Data set - Immersive virtual reality rehabilitation after lower limb surgery in paediatric patients

Patients who have undergone lower limb surgery require rehabilitation to regain movement and function in the affected leg. Unfortunately, physical rehabilitation can be painful, reducing compliance and recovery. This feasibility study aimed to demonstrate that immersive virtual reality (IVR) applications can offer potential benefits, including reduced anxiety and pain distraction for children during gait rehabilitation, increased engagement and enjoyment, and improved perceived walking quality. This study involved the design of a bespoke immersive virtual reality (IVR) system, co-designed through an iterative process that included a workshop. After a clinical feasibility trial was performed with 15 children aged 11–16 who required weight-bearing rehabilitation following lower limb surgery. A mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) approach and a multidirectional perspective (patients, parents, and physiotherapists) were adopted to measure. Changes in anxiety (General Anxiety Disorder-7) and pain (visual analogue scale) before and after the intervention were assessed. Usability (SUS) of the system was also analysed. Qualitative data were collected through interviews with children, their parents, and physiotherapists, focusing on their experiences, satisfaction, perceived effectiveness, and acceptability, as well as the usability and engagement of the IVR intervention. These preliminary results will inform improvements to the system in a future multi-site study with a large calculated sample size to demonstrate its clinical effectiveness and safety in acquiring medical device markings and adoption

Examining the Predictive Capability of Statically Determined Mechanical Properties on the Dynamic Behaviour of 32-Panel Footballs

Data file contains quasi-static compression loading files and impact data for 12 footballs for the paper titled "Examining the Predictive Capability of Statically Determined Mechanical Properties on the Dynamic Behaviour of 32-Panel Footballs". This file consists of an results table, matlab data and script

An N2O gas target for studies in low energy nuclear physics at HIGS

The deposit contains data obtained during experiments at the HIGS facility at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), Duke University, in collaboration with the University of Connecticut (Uconn). The experimental work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the analysis and code developed was part funded by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. The data for these experiments were obtained in 2011-2012 and exact details of when each data file was generated can be found in the attached experiment runbooks. Data and analysis codes needed to analyse the data are contained within the archive and were developed between 2021 and 2025. M. Gai (Uconn) and M.W. Ahmed (TUNL), each served as the spokesperson of the UConn-TUNL collaboration that collected and released the data. The released data were subsequently analysed at Sheffield Hallam University by K. C. Z. Haverson and R. Smith with the help of S. Finch (TUNL), and S.R. Stern and D.K. Schweitzer at UConn

Artificial Intelligence-based Software for the Smart Molecular Imaging of Fingermarks

Fingermarks are a still primary form of evidence in any crime (and are particularly important in major crimes). This collection refers to a project funded by DASA UK regarding the engineering of a TRL 6 software the specific processing of crime scenes fingermark through of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionisation Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MALDI MSI). The software integrates artificial intelligence for the smart and fast provision of the highest quality fingermark images for National Database comparison and match, offering an increased likelihood of suspect identification. The Collection specifically includes: a) project background, aims, objectives and hypotheses; b) the machine learning algorithm (code) developed to assign a Scotland Yeard grade to each MALDI MS image of fingermark recovered; c) detailed information on the scripts, files, and folders used, along with the file structure and naming conventions (data level documentation (pdf). The metadata file (.xls) contains two sheets: one for the code scripts and another for the images

Tracking BSc Maths students’ attitudes to mistakes and risk

A follow up study to see whether students’ attitudes had changed over the course of their studies

Touched Matter: material explorative approaches to investigate tactile relationships with responsive materiality

The associated thesis explores the mundane nature of tactile relationships with touchscreens, focusing on their material qualities through experimental approaches. The research addresses the question: What do we touch daily that is responsive to our touch? In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the study examines the significance and physicality of touchscreens and other responsive materials, including conductive threads, to understand their impact on tactile interaction. The pandemic's restrictions on physical interactions highlight the changing nature of tactile engagements, as well as the risks associated with contamination through touch and mundane contact with touchscreens. The research is a practice-led inquiry concerning the tactile relationship between skin and touchscreens.Through material interventions and explorations in gallery and workshop settings, the thesis examines the interactions between the body and touchscreen as an embodied encounter . Moving beyond the user-device relationship, the study is framed by the concept of 'intra-action,' which is explored through practice-led methodologies. The study focuses on the residual traces left on touchscreens, considering them as not merely passive objects, but as active participants. This research adopts a New Materialist perspective, where the touchscreen is viewed as a material agent, and the person is seen as a nervous, responsive matter, in physiological and philosophical terms. The research contributes to understanding the tactile relationship with technology by identifying four key themes—Conductive, Broken, Wet/Soft, and Cared—that emerge from material explorations. These themes convey the diversity of encounters between the body and touchscreen, prompting a reconsideration of the everyday tactile engagements we have with responsive technologies. This work makes an original contribution to knowledge by examining the sensory and material dimensions of touch in relation to the materiality of e-waste, thereby expanding the discourse on embodied interaction with technology at the intersection of Art practice and Neurophilosophy

The blurred line in elite sport: Exploring UK media reporting of bullying and banter

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the concepts of bullying and banter within both sport research and media reporting. However, at present, research has not explored reports of bullying and banter within the UK sport media This is a potential omission, as the media may provide important conceptual information about bullying and banter to those outside of the academic domain. Therefore, the present study sought to understand how banter and bullying are framed by the UK sport media and how these concepts have been distinguished from one another. Guided by a pragmatist approach, 85 print and broadcast media articles were analysed from The Times, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Sun, The Guardian, British Broadcasting Company (BBC) and Sky Sports News (SNN). Through an abductive thematic analysis, the findings highlighted several themes around the media’s view of bullying. The media differentiated bullying and banter through the tipping point between these concepts and a misinterpretation of jokes and banter. The present study contributed to the current research on bullying and banter by analysing the media’s perspectives of the concepts. Overall, the findings outline the contemporary understanding of bullying in sport, whilst highlighting the significant influence the media has in shaping the discussion around banter in this context

Teachers and Menopause

This was a project investigating teachers' experience of menopause. Three people were interviewed

Operating department practitioner's research priorities: a Delphi study

Data from rounds 1-3 of the delphi study to determine ODP research priorities

A multi-modal mass spectrometry approach for the detection and mapping of date rape drugs in fingermarks

Drug facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) is an issue of growing concern. As these drugs are metabolised very quickly, toxicological evidence from biological fluids, corroborating the victim’s statement, is challenging to recover, especially with late reports. Ihe data collected and deposited here pertain to the development of an additional method involving the analysis of the victim’s fingermarks recovered at the scene(s) of the crime, which may contain the parent drug and its metabolite.In this light, the dataset deposited includes the raw imaging and profiling data acquired using Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionisation Mass Spectrometry Imaging, Desorption Electrospray Ionisation Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Soft Ionisation by Chemical Reaction In Transfer from fingermarks contaminated with risperidone and/or its pharmacologically active metabolite paliperidone as a case study