University of Sunderland

The groundbreaking thought and enduring legacy of Iris Marion Young

Iris Marion Young is lauded as a pioneering feminist philosopher and social theorist of sport. Steeped in Merleau-Ponty, she sought to consolidate and supplement de Beauvoir’s feminist iteration of existential phenomenology. Existential phenomenology affirms the body-subject or ‘...

Professionalisation or Credentialism? Fifteen‐Year Enrolment Trends in the UK Postgraduate Certificates in Medical Education

ABSTRACT Background Postgraduate qualifications for clinical educators have proliferated internationally, raising questions about whether this reflects professionalisation or a credentialist response to competitive specialty selection. Postgraduate Certificates in Medical Educati...

Rethinking Empowerment in Healthcare: A Dynamic Continuum

ABSTRACT Empowerment is a widely used term in healthcare literature, policy and practice, but its meaning is often inconsistent and increasingly framed as an individual outcome linked to self‐management, responsibility and compliance. However, such framings risk oversimplifying e...

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...

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...

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...

Cripping the Transition to Practice: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis of Disabled Doctors’ First Year Experiences

Abstract Introduction The transition from medical student to doctor is demanding. Although research has explored preparedness and wellbeing, disabled doctors’ experiences remain underexamined, risking a homogenised understanding of a process that is likely experienced unevenly ac...

Digenic disease causing variants in a patient with severe nephrocalcinosis

Abstract Background Nephrocalcinosis and cystinuria are two distinct kidney disorders. Nephrocalcinosis is the abnormal, generalised deposition of calcium salts, primarily calcium phosphate or calcium oxalate, within the kidney's parenchyma, and has multiple causes including meta...

Do Patients Receiving GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Weight Loss Require Structured Dietetic Care? Lessons from Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (MBS) Pathways

Background: Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) and dual incretin therapies have significantly advanced obesity management by facilitating clinically significant weight loss and enhancing cardiometabolic outcomes. Nevertheless, their growing application calls fo...

Somatic, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Comorbidities in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A Narrative Review

Background/Objectives: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is currently singularly described as a behaviourally defined neurodevelopmental diagnosis with symptoms affecting social communication and social understanding alongside the presence of restricted patterns of behaviour. Wide,...

Rural entrepreneurship and ecommerce interlinkage: a multi-country exploration in the African context

Purpose To explore the challenges facing rural entrepreneurs in adopting ecommerce in an under-researched African context, this study aims to adopt a multi-country exploration involving five countries and offers valuable managerial and theoretical implications. Design/methodology...

‘Even if you are guilty, you’re still a human being’: the impact of stigma on dignity and quality of healthcare from the perspective of people detained in police custody in England

Abstract Background The aim of this paper is to explore harms to health and dignity generated through stigma from the perspective of people detained in police custody, a neglected population in healthcare research. We adopt an original theoretical approach, bringing together a hu...