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Mrs Anna Cooper-Ryan's Outputs (39)

Personalising Twitter communication : an evaluation of ‘rotation-curation’ for enhancing social media engagement within higher education (2018)
Journal Article

Social media content generated by learning communities within universities is serving both pedagogical and marketing purposes. There is currently a dearth of literature related to social media use at the departmental level within Higher Education Ins... Read More about Personalising Twitter communication : an evaluation of ‘rotation-curation’ for enhancing social media engagement within higher education.

Charities’ use of Twitter : exploring social support for women living with and beyond breast cancer (2017)
Journal Article
Ure, C., Galpin, A., Cooper-Ryan, A., & Condie, J. (2019). Charities’ use of Twitter : exploring social support for women living with and beyond breast cancer. Information, Communication and Society, 22(8), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1402943

Twitter is one social media platform that enables those experiencing breast cancer to access support from others. This study explores how cancer charities provide support to women living with and beyond breast cancer (LWBBC) through their Twitter fee... Read More about Charities’ use of Twitter : exploring social support for women living with and beyond breast cancer.

Digital public health & is sitting the new smoking? (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Clarke-Cornwell, A., & Cooper-Ryan, A. (2016, August). Digital public health & is sitting the new smoking?. Presented at Manchester Science Festival, Library of Ideas at Victoria Station, Manchester

Unsustainable status quo : a new approach to understanding inaction in empty home ownership in the north west of England (2015)
Book Chapter
Butler, D., & Hughes, J. (2015). Unsustainable status quo : a new approach to understanding inaction in empty home ownership in the north west of England. In J. Condie, & A. Cooper (Eds.), Dialogues of Sustainable Urbanisation : Social Science Research and Transitions to Urban Contexts (106-110). University of Western Sydney

The UK is in the midst of a national housing crisis. Estimates show that by 2022 there will be a shortage of 1.1 million homes (JRF, 2011).Meanwhile, figures report that in 2014 there were over 600,000 empty homes in England (Empty Homes Network, 201... Read More about Unsustainable status quo : a new approach to understanding inaction in empty home ownership in the north west of England.

Challenges in designing, conducting, and reporting oral health behavioral intervention studies in primary school age children : methodological issues (2014)
Journal Article

Often within oral health, clinical outcome measures dominate trial design rather than behavioral outcome measures, and often there is a reliance on proxy self-reporting of children’s behavior with no corroboration through triangulation of measures. T... Read More about Challenges in designing, conducting, and reporting oral health behavioral intervention studies in primary school age children : methodological issues.

We are all @salfordpsych : the rotation curation approach and Twitter as a learning tool in higher education (2014)
Book Chapter
Condie, J., & Cooper, A. (2014). We are all @salfordpsych : the rotation curation approach and Twitter as a learning tool in higher education. In K. Woodfield (Ed.), Social Media in Social Research : Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries. NatCen Social Research

Book summary: Social Media in Social Research: Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries, is a collection of blogs drawing together the experiences and expertise of over 50 contributors and members of the New Social Media, New Social Science? online community... Read More about We are all @salfordpsych : the rotation curation approach and Twitter as a learning tool in higher education.

Effectiveness of a global oral health programme targeting 6-7 year old primary schoolchildren in NW England, UK
Thesis
Cooper, A. (in press). Effectiveness of a global oral health programme targeting 6-7 year old primary schoolchildren in NW England, UK. (Thesis). University of Salford

Overall aim of thesis: To evaluate the effectiveness of a pre-designed school oral health programme (SOHP), aimed at the establishment of sustained twice-daily toothbrushing.


Methodology: A unique aspect of this thesis was the use of a child-... Read More about Effectiveness of a global oral health programme targeting 6-7 year old primary schoolchildren in NW England, UK.

Evaluation of 'Find and Treat' screening programme (2007-2010)
Report
Clarke-Cornwell, A., Coffey, M., Cooper-Ryan, A., Delgado, C., Prosser, H., & Dugdill, L. Evaluation of 'Find and Treat' screening programme (2007-2010)

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the main causes of premature mortality (death before age 75) in the UK, with 28% of all premature deaths in males and 19% of all deaths in females due to CVD in 2010; CVD was the cause of 46,000 premature deaths... Read More about Evaluation of 'Find and Treat' screening programme (2007-2010).

Learning from Salford’s NHS Health Check Improvement Journey : A document review
Report
Coffey, M., & Cooper, A. Learning from Salford’s NHS Health Check Improvement Journey : A document review

The aim of this review was to:

Explore the outcomes of the 2014-2016 collaboration between Salford City Council (SCC), Haelo and other Salford Partners with respect to improving the uptake of NHS Health Checks.

Living with and beyond breast cancer : exploring women’s use of social media to support psychosocial health
Thesis
Ure, C. (in press). Living with and beyond breast cancer : exploring women’s use of social media to support psychosocial health. (Thesis). University of Salford

Background: Despite the extensive use of social media, its role in supporting women living with and beyond breast cancer (LwBBC), across the survivorship trajectory, remains underexplored. Existing research has tended to focus on single or dual platf... Read More about Living with and beyond breast cancer : exploring women’s use of social media to support psychosocial health.

The relationship between use of personal electronic devices and musculoskeletal pain in children : a systematic review
Presentation / Conference
Clark, A., Cooper-Ryan, A., Brown, T., & Preece, S. The relationship between use of personal electronic devices and musculoskeletal pain in children : a systematic review. Poster presented at Physiotherapy UK CSP Conference 2019, ICC, Birmingham

Purpose
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the adult population have increased over the past ten years. Evidence suggest that this is due to the rapid development and usage of computer technology and personal electronic devices (PEDs). Research has... Read More about The relationship between use of personal electronic devices and musculoskeletal pain in children : a systematic review.