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Pharmacology of non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids and their potential for treatment of cardiometabolic disease. (2025)
Book Chapter
WAINWRIGHT, C.L. and WALSH, S.K. 2025. Pharmacology of non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids and their potential for treatment of cardiometabolic disease. In Wainwright, C. and Schini-Kerth, V. (eds.) Natural products as sources of novel drugs. Handbook of experimental pharmacology, 287. Cham: Springer [online], pages 61-93. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/164_2024_731

The use of Cannabis sativa by humans dates back to the third millennium BC, and it has been utilized in many forms for multiple purposes, including production of fibre and rope, as food and medicine, and (perhaps most notably) for its psychoactive pr... Read More about Pharmacology of non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids and their potential for treatment of cardiometabolic disease..

A person-centred approach to researcher development for business management doctorates. (2025)
Book Chapter
FOSTER, S., SHELDON, J., HANNIBAL, C. and BRYDE-EVENS, M. 2025. A person-centred approach to researcher development for business management doctorates. In Śliwa, M., Anderson, L., Black, K., Chaffer, C. and Webb, J. (eds.). Handbook of inclusive learning and teaching in business and management. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar [online], chapter 5, pages 88-104. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035325733.00011

This chapter explores the experiences of business management postgraduate research students (PGRs) within the evolving landscape of doctoral education, despite the increasing number of postgraduate students, business management PGRs are rarely addres... Read More about A person-centred approach to researcher development for business management doctorates..

Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed. (2025)
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STEED, J., CROSS, K. and WILSON, B. 2025. Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed. In Kosmidou, E.R. and McMurtry, L.G. (eds.) Intangible cultural heritage and new methodological frameworks: media, performance and the public space. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 7, pages 121-137. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003415329-11

Scotland’s Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is diverse with many situated in rural and remote northerly peripheries, today still retaining human idiosyncrasies free from the uniformity created by mass-globalization. They include textile craft pract... Read More about Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed..

CCUS in the United Kingdom. (2025)
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BABAJIDE, N. 2025. CCUS in the United Kingdom. In Pereira, E.G., Fossa, A.J. and Muinzer, T.L. (eds.) Carbon capture utilization and storage: law, policy and standardization perspectives. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online], chapter 21, pages 535-555. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81272-9_21

Carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) remains one of the useful tools for reducing GHGs emissions and decarbonising the economy at national and regional levels. Given its distinctive geological advantage and net-zero investment plans, this ch... Read More about CCUS in the United Kingdom..

Conceptions of sustainability and their impact on practices in oil and gas corporations operating in the Niger Delta. (2025)
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RICHARD-OSU, O.J. and BUCKLER, S. 2025. Conceptions of sustainability and their impact on practices in oil and gas corporations operating in the Niger Delta. In Idowu, S.O. and Vertigans, S. (eds.) Sustainability in global companies: theory and practice. Cham: Springer [online], pages 261-277. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77971-8_12

Sustainability is a slippery term which can mean different things to different people. This slipperiness creates challenges in organisations that seem to want to adopt sustainable business practices but make little headway in actually doing so, or at... Read More about Conceptions of sustainability and their impact on practices in oil and gas corporations operating in the Niger Delta..

Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista. Le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe. (2025)
Book Chapter
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. 2025. Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista. Le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe. In Bittanti, M. and De Mutiis, M. (eds.) Fotoludica: fotografia e videogiochi tra arte e documentazione. Milan: Mimesis Edizioni [online], pages 459-491. Available from: https://milanmachinimafestival.org/fotoludica-book

In this chapter DeLappe and Leuzzi argue that screenshots and other artefacts created to document Joseph DeLappe's performative, activist, and interventionist actions within contemporary game spaces are at once inspired by war photography while also... Read More about Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista. Le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe..

History of health psychology. (2025)
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CHATER, A.M., QUINN, F. and MORRISON, V. 2025. History of health psychology. In Sanderman, R. and Morgan, K. (eds.) The Routledge international handbook of health psychology: global and contemporary issues. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 1, pages 3-21. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003318026-2

This chapter gives an overview of the history of health psychology, covering the development of the discipline across a number of countries, including the United States of America (USA), Europe, the United Kingdom (UK), Japan, Africa, Canada, Austral... Read More about History of health psychology..

Women's use and abuse of the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic on Mumsnet. (2025)
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PEDERSEN, S. and BURNETT, S. 2025. Women's use and abuse of the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic on Mumsnet. In Quandt, T. and Wahl-Jorgensen, K. (eds.) Journalism and the coronavirus pandemic. New York: Routledge [online], pages 176-192. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032647807-10

This article analyses news sources used by women to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK parenting website Mumsnet. By using a non-political online "third space" aimed at women, Mumsnetters are able to avoid the aggression women face when they att... Read More about Women's use and abuse of the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic on Mumsnet..

Providing quality end-of-life care. (2024)
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KING, G. and SUNTER, M. 2025. Providing quality end-of-life care. In Chilton, S. and Bain, H. (eds.) A textbook of community nursing. Third edition. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 16, pages 368-391. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003347545-17

The term end-of-life care (EOLC) has been used for nearly two decades in England, since the EOLC programme was launched in 2005, which followed the NICE "Supportive and Palliative Care for Adults with Cancer" guidelines. This was the point where, to... Read More about Providing quality end-of-life care..

Professional approaches to care. (2024)
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HARPER-OVSTEBO, B. and MAIR, J. 2025. Professional approaches to care. In Chilton, S. and Bain, H. (eds.) A textbook of community nursing. Third edition. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 4, pages 79-100. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003347545-5

This chapter explores the concepts of professionalism, professional standards, regulatory requirements and policies underpinning community nursing. It evaluates decision-making approaches and clinical expertise, relating to integrated working environ... Read More about Professional approaches to care..

Public health and the promotion of wellbeing. (2024)
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BAGULEY, F. and WILSON, D. 2025. Public health and the promotion of wellbeing. In Chilton, S. and Bain, H. (eds.) A textbook of community nursing. Third edition. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 3, pages 56-78. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003347545-4

This chapter introduces public health, health and wellbeing and identifies the factors that influence individuals and communities across their lifespans. Students will be able to discuss these and understand the relevance of community nursing and ser... Read More about Public health and the promotion of wellbeing..

Food in/securities and mutual interdependencies in a Kenyan "slum": a study of the social impacts of an urban farming programme. (2024)
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VERTIGANS, S. and MUELLER-HIRTH, N. 2024. Food in/securities and mutual interdependencies in a Kenyan "slum": a study of the social impacts of an urban farming programme. In Lever, J., Smith Maguire, J. and Kapek-Goodridge, A. (eds.) Towards an Eliasian understanding of food in the 21st century: established foundations and new directions. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer [online], chapter 10, pages 183-200. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65774-0_10

Drawing upon fieldwork undertaken in a "slum" in Nairobi, this chapter explores how experiences of food in/securities contribute to mutual interdependencies. The longitudinal research commenced in March 2020, immediately prior to Covid being identifi... Read More about Food in/securities and mutual interdependencies in a Kenyan "slum": a study of the social impacts of an urban farming programme..

Lebanon: fig holding and SDG#1 no poverty. (2024)
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NG, P.Y., BASTIAN, B.L. and WOOD, B. 2025. Lebanon: fig holding and SDG#1 no poverty. In Birththistle, N. (eds.) Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of no poverty. Leeds: Emerald [online], pages 55-68. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83608-570-620241005

Poverty reduction is pivotal for sustainable development and has been identified as the first sustainability goal (SDG#1) by the United Nations. Poverty has remained a key challenge for countries in the Arab world, which is characterised by persistin... Read More about Lebanon: fig holding and SDG#1 no poverty..

Support systems and welfare measures to encourage physical and mental wellbeing. (2024)
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TAIT, J.-A., RODRÍGUEZ-JIMÉNEZ, R.-M., WILSON, S.A. and JENSEN, K. 2025. Support systems and welfare measures to encourage physical and mental wellbeing. In Kandakatla, R., Kulkarni, S. and Auer, M.E. (eds.) Academic leadership in engineering education: learnings and case studies from educational leaders around the globe. Lecture notes in networks and systems (LNNS), 1097. Cham: Springer [online], pages 353-371. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68282-7_19

The focus on engineering students' health and wellbeing has increased due to a global rise in mental health issues and the increased need for more engineers. The engineering industry grapples with recruitment and retention challenges, partly attribut... Read More about Support systems and welfare measures to encourage physical and mental wellbeing..

Behaviour change. (2024)
Book Chapter
BROOKMAN, M. and SMITH, D. 2024. Behaviour change. In Sawyer, M. and Tomson, M. (eds.) Environmentally sustainable primary care: good for the planet, good for practices, good for patients. Abingdon: CRC Press [online], chapter 17, pages 245-255. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003491583

The chapter starts with a clinical case looking at reasons behind habits, lack of motivation for change, and what internal and external motivations may help. The chapter is about personal behaviour change: what the most effective motivator is; whethe... Read More about Behaviour change..

Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation. (2024)
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CLARKE, J. 2025. Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation. In Sansi, R. and Tinius, J. (eds.) The trouble with art: an anthropology beyond philistinism. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 9, pages 171-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283683-13

This chapter considers the possibility of a 'symmetrical' anthropology by examining three 'parasitic' projects – collaborative, public projects at the borders of art and anthropology, which address the politics of authorship, intimacy and knowledge –... Read More about Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation..