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Cats, comics and Knausgård : promoting student reading at a UK academic library with a leisure reading collection (2017)
Journal Article
Hurst, S., Marsh, D., Brown, D., & Forbes, S. (2017). Cats, comics and Knausgård : promoting student reading at a UK academic library with a leisure reading collection. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 23(4), 442-452. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2017.1371612

This case study describes the creation of a leisure reading collection in the Clifford Whitworth library at the University of Salford. It briefly surveys existing literature on leisure reading collections and looks at the growing interest among UK ac... Read More about Cats, comics and Knausgård : promoting student reading at a UK academic library with a leisure reading collection.

“My mentor didn't speak to me for the first four weeks” : perceived unfairness experienced by nursing students in clinical practice settings (2017)
Journal Article
Jack, K., Hamshire, C., Harris, W., Langan, M., Barrett, N., & Wibberley, C. (2018). “My mentor didn't speak to me for the first four weeks” : perceived unfairness experienced by nursing students in clinical practice settings. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(5-6), 929-938. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14015

Aims and objectives

To explore the perceived unfairness experienced by student nurses during their undergraduate clinical placements.
Background

It is important that student nurses feel supported by practice staff during their clinical plac... Read More about “My mentor didn't speak to me for the first four weeks” : perceived unfairness experienced by nursing students in clinical practice settings.

Designing functional medical products for children with cancer (2017)
Journal Article
Power, E., Leaper, D., & Harris, J. (2017). Designing functional medical products for children with cancer. International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, 10(3), 381-386. https://doi.org/10.1080/17543266.2016.1278466

This paper details how Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has been used to develop a tactile advanced product for a medical application. Innovative experimental and industrial research was undertaken, leading to the design of a child-focused ‘Wiggle B... Read More about Designing functional medical products for children with cancer.

24 hour interdisciplinary Challenge (2016)
Journal Article
Power, E. (2016). 24 hour interdisciplinary Challenge. Experiential entrepreneurship exercises journal, 1(SI-ETC), 70-75

Best-practice model for technology enhanced learning in the creative arts (2016)
Journal Article
Power, E., & Kannara, V. (2016). Best-practice model for technology enhanced learning in the creative arts. Research in Learning Technology, 24(1), 30231. https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v24.30231

This paper presents a best-practice model for the redesign of virtual learning environments (VLEs) within creative arts to augment blended learning. In considering a blended learning best-practice model, three factors should be considered: the consci... Read More about Best-practice model for technology enhanced learning in the creative arts.

The built environment element of economic development in post conflict response in Indonesia (2016)
Journal Article
in post conflict response in Indonesia. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 234, 478-487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.10.266

The recent violent communal conflicts events at the end of 1990s in Indonesia has appointed to the importance of relationship
within the community and linked to the role of economic sector and built environment. This paper presents some findings fro... Read More about The built environment element of economic development in post conflict response in Indonesia.

The reduction of employee lying behaviour : inspiration from a study of envy in part-time employees (2016)
Journal Article
inspiration from a study of envy in part-time employees. Journal of Strategy and Management, 9(2), 118-137. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSMA-02-2015-0015

Purpose
This study analyses employees’ lying behaviour and its findings have important implication for the management and prevention strategies of lying in the workplace. Employee lying has caused both reputational and financial damage to employers,... Read More about The reduction of employee lying behaviour : inspiration from a study of envy in part-time employees.

A battle of wit: applying computational humour to game design (2015)
Journal Article
Dormann, C. (2015). A battle of wit: applying computational humour to game design. Lecture notes in computer science, 9353, 72-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24589-8_6

There is still a dearth of humour in computer games. To spur the use of humour in games and overcome some of the difficultiesin producing humour, we advance that game design can benefit from research in computational humour. The focus of this paper i... Read More about A battle of wit: applying computational humour to game design.

Laughter as the best medicine : exploring humour-mediated health applications (2015)
Journal Article
Dormann, C. (2015). Laughter as the best medicine : exploring humour-mediated health applications. Lecture notes in computer science, 9189, 639-650. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20804-6_58

Despite the physiological and psychological benefits of humour on health, many health applications for aging hold very little humour. We investigate the potential of humour in health for aging, reviewing studies from humour therapy. To show the poten... Read More about Laughter as the best medicine : exploring humour-mediated health applications.

An evaluation of the public housing estates beneficial sustainability factors in the Niger delta of Nigeria (2014)
Journal Article
sustainability factors in the Niger delta of Nigeria. ˜The œbuilt & human environment review, 7(1), 1-17

Sustainability of public (social) housing estates is fundamental to all stakeholders within and external to that
estate environment. It determines and influences the outlook of the built environment and whether it has an
appropriate and effective... Read More about An evaluation of the public housing estates beneficial sustainability factors in the Niger delta of Nigeria.