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Using applied drama in nursing and healthcare education: A handbook for educators
Book
Kyle, R., Mermikides, A., Tizzard-Kleister, K., Mahoney, C., Dinetto, S., & Richardson, S. (in press). Using applied drama in nursing and healthcare education: A handbook for educators. Routledge

In recent years there has been increasing interest in the interconnection between the performing arts and the performance of care. Applied drama has been used by educators to enable students to engage with concepts such as person centredness, compass... Read More about Using applied drama in nursing and healthcare education: A handbook for educators.

Drama-based education improves student nurses’ attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: a pre-test post-test study
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kyle, R., Bastow, F., Harper McDonald, B., & Mahoney, C. (2022, September). Drama-based education improves student nurses’ attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: a pre-test post-test study. Paper presented at NET Conference 2022, Lancaster

In this session we share findings from our study examining the impact of the use of drama-based education on student nurses’ attitudes towards interprofessional working and nursing advocacy. We discuss the development and evaluation of two plays crea... Read More about Drama-based education improves student nurses’ attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: a pre-test post-test study.

Policing challenges for proposed drug checking services in Scotland
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aston, E., Falzon, D., Carver, H., Masterton, W., & Parkes, T. (2023, May). Policing challenges for proposed drug checking services in Scotland. Paper presented at The European Conference on Law Enforcement & Public Health (LEPH2023), Umeå, Sweden

Background:
There is strong evidence that enforcement-based policing practices in relation to drug possession for personal use can negatively impact upon health outcomes for people who use drugs and reduce engagement with harm reduction services due... Read More about Policing challenges for proposed drug checking services in Scotland.

Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Neil, J., & Ivancheva, M. (2024, April). Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?. Paper presented at 42nd International Labour Process Conference 2024 (ILPC 2024), Göttingen

Precarious work that becomes a ‘stepping stone’ to decent work (McGuiness and Wooden 2009, Nunley et al 2017; Munoz-Comet and Steinmetz 2020) is the bargain struck for many learners leaving education and accessing employment, typically via placements... Read More about Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?.

Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz
Book Chapter
Jansen, I. (in press). Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz. In E. Blackmore, K. Knopf, W. G. Pearson, & C. Wieser-Cox (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. Routledge

This chapter discusses different films by Mixtec filmmakers Ángeles Cruz and Nicolas Rojas Sánchez. Both filmmakers have received several national and international awards for their work. The films by Ángeles Cruz as well as the films by Nicolas Roja... Read More about Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz.

Towards Building a Smart Water Management System (SWAMS) in Nigeria
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bamgboye, O., Chrysoulas, C., Liu, X., Watt, T., Sodiya, A., Oyeleye, M., & Kalutharage, S. (2024, June). Towards Building a Smart Water Management System (SWAMS) in Nigeria. Presented at The 22nd IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Porto, Portugal

The water management landscape in Nigeria struggles with formidable obstacles characterized by a lack of adequate infrastructure, an uneven distribution of resources, and insufficient access to clean water, particularly in rural areas. These challeng... Read More about Towards Building a Smart Water Management System (SWAMS) in Nigeria.

Learning Descriptors for Novelty-Search Based Instance Generation via Meta-evolution
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marrero, A., Segredo, E., León, C., & Hart, E. (2024, July). Learning Descriptors for Novelty-Search Based Instance Generation via Meta-evolution. Presented at GECCO '24: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Melbourne, Australia

The ability to generate example instances from a domain is important in order to benchmark algorithms and to generate data that covers an instance-space in order to train machine-learning models for algorithm selection. Quality-Diversity (QD) algorit... Read More about Learning Descriptors for Novelty-Search Based Instance Generation via Meta-evolution.

Temporal True and Surrogate Fitness Landscape Analysis for Expensive Bi-Objective Optimisation Expensive Bi-Objective
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rodriguez, C. J., Thomson, S. L., Alderliesten, T., & Bosman, P. A. N. (2024, July). Temporal True and Surrogate Fitness Landscape Analysis for Expensive Bi-Objective Optimisation Expensive Bi-Objective. Presented at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2024), Melbourne, Australia

Many real-world problems have expensive-to-compute fitness functions and are multi-objective in nature. Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms are often used to tackle such problems. Despite this, literature about analysing the fitness landscapes... Read More about Temporal True and Surrogate Fitness Landscape Analysis for Expensive Bi-Objective Optimisation Expensive Bi-Objective.

Understanding fitness landscapes in morpho-evolution via local optima networks
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, S. L., Le Goff, L., Hart, E., & Buchanan, E. (2024, July). Understanding fitness landscapes in morpho-evolution via local optima networks. Presented at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2024), Melbourne, Australia

Morpho-Evolution (ME) refers to the simultaneous optimisation of a robot's design and controller to maximise performance given a task and environment. Many genetic encodings have been proposed which are capable of representing design and control. Pre... Read More about Understanding fitness landscapes in morpho-evolution via local optima networks.

Information flow and Laplacian dynamics on local optima networks
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richter, H., & Thomson, S. L. (2024, June). Information flow and Laplacian dynamics on local optima networks. Presented at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), Yokohama, Japan

We propose a new way of looking at local optima networks (LONs). LONs represent fitness landscapes; the nodes are local optima, and the edges are search transitions between them. Many metrics computed on LONs have been proposed and shown to be linked... Read More about Information flow and Laplacian dynamics on local optima networks.

A Deep Transfer Learning-Powered EDoS Detection Mechanism for 5G and Beyond Network Slicing
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benzaïd, C., Taleb, T., Sami, A., & Hireche, O. (2023, December). A Deep Transfer Learning-Powered EDoS Detection Mechanism for 5G and Beyond Network Slicing. Presented at GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Network slicing is recognized as a key enabler for 5G and beyond (B5G) services. However, its dynamic nature and the growing sophistication of DDoS attacks put it at risk of Economical Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attack, causing economic losses t... Read More about A Deep Transfer Learning-Powered EDoS Detection Mechanism for 5G and Beyond Network Slicing.

Deep Learning-Based Receiver Design for IoT Multi-User Uplink 5G-NR System
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gupta, A., Bishnu, A., Ratnarajah, T., Adeel, A., Hussain, A., & Sellathurai, M. (2023, December). Deep Learning-Based Receiver Design for IoT Multi-User Uplink 5G-NR System. Presented at GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Designing an efficient receiver for multiple users transmitting orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing signals to the base station remain a challenging interference-limited problem in 5G-new radio (5G-NR) system. This can lead to stagnation of de... Read More about Deep Learning-Based Receiver Design for IoT Multi-User Uplink 5G-NR System.

Establishing A Timber-Focused Competency Framework To Up- And Re-Skill Built Environment Professionals To Meet Sustainability Goals Sustainability Goals
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hitt, S. J., Hairstans, R., & Connell-Skinner, K. (2023, September). Establishing A Timber-Focused Competency Framework To Up- And Re-Skill Built Environment Professionals To Meet Sustainability Goals Sustainability Goals. Presented at 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) 2023, Dublin, Ireland

Engineers equipped with skills for a sustainable built environment have never been more critical, as government and industry sustainability goals such as the 2050 net zero target have significant implications for the construction sector. Concurrently... Read More about Establishing A Timber-Focused Competency Framework To Up- And Re-Skill Built Environment Professionals To Meet Sustainability Goals Sustainability Goals.

Proposal For New Certificate Course: Level 5 Certificate in Arts, Science and Inclusive Applied Practice
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Spassiani, N. Proposal For New Certificate Course: Level 5 Certificate in Arts, Science and Inclusive Applied Practice

Accredited Curriculum Development
Spassiani, N.A. & the Arts, Science and Inclusive Applied Practice Co-ordinating Committee. (2016). The Arts, Science and Inclusive Applied Practice Programme (Level 5 major award NFQ accreditation). Trinity College... Read More about Proposal For New Certificate Course: Level 5 Certificate in Arts, Science and Inclusive Applied Practice.