Coventry University

Dietary acid load is associated with quality of life in overweight and obese adult in Iranian women: a cross sectional study

Epidemiologic investigations have shown that dietary acid load (DAL) is associated with some limited quality of life (QoL) markers; however, according to the documents available so far, the association of this dietary pattern with QoL among overweight and obese women is not clear...

Clinical, Patient Experience and Service Outcomes of a Leisure Centre–Based NHS Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service: A Service Evaluation

BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions place substantial burden on individuals and healthcare systems, increasing the demand for accessible, community-based care. This service evaluation assessed an NHS MSK physiotherapy pilot delivered in a leisure centre in a socioeconomi...

A Critical Analysis of Barriers to Practical Training and Exercising in UK Fire Service Control Rooms: Evidence‐Informed Recommendations for Enhanced Operational Preparedness

ABSTRACT Persistent weaknesses in training for UK Fire and Rescue Service control rooms may undermine operational preparedness, despite their critical role in emergency response. Public inquiries and inspections repeatedly highlight inconsistent, underdeveloped training provision...

Business clusters and SMEs' sustainable performance in emerging markets: examining the roles of open innovation and digital capacity

Purpose This study aims to develop a framework for the sustainable performance (SP) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that will benefit emerging markets by emphasizing the roles of open innovation (OI) and digital capacity (DC) within a business cluster. Thus, the research i...

Exploring sustainable management in running events: insights from Greek organizers

Purpose There has been a growing criticism of the degree to which sports events are sustainable today and their ability to promote the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This study aimed to explore Greek running event organizers' attitudes towards sustainable management of the...

Turning adversity into adaptation: women entrepreneurs and crisis resilience in a developing economy

Purpose This study examines how women entrepreneurs in a developing economy navigate prolonged crisis conditions. Focussing on Nigeria, it investigates how women entrepreneurs interpreted and responded to disruptions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how their responses ref...

Reducing Sedentary Working in a University Setting: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Three Workplace Feasibility Interventions

Background: Sedentary working is a major risk factor for chronic diseases. Workplace health and wellbeing-related interventions that focus on creating opportunities for physical movement may help mitigate prolonged sitting. The aim of this study was to evaluate three different in...

Numerical Investigation of Steel Frames with Corrugated-Web Reduced Beam Sections for Enhanced Progressive Collapse Resistance

Following our earlier work on reduced beam section (RBS) connections, this study examines a new set of corrugated-web cell configurations for steel moment-resisting connections. A finite element model, validated against four experimental investigations reported in the literature,...

Flourishing of School Leaders in England: Headteachers’ Experiences of Flow, Thriving, Resilience, Grit, and Wellbeing

Given the intensification of school leadership roles, often resulting in heightened levels of stress, increasing workload, and ever-expanding challenges, it is important to understand how school leaders attend to and grow their own wellbeing as well as that of those they lead and...

Rehabilitation and the post-intensive care syndrome across the recovery continuum: a narrative review

Purpose Improved survival from critical illness has produced a growing population of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors with new or worsened physical, cognitive, and mental-health impairment, defined as post-intensive care syndrome (PICS), and frequent distress among families/ca...

The Trade‐Off Between Sustainability Reporting Quality and Corporate Investment Activity: Does Political Stability Matter?

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between sustainability reporting quality (SRQ) and corporate investment activity, focusing on corporate investment intensity and corporate investment inefficiency, and the moderating role of national political stability. Using a m...

Shifting and balancing under uncertainty: Ambidextrous leadership of digital strategies in the museums sector

The viability of museums and their past operating models have been undermined by external challenges including a paucity of funding, sectoral crises and the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have sought to implement digital strategies rapidly to support their survival, and some have strugg...

Introducing relative pollen productivity estimates for Iberian taxa: methodological insights and implications for landscape modelling in the Western Mediterranean

Abstract. Understanding the impact of ongoing global change on plant communities requires long-term quantitative reconstructions of past vegetation dynamics. Fossil pollen records offer one of the most powerful tools to reconstruct past landscapes, yet for their accurate interpre...

Orchestrating external and internal resources for BDA capability-enabled SC resilience: Evidence from manufacturing industry

Global manufacturing supply chains are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the complex and frequent disruption that undermines the sustainability and effectiveness. Big Data Analytics Capability (BDAC) has become a key driver of supply chain resilience (SCRes), but existing liter...

Exploring the professional nurse advocate role in quality improvement: a qualitative study

Background: the professional nurse advocate (PNA) programme was introduced in 2021 to support nurse wellbeing and resilience after the pandemic through the Advocating for Education Quality Improvement (A-EQUIP) model. However, the impact of PNAs' quality improvement (QI) work rem...

Culture, peace and conflict in the Nineveh Plains: strengthening the evidence base for culture-led approaches to peacebuilding

While the local turn in peacebuilding emphasises locally-informed interventions, translating this rhetoric into meaningful practice remains a significant challenge. Cultural and heritage-based approaches offer potential for bottom-up peacebuilding but are critiqued for being inad...

Beyond Securitisation: A Gendered Peace Studies Approach to Violent Extremism in Kenya

While dominant global policy frameworks and scholarship often understand violent extremism through securitised and state-centric lenses, this article offers a bottom-up reconceptualisation using a peace studies and gendered approach. Drawing on empirical data from Kenya, the stud...

Parallelised detection of bacteria viability using an electrode array and the Exeter Multiscope

Abstract Antimicrobial resistance remains a global existential threat. Given that antimicrobial therapy commonly starts before pathogen identification, rapid and scalable methods capable of determining effective antimicrobial compounds are needed. In this paper, we demonstrate a...

Insulin resistance is associated with mammary mitochondrial dysfunction at the onset of human lactation

Insulin resistance (IR) has emerged as a risk factor for lactation insufficiency and delays the onset of milk secretion after childbirth, termed secretory activation (SA). This may cause inadequate infant weight gain and early breastfeeding cessation. However, the mechanisms unde...

Low remuneration and nurse turnover in the NHS in England: a critical analysis

There is a shortfall of nurses and growing nurse attrition globally, which have been attributed to a range of systemic factors, including inadequate pay. In the UK NHS, the effectiveness of the Agenda for Change (AfC) pay structure in resolving historical and persistent nursing i...