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Manoeuvring rural mobility policy for active and sustainable travel (2025)
Journal Article
Asker, C., McGuire, L., Pollard, T., Barr, S., Green, J., Phoenix, C., & Guell, C. (in press). Manoeuvring rural mobility policy for active and sustainable travel. Social Science & Medicine, Article 118074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118074

Promoting “slow mobilities” and low carbon transport alternatives, through supporting active and sustainable travel (AST, including walking, cycling, wheeling, and public transport), is a priority for both public health and net zero strategies. Using... Read More about Manoeuvring rural mobility policy for active and sustainable travel.

Research co-production: What is co-production, why do it, and how might it be practiced, evaluated, and move forward? (2025)
Book Chapter
Smith, B., & Williams, T. (in press). Research co-production: What is co-production, why do it, and how might it be practiced, evaluated, and move forward?. In M. D. Giardina, M. K. Donnelly, & D. J. Waldman (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Culture. SAGE Publications

This chapter focuses on co-production. In the first section we cover the ‘what’ question without wishing to essentialize or ontological finalize the concept of co-production. To help with the ‘what ‘is’’ question, and respect difference, different ty... Read More about Research co-production: What is co-production, why do it, and how might it be practiced, evaluated, and move forward?.

Position specific peak running demands, and influence of bout type in professional rugby union (2025)
Journal Article
Glassbrook, D. J., Williams, L. D., & McShane, K. J. (2025). Position specific peak running demands, and influence of bout type in professional rugby union. PLoS ONE, 20(4), Article e0320286. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320286

Objectives: To quantify peak running intensity in professional rugby union across position groups, and peak running intensity differences between bout types (i.e., whole, starter, substitute). Design: Longitudinal study. Method: Global positioning sy... Read More about Position specific peak running demands, and influence of bout type in professional rugby union.

Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport (2025)
Journal Article
Gemar, A., Allison, R., & Pope, S. (online). Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport. Communication and Sport, https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251327958

This article examines public attitudes towards the media coverage of women’s sport in a context of recent growth but also continued inequality in both quantity and quality of coverage. Drawing from literature on the role of gender ideology in underpi... Read More about Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport.

Advancing trabecular bone score (TBS): clinical performance of TBS version 4.0 with direct correction for soft tissue thickness—the osteolaus study (2025)
Journal Article
Gatineau, G., Hind, K., Shevroja, E., Gonzalez-Rodriguez, E., Lamy, O., & Hans, D. (online). Advancing trabecular bone score (TBS): clinical performance of TBS version 4.0 with direct correction for soft tissue thickness—the osteolaus study. Osteoporosis International, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07421-4

This study compared TBS v4.0, which uses DXA-derived tissue thickness corrections, with TBS v3, which adjusts using BMI. TBS v4.0 improved soft tissue adjustments and maintained fracture risk prediction equivalence with TBS v3, enhancing applicabilit... Read More about Advancing trabecular bone score (TBS): clinical performance of TBS version 4.0 with direct correction for soft tissue thickness—the osteolaus study.

Do the effects of interventions aimed at the prevention of childhood obesity reduce inequities? A re-analysis of randomized trial data from two Cochrane reviews (2025)
Journal Article
Palmer, J. C., Davies, A. L., Spiga, F., Heitmann, B. L., Jago, R., Summerbell, C. D., Higgins, J. P., Astrup, A., Barbosa Filho, V. C., Benden, M. E., Boddy, L., Bogart, L. M., Brown, B., Carlin, A., Pozuelo Carrascosa, D. P., Chai, L. K., Drummy, C., Duncan, S., Ebbeling, C., Martos, E., …Wolfenden, L. (2025). Do the effects of interventions aimed at the prevention of childhood obesity reduce inequities? A re-analysis of randomized trial data from two Cochrane reviews. EClinicalMedicine, 81, Article 103130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103130

Background: Public health attempts to prevent obesity in children and young people should aim to minimize health inequalities. Two Cochrane reviews examining interventions aiming to prevent childhood obesity found that interventions promoting (only)... Read More about Do the effects of interventions aimed at the prevention of childhood obesity reduce inequities? A re-analysis of randomized trial data from two Cochrane reviews.

Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work (2025)
Journal Article
Mohr, E., Jamie, K., & Hockin-Boyers, H. (online). Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work. Fat Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2025.2469357

In this article we propose bringing together theoretical frameworks from fat studies and research into street harassment, as a form of gendered violence, to provide a novel lens for thinking about fat women’s experiences of public space. By focusing... Read More about Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work.

Arts-based research: Attending to methods (2025)
Journal Article
Phoenix, C., & Chamberlain, K. (online). Arts-based research: Attending to methods. Methods in Psychology, Article 100179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2025.100179

Arts-based research covers a considerable diversity of approaches and uses in research and is not readily amenable to definition, although definitions have been offered. For instance, McNiff (2018, p. 24) has described arts-based research “as a proce... Read More about Arts-based research: Attending to methods.