STORRE Community: This community contains the ePrints and eTheses produced by the Faculty's staff and students.This community contains the ePrints and eTheses produced by the Faculty's staff and students.http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26702024-03-29T04:48:04Z2024-03-29T04:48:04ZAn experience sensitive approach to care with and for autistic children and young people in clinical servicesMcgreevy, ElaineQuinn, AlexisLaw, RoslynBotha, MoniqueEvans, MairiRose, KieranMoyse, RuthBoyens, TieganMatejko, MaciejPavlopoulou, Georgiahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/358992024-03-29T01:15:20Z2024-03-15T00:00:00ZTitle: An experience sensitive approach to care with and for autistic children and young people in clinical services
Author(s): Mcgreevy, Elaine; Quinn, Alexis; Law, Roslyn; Botha, Monique; Evans, Mairi; Rose, Kieran; Moyse, Ruth; Boyens, Tiegan; Matejko, Maciej; Pavlopoulou, Georgia
Abstract: Many support schemes in current autism clinical services for children and young people are based on notions of neuro-normativity with a behavioural emphasis. Such neuro-disorder approaches gradually undermine a person, restrain authentic self-expression, and fail to address the impact of a hostile world on autistic wellbeing. Furthermore, such approaches obscure attention from a fundamental challenge to conceptualise an alternative humanistic informed framework of care for staff working with diagnosed or undiagnosed autistic children and young people. In this paper, we offer an appreciation of the lifeworld-led model of care by Todres, Galvin, & Holloway, (2009). We discuss how mental health practitioners can adopt an experience sensitive framework of healthcare by incorporating the eight dimensions of care into practice. This neuroinclusive approach creates a culture of respect, honours the sovereignty of the person, prioritises personalisation of care based on collaborative decision-making, and enables practitioners to support wellbeing from an existential, humanistic view, grounded in acceptance of autistic diversity of being. Without a fundamental shift towards such neurodivergence-affirming support with practitioners being willing to transform their understanding, real progress cannot happen to prevent poor mental health outcomes for autistic people across the lifespan. This shift is needed to change practice across research, clinical, and educational contexts.2024-03-15T00:00:00ZUnity in diversity: Exploring the effect of oneness with humanity on the willingness to donate to Syrian and Ukrainian refugeesBilgen, EmineZagefka, HannaBjornsdottir, R Thorahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/358932024-03-29T01:13:20Z2024-05-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Unity in diversity: Exploring the effect of oneness with humanity on the willingness to donate to Syrian and Ukrainian refugees
Author(s): Bilgen, Emine; Zagefka, Hanna; Bjornsdottir, R Thora
Abstract: A sense of oneness with another person or group implies a sense of interconnectedness and overlap with that other, and perceived oneness has been found to foster willingness to help others in need. Despite its potential importance, little empirical research has explored the influence of sense of oneness on attitudes and behaviours towards refugees. This work addresses the question of whether encouraging a sense of oneness with all humanity can increase people's perceived oneness with specific refugee outgroups and, through this, willingness to donate to refugees to help them. People might often be reluctant to see overlap between themselves and outgroups, but perceived oneness with outgroups should increase if perceived oneness with all of humanity is salient. This means that increasing perceived oneness with all of humanity could potentially be a powerful lever to increase perceived oneness with refugees, and willingness to help them. In one exploratory (N = 165) and one preregistered confirmatory experimental study (N = 180), we show that individuals primed with the idea of oneness with all humanity reported heightened oneness with refugees, and this in turn predicted higher willingness to donate to both Syrian and Ukrainian refugees.2024-05-01T00:00:00ZPersistence of ‘wet wipes’ in beach sand: An unrecognised reservoir for localised E. coli contaminationMetcalf, RebeccaFellows, RosieWhite, Hannah LQuilliam, Richard Shttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/358902024-03-29T01:12:29Z2024-04-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Persistence of ‘wet wipes’ in beach sand: An unrecognised reservoir for localised E. coli contamination
Author(s): Metcalf, Rebecca; Fellows, Rosie; White, Hannah L; Quilliam, Richard S
Abstract: The flushing of wet wipes down toilets leads to blockages of sewerage systems. This, together with unregulated sewage discharge, often results in increasing numbers of wet wipes washing up onto beaches. However, it is unclear how long wet wipes can persist on the beach and whether they pose a prolonged public health risk if contaminated by E. coli. In this mesocosm study, three types of wet wipes (plastic containing, and home and commercially compostable) colonised with E. coli were buried in beach sand and their degradation, tensile strength, and concentration of E. coli was quantified over 15 weeks. Wet wipes containing plastic remained largely intact for 15 weeks, whilst both compostable wet wipes fragmented and degraded. Importantly, E. coli persisted on all three wet wipe types, representing localised reservoirs of E. coli in the sand, which could present a human health risk at the beach.2024-04-01T00:00:00ZLooking for Local Adaptation: Convergent Microevolution in Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis)Ruiz Daniels, RoseTaylor, Richard SGonzález-Martínez, Santiago CVendramin, Giovanni GFady, BrunoOddou-Muratorio, SylviePiotti, AndreaSimioni, GuillaumeGrivet, DelphineBeaumont, Mark Ahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/358892024-03-29T01:11:49Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Looking for Local Adaptation: Convergent Microevolution in Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis)
Author(s): Ruiz Daniels, Rose; Taylor, Richard S; González-Martínez, Santiago C; Vendramin, Giovanni G; Fady, Bruno; Oddou-Muratorio, Sylvie; Piotti, Andrea; Simioni, Guillaume; Grivet, Delphine; Beaumont, Mark A
Abstract: Finding outlier loci underlying local adaptation is challenging and is best approached by suitable sampling design and rigorous method selection. In this study, we aimed to detect outlier loci (single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) at the local scale by using Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis), a drought resistant conifer that has colonized many habitats in the Mediterranean Basin, as the model species. We used a nested sampling approach that considered replicated altitudinal gradients for three contrasting sites. We genotyped samples at 294 SNPs located in genomic regions selected to maximize outlier detection. We then applied three different statistical methodologies—Two Bayesian outlier methods and one latent factor principal component method—To identify outlier loci. No SNP was an outlier for all three methods, while eight SNPs were detected by at least two methods and 17 were detected only by one method. From the intersection of outlier SNPs, only one presented an allelic frequency pattern associated with the elevational gradient across the three sites. In a context of multiple populations under similar selective pressures, our results underline the need for careful examination of outliers detected in genomic scans before considering them as candidates for convergent adaptation.2019-01-01T00:00:00Z