- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Scottish History and National Identity
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Retinal Diseases and Treatments
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Retinal Imaging and Analysis
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Ocular Surface and Contact Lens
- Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
- Philippine History and Culture
- Cultural History and Identity Formation
- Rural development and sustainability
- Canadian Identity and History
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Education Systems and Policy
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Canadian Policy and Governance
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Environmental law and policy
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
2019-2024
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
2022
Technological University Dublin
2022
Bishop Grosseteste University
2008-2021
Sutherland Hospital
2020
Glasgow Life
2019
Carleton University
2017
York University
2013
UK Research and Innovation
2007
Abstract We argue here that bringing insights from evolution and bioengineering to bear on traditional accounts of divine providence helps illustrate just how complex is difficult it achieve. While other non‐human animals might exhibit greater agency in creation its evolutionary development than has traditionally been recognised, we contend don't meet the threshold for acting providentially. However, interplay between biological cultural prior arrival modern human beings gives us a fresh...
PurposeThe increasing diabetes prevalence and advent of new treatments for its major visual-threatening complications (diabetic macular edema [DME] proliferative diabetic retinopathy [PDR]), which require frequent life-long follow-up, have increased hospital demands markedly. Subsequent delays in patient's evaluation treatment are causing sight loss. Strategies to increase capacity needed urgently. The (EMERALD) study tested diagnostic accuracy, acceptability, costs a health care pathway...
Given the urgent need to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and concern regarding insufficient climate action ambition across globe, NGOs individuals are increasingly turning courts force States, public authorities, private entities increase their hold them accountable through climate-related litigation. The three contributions in this legal working paper discuss various aspects of such change litigation around world. papers examine evolution cases, scope cases varying grounds on...
The use of provincial newspapers by historians continues to develop. Study into their form and function is ongoing, while programmes digitisation electronic publication are opening up new opportunities for research. This article considers the relationship between newspaper production development local communities. Provincial reported on evolution particular places lives inhabitants (as they continue to). As such constitute a valuable primary source information historian today. In addition...
The expansion and evolution of local history over the last half century has given rise to both celebration critical self‐reflection. This attention been stimulated by continued importance as a popular cultural activity, in parallel with, paradoxically, relatively recent decline academic teaching provision subject. reflection on characteristics role yielded searching consideration its relationship with pursuit more broadly, most especially discipline. However, little work approached...
ABSTRACT: The provincial press played a significant role in forming local attitudes and senses of civic identity the late nineteenth early twentieth centuries. Local regional newspapers often adopted ‘boosterist’ language, style that enthusiastically promoted particular qualities places. persistence boosterism into twenty-first century makes it concept worthy further exploration. This study considers just one ‘booster’, Bernard Samuel Gilbert, his illuminating series articles on Lincoln for...
"A Fleet Street in every town: the provincial press England, 1855–1900." International Journal of Regional and Local History, 14(2), pp. 142–143
"Women and the country house in Ireland Britain." International Journal of Regional Local History, 13(2), pp. 152–153
Abstract In the second half of nineteenth century provision better education for working-class men and women became one various broad-ranging set preoccupations cooperative movement in Britain. Much early cooperation was economic, concerning alternative means production distribution. However, local societies also turned themselves toward other forms societal improvement, including creating facilities contexts that would promote support learning adults. The archive Lincoln Equitable...
The Canadian labour movement faces an existential crisis. State and business hostility to unions is not new, but the attack has recently intensified as conservative political forces major employer groups have embraced agenda of US Republican right. Mirroring anti-union law would lead precipitous decline union density in Canada, which already eroding due manufacturing crisis long-standing failure organize private services. new more a product weakness than strength, will be most effectively...
(2010). Problematising and Practising ‘Community-Focused’ Local History: On the Ermine, A Council Estate in Lincoln 1950s 1960s. The International Journal of Regional Studies: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 48-71.
The writings of Bernard Samuel Gilbert (1882–1927) form a rich body primary source material. However, they lie little known and neglected. Gilbert’s life output have yet to attract literary biography. writing includes poetry in dialect verse, historical novels, stage plays, political pamphlets newspaper correspondence. This investigation focuses on the early, formative work published by between 1911 1914, while he was still living Lincolnshire. research identifies number interconnecting...
In the present universities are facing introduction of a revised Research Excellence Framework, extension Teaching and Student Outcomes Framework to subject-level assessment, emergence Knowledge Exchange Framework. Against this background particular interests in, or imperatives surrounding, development research-informed activity involving undergraduate students, in university public engagement. The practice local history has long proud tradition internally externally collaborative...