Dr Helen Whitehead's Outputs (6)

Navigating the Unseen Path: Unveiling the Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education (2025)
Journal Article

This paper explores the hidden curriculum, often described as the "untaught" aspect of the educational journey, which comprises explicit knowledge, norms, and behaviours essential for success. It becomes most apparent when students begin their univer... Read More about Navigating the Unseen Path: Unveiling the Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education.

Ecoacoustic Methods for Avifauna Analysis: A Case Study of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (2023)
Thesis

Birds are one of the most studied taxa in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), with previous studies reporting negative impacts of radiation such as reductions in abundance and diversity and an increase in albinism and cataracts incidence. This thesis... Read More about Ecoacoustic Methods for Avifauna Analysis: A Case Study of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.

Learning to detect an animal sound from five examples (2023)
Journal Article

Automatic detection and classification of animal sounds has many applications in biodiversity monitoring and animal behavior. In the past twenty years, the volume of digitised wildlife sound available has massively increased, and automatic classifica... Read More about Learning to detect an animal sound from five examples.

SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2021)
Book

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2021 SPARC conference. Our conference is called “Against All Odds” as we celebrate the achievements of our PGRs and their supervisors, who have continued to excel despite the most challenging circumstances. Fo... Read More about SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Towards solving a scientific controversy – The effects of ionising radiation on the environment (2019)
Journal Article

SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2019)
Book

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2019 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also our first ever Doctoral School Best Supervisor awards, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have... Read More about SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.