Digital educational escape rooms to enhance knowledge acquisition and student experience: An interdisciplinary series of case studies (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Digital educational escape rooms have gained significant traction as pedagogical tools in recent years, especially during the rapid digital transition resulting from the recent COVID-19 pandemic where physical educational escape rooms were unable to... Read More about Digital educational escape rooms to enhance knowledge acquisition and student experience: An interdisciplinary series of case studies.

Chronotype Predicts Body Mass Index via Emotion Regulation Strategy Use and Emotional Eating (2025)
Journal Article

Introduction: Rates of obesity are increasing across all regions representing a critical public health concern. An evening chronotype has been associated with elevated body mass index and a less nutritious diet. However, the mechanisms underpinning t... Read More about Chronotype Predicts Body Mass Index via Emotion Regulation Strategy Use and Emotional Eating.

A physiology digital escape room enhances physiological data analysis skills and student experience (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Active and gamified teaching methods have received significant interest within higher education over the past decade, with an increased push from higher education institutions to more actively engage students with their education. One example of acti... Read More about A physiology digital escape room enhances physiological data analysis skills and student experience.

Discrete dynamics on C: periodic orbits, fractal boundaries, and basin entropy (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Iterative processes defined on the complex plane C provide a convenient arena for studying nonlinearity and possibly even chaos in two dimensions. Here, our attention will focus primarily on maps of two quite general classes in the presence of quadra... Read More about Discrete dynamics on C: periodic orbits, fractal boundaries, and basin entropy.

The Hidden Network of Everything (2025)
Book

The Hidden Network of Everything. The Secret System That Powers the World And Your Life!
Everything around you, your morning coffee, the smartphone in your hand, the roads you travel, and even the oxygen you breathe, is part of a vast, invisible net... Read More about The Hidden Network of Everything.

Assessing Building Performance in A Low Carbon Home: A comparative study of the energy modelling representing design and as-built phase (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Buildings, as the second-largest carbon emitter, play a significant role in decarbonising efforts to achieve net zero in the UK. The proposed Future Homes Standard aims to ensure a 75-80% reduction in carbon emissions by increasing the building energ... Read More about Assessing Building Performance in A Low Carbon Home: A comparative study of the energy modelling representing design and as-built phase.

Lab Equipment Identifier: An Interactive Card Game (2024)
Other
Jones, M., Yahya, F., Abdalreza, D., Matthews, H., & Rafiq, R. (2024). Lab Equipment Identifier: An Interactive Card Game

This interactive card game is designed to introduce key laboratory equipment to students of all ages as a preparative activity for being exposed to real implements within practical sessions. This game aligns with numerous subject areas with laborator... Read More about Lab Equipment Identifier: An Interactive Card Game.

Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

80% of the housing stock by 2050 in the UK has already been built. Currently, the UK housing stock contributes 18% of the total UK emissions. Due to the legal requirement of the UK government to achieve net zero by 2050, the housing stock poses a con... Read More about Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence.

What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The study identifies the factors that demotivate homeowners from
retrofitting their houses. Retrofit is defined as improving the energy performance, ventilation or reducing carbon emission of a building. According to the statistics, the progress rat... Read More about What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review.

Health and Safety Hazard Hunter: A Hazard Symbol Card Game (2024)
Other
Rafiq, R., Matthews, H., Abedalreza, D., Yahya, F., & Jones, M. (2024). Health and Safety Hazard Hunter: A Hazard Symbol Card Game

This interactive card game is designed to teach students about key Health and Safety symbols that they will come across during their studies in Biomedicine, Medicine and/or Chemical Sciences. We also introduce key examples of compounds associated wit... Read More about Health and Safety Hazard Hunter: A Hazard Symbol Card Game.

PPE Lab Gear Up: A Personal Protective Equipment Puzzle Game (2024)
Other
Matthews, H., Rafiq, R., Abedalreza, D., Yahya, F., & Jones, M. (2024). PPE Lab Gear Up: A Personal Protective Equipment Puzzle Game

This interactive scenario-based puzzle game is designed to support students in learning the appropriate personal protective equipment to use within a laboratory environment, with scenarios designed to align with common areas of laboratory science. Th... Read More about PPE Lab Gear Up: A Personal Protective Equipment Puzzle Game.

Micro and Small Business (MSB) Project Planning Governance and its Impact Upon Project Outcomes (2024)
Journal Article

This study's investigation into micro and small business (MSB) project planning was prompted by a serious Australian project management failure due to a mobile home being dropped on two homes during a crane lift because of the inadequate plan ning an... Read More about Micro and Small Business (MSB) Project Planning Governance and its Impact Upon Project Outcomes.

Micro and Small Business (MSB) Project Planning Governance and its Impact Upon Project Outcomes (2024)
Journal Article

This study’s investigation into micro and small business (MSB) project planning was prompted by a serious Australian project management failure due to a mobile home being dropped on two homes during a crane lift because of the inadequate planning and... Read More about Micro and Small Business (MSB) Project Planning Governance and its Impact Upon Project Outcomes.

The Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire for Stroke Survivors: Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Content Validity and Digitisation (2024)
Journal Article
Gilanliogullari, N., Prenton, S., & Prior, Y. (2024). The Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire for Stroke Survivors: Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Content Validity and Digitisation. Physiotherapy, Article 101427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2024.101427

Objective
The study's objective was to culturally adapt and digitise the Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire (EDAQ), originally designed for rheumatoid arthritis and various other musculoskeletal conditions... Read More about The Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire for Stroke Survivors: Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Content Validity and Digitisation.

Using Continuous Construction Performance Measurement as a Strategic Tool for Organisational Competitiveness (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The current organisational over-reliance on the use of metrics and indicators that are based only on tangible assets, and financial capital, for the measurement of construction performance has proven to be inadequate for the highly complex and dynami... Read More about Using Continuous Construction Performance Measurement as a Strategic Tool for Organisational Competitiveness.

Perceptions of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees in Europe (2024)
Journal Article

The Russian invasion of Ukraine led to a major humanitarian crisis resulting in many Ukrainians seeking refugee status in European countries. Unlike the positive attitudes towards Ukrainian refugees, Afghan refugees who were also required to leave th... Read More about Perceptions of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees in Europe.

Social Failty And Falls (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

In September 2023, Jennifer Woods presented at the NHS England North East and Yorkshire Falls and Frailty Conference. Here with Robert Higgins and Adam Spacey she considers the relationship between social factors and falls, looks at the concept of s... Read More about Social Failty And Falls.

Ownership structure and sustainability reporting: Emerging economies evidence (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to empirically examine the impact of ownership structure variables on the level of sustainability reporting of listed BRICS energy firms as well as the moderating role of board sustainability committee on this rel... Read More about Ownership structure and sustainability reporting: Emerging economies evidence.

Exploring the Significant Impact of Communication in project Management: A Study on the role of Communication Management in Global Projects (2024)
Journal Article

This article presents a thorough framework for project communication while examining the critical role that communication plays in managing multinational projects. Examining existing research on global project management success criteria, the study h... Read More about Exploring the Significant Impact of Communication in project Management: A Study on the role of Communication Management in Global Projects.

A multi-weapon detection using ensembled learning (2024)
Journal Article
Abdullah, M., Al-Noori, A. H. Y., Suad, J., & Tariq, E. (in press). A multi-weapon detection using ensembled learning. Journal of Intelligent Systems, 33(1), 20230060. https://doi.org/10.1515/jisys-2023-0060

Recently, the level of criminals and terrorists using light weapons (such as knives and firearms) has increased rapidly around the world. Unfortunately, most current surveillance systems are still based mainly on human monitoring and intervention. Fo... Read More about A multi-weapon detection using ensembled learning.