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Digital transformation of design led challenges with IMPACT… (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Power, E. (2021, November). Digital transformation of design led challenges with IMPACT…. Presented at Royal Academy of Engineering 2021 Conference Visiting Professors Online Conference Event : Moving on from COVID-19 to 2021! - How has engineering and education changed?, Online

Invited Guest Speaker Jess Power is a Professor of Teaching and Learning and Associate Dean Students at Staffordshire University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of The Textile Institute, Fellow of Chartered Manageme... Read More about Digital transformation of design led challenges with IMPACT….

Exploring the application of practice-based research on affective cinema to the teaching of creative cinematographic techniques within UK higher education (2021)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2021). Exploring the application of practice-based research on affective cinema to the teaching of creative cinematographic techniques within UK higher education. Film Education Journal, 4(2), 170-183. https://doi.org/10.14324/fej.04.2.06

This article outlines an exploratory approach to the delivery of film practice education, as developed and tested with a second-year undergraduate module in cinematography. Students were provided with two existing creative sound pieces composed by a... Read More about Exploring the application of practice-based research on affective cinema to the teaching of creative cinematographic techniques within UK higher education.

Empathy is key : addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’ (2021)
Journal Article
Bartys, S., Martin, R., Parker, C., Edmondson, A., & Burton, K. (2021). Empathy is key : addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’. Evidence and Policy, 18(3), 524-542. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426421x16340308463939

Background: In 2019, Public Health England commissioned the authors of this paper to conduct research examining healthcare professionals’ conversations about work with their patients to inform policy aimed at reducing work loss due to ill health.Aims... Read More about Empathy is key : addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’.

Computation of Von Karman thermo-solutal swirling flow of a nanofluid over a rotating disk to a non-Darcian porous medium with hydrodynamic/thermal slip (2021)
Journal Article
Umavathi, J., & Beg, O. (2021). Computation of Von Karman thermo-solutal swirling flow of a nanofluid over a rotating disk to a non-Darcian porous medium with hydrodynamic/thermal slip. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-021-11126-1

Motivated by recent trends in spin coating operations in chemical engineering which are exploiting nanomaterials, the present article investigates theoretically and numerically the steady mass and heat transfer in Von Karman swirling slip flow of a... Read More about Computation of Von Karman thermo-solutal swirling flow of a nanofluid over a rotating disk to a non-Darcian porous medium with hydrodynamic/thermal slip.

“The aesthetic of the gap” : the limits of storytelling in the work of Jennifer Egan (2021)
Journal Article
Rouverol, A. (2021). “The aesthetic of the gap” : the limits of storytelling in the work of Jennifer Egan. Contemporary Women's Writing, 15(2), 280-299. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpab023

A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) is distinctively marked by the use of gaps and lacunae within the narrative’s construction, directing the reader’s focus to the unnarrated. This article examines the resultant silences and storytelling that emerges... Read More about “The aesthetic of the gap” : the limits of storytelling in the work of Jennifer Egan.

Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City (2021)
Book Chapter
Scott, J. (2021). Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City. In L. Jarvis, & K. Savage (Eds.), Avatars, activism and postdigital performance : precarious intermedial identities (161-186). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350159341.ch-7

This chapter opens up processes of ‘place-mixing’ in wild urban landscapes. Place-mixing is a digital mixing practice arising from encounters with the city, which pays particular attention to wild forces, feelings and happenings in play. Framed throu... Read More about Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City.

Selected derivatives of erythromycin B- in silico and anti-malarial studies (2021)
Journal Article
Bhadra, P., Magwaza, R., Nirmalan, N., Freeman, S., Barber, J., & Arsic, B. (2021). Selected derivatives of erythromycin B- in silico and anti-malarial studies. Materials, 14(22), e6980. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14226980

Erythromycin A is an established anti-bacterial agent against Gram-positive bacteria, but it is unstable to acid. This led to an evaluation of erythromycin B and its derivatives because these have improved acid stability. These compounds were investi... Read More about Selected derivatives of erythromycin B- in silico and anti-malarial studies.

Design and performance investigation of a robot-assisted flexible ureteroscopy system (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, J., Li, J., Cui, L., Shi, C., & Wei, G. (2021). Design and performance investigation of a robot-assisted flexible ureteroscopy system. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2021, 6911202. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6911202

Flexible ureteroscopy (FURS) has been developed and has become a preferred routine procedure for both diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones and other renal diseases inside the urinary tract. The traditional manual FURS procedure is highly skill-de... Read More about Design and performance investigation of a robot-assisted flexible ureteroscopy system.

The role of entrepreneurial orientation in developing SMEs resilience capabilities throughout COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Zighan, S., Abualqumboz, M., Dwaikat, N., & Alkalha, Z. (2021). The role of entrepreneurial orientation in developing SMEs resilience capabilities throughout COVID-19. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 23(4), 227-239. https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503211046849

Through the lens of entrepreneurial orientation, this study investigates operational practices that (small and medium-sized enterprises) have either adopted or improvised to support small and medium-sized enterprises’ resilience in the face of corona... Read More about The role of entrepreneurial orientation in developing SMEs resilience capabilities throughout COVID-19.

UVC LED and conducting yarn-based heater for a smart germicidal face mask to protect against airborne viruses (2021)
Journal Article
Pattanaik, P., Holderbaum, W., Khandual, A., & Tripathy, H. (2021). UVC LED and conducting yarn-based heater for a smart germicidal face mask to protect against airborne viruses. Materials, 14(22), 6999. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14226999

“Wear a mask. Save lives” is the slogan of WHO and all the government agencies over the world to the public. One of the most adopted prevention measures that can limit the spread of the airborne virus in the form of respiratory viral diseases, includ... Read More about UVC LED and conducting yarn-based heater for a smart germicidal face mask to protect against airborne viruses.

Discussion with the President of the European Film Academy, Agnieszka Holland (2021)
Journal Article
Woodman, A. (2023). Discussion with the President of the European Film Academy, Agnieszka Holland. Studies in European Cinema, 20(3), 254-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2021.2004010

This article transcribes an interview with the President of the European Film Academy, film director and scriptwriter Agnieszka Holland. It traces the filmmaker’s journey from her early filmmaking career and the potential influence of acting as a glo... Read More about Discussion with the President of the European Film Academy, Agnieszka Holland.

Building on the shoulders of Bhaskar and Matthews: a critical realist criminology (2021)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, M., Quraishi, M., Irfan, L., & Schneuwly Purdie, M. (2022). Building on the shoulders of Bhaskar and Matthews: a critical realist criminology. Journal of Critical Realism, 21(2), 123-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2021.1992736

Building on the insights of the late Roy Bhaskar and the late Roger Matthews, as well as some recent developments in ultra-realist criminology, this article introduces and delineates some core intellectual contours of a Critical Realist Criminology (... Read More about Building on the shoulders of Bhaskar and Matthews: a critical realist criminology.

Co-creation and empowerment: pathways to better student engagement (2021)
Other
Namvar, S., Greensmith, D., & Nirmalan, N. (2021). Co-creation and empowerment: pathways to better student engagement. THE Campus

Progression and employability are at the forefront of current conversations in higher education, with much effort invested in developing complex interventions to improve graduate outcomes. Pedagogy research indicates that factors such as a sense of b... Read More about Co-creation and empowerment: pathways to better student engagement.

Arabic version of the international knee documentation committee subjective knee form (IKDC) : translation and validation (2021)
Journal Article
Almalki, H., Herrington, L., & Jones, R. (2021). Arabic version of the international knee documentation committee subjective knee form (IKDC) : translation and validation. Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 35(3), 659-665. https://doi.org/10.3233/bmr-210136

BACKGROUND: In order to administer the International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Knee Form (IKDC) questionnaire to Arabic speakers, a rigorous process of cross-cultural adaptation and validation is required in order to reach equivalence b... Read More about Arabic version of the international knee documentation committee subjective knee form (IKDC) : translation and validation.

Repeatability of the Oxford Foot Model : comparison of a team of assessors with different backgrounds and no prior experience of the Oxford Foot Model (2021)
Journal Article
Reay, J., Leboeuf, F., Hanssen, B., Chiu, J., & Jones, R. (2022). Repeatability of the Oxford Foot Model : comparison of a team of assessors with different backgrounds and no prior experience of the Oxford Foot Model. Gait & Posture, 92, 191-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2021.11.010

Research question: What is the intra- and inter-assessor error of the Oxford Foot Model (OFM) during healthy adult walking when applied by three assessors with different professional backgrounds and lower limb marker placement experience, not native... Read More about Repeatability of the Oxford Foot Model : comparison of a team of assessors with different backgrounds and no prior experience of the Oxford Foot Model.

Towards explaining knowledge hiding through relationship conflict, frustration, and irritability : the case of public sector teaching hospitals (2021)
Journal Article
Alam, T., Ullah, Z., AlDhaen, F., AlDhaen, E., Ahmad, N., & Scholz, M. (2021). Towards explaining knowledge hiding through relationship conflict, frustration, and irritability : the case of public sector teaching hospitals. Sustainability, 13(22), e12598. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132212598

Organizations grow and excel with knowledge sharing; on the other hand, knowledge hiding is a negative behavior that impedes innovation, growth, problem solving, and timely correct decision making in organizations. It becomes more critical in the cas... Read More about Towards explaining knowledge hiding through relationship conflict, frustration, and irritability : the case of public sector teaching hospitals.

Book review : Rhetorics of Names and Naming (2021)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2021). Book review : Rhetorics of Names and Naming. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 69(4), 51-54. https://doi.org/10.5195/names.2021.2348

Review of Rhetorics of Names and Naming. Edited By Star Medzerian Vanguri. New York & London: Routledge. 2016. Pp. xi + 224. $52.95 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781138599574; $190 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781138910638; $47.65 (E-book), ISBN: 9781315693347.

Educating Animators - Manchester Animation Festival - Songs I Want To Play (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Court, A., & Robinson, P. (2021, November). Educating Animators - Manchester Animation Festival - Songs I Want To Play

Presentation produced for the 'Educating Animators' event as part of Manchester Animation Festival (November 2021) on Songs I Want To Play as a showcase of collaboration between a musical director and an animator. Songs I Want to Play began as a lo... Read More about Educating Animators - Manchester Animation Festival - Songs I Want To Play.