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Adapting the ToyBox obesity prevention intervention for use in Scottish preschools: Protocol for a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
Malden, S., Hughes, A. R., Gibson, A., Bardid, .., Androutsos, O., Craemer, M. D., …Reilly, J. J. (2018). Adapting the ToyBox obesity prevention intervention for use in Scottish preschools: Protocol for a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 8(10), Article e023707. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023707

Introduction: There is an increasing need for the adoption of effective preschool obesity prevention interventions to combat the high levels of early-childhood obesity in the UK. This study will examine the feasibility and acceptability of the adapte... Read More about Adapting the ToyBox obesity prevention intervention for use in Scottish preschools: Protocol for a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial.

Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Kumar, A., Ferdous, R., Luque-Ayala, A., McEwan, C., Power, M., Turner, B., & Bulkeley, H. (2019). Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Energy Research and Social Science, 48, 166-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.005

Lanterns, homes systems, hot water systems and micro-grids based on small-scale solar have become prominent ways to address the energy access challenge. As momentum grows for this form of energy transition this paper draws together research on small-... Read More about Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

Educating China on the Move: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Higher Education Mobilities (2018)
Journal Article
Xu, C. L., & Montgomery, C. (2019). Educating China on the Move: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Higher Education Mobilities. Review of Education, 7(3), 598-627. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3139

The landscape of global higher education is changing rapidly in response to and alongside the geopolitical and geosocial global transformations and China and East Asia are becoming key players in higher education. As China’s economic power and strate... Read More about Educating China on the Move: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Higher Education Mobilities.

Building a Blue Economy in the Arctic Ocean: Sustaining the Sea or Sustaining the State? (2018)
Book Chapter
Steinberg, P., & Kristoffersen, B. (2018). Building a Blue Economy in the Arctic Ocean: Sustaining the Sea or Sustaining the State?. In U. Gad, & J. Strandsbjerg (Eds.), Politics of sustainability in the Arctic : reconfiguring identity, space, and time (136-148). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351031981-9

Calls for sustainable development in the Arctic are linked with the global turn to a Blue Economy. To consider the relationship between the Blue Economy agenda, sustainable development discourse, and Norwegian ocean policy, we first consider the lite... Read More about Building a Blue Economy in the Arctic Ocean: Sustaining the Sea or Sustaining the State?.

Exploring comorbid depression and physical health trajectories: A case-based computational modelling approach (2018)
Journal Article
Castellani, B., Griffiths, F., Rajaram, R., & Gunn, J. (2018). Exploring comorbid depression and physical health trajectories: A case-based computational modelling approach. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 24(6), 1293-1309. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13042

While comorbid depression/physical health is a major clinical concern, the conventional methods of medicine make it difficult to model the complexities of this relationship. Such challenges include cataloguing multiple trends, developing multiple com... Read More about Exploring comorbid depression and physical health trajectories: A case-based computational modelling approach.

Urban transformative potential in a changing climate (2018)
Journal Article
Romero-Lankao, P., Bulkeley, H., Pelling, M., Burch, S., Gordon, D., Gupta, J., …Munshi, D. (2018). Urban transformative potential in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change, 8(9), 754-756. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0264-0

The SDGs and CitiesIPCC offer an unprecedented opportunity for urban transformation, but bold, integrated action to address the constraints imposed by economic, cultural and political dynamics is needed. We move beyond a narrow, technocentric view an... Read More about Urban transformative potential in a changing climate.

Editorial: The Ocean as Frontier (2018)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. (2018). Editorial: The Ocean as Frontier. International Social Science Journal, 68(229-230), 237-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12152

This editorial explores how the concept of the frontier calls attention to the ocean as a space of both opening and closure. Whilst the new opportunities suggested by a frontier imply an opening, the realisation of these opportunities typically requi... Read More about Editorial: The Ocean as Frontier.

Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city? (2018)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Marvin, S., Palgan, Y. V., McCormick, K., Breitfuss-Loidl, M., Mai, L., …Frantzeskaki, N. (2019). Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city?. European Urban and Regional Studies, 26(4), 317-335. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776418787222

The recent upsurge of interest in the experimental city as an arena within and through which urban sustainability is governed marks not only the emergence of the proliferation of forms of experimentation – from novel governance arrangements to demons... Read More about Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city?.

Using evidence-based guidelines to inform service provision: a structured mapping exercise within the National Health Service Diabetes Prevention Programme in England (2018)
Journal Article
Haste, A., Penn, L., Rodrigues, A. M., Marques, M. M., Budig, K., Bell, R., …Sniehotta, F. F. (2018). Using evidence-based guidelines to inform service provision: a structured mapping exercise within the National Health Service Diabetes Prevention Programme in England. BMC Research Notes, 11(1), Article 510. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3546-8

Objective The National Health Service (NHS) in England planned a national diabetes prevention programme (NHS DPP) with phased implementation. Evidence-based guidelines and service specifications support efficient and effective translation of research... Read More about Using evidence-based guidelines to inform service provision: a structured mapping exercise within the National Health Service Diabetes Prevention Programme in England.