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Evaluation Of Inequalities Of Access In UK Online Digital Collections: A Systematic Review (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brazier, D., Ryan, B., & Gooding, P. (2022, April). Evaluation Of Inequalities Of Access In UK Online Digital Collections: A Systematic Review. Paper presented at ASIST 24-Hour Global Conference, Online

This paper presents the results of a systematic literature review into how UK Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) deal with issues of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). In recent years, researchers have addressed the fragmented nature of Cul... Read More about Evaluation Of Inequalities Of Access In UK Online Digital Collections: A Systematic Review.

A Study of Online Safety and Digital Literacy of Academic Researchers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haynes, D., & Salzano, R. (2022, April). A Study of Online Safety and Digital Literacy of Academic Researchers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Paper presented at ASIS&T Global 24-hour Conference, 2022, Online

Universities in the UK responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by moving teaching to an online environment and requiring staff to work from home, as far as possible. Researchers face particular challenges of security and privacy where their work involves... Read More about A Study of Online Safety and Digital Literacy of Academic Researchers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Efficiency as a strategic enabler at Edinburgh Napier University (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ramage, L. (2022). Efficiency as a strategic enabler at Edinburgh Napier University. [Blog]

Lindsay Ramage, Head of Research Governance, Edinburgh Napier University, discusses the success of the introduction of Worktribe to manage the ethical review process for research projects.

Mitigating Climate Change Impacts in Buildings using Passive Design Strategies: Putting Costs to Contexts (2022)
Journal Article
Ekung, S., Ikediashi, I., & Emmanuel, U. (2022). Mitigating Climate Change Impacts in Buildings using Passive Design Strategies: Putting Costs to Contexts. Green Building & Construction Economics, 3(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.37256/gbce.3120221283

Across the global construction industry, climate change mitigation is achieved using design and construction practices that optimise energy efficiency. The scope of these practices varies with regional contexts. In Nigeria and other regions, their ad... Read More about Mitigating Climate Change Impacts in Buildings using Passive Design Strategies: Putting Costs to Contexts.

A Participative Approach To Understanding The Hidden Curriculum (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brazier, D., & Milosheva, M. (2022, April). A Participative Approach To Understanding The Hidden Curriculum. Paper presented at ASIST 24-Hour Global Conference, Online

Information needs are fundamental building blocks of the information behaviour and information retrieval literature. However, the concept of an “information need” is rarely discussed or defined, particularly in the context of everyday life informatio... Read More about A Participative Approach To Understanding The Hidden Curriculum.

The Ukraine crisis: Mental health resources for clinicians and researchers (2022)
Journal Article
Shevlin, M., Hyland, P., Karatzias, T., Makhashvili, N., Javakhishvili, J., & Roberts, B. (2022). The Ukraine crisis: Mental health resources for clinicians and researchers. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 27(3), 521-523. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591045221097519

The mental health consequences of the war in Ukraine will be enormous. Mental health professionals who are providing care for people in Ukraine, or those resettled elsewhere, may require access to standardized and validated assessment tools. We have... Read More about The Ukraine crisis: Mental health resources for clinicians and researchers.

Research In Times Of Crisis: Adaptations Of Research Due To The COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milosheva, M., & Salzano, R. (2022, April). Research In Times Of Crisis: Adaptations Of Research Due To The COVID-19 Pandemic. Paper presented at ASIST 24-Hour Global Conference, Online

During the COVID-19 global pandemic, many researchers have had to adapt, delay, or halt, their research completely. However, decisions related to adaptations, and the “hidden work” fundamental to such adaptations, often go unreported in research outp... Read More about Research In Times Of Crisis: Adaptations Of Research Due To The COVID-19 Pandemic.

A Better Disinfectant for Low-Resourced Hospitals? A Multi-Period Cluster Randomised Trial Comparing Hypochlorous Acid with Sodium Hypochlorite in Nigerian Hospitals: The EWASH Trial (2022)
Journal Article
Gon, G., Dansero, L., Aiken, A. M., Bottomley, C., Dancer, S. J., Graham, W. J., Ike, O. C., Lewis, M., Meakin, N., Okafor, O., Uwaezuoke, N. S., & Okwor, T. J. (2022). A Better Disinfectant for Low-Resourced Hospitals? A Multi-Period Cluster Randomised Trial Comparing Hypochlorous Acid with Sodium Hypochlorite in Nigerian Hospitals: The EWASH Trial. Microorganisms, 10(5), Article 910. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10050910

Environmental hygiene in hospitals is a major challenge worldwide. Low-resourced hospitals in African countries continue to rely on sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) as major disinfectant. However, NaOCl has several limitations such as the need for daily d... Read More about A Better Disinfectant for Low-Resourced Hospitals? A Multi-Period Cluster Randomised Trial Comparing Hypochlorous Acid with Sodium Hypochlorite in Nigerian Hospitals: The EWASH Trial.

The intervening effect of the What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised questionnaire on maternal affect (2022)
Journal Article
Van Beeck, E., Pridham, K. F., & Kuipers, Y. (2022). The intervening effect of the What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised questionnaire on maternal affect. Research Ethics, 18(3), 250-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161221094929

The 'What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised' (WPL-R) is an instrument designed to measure adaptation to parenthood. In the process of pilot testing and validating the WPL-R in a postpartum Dutch population, we became aware of the potenti... Read More about The intervening effect of the What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised questionnaire on maternal affect.

A novel temporal attentive-pooling based convolutional recurrent architecture for acoustic signal enhancement (2022)
Journal Article
Hussain, T., Wang, W., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Tsao, Y., Lu, X., Ahsan, A., & Hussain, A. (2022). A novel temporal attentive-pooling based convolutional recurrent architecture for acoustic signal enhancement. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 3(5), 833-842. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAI.2022.3169995

Removing background noise from acoustic observations to obtain clean signals is an important research topic regarding numerous real acoustic applications. Owing to their strong model capacity in function mapping, deep neural network-based algorithms... Read More about A novel temporal attentive-pooling based convolutional recurrent architecture for acoustic signal enhancement.

A short review of vapour droplet dispersion models used in CFD to study the airborne spread of COVID19 (2022)
Journal Article
Mehade Hussain, S., Goel, S., Kadapa, C., & Aristodemou, E. (2022). A short review of vapour droplet dispersion models used in CFD to study the airborne spread of COVID19. Materials Today: Proceedings, 64(3), 1349-1356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.03.724

The use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate the spread of COVID19 and many other airborne diseases, especially in an indoor environment needs accurate understanding of dispersion models. Modelling the transport/dispersion of vapour drop... Read More about A short review of vapour droplet dispersion models used in CFD to study the airborne spread of COVID19.

Speed Estimation for Visual Tracking Emerges Dynamically from Nonlinear Frequency Interactions (2022)
Journal Article
Meso, A. I., Gekas, N., Mamassian, P., & Masson, G. S. (2022). Speed Estimation for Visual Tracking Emerges Dynamically from Nonlinear Frequency Interactions. eNeuro, 9(3), https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0511-21.2022

Sensing the movement of fast objects within our visual environments is essential for controlling actions. It requires online estimation of motion direction and speed. We probed human speed representation using ocular tracking of stimuli of different... Read More about Speed Estimation for Visual Tracking Emerges Dynamically from Nonlinear Frequency Interactions.

The fourth industrial revolution: a catalyst for regional development in Malaysian seaport sector (2022)
Journal Article
Selvaduray, M., Suhrab, M. I. R., Somu, R., Jeevan, J., Mohd Salleh, N. H., & Zain, R. M. (2023). The fourth industrial revolution: a catalyst for regional development in Malaysian seaport sector. Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs, 15(3), 284-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/18366503.2022.2068293

Seaports enable national and international trade in nearly every country around the globe. The new digital world has led most seaport sectors to fully embrace new technologies and tools to better compete with other seaports. Moreover, such maritime a... Read More about The fourth industrial revolution: a catalyst for regional development in Malaysian seaport sector.

Does the Stock Market Influence Investor Everyday Decisions? The Case of Parking Violations (2022)
Journal Article
Siganos, A. (2022). Does the Stock Market Influence Investor Everyday Decisions? The Case of Parking Violations. International Review of Financial Analysis, 82, Article 102164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102164

We explore in this study whether stock market returns influence investor decisions in their everyday life. We find that past and contemporaneous US stock market returns are related negatively to the registered number of parking violations in New York... Read More about Does the Stock Market Influence Investor Everyday Decisions? The Case of Parking Violations.

Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2022, April). Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity. Paper presented at Raymond Williams @ 100: A Centenary Conference, Manchester

This paper reads the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson’s writings about the impact of deindustrialisation on rural communities through the lens of Raymond Williams’s theorisation of the rural in modernity – notably The Country and the City, but also tak... Read More about Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity.

Clinical teaching and learning during COVID-19 as perceived by nursing students in Lesotho: A descriptive cross-sectional survey (2022)
Journal Article
Nyangu, I., & Rathobei, L. M. (2022). Clinical teaching and learning during COVID-19 as perceived by nursing students in Lesotho: A descriptive cross-sectional survey. Annals of Educational Research and Reviews, 10(1), 15-22

Background: Nursing students and their clinical instructors in higher education institutions are faced with challenges regarding clinical teaching and learning strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the per... Read More about Clinical teaching and learning during COVID-19 as perceived by nursing students in Lesotho: A descriptive cross-sectional survey.

‘Now that I am connected this isn't social isolation, this is engaging with people’: Staying connected during the COVID‐19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Spassiani, N. A., Becaj, M., Miller, C., Hiddleston, A., Hume, A., & Tait, S. (2023). ‘Now that I am connected this isn't social isolation, this is engaging with people’: Staying connected during the COVID‐19 pandemic. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 51(1), 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12478

Background The COVID-19 global pandemic has put adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities at greater risk of being socially excluded due to physical distancing. Technology has been looked at as a tool for adults with intellectual/developme... Read More about ‘Now that I am connected this isn't social isolation, this is engaging with people’: Staying connected during the COVID‐19 pandemic.

How Was Your Music Festival Experience? Impacts on Loyalty, Word-of-mouth, and Sustainability Behaviors (2022)
Journal Article
Sisson, A. D., & Alcorn, M. R. (2022). How Was Your Music Festival Experience? Impacts on Loyalty, Word-of-mouth, and Sustainability Behaviors. Event Management, 26(3), 565-585. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599521x16288665119495

As the popularity of music festivals increases worldwide, an essential component for successful festivals is creating an exceptional guest experience. A conceptual model is proposed, positing that experience economy has a positive effect on loyalty,... Read More about How Was Your Music Festival Experience? Impacts on Loyalty, Word-of-mouth, and Sustainability Behaviors.

Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere (2022)
Journal Article
Logan-McFarlane, A., Hamilton, K., & Hewer, P. (2022). Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere. European Journal of Marketing, 56(4), 1210-1231. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-08-2019-0642

Purpose This study aims to explore passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere and addresses two research questions: How does passion animate passionate labour? How does the emotion of passions and the discipline of labour fuse within passionate la... Read More about Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere.