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A pilot quasi-experimental study to determine the feasibility of implementing a partograph e-learning tool for student midwife training in Nairobi (2013)
Journal Article
Lavender, T., Omoni, G., Lee, K., Wakasiaki, S., Campbell, M., Watiti, J., & Mathai, M. (2013). A pilot quasi-experimental study to determine the feasibility of implementing a partograph e-learning tool for student midwife training in Nairobi. Midwifery, 29(8), 876-884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2012.10.003

Objective: the partograph is a tool used globally to record labour progress. Although it has the potential to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes, some midwives struggle with using it in practice. Training in partograph use is limited, and the the... Read More about A pilot quasi-experimental study to determine the feasibility of implementing a partograph e-learning tool for student midwife training in Nairobi.

Improving understanding of teaching strategies perceived by inter Professional Learning (IPL) lecturers to enhance students’ formulation of multidisciplinary roles: An exploratory qualitative study (2013)
Journal Article
Dalrymple, L., Hollins-Martin, C., & Smith, W. (2013). Improving understanding of teaching strategies perceived by inter Professional Learning (IPL) lecturers to enhance students’ formulation of multidisciplinary roles: An exploratory qualitative study. Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education, 3(1), 78-91

Background: Inter Professional Learning (IPL) is an educational process intended to equip health and social care students with appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective inter-professional working. By and large literature on IPL highli... Read More about Improving understanding of teaching strategies perceived by inter Professional Learning (IPL) lecturers to enhance students’ formulation of multidisciplinary roles: An exploratory qualitative study.

The Patchwork text assessment - an integral component of constructive alignment curriculum methodology to support healthcare leadership development (2013)
Journal Article
Leigh, J., Rutherford, J., Wild, J., Cappleman, J., & Hynes, C. (2013). The Patchwork text assessment - an integral component of constructive alignment curriculum methodology to support healthcare leadership development. Journal of Education and Training Studies, 1(1), 139-150. https://doi.org/10.11114/jets.v1i1.83

Background: A responsive and innovative postgraduate programme curriculum that produces an effective and competent multi professional healthcare leader whom can lead within the United Kingdom (UK) and international healthcare context offers a promisi... Read More about The Patchwork text assessment - an integral component of constructive alignment curriculum methodology to support healthcare leadership development.

Face-lift: Social computing in higher education (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Hussein, K., Arayici, Y., & Yusof, S. (2013, March). Face-lift: Social computing in higher education. Presented at Exploring ICT in Education Conference 2013, Doha, Qatar

There is no doubt that the world of elearning is growing everyday and the stakeholders of Higher education are looking to empower education with technology. Social Computing represents one of these tools that can help those stakeholders to attain the... Read More about Face-lift: Social computing in higher education.

The aesthetic experience of the city: A practice-based research project created to illustrate the collective creative dynamic of a place (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2013, March). The aesthetic experience of the city: A practice-based research project created to illustrate the collective creative dynamic of a place. Presented at 7th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Chiba University, Japan

The research project is designed to create new ways of looking at the story of a city, to present the creative city as an art gallery space. Mapping technologies are used to present information as an aesthetic image. This project will add the emotion... Read More about The aesthetic experience of the city: A practice-based research project created to illustrate the collective creative dynamic of a place.

Le débat sur la diglossie en France : aspects scientifiques et politiques (2013)
Journal Article
Massot, B., & Rowlett, P. (2013). Le débat sur la diglossie en France : aspects scientifiques et politiques. Journal of French Language Studies, 23(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269512000336

This article outlines the diglossic approach to intra-speaker grammatical variation (Ferguson 1959), wherein speaker—hearers acquire two grammars which are socio-stylistically distinct – one H(igh), the other L(ow) – but linguistically related (to th... Read More about Le débat sur la diglossie en France : aspects scientifiques et politiques.

Modelling imperfect inspection over a finite horizon (2013)
Journal Article
Berrade, M., Cavalcante, C., & Scarf, P. (2013). Modelling imperfect inspection over a finite horizon. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2012.10.003

This paper models imperfect inspection policies for a system with a finite operational time requirement. Two types of maintenance policy are considered: that in which an alarm (a positive inspection) is followed by a check of the validity of the alar... Read More about Modelling imperfect inspection over a finite horizon.

Structural narrative analysis: Understanding experiences of lifestyle migration through two plot typologies (2013)
Journal Article
Ahmed, A. (2013). Structural narrative analysis: Understanding experiences of lifestyle migration through two plot typologies. Qualitative Inquiry, 19(3), 232-243. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800412466050

U.K. retirees who move to the Costa Blanca in Spain can be described as “lifestyle migrants.” “Lifestyle migration” has recently been conceptualised as “a quest” for a better life and migrants reflect and construct their experiences through common qu... Read More about Structural narrative analysis: Understanding experiences of lifestyle migration through two plot typologies.

Implementing lean in construction: Lean construction and BIM (2013)
Other
Dave, B., Koskela, L., Kiviniemi, A., Tzortzopoulos Fazenda, P., & Owen, R. (2013). Implementing lean in construction: Lean construction and BIM. London

Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Lean construction have existed as two different initiatives to improve construction, with distinct communities and interests. In the last 10 years or so, both have started to diffuse into advanced practice, wi... Read More about Implementing lean in construction: Lean construction and BIM.

Anaesthesia type, gender and anxiety (2013)
Journal Article
Mitchell, M. (2013). Anaesthesia type, gender and anxiety. Journal of Perioperative Practice, 23(3), 41-46

Elective day-case surgery undertaken in the UK is growing. Patient pre-operative anxiety can be considerable although the opportunity to help reduce fears is minimal. Day surgery patients (n=674) were surveyed and 82% were found to be anxious. Genera... Read More about Anaesthesia type, gender and anxiety.

Computer assisted language learning (CALL): Asian learners and users going beyond traditional frameworks (2013)
Journal Article
Jarvis, H. (2013). Computer assisted language learning (CALL): Asian learners and users going beyond traditional frameworks. Asian EFL journal (Busan), 15(1), 190-201

Traditional frameworks for understanding Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), whilst still useful, are today nevertheless somewhat limited for a variety of reasons, and in many respects, it is the practices of Asian learners and users that a... Read More about Computer assisted language learning (CALL): Asian learners and users going beyond traditional frameworks.

Embedding technology in the structures thread of a civil engineering degree (2013)
Journal Article
Currie, N., Haynes, B., Leach, P., Wang, J., & Weekes, L. (2013). Embedding technology in the structures thread of a civil engineering degree

This paper describes an ongoing journey, which began in the autumn semester of 2005 and continues to the present day, with the aims of promoting good teaching at the University of Salford, UK. It discusses the challenges faced during the redesig... Read More about Embedding technology in the structures thread of a civil engineering degree.

The abandoned illness: Where is the voice of older adults? (2013)
Journal Article
Collier, E., & Edwards, S. (2013). The abandoned illness: Where is the voice of older adults?. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2(1), 15

This short article highlights an often neglected issue, that of hearing the voice of older people. It is in this context that the article provides a commentary on the recently published document, The Abandoned Illness (Schizophrenia Commission, 2012... Read More about The abandoned illness: Where is the voice of older adults?.

Older people (2013)
Book Chapter
Haworth-Lomax, R. (2013). Older people. In P. Dwyer, & S. Shaw (Eds.), An introduction to social policy (100-112). London: Sage publications limited

This chapter provides an overview of the impact of social policy on the lives of older people in the following area's. Housing, health and social care and pension policy.

From computer assisted language learning (CALL) to mobile assisted language use (2013)
Journal Article
Jarvis, H., & Achilleos, M. (2013). From computer assisted language learning (CALL) to mobile assisted language use. TESL-EJ (Berkeley, Calif.), 16(4), 1-18

This article begins by critiquing the long-established acronym CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). We then go on to report on a small-scale study which examines how student non-native speakers of English use a range of digital devices beyond... Read More about From computer assisted language learning (CALL) to mobile assisted language use.

Partisan, scholarly and active: for an organic public sociology of work and the case of critical labour studies (2013)
Journal Article
Brook, P., & Darlington, R. (2013). Partisan, scholarly and active: for an organic public sociology of work and the case of critical labour studies. Work, Employment and Society, 27(2), 232-243

Despite a thriving tradition of critical scholarship in UK-based sociology of work, Burawoy’s call for a partisan organic public sociology that is part of ‘a social movement beyond the academy’ and Bourdieu’s plea for committed scholarship in the ser... Read More about Partisan, scholarly and active: for an organic public sociology of work and the case of critical labour studies.