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A divisive path: Criminal justice social work education across the four nations of the UK
No full textThis chapter offers a critical and personal exploration of the fragmentation of criminal justice social work (CJSW) education across the four nations of the UK. Drawing on the author’s professional journey—from qualifying in Scotland to two decades’ justice practice in England, then a decade’s teaching social work, five years co-chairing BASW England Criminal Justice Group—it traces the erosion of criminal justice as a visible and viable social work specialism, particularly in England. Through comparative policy and curriculum analysis, this chapter examines how divergent approaches to social work education have shaped professional identity, interagency collaboration, and the ability of social workers to contribute meaningfully to justice contexts. It argues that there are lessons to be learned from losing presence, the disconnection between social work and probation in England, which has led to a narrowing of practice, weakening relational, ethical, and rights-based responses to the complex needs of justice-involved individuals. Social work’s presence in probation and probation’s presence in social work being mutually beneficial. This chapter calls for the reintroduction or security of criminal justice in qualifying curricula, expansion of practice placements, and development of interdisciplinary education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In particular, it proposes a new cross-professional postgraduate qualification to enable social workers and probation officers in England to work more flexibly across roles and sectors. In doing so, it offers a vision for a more integrated, relational, and ethically grounded justice workforce—one in which social justice values can reassert its vital role
“I wasn’t prepared for that”: UK Social worker Experiences of Training in and Knowledge of Acquired Brain Injury
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Acquired brain injury is a major cause of death and disability. Due to the impact of acquired brain injury on an individual's and a family's functioning, social workers are likely to encounter individuals and families affected by the condition. This study aimed to (1) identify the existing level of knowledge and skills of social workers in working with individuals with acquired brain injury and their families and (2) examine the training needs of social workers to improve their knowledge and skills in working with those with acquired brain injury. A series of semi-structured interviews with newly qualified social workers (six), brain injury specialist social workers (nine), team leaders (two), and commissioners (three) were conducted and analyzed using thematic analysis.
Findings
The data highlighted that social workers in England and Wales have no formal training around acquired brain injury but felt there was a need for different levels of training and guidance for social workers. Participants also discussed the need for better integration with health care and a greater focus on relational working to enact positive change for individuals and families.
Applications
Social work training should be embedded within prequalification training with additional postqualification training where appropriate. Work and training within social work should take an interdisciplinary approach. The authors have taken the data to develop a freely available online training program for social workers
Building technological capabilities for local MedTech transformation in Africa: evidence from devices for cervical cancer prevention in Kenya
Get PDFMedical devices (MDs) are crucial to the capabilities of a health system; however, their supply chains for African healthcare systems are under-researched. Kenya serves as a strong illustrative case: despite having robust manufacturing bases in East Africa, the health system is primarily import-dependent, and local MD manufacturing capacity is limited. This article employs a novel ‘capability–knowledge base matrix’, integrating the conceptual approaches of technological capabilities (TCs) and knowledge bases, to explore the development of the African medical technology sector. Using a case study of MDs supporting reproductive health and cervical cancer (CC) prevention, this research indicates that success within the African MedTech sector needs active investment in cumulative learning within firms, strong linkages with external stakeholders, connections with the domestic health system, and systematic trade and industrial policy support. This paper highlights that strengthening domestic procurement, streamlining regulatory pathways and supporting incremental capability development are key policy strategies for transforming the African MedTech sector
From print to wool: Vesalius and the ‘knit your own womb’ movement
No full textThis paper considers contemporary approaches to representing the female sexual organs in such media as wool and fabric, and their relationship to the detailed, fully-labelled, two-dimensional images in sixteenth-century medical texts, in particular to those of Vesalius. I shall consider what it means to move the body into the public domain through such media, and how the skills of the crafter and the materials used are brought into play. Among the modern versions of the female body which I shall compare to Vesalius are online knitting patterns for the uterus and two small groups in the UK: the Shoreditch Women’s Institute and its vulva quilt and the Whitstable Profanity Embroidery Group
Water Vapor Vertical Distribution on Mars After Six Years of TGO/NOMAD Solar Occultations: 2. Cross‐Validation Within TGO and Comparison With MPCM
No full textThis is the second part of an investigation of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere using solaroccultation observations by the Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery (NOMAD) spectrometer on boardthe ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Following the analysis of six Earth years of NOMAD observations performedin the first part, a cross‐validation between NOMAD and ACS results is presented, showing global as well asprofile‐by‐profile comparisons. The results reveal an overall good agreement between different teams andinstruments, taking into account the different retrieval methodologies. In order to compare with modelpredictions, we perform an exhaustive analysis of the water vapor simulated by Mars Planetary Climate Model(MPCM). It shows that the MPCM reproduces most of the water vapor climatological features observed in theatmosphere. However, several discrepancies between model and observations are noticed. Some of these arepossibly related to the vertical distribution of dust and its effect on the global circulation and on the water vaporvertical transport. Other data‐model differences found at 60 km seem to be related to discrepancies on the waterice cloud formation in the MPCM. We include a cluster analysis of Martian water vapor vertical profiles for thefirst time. This technique applied to MPCM and NOMAD water vapor retrievals reveal distinct groups ofprofiles being representative of specific seasons and latitudinal regions, similarly distributed in both model andobservations. Moreover, it allows us to provide a simplified water vapor climatology, useful to detect out‐of‐season events and biases in the retrieval processes
Martial arts striking sports prehabilitation programme (MASS-12): Jump higher, move safer, and feel better
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Martial arts involve cutting, jumping and landing movements known to increase injury risk. Martial artists frequently sustain injuries. Recreational martial arts have yet to implement an evidence-informed prehabilitation programme to prevent these injuries. Here, we evaluate the Martial Arts Striking Sports prehabilitation programme (MASS-12) in a recreational setting.
Methods
Three traditional martial arts warm-ups and two MASS-12 warm-ups were delivered over 2 weeks as a recreational Jiu Jitsu club hall. A coach and seven athletes (five male, two female), ranging in experience from white belt to brown belt, participated. Main Outcome Measures were the Frontal plane projection angle (FPPA), a measure of dynamic knee valgus and Single leg vertical hops (SLVH), a measure of performance.
Results
Over half of recreational athletes reported previous, serious lower limb injuries. Athlete FFPA and SLVH significantly improved (−11.9° to −1.93°, 25.2 vs 27.5 cm, respectively) after the MASS-12. Athletes appreciated the increased feedback and sense of preparedness. The coach found it easy to teach and perceived improvements in performance.
Conclusions
The MASS-12 is easy for coaches to implement; improves lower limb alignment; and is accepted by athletes. A significant improvement on current practices, the MASS-12 should be widely implemented in recreational martial arts
Navigating Organisational Contexts as Women Leaders
No full textThis chapter explores the complex realities of women leaders, with particular attention to Global Majority (GM) women navigating Eurocentric organisational structures and alternative feminist spaces. Drawing on two distinct yet interconnected case studies—an empirical study involving 22 GM women leaders across sectors and an oral history project with Bristol Crisis Service for Women—the chapter interrogates how racialised and gendered dynamics shape leadership identities, opportunities, and resistance. Using critical feminist and Critical Race Theory (CRT) lenses, the authors identify four historical tropes—Sapphire, Jezebel, Black Mammy, and Queen of Sheba—that continue to influence the perceptions and treatment of GM women leaders in mainstream settings. These tropes, often internalised and institutionally embedded, contribute to organisationally induced trauma and stress (OiTS), silencing, and hyper-surveillance.
The chapter further examines how women challenge these dominant narratives through relational leadership and peer support, offering counter-narratives of resistance, care, and community. The Bristol Crisis Service for Women exemplifies how grassroots, women-only peer support structures can disrupt the re-traumatising tendencies of mainstream mental health services and promote relational safety. Throughout, the authors highlight the critical role of insider/outsider identities and advocate for leadership models rooted in reciprocity, solidarity, and psychological safety. Implications for social work practice are outlined, with a call for anti-racist, feminist-informed, trauma-aware leadership that values women’s agency and lived experience
The Network and Information Systems 2 Directive: Toward Scalable Cyber Risk Management in the Remote Patient Monitoring Domain: A Systematic Review
No full textHealthcare 5.0 and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is emerging as a scalable model for the delivery of customised healthcare and chronic disease management, through Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) in patient smart home environments. Large-scale RPM initiatives are being rolled out by healthcare providers (HCPs); however, the constrained nature of IoMT devices and proximity to poorly administered smart home technologies create a cyber risk for highly personalised patient data. The recent Network and Information Systems (NIS 2) directive requires HCPs to improve their cyber risk management approaches, mandating heavy penalties for non-compliance. Current research into cyber risk management in smart home-based RPM does not address scalability. This research examines scalability through the lens of the Non-adoption, Abandonment, Scale-up, Spread and Sustainability (NASSS) framework and develops a novel Scalability Index (SI), informed by a PRISMA guided systematic literature review. Our search strategy identified 57 studies across major databases including ACM, IEEE, MDPI, Elsevier, and Springer, authored between January 2016 and March 2025 (final search 21 March 2025), which focussed on cyber security risk management in the RPM context. Studies focussing solely on healthcare institutional settings were excluded. To mitigate bias, a sample of the papers (30/57) were assessed by two other raters; the resulting Cohen’s Kappa inter-rater agreement statistic (0.8) indicating strong agreement on study selection. The results, presented in graphical and tabular format, provide evidence that most cyber risk approaches do not consider scalability from the HCP perspective. Applying the SI to the 57 studies in our review resulted in a low to medium scalability potential of most cyber risk management proposals, indicating that they would not support the requirements of NIS 2 in the RPM context. A limitation of our work is that it was not tested in a live large-scale setting. However, future research could validate the proposed SI, providing guidance for researchers and practitioners in enhancing cyber risk management of large-scale RPM initiatives