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How to take a wound swab (2025)
Journal Article

Wound swabbing is a widespread practice undertaken by nurses and other healthcare professionals in various healthcare environments and involves collecting a sample from the wound surface using a sterile swab. The sample acquired from the wound swab i... Read More about How to take a wound swab.

Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular conditions prediction in individuals with metabolic syndrome-associated lipoprotein lipase gene (LPL) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). (2025)
Journal Article

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is predictive of increased risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular conditions (CVC). Lipoprotein lipase gene (LPL) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) may be of importance to the eventual diagnosis of T2D and CVC... Read More about Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular conditions prediction in individuals with metabolic syndrome-associated lipoprotein lipase gene (LPL) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)..

Identifying interventions to optimise advanced kidney care services: scoping review protocol (2025)
Journal Article

Introduction: Multidisciplinary advanced kidney care (AKC) services provide care to patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) (typically estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≤20 mls/min/1.73m2), as symptoms and complications become m... Read More about Identifying interventions to optimise advanced kidney care services: scoping review protocol.

Sprint running mechanics are associated with hamstring strain injury: a 6-month prospective cohort study of 126 elite male footballers (2025)
Journal Article

Objective: To investigate the association between sprint running biomechanics and sprint-related hamstring strain injury (HSI) in elite male football players. Methods: This prospective cohort study recruited 126 professional male football players fro... Read More about Sprint running mechanics are associated with hamstring strain injury: a 6-month prospective cohort study of 126 elite male footballers.

Safe Havens in Health: Standards of Care for Children and Young People Seeking Asylum and Refugees (2025)
Journal Article

This review outlines current literature regarding access to and quality of healthcare for children and young people seeking asylum and refugees (CYPSAR) in the UK. The multiple factors influencing their experiences are explored, alongside the optimal... Read More about Safe Havens in Health: Standards of Care for Children and Young People Seeking Asylum and Refugees.

Amend the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to protect children from assault (2025)
Journal Article

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is an important opportunity to finally remove the defence of reasonable punishment of children in England, write Andrew Rowland and Grace Hastie

The social identity approach and human givens: A mapping exercise to inform practice to aid community resilience following mass casualty incidents (2025)
Journal Article

In this paper, two separate psychological approaches to health and wellbeing are mapped onto one another to explore the efficacy of both within therapeutic practice. The Social Identity Approach to Health is based on the dominant paradigm of group dy... Read More about The social identity approach and human givens: A mapping exercise to inform practice to aid community resilience following mass casualty incidents.

Understanding and Addressing Social Frailty in Radiotherapy (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Age is a significant risk factor for cancer. By 2040, older people will account for 77% of all people living with cancer. There has been much research undertaken to identify the needs of older adults living with cancer and how best to improve clinica... Read More about Understanding and Addressing Social Frailty in Radiotherapy.

A study of the acceptability of a community delirium toolkit to healthcare staff (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background: Delirium is a common condition that frequently results in hospital admission. There is increasing evidence, to show that delirium can be safely assessed and managed in the community, we have previously published the results of a community... Read More about A study of the acceptability of a community delirium toolkit to healthcare staff.

Pigs Going Out on a Limb: Proof of concept of a video fluoroscopy method for measuring trans-radial socket-residuum coupling (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background
Complaints about comfort and function are consistently associated with prosthetic non-use and abandonment, and the design of sockets likely impacts both aspects [1]. Socket fit can be considered the compromise between socket function and... Read More about Pigs Going Out on a Limb: Proof of concept of a video fluoroscopy method for measuring trans-radial socket-residuum coupling.

Validation of a marker-based motion capture method for measuring the coupling between the ulna and a bypass socket attached to the forearm (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background
Poor comfort and function are consistently linked to prosthetic non-use and abandonment [1]. Current prosthetic devices are considered to “not offer sufficient functional advantage to compensate for any inconvenience or discomfort involve... Read More about Validation of a marker-based motion capture method for measuring the coupling between the ulna and a bypass socket attached to the forearm.

‘We need people who look active and strong in a variety of ways:’ Using the Physical Activity Messaging Framework to Co-Design Strength Training Messaging (2025)
Data

Workshop activity guide (PowerPoint attached) based off the Physical Activity Messaging Framework (PAMF) was used for the 4-hour focus group workshop on January 19, 2024 with 20 public participants aged 40-60 years old from the Greater Manchester are... Read More about ‘We need people who look active and strong in a variety of ways:’ Using the Physical Activity Messaging Framework to Co-Design Strength Training Messaging.

WORKWELL process evaluation: qualitative data analyses of the participant interviews at 12- and 36-month follow-ups (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives
This study aimed to qualitatively examine the delivery of the WORKWELL trial, a job retention vocational rehabilitation (JRVR) programme designed to help individuals with inflammatory arthritis (IA) maintain employment. A qualitative proc... Read More about WORKWELL process evaluation: qualitative data analyses of the participant interviews at 12- and 36-month follow-ups.

To be or not to be: A meaning-making process for migrant Hong Kong social workers in England (2025)
Journal Article

This article examines the meaning-making experiences of migrant social workers from Hong Kong in England. Individual interviews were conducted with 22 migrant social workers. Family comes first, regaining confidence from self-doubt and persevering an... Read More about To be or not to be: A meaning-making process for migrant Hong Kong social workers in England.

The "reasonable punishment" of children defence in England should be consigned to history (2025)
Journal Article

The Use of Digital Technologies in Physiotherapy Higher Education: a Mixed-Methods Study. (2025)
Journal Article

Previous studies demonstrated that digital tools can be effectively integrated into physiotherapy higher education. However, their adoption remains limited. This study aimed to 1) evaluate the perceived knowledge, confidence, and frequency of digital... Read More about The Use of Digital Technologies in Physiotherapy Higher Education: a Mixed-Methods Study..

A Decade of Silence. The Unsolved Case of Itai Dzamara. (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine

In this post, I use my previous experience of working for the Police in Zimbabwe and the UK to analyse the case of journalist cum political activist Itai Dzamara. Dzamara was abducted by unknown agents in broad day light in Harare 9th of March 2015... Read More about A Decade of Silence. The Unsolved Case of Itai Dzamara..

Sedation management and processed EEG-based solutions during venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a narrative review of key challenges and potential benefits. (2025)
Journal Article

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an established technique for managing severe cardiorespiratory failure. However, it is invasive and requires profound analgo-sedation during initiation and often throughout the therapy. Managing sedation... Read More about Sedation management and processed EEG-based solutions during venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a narrative review of key challenges and potential benefits..

Disability digital inclusion in voluntary work journey (2025)
Digital Artefact

Video for 'DIGITVOL: Digital Inclusion of Disabled Individuals in Online and Offline Voluntary Work' project

New Developments in Messenger Ribonucleic Acids (mRNA) Vaccine Technology (2025)
Book Chapter

Technological developments in clinical and medical oncology have made it possible to treat certain diseases, like cancer, at the root level through biological processes that requires genes to be transcribed and translated into proteins. The world has... Read More about New Developments in Messenger Ribonucleic Acids (mRNA) Vaccine Technology.