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The impact of Pangean subducted oceans on mantle dynamics: Passive piles and the positioning of deep mantle plumes (2024)
Journal Article
Heron, P. J., Dannberg, J., Gassmöller, R., Shephard, G. E., van Hunen, J., & Pysklywec, R. N. (2025). The impact of Pangean subducted oceans on mantle dynamics: Passive piles and the positioning of deep mantle plumes. Gondwana Research, 138, 168-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2024.10.007

Seismic imaging of the Earth’s interior reveals plumes originating from relatively hot regions of the lowermost mantle, surrounded by cooler material thought to be remnants of ancient subducted oceans. Currently, there is no clear consensus on the in... Read More about The impact of Pangean subducted oceans on mantle dynamics: Passive piles and the positioning of deep mantle plumes.

Dynamic evolution of competing same-dip double subduction: New perspectives of the Neo-Tethyan plate tectonics (2024)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Mandal, N., & Van Hunen, J. (2024). Dynamic evolution of competing same-dip double subduction: New perspectives of the Neo-Tethyan plate tectonics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 647, Article 119032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119032

Artificial Intelligence significantly enhances the visual art industry by analyzing, identifying and generating digitized artistic images. This review highlights the substantial benefits of integrating geometric data into AI models, addressing challe... Read More about Dynamic evolution of competing same-dip double subduction: New perspectives of the Neo-Tethyan plate tectonics.

Landscapes of Trauma and Mental Health (2024)
Book Chapter
Proudfoot, J. (2024). Landscapes of Trauma and Mental Health. In C. P. Boyd, L. E. Boyle, S. L. Bell, E. Högström, J. Evans, A. Paul, & R. Foley (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003345725-41

In recent years, human geographers have turned their attention to trauma as a way of re-examining long-standing concerns in the discipline, including transnational migration, natural and human-made disasters, and urban displacement. Drawing on work f... Read More about Landscapes of Trauma and Mental Health.

Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms (2022)
Book
Firmin, C., Lefevre, M., Huegler, N., & Peace, D. (2022). Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447367277

During adolescence, young people are exposed to a range of risks beyond their family homes including sexual and criminal exploitation, peer-on-peer abuse and gang-related violence. However, it has only been over the past two decades that the critical... Read More about Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms.

''Thank God we are like this here'': a qualitative investigation of televisual media influence on women's body image in an ethnically diverse rural Nicaraguan population (2024)
Journal Article
Thornborrow, T., Boothroyd, L., & Tovee, M. (in press). ''Thank God we are like this here'': a qualitative investigation of televisual media influence on women's body image in an ethnically diverse rural Nicaraguan population. Body Image,

Abundant published literature evidences the harmful effects of appearance-idealized media imagery on women's body image in predominantly Western populations. Most countries in Latin America (LA) have received little empirical attention. The current s... Read More about ''Thank God we are like this here'': a qualitative investigation of televisual media influence on women's body image in an ethnically diverse rural Nicaraguan population.