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Assessing the educational potential and language content of touchscreen apps for preschool children (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., Kolak, J., Norgate, S., & Monaghan, P. (2022). Assessing the educational potential and language content of touchscreen apps for preschool children. Computers and education open, 3, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2022.100102

Touchscreen apps have the potential to teach children important early skills including oral language. However, there is little empirical data assessing the educational potential of children's apps in the app market or how apps link to theories of cog... Read More about Assessing the educational potential and language content of touchscreen apps for preschool children.

Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Kolak, J., Norgate, S., Monaghan, P., & Taylor, G. (2021). Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK. Journal of Children and Media, 15(3), 410-430. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2020.1844776

Selecting high quality apps can be challenging for caregivers and educators. We here develop tools evaluating educational potential of apps for preschool children. In Study 1, we developed two complementary evaluation tools tailored to different audi... Read More about Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK.

Barriers and facilitators for blind and visually impaired users of shared space (2019)
Journal Article
Brown, K., & Norgate, S. (2019). Barriers and facilitators for blind and visually impaired users of shared space. Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer, 172(4), 209-217. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmuen.18.00063

To what extent do blind or partially sighted pedestrians perceive barriers or facilitators when moving through a shared space (SS)? The aim of this study was to understand in real-time, the perceptions, thoughts and emotions about their interaction w... Read More about Barriers and facilitators for blind and visually impaired users of shared space.

The impact of the public transport on the health of work commuters : a systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Norgate, S., Cooper-Ryan, A., Lavin, S., Stonier, C., & Cooper, C. (2020). The impact of the public transport on the health of work commuters : a systematic review. Health Psychology Review, 14(2), 325-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2019.1618723

Although the public transport (PT) commute can form a substantial part of the working day, there is a significant gap in our understanding of how it influences health of those who engage in it. The purpose of this systematic review was to therefore g... Read More about The impact of the public transport on the health of work commuters : a systematic review.

Neurodevelopmental outcomes in individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) with and without exposure to neglect : clinical cohort data from a national FASD diagnostic clinic (2018)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, R., Cook, P., Norgate, S., & Price, A. (2019). Neurodevelopmental outcomes in individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) with and without exposure to neglect : clinical cohort data from a national FASD diagnostic clinic. Alcohol, 76, 23-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcohol.2018.06.002

Disentangling the relative developmental impact of prenatal alcohol exposure from postnatal neglect is clinically valuable for informing future service provision. In this study developmental outcomes across groups are compared in a ‘natural experim... Read More about Neurodevelopmental outcomes in individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) with and without exposure to neglect : clinical cohort data from a national FASD diagnostic clinic.

Lift-share using mobile apps in tourism : the role of trust, sense of community and lift-share practices (2017)
Journal Article
Dickinson, J., Filimonau, V., Cherrett, T., Davies, N., Hibbert, F., Norgate, S., & Speed, C. (2017). Lift-share using mobile apps in tourism : the role of trust, sense of community and lift-share practices. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 61(Part B), 397-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2017.11.004

This paper explores the use of mobile technology to enable lift-share in the leisure travel domain of camping tourism. Here mobile devices can connect a user community on the move undertaking non-routine trips and reveal temporal and spatial connecti... Read More about Lift-share using mobile apps in tourism : the role of trust, sense of community and lift-share practices.

Prenatal alcohol exposure and traumatic childhood experiences : a systematic review (2017)
Journal Article
Price, A. D., Cook, P., Norgate, S., & Mukherjee, R. (2017). Prenatal alcohol exposure and traumatic childhood experiences : a systematic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 80, 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.05.018

Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and traumatic childhood experiences (trauma) such as abuse or neglect can each cause central nervous system neurobiological changes or structural damage which can manifest as cognitive and behavioural dysfunction. In c... Read More about Prenatal alcohol exposure and traumatic childhood experiences : a systematic review.

Narrow lanes and their effect on drivers’ behaviour at motorway roadworks (2017)
Journal Article
Yousif, S., Nassrullah, Z., & Norgate, S. (2017). Narrow lanes and their effect on drivers’ behaviour at motorway roadworks. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 47, 86-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2017.04.016

In recent years, more use of narrow lanes as a temporary traffic management scheme (TTMS) on UK motorway roadwork sections has been made. The rationale is to free up carriageway space, especially for sites with high traffic demands needing repairs. W... Read More about Narrow lanes and their effect on drivers’ behaviour at motorway roadworks.

Atypical Development (2017)
Book Chapter
Norgate, S. (2017). Atypical Development. In A. Slater, & G. Bremner (Eds.), An Introduction to Developmental Psychology (715-750). Wiley

Implementing smartphone enabled collaborative travel: Routes to success in the tourism domain (2017)
Journal Article
Dickinson, J., Hibbert, J., Filimonau, V., Cherrett, T., Davies, N., Norgate, S., …Winstanley, C. (2017). Implementing smartphone enabled collaborative travel: Routes to success in the tourism domain. Journal of Transport Geography, 59, 100-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.01.011

Smartphone technology can help identify current and anticipate future patterns of behaviour and, with its social networking capabilities, allow users to imagine and organise collaborative travel opportunities, such as lift share. This has led to the... Read More about Implementing smartphone enabled collaborative travel: Routes to success in the tourism domain.