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Experimental study on bond-sip behaviour between CFRP sheets and lightweight concrete (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Mustafa, A., Weekes, L., & Augusthus Nelson, L. (2015, September). Experimental study on bond-sip behaviour between CFRP sheets and lightweight concrete. Presented at ACIC 2015, Cambridge, UK

Epoxy bonded fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are widely used for the retrofit of ailing reinforced concrete structures, for both shear and flexure. The behaviour of retrofitted concrete structures is governed by the bond and material charac... Read More about Experimental study on bond-sip behaviour between CFRP sheets and lightweight concrete.

Trophic flexibility and opportunism in pikeEsox lucius (2015)
Journal Article
Pedreschi, D., Mariani, S., Coughlan, J., Voigt, C., O'Grady, M., Caffrey, J., & Kelly-Quinn, M. (2015). Trophic flexibility and opportunism in pikeEsox lucius. Journal of Fish Biology, 87(4), 876-894. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12755

The first comprehensive investigation of pike Esox lucius trophic ecology in a region (Ireland) where they have long been thought to be a non-native species is presented. Diet was investigated across habitat types (lake, river and canal) through the... Read More about Trophic flexibility and opportunism in pikeEsox lucius.

Effect of organisation cultural dynamics on adoption of innovation: a study within the context of software firms in Sri Lanka (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Udagedara, R., & Allman, K. (2015, September). Effect of organisation cultural dynamics on adoption of innovation: a study within the context of software firms in Sri Lanka. Presented at BAM Conference 2015, Portsmouth

This paper investigates the effect of organisation cultural dynamics on innovation activities using an accessible practical tool and four illustrative cases from software companies in Sri Lanka. The analysis framework accommodates multiple perspectiv... Read More about Effect of organisation cultural dynamics on adoption of innovation: a study within the context of software firms in Sri Lanka.

Are employment tribunals a barrier to justice? : an observer’s perspective (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Lord, J., & Redfern, D. (2015, September). Are employment tribunals a barrier to justice? : an observer’s perspective. Presented at BAM 2015 - The value of pluralism in advancing management research, education and practice, Portsmouth

The UK Employment Tribunal System (ETS) is ‘broken’ and in need of reform according to the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) (2011) and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) (2011). Both are organisations, that represent and lobby in the intere... Read More about Are employment tribunals a barrier to justice? : an observer’s perspective.

From Aristotle to Arendt : a phenomenological exploration of forms of knowledge and practice in the context of child protection social work in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Smeeton, J. (2015). From Aristotle to Arendt : a phenomenological exploration of forms of knowledge and practice in the context of child protection social work in the UK. Qualitative Social Work, 16(1), 14-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325015603479

This paper attempts to explore the relationship between different forms of knowledge and the kinds of activity that arise from them within child protection social work practice. The argument that social work is more than either ‘science’ or ‘art’ but... Read More about From Aristotle to Arendt : a phenomenological exploration of forms of knowledge and practice in the context of child protection social work in the UK.

Evidence of healing in the eradication of schizophrenia in Western Lapland (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Talbot, R. (2015, September). Evidence of healing in the eradication of schizophrenia in Western Lapland. Presented at Theatre & Performance Research Association; Performance & The Body Working Group: Bodies of Evidence, University of Worcester

The presentation will draw on the documents, traces and evidence from The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland (2012- 2015) based on my experience as a performer throughout the process of making and touring, as well as video, images, and u... Read More about Evidence of healing in the eradication of schizophrenia in Western Lapland.

Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting (2015)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I. (2015). Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting. In C. Olsen (Ed.), Acting Comedy (5-24). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709673

All forms of live performance require the establishment of some kind of interplay between the performer and audience. The presentation of a theatrical event requires the making of a ‘contract’ (Verma in Giannachi and Luckhurst 1999: 129) wherein perf... Read More about Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting.

Developing a project management case study from history (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Procter, C., & Kozak-Holland, M. (2015, September). Developing a project management case study from history. Presented at British Academy of Management Conference (2015), Portsmouth

Peter Morris argues that the depth of understanding of one’s history is a measure of the maturity of a discipline (Morris, 2013). By this measure Project Management is an immature discipline. The consequence of this is a significant gap between theor... Read More about Developing a project management case study from history.

Does muscle coactivation influence joint excursions during gait in children with and without hemiplegic cerebral palsy? Relationship between muscle coactivation and joint kinematics (2015)
Journal Article
Gross, R., Leboeuf, F., Hardouin, J., Perrouin-Verbe, B., Brochard, S., & Rémy-Néris, O. (2015). Does muscle coactivation influence joint excursions during gait in children with and without hemiplegic cerebral palsy? Relationship between muscle coactivation and joint kinematics. Clinical Biomechanics, 30(10), 1088-1093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2015.09.001

Background

The theoretical role of muscle coactivation is to stiffen joints. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between muscle coactivation and joint excursions during gait in children with and without hemiplegic cerebral palsy.... Read More about Does muscle coactivation influence joint excursions during gait in children with and without hemiplegic cerebral palsy? Relationship between muscle coactivation and joint kinematics.

Ratiometric oxygen sensing using lanthanide luminescent emitting interfaces (2015)
Journal Article
Lehr, J., Tropiano, M., Beer, P., Faulkner, S., & Davis, J. (2015). Ratiometric oxygen sensing using lanthanide luminescent emitting interfaces. Chemical Communications, 51(88), 15944-15947. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cc05738h

Herein we describe the first example of a ratiometric lanthanide luminescent oxygen sensing interface. Immobilisation of terbium and europium cyclen complexes on glass substrates was achieved by a novel aryl nitrene photografting approach. The result... Read More about Ratiometric oxygen sensing using lanthanide luminescent emitting interfaces.

Building an aesthetic VLE for creative visual learners (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Power, E., & Kannara, V. (2015, September). Building an aesthetic VLE for creative visual learners. Presented at ALT Annual Conference 2015: Shaping the future of learning together, Manchester, UK

This research will present a best practice model for integrating the VLE in creative arts disciplines to augment blended learning through a participatory approach. It is acknowledged that having a VLE alone is not sufficient; its effective implementa... Read More about Building an aesthetic VLE for creative visual learners.

Code in action : closing the black box of WCAG 2.0, a Latourian reading of web accessibility (2015)
Journal Article
Kreps, D., & Goff, M. (2015). Code in action : closing the black box of WCAG 2.0, a Latourian reading of web accessibility. First Monday, 20(9), 6166-6166. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i9.6166

The focus of much academic work on Web accessibility has been concerned with the lack of implementation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. There seems, as yet, however, to have been little critical reflection on the Guidelines themselves —... Read More about Code in action : closing the black box of WCAG 2.0, a Latourian reading of web accessibility.

Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen : a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery (2015)
Journal Article
Parnell, S., Gottwald, T., Cunniffe, N., Alonso Chavez, V., & van den Bosch, F. (2015). Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen : a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1814), 20151478. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1478

Emerging plant pathogens are a significant problem for conservation and food security. Surveillance is often instigated in an attempt to detect an invading epidemic before it gets out of control. Yet in practice many epidemics are not discovered unti... Read More about Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen : a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery.

KTP and RRI – the perfect match (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D., Blaynee, J., Kutar, M., & Griffiths, M. (2015, September). KTP and RRI – the perfect match. Presented at ETHICOMP 2015, de Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Businesses working with universities are in an optimal position to overcome perceived barriers to the uptake of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) for Business and Industry. This paper sets out case study evidence within a particular framewor... Read More about KTP and RRI – the perfect match.

A case study of fostering multidisciplinary in built environment using BIM (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Udeaja, C., & Aziz, Z. (2015, September). A case study of fostering multidisciplinary in built environment using BIM. Presented at Procs 31st Annual ARCOM Conference, Lincoln, UK

Building information modelling (BIM) has been made mandatory as part of the public procurement process in the UK. This move will by default encourage SMEs to develop their own capabilities to work with BIM technologies in order to maintain their mark... Read More about A case study of fostering multidisciplinary in built environment using BIM.

SlackStick : signature-based file identification for live digital forensics examinations (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hegarty, R., & Haggerty, J. (2015, September). SlackStick : signature-based file identification for live digital forensics examinations. Presented at 2015 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, Manchester, UK

A digital forensics investigation may involve procedures for both live forensics and for gathering evidence from a device in a forensics laboratory. Due to the focus on capturing volatile data during a live forensics investigation, tools have been de... Read More about SlackStick : signature-based file identification for live digital forensics examinations.

Creating social value at the BOP in the Nigerian marketplace (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Abudiore, T., & McEachern, M. (2015, September). Creating social value at the BOP in the Nigerian marketplace. Presented at International Social Innovation Research Conference 2015, York

Few studies examine the prospects for businesses within BOP markets to deliver social value. In the context of Nigerian apiculture, which has the potential to provide employment and alleviate poverty for BOP farmers, this paper explores the nuances a... Read More about Creating social value at the BOP in the Nigerian marketplace.

A glimpse-based approach for predicting binaural intelligibility with single and multiple maskers in anechoic conditions (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Tang, Y., Cooke, M., Fazenda, B., & Cox, T. (2015, September). A glimpse-based approach for predicting binaural intelligibility with single and multiple maskers in anechoic conditions. Presented at Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany

A distortion-weighted glimpsing metric developed for estimating monaural speech intelligibility is extended to predict binaural speech intelligibility in noise. Two aspects of binaural listen- ing, the better ear effect and the binaural advantage, ar... Read More about A glimpse-based approach for predicting binaural intelligibility with single and multiple maskers in anechoic conditions.

Counselling and psychotherapy after domestic violence : a client view of what helps recovery (2015)
Book
Roddy, J. (2015). Counselling and psychotherapy after domestic violence : a client view of what helps recovery. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137434593

Working with clients who have experienced domestic violence is known to be complex, with particularly high rates of client non-attendance or leaving therapy prematurely. In this book clients talk about what they found difficult in accessing therapy,... Read More about Counselling and psychotherapy after domestic violence : a client view of what helps recovery.