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Technicians as Teachers for Student Experience (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Ukraine Narrative - A perspective on continued professional development. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The recent conflict in Ukraine has disrupted higher education, making continued professional development (CPD) a challenge due to displacement of educators, internet disruption, and limited access to resources. In response, the University of Salford... Read More about The Ukraine Narrative - A perspective on continued professional development..

Future Developments in Noise from Transport (2025)
Book Chapter
Torija Martinez, A. (2025). Future Developments in Noise from Transport. In I. van Kamp, & F. Woudenberg (Eds.), A Sound Approach to Noise and Health. Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6121-0

This open access book highlights the negative and positive health effects of chronic exposure to environmental sound. It describes the state of the art in the field from a public health point of view and puts it in a broad societal perspective lookin... Read More about Future Developments in Noise from Transport.

The Medieval Jewish history of Hereford (2025)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2025, September). The Medieval Jewish history of Hereford

This event has been coordinated to commemorate 750th anniversary of the movement of the expelled Jewish communities of Worcester and Gloucester who came to Hereford in 1275.

The lecture will serve as an introduction to the history of the Jewish co... Read More about The Medieval Jewish history of Hereford.

The Galle Family Charters (2025)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2025, July). The Galle Family Charters. Paper presented at Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds

Part of a series of panels, organised by myself and Jess Holt (Univ. of Lincoln), on record production in Lincoln (town, county, and diocese) this paper begins to explore the Galle family charters, and presents some preliminary findings.

Lignocellulosic biomass conversion to levulinic acid via acid catalysis: Current methods, opportunities and challenges for self-sustaining biorefineries (2025)
Journal Article

In recent years, integrated biorefineries have received growing interest as to maximise the extractable value from biomass in the form of green platform chemicals in order to support the establishment of a low carbon economy. Research and development... Read More about Lignocellulosic biomass conversion to levulinic acid via acid catalysis: Current methods, opportunities and challenges for self-sustaining biorefineries.

Real and Imagined Neighbours and Neighbourliness in the Case of Little Hugh of Lincoln (2025)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2025, May). Real and Imagined Neighbours and Neighbourliness in the Case of Little Hugh of Lincoln. Presented at Living Together while Living Apart: Exploring Jewish-Christian Neighborhoods in Medieval Europe, Freie Universität Berlin

An invited contribution, this paper will explore Neighbours and Neighbourliness in Lincoln between 1255 and 1257, through official records and narrative sources.

28/03/2025 - Blackburn College (2025)
Data

2hr Marxism and Postcolonialism lecture and workshop delivered by Vashti Gbolagun Suwa and Noah Singh-Harris
English Language delivered by Jack Wilson

Total number of students: 19 [8 for Eng Lit and 11 for Eng Lang]
Teachers: 2

Student and Te... Read More about 28/03/2025 - Blackburn College.

Gas pipeline defect detection based on improved deep learning approach (2025)
Journal Article
Zhang, T., Ma, C., Liu, Z., ur Rehman, S., Li, Y., & Saraee, M. (2025). Gas pipeline defect detection based on improved deep learning approach. Expert systems with applications, 267, Article 126212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.126212

The working conditions of gas pipelines directly impact urban populations and factory operations. However, accurate and rapid detection of gas pipeline defects is challenging. To improve the accuracy of gas pipeline defect detection, we propose an im... Read More about Gas pipeline defect detection based on improved deep learning approach.

Construcción de Marca Corporativa y autoría en el diseño de un discurso Anti-Disney: La obra de Hayao Miyazaki y su figura a través de la crítica cinematográfica a Walt Disney (2025)
Book Chapter

Hernández-Pérez M (2025) Construcción de Marca Corporativa y autoría en el diseño de un discurso Anti-Disney: La obra de Hayao Miyazaki y su figura a través de la crítica cinematográfica a Walt Disney. In: Santiago Iglesias JA (ed) Manga + Anime. Una... Read More about Construcción de Marca Corporativa y autoría en el diseño de un discurso Anti-Disney: La obra de Hayao Miyazaki y su figura a través de la crítica cinematográfica a Walt Disney.

Derivation of experimental debonding outputs for FRP-strengthened concrete samples through a fracture energy-based closed form approach (2025)
Journal Article

Numerous bond-slip models have been proposed in the literature to elaborate on the behaviour between concrete and FRP. However, in most of these bond-slip models, the interfacial debonding fracture energy of the bond is not explicit. Furthermore, the... Read More about Derivation of experimental debonding outputs for FRP-strengthened concrete samples through a fracture energy-based closed form approach.

An efficientnet-based model for classification of oil palm, coconut and banana trees in drone images (2025)
Journal Article

Oil palm tree detection and classification from coconut and banana trees is vital for increasing the production of oil palm businesses globally, particularly in Malaysia. Since oil palm, coconut, and banana trees share common characteristics such as... Read More about An efficientnet-based model for classification of oil palm, coconut and banana trees in drone images.

A Multifaceted Approach Assessing Heavy Metal Contamination and Health Risk in Tea Garden Soils: Insight Through Hot-Spot Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques (2025)
Journal Article

Tea is globally esteemed for its economic worth and health benefits, yet heavy metal (HMs) pollution in tea garden soil poses a severe threat to the environment. Implementing multimodal statistical approach, the current study has provided insight int... Read More about A Multifaceted Approach Assessing Heavy Metal Contamination and Health Risk in Tea Garden Soils: Insight Through Hot-Spot Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques.

Mini-capstone projects to develop active laboratory collaboration in first-year biomedicine students (2025)
Other

Studies have shown an increase in loneliness within the student population, causing an increase in mental health conditions on commencing higher education (Diehl et al., 2018, McIntyre et al., 2018). Increased psychological distress is associated wit... Read More about Mini-capstone projects to develop active laboratory collaboration in first-year biomedicine students.

"Electro-Osmotic Peristaltic Streaming of a Fractional Second-Grade Viscoelastic Nanofluid with Single and Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in a Ciliated Tube" (2025)
Journal Article

Mathematical modelling of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in biological fluids is essential for drug delivery, biosensing, and targeted therapy. This study explores the transport dynamics of single-walled (SWCNTs) and multi-walled (MWCNTs) carbon nanotubes i... Read More about "Electro-Osmotic Peristaltic Streaming of a Fractional Second-Grade Viscoelastic Nanofluid with Single and Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in a Ciliated Tube".

MAY DAY (2025)
Book

May Day is the long-awaited new poetry collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay.

These poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Ka... Read More about MAY DAY.

Myths Related to Disaster Response (2025)
Book Chapter

When disasters happen, it isn't like what you read or hear about. The findings of scientific research indicate that many things that are believed, or assumed, about how people behave during disasters are contrary to actuality. Disaster myths evolve f... Read More about Myths Related to Disaster Response.

Claiming deservingness: the durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic (2025)
Journal Article

The Covid-19 pandemic created extraordinary conditions for social protection systems globally, with both material and discursive implications. In the UK, these unprecedented circumstances led to an influx of (first time) social security claims, expec... Read More about Claiming deservingness: the durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic.

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF RADIATIVE MAGNETO-VISCOELASTIC MICROPOLAR FLOW EXTERNAL TO A SPHERE WITH A CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY SURFACE CONDITION (2025)
Journal Article

Increasing attention is being paid to the study of the heat transfer properties of non-Newtonian fluids as a result of their growing use in many industrial and manufacturing processes. Micropolar fluids have garnered a lot of interest for potential i... Read More about NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF RADIATIVE MAGNETO-VISCOELASTIC MICROPOLAR FLOW EXTERNAL TO A SPHERE WITH A CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY SURFACE CONDITION.

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.