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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An exploration of why qualified mental health nurse prescribers do not prescribe
(Article)This article is an exploratory study of perceptions in mental health nurses who are qualified to prescribe yet choose not to do so. In-depth semi-structured face-to-face interviews, field notes and analysis of documents ... -
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism
(Book)The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. ... -
Patient perceptions of living with severe asthma: Challenges to effective management
(Article)Background: The management of severe asthma poses many challenges related to treatment, adherence and psychosocial morbidity. There is little direct data from the patient perspective to understand and negotiate the ... -
Peer support for people with schizophrenia or other serious mental illness.
(Article)Background Peer support provides the opportunity for peers with experiential knowledge of a mental illness to give emotional, appraisal and informational assistance to current service users, and is becoming an important ... -
Molecular Composition of and Potential Health Benefits Offered by Natural East African Virgin Sunflower Oil Products: A 400 MHz 1H NMR Analysis Study
(Article)Objectives: Sunflower oil (SFO) is regularly employed for cosmetic, emollient and food frying purposes, the latter representing its foremost use globally. Therefore, full investigations of the molecular composition and ... -
Assessing the ex vivo permeation behaviour of functionalised contact lens coatings engineered using an electrohydrodynamic technique
(Article)In vitro testing alone is no longer considered sufficient evidence presented solely with respect to drug release and permeation testing. These studies are thought to be more reliable and representative when using tissue ... -
Germ's Journey Mini Brum Exhibition
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Results on a pedagogic approach for tailoring public health interventions to minimise opportunistic infections.
(Conference)We are performing curriculum modifications on the first year BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science module “Basic Microbiology” (De Montfort University, UK) to increase students’ knowledge of basic medical parasitology and infectious ... -
Promoting training in health care programmes for environmental monitoring of human pathogens.
(Conference)Humans are increasingly being exposed to different and emerging pathogens in urban environments that can represent a public health risk that require immediate attention. Different studies have documented the presence and ... -
Implementation of environmental recovery training response to biological incidents in a human health degree
(Conference)Agents involved in biological incidents and outbreaks of infection can spread easily, so response teams are required to quickly implement a recovery plan to decontaminate and restore the environment impacted by these ... -
Virtual libraries of tissue and clinical samples: potential role of a 3-D microscope.
(Conference)Our international innovative teaching group from different European Universities (De Montfort University, DMU, UK; and the Spanish University of Alcalá, University Miguel Hernández and University of San Pablo CEU), in ... -
Cryptosporidium spp. in Leicester (UK): an update.
(Conference)Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis are considered opportunistic emerging human parasites that can severely affect immunocompromised patients and individuals worldwide for which an early stage diagnosis is ... -
Interactive Health-Hygiene Education for Early Years: A Germ’s Journey
(Article)This study reports the findings of a mixed method research study (qualitative and quantitative) on the effectiveness of specifically developed learning resources and workshops on handwashing for children in the Early Years ... -
Overweight and underweight prevalence indices in a young (18-23 yrs-old) population in Leicester (UK).
(Conference)Body fatness is considered a diagnostic factor for obesity and predictive of cardiovascular and cancer disease. Different studies have described a strong correlation between body fatness determined by different methods and ... -
Reprint of: A three-dimensional in vitro HepG2 cells liver spheroid model for genotoxicity studies.
(Article)The liver's role in metabolism of chemicals makes it an appropriate tissue for toxicity testing. Current testing protocols, such as animal testing and two-dimensional liver cell systems, offer limited resemblance to in ... -
The spinal nerve transection model of neuropathic pain is associated with alterations of the molecular organisation of the nodal regions of myelinated sensory axons within the dorsal root
(Conference)Saltatory conduction in myelinated fibres depends on a specific molecular organization of axonal domains: the nodal, paranodal and juxtaparanodal regions. During development, shaker-type Kvchannels (STKC: Kv1.1 and Kv 1.2) ... -
Pharmacology of the metabotropic GluR-mediated current at the climbing fiber to Purkinje cell synapse
(Conference)Different forms of synaptic plasticity in the cerebellum are mediated by metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs). At parallel fiber (PF) to Purkinje cell (PC) synapses activation of mGluR gives rise to a well known slow ... -
Measuring conceptual understanding in randomised controlled trials: Can comparative judgement help?
(Article)An impediment to conducting high-quality quantitative research studies in education is the paucity of valid measures of learning gains. Studies often seek to investigate students’ deep, conceptual understanding yet many ...
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