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Participant permanence: Exploring and enhancing experiences of research involvement in UK adults with vision impairment through an Online Participant Engagement Network (OPEN) (2024)
Journal Article
Roberts-Mills, W. M. C., Richardson, M., Scheller, M., Tavoulari, A., Proulx, M. J., & de Sousa, A. A. (online). Participant permanence: Exploring and enhancing experiences of research involvement in UK adults with vision impairment through an Online Participant Engagement Network (OPEN). British Journal of Visual Impairment, https://doi.org/10.1177/02646196241298203

For individuals with vision impairment (VI), there can be physical and technical barriers to participating in research and accessing research outputs. As a result, researchers often target smaller VI samples and individuals with VI are left under-inv... Read More about Participant permanence: Exploring and enhancing experiences of research involvement in UK adults with vision impairment through an Online Participant Engagement Network (OPEN).

''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. G., & Tovee, M. J. (2025). ''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, 52, Article 101817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101817

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..

Barriers and facilitators to increasing physical activity in medium secure mental health settings: an exploration of staff perceptions (2024)
Journal Article
Lewis, K., Roden-Lui, G., Faulkner, G., Gibbon, S., Hewitt, C., Hughes, E., Khan, W., Lucock, M., Singh, B., Walters, P., Watson, J., & Walker, T. (2025). Barriers and facilitators to increasing physical activity in medium secure mental health settings: an exploration of staff perceptions. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 28, Article 100663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2024.100663

Purpose
The benefits of physical activity for people with severe mental illness (SMI) is widely recognised but for those in medium secure settings there are additional environmental barriers to being active that have not been fully explored. The aim... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to increasing physical activity in medium secure mental health settings: an exploration of staff perceptions.

Early auditory impairments as a candidate marker of attenuated sensory symptoms of psychosis. (2024)
Journal Article
Dondé, C., Palmer-Cooper, E., Gauld, C., Polosan, M., & Alderson-Day, B. (2025). Early auditory impairments as a candidate marker of attenuated sensory symptoms of psychosis. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 136, Article 111214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2024.111214

Background and hypothesis
Deficits in early auditory processing (EAP), as indexed by tone-matching performance, have been consistently demonstrated in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. However, the ontogeny of tone-matching deficits... Read More about Early auditory impairments as a candidate marker of attenuated sensory symptoms of psychosis..

Assessing fidelity of design and training of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) in a mental health inpatient setting (2024)
Journal Article
Kemp, E., Aquino, M. R. J., Wilson, R., Vasiljevic, M., McBride, K., Robson, C., Faulkner, S., Loraine, M., Harland, J., Haighton, C., & Rodrigues, A. (2024). Assessing fidelity of design and training of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) in a mental health inpatient setting. BMC Public Health, 24, Article 3335. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20774-5

Background: Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is a public health strategy which strives to enable brief interventions to be implemented through opportunistic healthy lifestyle conversations. In a mental health inpatient setting a bespoke MECC trainin... Read More about Assessing fidelity of design and training of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) in a mental health inpatient setting.

“It has shown me how much I am capable of”: An Exploration of Autistic Burnout Experiences in Motherhood (2024)
Journal Article
Pearson, A., Ferguson, A., & Martin, D. (online). “It has shown me how much I am capable of”: An Exploration of Autistic Burnout Experiences in Motherhood. Autism in Adulthood, https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2024.0282

Background: Research has highlighted a relationship between autistic motherhood and autistic burnout, though autistic mothers’ experiences of autistic burnout have not been explored in depth.

Method: To address this research gap, we used a partic... Read More about “It has shown me how much I am capable of”: An Exploration of Autistic Burnout Experiences in Motherhood.

Cognition in meningioma: effects of tumour location and tumour removal. (2024)
Journal Article
Barne, I., Wells, C. E., Wheeler, M., Bairstow, H., Brechin, D., Evans, S., & Lever, C. (online). Cognition in meningioma: effects of tumour location and tumour removal. World Neurosurgery, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2024.11.102

Meningiomas are the most common type of primary intracranial tumour, yet very few studies have assessed the effects of tumour removal. Here we report analysis of patients with meningiomas who underwent routine neuropsychological assessment and surger... Read More about Cognition in meningioma: effects of tumour location and tumour removal..

Situation Networks: The emotions and activities that are central to nature-connectedness experiences (2024)
Journal Article
Lengieza, M. L., Richardson, M., & Aviste, R. (2025). Situation Networks: The emotions and activities that are central to nature-connectedness experiences. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101, Article 102491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102491

Many of the psychological phenomena that are relevant to the environmental crises facing the globe are determined by a complex set of interrelated constructs—that is, they are determined by a network of factors. In recognizing that these factors form... Read More about Situation Networks: The emotions and activities that are central to nature-connectedness experiences.

Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study (2024)
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Lucca, K., Yuen, F., Wang, Y., Alessandroni, N., Allison, O., Alvarez, M., Axelsson, E. L., Baumer, J., Baumgartner, H. A., Bertels, J., Bhavsar, M., Byers‐Heinlein, K., Capelier‐Mourguy, A., Chijiiwa, H., Chin, C. S., Christner, N., Cirelli, L. K., Corbit, J., Daum, M. M., Doan, T., …Hamlin, J. K. (2024). Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study. Developmental Science, 28(1), Article e13581. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13581

Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluations based on third-party interactions emerges within... Read More about Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study.

Medical skin camouflage for women in prison with self-harm scars (COVER): randomised feasibility study (2024)
Journal Article
Gutridge, K., Robinson, L., Mitchell, H., Meacock, R., Ranote, S., Shaw, J., Walker, T., & Abel, K. M. (online). Medical skin camouflage for women in prison with self-harm scars (COVER): randomised feasibility study. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2024.2420965

Far more women prisoners self-harm than women in the community or men in prison. There has been little focus on the effects on prisoners of living with self-harm scars. Medical skin camouflage (MSC), designed to cover skin disfigurement, improves qua... Read More about Medical skin camouflage for women in prison with self-harm scars (COVER): randomised feasibility study.