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Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university (2021)
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Hindle, C., McEwan, C., Boliver, V., Maclarnon, A., Simpson, B., & Brown, H. (2021). Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university. Learning and Teaching, 14(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2021.140202

Targets set by the UK Office for Students require highly academically selective UK universities to enrol a greater percentage of students identified as least likely to participate in higher education. Such students are typically at a disadvantage in... Read More about Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university.

‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness (2021)
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Malpass, A., Mcguire, C., & Macnaughton, J. (2022). ‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness. Medical Humanities, 48(1), 63-75. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011816

Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity, heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory questionnaire which attempts to measure the incommunicable dif... Read More about ‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness.

Prevalence and factors associated with poor performance in the 5‐chair stand test: findings from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II and proposed Newcastle protocol for use in the assessment of sarcopenia (2021)
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Dodds, R. M., Murray, J. C., Granic, A., Hurst, C., Uwimpuhwe, G., Richardson, S., …Sayer, A. A. (2021). Prevalence and factors associated with poor performance in the 5‐chair stand test: findings from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II and proposed Newcastle protocol for use in the assessment of sarcopenia. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 12(2), 308-318. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12660

Background Poor performance in the 5‐chair stand test (5‐CST) indicates reduced lower limb muscle strength. The 5‐CST has been recommended for use in the initial assessment of sarcopenia, the accelerated loss of muscle strength and mass. In order to... Read More about Prevalence and factors associated with poor performance in the 5‐chair stand test: findings from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II and proposed Newcastle protocol for use in the assessment of sarcopenia.

Anthropogenic influences on primate antipredator behavior and implications for research and conservation (2020)
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LaBarge, L. R., Hill, R. A., Berman, C. M., Margulis, S. W., & Allan, A. T. L. (2020). Anthropogenic influences on primate antipredator behavior and implications for research and conservation. American Journal of Primatology, 82(2), Article e23087. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23087

Predation risk affects prey species' behavior, even in the absence of a direct threat, but human‐induced environmental change may disturb ecologically significant predator–prey interactions. Here, we propose various ways in which knowledge of antipre... Read More about Anthropogenic influences on primate antipredator behavior and implications for research and conservation.

The Realities of Fieldwork: Embedding professional practice - a case study from palaeoanthropology (2019)
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Kovarovic, K. (2019). The Realities of Fieldwork: Embedding professional practice - a case study from palaeoanthropology. Journal of archaeology and education, 3(8), Article 1

Programs in palaeoanthropology (the study of human evolution) do not often provide professional fieldwork training. Palaeoanthropology students are thus at risk of being unaware of the professional practices and responsibilities that come with a care... Read More about The Realities of Fieldwork: Embedding professional practice - a case study from palaeoanthropology.

Collective control, social-cohesion and health and wellbeing: Baseline survey results from the Communities in Control Study in England (2021)
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McGowan, V., Akhter, N., Halliday, E., Popay, J., Kasim, A., & Bambra, C. (2022). Collective control, social-cohesion and health and wellbeing: Baseline survey results from the Communities in Control Study in England. Journal of Public Health, 44(2), 378-386. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa227

Background: Area-based initiatives (ABIs) are receiving renewed interest as part of ‘place-based public health’ approaches to reducing health inequalities. Purpose: Examine associations between collective control, social-cohesion and health amongst r... Read More about Collective control, social-cohesion and health and wellbeing: Baseline survey results from the Communities in Control Study in England.

Unknotting the interactive effects of learning processes on cultural evolutionary dynamics (2019)
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Scanlon, L., Lobb, A., Tehrani, J. J., & Kendal, J. R. (2019). Unknotting the interactive effects of learning processes on cultural evolutionary dynamics. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1, Article e17. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2019.17

Forms of non-random copying error provide sources of inherited variation yet their effects on cultural evolutionary dynamics are poorly understood. Focusing on variation in granny and reef knot forms, we present a mathematical model that specifies ho... Read More about Unknotting the interactive effects of learning processes on cultural evolutionary dynamics.

Ecomorphology and ecology of the grassland specialist, Rusingoryx atopocranion (Artiodactyla: Bovidae), from the late Pleistocene of western Kenya (2021)
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Kovarovic, K., Faith, J., Jenkins, K., Tryon, C., & Peppe, D. (2021). Ecomorphology and ecology of the grassland specialist, Rusingoryx atopocranion (Artiodactyla: Bovidae), from the late Pleistocene of western Kenya. Quaternary Research, 101, 187-204. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.102

Rusingoryx atopocranion is an extinct alcelaphin bovid from the late Pleistocene of Kenya, known for its distinctive hollow nasal crest. A bonebed of R. atopocranion from the Lake Victoria Basin provides a unique opportunity to examine the nearly com... Read More about Ecomorphology and ecology of the grassland specialist, Rusingoryx atopocranion (Artiodactyla: Bovidae), from the late Pleistocene of western Kenya.

Meeting Young People’s Mobility and Transport Needs: Review and Prospect (2019)
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Porter, G., & Turner, J. (2019). Meeting Young People’s Mobility and Transport Needs: Review and Prospect. Sustainability, 11(22), Article 6193. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226193

This paper reviews published and grey literature on young people’s daily transport and mobility experiences and potential, with the aim of identifying major research gaps. It draws on literature across a range of disciplines where interest in mobilit... Read More about Meeting Young People’s Mobility and Transport Needs: Review and Prospect.

Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement (2020)
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Yoeli, H., Robson, M., McLusky, S., & Macnaughton, J. (2020). Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement. Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health, 2(02), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2535-7913-2020-02-02

Purpose: For years, the Arts and Health (AaH) movement has been guided by values of art for art’s sake, practitioner as Artist and artist as Outsider. These values are instrumental to the effectiveness of AaH as a relational and process-driven tool f... Read More about Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement.

The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire? (2019)
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Buck, T., Greene, E. M., Meyer, A., Barlow, V., & Graham, E. (2019). The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 50, 203-224. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x1900014x

Disarticulated human remains were recovered from a first-century fort ditch at Vindolanda on the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire. Ancient DNA analysis revealed the skeleton to be that of a male individual and forensic taphonomic analysis sugg... Read More about The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?.

Antipredator response of free-roaming Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) with implications for responsible wildlife tourism in the Seychelles islands (2019)
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tourism in the Seychelles islands

I investigated the responses of Aldabra giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) to human approach. Sex and ambient temperature were not found to have a significant effect on the distance at which tortoises became alert to human approach or the dista... Read More about Antipredator response of free-roaming Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) with implications for responsible wildlife tourism in the Seychelles islands.