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Crip Gholas: Posthuman Disability and Strategies of Containment in Frank Herbert’s Dune Novels (2022)
Journal Article
Simonetti, N. (2022). Crip Gholas: Posthuman Disability and Strategies of Containment in Frank Herbert’s Dune Novels. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 16(1), 77-92. https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2022.5

Michael Bérubé has recently argued that representations of disability in science fiction are almost ubiquitous but heavily underrecognized. The article builds on Bérubé’s remark to discuss the constructive effects of adding critical disability studie... Read More about Crip Gholas: Posthuman Disability and Strategies of Containment in Frank Herbert’s Dune Novels.

Climate change risks to transport infrastructure (2021)
Report
Robson, E. (online). Climate change risks to transport infrastructure. [Research paper for Northern Ireland Assembly, NIAR 227-2021]

This paper discusses climate risks to transport infrastructure in Northern Ireland and how they will change with a changing climate. Adaption measures to improve the resilience of transport infrastructure to these climate risks are also discussed.

Mental health and wellbeing of retired elite and amateur rugby players and non-contact athletes and associations with sports-related concussion: the UK Rugby Health Project (2021)
Journal Article
Hind, K., Konerth, N., Entwistle, I., Hume, P., Theadom, A., Lewis, G., King, D., Goodbourn, T., Bottiglieri, M., Ferraces-Riegas, P., Ellison, A., & Chazot, P. (2022). Mental health and wellbeing of retired elite and amateur rugby players and non-contact athletes and associations with sports-related concussion: the UK Rugby Health Project. Sports Medicine, 52(6), 1419-1431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01594-8

Background: Concerns have intensified over the health and wellbeing of rugby union and league players, and in particular, about the longer term effects of concussion. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there were differences in ment... Read More about Mental health and wellbeing of retired elite and amateur rugby players and non-contact athletes and associations with sports-related concussion: the UK Rugby Health Project.

Voices, Visions and the Spiritual Journey (2021)
Book Chapter
Clarke, I., & Powell, A. J. (in press). Voices, Visions and the Spiritual Journey. In S. Aris, H. Garraway, & H. Gilbert (Eds.), Mental Health, Spirituality and Well-being: A Handbook for Health and Social Care Professionals, Service Users and Carers. Pavilion

Fluid Deafness: Earwax and Hardness of Hearing in Early Modern Europe (2021)
Journal Article
Verwaal, R. E. (2021). Fluid Deafness: Earwax and Hardness of Hearing in Early Modern Europe. Medical History, 65(4), 366-383. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.29

This article discusses hearing disability in early modern Europe, focusing on medical ideas to demonstrate a profound shift in thinking about deafness over the course of the eighteenth century. Scholars have previously described changes in the social... Read More about Fluid Deafness: Earwax and Hardness of Hearing in Early Modern Europe.

The effects of induced optical blur on visual search performance and training (2021)
Journal Article
Musa, A., Lane, A. R., & Ellison, A. (2022). The effects of induced optical blur on visual search performance and training. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(2), 277-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211050280

Visual Search is a task often used in the rehabilitation of patients with cortical and non-cortical visual pathologies such as visual field loss. Reduced visual acuity is often co-morbid with these disorders and it remains poorly defined how low visu... Read More about The effects of induced optical blur on visual search performance and training.