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The Association of Urban Greenspace Characteristics with Tick Densities and Borrelia burgdorferi prevalence in Scotland (2025)
Thesis

Ticks are an ecosystem disservice in urban greenspaces, with the potential to transmit diseases. The characteristics of an urban greenspace can impact the hazard of ticks and tick-borne pathogens both within a greenspace and in the surrounding area.... Read More about The Association of Urban Greenspace Characteristics with Tick Densities and Borrelia burgdorferi prevalence in Scotland.

Infrastructure Delivery System for Affordable Housing Policy Implementation In The South-South Region Of Nigeria (2025)
Thesis

This thesis explores the infrastructure delivery systems (IDS) for affordable housing policy implementation in Nigeria's South-South region. The study aims to develop a comprehensive framework to guide policymakers and address the challenges and barr... Read More about Infrastructure Delivery System for Affordable Housing Policy Implementation In The South-South Region Of Nigeria.

Employers’ and employees’ perceptions regarding promotion of health and well-being in the workplace (2025)
Thesis

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.

An Assessment Of Food Safety Culture At Five Ethnic Group Restaurants In Dubai. (2025)
Thesis

Recent studies suggest that a deeper understanding of food safety culture within organizations is necessary for ensuring food safety. During the food inspection program, the Dubai Municipality Food Safety Department identified two categories of resta... Read More about An Assessment Of Food Safety Culture At Five Ethnic Group Restaurants In Dubai..

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 (2025)
Thesis

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.

2D Modelling Of Sediment Dynamics In High Energy Gravel Bed Rivers And Climate Impacted Glacier Fed River Basins (2025)
Thesis

This thesis sets out a novel method of 2D sediment modelling in high energy mountain systems. A new combined methodology using lidar, drone and dGPS survey along with HEC-RAS 2D river simulation has been developed. This methodology has been validated... Read More about 2D Modelling Of Sediment Dynamics In High Energy Gravel Bed Rivers And Climate Impacted Glacier Fed River Basins.

Daylight And View Quality In Offices: Developing Multifactor Evolutionary Simulation Methods to Achieve Occupant Well-Being: A Case Study of Commercial Buildings in Cairo (Egypt) and Salford (England) (2025)
Thesis

Viewing the natural environment from inside homes and workplaces has been recognised by a range of scholars as having an impact on improving health and well-being. Research has shown that a combination of outdoor elements – such as blue sky, sea view... Read More about Daylight And View Quality In Offices: Developing Multifactor Evolutionary Simulation Methods to Achieve Occupant Well-Being: A Case Study of Commercial Buildings in Cairo (Egypt) and Salford (England).

Evaluating Tender Using Sustainable Products Model in Goods Procurement: A case of the electricity distributor in Ghana. (2025)
Thesis

Sustainability challenges confronting developing countries are numerous and substantial and appear to be exacerbating overtime. Sustainable Public Procurement could be of significant strategic importance to developing countries such as Ghana who spen... Read More about Evaluating Tender Using Sustainable Products Model in Goods Procurement: A case of the electricity distributor in Ghana..

‘Masked Morality, a new theory variant to explain the changes in British gambling policy 2005-2023' (2025)
Thesis

This thesis considers British gambling policy since the passing of the Gambling Act 2005 until the publication of the Gambling White Paper on the 27th April 2023. It argues that overall, this policy has been a success but that vocal policy actors ha... Read More about ‘Masked Morality, a new theory variant to explain the changes in British gambling policy 2005-2023'.

Digital twins in Lean strategic facility management in the UK healthcare sector: A proposed framework to enabling Lean strategic facility management in healthcare operations in the UK (2025)
Thesis

The healthcare sector in the United Kingdom (UK) faces significant challenges in managing its vast estate efficiently and effectively. With rising costs, a substantial maintenance backlog, and increasing patient expectations, there is an urgent need... Read More about Digital twins in Lean strategic facility management in the UK healthcare sector: A proposed framework to enabling Lean strategic facility management in healthcare operations in the UK.

Enabling grass root climate recovery: drawing on drug recovery tools to support climate behaviour change (2025)
Thesis

We have only a short window of time to radically reduce carbon emissions; the General Secretary of the United Nations in his closing statement at COP28 said ‘The world cannot afford delays, indecision, or half measures’ (Guterres, 2023 para 26) and p... Read More about Enabling grass root climate recovery: drawing on drug recovery tools to support climate behaviour change.

Automatic Classification, Detection and Segmentation of Breast Arterial Calcification on Digital Mammography Images Using Deep Learning (2025)
Thesis

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.

Expanding Interactivity in Film: Emergent Narratives through VR and Spatialized Cinematic Experiences (2025)
Journal Article

Common application of the term ‘interactive’ within film and cinema tends to require the creation of hyper-narratives. However, this can have implications for the viewer’s emotional connection to and experience of the film. This article argues that f... Read More about Expanding Interactivity in Film: Emergent Narratives through VR and Spatialized Cinematic Experiences.

Delayed feeding disrupts diurnal oscillations in the gut microbiome of a neotropical bat in captivity (2025)
Journal Article

Diurnal rhythms of the gut microbiota are emerging as an important yet often overlooked facet of microbial ecology. Feeding is thought to stimulate gut microbial rhythmicity, but this has not been explicitly tested. Moreover, the role of the gut envi... Read More about Delayed feeding disrupts diurnal oscillations in the gut microbiome of a neotropical bat in captivity.

Response to the Health and Social Care Committee call for evidence "Adult Social Care Reform The Cost of Inaction" (2025)
Other

This response to the inquiry focuses on the following areas:

-How much is inaction on Adult Social Care reform costing the NHS and
local authorities, and what impact does this have on the adults who
receive social care and the public?... Read More about Response to the Health and Social Care Committee call for evidence "Adult Social Care Reform The Cost of Inaction".

Licoricia et. al.? The Winchester Jewry Revisited (2025)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2025, January). Licoricia et. al.? The Winchester Jewry Revisited. Presented at Hampshire Archives Trust Lecture Series, Virtual

In recent years, the Winchester Jewry has been the focus of much scholarly attention. The presence of Licoricia of Winchester and, at different points, members of her family has well covered in the pioneering work of Suzanne Bartlet. Yet, beyond Lico... Read More about Licoricia et. al.? The Winchester Jewry Revisited.

Phylogenetic Signal in Primate Tooth Enamel Proteins and its Relevance for Paleoproteomics (2025)
Journal Article

Ancient tooth enamel, and to some extent dentin and bone, contain characteristic peptides that persist for long periods of time. In particular, peptides from the enamel proteome (enamelome) have been used to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships... Read More about Phylogenetic Signal in Primate Tooth Enamel Proteins and its Relevance for Paleoproteomics.

The scenography of backstage labour at Eurovision (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the often-overlooked work of backstage crews at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). The labour of technical staff is a crucial part of the event's scenography, deserving equal attention to the onstage performances. Backstage work... Read More about The scenography of backstage labour at Eurovision.

Parents’ lived experience of support through their neonate’s end of life and grief journey: An interpretative phenomenology study (2025)
Journal Article

Medical and pharmacological advancements have influenced the ability to treat acutely ill neonates. However, complications of prematurity mean that death is unpreventable in some cases. The aim of this study was to explore parents’ lived experiences... Read More about Parents’ lived experience of support through their neonate’s end of life and grief journey: An interpretative phenomenology study.

The News Values of Court Reporting (2025)
Journal Article

Reporting the courts on behalf of the public is one of the traditional tasks of local newspapers. Yet in the UK, twin financial crises affecting both the local media market and the criminal justice system have led to concerns over the sustainability... Read More about The News Values of Court Reporting.