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How can communities influence alcohol licensing at a local level? Licensing Officers’ perspectives of the barriers and facilitators to sustaining engagement in a volunteer-led alcohol harm reduction approach (2021)
Journal Article

Despite the World Health Organization’s assertion that communities need to become involved in
reducing alcohol harm, evidence of community engagement in alcohol licensing decision-making in
England remains limited. The evaluation of the Communities... Read More about How can communities influence alcohol licensing at a local level? Licensing Officers’ perspectives of the barriers and facilitators to sustaining engagement in a volunteer-led alcohol harm reduction approach.

Overview of FASD: How Our Understanding of FASD Has Progressed (2021)
Book Chapter
Price, A. D., Cook, P. A., & Mukherjee, R. A. S. Overview of FASD: How Our Understanding of FASD Has Progressed. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73966-9_2

Some historical clues suggest an ancient understanding that alcohol should be avoided during pregnancy, but these may have been overstated. Further evidence appears during times of widespread alcohol use in the middle ages, but the current understand... Read More about Overview of FASD: How Our Understanding of FASD Has Progressed.

Exploring the experiences of social workers in working with children suspected of having fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (2021)
Journal Article

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is one outcome from prenatal alcohol exposure. Social workers are likely to encounter children with the condition, due to the greater likelihood of prenatal alcohol exposure among children in social services set... Read More about Exploring the experiences of social workers in working with children suspected of having fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

Biodiversity and health in the urban environment (2021)
Journal Article
Marselle, M., Lindley, S., Cook, P., & Bonn, A. (2021). Biodiversity and health in the urban environment. Current Environmental Health Reports, 8(2), 146-156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-021-00313-9

Biodiversity underpins urban ecosystem functions that are essential for human health and well-being. Understanding how biodiversity relates to human health is a developing frontier for science, policy and practice. This article describes the benefici... Read More about Biodiversity and health in the urban environment.

Part 2 : a qualitative description of participation in an eight-week infant skin integrity study (2021)
Journal Article
MacVane Phipps, F., Price, A., Ackers-Johnson, J., Cook, P., & Lythgoe, J. (2021). Part 2 : a qualitative description of participation in an eight-week infant skin integrity study. British Journal of Midwifery, 29(5), 260-266. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2021.29.5.260

Background This is the second paper in a two-part series; the first paper was published in volume 29, issue 4 of the British Journal of Midwifery. The qualitative phase of the Baby Skin Integrity Comparison Survey (BaSICS) study was designed to addre... Read More about Part 2 : a qualitative description of participation in an eight-week infant skin integrity study.

Part 1 : a qualitative description of participation in an eight-week infant skin integrity study (2021)
Journal Article
MacVane Phipps, F., Price, A., Ackers-Johnson, J., Cook, P., & Lythgoe, J. (2021). Part 1 : a qualitative description of participation in an eight-week infant skin integrity study. British Journal of Midwifery, 29(4), 200-207. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2021.29.4.200

Background The qualitative phase of the Baby Skin Integrity Comparison Survey (BaSICS) study was designed to address a dearth of information about research recruitment and retention, and how mothers make decisions about neonatal skincare. Aims The ai... Read More about Part 1 : a qualitative description of participation in an eight-week infant skin integrity study.

698 mothers and babies, 38 390 nappy changes : what did we learn? (2021)
Journal Article
MacVane Phipps, F., Price, A., Ackers-Johnson, J., Cook, P., Clarke-Cornwell, A., & Lythgoe, J. (2021). 698 mothers and babies, 38 390 nappy changes : what did we learn?. British Journal of Midwifery, 29(3), 150-157. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2021.29.3.150

Background Several industry funded studies between 2001–2018 have compared the use of a single brand of baby wipes to cleansing with water and either cloth or cotton wool during nappy changes. All of these studies found that wipes were safe and effec... Read More about 698 mothers and babies, 38 390 nappy changes : what did we learn?.

An asset-based community development approach to reducing alcohol harm : exploring barriers and facilitators to community mobilisation at initial implementation stage (2021)
Journal Article

Globally there is a need to engage communities in actions to reduce alcohol harm. This paper reports on the initial implementation phase of an asset-based community development (ABCD) approach to reducing alcohol harm in ten pre-identified areas acro... Read More about An asset-based community development approach to reducing alcohol harm : exploring barriers and facilitators to community mobilisation at initial implementation stage.