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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..

Cybersecurity Approaches to IoT Platforms in E-Healthcare Systems (2025)
Book Chapter

This paper explored the crucial areas of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry, stressing the need to defend healthcare infrastructures and private patient information against online attacks. As part of their applications in electronic healthcare... Read More about Cybersecurity Approaches to IoT Platforms in E-Healthcare Systems.

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.

An Evaluation of the Effect of Dimple Insoles on Foot Temperature in Diabetic Patients (2025)
Journal Article

Objective: Insoles play a crucial role in foot comfort, with their effect on foot temperature being a key factor. This study aims to evaluate and compare the effect of walking with two different insole types—dimple insoles versus a conventional insol... Read More about An Evaluation of the Effect of Dimple Insoles on Foot Temperature in Diabetic Patients.

WOW@Work_GM 'A look back over 100 years: ageing women in work' (2025)
Digital Artefact

The video contextualises a policy project led by Dr Clare Edge and a women's voice steering group, which aims to explore the barriers and facilitators to ageing women's workplace wellbeing in Greater Manchester with a focus on the perimenopause and m... Read More about WOW@Work_GM 'A look back over 100 years: ageing women in work'.

WOW@Work_GM 'A call to Action: let's lead a conversation about driving change to positively impact the future of ageing women's workplace wellbeing ' (2025)
Digital Artefact

The video contextualises a policy project led by Dr Clare Edge and a women's voice steering group, which aims to explore the barriers and facilitators to ageing women's workplace wellbeing in Greater Manchester with a focus on the perimenopause and m... Read More about WOW@Work_GM 'A call to Action: let's lead a conversation about driving change to positively impact the future of ageing women's workplace wellbeing '.

Developing and testing a competency framework to enhance hydration care for older people in care homes (2025)
Journal Article

Purpose
Evidence based hydration care for older people is essential to health and wellbeing. However, practices vary, leading to negative outcomes for older people, particularly in relation to increased incidence of morbidity and mortality. As a di... Read More about Developing and testing a competency framework to enhance hydration care for older people in care homes.

Physical and Match Characteristics of English Elite Academy Soccer Players: Differences Between Age Groups. (2025)
Journal Article

The purpose of this study was to evaluate physical and match characteristics of elite academy soccer players and determine differences between age groups. Sixty elite academy soccer players, including u15 (Subject: N = 15; age: 14.64 ± 0.25 years; ma... Read More about Physical and Match Characteristics of English Elite Academy Soccer Players: Differences Between Age Groups..

Respectful bereavement care practices that promotes parents’ emotional wellbeing affected by stillbirth (2025)
Journal Article

The death of a baby in childbirth is a devastating experience for parents, caregivers, and health care professionals across the globe. High-quality, respectful bereavement care is crucial to enable parents to cope with the experience and mitigate lon... Read More about Respectful bereavement care practices that promotes parents’ emotional wellbeing affected by stillbirth.

From Healer’s Son to Policeman: Tracing My Journey Through Witchcraft, Policing, and Harmful Killings in Southern Africa (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine

Blog article on the trajectory of witchcraft research in a forensic context

Benzodiazepine prescribing (2025)
Journal Article

Deborah Robertson provides an overview of recently published articles that may be of interest to non-medical prescribers. Should you wish to look at any of the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided

An Exploration of the Content and Language Used in Publicly Available National Health Service Patient Information Leaflets for People Considering Shoulder Replacement Surgery: A Qualitative Study (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives: The decision to undergo total shoulder replacement surgery is a major one and should be a joint one between the patient and surgeon. It is important that patients are provided with accessible, meaningful and appropriate information to ena... Read More about An Exploration of the Content and Language Used in Publicly Available National Health Service Patient Information Leaflets for People Considering Shoulder Replacement Surgery: A Qualitative Study.

The Glasgow Coma Scale: an international standard for education and practice with adults (2025)
Journal Article

The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was published in The Lancet in 1974 by Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett. Both worked at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Glasgow, giving the scale its name. The original paper, entitled ‘Assessment o... Read More about The Glasgow Coma Scale: an international standard for education and practice with adults.

Practices and perceptions in hamstring training for injury risk mitigation: A survey-based mixed-methods analysis (2025)
Journal Article

In this study, the practices and perceptions of sport and exercise practitioners regarding hamstring training for injury risk mitigation were investigated. Hamstring strain injuries (HSIs) remain a prevalent issue across sports, despite extensive res... Read More about Practices and perceptions in hamstring training for injury risk mitigation: A survey-based mixed-methods analysis.

Upskilling Rheumatology Occupational Therapists in Work Rehabilitation: An Evaluation of a Job Retention Vocational Rehabilitation Training Course (the Workwell Trial) (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives: The objectives were to assess current job retention vocational rehabilitation (JRVR) services for employed individuals with inflammatory arthritis (IA) in rheumatology therapy departments interested in participating in the Workwell trial.... Read More about Upskilling Rheumatology Occupational Therapists in Work Rehabilitation: An Evaluation of a Job Retention Vocational Rehabilitation Training Course (the Workwell Trial).