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Testosterone Therapy: Increase in Hematocrit is Associated with Decreased Mortality (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Testosterone Therapy: Increase in Hematocrit is Associated with Decreased Mortality. Androgens, 150 - 159. https://doi.org/10.1089/andro.2021.0019

Objective: Testosterone therapy (TTh) may reduce morbidity/mortality in men with adult-onset testosterone deficiency (TD), though some cardiovascular safety concerns remain. Increased hematocrit (HCT), a recognized effect of therapy, may be associate... Read More about Testosterone Therapy: Increase in Hematocrit is Associated with Decreased Mortality.

Case-finding and improving patient outcomes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care: the BLISS research programme including cluster RCT (2021)
Journal Article
Adab, P., Jordan, R. E., Fitzmaurice, D., Ayres, J. G., Cheng, K., Cooper, B. G., …Turner, A. (2021). Case-finding and improving patient outcomes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care: the BLISS research programme including cluster RCT. Programme Grants for Applied Research, 9(13), 1 - 148. https://doi.org/10.3310/pgfar09130

BackgroundChronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a major contributor to morbidity, mortality and health service costs but is vastly underdiagnosed. Evidence on screening and how best to approach this is not clear. There are also uncertainties aroun... Read More about Case-finding and improving patient outcomes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care: the BLISS research programme including cluster RCT.

Sudden Transition to Online Learning: an Action Research Study Exploring Foundation Year Students’ Experience at Keele University (2021)
Journal Article
Masood. (2021). Sudden Transition to Online Learning: an Action Research Study Exploring Foundation Year Students’ Experience at Keele University. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/29rw-zt56

The COVID-19 pandemic induced closure of the university campuses resulted in forced improvisation and adoption of online learning. Following sudden transition towards exclusive online learning, we needed to know more about students’ experience to ide... Read More about Sudden Transition to Online Learning: an Action Research Study Exploring Foundation Year Students’ Experience at Keele University.

Bringing ethical dilemmas to life; the use of drama teaching in healthcare education (2021)
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Jacklin, S., & Allinson, M. (2021). Bringing ethical dilemmas to life; the use of drama teaching in healthcare education. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/29rw-zt56

Context and objectives Empathy is an important element that underpins a health professional’s ability to handle ethical dilemmas involving patients, with a focus on providing person-centred care. The aim of this project was to evaluate the use of an... Read More about Bringing ethical dilemmas to life; the use of drama teaching in healthcare education.

Supporting patients with long COVID return to work. (2021)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2021). Supporting patients with long COVID return to work. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), 508 - 509. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp21X717533

Post-COVID-19 syndrome, often called ‘long COVID’ refers to signs and/or symptoms that develop following COVID-19 infection, which continue for more than 12 weeks and are not explained by an alternative diagnosis.1 Long COVID presents with clusters o... Read More about Supporting patients with long COVID return to work..

Assisted peritoneal dialysis across Europe: Practice variation and factors associated with availability (2021)
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Davies. (2021). Assisted peritoneal dialysis across Europe: Practice variation and factors associated with availability. Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, 533-541. https://doi.org/10.1177/08968608211049882

Background: In Europe, the number of elderly end-stage kidney disease patients is increasing. Few of those patients receive peritoneal dialysis (PD), as many cannot perform PD autonomously. Assisted PD programmes are available in most European coun... Read More about Assisted peritoneal dialysis across Europe: Practice variation and factors associated with availability.

Chemistry Students' Perceptions of 'Active Learning' (2021)
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(2021). Chemistry Students' Perceptions of 'Active Learning'. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/jgjp-jk03

Whilst active learning strategies have been gaining increasing attention over recent years, the traditional lecture has remained commonplace in higher education teaching. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has provided stimulus for educators to re-examin... Read More about Chemistry Students' Perceptions of 'Active Learning'.

Inclusivity in Module Design and Assessment Methods in the Humanities (2021)
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Brill. (2021). Inclusivity in Module Design and Assessment Methods in the Humanities. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/9zh0-x347

This article will evaluate the inclusivity of design and assessment methods of AMS 30043: Violence and Power in Antebellum America. This module explores issues of power and belonging from the end of the American Revolution to the American Civil War.... Read More about Inclusivity in Module Design and Assessment Methods in the Humanities.

Using Mentimeter to Engage First Year Law Students in Wellbeing Awareness (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Using Mentimeter to Engage First Year Law Students in Wellbeing Awareness. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/28z6-7966

This paper assesses Keele Law School’s use of Mentimeter during an in-person live session to engage first year Law students in wellbeing awareness, through the innovative design and delivery of an interactive, whole-cohort session called It’s OK to n... Read More about Using Mentimeter to Engage First Year Law Students in Wellbeing Awareness.

Not a Moot Point!: Mooting as an Authentic Assessment Practice in Law? (2021)
Journal Article
Allen. (2021). Not a Moot Point!: Mooting as an Authentic Assessment Practice in Law?. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/fxtz-2z31

Authentic assessment, understood as a form of assessment in which students demonstrate the applicability of the skills and concepts they have learned in a real-world context, is increasingly prized in an instrumentalist higher education environment t... Read More about Not a Moot Point!: Mooting as an Authentic Assessment Practice in Law?.

Using a committee as a student-staff partnership research group to implement data-driven, research-informed practical applications to benefit the student experience (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Using a committee as a student-staff partnership research group to implement data-driven, research-informed practical applications to benefit the student experience. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/say7-ha56

This case study presents a mechanism for implementing research-informed practical applications to benefit the student experience in an institutional setting. It describes an approach that uses a formal university committee, with representation drawn... Read More about Using a committee as a student-staff partnership research group to implement data-driven, research-informed practical applications to benefit the student experience.

In Pursuit of the ‘Holy Grail’: Staff Perceptions of Creativity and Innovation (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). In Pursuit of the ‘Holy Grail’: Staff Perceptions of Creativity and Innovation. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/fe4z-5w95

Context and Objectives Debate about conceptual understandings and practical applications of creativity and innovation into learning and teaching practice is long standing. Our empirical research aimed to explore how these concepts were understood by... Read More about In Pursuit of the ‘Holy Grail’: Staff Perceptions of Creativity and Innovation.

Does Abortion Violate the Right to Life of Unborn Babies? (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Does Abortion Violate the Right to Life of Unborn Babies?. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/kgfm-xa15

The question of when life begins is a deeply divisive issue, which has been debated to the moon and back without ever truly being answered, or so it seems. This article will critically analyse the reasoning behind the ‘Prolife’ argument and highlight... Read More about Does Abortion Violate the Right to Life of Unborn Babies?.

Reading literature: Critical pedagogies and Talis Elevate in online learning communities (2021)
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(2021). Reading literature: Critical pedagogies and Talis Elevate in online learning communities. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/1e1g-3033

The COVID-19 pandemic radically transformed higher education, which required many educators and students to adapt their learning and teaching practices in a short space of time. The emergency transition to online teaching during the pandemic created... Read More about Reading literature: Critical pedagogies and Talis Elevate in online learning communities.

“We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States (2021)
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(2021). “We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1476-1485. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620987672

Collective action is a key driver of social and political change within societies. So far, the main factor mobilizing individuals into collective action remains the extent to which they feel identified with a protesting group (i.e., social identific... Read More about “We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States.

Children’s pictures of COVID-19 and measures to mitigate its spread: an international qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Protheroe. (2021). Children’s pictures of COVID-19 and measures to mitigate its spread: an international qualitative study. Health Education Journal, 811-832. https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969211019459

Objectives: To gain insight into children’s health-related knowledge and understanding of SARS-CoV2 and measures adopted to mitigate transmission. Design: A child-centred qualitative creative element, embedded in an online mixed method survey of ch... Read More about Children’s pictures of COVID-19 and measures to mitigate its spread: an international qualitative study.

SMA - TREATMENT (2021)
Journal Article
Owen, S., Šoltić, D., Synowsky, S., Crompton, E., Yáñez-Muñoz, R., Schneider, B., …Fuller, H. (2021). SMA - TREATMENT. Neuromuscular Disorders, 31, S131-S132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmd.2021.07.295

Proteins associated with the sarcomere and costamere in hearts are dysregulated in two mouse models of spinal muscular atrophy