University of Hertfordshire: Recent submissions
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Social Care Research Readiness Project: : Mapping The Social Care Landscape Across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Hertfordshire
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Assessment of Fatigue in Robot-Mediated Upper Limb Interactions Using EEG
(2021-09-26)Fatigue experienced during post-stroke rehabilitation and its implications for the therapy outcome are often overlooked in existing rehabilitation programmes. Past studies have shown that intensive and repetitive robot-mediated ... -
Choosing Geographic Scales for the Analysis of Labour Market and Related Statistics
(2021-08-16)Researchers often only have access to aggregated statistics about people and businesses rather than individual data. This means that research into the relationships between labour market outcomes for geographic areas and ... -
Using video consultation technology between care homes and health and social care professionals: interview study during COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Hertfordshire, 2021)Using video consultation technology between care homes and health and social care professionals: a scoping review and interview study during COVID-19 pandemic -
The role of inhibitory control and ADHD symptoms in the occurrence of involuntary thoughts about the past and future: An individual differences study
(2021-10-01)The present study focused on involuntary thoughts about personal past events (i.e., involuntary autobiographical memories; IAMs), and involuntary thoughts about future events and plans (i.e., involuntary future thoughts; ... -
Strongly coupled heavy and light quark thermal motion from AdS/CFT
(2021-11-19)We give a pedagogical presentation of heavy and light probe quarks in a thermal plasma using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Three cases are considered: external heavy and light quarks undergoing Brownian motion in the plasma, ... -
Women's Narratives of Miscarriage and their Role in Identity Construction
(2021-10-22)Rationale and Aims: Literature surrounding miscarriage is broad in scope, yet existing research into women’s narrative identity constructions following miscarriage is significantly under-explored. Few studies have utilised ... -
Working Class Women's Agency in the Labour Movement in East London, 1840 – 1914
(2021-08-12)This research reveals a hidden history of working-class women’s lives and agency in industrial East London, 1840 to 1914. “Sweated” industrial women were integral to East London’s industrial labour geographies, as demonstrated ... -
Health Visitors' Professional Identity and their Lived Experience of Service Change
(2021-09-15)This qualitative extended study explored 20 health visitors’ (HVs’) perceptions of their professional identity and their experience of living through a time of significant service change. Specifically, it investigated, ... -
Resilient Communities: A Novel Workflow
(2021-11-16)This study presents a novel workflow to define how resilient communities can be analysed and improved through the optimisation of sustainable design principles through quantitative methods. Our model analyses successful ... -
Disruptive Localism - Community Activism versus Clientelism in England’s Neighbourhood Planning
(2021-11-16)This paper reports on a study of Neighbourhood Planning in more deprived urban areas of the North West region of England, revealing that the stance of elected representatives is important in shaping the processes and ... -
The Newspaper Portrayal of Mothers Accessing Food Banks in the UK
(2021-10-07)Aim: This study investigated the newspaper portrayal of mothers’ accessing food banks in the UK. Specifically, how their identities were portrayed, how their experiences were portrayed and how the impact of this was ... -
“It's no good but at least I've always got it round my neck”: A postphenomenological analysis of reassurance in assistive technology use by older people
(2021-11-06)The provision of reassurance is seen as a goal and benefit of the use of assistive technology (AT) in supporting people to manage their health and care needs at a distance. Conceptually, reassurance in health and care ... -
Muslim Faith Leaders’ Experiences of Providing Mental Health Support in the Community
(2021-10-22)Muslim Faith Leaders play an important role in Muslim communities. Despite being a primary support resource, research examining their experiences providing mental health support is limited. Amidst rising levels of Islamophobia ... -
The Role of Oath-Taking in Human Trafficking: Experiences of Survivors
(2021-10-22)Every year an unknown number of people are trafficked to the UK for the purpose of exploitation. The literature identifies numerous psychological methods traffickers use to exert power and control over individuals (e.g. ... -
Scrutinising UN Peacebuilding: Entangled Peace and its Limits
(2021-11-09)This article examines the suitability of entanglements and relations to think and see peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the limited results of the United Nations (UN) in securing lasting peace in war-torn ... -
Doing and feeling together in older age: self-worth and belonging through social creative activities
(2021-11-02)The potential for art activities to help in alleviating loneliness is explored through a focus on older women's regular attendance at creative social activities. We apply the concept of perceived emotional synchrony to ... -
Game Comics : Theory and design
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-10-19)A history of visual influence and narrative crossover exists between comics and videogames. The digital mediation of comics has resulted in the two forms sharing common platforms for creation, distribution, and consumption. ... -
Assessing the fidelity of the independently getting up off the floor (IGO) technique as part of the ReTrain pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial for stroke survivors
(2021-11-12)Purpose Hemiparesis and physical deconditioning following stroke lead to an increase in falls, which many individuals cannot get up from. Teaching stroke survivors to independently get off the floor (IGO) might mitigate ... -
The Experience of Transformative Learning from an Embodied Perspective: an IPA Study with Clinical Psychology Trainees
(2021-10-22)Despite development of transformative learning theory entering its fourth decade, little research exists that investigates the occurrence of this phenomenon on professional psychology training programmes. This study focused ...