Lancaster University

Enduring inequalities in cancer care experience across England: a longitudinal analysis of NHS trusts, 2015–23

BACKGROUND: Patient experience is a core indicator of cancer care quality in England, yet substantial variation persists across National Health Service (NHS) trusts. While waiting times and patient demographics are known to influence experience, it remains unclear whether these r...

Realist synthesis of co-production of services in a local authority context: what works, for whom, how and in what circumstances?

Abstract Background Co-production is increasingly promoted as a means of improving the design and delivery of local authority services, yet evidence on how and why it works remains limited. This realist synthesis explored how co-production operates within complex local authority...

Hydration Asymmetry and Solvent-Mediated Charge Balancing in Microporous Carbons: An NMR Study of Aqueous and Organic Electrosorption

Abstract Aqueous electrolytes are attracting increasing interest in supercapacitor applications due to their high sustainability and ionic conductivity relative to conventional organic systems. However, the distinct solvation properties of water and their impact on (electro)sorpt...

Arthroscopic Bankart Repair With Hill‐Sachs Remplissage Shows Low Recurrence and Excellent Outcomes for Primary and Revision Surgery at Midterm Follow‐Up

Purpose To assess midterm outcomes, including recurrence and patient‐reported measures, after arthroscopic Bankart repair with remplissage in both primary and revision cases. Methods A retrospective, single‐surgeon review was performed on patients who underwent arthroscopic Banka...

How non-market collaboration shapes stakeholders' wellbeing through climate-risk management strategies in emerging market B2B firms?

Climate change poses threats to stakeholders' wellbeing, defined as their satisfaction, value realisation, expectations, and retention with the firm. While research has established that enhancing stakeholders' wellbeing requires cross-sector collaboration, industrial marketing sc...

The Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire: Dutch Translation and Validation

Curiosity and its role in learning and early cognitive development has received increasing attention in infancy research. So far, insights have largely focused on controlled lab-based experimental studies while less is known about individual differences in infants’ curiosity in e...

The Implementation of Current UK Guidance for the Treatment of Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis

This review identified an implementation gap between best practice guidance and the provision of care for co-occurring conditions in the UK setting, which needs to be explored across a global context. There were positive examples of strategies to implement the guidance, particula...

Rapid increase of climate extremes reveals new areas of concern in Amazonia

Abstract Amazonia is highly sensitive to climate extremes, yet we lack an Amazon-wide assessment that examines the spatial-temporal changes in these extreme conditions. We address this within seasons and across the hydrological year, using a quantiles approach that integrates the...

MooBench: A micro-benchmark for performance overhead measurement of observability tools

MooBench: A micro-benchmark for performance overhead measurement of observability tools EventType Research Software Publication Abstract Understanding the runtime behavior of software is inherently difficult due to the unpredictability of the software's behavior itself and the no...

Robust, partially alive particle Metropolis-Hastings via The Frankenfilter

When a hidden Markov model permits the conditional likelihood of an observation given the hidden process to be zero, all particle simulations from one observation time to the next could produce zeros. If so, the filtering distribution cannot be estimated and the estimated paramet...

European Association of Palliative Care White Paper on research priorities for family caregiving in palliative care: A systematic review of reviews

BACKGROUND: Family carers are central to providing high quality palliative care. However, gaps remain in our understanding of how best to support carers. In 2010, the European Association for Palliative Care published a White Paper on 'Improving Support for Family Caregivers'. Th...

What bilingualism demands

Abstract Bilingualism research sits at the intersection of linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology, yet these disciplines often operate in relative isolation, limiting explanatory power and theoretical progress. This paper argues that deeper, more purposeful cross-fer...

Unlocking Hydrogen Storage Potential: Ni/Al2O3-Catalysed Hydrogenation of Dibenzyltoluene (DBT) for a Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) System

Liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) offer a safe and scalable solution for hydrogen storage and transportation, overcoming many of the limitations of conventional compressed and liquefied hydrogen systems. Among the available LOHCs, the dibenzyltoluene/perhydro-dibenzyltolue...

Land use and propolis composition: an analysis of the wax content of Apis mellifera propolis

Abstract Propolis is a plant-derived resin collected by honeybees, essential for maintaining colony health by protecting against pathogens and building the hive. With the aim of determining influencing factors on the wax content of propolis, 139 samples of propolis were collected...

School day physical activity profiles and transitions across the school year: a latent analysis in 8–9 year-old children

Abstract Background School day physical activity (PA) is important for children’s health and development, yet longitudinal evidence on within-year trajectory patterns is limited. Traditional approaches to studying PA change may obscure substantial heterogeneity in how individual...

Security or safeguarding? Counter-terrorism professional and NGO actors’ accounts of repatriating British children associated with ISIS

Drawing from interviews conducted in 2022 with NGOs, thinktanks and counter-terrorism professionals, this article asks: how should British children presumed to be associated with ISIS or Daesh be treated by the UK government? Using a critical race lens, it explores the detrimenta...

Reframing trauma recovery for public health: introducing the recovery assemblage framework

Psychological trauma represents a major global health challenge, with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) contributing to long-term difficulties in mental and physical health, relationships, and wellbeing. Despite this, dominant models of trauma recovery are largely grounded in...

Can small reductions in Rubisco content improve nitrogen use in wheat without negatively impacting biomass or grain yield?

In this study, the level of Rubisco protein was reduced in wheat using RNAi, to test the hypothesis that photosynthesis, growth, and grain yield could be maintained whilst improving nitrogen use efficiency. The RNAi Rubisco wheat plants, with a Rubisco activity of less than 70% o...

Understanding and applying psychological formulation in secure children's homes: Insights from residential staff

Abstract Objectives Psychological formulation helps to develop an understanding of an individual's experiences and how they make sense of these. There is limited research around staff's perspectives of psychological formulation within the Children and Young People Secure Estate (...

The nutritional value of invertebrate aquatic foods

Abstract Aquatic invertebrates are a diverse, nutrient-dense, and socio-ecologically important food whose contribution to human nutrition is frequently overlooked. We quantify their contribution to global nutrient supplies and estimate the nutrient content of >50,000 macroinverte...