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Enhancing career development for biomedical sciences Students: Leveraging simulations to support patient-facing careers (2025)
Journal Article

Simulations have become integral to medical education for professions such as nursing and medicine but are still a rare opportunity for students undertaking basic science courses including Biomedical Sciences. Many students undertaking Biomedical Sci... Read More about Enhancing career development for biomedical sciences Students: Leveraging simulations to support patient-facing careers.

Practicalizing Inclusivity: Telling real stories to make a difference! Podcasting for inclusivity Toolkit (2025)
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The Resource Toolkit brings together a series of exercises, plans and activities to support voice and lived experience that aims to practicalize inclusivity in the curriculum by tackling unintentional exclusion and discrimination through the utilizat... Read More about Practicalizing Inclusivity: Telling real stories to make a difference! Podcasting for inclusivity Toolkit.

mHealth for self-management in pregnancy: perceptions of women in low-resource settings (2021)
Journal Article

Mobile health (mHealth) has shown to be effective for self-management. While most studies point to mHealth as a tool to support healthcare in low-resource settings, it is not clear how women in low-resource settings perceive mHealth for self-manageme... Read More about mHealth for self-management in pregnancy: perceptions of women in low-resource settings.

Rapid quench annealing of Er implanted Si for quantum networking applications (2024)
Journal Article

Erbium-implanted silicon (Er:Si) holds promise for quantum networking, but the formation of multiple Er centers poses a challenge. We show that the cubic center (Er-C) has C 2v or lower symmetry and propose all Er centers range between full Si-and fu... Read More about Rapid quench annealing of Er implanted Si for quantum networking applications.

Two dimensional modelling of the interaction between electromagnetic waves and plasma-metamaterial composite structures using the particle-in-cell method (2025)
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In this work we (i) extend previous 1D studies of electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation in an over-dense plasma-metamaterial composite into two spatial dimensions and (ii) study blocking of EM waves by the composite 2D structures (barriers). Such bar... Read More about Two dimensional modelling of the interaction between electromagnetic waves and plasma-metamaterial composite structures using the particle-in-cell method.