Technicians as Teachers for Student Experience
(2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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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/10.1007/978-981-97-6121-0This 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 HerefordThis 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 LeedsPart 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.
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 BerlinAn invited contribution, this paper will explore Neighbours and Neighbourliness in Lincoln between 1255 and 1257, through official records and narrative sources.
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.2024.126212The 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.
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.
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.
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.
Metaverse Innovation Canvas: A Tool for Extended Reality Product/Service Development (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This study investigated the factors contributing to the failure of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) startups in the emerging metaverse landscape. Through an in-depth analysis of 29 failed AR/VR startups from 2016 to 2022, key pitfalls... Read More about Metaverse Innovation Canvas: A Tool for Extended Reality Product/Service Development.
The Healing Process : A no blame approach to resolving workplace disputes (2025)
Report
Research consistently shows the damaging impact and cost of workplace bullying and harassment. We know that the fear of retaliation, job losses and doubts about resolution deter people from reporting wrongdoing at work. While workers can approach an... Read More about The Healing Process : A no blame approach to resolving workplace disputes.
Contamination of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances in agricultural soils: A review (2025)
Journal Article
Numerous reviews have focused on the chemistry, fate and transport, and remediation of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) across various environmental media. However, there remains a significant gap in the literature regarding a comprehensiv... Read More about Contamination of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances in agricultural soils: A review.
Amend the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to protect children from assault (2025)
Journal Article
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is an important opportunity to finally remove the defence of reasonable punishment of children in England, write Andrew Rowland and Grace Hastie
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.
Workshop activity guide (PowerPoint attached) based off the Physical Activity Messaging Framework (PAMF) was used for the 4-hour focus group workshop on January 19, 2024 with 20 public participants aged 40-60 years old from the Greater Manchester are... Read More about ‘We need people who look active and strong in a variety of ways:’ Using the Physical Activity Messaging Framework to Co-Design Strength Training Messaging.
Enhancing additive manufacturing for multi-layer samples: experimental analysis of aluminum sheet thickness and perforation geometry via fused filament fabrication (2025)
Journal Article
The widespread integration of 3D printing technologies across diverse sectors, including prototyping and automotive industries, underscores their growing importance. This study aims to investigate the influence of aluminium sheet parameters (specific... Read More about Enhancing additive manufacturing for multi-layer samples: experimental analysis of aluminum sheet thickness and perforation geometry via fused filament fabrication.