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Initial protocol for a national evaluation of an area-based intervention programme (A Better Start) on early-life outcomes: a longitudinal cohort study with comparison (control) cohort samples (2017)
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Barlow, J., Beake, S., Bick, D., Bryson, C., Day, L., Gilby, N., …Woolgar, V. (2017). Initial protocol for a national evaluation of an area-based intervention programme (A Better Start) on early-life outcomes: a longitudinal cohort study with comparison (control) cohort samples. BMJ Open, 7(8), Article e015086. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015086

Introduction Pregnancy and the first few years of a child’s life are important windows of opportunity in which to equalise life chances. A Better Start (ABS) is an area-based intervention being delivered in five areas of socioeconomic disadvantage ac... Read More about Initial protocol for a national evaluation of an area-based intervention programme (A Better Start) on early-life outcomes: a longitudinal cohort study with comparison (control) cohort samples.

Multidisciplinary exhibit design in a Science Centre: a participatory action research approach (2017)
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Rudman, H., Bailey-Ross, C., Kendal, J., Mursic, Z., Lloyd, A., Ross, B., & Kendal, R. L. (2018). Multidisciplinary exhibit design in a Science Centre: a participatory action research approach. Educational Action Research, 26(4), 567-588-588. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2017.1360786

In this paper we highlight the issues and opportunities of a participatory action research (PAR) and co-design project, currently being undertaken as engaged research between academics at Durham University and practitioners at the UK’s International... Read More about Multidisciplinary exhibit design in a Science Centre: a participatory action research approach.

Imitation is not always flattery! The consequences of academy schools in England for further education policy (2017)
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Ingleby, E., & Tummons, J. (2017). Imitation is not always flattery! The consequences of academy schools in England for further education policy. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 22(2), 237-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2017.1314682

This article explores the consequences of the introduction of academy schools in England for further education. It is argued that the uncertainty of the remit of academy schools has indirect consequences for further education and that the employabili... Read More about Imitation is not always flattery! The consequences of academy schools in England for further education policy.

Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 weight management interventions for adults: a systematic review (2017)
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Brown, T., O'Malley, C., Blackshaw, J., Coulton, V., Tedstone, A., Summerbell, C., & Ells, L. (2017). Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 weight management interventions for adults: a systematic review. Clinical Obesity, 7(5), 260-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/cob.12204

The objective of the study is to review the characteristics, impact and practice implications of specialist weight management services for adults in the UK. Systematic review: EMBASE, MEDLINE and PsycINFO were searched from January 2005 to March 2016... Read More about Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 weight management interventions for adults: a systematic review.

(Un)frozen spaces: Exploring the role of sea ice in the marine socio-legal spaces of the Bering and Beaufort Seas (2017)
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Shake, K., Frey, K., Martin, D., & Steinberg, P. (2018). (Un)frozen spaces: Exploring the role of sea ice in the marine socio-legal spaces of the Bering and Beaufort Seas. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 33(2), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2017.1340847

Sea ice is a dynamic physical element of the greater Arctic marine system, one that has myriad connections to human systems on a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Changes to the spatial extent of sea ice simultaneously permits and endangers mar... Read More about (Un)frozen spaces: Exploring the role of sea ice in the marine socio-legal spaces of the Bering and Beaufort Seas.

Advancing shannon entropy for measuring diversity in systems (2017)
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Rajaram, R., Castellani, B., & Wilson, A. (2017). Advancing shannon entropy for measuring diversity in systems. Complexity, 2017, Article 8715605. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/8715605

From economic inequality and species diversity to power laws and the analysis of multiple trends and trajectories, diversity within systems is a major issue for science. Part of the challenge is measuring it. Shannon entropy has been used to rethink... Read More about Advancing shannon entropy for measuring diversity in systems.

‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’: mapping ice as state practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North (2017)
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Steinberg, P., & Kristoffersen, B. (2017). ‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’: mapping ice as state practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(4), 625-641. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12184

This paper explores how ‘ice’ is woven into the spaces and practices of the state in Norway and Canada and, specifically, how representations of the sea ice edge become political agents in that process. We focus in particular on how these states have... Read More about ‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’: mapping ice as state practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North.

Effect and process evaluation of a kindergarten-based, family-involved intervention with a randomized cluster design on sedentary behaviour in 4- to 6- year old European preschool children: The ToyBox-study (2017)
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Latomme, J., Cardon, G., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., Iotova, V., Koletzko, B., Socha, P., …Voegele, C. (2017). Effect and process evaluation of a kindergarten-based, family-involved intervention with a randomized cluster design on sedentary behaviour in 4- to 6- year old European preschool children: The ToyBox-study. PLoS ONE, 12(4), Article e0172730. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172730

Background The aim of the present study evaluated the effect and process of the ToyBox-intervention on proxy-reported sedentary behaviours in 4- to 6-year-old preschoolers from six European countries. Methods In total, 2434 preschoolers’ parents/prim... Read More about Effect and process evaluation of a kindergarten-based, family-involved intervention with a randomized cluster design on sedentary behaviour in 4- to 6- year old European preschool children: The ToyBox-study.

Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales (2017)
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Acerbi, A., Kendal, J., & Tehrani, J. (2017). Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(4), 474-480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.03.005

We investigate the relationship between cultural complexity and population size in a non-technological cultural domain for which we have suitable quantitative records: folktales. We define three levels of complexity for folk narratives: the number of... Read More about Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales.

Designing an Internationalised Curriculum for Higher Education: Embracing the Local and the Global Citizen (2017)
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Clifford, V., & Montgomery, C. (2017). Designing an Internationalised Curriculum for Higher Education: Embracing the Local and the Global Citizen. Higher Education Research & Development, 36(6), 1138-1151. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2017.1296413

In this article, differing interpretations of the internationalisation of higher education curriculum are explored analysing the structural and cultural aspects of the curriculum. Voices of tertiary staff from around the world taking part in a four-w... Read More about Designing an Internationalised Curriculum for Higher Education: Embracing the Local and the Global Citizen.

Making the case for qualitative comparative analysis in geographical research: a case study of health resilience (2017)
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Cairns, J., Wistow, J., & Bambra, C. (2017). Making the case for qualitative comparative analysis in geographical research: a case study of health resilience. Area, 49(3), 369-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12327

This paper critically discusses the utility of using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in geographical research following the ‘complexity turn’. Although QCA methodology has increasingly been applied in other social science disciplines, it is no... Read More about Making the case for qualitative comparative analysis in geographical research: a case study of health resilience.

Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England (2017)
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Curtis, S., Oven, K., Wistow, J., Dunn, C., & Dominelli, L. (2018). Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36(1), 67-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654417695101

Our findings contribute to a growing international literature on how conceptual models from complexity theory may be relevant to inform planning in health and social care systems, helping to adapt and improve preparedness and resilience to extreme we... Read More about Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England.

Using technology to accomplish comparability of provision in distributed medical education in Canada: an actor–network theory ethnography (2017)
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Tummons, J., Fournier, C., Kits, O., & Macleod, A. (2018). Using technology to accomplish comparability of provision in distributed medical education in Canada: an actor–network theory ethnography. Studies in Higher Education, 43(11), 1912-1922. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1290063

This article is derived from a three-year ethnography of distributed medical education at one Canadian University across two Canadian provinces. It explores the ways in which students and staff work inside the technologically rich teaching environmen... Read More about Using technology to accomplish comparability of provision in distributed medical education in Canada: an actor–network theory ethnography.

ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research (2017)
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Tummons, J. (2017). ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research. Acta paedagogica Vilnensia (Spausdinta), 39, 132-143. https://doi.org/10.15388/actpaed.2017.39.11488

In this article, I offer a reflexive account drawing on my role as co-investigator based on a three-year institutional ethnography: Medical Education in a Digital Age. Three problematic issues are discussed: first, the ways by which a reliance on dig... Read More about ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research.

Determinants of Change in Physical Activity in Children 0–6 years of Age: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Literature (2016)
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Hesketh, K., O'Malley, C., Paes, V., Moore, H., Summerbell, C., Ong, K., …Sluijs, E. (2016). Determinants of Change in Physical Activity in Children 0–6 years of Age: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Literature. Sports Medicine, 47(4), 1349-1374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-016-0656-0

Background Understanding the determinants of children’s health behaviours is important to develop successful behaviour-change interventions. Objective We aimed to synthesise the evidence around determinants (‘preceding predictors’) of change in physi... Read More about Determinants of Change in Physical Activity in Children 0–6 years of Age: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Literature.