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Durham Research Online (DRO) is the University’s Open Access repository for publications. The primary purpose of DRO is to provide open access to publications authored by staff and students affiliated with Durham University.

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The temporal dynamics of familiar face recognition: Event-related brain potentials reveal the efficient activation of facial identity representations (2024)
Journal Article
Wiese, H., Popova, T., Lidborg, L. H., & Burton, A. M. (2024). The temporal dynamics of familiar face recognition: Event-related brain potentials reveal the efficient activation of facial identity representations. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 204, Article 112423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112423

While it is widely known that humans are typically highly accurate at recognizing familiar faces, it is less clear how efficiently recognition is achieved. In a series of three experiments, we used event-related brain potentials (ERP) in a repetition... Read More about The temporal dynamics of familiar face recognition: Event-related brain potentials reveal the efficient activation of facial identity representations.

Matchmakers: Placement Agencies and Digital Platforms in the UK Childcare Market (2024)
Journal Article
Muldoon, J., Sedacca, N., & Apostolidis, P. (in press). Matchmakers: Placement Agencies and Digital Platforms in the UK Childcare Market. Global Economy Journal,

Households seeking childcare often turn to labour market intermediaries such as placement agencies and digital platforms to facilitate their search. This article draws on a qualitative research project to examine the respective roles played by agenci... Read More about Matchmakers: Placement Agencies and Digital Platforms in the UK Childcare Market.

Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article
Er, V., Crowder, M., Holding, E., Woodrow, N., Griffin, N., Summerbell, C., Egan, M., & Fairbrother, H. (2024). Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study. Health Promotion International, 39(4), Article daae107. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae107

Inequalities in diets contribute to overall inequalities in health. Economic inequality and inequalities in access to healthy food are key drivers of poor diet and ill health among young people (YP). Despite mounting evidence of structural barriers t... Read More about Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study.

Childhood Obesity (2021)
Report
Summerbell, C., & et al. (2021). Childhood Obesity. London: UK Government

The latest data from 2019-20 reported that at the end of primary school, 35% of children aged 10-11 years are living with overweight or obesity and 21% are living with obesity. The Government’s obesity strategy seeks to halve the prevalence of childh... Read More about Childhood Obesity.

The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19 (2021)
Report
Pickett, K., & Taylor-Robinson, D. (2021). The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19. London: Northern Health Science Alliance and N8 Research Partnership

Children in the North are more likely to live in poverty than those in the rest of England – and increasingly so. Poverty is the lead driver of inequalities between children in the North and their counterparts in the rest of the country, leadin... Read More about The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19.