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‘He called me out of the blue’: An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention (2022)
Journal Article

Social prescribing, a way of connecting patients to local services, is central to the NHS Personalised Care agenda. This paper employs ethnographic data, generated with 19 participants between November 2018 and July 2020, to explore the socio-tempora... Read More about ‘He called me out of the blue’: An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention.

Zootherapy as a potential pathway for zoonotic spillover: a mixed-methods study of the use of animal products in medicinal and cultural practices in Nigeria (2022)
Journal Article

Background Understanding how and why people interact with animals is important for the prevention and control of zoonoses. To date, studies have primarily focused on the most visible forms of human-animal contact (e.g., hunting and consumption), ther... Read More about Zootherapy as a potential pathway for zoonotic spillover: a mixed-methods study of the use of animal products in medicinal and cultural practices in Nigeria.

Behavioral responses to spatial variation in perceived predation risk and resource availability in an arboreal primate (2022)
Journal Article

Prey species must often face a trade-off between acquiring resources and minimizing predation risk. The spatial variation in predation risk across a landscape, as perceived by prey across their foraging or home range, creates a “landscape of fear” by... Read More about Behavioral responses to spatial variation in perceived predation risk and resource availability in an arboreal primate.

The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education (2022)
Journal Article

This article compares and contrasts two versions of the Education Endowment Foundation's (EEF) Teaching and Learning Toolkit (‘Toolkit’), a web-based summary of international evidence on teaching 3–18 year-olds. The Toolkit has localised versions in... Read More about The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education.

Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial (2022)
Journal Article

Introduction Hallucinations (hearing or seeing things that others do not) are a common feature of psychosis, causing significant distress and disability. Existing treatments such as cognitive–behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) have modest benef... Read More about Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in People with First-Episode Psychosis (MUSE FEP): a study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled feasibility trial.

Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health (2022)
Journal Article

Community gardening is increasingly framed and promoted as a way to foster healthful behaviours, as a wellbeing practice, and as a public health tool. This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with community gardening organisers (n = 9) in the N... Read More about Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health.