St George's, University of London

The next generation of maternal vaccines: scientific advances, regulatory readiness, and strategic planning in Europe

With the recent approval of maternal RSV vaccines and late-phase trials underway for a GBS vaccine, Europe is entering a new era of maternal immunisation. Yet scientific progress is outpacing pregnancy-specific evidence and preparedness for equitable implementation. Pregnant wome...

The dimensions and realization mechanism of brand Jing-Jie(境界) initiated by brand ritual behaviours: a grounded analysis inspired by Chinese Zen Jing-Jie(境界) theory

Purpose This research seeks to explain the phenomenon of consumers' internal growth initiated by brand ritual behaviours, by establishing a novel construct “brand Jing-Jie(境界)”, inspired by Chinese Zen Jing-Jie(境界)theory. The connotation of “brand Jing-Jie(境界)” is a supplem...

Postoperative outcomes and costs associated with multimodal prehabilitation for advanced ovarian cancer surgery: an exploratory retrospective cohort study at a UK specialist centre

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) followed by cytoreductive surgery (CRS) is the standard of care for advanced ovarian cancer and is associated with deconditioning and a high burden of perioperative morbidity. Multimodal prehabilitation may attenuate physiological decline during NA...

CodeNote.ai: A GitHub-Integrated Note-Taking and Automated Documentation System for Developers

Maintaining clear, up-to-date documentation is one of the most persistent challenges in software development, particularly in fast-moving, open-source codebases touched by many contributors over time. Developers frequently lose the context behind their own past changes and strugg...

CodeNote.ai: A GitHub-Integrated Note-Taking and Automated Documentation System for Developers

Maintaining clear, up-to-date documentation is one of the most persistent challenges in software development, particularly in fast-moving, open-source codebases touched by many contributors over time. Developers frequently lose the context behind their own past changes and strugg...

Treat (the whole of) me: a systematic review and qualitative meta-ethnographic synthesis of the experiences of women with POP, SUI or mesh complications in the context of surgical treatment

Abstract Background Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) and Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) are common pelvic floor disorders that may significantly impact women’s quality of life. Surgical interventions are available to treat these conditions, some using synthetic mesh. Whilst most wo...

Feasibility and performance of eye movement perimetry for glaucoma triage in Tanzania: A prospective cross-sectional study in a real-world setting

Triaging access to glaucoma diagnostics could allow patients to receive earlier care to slow disease progression. There is a particular need in lower-resource settings where the cost and lack of portability of standard automated perimetry (SAP) restrict access. Eye movement perim...

Exploring the impact of recipe boxes on dietary quality and food agency: a pilot and feasibility randomized controlled trial in households with school-aged children

Abstract Background Preparing and consuming food at home is associated with healthier diets. Recipe box subscriptions may support meal preparation at home while improving dietary quality and cooking skills, reducing time-poverty, and facilitating family cohesion. We are conductin...

Strengthening systems to monitor antibiotics. An action oriented approach

Background Antibiotics have become lynchpins of our modern systems of healthcare, animal health and agriculture. Monitoring the types and volumes of antibiotics distributed, used and discharged across these systems is critical to provide evidence for action. With limited resource...

Photoplethysmographic Signal Analysis for Vascular Ageing Assessment

OBJECTIVE: Vascular ageing (VA) is an age-related process characterised by vessel stiffening and altered endothelial function. Recognised as a major predictor of cardiovascular events, VA remains under-assessed in clinical practice due to limitations of current measurement system...

Group cognitive behavioural therapy for hoarding disorder: outcomes from ten closed groups

Abstract Background: A group cognitive behavioural therapy (GCBT) protocol was developed for people with hoarding disorder (HD) as part of routine clinical care in a tertiary mental health Obsessive Compulsive service in Southwest London in 2014; to date 10 groups have been facil...

Assimilating generative AI into ideation work: seeding, search and human contribution

Purpose This paper examines how generative AI (GenAI) systems can be assimilated into idea generation (ideation) work so that human–GenAI collaboration augments creativity. It asks which seeding configurations with GenAI improve novelty, utility and feasibility, and examines prel...

Identifying Autism in Women Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder: Clinician and Lived Experience Perspectives

Background: Growing numbers of people with a borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosis are querying whether they have undiagnosed autism. Previous qualitative research has not focused on identifying barriers and facilitators to this diagnostic journey, has not explored the...

Piezo1 in Peripheral and Central Sensitisation: Implications for Chronic Pain

Piezo1 is an increasingly recognised mechanosensitive ion channel that transduces mechanical forces into electrical and biochemical signals and is expressed in peripheral sensory pathways as well as across multiple cell types within the central nervous system. Growing evidence in...

Risk sharing with lambda value-at-risk under heterogeneous beliefs

Abstract In this paper, we study the risk sharing problem among multiple agents using lambda value-at-risk as their preference functional, under heterogeneous beliefs, where each agent’s belief is represented by a probability measure. We obtain semi-explicit formulas for the inf-...

Developing management theory from sports: insights from association football

Purpose This paper explores how research on association football (also referred to as “soccer” in the USA) published in leading management and strategy journals contributes to the advancement of general management theory. By leveraging football as a viable field of scholarly inve...

Experiences of postnatal care and support among Black women and birthing people in the UK: Systematic review and thematic synthesis

The postnatal period is a time for recovery and social transition, yet it is often called the 'Cinderella service' of maternity care, due to its relative neglect in research and policy. Literature often conflates postnatal experiences with antenatal and intrapartum periods, riski...

An Updated Evidence Assessment of the Genetic Causes of Dilated Cardiomyopathy

BACKGROUND: Evidence of the diverse genetic architecture of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) continues to emerge and requires reassessment of the clinical relevance of implicated disease genes. Building on the 2019-2020 Clinical Genome Resource evaluation, the DCM gene curation exper...

Rethinking the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: contemporary relevance, validity and implications for future research

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale has shaped the identification of perinatal depression for four decades, but evolving understandings of distress, comorbidity and measurement standards challenge its continued adequacy. We argue for rigorous, co-produced revision to enhance...

Modular dissertation pathways in undergraduate economics: A case study of curriculum innovation

This paper presents a case study of curriculum innovation in undergraduate economics education at a UK Russell Group university. A modular dissertation structure was introduced to address uneven econometric preparation, rising supervision pressures, and increasingly diverse stude...