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The Transition Gap: Dance Graduates Navigating the Path to Professional Careers

This study aimed to explore the experiences of dance graduates seeking professional dance work, addressing a gap in the literature, which largely focuses on junior-to-senior transitions in other sports. A longitudinal qualitative study was used, with semi-structured interviews co...

Belonging for Women, LGBTQ+ and Black and Ethnically Minoritised People With Learning Disabilities: Findings From a Qualitative, Co‐Produced Study in England

ABSTRACT Belonging is a key aspect of human experience. This qualitative study examined where diverse people with learning disabilities feel belonging, what shapes belonging and how it affects their health. Focus groups were held with people with learning disabilities across Engl...

Unlocking the potential of aquatic animal telemetry research to advance management and conservation: Barriers and a blueprint for Great Britain and Ireland

Aquatic animal telemetry research can provide important knowledge for how populations, anthropogenic pressures and, indeed, entire ecosystems are managed. However, the true scale, extent and impact in Britain and Ireland is poorly understood. We surveyed 53 researchers about past...

Seabirds and native vegetation drive ecosystem processes that support atoll island resilience

Ecosystem restoration is expected to enhance ecosystem resilience to climate change, but few empirical and mechanistic demonstrations of such assertions exist. Here, we explore this topic for tropical atoll systems, combining science on nutrient subsidies and geo-ecological funct...

Natural History of Rare Tumor Risk Syndromes: A Scoping Review to Inform Cost-Effectiveness Models

Background Hereditary cancer syndromes account for approximately 10% of all cancers. Many of these, classified as rare tumor risk syndromes (RTRS), lack comprehensive data on natural history, lifetime cancer risk, and the long-term impact of surveillance. These evidence gaps limi...

Educating chemical engineers for a sustainable future: Embedding sustainability in process design

Preparing future Chemical Engineers to address complex sustainability challenges requires educational approaches that move beyond traditional discipline-focused teaching to develop systems thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration, professional identity, and the ability to balanc...

Integrating experiential and problem-based learning for generation Z and alpha: A comparative study

This article explores the evolution of educational strategies, focusing on experiential and problem-based learning (PBL) in the context of Generation Z and Generation Alpha. Drawing from recent literature, it highlights technological advancements, learner preferences and pedagogi...

Mental health effects of the universal credit rollout 2009–2019 on adults with dependent children: evidence from the UK household longitudinal survey

Background: Universal Credit (UC) is the UK’s largest recent welfare reform intended to streamline the benefits system and improve work incentives. However, UC features, including sanctions and work-related conditionality, may undermine financial security and harm mental health....

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning of SAM for SAR flood mapping: comparative performance and encoder–decoder representation analysis

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) enables flood mapping under cloud and adverse weather, but segmentation remains challenging across heterogeneous environments. Deep-learning models can improve flood delineation, yet their dependence on task-specific training data limits transfer ac...

Patent review on revolutionary electrochemical CaCO 3 conversion for cement manufacturing

Abstract Sustainable development has become a necessity in conventional cement production to reduce environmental impact. Global demand needs to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The transition to green cement manufacturing plays a key role in achieving net-zero carbon dioxi...

From concept to action: Driving impact through responsible research practices in the International Polar Year 2032–2033 An early career perspective

Regions at the poles are warming at rates two to four times higher than the global average, driving profound environmental, societal, and geopolitical changes. As Polar Early Career Researchers with careers extending into and beyond the 5th International Polar Year in 2032–2033,...

Temporal organization in living systems: toward a physics of life

Abstract Classical dynamical systems theory is based on asymptotic stability assumptions. This approach has long dominated theoretical biology, providing insight into stability and functional organization. Yet, living systems rarely converge to static attractors; rather, they ada...

The Hidden Reality of Child-to-Parent Aggression Involving Adopted Children Aged 10 and Under

Current research on child-to-parent aggression (CPA) focuses on adolescents, despite evidence that such behaviors emerge earlier. This study conducted in the United Kingdom (UK) explored CPA from the perspective of adopters of children aged 10 years and under. Fifteen semi-struct...

Start up in the third space: The Deakin Lancaster Indonesia (DLI) experience

In 2023, the Indonesian government granted license to foreign higher education institutions (FHEIs) to establish their international branch campuses (IBCs) in Indonesia, seen as an opportunity for Indonesian students to acquire world-class education at home. IBCs exist in a sort...

Children, Robots, and Reproducibility: A review of recent reproducibility challenges in child-robot interaction

Given the rapid advancements and shifting requirements in the field of Child-Robot Interaction (CRI), it is crucial to understand how the field is evolving and if and how researchers are adhering to current best practices. We present a review of five years (2020-2024) of CRI rese...

Child acquisition of complex consonants: The role of oral motor control in developing acoustic targets

Our study examines the role of oral motor control in the acquisition of acoustic targets for lingually complex consonants in Estonian by speakers from four age groups. We focus on children's production of secondarily palatalised and non-palatalised consonants where anatomical dev...

A phenomenological multiscale framework for orientational interactions and viscoelasticity in migrating epithelial monolayer

Collective migration of epithelial monolayers emerges from the interplay between mechanical interactions and biochemical signalling on the cellular scale. Here, we provide a phenomenological mechanobiological framework with constitutive interpretation linking microscopic orientat...

‘If I Don't Get That Belonging Among Us It All Falls Down’: How Middle Managers Experience Belonging Through Self and Others

Abstract Belonging at work is a fundamental yet complex experience, associated with acceptance, inclusion and recognition, and underpinned by relational dynamics in organizations. Despite increasing interest, little is known about how belonging is experienced by middle managers,...

The Early Childhood Curiosity Questionnaire: Development and Psychometric Properties in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Germany

Curiosity in early childhood is associated with exploration, learning, and cognitive growth, yet little is known about how trait curiosity can be reliably assessed in preschoolers. This paper reports the development and validation of a caregiver-report measure designed to assess...

Decoupled Dielectric Optimization and YbO x Contact Engineering in All‐Spray‐Processed Oxide Thin‐Film Transistors

ABSTRACT Control of dielectric transport and contact energetics remains a central challenge in scalable oxide electronics. We present a decoupled optimization strategy for fully spray‐processed oxide thin‐film transistors with In 2 O 3 :W channels, where dielectric densification...