress through adolescence toward adulthood. However, few published reports exist using longitudinal study designs to... Read More about Progression from youth to professional soccer: A longitudinal study of successful and unsuccessful academy graduates.

Gregarine single-cell transcriptomics reveals differential mitochondrial remodeling and adaptation in apicomplexans (2021)
Journal Article
Salomaki, E. D., Terpis, K. X., Rueckert, S., Kotyk, M., Kotyková Varadínová, Z., Čepička, I., …Kolisko, M. (2021). Gregarine single-cell transcriptomics reveals differential mitochondrial remodeling and adaptation in apicomplexans. BMC Biology, 19

Background Apicomplexa is a diverse phylum comprising unicellular endobiotic animal parasites and contains some of the most well-studied microbial eukaryotes including the devastating human pathogens Plasmodium falciparum and Cryptosporidium hominis... Read More about Gregarine single-cell transcriptomics reveals differential mitochondrial remodeling and adaptation in apicomplexans.

The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R., & Ludwin, K. (2021, April). The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience. Paper presented at 70th Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association, London, UK

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic mark a crisis of neoliberal ideologies of entrepreneurial individualism underpinning global precarity globally, nationally, and at the level of personal and community networks and relation(ship)s. In Poland a... Read More about The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience.

Are Rurality, Area Deprivation, Access to Outside Space, and Green Space Associated with Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Cross Sectional Study (CHARIS-E) (2021)
Journal Article
Hubbard, G., Den Daas, C., Johnston, M., Murchie, P., Thompson, C. W., & Dixon, D. (2021). Are Rurality, Area Deprivation, Access to Outside Space, and Green Space Associated with Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Cross Sectional Study (CHARIS

The study investigated if rurality, area deprivation, access to outside space (Study 1), and frequency of visiting and duration in green space (Study 2) are associated with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and examined if individual demogra... Read More about Are Rurality, Area Deprivation, Access to Outside Space, and Green Space Associated with Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Cross Sectional Study (CHARIS-E).

Ubiquitin-protein ligase Ubr5 cooperates with hedgehog signalling to promote skeletal tissue homeostasis (2021)
Journal Article
Mellis, D., Staines, K. A., Peluso, S., Georgiou, I. C., Dora, N., Kubiak, M., …Ditzel, M. (2021). Ubiquitin-protein ligase Ubr5 cooperates with hedgehog signalling to promote skeletal tissue homeostasis. PLoS Genetics, 17(4), Article e1009275. https://

Mammalian Hedgehog (HH) signalling pathway plays an essential role in tissue homeostasis and its deregulation is linked to rheumatological disorders. UBR5 is the mammalian homologue of the E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase Hyd, a negative regulator of the... Read More about Ubiquitin-protein ligase Ubr5 cooperates with hedgehog signalling to promote skeletal tissue homeostasis.

Coaches Round table - DB's (2021)
Digital Artefact
Laird, P. (2021). Coaches Round table - DB's. [YouTube]

A round table discussion with Great Britain national coaches discussing Defensive Back play

Prolonged activity of a recombinant manganese superoxide dismutase through a formulation of polymeric multi-layer nanoassemblies targeting cancer cells (2021)
Journal Article
Russo, G., Iaccarino, G., Piccolo, M., Ferraro, M. G., Vecchione, R., Grumetto, L., …Santamaria, R. (2021). Prolonged activity of a recombinant manganese superoxide dismutase through a formulation of polymeric multi-layer nanoassemblies targeting cancer

A new isoform of human manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD) has been recently isolated and obtained in a synthetic recombinant form and termed rMnSOD. As compared to other SODs, this isoform exhibits a dramatically improved cellular uptake and an int... Read More about Prolonged activity of a recombinant manganese superoxide dismutase through a formulation of polymeric multi-layer nanoassemblies targeting cancer cells.

Creative Conversations with Justice and Arts Scotland (2021)
Book Chapter
Anderson, K. (2021). Creative Conversations with Justice and Arts Scotland. In L. Willingham (Ed.), Community Music at the Boundaries (402-408). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

The occurrence of selected endocrine‐disrupting chemicals in water and sediments from an urban lagoon in Southern Italy (2021)
Journal Article
Russo, G., Laneri, S., Di Lorenzo, R., Ferrara, L., & Grumetto, L. (2021). The occurrence of selected endocrine‐disrupting chemicals in water and sediments from an urban lagoon in Southern Italy. Water Environment Research, 93(10), 1944-1958. https://do

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are agents able to exert perturbation toward the endocrine system via a broad array of signalling pathways. Some EDCs are released into the environment as a result of antropogenic activities. Analytical surveilla... Read More about The occurrence of selected endocrine‐disrupting chemicals in water and sediments from an urban lagoon in Southern Italy.

Foresee the glory and train better: Narcissism, goal-setting and athlete training (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, S., Roberts, R., Woodman, T., Pitkethly, A., English, C., & Nightingale, D. (2021). Foresee the glory and train better: Narcissism, goal-setting and athlete training. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 10(3), 381-393. https://doi.org/10.1

Grandiose narcissism may be debilitative to athlete training because the opportunity for self-enhancement that motivates narcissists to strive is normally absent in training environments. However, this view ignores the divergent influences of the sel... Read More about Foresee the glory and train better: Narcissism, goal-setting and athlete training.