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Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19 (2024)
Journal Article
Burgoyne, K., Hargreaves, S., Akhter, N., Cramman, H., Eerola, P., Einbeck, J., & Menzies, V. (online). Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19. JCPP Advances, Article e12279. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12279

Background: Parents play a key role in their child's early development but evidence that parental engagement strategies are effective is unclear. The current study evaluated a parent‐delivered early language teaching programme that aimed to support c... Read More about Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19.

Directed Clustering of Multivariate Data Based on Linear or Quadratic Latent Variable Models (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., & Einbeck, J. (2024). Directed Clustering of Multivariate Data Based on Linear or Quadratic Latent Variable Models. Algorithms, 17(8), Article 358. https://doi.org/10.3390/a17080358

We consider situations in which the clustering of some multivariate data is desired, which establishes an ordering of the clusters with respect to an underlying latent variable. As our motivating example for a situation where such a technique is desi... Read More about Directed Clustering of Multivariate Data Based on Linear or Quadratic Latent Variable Models.

Are Informal Older Workers Utilizing Less Healthcare Services? Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, Wave-1 (2024)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, P., & Singh, A. (2024). Are Informal Older Workers Utilizing Less Healthcare Services? Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, Wave-1. Journal of Population Ageing, 17(4), 721-749. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-024-09458-5

India’s informal sector employs many workers without social security benefits, such as pension support and health insurance. Many older workers continue to work in this sector beyond the retirement age (60 + years) due to financial and health needs.... Read More about Are Informal Older Workers Utilizing Less Healthcare Services? Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, Wave-1.

Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450 (2023)
Journal Article
Brown, A. T., & Cox, B. (2023). Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450. Continuity and Change, 38(3), 255 - 281. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416023000322

Historians have long used the archives of major institutions to shed light on medieval society, but in more recent decades the focus has turned towards the proliferation of legal documentation possessed by those lower down the social order and the in... Read More about Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450.

An exploration of doctoral students’ resilience and coping strategies using Grounded Theory as the analytic lens (2023)
Journal Article
Kokotsaki, D. (2023). An exploration of doctoral students’ resilience and coping strategies using Grounded Theory as the analytic lens. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 18, 173-198. https://doi.org/10.28945/5137

Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to explore doctoral students’ perceived resilience and the coping strategies they choose to employ to overcome challenging circumstances during their studies. Background: Doctoral students often experience barriers which... Read More about An exploration of doctoral students’ resilience and coping strategies using Grounded Theory as the analytic lens.

Innovation and change within education (2023)
Book Chapter
Tymms, P., & Bolden, D. (in press). Innovation and change within education. In D. D. Preiss, M. Singer, & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Creativity, Innovation, and Change Across Cultures. (1). Palgrave Macmillan

‘The only constant in life is change’ (Heraclitus) and so it is with education. Children change due to maturation, culture, home and teaching. In addition, the education systems within which children find themselves also change; the systems evolve an... Read More about Innovation and change within education.

Peer-mentoring in a pandemic: an evaluation of a series of new departmental peer-mentor schemes created to support student belonging and transition during COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Bruce, M., Gangoli, G., Mates, L., Millican, A. S., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2023). Peer-mentoring in a pandemic: an evaluation of a series of new departmental peer-mentor schemes created to support student belonging and transition during COVID-19. Student engagement in higher education journal, 5(1), 61-82

The rapid move to predominately online learning engendered by the COVID-19 crisis created an urgent need to rethink support mechanisms central to student engagement and transition, namely community-building and identity within the institution. One im... Read More about Peer-mentoring in a pandemic: an evaluation of a series of new departmental peer-mentor schemes created to support student belonging and transition during COVID-19.

Different types of uncertainty in multisensory perceptual decision making (2023)
Journal Article
Aston, S., Nardini, M., & Beierholm, U. (2023). Different types of uncertainty in multisensory perceptual decision making. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1886), Article 20220349. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0349

Efficient decision-making requires accounting for sources of uncertainty (noise, or variability). Many studies have shown how the nervous system is able to account for perceptual uncertainty (noise, variability) that arises from limitations in its ow... Read More about Different types of uncertainty in multisensory perceptual decision making.

Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511 (2023)
Journal Article
Sakamoto Martini, G., Kendal, J., & Tehrani, J. J. (2023). Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511. Fabula: Journal of Folktale Studies, 64(1-2), 7-30. https://doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2023-0002

This case study contributes to recent attempts to apply “phylomemetic” methods derived from computational biology to oral traditions, where the aim is to trace the mutation and diversification of folk narratives as they get passed on from generation... Read More about Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511.

Discussion of specifying prior distributions in reliability applications (2023)
Journal Article
Coolen, F. (2023). Discussion of specifying prior distributions in reliability applications. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 40(1), 108-110. https://doi.org/10.1002/asmb.2799

The paper Specifying Prior Distributions in Reliability Applications (Tian et al. (2023)) mainly provides an overview of methods for selecting noninformative prior distributions for parameters of basic lifetime distributions, as often used in reliabi... Read More about Discussion of specifying prior distributions in reliability applications.

A Reflection on Three Decades of Development (2023)
Book Chapter
Tymms, P. (2023). A Reflection on Three Decades of Development. In P. Tymms, T. Bartholo, S. Howie, E. Kardanova, M. Campelo Koslinski, & H. Wildy (Eds.), The First Year at School: An International Perspective (3-24). (1). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28589-9_1

This chapter recounts the history and development of the project on which the book is based. In 1992, the acronym PIPS (Performance Indicators in Primary Schools) was created, leading to the development of a research project. PIPS expanded over the y... Read More about A Reflection on Three Decades of Development.

Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use (2023)
Journal Article
Denton, K. K., Kendal, J. R., Ihara, Y., & Feldman, M. W. (2023). Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use. Theoretical Population Biology, 153, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2023.06.001

The evolution of a cultural trait may be affected by niche construction, or changes in the selective environment of that trait due to the inheritance of other cultural traits that make up a cultural background. This study investigates the evolution o... Read More about Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use.

Smoothed bootstrap methods for bivariate data (2023)
Journal Article
Al Luhayb, A., Coolen-Maturi, T., & Coolen, F. (2023). Smoothed bootstrap methods for bivariate data. Journal of statistical theory and practice, 17(3), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42519-023-00334-7

A smoothed bootstrap method is introduced for right-censored data based on the rightcensoring-A(n) assumption introduced by Coolen and Yan (2004), which is a generalization of Hill’s A(n) assumption (Hill, 1968) for right-censored data. The smoothed... Read More about Smoothed bootstrap methods for bivariate data.

A generalized system reliability model based on survival signature and multiple competing failure processes (2023)
Journal Article
Chang, M., Coolen, F., Coolen-Maturi, T., & Huang, X. (online). A generalized system reliability model based on survival signature and multiple competing failure processes. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 435, Article 115364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2023.115364

Degradation-based system reliability analysis has been extensively conducted, but the components in a system are assumed to experience similar degradation and shock processes, neglecting actual failure mechanisms. However, multiple types of component... Read More about A generalized system reliability model based on survival signature and multiple competing failure processes.

Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Peart, M., Higgins, S., Gutiérrez-Esteban, P., & Cubo Delgado, S. (2023). Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979231170232

Digital Citizenship is an emerging field of research but there is still a lack of knowledge into what works and how to implement educational practices to develop digital citizenship. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between... Read More about Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK.

The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour (2023)
Journal Article
Gowland, R. L., Caffell, A. C., Quade, L., Levene, A., Millard, A. R., Holst, M., …Alexander, M. M. (2023). The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour. PLoS ONE, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284970

Child labour is the most common form of child abuse in the world today, with almost half of child workers employed in hazardous industries. The large-scale employment of children during the rapid industrialisation of the late 18th and early 19th cent... Read More about The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour.

Detecting the influence of the Chinese guiding cases: a text reuse approach (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, B. M., Li, Z., Cai, D., & Ash, E. (2024). Detecting the influence of the Chinese guiding cases: a text reuse approach. Artificial Intelligence and Law, 32, 463-486. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-023-09358-7

Socialist courts are supposed to apply the law, not make it, and socialist legality denies judicial decisions any precedential status. In 2011, the Chinese Supreme People’s Court designated selected decisions as Guiding Cases to be referred to by all... Read More about Detecting the influence of the Chinese guiding cases: a text reuse approach.

‘Bigotry is all around us, and we have to deal with that’: Exploring LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences and understandings of health inequalities in North East England (2023)
Journal Article
Griffin, N., Crowder, M., Kyle, P., Holding, E., Woodrow, N., Fairbrother, H., …Scott, S. (2023). ‘Bigotry is all around us, and we have to deal with that’: Exploring LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences and understandings of health inequalities in North East England. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 3, Article 100263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100263

Background: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual/agender+ (LGBTQ+ hereafter) people report poorer health and worse experiences of healthcare than the general population, compounded by growing inequalities in healt... Read More about ‘Bigotry is all around us, and we have to deal with that’: Exploring LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences and understandings of health inequalities in North East England.

Sociodemographic, temporal and bedtime routine correlates of sleep timing and duration in South Asian and white children: A Born in Bradford study (2023)
Journal Article
Pal, E., Blackwell, J. E., Ball, H. L., & Collings, P. J. (2023). Sociodemographic, temporal and bedtime routine correlates of sleep timing and duration in South Asian and white children: A Born in Bradford study. Sleep medicine. X, 5, Article 100068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleepx.2023.100068

Objective The study aimed to examine sociodemographic, temporal and bedtime routine correlates of parent-reported sleep duration and timing in a biethnic sample of 18 month and 36 month old children from a disadvantaged location. Methods Between Octo... Read More about Sociodemographic, temporal and bedtime routine correlates of sleep timing and duration in South Asian and white children: A Born in Bradford study.