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Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review (2023)
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Macleod, G., Dozier, M., Marvell, R., Matthews-Smith, G., Macleod, M. R., & Liao, J. (2024). Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review. Oxford Review of Education, 50(1), 95-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2023.2203376

This research aimed to describe and evaluate research on the Postgraduate Taught (PGT) sector in the UK from January 2008 to October 2019. The focus on PGT allowed a detailed analysis of an often overlooked part of the HE sector. Methodologically, th... Read More about Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review.

Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda (2022)
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Garavan, T., Wang, J., Nolan, C., Lai, Y., O'Brien, F., Darcy, C., …McLean, G. (2023). Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews, 25(1), 152-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12308

Conceptualizations of NHRD emphasise that it is an ongoing process of developing the individual shaped by context. However, the extant literature has focused primarily on describing and evaluating NHRD policies and interventions in different countrie... Read More about Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda.

Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence (2021)
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Garavan, T., Srivastava, S., Madan, P., O’Brien, F., & Matthews-Smith, G. (2022). Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 33(3), 223-247. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21454

Many employees experience work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC), multidimensional states of resource depletion. In this paper, we conceptualize Type A and B personality as resource depletion and resource gain scenarios that have i... Read More about Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence.

Beating the virus: an examination of the crisis communication approach taken by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the Covid-19 pandemic (2020)
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McGuire, D., Cunningham, J. E. A., Reynolds, K., & Matthews-Smith, G. (2020). Beating the virus: an examination of the crisis communication approach taken by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the Covid-19 pandemic. Human Resource Development International, 23(4), 361-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2020.1779543

The Covid-19 pandemic has severely tested the leadership and communication abilities of political leaders globally. Guiding an effective response to the global pandemic has required leaders to demonstrate not only effective planning and coordination... Read More about Beating the virus: an examination of the crisis communication approach taken by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations (2018)
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Garavan, T., Wang, J., Matthews-Smith, G., Nagarathnam, B., & Lai, Y. (2018). Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations. Human Resource Development International, 21(4), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2018.1429171

National human resource development (NHRD) is now an important area of investigation within human resource development with significant growth in publications over 49 years. Scholars have, however, highlighted the need for multilevel approaches to NH... Read More about Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations.

Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: developing a conceptual model through realistic evaluation (2016)
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MacArthur, J., Wilkinson, H., Matthews-Smith, G., & Gray, M. A. (2017). Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: developing a conceptual model through realistic evaluation. Journal of Research in Nursing, 22(1-2), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987116678901

The aim of this study was to critically analyse the impact of the ‘Leadership in Compassionate Care Programme’ and offer a conceptual model of factors that can embed compassionate care in contemporary health care environments. This three-year initiat... Read More about Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: developing a conceptual model through realistic evaluation.

Improving the experience of hip fracture care: A multidisciplinary collaborative approach to implementing evidence-based, person-centred practice (2015)
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Christie, J., Macmillan, M., Currie, C., & Matthews-Smith, G. (2015). Improving the experience of hip fracture care: A multidisciplinary collaborative approach to implementing evidence-based, person-centred practice. International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing, 19(1), 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijotn.2014.03.003

Background Hip fracture care is well supported by national guidelines and audit that provide evidence of safe interventions and an improved process. In the drive for organisational efficiency, complications have been reduced and length of stay sho... Read More about Improving the experience of hip fracture care: A multidisciplinary collaborative approach to implementing evidence-based, person-centred practice.

The Glycosylation of AGP and Its Associations with the Binding to Methadone (2013)
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Behan, J. L., Cruickshank, Y. E., Matthews-Smith, G., Bruce, M., & Smith, K. D. (2013). The Glycosylation of AGP and Its Associations with the Binding to Methadone. BioMed Research International, 2013, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/108902

Methadone remains the most common form of pharmacological therapy for opioid dependence; however, there is a lack of explanation for the reports of its relatively low success rate in achieving complete abstinence. One hypothesis is that in vivo bind... Read More about The Glycosylation of AGP and Its Associations with the Binding to Methadone.

Assessing problem‐based learning with practice portfolios: one innovation too many? (2004)
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Oberski *, I. M., Matthews‐Smith, G., Gray, M., & Carter, D. E. (2004). Assessing problem‐based learning with practice portfolios: one innovation too many?. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 41(2), 207-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/1470329042000208710

This paper presents and discusses the evaluation of a module on the care for older people in the community, designed through an analysis of educational needs in the local nurse population. The module was problem-based and students were assessed throu... Read More about Assessing problem‐based learning with practice portfolios: one innovation too many?.