Northumbria University

Reflections on Co-Research Methods: Realities of Inclusive Research With Marginalised Communities.

Participatory research methods have gained prominence in the past decade, particularly in studies involving marginalised communities. Sex workers have critiqued the lack of depth and understanding in research findings, which may arise from their exclusion from the research proces...

Post-colonial human admixture and natural selection: disentangling signals in complex demographic contexts

Natural selection and admixture are defining population genetic features of modern human populations, yet their interaction has only recently emerged as a major focus in human evolutionary genomics. While the influence of natural selection on population structure and trait divers...

Caught in the line of fire: tariffs and the global hospitality workforce

Purpose This critical reflection article critically examines how contemporary tariff regimes, particularly reciprocal and retaliatory trade measures, are reshaping the global hospitality workforce. Moving beyond traditional economic analyses of tariffs, by developing three propos...

Last-Mile Humanitarian Logistics Planning with Isolated Communities

Problem Definition: This paper addresses the critical challenge of delivering humanitarian aid to points of distribution (PoDs) after a disaster under uncertainty, particularly when some PoDs become isolated due to road/bridge damages. Motivated by the Eta and Iota hurricanes in...

Grey is the new black: entrepreneurial agency and transparency of artificial intelligence

Purpose This paper develops the MIRACLE framework, a stage-based conceptual model that examines how human and artificial cognitive agents interact across the entrepreneurial process, how artificial intelligence (AI) transparency affects entrepreneurial agency and how heterogeneou...

3D printing in construction: A comprehensive review of materials, methods, applications, and SAFE performance criteria

Three-dimensional (3D) printing, widely referred to as additive manufacturing (AM), is substantially reshaping the construction industry by enabling the digital fabrication of complex architectural forms while reducing material waste, lowering dependence on skilled labour, and co...

Employment as a Foreign Realm: Spatial Alienation and Conceptions of Work among People with Experience of Homelessness

Work and employment are frequently presented as potential solutions for socially excluded people to overcome their disadvantage(s) and to (re)integrate into society. To assess the viability of pursuing employment pathways, it is important to understand previous engagement with, p...

Political myth and the generation of ontological security: The case of UK responses to terrorism

Abstract This article explores the relationship between political myth and ontological security through an existentialist lens. It argues that political myths are primarily about not truth but rather function. They generate ontological security by offering symbolic coherence in r...

Trust calibration in human-AI collaborative decision-making: a cross-domain investigation of climate intelligence and organisational governance systems

Abstract The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in complex decision environments has intensified scholarly and practical interest in how humans calibrate trust when collaborating with intelligent systems. This paper presents a cross-domain empirical investigation of hu...

Policy mobilities and gender: a case study of the influence of the ‘Swedish model’ on Northern Ireland’s sex work policy

As gender is largely absent in academic studies of policy mobilities, this article calls for academic discussion on the role of gender within policy mobilities. To kick-start this discussion, it suggests two avenues of investigation: (1) gendered labour and power relations, and (...

Conditional Latent Diffusion for Synthetic Brain MRI in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Preprocessing-Focused Pipeline

Deep learning for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) detection from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) needs large, labelled datasets, yet many cohorts hold only a few hundred participants, for which conventional augmentation adds little anatomical diversity. In a two-stage pipeli...

Acceptability and Willingness to Use the “CaknaStrok” Mobile Health Application and Associated Factors Among Informal Caregivers of Post-Stroke Patients in Malaysia: Protocol for an Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study

Background: Stroke is the third leading cause of death and a major cause of long-term disability in Malaysia, where the continuity of post-stroke care depends heavily on unpaid, untrained informal family caregivers. These caregivers face a well-documented “discharge cliff,” assum...

You don’t look sick: Invisible disability, moral injury, and organisational betrayal on the retail front-line

This article examines how the gap between invisible impairment and formal recognition shapes employment experiences. We draw on Jordan’s account as a front-line retail worker in Germany living with a chronic kidney condition that significantly affects work capacity but falls belo...

Data analytics and last-mile delivery in urban areas: challenges and opportunities

Purpose This research explores how data analytics can address last-mile delivery (LMD) challenges in urban areas. LMD is the most expensive, least efficient, and most environmentally damaging supply chain phase, yet analytics adoption remains uneven. Design/methodology/approach A...

Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in methodological research: exploring challenges, tensions and learning from the perspectives of PPIE and researchers in the Realist Economic Evaluation Methods (REEM) study

Abstract Background Methodological research is often abstract, heavily theoretical and jargon laden. Despite having significant implications for the users of health and social care services, it can be difficult to involve the public and patients in research that is oriented towar...

Balancing needs and resources in mental health care through the lens of public and provider perspectives

Abstract Background Telemental health care (TMHC) may offer convenient and private pathways to mental health support, but its feasibility and acceptability depend on the cultural, structural, and operational context in which it is delivered. This qualitative study examined how me...

Impossible practices: on the ideology of codesign

Codesign is widely framed as a democratic and inclusive practice, particularly in development-sector contexts where it is invoked as a way of ensuring that those affected by design have a voice in shaping decisions that concern them. Yet designers frequently encounter tensions be...

Transcritical CO₂ refrigeration cycle modifications: thermodynamic performance, practical challenges and future directions

Carbon dioxide (CO₂, R744) has emerged as a leading natural refrigerant alternative owing to its negligible ozone depletion potential, unity global warming potential, chemical stability, and favourable heat transfer characteristics. However, the low critical temperature (31.1 °C)...

Autistic neural ‘shiftability’: the distinct pharmacological landscape of the autistic brain

Functionally inter-connected large-scale brain networks regulated by multiple neurotransmitter systems underpin complex human behaviour. A wide range of alterations in this neurofunctional landscape have been associated with autism. However, this evidence is mostly derived from c...

COFAS Grade is not Associated with Outcomes following Infinity Total Ankle Arthroplasty: A Multicenter Study with Minimum Five-Year Follow-Up

Background: Total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) is increasingly used for end-stage ankle arthritis, with modern fixed-bearing designs demonstrating improved survivorship. The Canadian Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (COFAS) classification stratifies patients by intra-articular and...