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Sediment stratigraphy and heavy metal fluxes to reservoirs in the southern Pennines uplands, UK. (2006)
Journal Article
Shotbolt, L., Hutchinson, S., & Thomas, A. (2006). Sediment stratigraphy and heavy metal fluxes to reservoirs in the southern Pennines uplands, UK. Journal of Paleolimnology, 35(2), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-005-1594-2

Reservoir sediments are rarely used as environmental archives because of the potential for sediment disturbance by fluctuating water levels. However, rapid rates of sedimentation, proximity to urban centres and often the existence of management recor... Read More about Sediment stratigraphy and heavy metal fluxes to reservoirs in the southern Pennines uplands, UK..

Marsupials from space: fluctuating asymmetry, geographical information systems and animal conservation (2006)
Journal Article
Teixeira, C., Hirsch, A., Perini, H., & Young, R. (2006). Marsupials from space: fluctuating asymmetry, geographical information systems and animal conservation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1589), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3386

We report the development of a new quantitative method of assessing the effects of anthropogenic impacts on living beings; this method allows us to assess actual impacts and to travel backwards in time to assess impacts. In this method, we have cross... Read More about Marsupials from space: fluctuating asymmetry, geographical information systems and animal conservation.

Raising awareness of health and social care careers amongst ethnic minority young people and their advisors using an action research approach (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Robinson, L., Burns, B., Chesney, M., & Jones, J. (2006, January). Raising awareness of health and social care careers amongst ethnic minority young people and their advisors using an action research approach. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment (ECE 2006), University of Salford, UK

This project aimed to investigate the reasons why applications to Health and Social Care (H&SC) programmes from Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) groups is low, and to attempt to address the problem, working with three colleges/schools. Qualitative (fo... Read More about Raising awareness of health and social care careers amongst ethnic minority young people and their advisors using an action research approach.

Foundation degrees: foundation for what? Skills needs, lifelong learning and widening participation? (2006)
Presentation / Conference
O'Doherty, E. (2006, January). Foundation degrees: foundation for what? Skills needs, lifelong learning and widening participation?. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

Foundation degrees were established as a policy solution to the intermediate skill needs of the economy and as a means to effect social justice. This paper examines the outcomes of this policy using an analysis of student enrolment data from 2004-05... Read More about Foundation degrees: foundation for what? Skills needs, lifelong learning and widening participation?.

Introducing PDP: reflections on the role of a school PDP co-ordinator (2006)
Presentation / Conference
school PDP co-ordinator. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

The requirement to provide structured and supported opportunities for students in higher education to engage in personal development planning (PDP), is the first national policy mandate for provision of a form of learning across the sector (Jackson... Read More about Introducing PDP: reflections on the role of a school PDP co-ordinator.

Why students avoid sandwich placements (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Morgan, H. (2006, January). Why students avoid sandwich placements. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

This paper outlines research undertaken to identify factors that dissuade accounting degree students at the University of Salford from taking a year’s work placement. Interviews with key staff and purposively-selected students were transcribed and an... Read More about Why students avoid sandwich placements.

Do the modern distance learning tools sufficiently address the social issues in learning? (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Keraminiyage, K., Ingirige, B., & Amaratunga, R. (2006, January). Do the modern distance learning tools sufficiently address the social issues in learning?. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

Modern Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) tools have been identified as one of the primary enablers of delivering modern Distance Learning courses. However, it is increasingly becoming apparent that these CMC tools are often developed to cater to... Read More about Do the modern distance learning tools sufficiently address the social issues in learning?.

Good practice guidelines for improving dissertation assessment: a case study (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Pathirage, C., Haigh, R., Amaratunga, R., & Baldry, D. (2006, January). Good practice guidelines for improving dissertation assessment: a case study. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

There have been increasing calls for higher education, during the last decade, to improve standards, increase the quality of assessment, and for greater accountability of lecturers. The need to ensure quality, consistency and improved criteria of ass... Read More about Good practice guidelines for improving dissertation assessment: a case study.

Using real-life consultancies in teaching, learning to enhance student employability (2006)
Presentation / Conference
enhance student employability. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

This paper reports the findings of a TLQIS project to investigate the approaches followed and the role that consultancy projects carried out for external corporate organisations currently play in student-centred learning and skills development at the... Read More about Using real-life consultancies in teaching, learning to enhance student employability.

Teaching and testing academic writing: exploring staff and learner experiences (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Etherington, S. (2006, January). Teaching and testing academic writing: exploring staff and learner experiences. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

This paper reports on a small scale action research project concerning subject lecturers' and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) learners' understandings and experiences of writing in a UK university setting and considers how this can usefully infor... Read More about Teaching and testing academic writing: exploring staff and learner experiences.

Electron transfer in apoferritin probed by muon spin relaxation (2006)
Journal Article
Telling, M. T. F., & Kilcoyne, S. (2006). Electron transfer in apoferritin probed by muon spin relaxation. Physica B: Condensed Matter, 374, 451-455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2005.11.130

Electron-transfer processes play a vital role in many biological phenomena, from energy storage to photosynthesis. The labelled
electron method using positive muons allows such transfer processes in macromolecules, such as proteins, to be probed on... Read More about Electron transfer in apoferritin probed by muon spin relaxation.

The threshold of the real: A site for participatory resistance in Blast Theory's Uncle Roy all around you (2003) (2006)
Journal Article

This article examines the collision of virtual and real spaces through simultaneous live and online play in Uncle Roy All Around You, and how this disruption of immersion is used to expose the habitual engagements associated with the digital interfac... Read More about The threshold of the real: A site for participatory resistance in Blast Theory's Uncle Roy all around you (2003).

To 'raise dream and ambition': the rhetorical analysis of a teenage pregnancy strategy (2006)
Journal Article
Fallon, D. (2006). To 'raise dream and ambition': the rhetorical analysis of a teenage pregnancy strategy. Nursing Inquiry, 13(3), 186-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1800.2006.00328.x

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has been evident in disciplines such as sociology and cultural studies for many years, and is of increasing interest to nurse scholars internationally. This paper outlines what CDA is and how it might be used as an a... Read More about To 'raise dream and ambition': the rhetorical analysis of a teenage pregnancy strategy.

Nursing knowledge and the expansion of day surgery in the United Kingdom (2006)
Journal Article
Mitchell, M. (2006). Nursing knowledge and the expansion of day surgery in the United Kingdom. Ambulatory Surgery, 12(3), 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ambsur.2005.09.003

Background: The amount of surgery undertaken within United Kingdom Day Surgery Units has risen considerably over the past 15–20 years. Throughout this pioneering era, nursing roles and responsibilities within the modern surgical environment have deve... Read More about Nursing knowledge and the expansion of day surgery in the United Kingdom.

Lies, damned lies and statistics? Reliability and personal accounts of smoking among young people (2006)
Journal Article
Mair, M., Barlow, A., Woods, S., Kierans, C., Milton, B., & Porcellato, L. (2006). Lies, damned lies and statistics? Reliability and personal accounts of smoking among young people. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.07.002

Smoking remains a major problem among young people in Europe. However, within the research community examining the issue, debate continues about the best way of assessing the extent of that problem. Questions have been raised about the extent to whic... Read More about Lies, damned lies and statistics? Reliability and personal accounts of smoking among young people.

A critical analysis of IQ studies of adopted children (2006)
Journal Article
Richardson, K., & Norgate, S. (2006). A critical analysis of IQ studies of adopted children. Human Development, 49(6), 319-335. https://doi.org/10.1159/000096531

The pattern of parent-child correlations in adoption studies has long been interpreted to suggest substantial additive genetic variance underlying variance in IQ. The studies have frequently been criticized on methodological grounds, but those critic... Read More about A critical analysis of IQ studies of adopted children.

Comparison of renal care practice in Europe: centre and patient characteristics (2006)
Journal Article
Elseviers, M., de Vos, J., Harrington, M., Zampieron, A., Ormandy, P., & Kafkia, T. (2006). Comparison of renal care practice in Europe: centre and patient characteristics

The European Practice Database (EPD) contains data from 8 countries including 276 centres and 21,861 dialysis patients. Comparing patients and centre characteristics, remarkable similarities and pronounced differences in renal practice between differ... Read More about Comparison of renal care practice in Europe: centre and patient characteristics.