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Pg 3 Impact stories Team resilience in elite sport
Inside this edition Pg 6
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Climate change mitigation strategy from research into effective management of natural resources
A globally-endorsed measure of birth satisfaction. The Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised.
Building a health and social care business ecosystem in Buckinghamshire
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elcome to the first Research Notes of the 2020s.
It is too soon to know how COVID-19 will change the world, but it is already clear that it will touch almost every aspect of our lives. Buckinghamshire New University is supporting our local communities and the nation in the effort to fight Covid-19. The university is helping organisations in many different ways - enabling new graduates to enter the NHS workforce, providing essential equipment and developing and conducting scientific research.
Finally, I thank those that have contributed to this publication and throughout the year as we continue to build on our achievements and deliver research and innovation that impacts and enhances lives and society.
The immediate process of recovery will pose health, social and economic challenges. The virus will also change the context in which we address issues that previously preoccupied us, like climate change, sustainable food and tackling modern slavery. It is likely to change things we took for granted, such as the way we travel for business, pleasure and for trade. Lockdown is driving digital and other innovations in the way we work, socialise, exercise and enjoy culture, which may have lasting impact, and benefits. This edition highlights examples of research impact, illustrating the benefits of Bucks research on air policy reform, climate change mitigation strategy, access to sport for people with disabilities and team resilience in elite sport. We’re also pleased to launch new projects in an evaluation of the local active medicine programme, education for those working with people with learning disabilities and investigating hate crime on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. In all cases, they seek to highlight the applicability of the scholarly endeavour to
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industry, commerce, practice, and development. We’re delighted to celebrate a wide range of new publications, including reports of learning experiences supporting student employability in travel and tourism, air traffic volumes and structure at small European airports, psychosocial enablers and strategies in high-level sports teams and challenges for disability sport and physical activity in the United Kingdom.
Professor Florin Ioras
Director of Enterprise and Research
Impact stories
Team resilience in elite sport Dr Paul Morgan, School of Human and Social Science
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lite sports teams perform in highly pressured environments; while some teams manage to withstand setbacks and adversity, others experience debilitating effects under pressure. To explore the nature of team resilience, a range of research studies were conducted in partnership with colleagues at Loughborough University. While psychological resilience in elite sport has been studied since 2008, the researchers proposed that resilience at a group level was likely to be more than the sum of a collection of resilience in individuals. The initial study identified four resilient characteristics: group structure, mastery approaches, social capital, and collective efficacy. These results enabled development of a framework to profile the resilient characteristics of elite sport teams.
Secondly, through analysis of the autobiographies of 8 members of the 2003 England rugby union World Cup winning team, five main psychosocial processes were identified: transformational leadership, shared team leadership, team learning, social identity, and positive emotions. These outcomes suggested that the development of team resilience occurs at different stages of a team’s development and is related to the stressors they experience. Their third study explored factors that could promote the development of team resilience within high-level sport. For a whole season, they conducted prolonged fieldwork with an English national league-winning semi-professional rugby union team. The findings provided sport psychologists, coaches, and athletes with multiple psychosocial enablers and strategies that stimulate pathways to team resilience (e.g., exposing the team to challenging training, using simulation of adverse events).
This research has created an evidence-based understanding of interventions in team sport contexts for use by practitioners. The body of work has also been used by Dr Morgan to implement a season-long team resilience intervention in competitive team sport. This was trialled in 2013/14 over 8 months with the High Wycombe Rugby Football Club, and compared to Henley Hawkes Rugby Football Club. The results showed that the team which took part in the intervention showed much higher measures of team resilience characteristics and processes, and that these changes were due to a wide range of actions and strategies. The findings also suggested the importance of the whole coaching team’s complementary expertise and roles rather than one individual leader. The team resilience intervention is currently taking place with the boy’s academy of Reading football club.
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Improving provision and access to disability sport and physical activity in Buckinghamshire Dr Ben Clayton and Dr Ben Ives, School of Human and Social Science
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n 2016, Bucks’ Human Performance, Exercise and Wellbeing Centre was approached by Buckinghamshire County Council (Bucks CC) and the Bucks and Milton Keynes County Sport Partnership (Leap With Us; now Active Partnership) to research the reasons why people with disabilities were not engaging with sport and physical activity. In line with the latest Government sport strategies, they wanted to increase sustainable participation among people with disabilities. Previous attempts to engage this hard-to-reach population had failed, despite trying to remove known barriers to participation. Bucks researchers conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with local non-sporting disability organisations and their members to find out about sport and disability in their own words. A research concluded that lack of enjoyment was a key factor influencing non-participation and that physical activity and sport needs to be redesigned for disabled people. Many of the findings simply confirmed some of the commonly reported barriers to participation, such as cost of transport and activities, ineffective communication and advertisement, preconceived images of sport as competitive and judgmental, and anxieties about athletic abilities and performances. However, the study also concluded that these reported barriers – although important – often masked a lack of enjoyment. As a consequence, attempts to remove external barriers, such as costs and transport issues, will always be fruitless unless providers can first ensure that sport and physical activity is attractive, enabling continued engagement. The researchers suggested moving away from ‘sport’ in favour of ‘activity’ and to place emphasis on creating
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a welcoming, inclusive and nonjudgemental environment. They also recommended using a multi-activity approach to allow disabled people to discover what they enjoy and to blend physical activities with non-physical activities, such as coffee-drinking and lunches, to help promote social interaction and wellbeing. Further, the researchers suggested that coaches should receive basic training in how to deliver sport and physical activity for disabled people and, going forward, developing people working in disability support organisations so that they themselves might take on sustainable delivery in the future. This was especially important, because delivering sport and physical activity in a familiar setting could remove many of the reported external barriers and anxieties. The findings of the research have made significant local impact, with the development of successful programmes to increase and sustain participation in sport and physical activity among disabled people. A local sport development organisation, Active in the Community (AitC), created a pilot programme offering bespoke multi-activity taster sessions delivered at facilities already attended by people with disabilities. These included clear signposting to opportunities to continue participation with mainstream disability sport providers in the area. Over 250 people took part, with 40% classified as previously inactive. The programme also trained 37 volunteers to deliver disability sport and physical activity. They were linked with schools and other community providers to offer future opportunities. As a result of Bucks research, Nclude (a division of the learning disabilities and autism support charity, Talkback) established their own sports academy with an aim to run daily inclusive sports sessions for all their members in familiar settings.
According to Nclude manager, Helen Krauze,
‘we discovered that sport is a powerful means of enabling physical and mental wellbeing as part of a healthy lifestyle, it creates opportunities, inspires confidence and self-esteem and most of all helps people to feel good about themselves’. As part of the coaching development programme led by ‘Leap with Us’, Nclude staff and volunteers were trained as sports leaders and coaches. They now train new members in-house, including people with disabilities, to become assistant coaches. By 2019, every Nclude attendee had been exposed to sport. Running five sports sessions per week, a quarter of their members are attending sessions regularly. While still in its infancy, the Nclude sports academy has been recognised as an exemplary model for engaging people with disabilities in sport and keeping them engaged.
Climate change mitigation strategy from research into effective management of natural resources Professor Florin Ioras and Dr Ioan Dutca
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esearch conducted at Bucks on the impact of effective natural resources management has resulted in international action to mitigate climate change. Our research demonstrated that decarbonisation approaches in the wood-manufacturing sector combined with more effective measures of biomass leads to positive mitigation impacts in climate change. The world’s natural resources influence climate through a complex set of physical, biological and chemical processes that affect the planet’s energy balance, atmospheric composition and hydrological cycle. In turn, climate change impacts upon the availability of resources leading to interlinked interactions and feedback between natural resources and climate. Professor Florin Ioras and Dr Ioan Dutca have led research to improve the understanding of these processes, and this research has subsequently led to the development of decarbonisation initiatives that effectively mitigate climate change. Whilst there are numerous observations of decarbonisation initiatives on the
fossil fuel based industrial sector, observations in European Islands and temperate ecosystems are limited. In 2012, Professor Ioras, reported some of the first observations of carbon storage and sequestration (carbon dioxide removal) in rubberwood in Malaysia. This involved direct assessment of the economic challenges and subsequent accurate estimation of recovery biomass. A later project showed that the carbon sequestered by protecting and restoring forests is considerably greater than the carbon emissions avoided through the use of liquid biofuels. This was the first research to highlight that clearing forests for biofuel crops leads to increased carbon emissions. In 2019, the researchers reviewed the impacts of species and ecological sites to develop and quantify more accurate biomass prediction and subsequently the effects of forests on climate. Further research evaluated the impact of climate change on forest ecosystems. Historical data indicated the relationship between exposure and biomass values, to predict modelling patterns likely to arise as climate change proceeds.
in Malaysia were familiar with timber products as a construction material. This was the first study to use observations to demonstrate how by boosting the material’s use in the construction industry can support decarbonisation strategy in Malaysia. In light of these findings, the Malaysian Government, Ghanaian Government, European Islands Authorities and Romanian Government have amended their national policies to motivate landowners who use wood-based resources to include mandatory monitoring reporting and verification criteria. In partnership with businesses in European Islands, Ghana, Romania and Malaysia, Bucks researchers coestablished carbon mitigating plans. These resulted in an investment of £2.5 million which achieved decarbonisation of rubberwood sawmilling in Malaysia, decarbonisation of coastal tourism in European Islands and protection of 200,000 hectares of forest in Romania and 400,000 hectares in Ghana and Zambia. In addition, the research underpinned a climate mitigation scheme based on natural resources resulting in the investment of an additional £1.4 million in decarbonisation initiatives.
Recent research has also examined the extent to which practicing architects
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The benefits of air policy reform in small island states: Air transport service and regulatory developments in the Caribbean/Latin America region Dr David Warnock-Smith, School of Aviation and Security
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ocio-economic analyses in the small island states of the Caribbean have shown that air transport provides a critical lifeline for continued access to global markets, tourism and other forms of trade and economic activity. The research showed that the largest welfare gains to the region would be made through a fully liberalised Multilateral Air Service Agreement (MASA). This would enable Caribbean member states to negotiate more liberal and reciprocal bilateral agreements together with larger third party source markets for tourism, namely Canada, the US, Europe and to a lesser extent Latin America.
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Additional analyses indicated that while there were good direct air links into the Caribbean region from North American and European source markets, levels of beyond and behind connecting traffic was found to be quite limited, representing some untapped market potential that could lead to further incoming tourism development in the Caribbean region. The research has informed changes to the air transport policies of CARICOM (a grouping of 20 Caribbean countries) and individual Caribbean states. In February 2019, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines all signed the revised CARICOM Multilateral Air Services Agreement, which extends full freedoms to all CARICOM community carriers on routes within and between Caribbean Community states.
These air transport policy changes have the potential to unlock significant improvements to incoming tourism, length of stay in the region and related spending, given that tourists will have access to lower air fares on a wider range of air routes and services. Countries such as Jamaica, the Bahamas and Barbados continue to run good trade surpluses in tourism without which, revenues for public services would be reduced. Aviation both directly and indirectly provides a lifeline to the CARICOM economy, enabling incoming tourists to contribute over USD2.5bn to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and providing over 112,000 jobs.
A globally-endorsed measure of birth satisfaction: The Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised
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Professor Colin Martin
he 10-item BirthSatisfaction-ScaleRevised (BSS-R) is a psychometrically valid and reliable birth satisfaction measure developed by Professor Colin Martin. Derived from a thematic review of the literature and an exhaustive psychometric process to select the best performing items from a long-form version (BSS), the BSS-R measures three domains of birth satisfaction: 1.
Quality of care provision (birth environment, sufficient support, relationships with health care professionals)
2. Personal attributes (ability to cope during labour, feeling in control) 3. Stress experienced during labour (obstetric injuries, long labour, distress experienced during labour) After extensive testing and analysis, the key measurement parameters of the BSS-R were established and found to be robust and reliable. The BSS-R provides a reliable and practical tool to assess the birth experience and identify areas for improvement and optimisation, in addition to providing clinically-valuable insights into the impact of specific clinical interventions on birth experience.
The BSS-R has become the ‘gold standard’ measure of birth experience, selected by experts as the key index of birth experience in the International Consortium for Health Outcome Measures (ICHOM) Pregnancy and Childbirth Standard Set. Use of the BSS-R has included: • Evaluation of birth satisfaction in relation to stress, anxiety, control and breast-feeding self-efficacy. • Application as a key outcome measure in a large randomisedcontrolled multi-site trial in Sweden to assess women’s birth satisfaction at 2-months post having a lateral episiotomy or no episiotomy. • Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Early Labour Lounge (ELL) in a community hospital in northeastern US. • The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia has implemented its use across all of the delivery suites in Saudi Arabia for the purpose of improving standards of birth care. Further evidence of both impact and innovation in the use of the BSS-R can be found in the development of a 6-item short-form version, BSS-R Indicator (BSS-RI) which formed an integral part of the 2015 National
Maternity Survey (NMS) for England and Wales to measure women’s satisfaction with maternity services. Successful application of the BSS-RI in the 2015 NMS led to the adoption of the BSS-R in the 2018 National maternity care report. Widely translated and in use in over 30 countries, the BSS-R has been utilised by both researchers and clinicians alike. Currently, over 100 investigations are underway using the BSS-R to foster and evaluate evidence-based maternity care, with 18 studies thus far reporting findings. Numerous translation/ validation studies have been conducted and published including the United States, Greek, Australian, Turkish, Spanish, Israeli, Italian and Iranian versions. Professor Martin continues to work on developing the BSS-R for innovative application in diverse clinical and research contexts, including the development of non-English language versions. Find out more about all of our Impact Stories and visit bucks.ac.uk/research/research-impact
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Bucks New University’s startup incubation hubs soon to reopen for business Greta Paa-Kerner Both the Bucks Health Tech Hub in High Wycombe and Bucks Digital Hub in Aylesbury will soon reopen for business following the Covid-19 lockdown. The 75-desk space in High Wycombe offers health tech businesses a wide variety of options including dedicated office space, hot desks and a drop-in membership service. Meanwhile the 65desk ground-floor space in Aylesbury offers digital SMEs hot desks and a drop-in membership service. Bucks Hubs are more than office space; they are a supportive environment for businesses to develop and grow. These spaces have a competitive advantage in the market because of their collaborative ties with Bucks New University’s academic community, student and alumni base, as well as access to the university’s many world-class facilities. Please visit our website at bucks-hubs.co.uk. As an additional draw, business occupiers will have access to Jim Gabriel, our ‘Entrepreneur in Resident’ as well as networking
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opportunities. Businesses involved in health and social care may also take advantage of Bucks HSC Ventures, a virtual accelerator programme designed to help introduce innovations to market. Through this programme they will be able to tap into existing partnerships with our delivery partners Bucks Healthcare Trust, Bucks County Council, Bucks Clinical Commissioning Group and Oxford Academic Health Science Network. The Bucks Hubs are being run by Oxford Innovation, a hub management company that runs 23 other hubs across the UK and has over thirty years of experience. They have an outstanding track record of success in incubating and accelerating high growth businesses by providing specialist coaching services and funding support through their established investor networks. For more information, visit their website at oxin.co.uk. If you would like more details or if you know of a business that may benefit from our hubs, contact greta.paakerner@bucks.ac.uk.
Building a health and social care business ecosystem in Buckinghamshire Bucks Health and Social Care Ventures Greta Paa-Kerner Following six business workshops delivered in the summer, it’s been a busy autumn and winter for the Bucks Health and Social Care (HSC) Ventures programme led by Bucks New University. Funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the mission of this programme is to help solve health and social care challenges by introducing business innovations to market. Over the past few months the programme has provided individualised support and market access to a select cohort of early stage businesses and has also facilitated larger conferences for businesses, our partners and other stakeholders. This latest cohort of businesses is diverse with members including: • Binding Sciences: An incontinence product to help bed-bound patients which is also environmentally benign.
• Good Boost: A water-based rehabilitation programme for patients with joint issues using artificial intelligence and technology through water-proof iPads to monitor and tailor individualised rehabilitation regimens. • DeepX Health: Using artificial intelligence and advances in detection technology, this device aims to be a world leader in cancer screening and skin cancer analytics. Since the outbreak of Covid-19 we have had to pivot and deliver our innovation support online. A number of webinars are available for UK-based businesses in the health and social care sector Further details can be found on hscventures.co.uk.
unique access to market for these new technologies. The delivery partners for Bucks HSC Ventures include Bucks Healthcare Trust, Bucks County Council, Bucks Clinical Commissioning Group, Oxford Academic Health Sciences Network and Bucks New University. For more information, visit the programme’s website hscventures.co.uk. The university’s role in building the health and social care ecosystem goes beyond this virtual acceleration programme and also includes physical space called the Bucks Health Tech Hub. Read the article “Bucks New University’s start-up incubation hubs are open for business”, for more details.
Working with our programme partners, the Bucks HSC Ventures virtual accelerator programme benefits early stage start-up companies because it provides
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David Smith (left) Margaret Greenfields (third from left) Egle Dagilyte (fifth from right) at the Rosmini Conference 2019.
Modern Day Slavery and the Impact of Migration. Migrants Worker’s Mapping Project The aim of the project was to gain a clearer understanding of the impact on the local community and service demand (both as consumers of public services and as suppliers of labour) of a large East European migrant workforce population resident within the Fenland region in East Anglia. Given the political context of the area (a locality with an extremely high ‘leave’ vote in the Brexit Referendum), a clear need was identified to examine the impact of high rates of rapid migration on community cohesion, for example, in relation to perceptions of anti-social behaviour by migrant workers in some localities. This project was initiated by the Rosmini Migration Support agency as part of the Fenland Local Authority multi-agency consortium working in East Anglia. The study was funded by the UK Government Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). The research study team was led by Bucks’ Professor Margaret Greenfields, in collaboration
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with colleagues Dr David Smith and Dr Egle Dagilyte from Anglia Ruskin University.
modern slavery which was also funded by the MHCLG and commissioned by the Rosmini Centre.
The practical outcomes of the project consist firstly of greater knowledge of the employment, residence and accommodation patterns, use of welfare services and support needs of migrant workers in Fenland, enabling service providers to share intelligence and collaboratively and efficiently plan response to need. Secondly, the research team explored with stakeholders, including employers and other key agencies, the potential for devising innovative data-management methods for identifying work flow/ labour market data on migrant workers’ employment availability, which could triangulate and underpin the supply of high quality service provision data to local statutory agencies.
The Modern Day Slavery and Impact of Migration Conference which took place on November 6th 2019 welcomed HRH Princess Eugenie who has a particular interest in anti-slavery initiatives, as well as a range of speakers including North East Cambridgeshire MP (at that time the Brexit Secretary), the Right Honourable Steve Barclay MP; the UK’s Independent anti-slavery commissioner, Dame Sara Thornton; the head of prevention at the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA), Paul Elms; and Caroline Virgo, project officer at The Clewer Initiative, the Church of England’s anti-slavery campaign.
In November, the project culminated with a London Conference which presented the research findings alongside those from a project on
For further information and to access the report: bucks.ac.uk/research/research-atbucks/social-policy-and-social-work
Woodlanders, Lives and Landscapes Dr Helena Chance Dr Helena Chance is leading the ‘Woodlanders Lives and Landscapes’ project at Bucks. The project is part of the Chalk, Cherries and Chairs landscape partnership led by the Chiltern Conservation Board and funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund. The Chilterns, regarded in popular imagination as a beautiful landscape of beechwoods, chalk escarpments and picturesque villages, was for more than two centuries a unique industrial landscape. Nowhere else in the nation could be found the combined industries of chair making and straw plaiting, dependent on the plentiful beech woods and the thin wheat straw that grew on the chalk downlands. The woods and villages were alive with industrial endeavour in furniture making, woodware, straw plaiting, lace making and tambour beading (the technique of applying beading and sequins for the fashion industry). Much is already known about the working lives of these rural communities, and the artefacts they produced, but less is known about their domestic and social lives, particularly those of women and children. The project is being delivered by local volunteers, under the guidance of Dr Chance, historian of industrial landscapes, and Lesley Hoskins, Research Associate, and supported by Sam Johansen, the Landscape Partnership Scheme Heritage Officer. Through research online and in private and public archives volunteers are discovering how those industries connected through family lives and stories over the last 150 years. Following training in oral history collection, volunteers are capturing memories to understand more about domestic and social lives, homes and gardens, networks, social and sporting activities, health, politics, experiences of war, dialects, traditions, songs, games, food, clothes, religion and education. The project is discovering how these people’s lives and work shaped the landscape we see today and how the landscape shaped them. The project is focussing on areas where wood was supplied for the furniture and woodware industries and where women and children were employed in cottage industries, beginning with the woodlands and communities around Holmer Green; in the Speen, Lacey Green, Loosely Row and Great Hampden area; north of Stokenchurch and south-east of Chinnor and in north of West Wycombe. Other communities, in the project area, such as the woods and villages in the district of Wendover, will emerge through research.
The Tilbury and Williams families outside their cottages in Parslows Hillocks, Lacey Green, about 1910. Reg Tilbury, the boy second from the left, later made a living as a bodger in Hampden Woods. The woman seated on the left holds a ‘pillow’ for making lace and the children wear straw hats. Photograph courtesy of Stuart King
Further information: Woodlanders, Lives and Landscapes – project blog chilternsaonb.org/woodlanders-lives.html Chalk Cherries and Chairs – Chilterns Landscape Partnership chilternsaonb.org/projects/CCC.html
If you would like to get involved in the project, please contact Helena: helena.chance@bucks.ac.uk
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New Projects Active Medicine Evaluation Led by Dr Paul Morgan, Dr Anne Chappell and Dr Elaine Welsh, School of Human and Social Sciences The Active Medicine Programme is a collaborative project between the Thames Valley Active Partnerships (Get Berkshire Active, Active Oxfordshire and LEAP [Buckinghamshire]) and the NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS Prevention Group (BOB PG). The programme is funded and supported by Sport England as part of their Workforce Innovation fund. The aim of the programme is that physical activity should become a more prominent, planned intervention by health care professionals. At present, many professionals may lack the skills, knowledge and confidence to engage effectively in useful conversations about physical activity. Through the programme, professionals will be provided with the resources to support improvements in skills, knowledge and confidence around physical activity. Bucks researchers are evaluating the programme. In addition to examining the impact and change generated by the programme, the evaluation aims to identify which aspects are effective and identify where and why some aspects are not working to inform future programme development.
The Third Sector Workforce – providing training to those who support people with Learning Disabilities or Autism Led by Margaret Rioga, School of Nursing and Allied Health Considerable support for people with learning disabilities and autism is provided by charities and volunteers, the “third sector workforce”. There is a need to formalise training provided for these individuals to ensure they have the skills to provide the required support. In November 2019, Health Education England launched new frameworks to improve care and support for autistic people and people with learning disabilities. Following this launch, Bucks has been appointed to scope and deliver training specifically for the ‘Third Sector workforce’, for those who support people with learning disabilities or autism. Bucks researchers will support the development and roll out of training packages for volunteers, families and carers and charities, preparing “experts by experience” who can contribute to the Workforce Transformation Agenda in London. The development will follow a co-production model whereby academic and clinical professionals work alongside people with lived experience or as carers of people with Learning Disability or Autism.
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Hate crime on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities Professor Margaret Greenfields and Dr Carol Rogers, School of Human and Social Sciences In partnership with GATE Herts, Bucks researchers are undertaking a pilot research project investigating the psychological and ripple effects of hate crime on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities. The research aims to establish connections between hate crime, discrimination, mental health and suicide risk. It is generally known that suicide rates are high within GRT communities but specific statistics are not available. GATEHerts is a small organisation, run by GRT community members in Hertfordshire. It aims to educate both Travelling communities and the wider population to live side by side in a diverse society. This current project is funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.
Strategic Priorities Funding: Research to Support evidence-based policy making Bucks was awarded an allocation of Government Strategic Priorities Funding for research activity that supports evidence-based policy making. The aim of the Strategic Priorities Fund is to support “research with local, regional, national and international structures, including parliament, central government, devolved administrations, local government, health and education bodies, the justice system and other regulatory organisations.” Funding is being used to support the following activities: Dr Dorin Festeu and Dr Paul Morgan are using funds to support development of European funding bids relating to digital build to support energy efficiency policies and student mental health and exercise. Professor Nick Braisby and Professor Margaret Greenfields are developing the Higher Education Sector pledge for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Work to enhance policy changes from research impact are being undertaken by Professor Florin Ioras for Carbon Innovation in HE and by Dr Fiona McCormack and Dr Ben Clayton for engaging people with disabilities in sport in Buckinghamshire. Dr Ciaran O’Keefe is undertaking pilot research to evaluate current attitudes to punishment and rehabilitation of offenders in the UK. Dr George Clerk is researching criminalisation for physical chastisement of children with an aim to improve the experience of BME Families in a London Borough. Ian Rowe is conducting an evaluation of current attitudes and provision to homeless people in High Wycombe.
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New PhD Awards
Dr Sue Lee and Dr Lyndon Buck
Dr Niamh Morrin and Professor Ian Swaine
PhD student graduations September 2019 Dr Sua Lee, with supervisor Dr Lyndon Buck. Thesis title:” Sustainable Design Approaches Using Waste Furniture Materials for Design Practitioners.” Dr Niamh Morrin with supervisor Professor Ian Swaine (University of Greenwich). Thesis title “The development of a self-regulated isometric handgrip training protocol and its effects on blood pressure (resting and ambulatory), markers of autonomic function and adherence in pre-hypertensive and stage 1 hypertensive adults (≥55years).”
Research Degree Completions Two Bucks students completed their research degrees in October 2019. Congratulations to Dr Vicki Leah who was awarded her PhD in Nursing for her thesis “Maintaining my relative’s personhood: A mixed method design.” bucks.repository. guildhe.ac.uk/17858/ Callum Sharpin was awarded his MPhil for his research thesis “The Effects of Training Stimulus on the Time Course of Recovery in Central and Peripheral Fatigue in a Group of Elite Youth Male Footballers”.bucks.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/17878/ Congratulations to Dr Allan Seraj who completed his thesis in January 2020 and will be awarded his PhD. His titled thesis is Pedagogic Strategies to support practice learning in specialised clinical learning environments: A Grounded Theory Approach, bucks.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/17956/ All completed research degree theses are available on Bucks repository: bucks.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/
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Research Student Conference Another excellent Research Student Conference took place in November 2019 with presentations from the following students: “To explore the ‘Lived experiences’ of patients who have had a heart attack and have undergone a primary angioplasty.” Marina Nicholas. “Design innovation for poverty alleviation: Insights from India.” Paul Russell “Moving out-of-body experience induction theory forward.” Ross Bartlett
Publishing Many congratulations to George Clerk who has achieved a ‘Highly Commended’ award in the Emerald publishing Literati awards 2019. This was based on his paper in the Journal of Adult Protection,. “A Delphi Survey of Practitioners Understanding of Mental Capacity”. Former PhD student Dr Jeeva Shepperson was Highly Commended for her conference paper “What Motivates Entrepreneurs in a Challenging Socio-Economic Context: Sri Lankan entrepreneurs experiences”. The award was given by the 42nd Institute of Small Business & Entrepreneurship Conference 2019 and the paper was nominated for the best paper award in the International Entrepreneurship category. Dr Shepperson published with former Bucks colleagues Lorraine Watkins-Mathys and Jennifer Tilbury.
Conferences Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law 2019 In July, Claire Machan presented a research poster “Exploring ‘Juvenile Offender Stereotypes’ Effect on Videoed Witness Credibility, Evidence Weighting & Guilt Judgements’” at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law 2019, a world renowned international cross disciplinary conference. Bucks Criminological Psychology student Gabriella Hudson also presented a poster for research conducted during her final year at Bucks “Dangerousness Judgements of Individuals Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: the Effect of Biased Media Formats”.
British Psychological Society Developmental and Cognitive Division Joint Conference Psychology students Tina Mutombo, Deloreese Sammy, Laina Khattak and Carol McIntosh all presented posters from their final year dissertation projects at the British Psychological Society Developmental and Cognitive Division Joint Conference in September 2019 in Stoke on Trent. Their supervisor, Senior Lecturer, Dr Cheryl Pitt attended to support them. Their research titles were: • “Another wife: The effects of growing up in Polygynous households on the relationship experiences of adult African Diasporas.” Mutombo, T. & Pitt, C. • “Psychological well-being and identity formation of dual heritage individuals: A qualitative study.” Sammy, D. & Pitt, C. • “Teachers’ perceptions of play preferences amongst culturally diverse pre-schoolers.” Khattak, L. & Pitt, C.
Punk Scholars Network In September, Dr Paul Fields, Senior Lecturer in Media and Creative Industries, presented his research at the Punk Scholars Network. His presentation was titled: “Antisocial Justice Warriors: Utilising Punk in the Pursuit of Social Justice”.
Theatre and Performance Research Association Annual Conference Dr Catriona Craig attended the Theatre and Performance Research Association Annual Conference (TaPRA) gave a presentation titled “Should we fire the canon?: A provocation on popular culture and canonical thinking”
Association of Researchers in Construction Management Dr Ramesh Marasini attended the Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) conference at Leeds Beckett University. He presented “An Analysis of Diversity Management in the Construction Industry: A Case Study of a Main Contractor”
9th International Congress of Coaching Psychology. Dr Ceri Sims presented Coaching Psychology from a Second Wave Positive Psychology Perspective with Strengthsbased Appreciative Coaching for Leaders.
4th International Technology, Education and Development Conference. Dr John Mariampillai presented Collaborative Provision Within UK Higher Education: Motives, Tensions and Implications.
• “Seasons of a woman’s life: What motivates mature women (aged 50) to return to education?” McIntosh, C. & Pitt, C.
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New Publications Latest additions of all our publications can be found on Bucks repository: bucks.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/ Fan, Lampson M., Geng, Li, CahillSmith, Sarah, Liu, Fangfei, Douglas, Gillian, Mckenzie, Chris-Anne, Smith, Colin, Brooks, Gavin, Channon, Keith M. and Li, Jian-Mei (2019) Nox2 contributes to age-related oxidative damage to neurons and the cerebral vasculature. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 129 (8). pp. 3374-3386. ISSN 0021-9738 Buck, Lyndon and Harlow, Richard (2019) Improvements in water intervention projects through product design methods. In: DS 95: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. E&PDE Ethics and Social Issues 1 . The Design Society University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. ISBN 978-1-912254-05-7 Morse, Tracy, Luwe, Kondwani, Lungu, Kingsley, Chiwaula, Levison, Mulwafu, Wapulumuka, Buck, Lyndon, Harlow, Richard, Fagan, G Honor and McGuigan, Kevin (2020) A transdisciplinary methodology for introducing SODIS to rural communities in Malawi - formative research findings. Integrated environmental assessment and management. ISSN 1551-3793 Chappell, Anne and Welsh, Elaine (2020) Resilience, Relationality, and Older People: The Importance of Intergenerationality. Sociological Research Online. 0-0. ISSN 1360-7804 Ives, Ben, Clayton, Ben, Brittain, Ian and Mackintosh, Chris (2019) ‘I’ll always find a perfectly justified reason for not doing it’: challenges for disability sport and physical activity in the United Kingdom. Sport in Society. pp. 1-19. ISSN 1743-0445 Barbieri, Donatella and Crawley, Greer (2019) The scenographic, costumed chorus, agency and the performance of matter: A new materialist approach to costume. International Journal of Fashion Studies, 6 (2). pp. 143-162. ISSN 2051-7106
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Dutcă, Ioan, McRoberts, R.E., Naesset, E and Blujdea, Viorel N.B. A practical measure for determining if Diameter (D) and Height (H) should be combined into D2H in allometric biomass models. (Submitted) Dutcă, Ioan (2019) The Variation Driven by Differences between Species and between Sites in Allometric Biomass Models. Forest Ecology and Management (10). ISSN 1999-4907 Stăncioiu, Petru Tudor, Dutcă, Ioan, Bălăcescu, Marian Cristian and Ungurean, Ștefan Vasile (2019) Coexistence with Bears in Romania: A Local Community Perspective. Sustainability, 11 (24). e7167. ISSN 2071-1050 Dutcă, I, McRoberts, R E, Næsset, E and Blujdea, V N B (2019) A practical measure for determining if diameter (D) and height (H) should be combined into D2H in allometric biomass models. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. ISSN 1464-3626 Orton, Lois, Andersen de Cuevas, Rachel, Stojanovski, Kristefer, Gamella, Juan F, Greenfields, Margaret, La Parra, Daniel, Marcu, Oana, Matras, Yaron, Donert, Celia, Frost, Diane, Robinson, Jude, Rosenhaft, Eve, Salway, Sarah, Sheard, Sally, Such, Elizabeth, TaylorRobinson, David and Whitehead, Margaret (2019) Roma populations and health inequalities: a new perspective. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 12 (5). pp. 319-327. ISSN 2056-4902 Bowers, Jake, Greenfields, Margaret, Smith, David and Dagilyte, Egle (2019) The Impact of Migration in the Fenland Area. A scoping report video. [Video] Guachalla, Adrian and Gledhill, Maurice (2019) Co-creating learning experiences to support student employability in travel and tourism. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education, 25. ISSN 14738376
Humberstone, Barbara and Prince, Heather (2019) Research Methods in Outdoor Studies. Routledge. ISBN 97803-6718-8832 Marogel Popa, Tiberiu, Cheta, Marius, Viorela Marcu, Marina, Ionut Duta, Cristian, Ioras, Florin and Alexandru Bora, Stelian Manual Cultivation Operations in Poplar Stands: A Characterization of Job Difficulty and Risks of Health Impairment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. ISSN 1660-4601 Ab Latib, Hazirah, Cheong, Lum Wai, Halis, Rasmina, Mahamad, Roslan Mohamad, Kasim, Lee Yan Yi, Jegatheswaran, Ratnasingam and Ioras, Florin (2019) The Prospects of Wooden Building Construction in Malaysia: current State of Affairs. BioResources. ISSN 1930-2126 Ratnasingam, Jega, Ioras, Florin, Ark, Chin Khoon and Ab Latib, Hazirah (2020) Success factors of Wood Veneer as an Overlay Material for Panel-based Furniture Manufacturing in Malaysia. BioResources, 15 (1). pp. 1311-1322. ISSN 1930-2126 Kelly, Jem (2019) The Palimpsestic Pop Music Video: Intermediality and Hypermedia. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 219-234. ISBN 978 1 5013 4233 2 King, Liz (2019) Exploring student nurses’ and their link lecturers’ experiences of reasonable adjustments in clinical placement. British Journal of Nursing, 28 (17). pp. 1130-1134. ISSN 2052-2819 Lee-Price, Simon (2019) Just So. In: Tall Tales & Short Stories: A Flash Fiction Anthology. Escaped Ink, Nottingham, pp. 45-47. ISBN 978-1916230101 Lee-Price, Simon (2019) Best Possible of Worlds. In: Hidden Histories. Third Flatiron Publishing, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 107-114.
Mariampillai, John (2019) Private Providers and the Expansion of Collaborative Higher Education in the UK: Unintended Effects Of Deregulation? Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 6 (9). ISSN 2055-0286 Omani-Samani, Reza, Hollins Martin, Caroline J, Martin, Colin R, Maroufizadeh, Saman, Ghaheri, Azadeh and Navid, Behnaz (2019) The Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised Indicator (BSS-RI): a validation study in Iranian mothers. The journal of maternalfetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians. pp. 1-5. ISSN 1476-4954 Fletcher, Andrew, Mather, Richard and Cable, Tony (2019) Change Detection in Complex Vegetation Communities. [Report] Fletcher, Andrew and Mather, Richard (2020) Hypertemporal Imaging Capability of UAS Improves Photogrammetric Tree Canopy Models. Remote Sensing, 12 (8). p. 1238. ISSN 2072-4292 Morgan, Paul BC Developing Team Resilience: A Season-long Study of Psychosocial Enablers and Strategies in a High-Level Sports Team.Psychology of Sport & Exercise. ISSN 1469-0202 Nevin, Jonpaul (2020) The Anthropometric, Physiological, and Strength Related Determinants of Handcycling 15-km Time Trial Performance. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. 0-0. ISSN 1555-0265 (In Press) Drinkwater, Kenneth, Laythe, Brian, Houran, James, Dagnall, Neil, OKeeffe, Ciaran and Hill, Sharon A (2019) Exploring Gaslighting Effects via the VAPUS Model for Ghost Narratives. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 19 (2). pp. 143-179. ISSN 1445-2308
Drinkwater, Kenneth, Dagnall, Neil, O’Keeffe, Ciaran, Ventola, Annalisa, Laythe, Brian, Massullo, Brandon, Caputo, Giovanni, Jawer, Michael and Houran, James (2020) Things That Go Bump In The Literature: An Environmental Appraisal of ‘Haunted Houses’. Conscious Research. 0-0. ISSN 1664-1078 (In Press) O’Keeffe, Ciaran “Meme-Spirited” II: Illustrating the VAPUS Model for Ghost Narratives. Australian Journal of Parapsychology. Australian Journal of Parapsychology. ISSN 1445-2308 O’Keeffe, Ciaran, Houran, James, Houran, Damien J., Dagnall, Neil, Drinkwater, Kenneth, Sheridan, Lorraine and Laythe, Brian (2019) The Dr. John Hall story: a case study in putative “Haunted People Syndrome”. Mental Health, Religion & Culture. pp. 1-20. ISSN 1469-9737 Strand, Elin B, Nacul, Luis, Mengshoel, Anne Marit, Helland, Ingrid B, Grabowski, Patricia, Krumina, Angelika, AlegreMartin, Jose, Efrim-Budisteanu, Magdalena, Sekulic, Slobodan, Pheby, Derek, Sakkas, Giorgos K, Sirbu, Carmen Adella and Authier, F Jerome (2019) Myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Investigating care practices pointed out to disparities in diagnosis and treatment across European Union. PloS one, 14 (12). e0225995. ISSN 1932-6203 Pheby, Derek F.H., Araja, Diana, Berkis, Uldis, Brenna, Elenka, Cullinan, John, de Korwin, Jean-Dominique, Gitto, Lara, Hughes, Dyfrig A, Hunter, Rachael M, Trepel, Dominic and Wang-Steverding, Xia (2020) The Development of a Consistent Europe-Wide Approach to Investigating the Economic Impact of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS): A Report from the European Network on ME/CFS (EUROMENE). Healthcare, 8 (2). e88. ISSN 2227-9032
Rogers, Carol (2020) Inclusion or Exclusion: UK education policy and Roma pupils. In: Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People - Key Factors for the Success and Continuity of Schooling. Level Spinger. (In Press) Nwanji, Tony Ikechukwu, Howell, Kerry E., Faye, Sainey, Otekunrin, Adegbola Olubukola, Eluyela, Damilola Felix, Lawal, Adedoyin Isola and Eze, Sunday Chinedu (2020) Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Financial Performance of Listed Deposit Banks in Nigeria. International Journal of Financial Research, 11 (2). p. 323. ISSN 1923-4023 Giovannoi, Gavin, Noyce, Alastair J, Scheltens, Philip, Berg, Daniela, Brown, Laurie, Dierickx, Kris, Frisoni, Giovanni B, Georges, Jean, Hardy, John, Heilbron, Karl and Trout, Ruth (2019) Time Matters. A call to prioritize brain health. [Report] Warnock-Smith, David, Cameron, Derek and O’Connell, John F. (2020) Organisational Trust: a case Application In The Air Transport Sector. Transport Policy. ISSN 0967070X (In Press) O’Connell, John F., Avellana, Raquel Martinez, Warnock-Smith, David and Efthymiou, Marina (2020) Evaluating drivers of profitability for airlines in Latin America: A case study of Copa Airlines. Journal of Air Transport Management, 84. p. 101727. ISSN 0969-6997 Warnock-Smith, David (2019) New African air carriers will struggle for takeoff. Oxford Analytica. Dziedzic, Marcin, Njoya, Eric T., WarnockSmith, David and Hubbard, Nick (2019) Determinants of air traffic volumes and structure at small European airports. Research in Transportation Economics. p. 100749. ISSN 07398859 Newitt, Lee, Worth, Piers and Smith, Matthew (2019) Narrative identity: from the inside out. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 32 (3-4). pp. 488-501. ISSN 1469-3674
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