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Implementing extreme weather event advice and guidance in English public health systems (2016)
Journal Article
Wistow, J., Curtis, S., & Bone, A. (2017). Implementing extreme weather event advice and guidance in English public health systems. Journal of Public Health, 39(3), 498-505. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdw094

Background Extreme weather events (EWEs) can significantly impact on mortality and morbidity in the UK. How EWE guidance is disseminated and applied across health and social care systems, at the local, operational level, is not well understood. Metho... Read More about Implementing extreme weather event advice and guidance in English public health systems.

Creating Spaces for Autonomy: The Architecture of Learning and Thinking in Danish Schools and Universities (2016)
Book Chapter
Hope, M., & Montgomery, C. (2016). Creating Spaces for Autonomy: The Architecture of Learning and Thinking in Danish Schools and Universities. In H. Lees, & N. Noddings (Eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education (305-319). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41291-1_20

This chapter focuses on the concept of space and its relationship to autonomy and perceptions of freedom in education. It includes a review of the literature that indicates the links between physical and metaphorical spaces and learning are still lar... Read More about Creating Spaces for Autonomy: The Architecture of Learning and Thinking in Danish Schools and Universities.

Parental response to a letter reporting child overweight measured as part of a routine national programme in England: results from interviews with parents (2016)
Journal Article
Nnyanzi, L. A., Summerbell, C. D., Ells, L., & Shucksmith, J. (2016). Parental response to a letter reporting child overweight measured as part of a routine national programme in England: results from interviews with parents. BMC Public Health, 16(1), Article 846. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3481-3

Background Rising rates of childhood obesity have become a pressing issue in public health, threatening both the mental and physical well-being of children. Attempts to address this problem are multifaceted, and in England include the National Child... Read More about Parental response to a letter reporting child overweight measured as part of a routine national programme in England: results from interviews with parents.

Perceptions of nursery staff and parent views of healthy eating promotion in preschool settings: an exploratory qualitative study (2016)
Journal Article
McSweeney, L. A., Rapley, T., Summerbell, C. D., Haighton, C. A., & Adamson, A. J. (2016). Perceptions of nursery staff and parent views of healthy eating promotion in preschool settings: an exploratory qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 16(1), Article 841. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3507-x

Background In the UK just over a fifth of all children start school overweight or obese and overweight 2–5 year olds are at least 4 times more likely to become overweight adults. This can lead to serious future health problems. The WHO have recently... Read More about Perceptions of nursery staff and parent views of healthy eating promotion in preschool settings: an exploratory qualitative study.

Temporal Relationships Between Individualism–Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia: A Word Frequency Analysis Using the Google Ngram Corpus (2016)
Journal Article
Skrebyte, A., Garnett, P., & Kendal, J. (2016). Temporal Relationships Between Individualism–Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia: A Word Frequency Analysis Using the Google Ngram Corpus. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47(9), 1217-1235. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022116659540

Collectivism and individualism are commonly used to delineate societies that differ in their cultural values and patterns of social behavior, prioritizing the relative importance of the group and the individual, respectively. Collectivist and individ... Read More about Temporal Relationships Between Individualism–Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia: A Word Frequency Analysis Using the Google Ngram Corpus.

Urban political ecologies of housing and climate change: the ‘Coolest Block’ Contest in Philadelphia (2016)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., & Bulkeley, H. (2017). Urban political ecologies of housing and climate change: the ‘Coolest Block’ Contest in Philadelphia. Urban Studies, 54(5), 1126-1141. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015617907

Urban authorities and a range of private and civil society actors have come to view housing as a key arena in which to address climate change whilst also pursuing wider social, economic and environmental objectives. Housing has been a critical area f... Read More about Urban political ecologies of housing and climate change: the ‘Coolest Block’ Contest in Philadelphia.

The Invisible Work of Distributed Medical Education: Exploring the Contributions of Audiovisual Professionals, Administrative Professionals and Faculty Teachers (2016)
Journal Article
MacLeod, A., Kits, O., Mann, K., Tummons, J., & Wilson, K. (2016). The Invisible Work of Distributed Medical Education: Exploring the Contributions of Audiovisual Professionals, Administrative Professionals and Faculty Teachers. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 22, 623-638. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-016-9695-4

Distributed medical education (DME) is becoming increasingly prevalent. Much of the published literature on DME has focused on the experiences of learners in distributed programs; however, our empirical work leads us to believe that DME changes the c... Read More about The Invisible Work of Distributed Medical Education: Exploring the Contributions of Audiovisual Professionals, Administrative Professionals and Faculty Teachers.

Decarbonisation at home: the contingent politics of experimental domestic energy technologies (2016)
Journal Article
Bickerstaff, K., Hinton, E., & Bulkeley, H. (2016). Decarbonisation at home: the contingent politics of experimental domestic energy technologies. Environment and Planning A, 48(10), 2006-2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16653403

Policy efforts to reduce the carbon intensity of domestic energy consumption have, over the last three decades, been dominated by an almost dichotomous reading of the relationship between technology and social change. On the one hand, there is a conc... Read More about Decarbonisation at home: the contingent politics of experimental domestic energy technologies.

Making a Smart City for the Smart Grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., McGuirk, P., & Dowling, R. (2016). Making a Smart City for the Smart Grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks. Environment and Planning A, 48(9), 1709-1726. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16648152

In a growing debate about the smart city, considerations of the ways in which urban infrastructures and their materialities are being reconfigured and contested remain in the shadows of analyses which have been primarily concerned with the management... Read More about Making a Smart City for the Smart Grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks.

Development and evaluation of an intervention for the prevention of childhood obesity in a multiethnic population: the Born in Bradford applied research programme (2016)
Journal Article
Wright, J., Fairley, L., McEachan, R., Bryant, M., Petherick, E., Sahota, P., …Small, N. (2016). Development and evaluation of an intervention for the prevention of childhood obesity in a multiethnic population: the Born in Bradford applied research programme. Programme Grants for Applied Research, 4(6), 1-164. https://doi.org/10.3310/pgfar04060

Background: There is an absence of evidence about interventions to prevent or treat obesity in early childhood and in South Asian populations, in whom risk is higher. Objectives: To study patterns and the aetiology of childhood obesity in a multiethn... Read More about Development and evaluation of an intervention for the prevention of childhood obesity in a multiethnic population: the Born in Bradford applied research programme.

Transnational partnerships in Higher Education in China: the diversity and complexity of elite strategic alliances (2016)
Journal Article
Montgomery, C. (2016). Transnational partnerships in Higher Education in China: the diversity and complexity of elite strategic alliances. London Review of Education, 14(1), 70-85. https://doi.org/10.18546/lre.14.1.08

Transnational partnerships between universities can illustrate the changing political, social, and cultural terrain of global higher education. Drawing on secondary data analysis of government educational statistics, university web pages, and a compr... Read More about Transnational partnerships in Higher Education in China: the diversity and complexity of elite strategic alliances.

Europe's ‘Others’ in the Polar Mediterranean (2016)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. (2016). Europe's ‘Others’ in the Polar Mediterranean. Journal of Economic and Human Geography, 107(2), 177-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12176

A large body of literature problematises the role of the Mediterranean, as both civilisational hearth and liminal frontier, in both ancient and modern Europe. However, much less attention has been directed to the inland sea at Europe's northern edge:... Read More about Europe's ‘Others’ in the Polar Mediterranean.

Leadership between decks: a synthesis and development of engagement and resistance theories of leadership based on evidence from practice in Royal Navy warships (2016)
Journal Article
Offord, M., Gill, R., & Kendal, J. (2016). Leadership between decks: a synthesis and development of engagement and resistance theories of leadership based on evidence from practice in Royal Navy warships. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 37(2), 289-304. https://doi.org/10.1108/lodj-07-2014-0119

Purpose To understand the role of interaction in the process of leadership. Interaction has been claimed to be a leadership competence in earlier research into leadership in the Royal Navy. The aim of this research is to define how interaction works... Read More about Leadership between decks: a synthesis and development of engagement and resistance theories of leadership based on evidence from practice in Royal Navy warships.

Write on the edge: using a chemistry corpus to develop academic writing skills resources for undergraduate chemists (2016)
Journal Article
Bruce, M., Coffer, P., Rees, S., & Robson, J. (2016). Write on the edge: using a chemistry corpus to develop academic writing skills resources for undergraduate chemists. Chemistry education research and practice, https://doi.org/10.1039/c6rp00005c

Many undergraduate students find the production of an extended piece of academic writing challenging. This challenge is more acute in the sciences where production of extended texts is infrequent throughout undergraduate studies. This paper reports t... Read More about Write on the edge: using a chemistry corpus to develop academic writing skills resources for undergraduate chemists.

Assessing the feasibility of evaluating and delivering a physical activity intervention for pre-school children: a pilot randomised controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Barber, S., Jackson, C., Hewitt, C., Ainsworth, H., Buckley, H., Akhtar, S., …Wright, J. (2016). Assessing the feasibility of evaluating and delivering a physical activity intervention for pre-school children: a pilot randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-016-0052-4

Background: Few evidence-based physical activity interventions for pre-school children are available. This two-armed pilot cluster randomised controlled trial aimed to evaluate the feasibility of conducting a full-scale trial and of delivering an out... Read More about Assessing the feasibility of evaluating and delivering a physical activity intervention for pre-school children: a pilot randomised controlled trial.