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Observational cohort study with internal and external validation of a predictive tool for identification of children in need of hospital admission from the emergency department : the Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency department (PAGE) score (2020)
Journal Article

Objectives: To devise an assessment tool to aid discharge and admission decision making in relation to children and young people in hospital urgent and emergency
care facilities, and thereby improve the quality of care that patients receive, using a... Read More about Observational cohort study with internal and external validation of a predictive tool for identification of children in need of hospital admission from the emergency department : the Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency department (PAGE) score.

A low-cost linkage-spring-sendon-integrated compliant anthropomorphic robotic hand : MCR-Hand III (2020)
Journal Article
Yang, H., Wei, G., Ren, L., Qian, Z., Wang, K., Xiu, H., & Liang, W. (2021). A low-cost linkage-spring-sendon-integrated compliant anthropomorphic robotic hand : MCR-Hand III. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 158, 104210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2020.104210

This paper presents the design, analysis and development of an anthropomorphic robotic hand, i.e. MCR-Hand III. Based on the investigation of human hand anatomical structure and the related existing robotic hands, mechanical design of the MCR-Hand II... Read More about A low-cost linkage-spring-sendon-integrated compliant anthropomorphic robotic hand : MCR-Hand III.

Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Flanagan, M. (2020, July). Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics. Presented at International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference (IGNCC 2020), UAL - London and online

When Marvel UK’s The Daredevils anthology began publication under editor Bernie Jaye in the early 1980s, Alan Moore was a central contributor for several issues. Presenting its flagship character Captain Britain with art by Alan Davis, (alongside rep... Read More about Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics.

Barriers & facilitators to extended working life : a focus on a predominately female ageing workforce (2020)
Journal Article
Edge, C., Coffey, M., Cook, P., & Weinberg, A. (2021). Barriers & facilitators to extended working life : a focus on a predominately female ageing workforce. Ageing and society, 41(12), 2867-2887. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X2000063X

Many countries are reforming their pension systems so people stay in work for longer
to improve the long-term sustainability of public finances to support an increasing older
population. This research aimed to explore the factors that enable or inh... Read More about Barriers & facilitators to extended working life : a focus on a predominately female ageing workforce.

Songs of The City (2020)
Digital Artefact
Court, A. (2020). Songs of The City. [Video]

One sketchbook. One stroke of a brush. One inkblot magically transformed. In a bid to celebrate urban bird song, this heart-warming animation will take you to the heart of the City of Manchester where a mute blackbird flees the nest. Over the rooftop... Read More about Songs of The City.

With our Clipped Wings : a research-based performance on gay men’s identities devised through narrative portraiture (2020)
Journal Article
Rodriguez-Dorans, E. (2020). With our Clipped Wings : a research-based performance on gay men’s identities devised through narrative portraiture. Text and Performance Quarterly, 40(2), 190-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2020.1752931

With our Clipped Wings is a performance that showcases the research findings of the doctoral research project “Understanding gay men’s identities through narratives of their erotic and romantic relationships.” The performance delivers compelling narr... Read More about With our Clipped Wings : a research-based performance on gay men’s identities devised through narrative portraiture.

The validity of the index of vulnerable homes : evidence from consumers vulnerable to energy poverty in the UK (2020)
Journal Article

Energy poverty is a multidimensional issue, and this means that it is difficult to understand the different levels of vulnerability to this phenomenon and its relationship with households’ quality of life. This paper presents the validation of an inn... Read More about The validity of the index of vulnerable homes : evidence from consumers vulnerable to energy poverty in the UK.

‘Making narrative portraits : a methodological approach to analysing qualitative data’ (2020)
Journal Article
Rodriguez-Dorans, E., & Jacobs, P. (2020). ‘Making narrative portraits : a methodological approach to analysing qualitative data’. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(6), 611-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1719609

This paper proposes the method of ‘narrative portraiture’, which, located within the wider field of narrative studies, offers an analytical tool to narrative data. Two research projects, one on disability and one on identity, are used to illustrate h... Read More about ‘Making narrative portraits : a methodological approach to analysing qualitative data’.

Spinal manipulation or mobilization for lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy : a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Danazumi, M., Yakasai, A., Ibrahum, S., Hassan, A., Zakari, U., & Shehu, U. (2020). Spinal manipulation or mobilization for lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy : a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. Middle East journal of rehabilitation and health studies, 7(1), e98983. https://doi.org/10.5812/mejrh.98983

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis into the effects of spinal manipulation or mobilization for Lumbar Disc Herniation with Radiculopathy (LDHR).
Methods: An electronic database search of titl... Read More about Spinal manipulation or mobilization for lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy : a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Compulsive buying among young adults : a behavioural segmentation (2020)
Journal Article
Maccarrone-Eaglen, A., & Schofield, P. (2020). Compulsive buying among young adults : a behavioural segmentation. Young Consumers: Insight and Ideas for Responsible Marketers, 21(1), 57-76. https://doi.org/10.1108/YC-02-2019-0958

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to re-examine the characteristics of compulsive buying
behaviour (CBB) based on a new improved screener. The study analyses young compulsive buyer
attitudes, decision making, product preferences, the impact of... Read More about Compulsive buying among young adults : a behavioural segmentation.

Where are the South Asian [Women] artists? The Horizon Gallery responds to 'The Other Story' (2020)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. Where are the South Asian [Women] artists? The Horizon Gallery responds to 'The Other Story'. In S. Boyce, D. Dibosa, & S. Lok (Eds.), The Fissures of Modernism: Collections, Cultures and Black-British Artists. Duke University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

There is no question that The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain curated by Rasheed Araeen and staged at the Hayward Gallery, London, and then touring to Wolverhampton and Manchester, 1989-1990, has had a formative, if belated, impac... Read More about Where are the South Asian [Women] artists? The Horizon Gallery responds to 'The Other Story'.