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The experiences of student nurses with dyslexia in clinical practice in the United Kingdom : a literature review
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To explore the experiences of student nurses with dyslexia in clinical practice in the United Kingdom.
Design.
A systematic literature review of qualitative research.
Methods.
Three databases—CINAHL, MEDLINE and the British Education Index, were searched for original articles, using keywords to find peer-reviewed papers published between 1995 and 2024. Two reviewers independently evaluated the studies for inclusion, and the selected studies were critically appraised using the CASP tools. The extracted data were thematically analysed and synthesised.
Results.
Six studies were identified. Thematic analysis revealed four themes: Disclosing dyslexia, patient safety, compensatory coping strategies and support from practice assessors/supervisors.
Conclusions.
Student nurses with dyslexia have a variety of difficulties in clinical practice that call for continual assistance from their practice supervisors and assessors, including ward managers. Students must reveal their dyslexia to receive support, which can be a difficult and complicated process. Students should capitalise on their skills and employ compensating coping mechanisms to maintain patient safety. Further research is required to explore appropriate adjustments and the current level of help needed to support student nurses with dyslexia
Unpacking the money-distance nexus : mapping the spatial configuration of exogenous entrepreneurial finance across UK entrepreneurial ecosystems
Get PDFAttention is now increasingly being drawn to the interconnectedness of different entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs). Consequently, from a theoretical viewpoint EEs are increasingly being viewed from a multi-scaler rather than a mono-scaler perspective. This paper examines the spatial financial interlinkages between places and different forms and stages of entrepreneurial finance. Using a unique real-time data source of equity investments from Crunchbase, we investigate the composition of entrepreneurial finance across 30 different UK spatial locations. The core focus of the work is to uncover the composition of equity deals in terms of non-indigenous international investors and how space plays a role in influencing the prevalence of these extra-local investment deals. A novel dimension of the study is to test the “distance effects” encountered by locations in terms of their spatial proximity to the UK’s major international hub for entrepreneurial finance: London. We found that the probability of attracting international investors varies significantly across different funding stages with late-stage ventures showing a much higher propensity to attract international investors. By unpacking the “money-distance nexus” a core finding is that proximity to London is crucial for receiving external funding from international investors. Policy implications for less advantageous EEs focus on strategies for leveraging extra-local investment
Synergising lean thinking and circular economy practices : a pathway to enhancing sustainability goals in the construction industry
No full textAs Industries across the world realign their practices with a key focus on sustainability, the adoption in Construction and Built Environment has been glacial at best despite being one of the top contributors to carbon emissions and waste generation. The industry must restructure its practices to comply with net-zero goals set forth by various governments and international authorities and this study aims to examine how an integrated adoption of Lean construction and principles of Circular economy could help ease this transition. A survey based strategy to collect data measured on a Likert Scale was employed for this study, aided by interviews with professionals in the industry and academia as well as an in-depth analysis of existing data and literature. The results indicated varied levels of awareness of Lean and Circular Economy principles, but several principles associated with them have gradually been adopted in the industry, i.e. greater levels of collaboration, emphasis on cleaner supply chains, waste reduction and management etc. The awareness was also inversely related to the experience, indicating the recency of these concepts among industry professionals and how lack of awareness, reluctance to change and adopting new practices one of the greatest hurdles to their widespread implementation. This study provides valuable insights for construction stakeholders on the significance of integrating Lean thinking and circular economy practices to maximise resource efficiency, waste minimisation, and progressing toward net zero carbon targets
“It’s difficult when everyone else is drinking, you don’t feel part of the tribe” : a Delphi study of barriers and enablers to alcohol reduction in mid-life women
Get PDFObjectives: Midlife women are an important group to target for alcohol reduction, but there is a lack of research on drinking behaviour in this population. To address the gap, this study applied the Behaviour Change Wheel framework, and identified barriers and enablers to alcohol reduction to inform the development of a novel intervention.
Methods and measures: In a three round online Delphi study 310 women aged 40-65 years completed a survey including COM-B measures, and rated the acceptability of 12 clusters of BCTs; 33 women took part in focus group discussions, and 7 took part in a final workshop.
Results: Automatic motivation (habits) and social opportunity (other people’s drinking) were the strongest correlates of current drinking behaviour. BCT clusters rated highly were substitution, goals and planning, and identity. Focus groups highlighted the challenges of being a non-drinker in an ‘alcogenic’ world. Workshop findings suggested an intervention should promote connection with others, and include real life stories from women to promote behaviour change.
Conclusions: Midlife women who choose to change their drinking behaviour may face social pressure and stigma. Interventions need to support women and reduce feelings of judgement: using storytelling may be a way to address these challenges
Higher education and nation-building after Empire : migrant students in post-war Britain
Get PDFSociological literature increasingly turns its eye towards the colonial entanglements of British welfare state institutions. Nevertheless, mass higher education in the 1960s and 1970s tends to be considered as a universal service, unconnected to processes of racialisation and bordering. Sociologists discussing the neoliberal marketisation of higher education tend also not to draw connections between these processes and racialised exclusion. By reading policies on international student fees since the 1960s through the lens of racial capitalism, this article illustrates the connections between the political economy of higher education and the production and management of racialised difference; in particular, in relation to nation-building processes after the Second World War. Using Parliamentary Hansard as a primary data source, the article traces the shifting relationships between universities, capitalism, nation and race through key policy changes between 1962 and 2011. These policies illustrate how universities became implicated in processes of racialised capital accumulation, and show that the migrant student played a key role in these processes
Driving location-based advertising success in hospitality apps : a synergistic analysis approach
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This study aims to investigate location-based advertising (LBA) in the hospitality sector. Using the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) and expectancy value theories (EVTs) proposes a comprehensive framework to understand the success factors of LBA apps and their consequences.
Design/methodology/approach.
Data from 406 hospitality app users were analyzed using structural equation modeling and probabilistic analysis to validate relationships among core variables. Spotlight analysis was also applied to examine the moderating effect of location context quality across varying levels.
Findings.
Research indicates that success factors such as personalization, incentives and navigation support enhance user engagement through the ELM. These factors align with user expectations and perceived value (EVT), leading to outcomes like message permission consent and LBA acceptance. Spotlight analysis highlights the moderating role of location contextual quality, suggesting that high relevance amplifies the impact of message value on user attitudes, providing key insights for LBA in hospitality. EVT posits that expected benefits encourage positive behaviors, reinforcing personalization, incentives and contextual relevance as crucial for user acceptance. The probabilistic analysis validates these factors as drivers of both immediate (first-tier) and sustained (second-tier) positive outcomes.
Research limitations/implications.
This study guides hospitality marketers by identifying key app features that drive LBA acceptance. Hospitality apps enhance user engagement and acceptance through personalization, incentives, prior permission and contextual relevance. Based on ELM and EVT, the study’s two-tier model captures both immediate and long-term user responses, emphasizing central and heuristic processing. Spotlight analysis underscores the significance of contextual quality and data-driven strategies.
Originality/value.
Leaning on the foundations of the ELM and EVTs, this study develops a comprehensive theoretical model that enhances the knowledge pertaining to marketing communication in hospitality through the LBA approach. In addition, applying probabilistic analysis provides strategic guidance for decision-makers on key variables to optimize LBA acceptance among app users
Validating the Doctoral and Academic Writing in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Profession survey questionnaire for writing group interventions
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Despite extensive research on doctoral education, reliable tools to measure how writers’ development relates to participation in social interventions such as writing retreats are lacking. To address this, we conducted a study to create and evaluate a measurement tool for assessing the impact of writing group interventions on writers' development.
Design
This methodology paper reports on the design, content validity, and evaluation of a new survey tool: the Doctoral and Academic Writing in Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health Professional writing questionnaire (DAWNMAHP).
Methods
We created a pool of 39 items based on empirical articles from SCOPUS, ERIC, BEI, ZETOC, CINAHL, EBHOST, and PsycINFO, our experience, and stakeholder consultations. After a content validity assessment by writing experts, we revised the pool to 44 items in five domains. Finally, we tested it on doctoral writing workshop attendees using factor analysis, Pearson correlations, and Cronbach’s Alpha evaluation.
Results
Thirty-six participants completed the DAWNMAHP survey tool: 22 doctoral students, seven early career researchers, and seven participants on a designated pre-doctoral pathway. Cronbach’s Alpha evaluation demonstrated good reliability (α > 0.70) for all five factors. This sample was deemed moderately sufficient (KMO = 0.579), and the items were loaded onto the five factors with all items factor loadings > 0.5 through principal component analysis.
Conclusion
DAWNMAHP is a novel, reliable tool that measures the impact of writing group interventions on an individual writer’s development concerning time management, the writing process, identity, social domains, and relational agency.
Implications for the profession
Conducting pre- and post-writing group intervention tests and recruiting larger sample sizes is essential to further developing DAWNMAHP. It is a rigorous tool for researching the benefits of writing group interventions. Furthermore, DAWNMAHP is an effective assessment and measurement tool, making a novel contribution to research into doctoral education
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
Get PDFLarge-scale, cross-species comparative analyses on cooperative breeding—where individuals care for the offspring of other group members—are important for understanding sociality and cooperation. However, the datasets that facilitate these analyses are often limited in precision. To advance comparative research on cooperative breeding, we hereby introduce the Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) for birds and mammals.
We describe key features of Co-BreeD's structure: (i) integration of complementary datasets, each presenting a biological parameter relevant to cooperative-breeding research; (ii) sample-based (i.e. multiple samples per species linked to an exact sampling location and period); and (iii) open-source. Respectively, these features enable: (a) comprehensive identification of cooperative-breeding species according to the user's chosen definition, (b) linking intra- and inter-specific variation in traits with fine-scale environmental parameters and (c) enabling the research community to correct and expand this database.
We present the initial Co-BreeD dataset, which estimates the prevalence of breeding events involving potential alloparents in 460 populations of 324 species, including 6 human populations (No. total = 43,247 breeding events).
We conclude by demonstrating: (i) how Co-BreeD can improve comparative research (e.g. by enabling the study of cooperative breeding as a continuous rather than a binary trait); and (ii) that cooperative breeding is probably more prevalent than previously estimated in birds and mammals