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The use of computerised clinical decision support systems in emergency care : a substantive review of the literature (2016)
Journal Article
Bennett, P., & Hardiker, N. (2017). The use of computerised clinical decision support systems in emergency care : a substantive review of the literature. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 24(3), 655-668. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocw151

Objectives: This paper provides a substantive review of international literature evaluating the impact of computerised clinical decision support systems (CCDSS) on the care of emergency department (ED) patients.
Material and Methods: A literature s... Read More about The use of computerised clinical decision support systems in emergency care : a substantive review of the literature.

Psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the PedsQL™ Family Impact Scale (2016)
Journal Article
Al-Gamal, E., & Long, T. (2016). Psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the PedsQL™ Family Impact Scale. Journal of Research in Nursing, 21(8), 599-608. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987116670204

Treatment of childhood cancer and its side effects can exert a negative impact on patients’ parents. A valid and reliable instrument to measure family functioning In Arabic families was considered to be a vital resource. The PedsQL Family Impact Scal... Read More about Psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the PedsQL™ Family Impact Scale.

Supporting Roma Voices (2016)
Report
Brown, P., Allen, D., Czureja, S., Dinu, L., Glowacki, S., Hesk, G., …Rostas, T. (2016). Supporting Roma Voices

The Supporting Roma Voice project has aimed to
address emerging knowledge gaps in the way in
which the inclusion of migrant Roma in the UK is
being addressed. Specifically, research by Brown,
Scullion and Martin (2013) identified a demand
from p... Read More about Supporting Roma Voices.

Uncertain transition : exploring the experience of recent graduates (2016)
Other
Christie, F. (2016). Uncertain transition : exploring the experience of recent graduates. Manchester, UK

What is the transition from university student to being part of the workforce really like for graduates? How do they reflect upon this transition themselves and how do they tell their stories? Commentary on the graduate labour market comes from many... Read More about Uncertain transition : exploring the experience of recent graduates.

“Am I too emotional for this job?” An exploration of student midwives’ experiences of coping with traumatic events in the labour ward. (2016)
Journal Article
Coldridge, E., & Davies, S. (2017). “Am I too emotional for this job?” An exploration of student midwives’ experiences of coping with traumatic events in the labour ward. Midwifery, 45, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2016.11.008

Background
Midwifery is emotionally challenging work, and learning to be a midwife brings its own particular challenges. For the student midwife, clinical placement in a hospital labour ward is especially demanding. In the context of organisational... Read More about “Am I too emotional for this job?” An exploration of student midwives’ experiences of coping with traumatic events in the labour ward..

TA treatment of depression : a hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study - 'Sara' (2016)
Journal Article
Benelli, E., Revello, B., Piccirillo, C., Mazzetti, M., Calvo, V., Palmieri, A., …Widdowson, M. (2016). TA treatment of depression : a hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study - 'Sara'. International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research, 7(1), 3-18

This study is the first of a series of three, and represents
an Italian systematic replication of previous UK findings
(Widdowson 2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2013) that
investigated the effectiveness of a recently manualised
transactional analysis treat... Read More about TA treatment of depression : a hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study - 'Sara'.

Evaluating a community-led project for improving fathers’ and children’s wellbeing in England (2016)
Journal Article
Robertson, S., Woodhall, J., Henry, H., Rowlands, S., Esmée, H., Livesley, J., & Long, T. (2018). Evaluating a community-led project for improving fathers’ and children’s wellbeing in England. Health Promotion International, 33(3), 410-421. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daw090

Although under-research compared to other settings, there is potential for the family setting to be harnessed to support the development of healthy children and societies and to reduce health inequalities. Within this setting, the role of fathers as... Read More about Evaluating a community-led project for improving fathers’ and children’s wellbeing in England.

Dementia : towards a perceptual control theory perspective (2016)
Journal Article
McEvoy, P., Eden, J., Morris, L., & Mansell, W. (2016). Dementia : towards a perceptual control theory perspective. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, 17(4), 229-238. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAOA-03-2015-0013

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the psychosocial experiences of people living with dementia using a perceptual control theory (PCT) perspective.

Design/methodology/approach:Conceptual paper.

Findings: The paper suggests that... Read More about Dementia : towards a perceptual control theory perspective.

Primary care workforce : evaluation of ‘triumvirate leadership’ development and network programme (2016)
Report
evaluation of ‘triumvirate leadership’ development and network programme

Executive Summary
Background
Staff who demonstrate effective leadership behaviours are at the forefront of any future primary care transformation. By empowering and engaging self and others to work differently within a changing clinical context, g... Read More about Primary care workforce : evaluation of ‘triumvirate leadership’ development and network programme.

Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me softly? (2016)
Book
Ackers, H., & Ackers-Johnson, J. (2017). Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me softly?. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6

This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effe... Read More about Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me softly?.

Tackling the issue of FGM in Higher Education (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Shannon, M., & Hesk, G. (2016, November). Tackling the issue of FGM in Higher Education. Presented at Tackling The Issue of Female Genital Mutilation In Schools, Manchester

Play (2016)
Book Chapter
Law, Y., & Crawford, G. (2016). Play. In K. Jensen, R. Craig, J. Pooley, & E. Rothenbuhler (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. London: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118766804

Play is something that we all do, it is often easy to recognise, but also remarkably difficult to define: ‘…we seem to intuitively know what play is, but we still have difficulty defining exactly what factors are involved in the play process’ (Lentz,... Read More about Play.

The last night of freedom : consumerism, deviance and the ‘stag party’ (2016)
Journal Article
Briggs, D., & Ellis, A. (2017). The last night of freedom : consumerism, deviance and the ‘stag party’. Deviant Behavior, 38(7), 756-767. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2016.1197678

This article offers an ethnographic examination of the stag party phenomenon in the UK. Stag parties have become socially expected as a rite of passage, pre-marriage celebration for men that usually involves excessive alcohol consumption and engageme... Read More about The last night of freedom : consumerism, deviance and the ‘stag party’.

Volunteering and overseas placements in the NHS : a survey of current activity (2016)
Journal Article
Chatwin, J., & Ackers, L. (2016). Volunteering and overseas placements in the NHS : a survey of current activity. BMJ, 6(10), e01216. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012160

Objective
The study aimed to establish current levels of overseas volunteering and placement activity across all staff grades within the NHS in the North West of England.
Design
Cross-sectional survey.
Instrument
Descriptive statistics.
Setting... Read More about Volunteering and overseas placements in the NHS : a survey of current activity.

Music-making with hospitalised children outcomes for children, families, hospital staff and musicians from LIME Medical Notes (2) and Songbirds projects : A research report (2016)
Report
outcomes for children, families, hospital staff and musicians from LIME Medical Notes (2) and Songbirds projects : A research report

Children account for 21% of the population in the United Kingdom (Office for National Statistics 2015). Each year, one in fifteen children will be admitted to hospital, many of whom will have complex healthcare needs; a significant proportion of thes... Read More about Music-making with hospitalised children outcomes for children, families, hospital staff and musicians from LIME Medical Notes (2) and Songbirds projects : A research report.

A uniform not uniform : an ethnography of police clothing, performance, gender and subculture in neighbourhood policing (2016)
Thesis
De Camargo, C. A uniform not uniform : an ethnography of police clothing, performance, gender and subculture in neighbourhood policing. (Thesis). University of Salford

Police officers are distinct and unique actors in public spaces. They experience a peculiar familiarity with wider society: they often do not personally know the citizens in the areas they patrol but everyone knows that they are part of the police by... Read More about A uniform not uniform : an ethnography of police clothing, performance, gender and subculture in neighbourhood policing.

Social theory and the politics of big data and method (2016)
Journal Article
Frade, C. (2016). Social theory and the politics of big data and method. Sociology, 50(5), 863-877. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515614186

This article is an intervention in the debate on big data. It seeks to show, firstly, that behind the wager to make sociology more relevant to the digital there lies a coherent if essentially unstated vision and a whole stance which are more a sympto... Read More about Social theory and the politics of big data and method.