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Overview of FASD: How Our Understanding of FASD Has Progressed (2021)
Book Chapter
Price, A. D., Cook, P. A., & Mukherjee, R. A. S. Overview of FASD: How Our Understanding of FASD Has Progressed. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73966-9_2

Some historical clues suggest an ancient understanding that alcohol should be avoided during pregnancy, but these may have been overstated. Further evidence appears during times of widespread alcohol use in the middle ages, but the current understand... Read More about Overview of FASD: How Our Understanding of FASD Has Progressed.

Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice (2021)
Book Chapter
Whitaker, E. (2021). Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice. In K. Jacobsson, & J. Gubrium (Eds.), Doing Human Service Ethnography (83-99). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.47674/9781447355809

Human service work of all kinds is full of documentation; it is central to the creation and maintenance of the work itself and to stabilising local professional cultures and identities. Yet, all too often, practices of authorship and readership are o... Read More about Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice.

Disabled environmentalisms (2021)
Book Chapter
Larrington-Spencer, H., Fenney, D., Middlemiss, L., & Kosanic, A. (2021). Disabled environmentalisms. In K. Bell (Ed.), Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism (15-33). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003099185-2

This chapter develops an agenda for the fostering of disabled environmentalism, demonstrating how such an agenda, through the centralising of disabled bodies, can enable environmental justice movements to be truly inclusive of all people's needs. It... Read More about Disabled environmentalisms.

Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields (2021)
Book Chapter
Whitaker, E., & Atkinson, P. (2021). Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields. In D. vom Lehn, N. Ruiz-Junco, & W. Gibson (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism (425-434). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276767-43

Symbolic interactionist research has long been associated with qualitative methods, and with ethnographic fieldwork in particular. This chapter outlines the basic principles that underpin such affinity, while acknowledging that there is no one-to-on... Read More about Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields.

Dramaturgical frameworks and interactionism (2021)
Book Chapter
Smith, G. (2021). Dramaturgical frameworks and interactionism. In D. vom Lehn, N. Ruiz-Junco, & W. Gibson (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism (70-81). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276767-8

As a sociological perspective, dramaturgy takes seriously the similarities between life and theatre. It is ineluctably associated with Erving Goffman’s 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and its central notion of impression managemen... Read More about Dramaturgical frameworks and interactionism.

States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion (2021)
Book Chapter
Kaufman, J. (2021). States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion. In The Imposter as Social Theory :Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans (171-190). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529213102.ch008

Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of an international agenda to reorganize welfare states and their social security provisions around the ‘activation’ of benefit recipients, often in the form of ‘welfare-to-work’ programmes. In the United K... Read More about States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion.

Narratives of motherhood (2021)
Book Chapter
Smith, K., & Lockwood, K. (2021). Narratives of motherhood. In M. Montero-Sieburth, R. Mas Giralt, N. Garcia-Arjona, & J. Eguren (Eds.), Family Practices in Migration (175-191). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003132561-9

Focusing on the subjective and relational nature of stories and storytelling, in this chapter the authors adopt a feminist narrative approach to understand the way in which mothering identities are constructed through storytelling in the context of a... Read More about Narratives of motherhood.

Going remote (2021)
Book Chapter
J. Annand, P., Spike Hudson, M., Esi D. Yankah, M., Burrows, M., Burridge, S., Cornes, M., …Platt, L. (2021). Going remote. In COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice (113 - 122). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.47674/9781447361794

For a group co-producing participatory homeless health research, the COVID-19 pandemic presented challenging circumstances, notably physically distanced working. With limited technology among the research team and participants alike, remote resea... Read More about Going remote.

Application of tissue mechanics to clinical management of risk in the diabetic foot (2021)
Book Chapter
Parker, D., & Hasmi, F. (2021). Application of tissue mechanics to clinical management of risk in the diabetic foot. In A. Gefen (Ed.), The science, etiology and mechanobiology of diabetes and its complications (255-281). Academic Press/Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821070-3.00006-4

The effect of diabetes on the body’s connective and supporting tissues is varied and progressive, often accelerating the effects of the aging process. Tissue function is eventually compromised as a result of structural disruption, leading to increase... Read More about Application of tissue mechanics to clinical management of risk in the diabetic foot.

Optical Coherence Tomography to determine and visualize pathological skin structure changes caused by diabetes (2021)
Book Chapter
Maiti, R., Lewis, R., Parker, D., & Carré, M. (2021). Optical Coherence Tomography to determine and visualize pathological skin structure changes caused by diabetes. In A. Gefen (Ed.), The science, etiology and mechanobiology of diabetes and its complications (161-171). Academic Press/Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821070-3.00014-3

In this chapter, we discuss the working principle of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), its capabilities for imaging skin, and how the technique is applied in clinical settings as well as in lab-based environments. Two case studies are then presente... Read More about Optical Coherence Tomography to determine and visualize pathological skin structure changes caused by diabetes.

Children living with long term conditions - child and adolescent mental health : the nursing response (2021)
Book Chapter
Foster, C. (2021). Children living with long term conditions - child and adolescent mental health : the nursing response. In A. Glasper, J. Richardson, & D. Randall (Eds.), A Textbook of Children and Young People's Nursing. 3rd Edition. Elsevier

The aim of this chapter is to explore the issues of mental health in relation to childhood and adolescent developmental tasks and the impact of long-term conditions. The assumption is made that nursing is primarily an interpersonal activity and that... Read More about Children living with long term conditions - child and adolescent mental health : the nursing response.

Intercultural competence as ‘construalistic’ expressivity (2021)
Book Chapter
Philburn, R. (2021). Intercultural competence as ‘construalistic’ expressivity. In T. Harden, & A. Witte (Eds.), Rethinking intercultural competence : theoretical challenges and practical issues. Peter Lang Publishing

Chapter 9 – The future of practice learning (2021)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J. (2021). Chapter 9 – The future of practice learning. In J. Leigh, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide (209-236). Lantern Publishing Limited

This chapter explores the future of practice learning, applying the core concepts of a learning organisation to promote excellence (quality and governance); it therefore looks at the whole picture, considering strategies that enable creative thinking... Read More about Chapter 9 – The future of practice learning.

Chapter 2 : Developing the education team (2021)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J., & Roberts, D. (2021). Chapter 2 : Developing the education team. In J. Leigh, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide (27-60). Lantern Publishing Limited

This chapter explores the culture for practice learning through developing the education team. The education team will of course include the three new roles outlined by the NMC: practice supervisor, practice assessor and academic assessor; but it has... Read More about Chapter 2 : Developing the education team.

Chapter 3 : Using coaching conversations and coaching models to promote effective supervision and assessment (2021)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J., Anderson, K., Medcalf, A., Surtees, A., & Sutton, W. (2021). Chapter 3 : Using coaching conversations and coaching models to promote effective supervision and assessment. In J. Leigh, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide (61-88). Lantern Publishing Limited

According to NMC Standards for education and training, Part 2 (Standards for student supervision and Assessment) (2018b: 4): “Students in practice or work-placed learning must be supported to learn. This may include being supernumerary, meaning that... Read More about Chapter 3 : Using coaching conversations and coaching models to promote effective supervision and assessment.

Foot and footwear biomechanics and gait (2021)
Book Chapter
Price, C., Schmeltzpfenning, T., Nester, C., & Brauner, T. (2021). Foot and footwear biomechanics and gait. In A. Luximon (Ed.), Handbook of Footwear Design and Manufacture (Second Edition) (79-103). Woodhead Publishing (Elsevier). https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-821606-4.00013-2

To design functionally adequate footwear, an understanding of the dynamic biomechanical behavior of the foot during locomotion is necessary. Thus, this chapter characterizes biomechanical aspects of the foot during gait. Moreover, it provides the fun... Read More about Foot and footwear biomechanics and gait.

Applications to Radiography and Thermography for Inspection (2021)
Book Chapter
Singh Sandhu, I., Kaushik, C., & Chitkara, M. Applications to Radiography and Thermography for Inspection. In M. Malarvel, S. Ranjan Nayak, P. Kumar Pattnaik, & S. Narayan Panda (Eds.), . Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119786122.ch11

Radiography is a branch of science that uses X-ray radiation to obtain a picture of internal organs of the human body on film or detector plate. They are used to create images of internal organs or for inspection via different types of equipment such... Read More about Applications to Radiography and Thermography for Inspection.