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A feasibility study of the impact of a communication-skills course, ‘Empowered Conversations’, for care partners of people living with dementia (2021)
Journal Article
Morris, L., Innes, A., Smith, E., Williamson, T., & McEvoy, P. (2021). A feasibility study of the impact of a communication-skills course, ‘Empowered Conversations’, for care partners of people living with dementia. Dementia, 20(8), 2838-2850. https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012211018929

Objectives To examine the feasibility, acceptability and impact of an experiential course for family care partners of people living with dementia, Empowered Conversations (EC). This study aimed to assess the impact of participation in an EC course o... Read More about A feasibility study of the impact of a communication-skills course, ‘Empowered Conversations’, for care partners of people living with dementia.

Military veterans and welfare reform : bridging two policy worlds through qualitative longitudinal research (2021)
Journal Article
Scullion, L., Jones, K., Dwyer, P., Hynes, C., & Martin, P. (2021). Military veterans and welfare reform : bridging two policy worlds through qualitative longitudinal research. Social Policy and Society, 20(4), 670-683. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746421000166

In recent years, there has been an increasing focus in the UK on the support provided to those who have served in the Armed Forces, with the publication of the Armed Forces Covenant (2011), the ten year Strategy for our Veterans (2018) and the creati... Read More about Military veterans and welfare reform : bridging two policy worlds through qualitative longitudinal research.

SICK! Festival, part one (2021)
Journal Article
Edge, C., & Davenport, C. (2021). SICK! Festival, part one. Psychologist (Leicester),

Dr Clare Edge on her involvement in SICK! Festival: Mindscapes, with a contribution from Chloe Davenport, Psychology and Counselling Student at University of Salford.

Participating in CaMKIN : impact on patients (2021)
Report
Vasilica, C., Garwood-Cross, L., Finnigan, R., Bashford, T., O’Kane, P., & Ormandy, P. (2021). Participating in CaMKIN : impact on patients

Introduction: Managing long-term health conditions is a global challenge, which has necessitated developing innovative ways to deliver patient centred care. Social media allow patients to access and share personal experiences and peer support, with... Read More about Participating in CaMKIN : impact on patients.

Understanding lived experiences of food insecurity through a paraliminality lens (2021)
Journal Article
Moraes, C., McEachern, M., Gibbons, A., & Scullion, L. (2021). Understanding lived experiences of food insecurity through a paraliminality lens. Sociology, 55(6), 1169-1190. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211003450

This article examines lived experiences of food insecurity in the United Kingdom as a liminal phenomenon. Our research is set within the context of austerity measures, welfare reform and the precarity experienced by increasing numbers of individual... Read More about Understanding lived experiences of food insecurity through a paraliminality lens.

‘Working for nothing?’ : how do students and graduates utilise unpaid work for career mobilities? (2021)
Thesis
Cunningham, E. ‘Working for nothing?’ : how do students and graduates utilise unpaid work for career mobilities?. (Thesis). University of Salford

A degree is no longer enough to guarantee graduate career success, so work experience increasingly provides a way to meet requirements of graduate employers. Such experience is often unpaid in the form of internships, work experience and volunteering... Read More about ‘Working for nothing?’ : how do students and graduates utilise unpaid work for career mobilities?.

A ticking time bomb of future harm : lockdown, child abuse and future violence (2021)
Journal Article
Ellis, A., Briggs, D., Lloyd, A., & Telford, L. (2021). A ticking time bomb of future harm : lockdown, child abuse and future violence. Abuse, 2(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.37576/abuse.2021.017

The Covid-19 pandemic and the implementation of national lockdowns has generated significant changes in the citizenry’s material realities. Although the efficacy of lockdown is yet to be determined, emerging evidence points to a rise in unintended ha... Read More about A ticking time bomb of future harm : lockdown, child abuse and future violence.

The STRENCO Logic Model for tripartite working in mental health (2021)
Report
Vasilica, C., McGlynn, L., Schoultz, M., & Iles-Smith, H. (2021). The STRENCO Logic Model for tripartite working in mental health

The STRENCO Logic Model for Tripartite Working provides a snapshot of the feasibility of working in more co-produced ways to achieve greater inclusiveness of service users, family members, carers, experts by experience, clinicians, academics and stud... Read More about The STRENCO Logic Model for tripartite working in mental health.

Beyond the shrinking world : dementia, localisation and neighbourhood (2021)
Journal Article
Ward, R., Rummery, K., Odzakovic, E., Manji, K., Kullberg, A., Keady, J., …Campbell, S. (2021). Beyond the shrinking world : dementia, localisation and neighbourhood. Ageing and society, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X21000350

‘Dementia-friendly communities’ herald a shift toward the neighbourhood as a locus for the care and support of people with dementia, sparking growing interest in the geographies of dementia care and raising questions over the shifting spatial and soc... Read More about Beyond the shrinking world : dementia, localisation and neighbourhood.

A qualitative evaluation of the impact of a Good Life Club on people living with dementia and care partners (2021)
Journal Article
Morris, L., Innes, A., Smith, S., Wilson, J., Bushell, S., & Wyatt, M. (2021). A qualitative evaluation of the impact of a Good Life Club on people living with dementia and care partners. Dementia, 20(7), 2478-2493. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301221998897

Background: Research suggests there is a lack of post diagnostic support to enable people living with dementia to fulfil social and active lives throughout their dementia journey. Gardening has been found to have many benefits for people living with... Read More about A qualitative evaluation of the impact of a Good Life Club on people living with dementia and care partners.

"So this is not a game” - Brexit as a ‘situation of uncommon precarity’ for migrants of Roma heritage in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Martin, P. (2021). "So this is not a game” - Brexit as a ‘situation of uncommon precarity’ for migrants of Roma heritage in the UK. International journal of Roma studies, 3(1), 46-72. https://doi.org/10.17583/ijrs.2021.6984

Following the 2016 Referendum on UK membership of the EU, the British government indicated that providing evidence of consistent, regular working histories would form the basis of applications by EU migrants seeking to remain in the country long-term... Read More about "So this is not a game” - Brexit as a ‘situation of uncommon precarity’ for migrants of Roma heritage in the UK.

Interventions to support graduate nurse transition to practice and associated outcomes : a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Kenny, A., Dickson-Swift, V., McKenna, L., Charette, M., Rush, K., Stacy, G., …Phillips, C. (2021). Interventions to support graduate nurse transition to practice and associated outcomes : a systematic review. Nurse Education Today, 100, 104860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104860

Objective The aim of this mixed methods systematic review was to: i) document the interventions that support and facilitate graduate nurse transition from university to practice in a diversity of healthcare settings and ii) to identify outco... Read More about Interventions to support graduate nurse transition to practice and associated outcomes : a systematic review.

Rising to the challenge : the delivery of simulation and clinical skills during COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Miller, A., & Guest, K. (2021). Rising to the challenge : the delivery of simulation and clinical skills during COVID-19. Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 44(1), 6-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694193.2021.1883156

The declaration of a global pandemic in March 2020 resulted in all higher education institutions having to quickly transform traditional didactic teaching and learning to online delivery. This involved delivering lectures and seminars virtually, and... Read More about Rising to the challenge : the delivery of simulation and clinical skills during COVID-19.

Chapter 3 : Using coaching conversations and coaching models to promote effective supervision and assessment (2021)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J., Anderson, K., Medcalf, A., Surtees, A., & Sutton, W. (2021). Chapter 3 : Using coaching conversations and coaching models to promote effective supervision and assessment. In J. Leigh, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide (61-88). Lantern Publishing Limited

According to NMC Standards for education and training, Part 2 (Standards for student supervision and Assessment) (2018b: 4): “Students in practice or work-placed learning must be supported to learn. This may include being supernumerary, meaning that... Read More about Chapter 3 : Using coaching conversations and coaching models to promote effective supervision and assessment.

Chapter 2 : Developing the education team (2021)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J., & Roberts, D. (2021). Chapter 2 : Developing the education team. In J. Leigh, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide (27-60). Lantern Publishing Limited

This chapter explores the culture for practice learning through developing the education team. The education team will of course include the three new roles outlined by the NMC: practice supervisor, practice assessor and academic assessor; but it has... Read More about Chapter 2 : Developing the education team.

Chapter 9 – The future of practice learning (2021)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J. (2021). Chapter 9 – The future of practice learning. In J. Leigh, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide (209-236). Lantern Publishing Limited

This chapter explores the future of practice learning, applying the core concepts of a learning organisation to promote excellence (quality and governance); it therefore looks at the whole picture, considering strategies that enable creative thinking... Read More about Chapter 9 – The future of practice learning.

The knowledge and skills required of advanced level practitioners for accreditation and safe practice (2021)
Journal Article
Gloster, A., & Leigh, J. (2021). The knowledge and skills required of advanced level practitioners for accreditation and safe practice. British Journal of Nursing, 30(3), 168-171. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.3.168

Change, for better or worse, seems to be endemic in western societies, and in the past two decades advanced practice has not been exempt. Healthcare leaders and lecturers in the UK have adapted education programmes that are preparing for increasing n... Read More about The knowledge and skills required of advanced level practitioners for accreditation and safe practice.

The Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency Department (PAGE) supporting documentation (2021)
Other
Rowland, A., Long, T., Roland, D., Cotterill, S., Heal, C., Garratt, N., …Bonnett, L. (2021). The Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency Department (PAGE) supporting documentation. Salford, UK

Funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the study that led to the production of the Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency Department (PAGE) tool was designed to support better decision-making in paediatric emergency depa... Read More about The Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency Department (PAGE) supporting documentation.

"You come because it’s an interesting place” : the impact of attending a heritage programme on the well-being of people living with dementia and their care partners (2021)
Journal Article
Innes, A., Scholar, H., Haragalova, J., & Sharma, M. (2021). "You come because it’s an interesting place” : the impact of attending a heritage programme on the well-being of people living with dementia and their care partners. Dementia, 20(6), 2133-2151. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301220985380

Promoting access to heritage settings has been acknowledged as a way to promote wellbeing in the UK for people living with dementia and their care partners. Yet there is a lack of information available internationally on the contribution of herita... Read More about "You come because it’s an interesting place” : the impact of attending a heritage programme on the well-being of people living with dementia and their care partners.