Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Health and Life Sciences has around 380 members of staff in the Faculty, organised into four Schools: The Schools of Allied Health Sciences, Applied Social Sciences and Leicester School of Pharmacy are located in the Hawthorn Building on the City Campus; The School of Nursing and Midwifery is located on the Charles Frears campus, which is situated some two miles from the City Campus in Leicester. The faculty grouping allows the academic schools to collaborate across the subject boundaries in teaching, consultancy and research. Students in this area have an enquiring mind, good analytical skills, and are concerned about the health and welfare of others.
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A Germ’s Journey: the impact of a co-created educational hand-hygiene intervention to address UN sustainable development goals in education and health in the UK and low-and-middle-income-countries
(Conference)The ‘Germ’s Journey’ health-education intervention was developed to address the challenge of teaching young children efficient handwashing techniques to tackle infection. WHO state that effective handwashing is integral ... -
Venturing beyond the imposition of a postdigital, anti-human higher education
(Book chapter)In an important footnote in Capital, Marx highlights how an analysis of technology enables us to reveal the dialectical construction of our dominant mode of reproducing everyday life. This links humans, infrastructures, ... -
Exploring Contemporary Sea Piracy in Nigeria, the Niger Delta and the Gulf of Guinea
(Article)This paper thematically explores contemporary piracy in the African state of Nigeria, the Niger Delta and the Gulf of Guinea. Nigeria is undeniably a rich country based on its economic, agricultural and population advantages, ... -
The Discovery of Novel Antitrypanosomal 4-phenyl-6-(pyridin-3-yl)pyrimidines
(Article)Human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is a neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense which seriously affects human health in Africa. Current therapies ... -
Complement Properdin Regulates the MetaboloInflammatory Response to a High Fat Diet
(Article)Background and objectives: Overnutrition leads to a metabolic and inflammatory response that includes the activation of Complement. Properdin is the only amplifier of complement activation and increases the provision of ... -
Intersectionality and Employment in England: Where are all the Black Disabled People?
(Article)This paper begins by giving a description of the relationship between austerity and the neoliberal policy focus on work in the UK, and how this impacts negatively on disabled people. It examines why Black disabled people’s ... -
The contemporary prescriber: improving working relationships between disciplines.
(Conference)UK policy promotes collaborative working and integrated care, with professions working from common competency frameworks. Interprofessional Education is acknowledged as an effective approach to enabling collaborative ... -
Nothing will stop me from giving the gift of life: A qualitative analysis of egg donor forum posts
(Article)Online spaces are increasingly important for our collective consciousness and provide an opportunity to document changing ideas, subjectivities and experiences surrounding new reproductive technologies. This paper reports ... -
The Digital Prison: Towards an ethics of technology
(Book chapter)Prisons are experiencing a digital revolution. This chapter offers readers an opportunity to reflect critically on the new frontiers of digitization in relation to prisons. Our collective research and scholarship have led ... -
Estimation of the minimal exercise intensity at maximal oxygen uptake
(Article)The purpose of the study was to investigate whether modification of a common approach that is used to determine the minimal exercise intensity at which V̇ O2 max is elicited (iV̇ O2 max) improves its accuracy, when compared ... -
Intimate citizenship and mental ill health: Informal carers’ accounts of romantic relationship difficulties of people with mental health problems
(Article)In this paper I take a relational approach to understanding the experiences of carers in enabling the ‘intimate citizenship’ of people with long-term mental health problems. This aspect of informal care has received little ... -
Prevalence, determinants and knowledge about herbal medicine and non-hospital utilisation in southwest Nigeria: a cross-sectional study.
(Article)Objectives To examine the prevalence, determinants, safety perceptions, effectiveness and knowledge of herbal medicines (HMs) and reasons for non-hospital utilisation. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Ekiti ... -
On the need for an ecologically dimensioned medical humanities
(Article)Increasing calls from medical professionals and scholars suggest an urgent need for better and more widespread understandings of the ecological dimensions of health. Such calls have included: two recent Lancet special ... -
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The taught curriculum of moral education at Japanese elementary school: the role of classtime in the broad curriculum
(Article)The school curriculum in Japan provides for moral education. Teachers’ educational practice is influenced by the written curriculum, and must be organised around its audited requirements. However, it may diverge from aspects ... -
Examining the UK Covid-19 mortality paradox: Pandemic preparedness, healthcare expenditure and the nursing workforce
(Article)Aim To examine the UK pandemic preparedness in light of health expenditure, nursing workforce, and mortality rates in and relation to nursing leadership. Background The Global Health Security Index categorised the ... -
On a Knife Edge: A preliminary investigation of clothing damage using rounded-tip knives
(Article)Bladed weapons are frequently encountered in violent crime offences including street based and armed robberies, murder, sexual assaults and terrorism. A study was conducted involving four frequently encountered clothing ...
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