Developing cycle hubs in a destination – a how to guide

This ‘how-to’ guide draws on our experience of planning and delivering a project designed to enhance provision for leisure cycling in rural Northumberland. By sharing the lessons learned during 18 months working in Haltwhistle and Wooler between autumn 2009 and spring 2011, we hope that other market town communities in Northumberland and further afield will be able to stimulate and cater for this increasingly important tourism sector

PaperChain: A Collaborative Healthcare System Grounded in Field Study Work

In this extended abstract we summarise our recent experiences of designing and deploying PaperChain, a system to support real-time information sharing in healthcare work. A guiding principle has been the development of a deep understanding of the work as the foundation for effective system design. We summarise the field work that motivated the development of PaperChain, some of the key findings and the resulting system. We briefly reflect on the benefits gained from undertaking substantial HCI work in the design of a healthcare system

Studies of Impaired People in Paddock Wood

This volume contains three reports based on a community survey of impaired persons living in and around Paddock Wood, Kent and who were registered with a general medical practice of three partners working with nurses, health visitors and ancillary workers from a purpose-built health centre. The opportunity of working with a primary medical care team enabled a number of different questions to be examined, and because some of these form discrete areas of interest the results are presented in the following three papers:- Identifying Handicapped People in a General Practice Population. Interview Surveys of Handicapped People. The Accuracy of Statements about the Underlying Medical Conditions Handicapped People in Paddock Woo

Source monitoring and memory confidence in schizophrenia

BACKGROUND: The present study attempted to extend previous research on source monitoring deficits in schizophrenia. We hypothesized that patients would show a bias to attribute self-generated words to an external source. Furthermore, it was expected that schizophrenic patients would be overconfident regarding false memory attributions. METHOD: Thirty schizophrenic and 21 healthy participants were instructed to provide a semantic association for 20 words. Subsequently, a list was read containing experimenter- and self-generated words as well as new words. The subject was required to identify each item as old/new, name the source. and state the degree of confidence for the source attribution. RESULTS: Schizophrenic patients displayed a significantly increased number of source attribution errors and were significantly more confident than controls that a false source attribution response was true. The latter bias was ameliorated by higher doses of neuroleptics. CONCLUSIONS: It is inferred that a core cognitive deficit underlying schizophrenia is a failure to distinguish false from true mnestic contents

Leeds Free School Meals Research Project (Phase 2 Report: Findings from the pilot phase Leeds Metropolitan University)

Free school meals aim to provide a “nutritional safety net” for the poorest UK children. Yet it is estimated that up to 30% of those entitled do not take up this entitlement. In Leeds approximately 6,000 children do not take the free school meals that they are entitled to. National and local targets are for 100% take up. Phase 2 of the Leeds Free School Meal Research Project aimed to develop, implement and evaluate a series of interventions to increase the uptake of free school meals. The interventions were tested in ten Leeds schools between December 2007 and October 2008. The research was undertaken by the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics within The Centre of Food Nutrition and Health at Leeds Metropolitan University on behalf of Education Leeds

People in Public Health. Research Summary

Members of the public are becoming increasingly important in the delivery of public health programmes. The work they do varies. They might give out information about a health issue or tell people about a local service. They might help someone who is going to a health improvement activity for the first time or organise a group that encourages healthy living. Some are paid, others are volunteers. The People in Public Health research study wanted to find out more about these lay health workers. It wanted to discover what type of things they do in public health programmes, how they are recruited, trained and supported and what is needed to make these approaches work well

From information to action: Improving implementation of patient safety guidance in the NHS.

Patient safety is a high priority for everyone working within healthcare (Vincent 2006, Walshe and Boaden 2006). However, while over the last decade or so there has been an outpouring of information to improve the safety of patient care, unfortunately, putting the recommended changes into practice has fallen short of their envisioned potential (Mulrow 1994, Berwick 2003, Elwyn et al. 2007). The project context was the NHS in England and Wales with the scope of the project limited to the acute care hospital setting in England and Wales. The project sought to identify how the NPSA could support improvement in implementation. It sought to explore the factors that help or hinder successful implementation, through a collective effort, using my personal experience and expertise, that of NPSA colleagues, external experts and the views of staff in acute care hospitals across England and Wales together with the literature. The findings led to the design and development of an implementation toolkit, initially targeted at NPSA staff and other national bodies responsible for issuing guidance and safer practices. The project output therefore comprises a product in the form of an implementation toolkit supported by a critical commentary on the development of the product. These will provide an original contribution to my own knowledge and understanding, as well as that of my work place, the NPSA, my professional areas, nursing and patient safety, and the knowledge base of the Middlesex University. Post-doctoral activity will involve the promotion, use and evaluation of the toolkit in 2009

Collecting knowledge: figshare in the museum

In 2017, the Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture began to use figshare as a repository for research data and outputs for its Katagami stencil project. This presentation explores this use, how it came about and how MoDA and its researchers found using figshare, with reflections on future considerations. This is a Figshare fest London 15th November 2018 presentation