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The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation Episode 2 | Season 4 (2025)
Digital Artefact
Anderson, K. (2025). The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation Episode 2 | Season 4. [Podcast]

Podcast Description on Website:

'In this episode our host Rachelle Cobain talks to Dr Kirstin Anderson about a new book she’s edited called ‘The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation’.

Kirstin is a Lecturer in Criminology at E... Read More about The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation Episode 2 | Season 4.

Current methods and best practice recommendations for skate and ray (Batoidea) research: capture, handling, anaesthesia, euthanasia, and tag attachment (2025)
Journal Article
Orrell, D. L., Andrzejaczek, S., Armstrong, A. O., Barbosa Martins, A., Branco, I., Charvet, P., Chin, A., Elston, C., Espinoza, M., Greenway, E. S. I., McCully Phillips, S. R., Mickle, M. F., Murray, T. S., Silva, J. F., Thorburn, J., & Wosnick, N. (2025). Current methods and best practice recommendations for skate and ray (Batoidea) research: capture, handling, anaesthesia, euthanasia, and tag attachment. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 35(1), 117-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-024-09918-3

Skates and rays (Batoidea) play a significant ecological role, contributing to ecosystem services through bioturbation and acting as vital intermediate components of the trophic chain in various aquatic environments. Despite their wide global distrib... Read More about Current methods and best practice recommendations for skate and ray (Batoidea) research: capture, handling, anaesthesia, euthanasia, and tag attachment.

Special Issue: Scientific Advances in River Restoration (2025)
Journal Article
Prady, J., Austin, S., Dodd, J., White, J., Wilkes, M., & Naura, M. (2025). Special Issue: Scientific Advances in River Restoration. River Research and Applications, 41(1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4414

In September 2023, the River Restoration Centre (RRC) hosted the inaugural Scientific Advances in River Restoration (SARR) conference in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, UK. As we confront the twin crises of climate change and biodiver... Read More about Special Issue: Scientific Advances in River Restoration.

‘To whom am I speaking?’; Public responses to crime reporting via live chat with human versus AI police operators (2025)
Journal Article
Bradford, B., Kyprianides, A., Andrews, W., Aston, E., Clayton, E., O'Neill, M., & Wells, H. (online). ‘To whom am I speaking?’; Public responses to crime reporting via live chat with human versus AI police operators. Policing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2453437

Driven by social and technological change and the imperative to enhance efficiency, police have in recent years adopted various technologies to transform their interactions with the public. In the UK, these initiatives often fall under ‘transformatio... Read More about ‘To whom am I speaking?’; Public responses to crime reporting via live chat with human versus AI police operators.

Inflammatory Monocytes Are Rapidly Recruited to the Post-Ischaemic Liver in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation and Cytokines Associated with Their Activation Correlate with Graft Outcomes (2025)
Journal Article
Robertson, F. P., Cuff, A. O., Male, V., Wright, G. P., Pallett, L. J., Fuller, B. J., & Davidson, B. R. (2025). Inflammatory Monocytes Are Rapidly Recruited to the Post-Ischaemic Liver in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation and Cytokines Associated with Their Activation Correlate with Graft Outcomes. Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 47(1), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb47010049

Liver ischaemia–reperfusion (IR) injury remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality following liver transplantation and resection. CD4+ T cells have been shown to play a key role in murine models; however, there is currently a lack of data that... Read More about Inflammatory Monocytes Are Rapidly Recruited to the Post-Ischaemic Liver in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation and Cytokines Associated with Their Activation Correlate with Graft Outcomes.

Applying Normalisation Process Theory to a peer-delivered complex health intervention for people experiencing homelessness and problem substance use (2025)
Journal Article
Foster, R., Carver, H., Matheson, C., Pauly, B., Wallace, J., MacLennan, G., Budd, J., & Parkes, T. (2025). Applying Normalisation Process Theory to a peer-delivered complex health intervention for people experiencing homelessness and problem substance use. Communications Medicine, 5(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00721-6

Background: The Supporting Harm Reduction through Peer Support (SHARPS) study involved designing and implementing a peer-delivered, harm reduction intervention for people experiencing homelessness and problem substance use. Normalisation Process Theo... Read More about Applying Normalisation Process Theory to a peer-delivered complex health intervention for people experiencing homelessness and problem substance use.

Attractive and repulsive visual aftereffects depend on stimulus contrast (2025)
Journal Article
Gekas, N., & Mamassian, P. (2025). Attractive and repulsive visual aftereffects depend on stimulus contrast. Journal of Vision, 25(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.1.10

Visual perception has been described as a dynamic process where incoming visual information is combined with what has been seen before to form the current percept. Such a process can result in multiple visual aftereffects that can be attractive towar... Read More about Attractive and repulsive visual aftereffects depend on stimulus contrast.

Use of an extensively humanized mouse model to predict the risk of drug–drug interactions in patients receiving dexamethasone (2025)
Journal Article
George, J., Chalmers, J. D., Coquelin, K.-S., Frame, L., Henderson, C. J., Kapelyukh, Y., Lang, C. C., Read, K. D., Stanley, L. A., & Wolf, C. R. (2025). Use of an extensively humanized mouse model to predict the risk of drug–drug interactions in patients receiving dexamethasone. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 392(2), 100053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpet.2024.100053


The corticosteroid dexamethasone, which is used to treat numerous health conditions, remains the first-line treatment for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 requiring oxygen. Current British National Formulary prescribing advice w... Read More about Use of an extensively humanized mouse model to predict the risk of drug–drug interactions in patients receiving dexamethasone.

Beyond One-to-One: Unlocking the Power of Group Career Guidance (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Edwards, S., & Meldrum, S. (2025). Beyond One-to-One: Unlocking the Power of Group Career Guidance

Interest in Group Career Guidance (GCG) has surged recently, particularly among Career Development Professionals (CDPs) based in universities and - more recently - in schools and colleges. This innovative small group approach is closer in practice to... Read More about Beyond One-to-One: Unlocking the Power of Group Career Guidance.

Handbook on methods in restorative justice research (2025)
Book
Rasmussen, K. B., Zinsstag, E., Rosenblatt, F. F., & Pali, B. (Eds.). (in press). Handbook on methods in restorative justice research. Brill Academic Publishers

How do we research restorative justice in ways that align with its core values? This groundbreaking handbook is the first to systematically explore research methods in restorative justice, addressing ethical dilemmas, interdisciplinary approaches, an... Read More about Handbook on methods in restorative justice research.

The impact of a 12-day outdoor learning project on life skills development in adolescents in Scotland (2025)
Journal Article
Qu, M., Buchanan, N., Martindale, R., Cronin, L., & Sproule, J. (online). The impact of a 12-day outdoor learning project on life skills development in adolescents in Scotland. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2024.2447749

This research investigated the effectiveness of a 12-day outdoor learning project on adolescents’ life skills development. In total, 180 participants with a mean age of 14.3 (±0.5) years took part in the outdoor learning project and completed the Lif... Read More about The impact of a 12-day outdoor learning project on life skills development in adolescents in Scotland.

WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pérez-Granados, C., Etxebarría, J. M., Darras, K. F. A., Gómez, O. H. M., Mendoza, I., Mohedano-Muñoz, M. Á., Santamaría, E., Bastianelli, G., Márquez-Rodríguez, A., Budka, M., Bota, G., Rubio, J. M. D. L. P., Morena, E. L. G. D. L., Santa-Cruz:, M., Nava, P. D. L., Fernández-Tizón, M., Sánchez-Mateos, H., Barrero, A., Traba, J., Osiejuk, T. S., …Sebastián-González, E. WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and non-invasive monitoring techniques that are able to gather large amounts of information cost-effectively at large scales. One such technique is passive acoustic monitorin... Read More about WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring.

The RESIST Project Dataset: Data from the Work Package 1 (2024)
Data
Lynch, S., Titley, G., Filep, E., & Kulpa, R. (2024). The RESIST Project Dataset: Data from the Work Package 1. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.11179225

This record for the Dataset from the Work Package 1 (Mapping Anti-Gender Discourses in Media and Parliamentary Debates) of the RESIST Project has been created in the Zenodo open repository, in line with the RESIST Project’s Data Management Plan, and... Read More about The RESIST Project Dataset: Data from the Work Package 1.

Bespoke design of cage trap and patagial wing tag for the capture and study of black grouse Lyrurus tetrix at lek sites: assessment of effectiveness for future studies (2024)
Journal Article
Waltona, C., Ripodas Melero, A. I., & White, P. J. C. (2024). Bespoke design of cage trap and patagial wing tag for the capture and study of black grouse Lyrurus tetrix at lek sites: assessment of effectiveness for future studies. Ringing and Migration, 39(1-2), 43-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/03078698.2025.2465845

Given new avenues for Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix telemetry, and translocations to previously occupied areas, we designed a new cage trap for use at leks that was safe, reliable, and easily transportable, and a custom black-and-white wing-tag that wa... Read More about Bespoke design of cage trap and patagial wing tag for the capture and study of black grouse Lyrurus tetrix at lek sites: assessment of effectiveness for future studies.

A model of occupational stress to assess impact of COVID-19 on critical care and redeployed nurses: a mixed-methods study (2024)
Journal Article
Rattray, J., Miller, J., Pollard, B., McCallum, L., Hull, A., Ramsay, P., Salisbury, L., Scott, T., Cole, S., & Dixon, D. (2024). A model of occupational stress to assess impact of COVID-19 on critical care and redeployed nurses: a mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.3310/pwrt8714

Objective: To use the job demands−resources model of occupational stress to quantify and explain the impact of working in critical care during the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses and their employing organisation.
Design: Two-phase mixed methods: a cross... Read More about A model of occupational stress to assess impact of COVID-19 on critical care and redeployed nurses: a mixed-methods study.

Livestock abortion surveillance in Tanzania reveals disease priorities and importance of timely collection of vaginal swab samples for attribution (2024)
Journal Article
Lankester, F., Kibona, T. J., Allan, K. J., de Glanville, W., Buza, J. J., Katzer, F., Halliday, J. E., Mmbaga, B. T., Wheelhouse, N., Innes, E. A., Thomas, K. M., Nyasebwa, O. M., Swai, E., Claxton, J. R., & Cleaveland, S. (in press). Livestock abortion surveillance in Tanzania reveals disease priorities and importance of timely collection of vaginal swab samples for attribution. eLife, 13, RP95296. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.95296

Lack of data on the aetiology of livestock diseases constrains effective interventions to improve livelihoods, food security and public health. Livestock abortion is an important disease syndrome affecting productivity and public health. Several path... Read More about Livestock abortion surveillance in Tanzania reveals disease priorities and importance of timely collection of vaginal swab samples for attribution.

The oxidative potential of nanomaterials: an optimized high-throughput protocol and interlaboratory comparison for the ferric reducing ability of serum (FRAS) assay (2024)
Journal Article
Ruijter, N., Boyles, M., Braakhuis, H., Ayerbe Algaba, R., Lofty, M., di Battista, V., Wohlleben, W., Cassee, F. R., & Candalija, A. (2024). The oxidative potential of nanomaterials: an optimized high-throughput protocol and interlaboratory comparison for the ferric reducing ability of serum (FRAS) assay. Nanotoxicology, 18(8), 724-738. https://doi.org/10.1080/17435390.2024.2438116

Successful implementation of Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) and grouping approaches requires simple, reliable, and cost-effective assays to facilitate hazard screening at early stages of product development. Especially for nanomaterials (NMs),... Read More about The oxidative potential of nanomaterials: an optimized high-throughput protocol and interlaboratory comparison for the ferric reducing ability of serum (FRAS) assay.