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A discourse approach to theorising HRD: opening a discursive space (2011)
Journal Article
Lawless, A., Sambrook, S., Garavan, T., & Valentin, C. (2011). A discourse approach to theorising HRD: opening a discursive space. Journal of European industrial training, 35(3), 264-275. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090591111120412

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how a discourse approach to theorising human resource development (HRD) can open a “discursive space” to challenge dominant discourses within the field; enabling a more critical discourse to emerge.D... Read More about A discourse approach to theorising HRD: opening a discursive space.

Healthy, productive workplaces: towards a case for interior plantscaping (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, A., Tucker, M., & Pitt, M. (2011). Healthy, productive workplaces: towards a case for interior plantscaping. Facilities, 29(5/6), 209-223. https://doi.org/10.1108/02632771111120529

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate office users’ perceptions of their working environment in relation to the addition of plants.
Design/methodology/approach – Office users’ perceptions were examined using a survey, administered to... Read More about Healthy, productive workplaces: towards a case for interior plantscaping.

Increasing confidence in treatment performance assessment using geostatistical methods (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cai, Z., & Wilson, R. (2008, May). Increasing confidence in treatment performance assessment using geostatistical methods. Presented at The Sixth International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, CA, US

It is well established that the presence of dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) such as trichloroethylene (TCE) in aquifer systems represents a very long-term source of groundwater contamination. Significant effort in recent years has been focus... Read More about Increasing confidence in treatment performance assessment using geostatistical methods.

How people present symptoms to health services: a theory-based content analysis (2011)
Journal Article
Farquharson, B., Johnston, M., & Bugge, C. (2011). How people present symptoms to health services: a theory-based content analysis. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 61(585), 267-273. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp11x567090

How people present symptoms to health services may influence the care they subsequently receive. Leventhal's Commonsense Model of Self-Regulation (CS-SRM) posits that individuals develop cognitive illness representations elaborated around five main c... Read More about How people present symptoms to health services: a theory-based content analysis.

Rethinking graduate attributes: understanding the learning journeys of part-time students in the Open University in Scotland. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Caddell, M., & Cannell, P. (2011, March). Rethinking graduate attributes: understanding the learning journeys of part-time students in the Open University in Scotland. Presented at Conference of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) 2011

Four in ten of Scotland’s university students study part time. But their voices and experience are often sidelined in debates about employability and graduate attributes. What do part-time students value in their course of study, and how does this di... Read More about Rethinking graduate attributes: understanding the learning journeys of part-time students in the Open University in Scotland..

The Rawls-Tawney theorem and the digital divide in postindustrial society (2011)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2011). The Rawls-Tawney theorem and the digital divide in postindustrial society. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62, 604-612. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21470

The digital divide continues to challenge political and academic circles worldwide. A range of policy solutions is briefly evaluated, from laissez-faire on the right to “arithmetic” egalitarianism on the left. The article recasts the digital divide a... Read More about The Rawls-Tawney theorem and the digital divide in postindustrial society.

Young novice drivers and the development of somatic markers for risk on the road. (2011)
Book Chapter
Kinnear, N. A. D., & Stradling, S. G. (2011). Young novice drivers and the development of somatic markers for risk on the road. In D. A. Hennessy (Ed.), Traffic Psychology: An International Perspective (69-85). Nova Science Publishers

The novice driver problem is a worldwide trend that, in the UK, involves one in five newly licensed drivers being crash involved in their first year of driving (Maycock and Forsyth, 1997). Research suggests that both age and inexperience are major fa... Read More about Young novice drivers and the development of somatic markers for risk on the road..

Optimal treatment of patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and the evolutionary role of nurses and allied health professionals (2011)
Thesis
McLean, S. Optimal treatment of patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and the evolutionary role of nurses and allied health professionals. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4415

Heart disease is a serious problem for both the individual and society at large. It takes many lives. As an acute cardiac nurse I have spent the bulk of my clinical and research career striving to provide acute cardiac care outwith the historical bou... Read More about Optimal treatment of patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and the evolutionary role of nurses and allied health professionals.

Using the land-use planning process to secure travel plans: an assessment of progress in England to date (2011)
Journal Article
Rye, T., Green, C., Young, E., & Ison, S. G. (2011). Using the land-use planning process to secure travel plans: an assessment of progress in England to date. Journal of Transport Geography, 19, 235-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2010.05.002

A travel plan is a package of measures implemented by an organisation to encourage people who travel to/from that organisation to do so by means other than driving alone by private car. This paper advances two principal arguments: firstly, that the p... Read More about Using the land-use planning process to secure travel plans: an assessment of progress in England to date.

Identification of a Divergent Environmental DNA Sequence Clade Using the Phylogeny of Gregarine Parasites (Apicomplexa) from Crustacean Hosts (2011)
Journal Article
Rueckert, S., Simdyanov, T. G., Aleoshin, V. V., & Leander, B. S. (2011). Identification of a Divergent Environmental DNA Sequence Clade Using the Phylogeny of Gregarine Parasites (Apicomplexa) from Crustacean Hosts. PLOS ONE, 6(3), Article e18163. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018163

Background

Environmental SSU rDNA surveys have significantly improved our understanding of microeukaryotic diversity. Many of the sequences acquired using this approach are closely related to lineages previously characterized at both morphologica... Read More about Identification of a Divergent Environmental DNA Sequence Clade Using the Phylogeny of Gregarine Parasites (Apicomplexa) from Crustacean Hosts.

Education for entrepreneurship and innovation: “Management capabilities for sustainable growth and success” (2011)
Journal Article
Lewrick, M., Omar, M., Raeside, R., & Sailer, K. (2011). Education for entrepreneurship and innovation: “Management capabilities for sustainable growth and success”. World journal of entrepreneurship, management and sustainable development, 6(1/2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/20425961201000001

Entrepreneurship and innovation education has derived from
established university curriculum and the context is set of concepts and tools used
in the corporate world. The challenge of transforming a start-up company into a
business success needs d... Read More about Education for entrepreneurship and innovation: “Management capabilities for sustainable growth and success”.