Environmental organisations are operating in the context of climate emergency and a biodiversity crisis, alongside a growing green health movement that seeks to understand better the links between the natural environment and human health. This study... Read More about The wellbeing impacts of participation in civic environmental activities in an urban context: a mixed methods realist evaluation.
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Exploring the Lived Experiences of Postgraduate Research Students: A Longitudinal Study (2025)
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Research on student mental health has historically focused on undergraduates with a relative dearth of research on Postgraduate Research (PGR) students (Vitae, 2018). The study sought to redress this imbalance and heeds the call of Adva... Read More about Exploring the Lived Experiences of Postgraduate Research Students: A Longitudinal Study.
Enhancement of Change of Direction Performance in Professional Female Soccer Players (2025)
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The ability to rapidly change direction is believed to be a key physical quality for soccer players and commonly forms part of testing batteries performed by soccer teams. While whole match analysis shows that numerous changes of direction are perfor... Read More about Enhancement of Change of Direction Performance in Professional Female Soccer Players.
Exploring the Experiences of Non-Heterosexual Men’s Sexual Identity Construction Considering the Effects of Social Media (2025)
Thesis
People who self-identify as non-heterosexual have been amongst some of the most marginalised groups throughout millennia. Much scholarly literature aimed to understand the process and interactions that occurred for these marginalised individuals in f... Read More about Exploring the Experiences of Non-Heterosexual Men’s Sexual Identity Construction Considering the Effects of Social Media.
Advancing prosthetic prescriptions: developing a sensor-based system for objective activity assessment (2025)
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The prosthesis components a lower limb amputee receives are determined by their assigned K level. K levels range from K0 to K4 and are defined by the user’s ability to traverse environmental barriers, change cadence and ambulation skill. K levels are... Read More about Advancing prosthetic prescriptions: developing a sensor-based system for objective activity assessment.
In the United Kingdom, all nursing students are required to be supervised and assessed in clinical practice by registrants (registered health professionals may act as supervisors, but registered nurses must act as assessors). Prior to 2018, the role... Read More about Exploring registered nurses' experiences of preparation as practice supervisors and assessors of nursing students: a phenomenographic study.
A Comparison Of The Effects Of Yoga And Pilates For Pain Physical Function And Quality Of Life In Adults Over 50 Years (2025)
Thesis
This research compares the effects of yoga and Pilates for adults over 50 years,
focusing on the outcomes of pain, physical function, and quality of life, exploring these
activities in the relation to contraindications, physical activity guidelines... Read More about A Comparison Of The Effects Of Yoga And Pilates For Pain Physical Function And Quality Of Life In Adults Over 50 Years.
Identity Limbo: An Exploration Into The Lived Remand Experience In Trinidad And Tobago. (2025)
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Remand continues to pose challenges in Trinidad and Tobago (Wallace, 2020), drawing attention from both the Government and citizens of the nation. However, despite its significance, remand remains a relatively understudied area of study within the fi... Read More about Identity Limbo: An Exploration Into The Lived Remand Experience In Trinidad And Tobago..
Considerations for optimising the design of rigid ankle-foot orthoses for children with cerebral palsy. (2025)
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Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the leading cause of childhood motor disabilities, resulting in a
variety of gait impairments. Ankle-foot Orthoses (AFOs) are key to managing these im-
pairments, aiming to facilitate weight-bearing activities and normalise l... Read More about Considerations for optimising the design of rigid ankle-foot orthoses for children with cerebral palsy..
Hamstring strain injuries (HSIs) are the most common non-contact injuries in various sports, including soccer, American football, rugby union, Australian rules football, cricket, and sprinting. Epidemiological studies have highlighted the significant... Read More about A mixed methods approach to training for the mitigation of modifiable risk factors for hamstring strain injury and the development of athletic performance..
The English Academy school system, first introduced in the early 2000s, is one of the most comprehensive school reform initiatives to have been implemented in recent decades in Eng-land. Most academies are conversions of pre-existing state schools, a... Read More about EXPLORING STRATEGIES IN A PRIMARY SCHOOL CONVERTER ACAD-EMY: A CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF SUPPORT FOR MINORITY ETHNIC, ENLGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE, AND ECONPMOCALLY DISADVANTAGED LEARNERS.
Alcohol hangover is the combination of negative symptoms experienced after a single episode of alcohol consumption, when blood alcohol concentration is approaching 0. Hangover has economic costs and links to alcohol-related health outcomes, but neith... Read More about An Investigation of the associations between hangover symptom cluster severity, individual differences, and cognitive performance..
Making sense of 'sport as a therapy choice' for paediatric physiotherapists working with young people with disabilities (2025)
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Physiotherapy practice is affected by the challenge of maintaining patients’ engagement with physiotherapy and appears in its top ten research priorities (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, 2021b; Rankin et al, 2012, 2020). Paediatric physiotherapis... Read More about Making sense of 'sport as a therapy choice' for paediatric physiotherapists working with young people with disabilities.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of premature death in the United Kingdom with one type, coronary artery disease, killing more than twice as many women as breast cancer. Conventional CVD risk factors have been shown to have less accu... Read More about Automatic Classification, Detection and Segmentation of Breast Arterial Calcification on Digital Mammography Images Using Deep Learning.
Encounters with patients who are approaching end of life or dying can affect all staff. Yet health care support staff are rarely mentioned or included in service evaluation or research studies, with their roles often not easily visible, largely happe... Read More about Hidden voices and deep meaning: An ethnography to reveal and render explicit health care assistants, porters and domestics experience and role in the social organisation of end of life care.
Employers’ and employees’ perceptions regarding promotion of health and well-being in the workplace (2025)
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Background : The workplace has been identified as a suitable setting where adult populations can be reached for health promotion and prevention of disease. However, little is known about the workplace health and well-being environment in Kenya. The c... Read More about Employers’ and employees’ perceptions regarding promotion of health and well-being in the workplace.
Evaluating and Developing Force Plate Practice for Monitoring Lower-Body Neuromuscular Function in Soccer (2025)
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The aim of this thesis was to evaluate and identify a best practice for force plate assessments for monitoring lower body NMF in soccer. It was evident following a literature review and scoping review that there is a variety of options for force plat... Read More about Evaluating and Developing Force Plate Practice for Monitoring Lower-Body Neuromuscular Function in Soccer.
Diagnosis and Treatment of Stroke-Associated Pneumonia (2024)
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Background: Pneumonia complicating acute stroke results in poorer outcomes. However, substantial inconsistencies exist in terminology, diagnosis, risk stratification, microbiological causes, and antibiotic treatment of stroke-associated pneumonia (SA... Read More about Diagnosis and Treatment of Stroke-Associated Pneumonia.
The Use Of Real-world Physical Behaviour Information To Support Clinical Decision-making Process In Lower-limb Prosthetic Care (2024)
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A limited understanding of activity levels and functional status in people with lower limb amputation can adversely impact the healthcare delivery and the individual’s quality of life. Current methods to fit prosthetic limbs and evaluate their impact... Read More about The Use Of Real-world Physical Behaviour Information To Support Clinical Decision-making Process In Lower-limb Prosthetic Care.
In the eye of the beholder: the role of individual differences in the perception of restorative nature environments (2024)
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Beevers, D. In the eye of the beholder: the role of individual differences in the perception of restorative nature environments. (Thesis). University of SalfordPsychological restoration is the recovery from a period of mental fatigue or stress. Exposure to nature environments has been shown to be particularly conducive to enabling restoration. The focus of restoration research to date has largely been direc... Read More about In the eye of the beholder: the role of individual differences in the perception of restorative nature environments.