Manchester Metropolitan University

Ebola-virus outbreaks are teleconnected with macroclimatic oscillations

Ebola viruses’ ecology is known to be affected by climate, which is globally monitored using macroclimatic oscillation indices. We tested whether any of 26 macroclimatic oscillation indices were teleconnected with Ebola virus disease (EBOD) outbreaks. We compiled an updated datab...

Changes in cardiac function before and after hot water immersion and endurance exercise in middle-aged individuals with overweight or obesity

Abstract Purpose We investigated the acute effects of ecologically valid hot water immersion (HWI) and endurance exercise (END) interventions on indices of left (LV) and right ventricular (RV) function in middle-aged individuals with overweight or obesity. Methods Twenty-five (15...

The playful entanglements of very young children’s intergenerational video calls across cultures and languages: More-than-human perspectives

The United Kingdom is home to a culturally and linguistically diverse population of young children living in families where digital technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to develop multiliteracies across languages. Many babies and toddlers born into multilingual families...

An Integrated Methodology for Identifying and Classifying Questions and Answers in Spoken Conversation

Abstract Questions provide speakers with a means of managing turn-taking, demonstrating engagement, and giving the communicative ‘floor’ to their interlocutor, among a range of other functions. When English interrogatives function as direct questions, they are typically identifia...

Harnessing the Joys and Mitigating the Risks of Doing Co-Research: Reflections on a Study With Survivors of Sexual Violence

Background This article is by lived experience co-researchers and an academic research team. Co-research involves those with lived experience of a topic under investigation. It is an increasingly popular participatory, beneficial form of co-production that improves the integrity...

Industry Signals and the Dynamics of Stock Market Predictability

ABSTRACT We investigate whether industry portfolios contain information that forecasts aggregate stock market returns. Earlier research reports evidence of their usefulness as predictors, yet later studies find weaker and unstable effects. Using updated U.S. data, we confirm that...

Supporting adults with intellectual disabilities to be more involved in decisions about their mental health medications: A co-produced mixed methods study

BACKGROUND: People with intellectual disabilities are more likely to take mental health (psychotropic) medications than other people. Despite long-standing concern about this, there has been little focus on how people with intellectual disabilities can be supported to be more inv...

Love as Calculation: The Internalized Rationality of Digital Intimacy and the Erosion of Social Flow

As neoliberal rationality permeates private life, romantic relationships are increasingly managed as calculated projects rather than spontaneous, autotelic bonds. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory (SDT), this study examines how calculative subjectivity is associated with dimin...

Numerical analyses into carbon circularity through integrated biomass gasification and electrochemical CO2 conversion to formic acid

The present study proposes an integrated gasification-electrochemical CO 2 reduction system for the co-production of syngas and formic acid, hence, reducing CO 2 emissions and promoting carbon circularity. Unlike the conventional gasification systems which focus primarily on syng...

Sport and love: an emotional paradigm for meaningful collaborations in the sport for development and peace sector

This paper proposes a philosophical framework for meaningful and collaborative governance within the field and practice of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), rooted around the concept of love. Recognizing the breadth of the word ‘love’ in the English language, I dissect this...

Transitioning from Degraded Peat to Paludiculture: Evidence-Based Roadmap for Research and Practice

Paludiculture, the sustainable productive use of wet and rewetted peat soils, offers a dual solution for preserving soil carbon and reducing greenhouse gas emissions whilst offering a form of income for landowners/farmers. However, establishing best practices for the transition t...

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...

Caffeine pollution changes anti-predator behaviour in Gammarus pulex similarly to manipulative parasites

Caffeine is an emerging environmental contaminant in freshwater ecosystems that is primarily introduced through wastewater. Even at low concentrations, caffeine can affect the physiology and behaviour of aquatic organisms. Still, its ecological significance remains little underst...

‘To read a life, to clothe the bones, to tell a story’: negotiating death and loss through archaeology and creative practice (the Continuing Bonds: Creative Dissemination project)

While death is universal, experiences of dealing with the dead and dying differ vastly, and yet despite the universality of our mortality, death can remain, for many, a difficult and challenging topic of conversation. This paper presents the methods and results of a creative appr...

Voicing Silences: the experiences of South Asian student teachers during Initial teacher Education at an English University

South Asian student teachers enter Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in England in significant numbers, yet their completion rates remain disproportionately low. This study examines how racialised, cultural and institutional dynamics shape teacher learning, professional identity fo...

The contribution of peripheral nerves to the pleasure from scratching an itch: Evidence from a neuronopathy participant

Abstract Itch is ‘an unpleasant sensation of the skin commonly triggering an urge to scratch’. In chronic itch, the persistent itch/scratch cycle is reinforced and sustained by the intense pleasure and reward gained from scratching – sometimes after the itch has been abolished, a...

Chemical Fingerprints of New vs Weathered Plastics: A Machine Learning Approach

Abstract Regulatory initiatives to mitigate plastic pollution face challenges in identifying microplastics and their sources. Recent advances in computational fingerprinting offer opportunities for the forensic investigation of plastic pollution sources. Here, we present an open-...

Walking on the Number Line: A Playful and Embodied Group Intervention for People with Acquired Number Deficits (Acalculia)

Numbers skills are affected in as many as 65% of cases following a stroke or abrain-injury, a condition termed ‘acalculia’. Research into re-education ofmathematical skills has focused on using intense repetitions (‘drill’). Whileeducational theory has progressed, offering more e...

Spatial analysis of England and Wales coastline change using remote sensing

Understanding coastal change at national scales requires spatially consistent datasets capable of capturing both the diversity and dynamism of shoreline behaviour. This study applies the CoastSat shoreline-extraction framework to satellite imagery spanning 1999–2020 to quantify s...

Stabilizing the ground beneath our feet: Reflections on the shifting sands of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

This invited commentary presents our personal reflections upon the evolving diversity, equality/equity and inclusion (DEI) landscape since the publication of our review, Fletcher and Beauregard's (2022) 'The psychology of diversity and its implications for workplace (in)equality:...