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Exploring strategies for using Social Media to self-manage health care when living with and beyond breast cancer : in-depth qualitative study (2020)
Journal Article
Ure, C., Cooper-Ryan, A., Condie, J., & Galpin, A. (2020). Exploring strategies for using Social Media to self-manage health care when living with and beyond breast cancer : in-depth qualitative study. JMIR, 22(5), e16902. https://doi.org/10.2196/16902

Background: As breast cancer survival rates improve and structural health resources are increasingly being stretched, health providers require people living with and beyond breast cancer (LwBBC) to self-manage aspects of their care.

Objective: Thi... Read More about Exploring strategies for using Social Media to self-manage health care when living with and beyond breast cancer : in-depth qualitative study.

Using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation : evaluation of a pilot project in the North West of England (2020)
Journal Article
Coffey, M., Cooper-Ryan, A., Houston, L., Thompson, K., & Cook, P. (2020). Using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation : evaluation of a pilot project in the North West of England. Perspectives in Public Health, 140(6), 351-361. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913920912436

Aims:
E-cigarettes have been advocated as an effective smoking cessation intervention, with evidence indicating that they are substantially less harmful than conventional cigarettes. As a result, a pilot to encourage people to swap from conventional... Read More about Using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation : evaluation of a pilot project in the North West of England.

A novel mixed methods approach to assess children’s sedentary behaviours (2020)
Journal Article
Hurter, L., Cooper-Ryan, A., Knowles, Z., Porcellato, L., Fairclough, S., & Boddy, L. (2020). A novel mixed methods approach to assess children’s sedentary behaviours. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, 3(1), 78-86. https://doi.org/10.1123/jmpb.2019-0040

Purpose: Accurately measuring sedentary behaviour (SB) in children is challenging by virtue of its complex nature. Whilst self-report questionnaires are susceptible to recall errors, accelerometer data lacks contextual information. This study aimed t... Read More about A novel mixed methods approach to assess children’s sedentary behaviours.

Validating the sedentary sphere method in children : does wrist or accelerometer brand matter? (2019)
Journal Article
Hurter, L., Rowlands, A., Fairclough, S., Gibbon, K., Knowles, Z., Porcellato, L., …Boddy, L. (2019). Validating the sedentary sphere method in children : does wrist or accelerometer brand matter?. Journal of Sports Sciences, 37(16), 1910-1918. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2019.1605647

This study aimed to validate the Sedentary Sphere posture classification method from wrist-worn accelerometers in children. Twenty-seven 9–10-year-old children wore ActiGraph GT9X (AG) and GENEActiv (GA) accelerometers on both wrists, and activPAL on... Read More about Validating the sedentary sphere method in children : does wrist or accelerometer brand matter?.

Establishing raw acceleration thresholds to classify sedentary and stationary behaviour in children (2018)
Journal Article
Hurter, L., Fairclough, S., Knowles, Z., Porcellato, L., Cooper-Ryan, A., & Boddy, L. (2018). Establishing raw acceleration thresholds to classify sedentary and stationary behaviour in children. Children, 5(12), 172. https://doi.org/10.3390/children5120172

This study aimed to: (1) compare acceleration output between ActiGraph (AG) hip and wrist monitors and GENEActiv (GA) wrist monitors; (2) identify raw acceleration sedentary and stationary thresholds for the two brands and placements; and (3) validat... Read More about Establishing raw acceleration thresholds to classify sedentary and stationary behaviour in children.

Personalising Twitter communication : an evaluation of ‘rotation-curation’ for enhancing social media engagement within higher education (2018)
Journal Article
Condie, J., Ayodele, I., Chowdhury, S., Powe, S., & Cooper, A. (2018). Personalising Twitter communication : an evaluation of ‘rotation-curation’ for enhancing social media engagement within higher education. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 28(2), 192-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841241.2018.1453910

Social media content generated by learning communities within universities is serving both pedagogical and marketing purposes. There is currently a dearth of literature related to social media use at the departmental level within Higher Education Ins... Read More about Personalising Twitter communication : an evaluation of ‘rotation-curation’ for enhancing social media engagement within higher education.

Bakhtin, digital scholarship and new publishing practices as carnival (2016)
Journal Article
Cooper, A., & Condie, J. (2016). Bakhtin, digital scholarship and new publishing practices as carnival. Journal of applied social theory, 1(1), 26-43

Digital scholarship is causing disruptions to established academic practices that have long framed how we share knowledge and do research. The web is increasingly vital to all forms of academic scholarship. Using key theoretical concepts from the wor... Read More about Bakhtin, digital scholarship and new publishing practices as carnival.

Challenges in designing, conducting, and reporting oral health behavioral intervention studies in primary school age children : methodological issues (2014)
Journal Article
Cooper, A., Coffey, M., & Dugdill, L. (2014). Challenges in designing, conducting, and reporting oral health behavioral intervention studies in primary school age children : methodological issues. Pragmatic and Observational Research, 5, 43-51. https://doi.org/10.2147/POR.S52287

Often within oral health, clinical outcome measures dominate trial design rather than behavioral outcome measures, and often there is a reliance on proxy self-reporting of children’s behavior with no corroboration through triangulation of measures. T... Read More about Challenges in designing, conducting, and reporting oral health behavioral intervention studies in primary school age children : methodological issues.

We are all @salfordpsych : the rotation curation approach and Twitter as a learning tool in higher education (2014)
Book Chapter
Condie, J., & Cooper, A. (2014). We are all @salfordpsych : the rotation curation approach and Twitter as a learning tool in higher education. In K. Woodfield (Ed.), Social Media in Social Research : Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries. NatCen Social Research

Book summary: Social Media in Social Research: Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries, is a collection of blogs drawing together the experiences and expertise of over 50 contributors and members of the New Social Media, New Social Science? online community... Read More about We are all @salfordpsych : the rotation curation approach and Twitter as a learning tool in higher education.

Postural, physical and musculoskeletal impacts of children using personal electronic devices
Other
Clark, A., Cooper-Ryan, A., Brown, T., & Preece, S. Postural, physical and musculoskeletal impacts of children using personal electronic devices

This white paper outlines:
- Why we are conducting research in this area, including key statistics.
- The current evidence surrounding the relationship between MSK pain and discomfort in children and the use of PEDs.
- What we are doing abo... Read More about Postural, physical and musculoskeletal impacts of children using personal electronic devices.

Learning from Salford’s NHS Health Check Improvement Journey : A document review
Report
Coffey, M., & Cooper, A. Learning from Salford’s NHS Health Check Improvement Journey : A document review

The aim of this review was to:

Explore the outcomes of the 2014-2016 collaboration between Salford City Council (SCC), Haelo and other Salford Partners with respect to improving the uptake of NHS Health Checks.