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Ethnographies across virtual and physical spaces: a reflexive commentary on a live Canadian/UK ethnography of distributed medical education (2014)
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Tummons, J., MacLeod, A., & Kits, O. (2015). Ethnographies across virtual and physical spaces: a reflexive commentary on a live Canadian/UK ethnography of distributed medical education. Ethnography and Education, 10(1), 107-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2014.956229

This article draws on an ongoing ethnography of distributed medical education (DME) provision in Canada in order to explore the methodological choices of the researchers as well as the wider pluralisation of ethnographic frameworks that is reflected... Read More about Ethnographies across virtual and physical spaces: a reflexive commentary on a live Canadian/UK ethnography of distributed medical education.

Promoting healthy eating and physical activity among school children: findings from Health-E-PALS, the first pilot intervention from Lebanon (2014)
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Habib-Mourad, C., Ghandour, L., Moore, H., Nabhani-Zeidan, M., Kasim, A., Hwalla, N., & Summerbell, C. (2014). Promoting healthy eating and physical activity among school children: findings from Health-E-PALS, the first pilot intervention from Lebanon. BMC Public Health, 14, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-940

Background: In Lebanon, childhood obesity doubled during the past decade. Preventive measures should start early in life and Schools are considered an important environment to promote energy balance health behaviours. School-based programmes promotin... Read More about Promoting healthy eating and physical activity among school children: findings from Health-E-PALS, the first pilot intervention from Lebanon.

Community pharmacy interventions for public health priorities: protocol for a systematic review of community pharmacy-delivered smoking, alcohol and weight management interventions (2014)
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Todd, A., Moore, H., Husband, A., Bambra, C., Kasim, A., Sniehotta, F., …Summerbell, C. (2014). Community pharmacy interventions for public health priorities: protocol for a systematic review of community pharmacy-delivered smoking, alcohol and weight management interventions. Systematic Reviews, 3, https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-3-93

Background: Community pharmacists can deliver health care advice at an opportunistic level, related to prescription or non-prescription medicines and as part of focused services designed to reduce specific risks to health. Obesity, smoking and excess... Read More about Community pharmacy interventions for public health priorities: protocol for a systematic review of community pharmacy-delivered smoking, alcohol and weight management interventions.

Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes (Protocol) (2014)
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Steed, L., Kassavou, K., Madurasinghe, V., Edwards, E., Todd, A., Summerbell, C., Nkansah, N., Bero, L., Durieux, P., Taylor, S., Rivas, C., & Walton, R. (online). Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Article CD011207. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd011207

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: Primary objective To assess the effectiveness of health promotion interventions in community pharmacy practice settings on pharmacy workers and pharmacy client... Read More about Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes (Protocol).

Micro-hydro politics: producing and contesting community energy in the North of England (2014)
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Armstrong, A., & Bulkeley, H. (2014). Micro-hydro politics: producing and contesting community energy in the North of England. Geoforum, 56, 66-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.06.015

Analyses of the politics of energy production have traditionally focused on issues of resource extraction and large scale generation. Yet questions of politics are just as critical when it comes to considering the development of ‘small’ energy – vari... Read More about Micro-hydro politics: producing and contesting community energy in the North of England.

Peak electricity demand and the flexibility of everyday life (2014)
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Powells, G., Bulkeley, H., Bell, S., & Judson, E. (2014). Peak electricity demand and the flexibility of everyday life. Geoforum, 55, 43-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.04.014

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy consumption in the UK is increasingly linked to the introduction of uncontrollable sources of power, such as solar PV and wind, and the electrification of energy services (Darby, 2012; Department of Energ... Read More about Peak electricity demand and the flexibility of everyday life.

Utilising Data-driven Learning in Chemistry Teaching: a Shortcut to Improving Chemical Language Comprehension (2014)
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Rees, S., Bruce, M., & Bradley, S. (2014). Utilising Data-driven Learning in Chemistry Teaching: a Shortcut to Improving Chemical Language Comprehension. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 10(1), 12-19. https://doi.org/10.11120/ndir.2014.00028

This article describes the development of the FOCUS project and specific pedagogical strategies to improve understanding of the language of chemistry. The importance of language comprehension skills for success in learning chemistry has recently been... Read More about Utilising Data-driven Learning in Chemistry Teaching: a Shortcut to Improving Chemical Language Comprehension.

Retrofitting cities: Local governance in Sydney, Australia (2014)
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Dowling, R., McGuirk, P., & Bulkeley, H. (2014). Retrofitting cities: Local governance in Sydney, Australia. Cities, 38, 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2013.12.004

Transforming cities to a lower carbon future is one of the key challenges of contemporary urban governance. Retrofitting the city – or modifying existing urban infrastructures, buildings and daily life to suit different energy sources and different e... Read More about Retrofitting cities: Local governance in Sydney, Australia.

Making and maintaining lifestyle changes with the support of a lay health advisor: longitudinal qualitative study of health trainer services in northern England (2014)
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Visram, S., Clarke, C., & White, M. (2014). Making and maintaining lifestyle changes with the support of a lay health advisor: longitudinal qualitative study of health trainer services in northern England. PLoS ONE, 9(5), Article e94749. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094749

Objective: To explore and document the experiences of those receiving support from a lay health trainer, in order to inform the optimisation and evaluation of such interventions. Design: Longitudinal qualitative study with up to four serial interview... Read More about Making and maintaining lifestyle changes with the support of a lay health advisor: longitudinal qualitative study of health trainer services in northern England.

Low-carbon Transitions and the Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure (2014)
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Bulkeley, H., Castán Broto, V., & Maassen, A. (2014). Low-carbon Transitions and the Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure. Urban Studies, 51(7), 1471-1486. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013500089

Over the past decade, a growing body of research has examined the role of cities in addressing climate change and the institutional and political challenges which they encounter. For the most part, in these accounts, the infrastructure networks, thei... Read More about Low-carbon Transitions and the Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure.

Embedding language learning strategies within a Foundation Chemistry course using the FOCUS project (2014)
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Rees, S., & Bruce, M. (online). Embedding language learning strategies within a Foundation Chemistry course using the FOCUS project. InForm, 12-14

This article outlines the development of a corpus of good quality student texts in chemistry (The FOCUS project) and how it has been used to develop language understanding within a foundation Chemistry course. The functionality of the concordancing t... Read More about Embedding language learning strategies within a Foundation Chemistry course using the FOCUS project.

“We’re all thrown in the same boat … ”: A qualitative analysis of peer support in dementia care (2014)
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Keyes, S., Clarke, C., Wilkinson, H., Alexjuk, E., Wilcockson, J., Robinson, L., Reynolds, J., McClelland, S., Corner, L., & Cattan, M. (2016). “We’re all thrown in the same boat … ”: A qualitative analysis of peer support in dementia care. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 15(4), 560-577. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301214529575

Exploring the diverse motivations of transnational higher education in China: complexities and contradictions (2014)
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Hou, J., Montgomery, C., & McDowell, L. (2014). Exploring the diverse motivations of transnational higher education in China: complexities and contradictions. Journal of Education for Teaching, 40(3), 300-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2014.903028

This article analyses the current situation of transnational higher education (TNE) in China by conducting a comprehensive documentary analysis. It first situates the phenomenon in global transnational mobility in higher education and then explores t... Read More about Exploring the diverse motivations of transnational higher education in China: complexities and contradictions.

Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics? (2014)
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Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., & Silver, J. (2014). Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics?. Political Geography, 40, 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.003

This paper takes as its starting point the argument that infrastructure networks cannot merely be thought of as the backdrop against which climate politics is played out in the city, but are instead fundamental to the ways in which this is conducted.... Read More about Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics?.

The textual representation of professionalism: problematising professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector (2014)
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Tummons, J. (2014). The textual representation of professionalism: problematising professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 19(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2014.872918

The problematisation of the professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector tends to focus on the discourses that the standards embody: discourses that are posited as being based on a restricted or technicist model of professio... Read More about The textual representation of professionalism: problematising professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector.

Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon governance: Perspectives from the Australian city (2014)
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McGuirk, P., Bulkeley, H., & Dowling, R. (2014). Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon governance: Perspectives from the Australian city. Geoforum, 52, 137-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.01.007

This paper addresses the governance of transitions to lower carbon cities. Drawing on both governmentality and neo-Gramscian perspectives, we chart and explore the diverse objects, subjects, means and ends evoked as governmental programs, or hegemoni... Read More about Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon governance: Perspectives from the Australian city.

Contesting climate justice in the city: Examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments (2014)
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Bulkeley, H., Edwards, G. A., & Fuller, S. (2014). Contesting climate justice in the city: Examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments. Global Environmental Change, 25, 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.01.009

Debates about climate justice have mainly occurred at the international scale, and have focussed on the rights and responsibilities of nation-states to either be protected from the effects of climate change, or to take action to reduce emissions or s... Read More about Contesting climate justice in the city: Examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments.