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Evaluating information skills training in health libraries: a systematic review (2007)
Journal Article
Brettle, A. (2007). Evaluating information skills training in health libraries: a systematic review. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 24(Suppl), 18-37. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00740.x

Introduction : Systematic reviews have shown that there is limited evidence to demonstrate that the information literacy training health librarians provide is effective in improving clinicians’ information skills or has an impact on patient care.... Read More about Evaluating information skills training in health libraries: a systematic review.

Primary PCI and the role of the 'thrombolysis nurse' : Threat or opportunity (2007)
Journal Article
Gamon, R., Jones, I., Whitmore, J., Charnley, L., & Coleman, L. (2007). Primary PCI and the role of the 'thrombolysis nurse' : Threat or opportunity. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 2(12), 580-587. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2007.2.12.27734

While particular titles and job roles vary, acute cardiac nurses or ‘thrombolysis nurses’ have been highly influential in ensuring patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction receive thrombolysis therapy with the minimum delay. If primar... Read More about Primary PCI and the role of the 'thrombolysis nurse' : Threat or opportunity.

Revisiting Lancaster : more things that every social work student should know (2007)
Journal Article
Myers, J. (2007). Revisiting Lancaster : more things that every social work student should know. Social Work Education, 27(2), 203-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615470701709709

It has been argued previously that social work students need to understand what is known about those people who sexually offend and abuse in order to provide adequate services to both victims/survivors and offenders/abusers. This article explores ho... Read More about Revisiting Lancaster : more things that every social work student should know.

The 'saying hello' project report (2007)
Report
Johnson, M., Ryan, J., Shardlow, S., Walmsley, B., Williamson, T., Yates-Bolton, N., …Waywell, P. (2007). The 'saying hello' project report

The ‘Saying Hello’ study was a three and half year study which was completed in July 2007. This was a joint venture conducted with Age Concern Wigan Borough together with a group of older volunteer co-researchers. The study aims were to: •investigat... Read More about The 'saying hello' project report.

(De)constructing the risk categories in the AIM assessment model for children with sexually harmful behaviour (2007)
Journal Article
Myers, J. (2007). (De)constructing the risk categories in the AIM assessment model for children with sexually harmful behaviour. Children & Society, 21(5), 365-377. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2006.00053.x

This article critically analyses the AIM Assessment Model for children who have sexually harmful behaviour, exploring the underpinning knowledge and the processes involved. The model reflects current trends in the assessment of children, in child wel... Read More about (De)constructing the risk categories in the AIM assessment model for children with sexually harmful behaviour.

Cultural change and ordinary life (2007)
Book
Longhurst, B. (2007). Cultural change and ordinary life. Open University Press

This ground-breaking book offers a new approach to the understanding of everyday life, the media and cultural change. It explores the social pattern of ordinary life in the context of recent theories and accounts of social and cultural change. Br... Read More about Cultural change and ordinary life.

Friendships and the community of students : peer learning amongst a group of pre-registration student nurses (2007)
Thesis
Roberts, D. Friendships and the community of students : peer learning amongst a group of pre-registration student nurses. (Thesis). University of Salford, UK

This research seeks to explore the nature and value of peer learning for a group of pre-registration nursing students and specifically aims to examine a group of student nurses in order to inquire whether they learn from each other and if so, how, w... Read More about Friendships and the community of students : peer learning amongst a group of pre-registration student nurses.

How can we improve choice provision for childbearing women? (2007)
Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2007). How can we improve choice provision for childbearing women?. British Journal of Midwifery, 15(8), 480-484

Obedience research has shown that under situational pressures and within hierarchical relationships, people have a propensity towards submission to authority (Milgram, 1974). Once they have done so, their actions are no longer guided by their own val... Read More about How can we improve choice provision for childbearing women?.

Ethical issues in the involvement of young service users in research (2007)
Journal Article
young service users in research. Ethics and Social Welfare, 1(2), 176-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496530701450364

This paper focuses attention on the ethical issues concerning the involvement of young service users as co-researchers. In particular the article offers an examination of the limitations of the term ‘service user’, comments on degrees of participati... Read More about Ethical issues in the involvement of young service users in research.

Assessing 'inexperienced' students' ability to self-assess : exploring links with learning style and academic personal control (2007)
Journal Article
Cassidy, S. (2007). Assessing 'inexperienced' students' ability to self-assess : exploring links with learning style and academic personal control. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 32(3), 313-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602930600896704

The study sought to establish the level of students' self-assessment skill—particularly inexperienced students—and to examine the relationship between self-assessment skill and learning style, student perceptions of academic locus of control and acad... Read More about Assessing 'inexperienced' students' ability to self-assess : exploring links with learning style and academic personal control.

Examining 'window dressing' : the views of black police associations on recruitment and training (2007)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M., & Holdaway, S. (2007). Examining 'window dressing' : the views of black police associations on recruitment and training. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33(3), 483-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691830701234780

In a previous issue of this journal, Ellis Cashmore (2002 Cashmore, E. 2002. ‘Behind the window dressing: minority ethnic police perspectives on cultural diversity’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 28(2): 327–41. [Taylor & Francis Onlin... Read More about Examining 'window dressing' : the views of black police associations on recruitment and training.

Effectiveness of information skills training and mediated searching: qualitative results from the EMPIRIC project (2007)
Journal Article
Brettle, A., Hulme, C., & Ormandy, P. (2007). Effectiveness of information skills training and mediated searching: qualitative results from the EMPIRIC project. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 24(1), 24-33. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00702.x

Objectives: To explore library staff and health professionals' views on the effectiveness of information skills training and librarian mediated searching as methods of providing information for patient care. This is the second article describing the... Read More about Effectiveness of information skills training and mediated searching: qualitative results from the EMPIRIC project.

Delinquency and the juvenile justice systems in the non-Western world (book review) (2007)
Journal Article
Quraishi, M. (2007). Delinquency and the juvenile justice systems in the non-Western world (book review). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsl.2006.11.001

This text seeks to contextualise comparative criminological enquiry beyond black-letter law comparisons by emphasising extra-legal elements such as culture, custom and religion across different non-western juvenile justice systems. The editors are we... Read More about Delinquency and the juvenile justice systems in the non-Western world (book review).