Innovation and Research Round-Up

Biodiversity stripes featured in the European Environment Agency briefing

The European Environment Agency (EEA) have recently published a briefing note which highlights the dramatically changing natural environment and its connection with humans. Professor Miles Richardson’s biodiversity stripes, which show changes in the variety and abundance of nature over time, are referenced within the briefing as a clear indicator of how there has been an unprecedented change caused by humans.

Read the EEA's briefing note

An award winning team

The coral spawning lab has won a prestigious and highly competitive international award for impact. The lab was founded by Professor Michael Sweet, Dr Jamie Craggs and Vince Thomas who have won the SeAct MSC Foundation award for Coral Restoration.

Following on from over a decade of work trying to crack coral spawning ex situ (away from the corals' natural location) and a PhD conducted by Jamie Craggs at the University of Derby, the team developed the coral spawning lab in 2020. The mission is to spawn and grow corals at industry scale, year round, meeting the necessary demands for restoration and research purposes. The vision is to enable and equip every practitioner, reef manager and restorer with the capabilities to spawn coral ex situ in a controlled and reliable manner.

Interested in learning more about coral reefs and the team's work? Professor Mike Sweet, one of the award winners, is presenting his work on coral reefs at the next Professorial Inaugural Lectures.

Book your place at Professor Sweet's Inaugural Lecture

Mental Health and Productivity Pilot and a new hub

The University of Derby was successful in becoming a partner in the Mental Health and Productivity Pilot (MHPP) in July 2019. The aim of MHPP is to reduce absence and presenteeism related to poor mental health and reduce the stigma and discrimination around mental health in the workplace. The team have worked with organisations across D2N2 (Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire), Stoke, and Staffordshire and the Marches, supporting them to integrate effective health and wellbeing interventions into their workplace, influencing culture, employee engagement and productivity.

A recent development sees the launch of the Work Health Hub. The Work Health Hub is an online platform dedicated to health and wellbeing of businesses and their workforce. It will draw upon our experience of working with organisations across a variety of sectors and provide:

Up-to-date research and recommendations in the field of mental health in the workplace
Practical resources for managers, leaders, mental health first aiders, and HR professionals, enabling them to support staff effectively
An active wellbeing community for businesses to share best practice, common challenges, explore new and emerging initiatives
Online events throughout the year, presenting a panel of expert speakers, with the aim of raising awareness of different issues that may impact on the workforce
Access to experts/academics in the field through our support directory
A learning community with practical resources, tools, and information
A range of online courses, including the new online Leading Wellbeing at Work Course
Consultancy opportunities for knowledge exchange

Find out more about the Work Health Hub

Survey examines how higher education uses specialist facilities and equipment

The University of Derby, in partnership with Dispace Ltd, has launched a survey aiming to understand more about how the higher education sector utilises specialist facilities and equipment for knowledge exchange and revenue generation. The survey aims to identify common barriers and examples of best practices of how universities can engage with external stakeholders to leverage their assets and generate additional income beyond teaching and research. A report including clear recommendations will be published this summer.

Universities report use of the specialist equipment and facilities to engage with the private, public and third sectors within the Higher Education Business and Community Interaction Survey (HEBCIS). Selected HEBCIS metrics are used to inform Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) allocated by Research England. More recently, income reported within HEBCIS, relating to use of equipment and facilities, has been used as metrics within the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).

The survey is open to all, with a particular interest to hear from those whose remit includes the management and promotion of relevant facilities as assets.

The survey is now live and will remain open until 24 April. For further information, please contact Knowledge Exchange Manager Sophie Beer at s.beer@derby.ac.uk.

Access the HEBCIS survey

Success with funding

Dr Eleni Michopoulou and Dr Iride Azara have successfully won a project funded by the European Union Global Diaspora Facility (EUDIF) through the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).

The project responds to the need identified by the Freetown City Council (FCC), Sierra Leone, to strengthen its local heritage tourism to attract the Sierra Leonean diaspora globally, with major communities predominantly in the UK, USA, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. This is in line with both the country’s medium-term National Development Plan 2019-2023 and National Labour Migration Policy which identifies the diaspora as partners to national sustainable development particularly in the health, education, and trade sectors.

This project's main objective is to develop a strategic plan and framework to contribute to the rebranding and promotion of the heritage tourism assets of Freetown.

International Women's Month

Throughout March, we celebrated International Women’s month and, on the 9 March, we celebrated International Women’s Day.

Read about how are female researchers are breaking down barriers

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Discover our researcher’s publications released in March.

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Hekmat, H., Rahmani, A. and Yazdifar, H. 2023. IPO valuation in an emerging market – a study in Iran. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management.

Shaun M Allingham, Felix C Nwaishi, Roxane Andersen, Louis J Lamit, David R Elliott and Elliott, D. Microbial communities and biogeochemical functioning across peatlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands region of Canada: Implications for reclamation and management. Land Degradation & Development.

Molasiotis, A. and Wang, M. 2023. Care needs of older patients with advanced cancer. Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care. 17 (1), pp. 31-36.

Abdi, A., Sedrakyan, G., Veldkamp, B., Hillegersberg, J. and Berg, S. 2023. Students feedback analysis model using deep learning-based method and linguistic knowledge for intelligent educational systems. Soft Computing.

Amanda C. de C. Williams, Leslie Hearn, R. Andrew Moore, Gavin Stewart, Emma Fisher, Christopher Eccleston and Neil E. O'Connell Effective quality control in the medical literature: investigation and retraction vs inaction. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

Barker, A. and Murray, R.L. 2023. Response to Ofcom Letter (1) – 15/07/2022 & Response to Ofcom Letter (2) – 27/02/2023. Journal of Public Health. pp. 1-3.

A B Barker, R L Murray and Barker, A. Response to Ofcom letter (1)—15/07/2022 & response to Ofcom letter (2)—27/02/2023. Journal of Public Health.

Kamal, Y., Md Noor Uddin MILON and Tahmina Akter POL Supremacy of Value-Added Tax: A Perspective from South Asian Nations. The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business.

Long She, Hassam Waheed, Weng Marc Lim and Sahar E-Vahdati Young adults' financial well-being: current insights and future directions. International Journal of Bank Marketing.

Waheed, H. 2023. Nudging smokers away from lighting up: A meta-analysis of framing effect in current smokers. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 104, pp. 1-13.

Vita Snowden Commissioning groupwork for carers. Social Work with Groups.

Jordan, J. and Whiffin, C. 2023. Impact of relatives keeping patient diaries in the intensive care unit. Nursing Times. 119 (3).

Percy, C. and Hooley, T. 2023. Lessons for career guidance from return-on-investment analyses in complex education-related fields. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling.

Louise Wallace, Joanna Adhikari and Dean Fido Predicting self-harm in survivors and perpetrators of domestic abuse.

Marios Papadakis, Arabinda Ghosh, Debanjana Ghosh, Nobendu Mukerjee, Swastika Maitra, Padmashree Das, Abhijit Dey, Souty M.Z. Sharkawi, Georgios D. Zouganelis, Athanasios Alexiou, Somdatta Yashwant Chaudhari, Ritika Sharma, Sonali Arun Waghmare, Gaber El-saber Batiha and Zouganelis, G. The Efficient Activity of Glabridin and its Derivatives Against EGFR-mediated Inhibition of Breast Cancer. Current Medicinal Chemistry.

Shuge Zhang and Kirsten McEwan The Fears of Compassion in Sport Scale: a short, context-specific measure of fear of self-compassion and receiving compassion from others validated in UK athletes. Australian Psychologist.

Zhang, S. and McEwan, K. 2023. The Fears of Compassion in Sport Scale a short context specific measure of fear of self compassion and receiving compassion from others validated in. Australian Psychologist. pp. 1-14.

Ramanathan, U., He, Q., Subramanian, N., Gunasekaran, A. and Sarpong, D. 2023. Collaborative closed-loop supply chain framework for sustainable manufacturing: Evidence from the Indian packaging industry. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 191, pp. 1-13.

Vishnubala, D., Iqball, A., Marino, K., Pandya, T., Salman, D., Pringle, A., Nykjaer, C, Bazira, P., Eastwood, D. and Finn, G 2023. Creating a sport and exercise medicine undergraduate syllabus: a delphi study. BMC Medical Education.

Apergis, N., Mustafa, G. and Malik, S. 2023. The role of the COVID-19 pandemic in US market volatility: Evidence from the VIX index. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. 89, pp. 27-35.

Hooley, T. 2022. Profesjonell karriereveiledning i skolen: Undersøkelse av utdanningstilbudet innen karriereveiledning. Elverum, Norway Høgskolen i Innlandet.

Hooley, T. 2022. Exploring the roles, qualifications and skills of career guidance professionals in schools. An international review. Oslo Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills.

Chris Percy and Tristram Hooley Lessons for career guidance from return-on-investment analyses in complex education-related fields. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling.

Goddard, K., Montague, J. and Elander, J. 2023. Parental involvement in child protection services and parenting experience as a drug or alcohol using parent: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. British Journal of Social Work. pp. 1-19.

William Van Gordon, Edo Shonin, Paul Gilbert, Javier Garcia-Campayo and Luis Gallardo Mindfulness of Happiness. Mindfulness.

DiStefano, M., Retanal, F., Bureau, J-F., Hunt, T., Lafay, A., Osana, H., Trepiak, P., Xu, C., Lefevre, J-A. and Maloney, E. A. 2023. Relations between math achievement, math anxiety, and the quality of parent–child interactions while solving math problems. Education Sciences. 13 (3).

Zara, G., Bergstrom, H. and Farrington, D. P. 2023. Being unwanted and other very early predictors of adult psychopathy. Journal of Criminal Psychology.. pp. 1-15.

Bagdasar, O., Chen, M, Drăgan, V., Ivanov, I.G. and Popa, I.-L. 2023. On Horadam Sequences with Dense Orbits and Pseudo-Random Number Generators. Mathematics. 11 (5).

Ovidiu Bagdasar, Minsi Chen, Vasile Drăgan, Ivan Ganchev Ivanov and Ioan-Lucian Popa On Horadam Sequences with Dense Orbits and Pseudo-Random Number Generators. Mathematics.

Tanawadee Pongboonchai-Empl, Jiju Antony, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Tim Komkowski and Guilherme Luz Tortorella Integration of Industry 4.0 technologies into Lean Six Sigma DMAIC: a systematic review. Production Planning & Control.

Agrawal, R., Priyadarshinee, P., Kumar, A., Luthra, S., Garza-Reyes, J.A. and Kadyan, S. 2023. Are Emerging Technologies Unlocking the Potential of Sustainable Practices in the Context of a Net Zero Economy? An Analysis of Driving Forces. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

Pongboonchai-Empl, T., Antony, J., Garza-Reyes, J.A., Komkowski, T. and Tortorella, G.L. 2023. Integration of Industry 4.0 technologies into Lean Six Sigma DMAIC: a systematic review. Production Planning and Control: The Management of Operations. pp. 1-26.

Alessandra Neri, Marta Negri, Enrico Cagno, Vikas Kumar and Jose Arturo Garza‐Reyes What digital‐enabled dynamic capabilities support the circular economy? A multiple case study approach. Business Strategy and the Environment.

Samadhiya, A., Agrawal, R., Kumar, A. and Garza-Reyes, J.A. 2023. Regenerating the Logistics Industry through the Physical Internet Paradigm: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Orchestration. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 178, pp. 1-17.

Neri, A, Negri, M, Cagno, E., Kumar, V., and Garza-Reyes, J.A. 2023. What digital-enabled dynamic capabilities support the circular economy? A multiple case study approach. Business Strategy and the Environment. pp. 1-19.

Rohit, A., Yadav, V.S., Majumdar, A., Kumar, A., Luthra, S. and Garza-Reyes, J. 2023. Opportunities for Disruptive Digital Technologies to Ensure Circularity in Supply Chain: A Critical Review of Drivers, Barriers and Challenges. Computers & Industrial Engineering. pp. 1-46.

Njoku, J. E., Amalu, E. H., Ekere, N., Mallik, S., Ekpu, M. and Ogbodo, E. A. 2023. Effects of reflow profile and miniaturisation on integrity of solder joints in surface mount chip resistor. Journal of Electronic Materials. pp. 1-11.

Buckner, A. 2023. SeeSaw. Nottingham Leafe Press.

Jenni Chambers and Illingworth, T. Bacterial Interactions Affecting Chemotherapy Effectiveness. McGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal.

Jenni Chambers, Thomas Arron Illingworth and Illingworth, T. Bacterial Interactions Affecting Chemotherapy Effectiveness. McGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal.

Pipitò.L, Illingworth, T.A and Deganutti.G 2023. Targeting hPKM2 in cancer: a bio isosteric approach for ligand design. Computers in Biology and Medicine.

Chambers, J.M and Illingworth, T. 2023. Bacterial Interactions Affecting Chemotherapy Effectiveness. McGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal. 18 (1), pp. 15-18.

Louise Wallace, Joanna Adhikari and Dean Fido Predicting self-harm in survivors and perpetrators of domestic abuse.

Ghosh Dastidar, S. and Basu Roy, S. 2023. An Effective Distraction? Fantasy Football during the times of COVID-19. Economics and Sociology. 16 (1), pp. 138-158.

Shaw, P. Curriculum change by design.

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