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Expertise differences in a 2D animation simulation decision-making task: The influence of presentation speed on performance (2020)
Book Chapter

This article investigates the effect of using different playing speeds of 2D animation on the decision accuracy and reaction times of elite footballers. Groups of players from different age categories (under 16, under 18 and under 23 year olds) elite... Read More about Expertise differences in a 2D animation simulation decision-making task: The influence of presentation speed on performance.

Methods for clinical evaluation (2020)
Book Chapter
Kenney, L., Kyberd, P., Galpin, A., Chadwell, A., Granat, M., Thies, S., & Head, J. (2020). Methods for clinical evaluation. In K. Nazarpour (Ed.), Control of Prosthetic Hands : challenges and emerging avenues (29-67). Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). https://doi.org/10.1049/PBHE022E_ch3

This chapter begins with an introduction to the challenges of measurement in upper limb prosthetics. This is followed by an overview of the traditional approaches to evaluation and their strengths and weaknesses. By traditional approaches, we mean te... Read More about Methods for clinical evaluation.

Child prosthetics – a perspective (2020)
Book Chapter
Dyson, M., Wheeler, G., Langley, J., Needham, A., Mills, N., & Head, J. (2020). Child prosthetics – a perspective. In K. Nazarpour (Ed.), Control of prosthetic hands : challenges and emerging avenues (175-188). Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). https://doi.org/10.1049/PBHE022E_ch9

This chapter summarises conversations between researchers working in healthcare and academia linked through membership of the Starworks Network, a UK National Institute for Health Research initiative to accelerate the translation of child prosthetics... Read More about Child prosthetics – a perspective.

Global commercial and sexual exploitation of children (2020)
Book Chapter
Laser-Maira, J., Hounmenou, C., & Peach, D. (2020). Global commercial and sexual exploitation of children. In H. Pontell (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.592

The term commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) refers to the for-profit sexual exploitation of children and youth through buying, trading, or selling sexual acts. CSEC is a subset of children and youth who are victims of human trafficking... Read More about Global commercial and sexual exploitation of children.

Occupational therapy (2020)
Book Chapter
Prior, Y., Adams, J., & Hammond, A. (2020). Occupational therapy. In D. L. Scott, J. Galloway, A. Cope, A. Pratt, & V. Strand (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Rheumatoid Arthritis (311-320). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198831433.003.0026

People with rheumatoid arthritis can find it painful, tiring, and frustrating to perform their daily activities, work, family and social responsibilities, and leisure. While drug therapy has improved outcomes, many still experience limitations in the... Read More about Occupational therapy.

The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison (2020)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2020). The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (145-162). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201011

Academic literature portrays prison officers in various ways; as insensitive figures lurking in the background (Cohen & Taylor, 1972) as brutes prone to violence (Kauffman, 1988) or more positively as noble people struggling to get the job done as be... Read More about The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison.

Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment (2020)
Book Chapter
Abbott, L., & Lockwood, K. (2020). Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (49-66). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201006

Around 7% of the female prison population are pregnant (Albertson, O'Keeffe, Lessing-Turner, Burke & Renfrew, 2014; Kennedy, Marshall, Parkinson, Delap & Abbott, 2016; Prison Reform Trust, 2019). However, although recent years have witnessed growing... Read More about Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment.

A psychology of survival? (2020)
Book Chapter
Weinberg, A. (2020). A psychology of survival?. In A. Weinberg, A. Antoniou, & C. Cooper (Eds.), Brexit in the workplace : a psychology of survival? (142-157). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977012.00015

The climax and implications of Brexit are profiled in this chapter, taking account of the high stakes politics that held centre stage for so long. Uncertainty and risk are key themes in this national story of political psychology as Boris Johnson bec... Read More about A psychology of survival?.

A psychology of Brexit (2020)
Book Chapter

This book is for winners and losers – past, present and future. Brexit is not just
a decision to be rejoiced, regretted or recriminated, but about the adjustments
to working lives which it demands. It is about – and not in any particular order
– p... Read More about A psychology of Brexit.

Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications (2020)
Book Chapter
Kidd, E., Bidgood, A., Donnelly, S., Durrant, S., Peter, M., & Rowland, C. (2020). Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications. In C. Rowland, A. Theakston, B. Ambridge, & K. Twomey (Eds.), Current perspectives on child language acquisition : how children use their environment to learn (189-219). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.09kid

Much of Lieven’s pioneering work has helped move the study of individual differences to the centre of child language research. The goal of the present chapter is to illustrate how the study of individual differences provides crucial insights into the... Read More about Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications.

Taking sides with Swedish protesters : gaining and maintaining trust in the field (2020)
Book Chapter
Vestergren, S., & Drury, J. (2020). Taking sides with Swedish protesters : gaining and maintaining trust in the field. In Y. Gülsüm Acar, S. Moss, & O. Uluğ (Eds.), Researching peace and conflict : field experiences and methodological reflections (149-171). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44113-5_9

Researching protests and activism can contain various challenges, even more so when then
the researcher embeds themselves in the protest context. Based on an ethnographic study of
an environmental campaign in Sweden we will in this chapter discuss... Read More about Taking sides with Swedish protesters : gaining and maintaining trust in the field.