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10/2012 09/2014
Biannual
Review of
Research
Outputs and
Activities Department of Medical and
Sport Sciences
FACULTY OF HEALTH & SCIENCE
http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/
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FOREWORD
As Head of Department, I am delighted to lead such an aspiring and research-
active team of academics. Across the academic years 2012-14, research and
broader scholarly activity within the Department has gathered further noteworthy
momentum. Six members of the Department were entered for the Research
Excellence Framework out of a total of 21 for the whole University. Active research
work has encompassed the areas of Medical Imaging, Active Ageing, Mental
Health & Exercise, applied, sport-specific areas such as coaching practice, coach
education and physical activity and health. This research has been underpinned by
the disciplines of Medical Imaging, Physiology, Biomechanics, Sociology,
Sociolinguistics, Cognitive and Social Psychology and Philosophy. There has, in this
period, been a particular upsurge in intra-departmental research projects, with a
large number of collaborations between colleagues being initiated, conducted and
completed. This internal research culture particularly in terms of collaborations
between more experienced research staff and colleagues newer to the process
has, notably, increased our peer-reviewed publications.
Staff members have, similarly, sustained and increased the output of high
calibre individual peer-reviewed work, and also collaborative research endeavour
with partners outside the Department itself, both within UoC and at other institutions.
Concurrently, colleagues have presented at a range of national and international
conferences, published in mainstream media and taken part in external examining,
PhD vivas and book-reviewing activities. This research activity is definitely inspiring
students, exemplified by the upsurge in the conversion of student dissertation work
into materials for submission to peer-reviewed journals and presentations at
conferences. Five final year sports students presented their work at the BASES
national student conference in spring 2014. In sum, the research culture within the
Department has developed significantly in the last two years and is well placed with
respect to both RDAP and REF. Congratulations to all those staff whose work is
contained in this report.
Timothy Barry, Head of the Department of Medical & Sport Sciences
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CONTENTS
1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 4
2. Output Statistics ................................................................................................................... 6
3. Full Summary of Research Outputs ................................................................................... 7
A. Peer-Reviewed Research Papers ................................................................................. 7
A(i). Entries in Books of Abstracts .................................................................................. 13
B. Chapters in Books .......................................................................................................... 14
C. Other Peer Reviewed and Professional Publications ............................................... 15
D. Commissioned Research Reports ............................................................................... 16
E. Verbal Presentations at National and International Conferences ......................... 17
E(i). Keynote and Guest Talks ....................................................................................... 17
E(ii). Convenor-Chair-Presenter at Invited Oral Symposia ........................................ 18
E(iiI). Invited Oral Symposia ........................................................................................... 18
E(iV). Oral Communications ......................................................................................... 19
F. Poster Presentations at National and International Conferences .......................... 21
G. Research Papers Under Review as of 10/2014 ......................................................... 22
4. Active Ageing Research Group ...................................................................................... 25
5. Health & Social Care Evaluations ................................................................................... 29
6. Visual Expertise Medical Image Perception .................................................................. 32
7. Mental Health Research Group ...................................................................................... 36
6. Selected Abstracts ............................................................................................................ 37
7. Directory of DMSS Core Research Contacts ................................................................. 53
A. DMSS Management Team ........................................................................................... 53
Tim Barry, MSc. ................................................................................................................ 53
Dr. Xavier Sanchez ......................................................................................................... 53
Charles Sloane, MSc. ..................................................................................................... 53
B. DMSS Research Coordinators ...................................................................................... 54
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Dr. Tim Donovan ............................................................................................................. 54
Dr. Paul K. Miller .............................................................................................................. 54
C. Active Ageing Research Group (AARG) ................................................................... 54
Theodoros M. Bampouras, MSc. ................................................................................... 54
Dr. Susan Dewhurst ......................................................................................................... 54
D. Health and Social Care Evaluations (HASCE) ........................................................... 55
Dr. Paul K. Miller .............................................................................................................. 55
E. Visual Expertise Medical Image Perception .............................................................. 55
Dr. Tim Donovan ............................................................................................................. 55
Dr. Peter Phillips ............................................................................................................... 55
F. Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) .................................................................... 56
Dr. Adam Benkwitz ......................................................................................................... 56
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1. INTRODUCTION
Between September 2012 and September 2014, the Department of Medical and
Sport Sciences (henceforth DMSS) made great steps forward in terms of formal
research outputs. A perusal of this document will reveal disseminated work of local,
national and international relevance across a range of domains and approaches.
During this period, members of departmental staff have published research
findings in high-quality peer-reviewed journals, edited books and a number of other
forums. This has been accompanied by professionally-oriented publications, geared
towards formal practice-development, commissioned evaluation reports, and a
plethora of conference presentations. This work has also inhabited a broad cross-
section of academic disciplines: anatomy, biomechanics, community development
studies, communication and linguistics, medical physics, physiology, psychology,
radiation protection, radiography, social policy and sociology to name but a few.
Moreover, and as illustrated in more detail in section 3, the last two years have also
been distinctive in the increased involvement of undergraduate and postgraduate
students in departmental research culture, with students own findings being
presented at national and international conferences, and published in a variety of
journals.
In more specialist domains of activity, Section 4 summarises the recent
activities of the Vice Chancellors Award-winning Active Ageing Research Group
(AARG), led by Dr. Susan Dewhurst and Theodoros M. Bampouras. The prolific
success of the AARG in publication, public engagement, grant-winning and
scholarship production is a model for practical, contemporary research hubs within
the University and one of the DMSSs major success stories of the last two years.
Section 5, meanwhile, provides a brief overview of the progress of HASCE, the unit
for Health and Social Care Evaluations, of which Dr. Paul Miller is the academic lead
and has involved of a number of departmental staff. Occupying a different sector of
the academic sphere to AARG, HASCE utilises social scientific research models to
provide client-oriented evaluations of the impacts of professional interventions and
initiatives in the broad healthcare sector, and has to date worked with a range of
clients in the North West, winning numerous contracts.
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In Section 6, the ongoing success of the Visual Expertise Medical Image
Perception research group is summarised, wherein Dr. Tim Donovan and Dr. Peter
Phillips, in conjunction with researchers at Lancaster University, have continued to
publish high-impact work on the understanding of human expertise, and in particular
visual expertise, in radiology. Finally, in Section 7, a brief report is given on the
fledgling cross-departmental Mental Health Research Group (MHRG), led by Dr.
Adam Benkwitz.
It the manifest aim of the DMSS that the level of involvements in research at
all levels in 2012-2014, and demonstrable success and productivity, will be
maintained and, ideally, advanced over the next two years.
Dr. Paul K. Miller, DMSS Research Coordinator
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2. OUTPUT STATISTICS
The raw statistics outlined below relate to all outputs from current departmental staff
emergent between the beginning of 09/2012 and the end of 09/2014. This includes
outputs from current staff while at previous institutions (see section 3 for a breakdown
in which such outputs are explicitly marked), but also only counts outputs co-
authored by members of departmental staff once.
Output Format Number of Outputs
A. Peer-Reviewed Research Papers 49
B. Chapters in Books 9
C. Other Peer Reviewed and Professional Publications 14
D. Commissioned Research Reports 8
E. Verbal Presentations at National and International
Conferences
31
F. Poster Presentations at National and International
Conferences
13
G. Research Papers Under Review as of 10/2014 19
TOTAL 143
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3. FULL SUMMARY OF
RESEARCH OUTPUTS
Below is a full summary of research outputs produced by departmental staff during
the two previous academic years (2012-2013 and 2013-2014). All papers (a)
published, (b) in press, (c) in iFirst (or equivalent) release, or (d) formally accepted for
publication during this period are included herein, to facilitate longitudinal tracking.
For ease of reading, all papers not yet in final published form are labelled
forthcoming.
Reflecting the developing role of undergraduate and postgraduate students
in the research portfolio, a superscript S adjacent to an authors name (e.g.
SMerritt, L.H.) designates past or present departmental student status. Also, as a
record of individual staff research excellence, the report also contains work
completed by newer staff under the auspices of previous employers; these cases
are noted throughout as follows: 1 Work conducted under the auspices of the
University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 2 Work conducted under the auspices of
Lancaster University, UK.
A. PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH PAPERS
Bampouras, T.M., & Esformes, J.I. (Forthcoming). Bodyweight squats can acutely
enhance jumping performance: a pilot study. Serbian Journal of Sports Sciences.
Bampouras, T., Marrin, K., Sankey, S., & Jones, P. (2014). Test-retest reliability and
sensitivity of the Concept2 Dyno dynamometer: practical applications. Journal
of Strength and Conditioning Research, 28(5), 1381-1385.
doi:10.1519/JSC.0000000000000269.
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Bampouras, T.M., Relph, N.S., Orme, D., & Esformes, J.I. (2013). Validity and
reliability of the Myotest Pro wireless accelerometer in squat jumps. Isokinetics &
Exercise Science, 21(2), 101-105. doi: 10.3233/IES-130484
Bampouras, T.M., Reeves, N.D., Baltzopoulos, V., Jones, D. A., & Maganaris, C.N.
(2012). Is maximum stimulation intensity required in the assessment of muscle
activation capacity? Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 22873-877.
doi:10.1016/j.jelekin.2012.02.018
Benkwitz, A., & Molnar, G. (Forthcoming). The emergence and development of
football in Birmingham, 1850-1914. Soccer and Society.
Bolton, G.C. & Cox, D.L. (2014). Survey of UK sonographers on the prevention of
work related muscular skeletal disorder (WRMSD). Journal of Clinical Ultrasound.
doi: 10.1002/jcu.22216.
Booth L., & Kada, S. (Forthcoming). Student radiographers' attitudes toward the
older patient: An intervention study. Radiography. doi: 10.1016/j.radi.2014.09.010
Booth L., & Bell L. (2013). Screening for claustrophobia in MRI: A pilot study.
European Scientific Journal, 9(18). eISSN: 1857-7431.
Booth L., & Parr J. (2013). Student radiographers personality: Constant or
individual differences in change? A Transactional Analysis approach. European
Scientific Journal, 9(24). eISSN: 1857-7431.
Cole, P. et al. (inc. Marsh, A.). (2014). Developing the radiation protection safety
culture in the UK. Journal of Radiological Protection, 34, 469484. doi:
10.1088/0952-4746/34/2/469.
Cronin, C., & Armour, K.M. (2013). Lived experience and community sport
coaching: A phenomenological investigation. Sport, Education and Society. doi:
10.1080/13573322.2013.858625
Davis, Anne E., et al. (inc. Donovan, T.). (2014). Observational study of regional
aortic size referenced to body size: production of a cardiovascular magnetic
resonance nomogram. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 16(9).
doi:10.1186/1532-429X-16-9.
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Devine, C. (2013). London 2012 Olympic legacy: a big sporting society?
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. 5(2), 257-279. doi:
10.1080/19406940.2012.656674.
Dewhurst, S., Peacock, L., & Bampouras, T. (Forthcoming). Postural stability of
older female Scottish country dancers in comparison to physically active
controls. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity.
Dewhurst, S., & Bampouras, T.M. (2014). Intra-day reliability and sensitivity of four
functional ability tests in older females. American Journal of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation, 93(8), 703-707. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000000078.
Dewhurst, S., Bargh, M., 1Davidson, C., & Bampouras, T.M. (2014). Loaded and
unloaded marching: implications for fluid replacement. The Open Sports
Sciences Journal, 7, 16-21. doi: 10.2174/1875399X01407010016.
Dewhurst, S., Nelson, N., Dougall, P., & Bampouras, T.M. (2014). Scottish country
dance: benefits to functional ability in older women. Journal of Aging and
Physical Activity, 22(1), 146-153. doi:10.1123/japa.2012-0234.
Donovan, T., Crawford, T.J., & Litchfield, D. (2012). Negative priming for target
selection with saccadic eye movements. Experimental Brain Research, 222(4),
483-494. doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3234-1.
Donovan, T., & Litchfield, D. (2013). Looking for cancer: Expertise related
differences in searching and decision making. Applied Cognitive Psychology,
27(1), 43-49. doi: 10.1002/acp.2869.
Elliott, D., & Hoyle, K. (2014). An examination of barriers to physical education for
Christian and Muslim girls attending comprehensive secondary schools in the UK.
European Physical Education Review, 20(3), 349-366. doi:
10.1177/1356336X14534358.
Elliott, D., & Sander, L. (Forthcoming). The effects of relaxing music for anxiety
control on the intensity and directional aspects of competitive state anxiety.
International Journal of Sport Psychology.
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Esformes, J., & Bampouras, T. (2013). Effect of back squat depth on lower-body
postactivation potentiation. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research,
27(11), 2997-3000. doi:10.1519/JSC.0b013e31828d4465
Espana-Romero, V., Jensen, R.L., 1Sanchez, X., Ostrowski, M.L., Szekely, J.E., &
Watts, P.B. (2012). Physiological responses in rock climbing with repeated ascents
over a 10-week period. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 112, 821828.
Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Morela, E., Elbe, A-M, Kouli, O., & 1Sanchez, X. (2013). The
integrative role of sport in multicultural societies. European Psychologist, 18, 191
202.
Helbren, E., Halligan S., Phillips, P., Boone, D., Fanshawe, T.R., Taylor, S.A.,
Manning, D., Gale, A., Altman, D.G., & Mallett, S. (2014). Towards a framework for
analysis of eye-tracking studies in the three dimensional environment: a study of
visual search by experienced readers of endoluminal CT colonography. British
Journal of Radiology, 87(1037). doi: 10.1259/bjr.20130614.
Henderson D., Gray W., & Booth, L. (2012). The effectiveness of a reporting
radiographer-led discharge system for minor injuries: A prospective audit over
two years. Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(4), 298-302. doi: 10.1136/erermed-
2011-200642.
Jones, P.A., Bampouras, T.M., & Comfort, P. (2013). A review of complex and
contrast training: Implications for current practice. Part 2. Professional Strength
and Conditioning, 30, 27-30.
Jones, P.A., Bampouras, T.M., Comfort, P. (2013). A review of complex and
contrast training: Implications for current practice. Part 1. Professional Strength
and Conditioning, 29, 11-20.
Lovell, R., Midgley, A., Barrett, S., Carter, D., & Small, K. (2013). Effects of different
half-time strategies on second half soccer-specific speed, power and dynamic
strength. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sport, 23(1), 105-113.
doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2011.01353.x.
Mallett, S., Phillips, P., Fanshawe, T.R., Helbren, E., Boone, D., Gale, A., Taylor, S.A.,
Manning, D., Altman, D.G., & Halligan S. (Forthcoming). Tracking eye gaze during
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interpretation of endoluminal three-dimensional ct colonography: Visual
perception of experienced and inexperienced readers. Radiology.
Miller, P.K., & Grimwood, T. (Forthcoming). Mountains, cones and dilemmas of
context: The case of ordinary language in philosophical and social scientific
method. Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Miller, P.K. (2014). Depression, sense and sensitivity: On pre-diagnostic questioning
about self-harm and suicidal inclination in the primary care consultation.
Communication and Medicine, 10(1), 39-51. doi: 10.1558/cam.v10i1.37.
Miller, P.K., & Cronin, C. (2013). Rethinking the factuality of contextual factors in
an ethnomethodological mode: Towards a reflexive understanding of action-
context dynamism in the theorisation of coaching. Sports Coaching Review, 1(2),
106-123. doi: 10.1080/21640629.2013.790166.
Miller, P.K., (2012). Arsne didnt see it: Coaching, research and the promise of a
discursive psychology. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching,
7(4), 615-628. doi: 10.1260/1747-9541.7.4.615.
Morela, E., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Kouli, O., Elbe, A-M, & 1Sanchez, X. (2013). Team
cohesion and ethnic-cultural identity in adolescent migrant athletes.
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 37, 643647.
Murray, A.W., Barnfield, M.C., & Thorley, P.J. (2014). Optimal uniformity index
selection and acquisition counts for daily gamma camera quality control.
Nuclear Medicine Communications, 35, 1011-1017. doi:
10.1097/MNM.0000000000000167.
Murray, A.W., Lawson, R.S., Cade, S.C., Hall, D.O., Kenny, B., O'Shaughnessy, E.,
Taylor, J., Towey, D., White, D., & Carson, K. (2014). UK audit of glomerular filtration
rate measurement from plasma sampling in 2013. Nuclear Medicine
Communications.
2Parker, A.J., Boxall, C., & Joyce, M.J. (2014). A phantom for the electrokinetic
decontamination of entrained radioactivity within concrete media. Journal of
Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 300(2), 769-777. doi: 10.1007/s10967-014-
3015-3.
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2Parker, A.J., Dickinson, J.W., Boxall, C., & Joyce, M.J. (2013). An electrochemical
method for the production of graphite oxide. Electrochemistry Society
Transactions, 53(14), 23-32. doi: 10.1149/05314.0023ecst.
2Parker, A.J., Boxall, C., Joyce, M.J., & Schotanus, P. (2013). A thallium-doped
sodium iodide well counter for radioactive tracer applications with naturally-
abundant 40K. Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods in Physics Research A, 722,
5-10. doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2013.04.034.
2Parker, A.J., Boxall, C., & Joyce, M.J. (2013). A method for the replacement of
137CS with 40K as a non-hazardous radioactive tracer for open-source
decommissioning research applications. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear
Chemistry, 295(2), 797-802. doi: 10.1007/s10967-013-2423-0.
Phillips, P., Boone, D., Mallett, S., Taylor, S.A., Altman, D.G., Manning, D., Gale, A.,
& Halligan, S. (2013). Method for tracking eye gaze during interpretation of
endoluminal 3D CT colonography: technical description and proposed metrics
for analysis. Radiology, 267(3), 924-31. doi: 10.1148/radiol.12120062.
Relph, N. & Herrington. L. (Forthcoming). Inter-examiner, intra-examiner and test-
retest reliability of clinical knee joint position sense measurements using an image
capture technique. The Journal of Sport Rehabilitation.
Relph, N.S., & Herrington, L. (Forthcoming). Criterion-related validity of knee joint
position sense measurement using image capture and isokinetic dynamometry.
The Journal of Sport Rehabilitation.
Relph, N.S., Herrington, L., & Tyson, S. (2014). The effect of ACL injury on knee
proprioception: A meta- analysis. Physiotherapy, 100(3), 187-195. doi:
10.1016/j.physio.2013.11.002.
1Sanchez, X., Moss, S.L., Twist, C., & Karageorghis, C.I. (2014). On the role of lyrics
in the music-exercise performance relationship. Psychology of Sport and Exercise,
15, 132138.
1Sanchez, X., Lambert, P.H., Jones, G., & Llewellyn, D.J. (2012). Efficacy of pre-
ascent climbing route visual inspection in indoor sport climbing. Scandinavian
Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 22, 6772.
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A(I). ENTRIES IN BOOKS OF ABSTRACTS
Donovan, T., & Litchfield, D. (2013). Rapid processing of chest radiographs by
experts: Insights gained with the flash-preview moving window paradigm. In K.
Holmqvist, F. Mulvey & R. Johansson (Eds.), Book of Abstracts of the 17th
European Conference on Eye Movements (11-16 August 2013, Lund, Sweden).
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6(3), 242.
Elbe, A.-M., 1Sanchez, X., Ries, F., Kouli, O., Pappous, A., & Hatzigeorgiadis, A.
(2012). The integrative role of sport in multicultural groups: personal, motivational
and team factors. In R. Meeusen, J. Duchateau, B. Roelands, M. Klass, B. De
Geus, S. Baudry & E. Tsolakidis. 17th annual Congress of the ECSS Book of
Abstracts (p. 496). European College of Sport Science.
Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Kouli, O., Elbe, A.-M., Ries, F., Pappous, A., & 1Sanchez, X.
(2012). Ethnic and cultural identity: a working framework for the integrative role of
sport. In R. Meeusen, J. Duchateau, B. Roelands, M. Klass, B. De Geus, S. Baudry &
E. Tsolakidis. 17th Annual Congress of the ECSS Book of Abstracts (p. 496).
European College of Sport Science.
Litchfield, D., & Donovan, T. (2013). To what extent does target/scene
expectations influence search behaviour using the flash-preview moving
window? In K. Holmqvist, F. Mulvey & R. Johansson (Eds.), Book of Abstracts of
the 17th European Conference on Eye Movements, 11-16 August 2013, in Lund,
Sweden. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6(3), 155.
Pappous, A., Ries, F., Stathi, S., Kouli, O., Elbe, A.-M., 1Sanchez, X., &
Hatzigeorgiadis, A. (2012). Improving intergroup relations in young athletes from
different ethnic and cultural backgrounds: towards the development of an
intervention program. In R. Meeusen, J. Duchateau, B. Roelands, M. Klass, B. De
Geus, S. Baudry & E. Tsolakidis. 17th annual Congress of the ECSS Book of
Abstracts (pp. 496-497). European College of Sport Science.
1Sanchez, X. (2012). Sport Psychology Delivery Services to Olympic Taekwondo. In
R. Meeusen, J. Duchateau, B. Roelands, M. Klass, B. De Geus, S. Baudry & E.
Tsolakidis. 17th annual Congress of the ECSS Book of Abstracts (p. 66). European
College of Sport Science.
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B. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. Benkwitz, A. (Forthcoming). The perils of ethnography: Studying football fan rivalry
in Birmingham. In Purdy, L., & Molnar, G. (Eds.). Ethnographies in Sport and
Exercise Research. London, Routledge.
2. Devine, C., Telfer, H., & Knowles, Z. (Forthcoming). Philosophy of practice and
practice conflict: coaching dilemmas and the performance spectrum. In Lyle, J.
& Wallis, J. (Eds.) Becoming a sports coach.
3. Devine, C., (2014). London 2012 legacy: A big sporting society? In Grix, J. &
Phillpots, L. (Eds.). Understanding Sport Policy in Context. London: Routledge.
4. Devine, C., & Telfer, H., (2013). Why are sport and physical education valuable?
In Whitehead, J., Telfer, H., & Lambert, J. (Eds.) Values in Youth Sport and Physical
Education. London: Routledge.
5. Grimwood, T., & Miller, P.K. (Forthcoming). Darkness visible: The motifs of heroic
insanity in video games. In Making Sense of Madness. Oxford: ID Press. (Eds. TBC).
6. Grimwood, T., & Miller, P.K. (2014). How to do things without words. In B. Garvey
(Ed.), JL Austin and Language. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp.70-85. doi:
10.1057/9781137329998.0011.
7. Henwood, S., & Booth L. (2014). Models of communication excellence. In
Henwood, S. (Ed.) Practical Leadership in Nursing and Health Care: A multi-
professional approach. London: Taylor & Francis, pp.53-68. doi: 10.1201/b166295.
8. Lohkamp, M., Herrington, L., & Small, K. (2014). Neurodynamics. In Porter, S. (Ed.),
Tidys Physiotherapy. London: Churchill Livingston, pp.561-577. doi: 10.1016/B978-
0-7020-4344-4.00025-0.
9. Polman, R., Borkoles, E., & 1Sanchez, X. (Forthcoming). Social Sport and Exercise
Psychology. In L. Steg, K.E. Keizer, and A.P. Buunk (Eds.), Applied Social
Psychology: Understanding and Managing Social Problems (2nd edition).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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C. OTHER PEER REVIEWED AND PROFESSIONAL
PUBLICATIONS
1. Bampouras, T.M. (Forthcoming). A critique on measuring reliability of an
accuracy test: Letter to the Editor. Journal of Strength and Conditioning
Research.
2. Benkwitz, A. (Forthcoming). Brief encounters with qualitative methods in health
research: Ethnography. Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research, Practice and
Learning.
3. Cronin, C. & Lowes, J. (Forthcoming). Brief encounters with qualitative methods in
health research: Phenomenology. Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research,
Practice and Learning.
4. Holmes, K., Elkington, M., & Harris, P. (2013). Clark's Essential Physics in Imaging for
Radiographers. London: CRC Press.
5. sMerritt, L.H., & Miller, P.K. (2014). Anxiety, physical activity and public
performance: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of amateur
gymnasts competition experiences. Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research,
Practice and Learning, 4(1), 12-17.
6. Miller, P.K. (Forthcoming). Brief encounters with qualitative methods in health
research: Conversation Analysis. Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research,
Practice and Learning.
7. Miller, P.K., Relph, N.S., Grimwood, T. & Crooks, E. (Forthcoming). Evaluating the
upskilling impacts of management and leadership training initiatives in the
healthcare domain: Quantitative findings from a regional NHS programme.
Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research, Practice and Learning.
8. Miller, P.K., Wilson, N., Dickson, A., & Gaffney, J. C. (2014). Targeted Mental
Health in Schools: Confidence-building among school staff as a latent systemic
impact of the Cumbrian initiative. Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research,
Practice and Learning. 4(1), 22-28.
9. Miller, P.K., Wilson, N., Dickson, A., & Gaffney, J. C. (2013). Implication pitfalls for
targeted mental health in schools: Evidence from a qualitative evaluation of the
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Cumbrian programme. Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research, Practice and
Learning, 3(1), 41-46.
10. Miller, P.K. (2012). Review - Race, sport and politics: The sporting black diaspora.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, 29(18), 2610-2612. doi:
10.1080/09523367.2012.747247.
11. Murray, A.W. (Forthcoming). Editorial: Nuclear Medicine Software - nothings
perfect. Nuclear Medicine Communications.
12. Rowe, L. (Forthcoming). Brief encounters with qualitative methods in health
research: Narrative Analysis. Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research, Practice
and Learning.
13. sWard, R. L., & Miller, P.K. (2013). Depression, physical activity and mental health:
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of general practitioners
experiences of exercise referral schemes in the North West. Cumbria Partnership
Journal of Research, Practice and Learning, 3(1), 13-19.
14. Whitley, S.A., Jefferson, G., Holmes, K., Sloane, C., Anderson, C. & Hoadley, C.
(forthcoming). Clark's Positioning in Radiography 13E. London: CRC Press.
D. COMMISSIONED RESEARCH REPORTS
1. Bampouras, T.M., & Dewhurst, S. (2013). Reception class measurements 2013:
Data analysis. Research commissioned by the Directorate of Public Health, Isle of
Man. (5 pages).
2. Grimwood, T. & Miller, P.K. (2014). Healthier People First: Project Evaluation.
Research commissioned by People First Cumbria & the Big Lottery Fund. (27
pages).
3. Miller, P.K., Brownrigg, S., Grimwood, T., & Bargh, M. (2014). Learning Leaders II: A
Multi-Method Evaluation. Research commissioned by Cumbria Partnership NHS
Trust. (109 pages).
4. Brownrigg, S., Miller, P.K., & Grimwood, T. (2013). Senior Clinicians Role Profiling: A
Qualitative Evaluation. Research commissioned by Cumbria Partnership NHS
Trust. (54 pages).
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5. Miller, P.K., Bargh, M., Relph, N.S., & Grimwood, T. (2013). Leadership
Development Programme: A Multi-Method Evaluation. Research commissioned
by Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust. (143 pages)
6. Miller, P.K., Grimwood, T., Bargh, M., & Relph, N.S. (2013). Learning Leaders: A
Multi-Method Evaluation. Research commissioned by Cumbria Partnership NHS
Trust. (146 pages).
7. Miller, P.K., Relph, N.S., Grimwood, T., & Bargh, M. (2013). Foundation in
Management and Leadership: A Multi-Method Evaluation. Research
commissioned by Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust. (156 pages).
8. Miller, P.K., Grimwood, T., Relph, N.S., & Bargh, M. (2012). Foundation in
Management and Leadership Programme: A Statistical Cohort Evaluation.
Research commissioned by Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust. (68 pages).
E. VERBAL PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
E(I). KEYNOTE AND GUEST TALKS
1. 1Sanchez, X. (2014). Self-regulation and pressure sport performance: Research
findings and applied implications. @ENYSSP 10th International Conference,
Leipzig, Germany. Invited keynote.
2. 1Sanchez, X. (2012). Affective forecasting in sport retirement. @ACPE 30th
Anniversary Conference: Esport, Emocions i Salut. Catalan Society of Sport
Psychology. Invited Keynote.
3. 1Sanchez, X. (2012). Tactics and strategies in sport performance: Two examples.
@VVSP 25 Year Congress. Days of Fundamentals in Sport Psychology. Book of
Abstracts (pp. 25-26). Flemish Association of Sport Psychology. Guest talk.
4. 1Sanchez, X. (2014). Sport Psychology as an Applied Science: Examining Sport
Climbing Performance within a Psychological Perspective. @Research and
practice in the field of sport psychology, Performance Psychology Symposium.
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Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. Invited Keynote.
5. 1Sanchez, X. (2014). Performing well when it really matters! @Sessions for Elite
Coaches, InnoSportLab Papendal. Dutch Olympic Committee, Netherlands.
Invited guest talk.
E(II). CONVENOR-CHAIR-PRESENTER AT INVITED ORAL SYMPOSIA
6. 1Sanchez, X. (2012). Sport Psychology: Research and Practice to the Service of
Sport Performance. @ The VIP English Lecture, University of Groningen.
Groningen, The Netherlands.
7. 1Sanchez, X. (2012). Performance under pressure. @Symposium Sport & Prestatie
of the official opening of Sport Science Institute Groningen (SSIG). Groningen, The
Netherlands.
8. 1Sanchez, X. (2014). Fully-funded Pre-conference Workshop in Publishing.
@European College of Sport Sciences Congress. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
9. 1Sanchez, X. (2014). Knowing what we want tomorrow in order to prepare for it
today: Career development and transitions of talented, elite and retired athletes.
@19th Annual Congress of European College of Sport Sciences (ECSS),
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
10. 1Sanchez, X. (2014). Pressure performance in different contexts. @28th
International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP), Paris, France.
11. 1Sanchez, X. (2014). FEPSAC symposium: Applied Sport Psychology in Europe.
@28th International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP), Paris, France.
12. 1Sanchez, X. (2014). Addressing the gap between what we know and what we
do to get our athletes to perform well when it really matters. @ The Dutch Society
of Sport Psychology (VSPN) yearly meeting. Hilversum, The Netherlands. Invited
seminar.
E(III). INVITED ORAL SYMPOSIA
13. Bampouras, T.M. Exercise in renal patients. @Renal Continuing Medical Education
Programme, Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, UK, September 15th 2014. Invited
Speaker.
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14. Booth L. Understanding radiographer communication. @Nordic Congress,
Bergen, Norway, 22nd-24th May 2013.
15. 1Sanchez, X. (2012). Getting started in applied sport psychology.
@Postacademische Opleiding tot Praktijksportpsycholoog (POPS) Workshop. Free
University Amsterdam. Invited talk.
E(IV). ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
16. Benkwitz, A. Reflecting on the benefits and perils of ethnography. @4th Annual
Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Science Conference, Loughborough
University, 1st-3rd September 2014.
17. Benkwitz, A. Conflict and rivalry between football fans in the city of birmingham:
using ethnography to explore territoriality. @Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa,
University of Bergamo, Italy, 5th-7th June 2014.
18. Benkwitz, A. Football fan rivalry in Birmingham. Tri-University Symposium on
Conflict Studies, University of Salford, 25th April 2013.
19. Cronin, C., sBaker, G., & Miller, P.K. Talent identification in English youth soccer:
exploring the lived experiences of professional gatekeeper coaches. @4th
Annual Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Science Conference,
Loughborough University, September 2014.
20. Devine, C. Sport sex and money: voice, choice and distributive justice in England
Scotland and Wales. @Sporting Females: Part Present and Future, Leeds
Metropolitan University, September 2014.
21. Devine, C. Virtuoso coaching and the common good. @International Association
for the Philosophy of Sport Annual Conference, Porto, Portugal, September 2012.
22. Grimwood, T. & Miller, P.K. (2013). Darkness, tentacles and the monstrous double:
The cultural motifs of heroic insanity. @6th Global Conference, Making
Sense of Madness, Oxford University, September 17th- 19th 2013.
23. sLucas, A., Dewhurst, S., & Bampouras, T.M. A kinetic and kinematic analysis of
conventional and suspended push-ups. @British Association of Sports and
Exercise Sciences Student Conference, Cardiff, UK, March 27th 2013.
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24. sLyons, P., & Bampouras, T.M. Effect of rowing intensity and muscle imbalances on
spinal flexion in well-trained rowers. @British Association of Sports and Exercise
Sciences Student Conference, Portsmouth University, UK, April 8th 2014.
25. 2Parker, A.J., Boxall, C., & Joyce, M.J., An evaluation of electrokinetic transport of
radioactive species through concrete for application as a non-destructive in situ
remediation technique. @14102, WM2014 Symposia, University of Phoenix, 4th
March 2014.
26. 2Parker, A.J., Boxall, C., & Joyce, M.J. The transport of cations through a concrete
disk using an electrokinetic method for nuclear decommissioning research.
@Nuclear Decommissioning Authority PhD Workshop, University of Manchester,
20th January 2013.
27. Pelka, M., & 1Sanchez, X. Selbstregulation und Torwartleistung im
Elfmeterschieen. In O. Gntrkn (Hrsg.), Die Vielfalt der Psychologie,
Abstractband zum 49. German Society of Psychology Congress (S. 314).
Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
28. Pelka, M., & 1Sanchez, X. Regulatory focus in a football penalty shoot-out. In O.
Stoll, A. Lau & S. Moczall (Eds.), Angewandte Sportpsychologie, Abstractband zur
45. German Society of Sport Psychology Congress (p. 130). Hamburg, Czwalina.
29. Rowe, L. The client-practitioner relationship in health-related physical activity
settings: An exploratory investigation. @British Association of Sport and Exercise
Sciences Annual Conference, University of Central Lancashire, 3rd 5th
September 2013.
30. Ruggiero, L., Dewhurst, S., & Bampouras, T.M. Validity, reliability and sensitivity of
two commercially available leg stiffness measurement devices. @British
Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Student Conference, Cardiff, UK,
March 27th 2013.
31. 1Sanchez, X., Pletzer, J.L., & Scheibe, S. (2014). Reaching topsport level: Is it all
about having a thicker skin or better regulation skills? @British Association of Sports
and Exercise Sciences Conference, St Georges Park, UK, November 26th 2014.
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F. POSTER PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
1. Bampouras, T.M., & Dewhurst, S. (Accepted). Carrying shopping bags poses no
additional fall risk to healthy older females as assessed by gait. @British
Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Conference, St Georges Park, UK,
November 26th 2014.
2. Campo, M., Louvet, B., Ad, D., Ferrand, C., Rguer, D., Dosseville, F., Nicolas, M.,
Martinent, G., 1Sanchez, X., & Hagger M. (2014). Promoting activity in the elderly:
The PAPS project. @5th International Congress of the French Society Sport
Psychology (SFPS), Nice, France.
3. sCrolla, T., Bampouras, T.M., & Dewhurst, S. Altered temperature affects rate of
force development but not leg stiffness. @British Association of Sports and
Exercise Sciences Student Conference, Portsmouth, UK, April 8th 2014.
4. Cronin, C. Working with real kids: How do novice coaches experience early
coaching activities? @British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Annual
Conference, University of Central Lancashire, September 2014.
5. Dewhurst, S., & Bampouras, T.M. Carrying shopping bags poses no additional fall
risk to healthy older females as assessed by static and dynamic stability. @British
Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Conference, St Georges Park, UK,
November 26th 2014.
6. sDownham, L.M. & Miller, P.K. Instilling player confidence: an interpretative
phenomenological analysis of football coaches confidence-raising methods.
@British Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Student Conference, Cardiff
Metropolitan University, March 26th-27th 2013.
7. sMaslivec, A.S., Bampouras, T.M., & Dewhurst, S. Passive movement training
improves one legged stance but no other measure of functional ability in older
females. @British Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Conference, St
Georges Park, UK, November 26th 2014.
8. sMaslivec, A.S., Bampouras, T.M., & Dewhurst, S. Motorcise gym improves balance
but no other component of functional fitness in older women (60 + years). @British
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Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Student Conference, Cardiff
Metropolitan University, March 26th-27th 2013.
9. sMerritt, L.H. & Miller, P.K. (2013). Stress, anxiety and experience among amateur
gymnasts: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. @British Association of
Sports and Exercise Sciences Student Conference, Cardiff Metropolitan University,
March 26th-27th 2013.
10. 2Parker, A.J., Boxall, C., & Joyce, A NaI(Tl) scintillator for in situ environmental
studies and laboratory detection measurements of aqueous potassium chloride.
@M.J.IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference,
Anaheim, California, 29th October-3rd November 2012
11. 2Parker, A.J., Boxall, C., & Joyce, M.J. The transport of cations through a concrete
disk using an electrokinetic method for nuclear decommissioning research.
@Nuclear Decommissioning Authority PhD Workshop, University of Manchester,
20th January 2013.
12. sSkett, A., & Bampouras, T.M. Effect of inter-set stretching on explosive bench
press performance. @British Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Student
Conference, Portsmouth, UK, April 8th 2014.
13. sThomas, N., Dewhurst, S., & Bampouras, T.M. Fatigue induces region-specific
alterations of human gastrocnemius medialis fascicle characteristics. @British
Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Student Conference, Portsmouth, UK,
April 8th 2014.
G. RESEARCH PAPERS UNDER REVIEW AS OF 10/2014
1. Bampouras, T.M., & Esformes, J.I. (Submitted). Effect of active versus passive rest
on upper and lower body post-activation potentiation. Journal of Strength and
Conditioning Research.
2. Benkwitz, A. (Submitted). A qualitative approach to mental health and physical
activity: a rationale for an ethnographic study. Mental Health and Physical
Activity.
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3. Campo*, M., Sanchez, X. 1, Ferrand, C. Rosnet, E., Friesen, A., & Lane, A.
(Submitted). Interpersonal emotion regulation in team sport: A qualitative
examination in elite rugby.
4. Cronin, C., & Lowes, J. (Submitted). Moving beyond scenario-based coach
education; An action research project exploring the perceptions of
undergraduate sports coaching students of working with real kids. Physical
Education and Sport Pedagogy.
5. Cronin, C. (Submitted). Flipping the classroom through online lectures with
Undergraduate Sport Students. Journal of Learning Development in Higher
Education.
6. Devine, C. (Submitted). Sex, sport and justice: reframing the who of citizenship
and the what of justice in European and UK Sport Policy. Sport Education and
Society.
7. Elliott, D., & Charlton, L. (Submitted). Can the exercise experience be enhanced
via the emotional contagion effect?
8. SGeorge, R., Miller, P.K., & Nicholson, S. (Submitted). Confidence-sourcing among
amateur soccer players: Interpreting time, place and stimulus-relevance.
Psychology of Sport & Exercise.
9. Helbren, E., Fanshawe, T.R., Phillips, P., Mallett, S., Boone, D., Gale, A., Altman,
D.G., Taylor, S.A., Manning, D. & Halligan S. (Submitted). The effect of computer-
aided detection markers on visual search and reader performance during
interpretation of ct colonography. European Radiology.
10. sMaslivec, A., Bampouras, T.M., & Dewhurst, S. (Submitted). Passive movement
training improves one legged stance but no other measure of functional ability in
older females. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity.
11. Meissner*, M., Cantell, M.H., Steiner, R., & 1Sanchez, X. Evaluating different yoga
practice regimes on emotional well-being in yoga practitioners.
12. Miller, P.K., Cronin, C. & SBaker, G., (Submitted). Nature, nurture and dubious
social skills: A phenomenological psychology of talent identification among
professional gatekeeper coaches working in elite English youth soccer.
Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.
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13. Miller, P.K., & Richardson, B.H. (Submitted). Depression, rational identity and the
educational imperative: Concordance-finding in stigmatised diagnostic
interaction. Sage Open.
14. Miller, P.K., Van Der Zee, S. & Relph, N.S. (Submitted). Pain, context and exercise
pedagogy: Attitudes towards reasonable pain tolerance in the grassroots
reproduction of a culture of risk. Journal of Pain.
15. Pletzer, J.L., 1Sanchez, X. & Scheibe, S. (Submitted). Practicing psychotherapists
are more skilled at down-regulating negative emotions than other professionals.
16. 1Sanchez, X., & Pelka, M. (Submitted). Self-regulation in football penalty shoot-out
goalkeeping.
17. 1Sanchez, X., Torregrosa, M., Llewellyn, D.J., & Woodman, T. (Submitted).
Identification of sport climbing performance predictors.
18. 1Sanchez, X., Torregrosa*, M., Stephan, Y., & Cruz, J. (Submitted). Retiring young:
Olympian experiences.
19. Thomas, N.M., Dewhurst, S., & Bampouras, T.M. (Submitted). Behaviour of human
gastrocnemius medialis muscle architecture following maximal isometric
fatiguing contractions. Journal of Biomechanics.
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4. ACTIVE AGEING
RESEARCH GROUP
Group Leads
Dr. Susan Dewhurst
Theodoros M. Bampouras
Contributing DMSS Staff and Students
Dr. Tim Donovan
Amy Maslivec
Neil Thomas
The Active Ageing Research Group (AARG) in the University of Cumbria was
developed with the vision of investigating the effect of various interventions on
functional ability, independent living and mental wellbeing, identifying the more
effective ones and promoting them into future health schemes. Its aims are to work
in collaboration with the older individuals to develop research which can be readily
used and translated into practical applications on healthy ageing; in other words,
focusing on impact, without compromising scientific rigour. AARG has already
developed links with local agencies and has delivered lectures and discussion
forums on fall prevention to local community groups (including the Lancaster
Continuing Learning Group, the Lancaster and Morecambe University of the 3rd Age,
with a Lancaster Womens Institute talk to be scheduled later in the year). These
received extremely positive feedback, raised interest in the Groups research as well
as generated ideas of the issues faced in later life.
Progress so far:
Creation and establishment of AARG (web presence, e-mail address,
community links etc);
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Successful recruitment of two PhD students, one internally and one externally
funded;
Collaboration within and outwith the University (e.g. external research grant
applications with Dr Tim Donovan, University of Cumbria and Prof Macaluso,
Dr Laudani, University of Rome Foro Italico; research collaboration with the
Lancashire and Cumbria Clinical Research Hub);
Promotion of the Group in the Media (Press and TV interviews);
Increase student awareness of AARG, its aims and research (through
integration of relevant research topics in modules, updates on AARGs news
and achievements etc);
Inclusion of other members of staff with relevant expertise and research
interests on various projects (e.g. Dr David Elliott).
In the news:
ITV News Border, 03/02/2014 interview;
BBC Radio Cumbria, 31/01/2014 Interview on Mike Zeller programme;
The Scotsman, 12/01/2014 Scottish dancing can help keep age at bay;
Scottish Mail on Sunday, 12/01/2014 Is the reel cure for old age?
International Publications:
Dewhurst, S., Peacock, L., & Bampouras, T.M. (Forthcoming). Postural stability of
older female Scottish country dancers in comparison to physically active
controls. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity.
Dewhurst S,, & Bampouras T.M. (2014). Intraday reliability and sensitivity of four
functional ability tests in older women. American Journal of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation, 93(8), 703-707. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000000078
Dewhurst, S., Nelson, N., Dougall, P., & Bampouras, T.M. (2014). Scottish country
dance: benefits to functional ability in older women. Journal of Aging and
Physical Activity, 22(1), 146-153. doi:10.1123/japa.2012-0234.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Dewhurst%20S%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=24658430http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Bampouras%20TM%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=24658430
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Presentations:
Dewhurst, S., Bampouras, T.M., Kerns, J.G., & McLauchlan, G. Fall risk in
osteoporotic and osteopenic total hip and knee replacement patients.
@Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Research and Innovation
Showcase, Royal Preston Hospital, UK, November 21st 2014.
Bampouras, T.M., Thomas, N.M., Ahmed, A. Hill, H., Self-regulated intradialytic
exercise: a promising exercise approach in renal patients. @Lancashire Teaching
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Research and Innovation Showcase, Royal Preston
Hospital, UK, November 21st 2014.
Bampouras, T.M. Exercise in renal patients. @Renal Continuing Medical Education
Programme, Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, UK, September 15th 2014. Invited
Speaker.
Bampouras, T.M., & Dewhurst, S. (Accepted). Carrying shopping bags poses no
additional fall risk to healthy older females as assessed by gait. @British
Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Conference, St Georges Park, UK,
November 26th 2014.
Dewhurst, S., & Bampouras, T.M. Carrying shopping bags poses no additional fall
risk to healthy older females as assessed by static and dynamic stability. @British
Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Conference, St Georges Park, UK,
November 26th 2014.
Maslivec, A.S., Bampouras, T.M., & Dewhurst, S. Passive movement training
improves one legged stance but no other measure of functional ability in older
females. @British Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Conference, St
Georges Park, UK, November 26th 2014.
Maslivec, A.S., Bampouras, T.M., & Dewhurst, S. Motorcise gym improves balance
but no other component of functional fitness in older women (60 + years). @British
Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences Student Conference, Cardiff
Metropolitan University, March 26th-27th 2013.
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Reports:
Bampouras, T.M., & Dewhurst, S. (2013). Reception class measurements 2013:
Data analysis. Research commissioned by the Directorate of Public Health, Isle of
Man. (5 pages).
For the latest news on AARG, see: http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/activeageing
http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/activeageing
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5. HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE
EVALUATIONS
Academic Lead
Dr. Paul K. Miller
Contributing DMSS Staff
Melissa J. Bargh
Adam Benkwitz
Sarah Benkwitz
Nicola S. Relph
Health and Social Care Evaluations (HASCE) at the University of Cumbria is now an
established facility providing evaluations for a range of organisations and agencies
delivering health and social care. Its defined areas of evaluative expertise include:
Health promotion programmes and campaigns;
Community health initiatives;
Leadership training in the caring professions;
Cross-profession interaction in health and social care;
Mental health improvement programmes in schools.
HASCE has, in the last two years, produced commissioned evaluation work for or is
presently engaged with - a number of bodies, including:
Cool4Life.
Cumbria Childrens Services.
Cumbria County Council.
Cumbria Learning and Improvement Collaborative (CLIC).
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Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust.
Health Education North West.
Lancashire Sports Partnership.
MIND.
People First Cumbria / Big Lottery Fund.
HASCE is also developing a range of bespoke accredited training modules for
students, staff and partner bodies. These focus on the conceptual and practical skills
necessary for those wishing to undertake robust, ethical and meaningful evaluations
of their own.
Selected Reports:
Grimwood, T. & Miller, P.K. (2014). Healthier People First: Project Evaluation.
Research commissioned by People First Cumbria & the Big Lottery Fund. (27
pages).
Miller, P.K., Brownrigg, S., Grimwood, T., & Bargh, M. (2014). Learning Leaders II: A
Multi-Method Evaluation. Research commissioned by Cumbria Partnership NHS
Trust. (109 pages).
Brownrigg, S., Miller, P.K., & Grimwood, T. (2013). Senior Clinicians Role Profiling: A
Qualitative Evaluation. Research commissioned by Cumbria Partnership NHS
Trust. (54 pages).
Miller, P.K., Bargh, M., Relph, N.S., & Grimwood, T. (2013). Leadership
Development Programme: A Multi-Method Evaluation. Research commissioned
by Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust. (143 pages)
Miller, P.K., Relph, N.S., Grimwood, T., & Bargh, M. (2013). Foundation in
Management and Leadership: A Multi-Method Evaluation. Research
commissioned by Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust. (156 pages).
Miller, P.K., Grimwood, T., Relph, N.S., & Bargh, M. (2012). Foundation in
Management and Leadership Programme: A Statistical Cohort Evaluation.
Research commissioned by Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust. (68 pages).
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Professional Publications:
Miller, P.K., Relph, N.S., Grimwood, T. & Crooks, E. (Forthcoming). Evaluating the
upskilling impacts of management and leadership training initiatives in the
healthcare domain: Quantitative findings from a regional NHS programme.
Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research, Practice and Learning.
Miller, P.K., Wilson, N., Dickson, A., & Gaffney, J. C. (2014). Targeted Mental
Health in Schools: Confidence-building among school staff as a latent systemic
impact of the Cumbrian initiative. Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research,
Practice and Learning. 4(1), 22-28.
Miller, P.K., Wilson, N., Dickson, A., & Gaffney, J. C. (2013). Implication pitfalls for
targeted mental health in schools: Evidence from a qualitative evaluation of the
Cumbrian programme. Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research, Practice and
Learning, 3(1), 41-46.
For the latest news on HASCE, see: www.cumbria.ac.uk/HASCE
http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/HASCE
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6. VISUAL EXPERTISE
MEDICAL IMAGE
PERCEPTION
Contributing DMSS Staff
Dr. Tim Donovan
Dr. Peter Philips
Despite the advances in display and imaging technology over the last 50 years error
rates do not seem to be reducing. Error may be inevitable but because of the
implications of error, incorrect diagnoses and subsequent patient management,
efforts to reduce error are very important to society. There have been advances in
evaluating human observer performance but there is no robust methodology for the
assessment of how well cognitive tasks in medicine such radiographic interpretation
are performed. A great deal of research and funding has been directed towards
the opportunities offered by the introduction of digital imaging into the NHS, such as
computer aided detection and diagnosis (CAD), yet relatively little research has
focussed attention on the radiologist and the way they interact with and use this
information. This means that often imaging processing software is not matched to
human abilities and limitations.
The aim of the groups research is to understand human expertise and in
particular visual expertise in radiology. This will develop and use eye movement
paradigms as a means of determining the various aspects of visual expertise and
how they can affect performance. An example of this is the way that experts quickly
obtain a global impression of an image and identify abnormalities before the image
is searched. This phenomenon is also found in other domains of visual expertise such
as pathology and dermatology. This process, which is unconscious, is not well
understood particularly with respect to expertise level, as novices are unable to do
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this. It is also apparent that it is relatively easy to perturb this process by altering the
appearance of an image by for example including CAD prompts, which can result
in a decline in performance.
The group currently has an EyeLink CL eye tracker, which has a sampling rate
of 1000Hz, which will facilitate the design of experiments to reveal information about
the ongoing cognitive processing of experts that is not accessible by any other
method. This research will be theoretically significant, and could also have more
practical applications such as more effective training programs, and the
development of appropriate CAD tools.
The group is also involved in an NIHR-funded programme of research, led by
UCL, investigating different aspects of CT Colonography. Bowel cancer is a NHS
priority. A patient with a positive faecal occult blood test in the NHS Bowel Cancer
Screening Programme will require further investigation. Thanks to improved CT
scanner technology and computer hardware, increasingly the method used is CTC,
also known as Virtual Colonoscopy. A CT scan of the patient's inflated bowel can be
explored in 3D on the computer screen, together with standard CT data.
Research presently uses skills in medical image perception to investigate how
radiologists view and explore this new 3D modality. By tracking a radiologist's eyes as
they look at the 3D data it is possible to show how they visually searched the image,
and in some cases show how they missed a cancer. The results from such studies,
using novices through to Europe's best experts, can feed back into training methods
and assessment, as well as improve the design of the software used to display the
data.
Within this project, a major question being addressed is the role of Computer
Aided Detection (CAD) and the disagreement between its calculations and the
radiologist's interpretation. Research has shown that for some lesions, CAD can call
them correctly, but the radiologist makes the opposite decision. The university's eye
tracking research will help to identify the visual features of the lesion and search
behaviour of the radiologist, which leads to these conflicting decisions.
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International Publications:
Donovan, T., Crawford, T.J., & Litchfield, D. (2012). Negative priming for target
selection with saccadic eye movements. Experimental Brain Research, 222(4),
483-494. doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3234-1.
Donovan, T., & Litchfield, D. (2013). Looking for cancer: Expertise related
differences in searching and decision making. Applied Cognitive Psychology,
27(1), 43-49. doi: 10.1002/acp.2869.
Donovan, T., & Litchfield, D. (2013). Rapid processing of chest radiographs by
experts: Insights gained with the flash-preview moving window paradigm. In K.
Holmqvist, F. Mulvey & R. Johansson (Eds.), Book of Abstracts of the 17th
European Conference on Eye Movements (11-16 August 2013, Lund, Sweden).
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6(3), 242.
Helbren, E., Halligan S., Phillips, P., Boone, D., Fanshawe, T.R., Taylor, S.A.,
Manning, D., Gale, A., Altman, D.G., & Mallett, S. (2014). Towards a framework for
analysis of eye-tracking studies in the three dimensional environment: a study of
visual search by experienced readers of endoluminal CT colonography. British
Journal of Radiology, 87 (1037). doi: 10.1259/bjr.20130614.
Litchfield, D., & Donovan, T. (2013). To what extent does target/scene
expectations influence search behaviour using the flash-preview moving
window? In K. Holmqvist, F. Mulvey & R. Johansson (Eds.), Book of Abstracts of
the 17th European Conference on Eye Movements, 11-16 August 2013, in Lund,
Sweden. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6(3), 155.
Mallett, S., Phillips, P., Fanshawe, T.R., Helbren, E., Boone, D., Gale, A., Taylor, S.A.,
Manning, D., Altman, D.G., & Halligan S. (Forthcoming). Tracking eye gaze during
interpretation of endoluminal three-dimensional ct colonography: Visual
perception of experienced and inexperienced readers. Radiology.
Phillips, P., Boone, D., Mallett, S., Taylor, S.A., Altman, D.G., Manning, D., Gale, A.,
& Halligan, S. (2013). Method for tracking eye gaze during interpretation of
endoluminal 3D CT colonography: technical description and proposed metrics
for analysis. Radiology, 267(3), 924-31. doi: 10.1148/radiol.12120062.
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utedTomographyColonography.aspx
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7. MENTAL HEALTH
RESEARCH GROUP
Group Lead
Dr. Adam Benkwitz
Contributing DMSS Staff
Mark Christie
Dr. Paul K. Miller
The Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) has the overall aim to enable people to
recover from mental health issues, and develop their social inclusion. The
collaborative approach to research adopted seeks to cultivate an inter-disciplinary
understanding of mental health. Our vision is that research will have discernible
outcomes that facilitate the improvement of mental health, inform policy, advance
theory and develop practice. The MHRG is comprised of academics from a range of
departments at the University of Cumbria, spanning diverse backgrounds that
include, but are not limited to: psychotherapy, social-psychology, occupational
therapy, sociology, photography, rehabilitation, sport and physical activity, and
mental health nursing. The MHRG also includes PhD students and external private
practitioners that are involved in on-going research projects.
For the latest news on the MHRG, see:
http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/Courses/SubjectAreas/HealthWellbeing/Research/Ment
alHealthResearchGroup.aspx
Twitter: Mental Health at UoC - @MHresearchgroup
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6. SELECTED ABSTRACTS
Validity and reliability of the Myotest Pro
wireless accelerometer in squat jumps
Bampouras, T.M., Relph, N.S., Orme, D., & Esformes, J.I.
Isokinetics & Exercise Science, 21(2).
BACKGROUND: Portable and cost-effective accelerometers can
yield instantaneous results of force, power, and velocity, with
minimum set-up time to assess muscle power. However, such
devices must also produce both valid and reliable data.
OBJECTIVE: The current study assessed the validity and reliability of
the Myotest Pro wireless accelerometer (ACC).
METHODS: Thirty physically active males performed two squat
jump, on two separate sessions. The jump was recorded
simultaneously by a force platform and ACC, which was
attached to a barbell resting on the subjects shoulders. Validity
was determined using Pearson correlation coefficient (r) and t-test
between the maximum force platform (FFP) and ACC (FACC)
force. Between session reliability of FACC, power (PACC) and
velocity (VACC) from the ACC were assessed with t-test, intraclass
correlation coefficient (ICC), and coefficient of variation (CV).
RESULTS: FACC correlated highly to FFP (r = 0.815, p 0.05) for any variable. High ICCs
were found for all variables (FACC 0.90; PACC 0.80; VACC 0.84).
Low CV was found for FACC (2.1%), PACC (3.3%) and VACC
(3.2%).
CONCLUSIONS:ACC is a valid and reliable tool to use for assessing
barbell movement, but caution in power data interpretation is
needed.
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Survey of UK sonographers on the prevention
of work related muscular skeletal disorder
(WRMSD)
Bolton, G.C. & Cox, D.L.
Journal of Clinical Ultrasound
BACKGROUND: To establish whether the current training of
student sonographers in both academic and clinical settings is
sufficient for educating about the dangers of work-related
musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs).
METHODS: A dual method of data collection was undertaken.
Initially, a focus group was set up, involving a small group of
practicing sonographers from a hospital in the United Kingdom,
with the results of that survey being used to design a postal
survey questionnaire. The questionnaire focused on ergonomics,
scanning technique, training in physical techniques, personal
general health, risk, stress, and task management. It was sent to
seven participating universities across the United Kingdom.
Approvals were obtained from the local ethics committees, the
hospital Trust, and the academic institution.
RESULTS: The focus group highlighted several areas in which
improvements could be made in educating sonographers on the
reduction of WRMSDs. The questionnaire results indicated that
students are being taught about certain aspects of WRMSD
prevention by both their university and clinical mentors.
Respondents received training on the prevention of WRMSDs:
97% in the university setting and 81% from clinical mentors.
CONCLUSIONS: Improvements need to be made in terms of
educating students to perform muscle-strengthening exercises
during the workday; to have a system of reporting injury; to
consider personal health, well-being, and stress management in
the workplace; and to evaluate the ergonomics of computer
workstations.
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Screening for claustrophobia in MRI: A pilot
study
Booth L., & Bell L.
European Scientific Journal, 9(18).
PURPOSE- Claustrophobia during MRI examinations still presents a
significant burden for patients and the NHS. Despite many
strategies being suggested to reduce this burden, many are not
routinely practiced due to questions over their cost-effectiveness.
One way to ensure that strategies are cost effective is to screen
for those patients who are most likely to experience difficulties
during the examination.
METHOD This pilot study utilised the Claustrophobia
Questionnaire (CLQ) to determine its predictive qualities in
screening for claustrophobia in MRI. A retrospective sample of
patients who withdrew from the MRI examination (citing
claustrophobia as the cause) were cross matched against a
population who were able to tolerate the exam.
RESULTS The results were analysed using Mann Whitney and
demonstrated a significant difference in the scores between
those who could tolerate the MRI environment and those who
could not.
CONCLUSION The CLQ may be a valid tool for screening those
patients who may be unable to tolerate MRI examinations prior to
attendance, enabling strategies to be targeted to this particular
group.
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Lived experience and community sport
coaching: A phenomenological investigation
Cronin, C., & Armour, K.M.
Sport, Education and Society, 19(9).
Coaching in the participation domain is the act of coaching
participants that are less intensely engaged in sport than
performance orientated athletes. This form of coaching is a
popular activity occurring in community settings such as schools
or sport clubs, and it is often undertaken with a broad range of
social and health outcomes in mind. The experiences and
practices of the large army of community coaches1 have been
under-explored in comparison to those of elite performance
coaches who focus on competitive success and dominate much
academic research. This study focuses on the little known world of
the community coach.
Drawing on the philosophy of phenomenologists such as Husserl,
and in particular the methodology of Van Manen, the study
explored the lived experiences of a single case study community
coach. Derived from semi-structured interviews and in keeping
with Van Manen's methodology, findings are presented in a
narrative format. The narrative describes the lifeworld of the
coach and seeks to identify the essential features of community
coaching in this case. Specifically, the narrative illustrates a
dichotomy in the lifeworld of the coach; between a frenetic
practical delivery mode visible in the public arena and a hidden
largely unknown, private world used predominantly for planning
and organising. For this case study coach, the essence of
community coaching lay in two complementary activities;
planning and then delivering fun based activities that achieved
social, health and sporting outcomes. Additionally, interacting
with others, such as parents, carers and teachers was identified as
an essential feature of this coach's experience.
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Scottish country dance: Benefits to functional
ability in older women
Dewhurst, S., Nelson, N., Dougall, P., & Bampouras, T.M.
Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 22(1).
The effects of long-term participation in Scottish country dance
on body composition, functional ability, and balance in healthy
older females were examined. Participants were grouped into
dancers and physically active nondancers (ages 60-70 and 70-80
for both groups).
Physical activity, body composition (body-mass index, skinfold
thickness, waist-to-hip ratio), functional ability (6-min walk
distance, 6-m walk time, 8-ft up-and-go time, lower body
flexibility, shoulder flexibility), and static balance were measured.
Younger dancers and physically active nondancers had similar 6-
min walk distance, 6-m walk time, and 8-ft up-and-go time results;
however, while older dancers performed similarly to younger
dancers, older physically active nondancers performed poorer
than their younger counterparts (p < .05).
Body composition and static balance were the same for all
groups. Regular physical activity can maintain body composition
and postural stability with advancing age; however, Scottish
country dance can delay the effects of aging on locomotion-
related functional abilities.
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London 2012 Olympic legacy: a big sporting
society?
Devine, C.
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. 5(2).
The Olympic Charter asserts that the practice of sport is a
human right and outlines role 12 of the IOC as being to
encourage and support the development of sport for all. This
signals an aspiration to the right to sport for all. Notwithstanding
this, the UK Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government
has consolidated and extended a shift in UK sport policy from
sport for social good to competitive sport for sport's sake. In
December 2010, the government published Plans for the Legacy
from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The first of the
four areas of focus is to harness the United Kingdom's passion for
sport to increase grass-roots participation, particularly by young
people and encourage the whole population to be more
physically active. This appears to relate to sport for some, and
physical activity for others. Nevertheless, the coalition has
signalled a belief in big society and democratic not
bureaucratic accountability.
This article proposes a theoretical framework of a big sporting
society comprising three generations of sporting rights. This
enables an evaluation of emergent sport policy in relation to the
London 2012 Olympic Games legacy and the Olympic Charter. It
is argued that the realization of the 2012 legacy relating to the
IOC's aspiration to sport as a human right for all, and consequent
democratic sporting accountability, necessitates a sport for all
rather than competitive sport for sport's sake policy direction,
and the development of all three generations of sporting rights,
resulting in a big sporting society.
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Negative priming for target selection with
saccadic eye movements
Donovan, T., Crawford, T.J., & Litchfield, D.
Experimental Brain Research, 222(4).
We conducted a series of experiments to determine whether
negative priming is used in the process of target selection for a
saccadic eye movement. The key questions addressed the
circumstances in which the negative priming of an object takes
place, and the distinction between spatial and object-based
effects.
Experiment 1 revealed that after fixating a target (cricket ball)
amongst an array of semantically related distracters, saccadic
eye movements in a subsequent display were faster to the target
than to the distracters or new objects, irrespective of location.
The main finding was that of the facilitation of a recent target,
not the inhibition of a recent distracter or location. Experiment 2
replicated this finding by using silhouettes of objects for selection
that is based on feature shape. Error rates were associated with
distracters with high target-shape similarity; therefore, Experiment
3 presented silhouettes of animals using distracters with low
target-shape similarity. The pattern of results was similar to that of
Experiment 2, with clear evidence of target facilitation rather
than the inhibition of distracters. Experiment 4 and 5 introduced
a distracter together with the target into the probe display, to
generate a level of competitive selection in the probe condition.
In these circumstances, clear evidence of spatial inhibition at the
location of the previous distracters emerged. We discuss the
implications for our understanding of selective attention and
consider why it is essential to supplement response time data
with the analysis of eye movement behaviour in spatial negative
priming paradigms.
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Looking for cancer: Expertise related
differences in searching and decision
making
Donovan, T., & Litchfield, D.
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27(1).
We examined how the ability to detect lung nodules in chest x-ray
inspection is reflected in experience-related differences in visual
search and decision making, and whether the eye-tracking
metric time-to-first hit showed systematic decreases across
expertise levels are examined. In the study decision making
improved with expertise, however, time-to-first fixate a nodule
showed only a non-significant trend to decrease with expertise.
Surprisingly, nave and expert observers allocated less visual
attention at nodules compared with first and third year
radiography students. This similarity in visual attention at nodules
but not in decision making was explained by the fact that nave
observers were more likely to fixate and make errors on distracter
regions. Time-to-first hit has been linked to expert performance in
mammography, but in this study was not sufficiently sensitive to
demonstrate clear linear improvements across expertise groups.
This brings into question the use of this metric as an indirect
measure of rapid initial holistic processing.
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An examination of barriers to physical
education for Christian and Muslim girls
attending comprehensive secondary schools
in the UK
Elliott, D. & Hoyle, K.
European Physical Education Review, 20(3).
This study examined barriers to Physical Education (PE) in a
sample of Christian and Muslim schoolgirls attending UK
comprehensive secondary schools. Also assessed was whether
religion and school year (age) had any impact upon barrier
strength and if school year religion interactions existed. A
questionnaire was developed and exploratory factor analysis was
utilised to uncover barrier factors.
Six factors were found; these were: Self-Conscious, Sensations,
Embarrassment, Dislike/Unimportant, PE Uniform and
Religiosity. For the total sample, the highest quotient was
assigned to the PE Uniform barrier factor. The remaining barrier
factors received relatively low quotients. When analysed by
religious persuasion, it was found that four of the barrier factors
were rated significantly higher by the Muslim girls. For both
Christian and Muslim samples, barrier strength tended to increase
in line with school year (age). School year religion interactions
were also evident. These results provide a contemporary picture
of potential barriers to PE for girls attending comprehensive
secondary schools in the UK.
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Depression, sense and sensitivity: On pre-
diagnostic questioning about self-harm and
suicidal inclination in the primary care
consultation
Miller, P.K.
Communication and Medicine, 10(1).
National Health Service directives in the UK specify that, in any
primary care consultation where a patient either demonstrably
has - or is suspected to have - depression, a 'direct question'
should be asked regarding their thoughts or activities relating to
self-harm or suicide.
The evidence collected for this study, which takes the form of
recorded interactions between doctors and patients in primary
care settings, indicates that this is most commonly done post-
diagnosis as an exercise in 'risk assessment' Suicidal ideation,
however, is not only classified as a possible outcome of
depression but also a core symptom of the condition and,
consequently, such a question is sometimes asked prior to the
diagnostic phase of the consultation, as a key step in reaching a
depression diagnosis. This specific activity presents a general
practitioner with an inferably difficult communicative task: how to
raise the matter of suicide/self-harm when the patient does not
already have a depression diagnosis as an interactional resource
with which to make sense of its local relevance.
Herein, using a conversation analytic method, techniques
employed by general practitioners and patients in negotiating
three of these potentially sensitive moments are examined.
Analytic observations are then used to highlight a range of issues
pertinent to the formulation of normative frames of 'good
practice' in handling difficult clinical topics in situ.
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Rethinking the factuality of contextual
factors in an ethnomethodological mode:
Towards a reflexive understanding of action-
context dynamism in the theorisation of
coaching
Miller, P.K. & Cronin, C.
Sports Coaching Review, 1(2).
In this paper, an argument is made for the revisitation of Harold
Garfinkel's classic body of ethnomethodological research in
order to further develop and refine models of the action-context
relationship in coaching science. It is observed that, like some
contemporary phenomenological and post-structural
approaches to coaching, an ethnomethodological perspective
stands in opposition to dominant understandings of contexts as
semi-static causal variables in coaching activity. It is further
observed, however, that unlike such approaches which are
often focused upon the capture of authentic individual
experience ethnomethodology operates in the intersubjective
domain, granting analytic primacy to the coordinative
accomplishment of meaningful action in naturally-occurring
situations.
Focusing particularly on Garfinkel's conceptualization of action
and context as transformable and, above all, reflexively-
configured, it is centrally argued that greater engagement with
the ethnomethodological corpus of research has much to offer
coaching scholarship both theoretically and methodologically.
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Optimal uniformity index selection and
acquisition counts for daily gamma camera
quality control
Murray, A.W., Barnfield, M.C., & Thorley, P.J.
Nuclear Medicine Communications, 35.
INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to investigate the
optimized use of common uniformity indices [National Electrical
Manufacturers' Association (NEMA) indices (differential and
integral), Cox-Diffey and the coefficient of variation (CoV)].
METHODS: The indices were calculated for induced [localized
two-dimensional (2D) Gaussian and gradient] artefacts added to
three image sets (5, 10 and 15 million counts), each containing
25 extrinsic images, using Matlab. The intensity of the induced
artefacts was varied between a 1 and 10% drop in pixel counts.
The induced artefacts simulated photomultiplier tube [10 cm full
width at half maximum (FWHM)], smaller focused artefacts (2.5
cm FWHM) and gradients artefacts.
RESULTS: For five million count acquisitions, the Cox-Diffey, CoV
and NEMA integral indices detected the 6% 2D Gaussian
artefacts [10 cm full-width at half-maximum (FWHM)], whereas
the NEMA differential index performed relatively poorly. NEMA
differential and integral indices performed equally well at
detecting smaller 2D Guassian (2.5 cm FWHM) artefacts. The 10%
artefact was the minimum artefact detected by both indices for
five million count acquisitions. The Cox-Diffey and CoV indices
did not detect any artefacts for five million acquired counts. The
CoV index performed best at detecting gradient artefacts at five
million acquired counts.
CONCLUSION: This work provides evidence that daily quality
control can be acquired with as few as five million counts while
maintaining the same ability to detect both chronic and acute
nonuniformities compared with higher count acquisitions. A
combination of the NEMA integral and the C