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An Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy App for People With Dementia and Their Carers: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial (2021)
Journal Article

Background: There is a need for more resources to support the cognition and quality of life (QoL) of people with dementia. The individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy application (iCST app) aims to provide cognitive stimulation and social interac... Read More about An Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy App for People With Dementia and Their Carers: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.

Internally displaced persons and COVID-19: a wake-up call for and African solutions to African problems – the case of Zimbabwe (2021)
Journal Article

In this paper we engage with the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) residing in two informal settlements in Zimbabwe, within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on an ongoing collaborative, interdisciplinary and impact-oriente... Read More about Internally displaced persons and COVID-19: a wake-up call for and African solutions to African problems – the case of Zimbabwe.

Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of Smart Energy Technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article

Smart energy technologies (SETs) are being developed around the world to support using energy more efficiently and to smooth our consumption over time, helping us to meet our carbon reduction targets. Notably, SETs will only be effective with support... Read More about Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of Smart Energy Technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom.

Government strategies for supporting the adult worker model in European countries: mixed implications for defamilisation (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose – This article explores the link between defamilisation studies and studies of the adult worker model and discusses the mixed implications that government strategies for supporting the adult worker model have for defamilisation. The adult wor... Read More about Government strategies for supporting the adult worker model in European countries: mixed implications for defamilisation.

Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings (2021)
Journal Article

Touch and silence are neglected across most disciplines, including within child-specific academic literature, and their interconnections have not been studied before. This article focuses on touch/silence convergences in residential childcare in Engl... Read More about Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings.

Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse: some methodological observations (2021)
Journal Article

This paper explores the contribution of software-based tools that are increasingly used for the semi-automated analysis of large volumes of text, especially Topic Modelling and Corpus Linguistics. These tools highlight the potential of getting intere... Read More about Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse: some methodological observations.

Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities (2021)
Journal Article

The embodied creative practice of dance facilitates a particular kind of awareness or attunement which can inform both the therapeutic and the intellectual work of the Health Humanities. This paper therefore considers dance as a way of 'doing' Health... Read More about Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities.

Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives (2021)
Journal Article

Background This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives.