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Bridging the Digital Skills Gap with a Focused Student Initiative (2025)
Journal Article

The rapid evolution of technology has created a significantgap between the skills taught in higher education and those required byemployers. Digital Skills Week at Salford Business School (SBS) aimed to bridgethis gap by equipping students with essen... Read More about Bridging the Digital Skills Gap with a Focused Student Initiative.

Building a community of to support learning and teaching practice. Our journey… (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre (LTEC) at the University of Salford was formally launched January 2022. The Centre supports colleagues across academic schools and professional services to develop innovative learning and teaching (L&T) p... Read More about Building a community of to support learning and teaching practice. Our journey….

A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context (2023)
Journal Article
Nigerian context. Buildings, 13(2), 452. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020452

Abstract: The need to improve the performance of Nigeria’s office buildings is due to, energy challenges, increasing population, changing user needs, and climate change. With the expansion of
several Nigerian cities, existing buildings constitute a... Read More about A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context.

Evaluation of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Green Social Prescribing Funding Programme (2023)
Report
Kenyon, A., Coventry, P., White, P., Montasem, A., Phukan, S., & Ozols-Riding, J. (2023). Evaluation of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Green Social Prescribing Funding Programme

A growing body of evidence shows health, wellbeing and ecosystem benefits of investment in Green Social Prescribing. West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership funded nine Green Social Prescribing pilot projects, with the aim of supporting and improv... Read More about Evaluation of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Green Social Prescribing Funding Programme.

Learning and teaching in the post-pandemic era (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Court liaison and diversion services for people with neurodevelopmental conditions: a House of Lords consensus meeting (2022)
Journal Article
Chaplin, E., Bradley, K., McCarthy, J., & Forrester, A. (2022). Court liaison and diversion services for people with neurodevelopmental conditions: a House of Lords consensus meeting. Medicine, Science and the Law, 62(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/00258024221121620

Economic performance of green walls: A systematic review (2022)
Presentation / Conference
U.G.D., M., Ramachandra, T., & Geekiyanage, D. (2022, June). Economic performance of green walls: A systematic review. Paper presented at 10th World Construction Symposium, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Green walls are becoming an interesting solution to address the potential issues due to loss of greenery in the urban built environment. Even though green walls offer numerous benefits, the application pace of this concept seems slow in many parts of... Read More about Economic performance of green walls: A systematic review.

A pilot study of co-produced autism training for police custody staff : evaluating the impact on perceived knowledge change and behaviour intentions (2022)
Journal Article
Holloway, C., Munro, N., Cossburn, K., & Ropar, D. (2022). A pilot study of co-produced autism training for police custody staff : evaluating the impact on perceived knowledge change and behaviour intentions. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-11-2021-0159

Purpose

Autistic people have reported particularly negative experiences in police custody, which can lead to significant long-term personal and legal consequences. Research has suggested providing autism training to police forces would help impr... Read More about A pilot study of co-produced autism training for police custody staff : evaluating the impact on perceived knowledge change and behaviour intentions.

Retention : re-engaging the disengaged (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation will provide an evidence-informed approach adopted within a large academic school to re-engage students who had disengaged from formal classes and were at risk of withdrawing. A supportive triage culture was used placing students at... Read More about Retention : re-engaging the disengaged.

Engineers of the future (2021)
Journal Article

A cross-sectional analysis of the muscle strength, spinal shrinkage, and recovery during a working day of military police officers (2021)
Journal Article
Hoflinger, F., Rodacki, A. L. F., Tavares, J. M., Fadel Neto, M. I., Paulo, A. C., Fowler, N. E., & Rodacki, C. L. N. (2021). A cross-sectional analysis of the muscle strength, spinal shrinkage, and recovery during a working day of military police officers. Journal of occupational health, 63(1), e12297. https://doi.org/10.1002/1348-9585.12297

Objective: Military personnel has a large prevalence of back pain, especially those involved in patrolling routines, as they wear heavy protective equipment. Patrolling includes long periods of sustaining the protective equipment in a sitting or in a... Read More about A cross-sectional analysis of the muscle strength, spinal shrinkage, and recovery during a working day of military police officers.

Digital transformation of design led challenges with IMPACT… (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited Guest Speaker

Jess Power is a Professor of Teaching and Learning and Associate Dean Students at Staffordshire University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of The Textile Institute, Fellow of Chartered Manageme... Read More about Digital transformation of design led challenges with IMPACT….

Lockdown learning : the digital transformation of co-curricular interdisciplinary challenges (2021)
Journal Article

This paper explores three-key issues related to the digital transformation of co-curricular interdisciplinary challenges within a UK higher education institution during the COVID pandemic. It is widely accepted that university graduates must be work-... Read More about Lockdown learning : the digital transformation of co-curricular interdisciplinary challenges.

Responding, reframing and re-thinking – a new era in creative education for our sector? (2021)
Journal Article

Editorial for GLAD-HE Post-Conference Publication

Running costs indices for commercial buildings using the hedonic price imputation approach: a case of Sri Lanka (2021)
Journal Article
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., & Ramachandra, T. (in press). Running costs indices for commercial buildings using the hedonic price imputation approach: a case of Sri Lanka. Construction Management and Economics, 39(8), 704-721. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2021.1950790

Running expenses of a building consume a substantial share of its total life cycle cost and range between 70 and 80% in commercial buildings. Despite this, investment decisions are primarily based on construction costs due to the absence of a reliabl... Read More about Running costs indices for commercial buildings using the hedonic price imputation approach: a case of Sri Lanka.

Supporting Students to Engage Project – DTA (CAE) (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Here we present the results of a study which uses an alternative procedure known as ?Fitness to Study? to re-engage students that are deemed as not attending but have had some engagement. Thus, tipping the model from effectively a withdrawal procedur... Read More about Supporting Students to Engage Project – DTA (CAE).

An interdisciplinary approach - connecting beyond the curriculum (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

2020 will be remembered as a critical turning point for Education. An unpredicted pandemic took nations leaders by surprise and led to freedoms we had become accustom to, being suspended. The response from education was to diversify into virtual/blen... Read More about An interdisciplinary approach - connecting beyond the curriculum.

Sentiment analysis in English texts (2020)
Journal Article
Alshamsi, A., Bayari, R., & Salloum, S. (in press). Sentiment analysis in English texts. Advances in science, technology and engineering systems journal, 5(6), 1683-1689. https://doi.org/10.25046/aj0506200

The growing popularity of social media sites has generated a massive amount of data that attracted researchers, decision-makers, and companies to investigate people’s opinions and thoughts in various fields. Sentiment analysis is considered an emergi... Read More about Sentiment analysis in English texts.

Evaluation of the antimicrobial and odor-removing efficacy of Bio-Oxygen device for air decontamination (2020)
Other
Elgujja, A. (2020). Evaluation of the antimicrobial and odor-removing efficacy of Bio-Oxygen device for air decontamination

Background:
Maintaining a clean air in the contemporary environment laden with pollution from several factors has continued to be a challenge. Modern technological advancement has continued to make several attempts at ameliorating environmental poll... Read More about Evaluation of the antimicrobial and odor-removing efficacy of Bio-Oxygen device for air decontamination.

The use of self-reflection for enhanced enterprise education : a case study (2020)
Journal Article
Clarke, A., Cornes, C., & Ferry, N. (2020). The use of self-reflection for enhanced enterprise education : a case study. Education and Training, 62(5), 581-598. https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-03-2019-0050

Purpose
A case study was undertaken to evaluate the use of self-reflection in enterprise education in a UK university, where the taught content was tailored to ensure relevance to the students who were from a variety of subject disciplines.

Desi... Read More about The use of self-reflection for enhanced enterprise education : a case study.