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Sharp, stabbing, screaming. Relentless, burning, constant. Exhausted, isolated, hopeless. Overwhelming, overshadowing, scary. Dark, lost, dull. Chronic pain is the leading cause of suffering and disability worldwide, affecting 28 million adults in the UK. These are some of the words that people use to describe the condition, giving a small insight into what it is like living with chronic pain. Some can face a 2 year wait for appropriate care, highlighting a failing within the healthcare system and a desperate need to explore alternative ways to help reduce this suffering. Curable is a commercially developed pain management app with excellent user reviews and with  50 million smartphone users in the UK, the scale of opportunity is evident. There is no magic bullet when it comes to chronic pain and an app won’t work for everyone. However, for those it does help, this may free up resources to spend on those an app is not appropriate for. 

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Chronic Pain: Curable? [Elisha Doi, Teesside University] 

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Chronic Pain: Curable? [Elisha Doi, Teesside University] 

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Monty Don in Space! A ‘space tube’ reverberating cardboard instrument - for a space themed music day (made with garden volunteers at a community garden). I am currently working with a group of people with learning difficulties at a community garden in Thanet on a project called ‘Gardening in Space.’ Imagining a new inter-planetary community garden allows distance from the everyday – and is a fun, imaginative entry point to my participatory research. Through creative workshops, we are forefronting worldbuilding and play to promote well-being, learning, and community cohesion. The workshops prompt participants to think about the role of community gardens as important spaces in our society, and equally their own important roles as caretakers within them. Increasingly I find using science-fiction is a useful way to examine vital earthly concepts of resilience, climate justice, and colonisation.

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Working Title: Creative social action for ecology: Can community gardens provide a model for a new world(s)? (Rosie Carr, Teesside University)

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Working Title: Creative social action for ecology: Can community gardens provide a model for a new world(s)? (Rosie Carr, Teesside University)

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Do we really care about the future for our planet, that of future generations, of our children's children?  Will they just watch what it was like on screens in 100 years time?  Will they be able to imagine what it is like to walk bare foot on grass, smell the flowers? Some say, that Education will solve the problem, yet, we are as educated as we have ever been, and as close to environmental disaster.  In my research I investigate the provision of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in England, not the one that is bounded with several constrictions of institutionalised schooling (which clearly has not worked), but I investigate other assemblages. I was interested in finding out what makes us bridge the gap between values and sustainable environmental behaviour  Through ethnography I went to find out what happens when faith-based values meet environmental and sustainability education, in non-formal and semi-formal settings in our communities.   And indeed the faith-based environmental and sustainability education pathway (which may not be everyone's cup of tea) works.  That pathway of FB-ESE leads to ecological transformation!   

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An ethnographic account of faith-based Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in England (A. Anderson, ARU)

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An ethnographic account of faith-based Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in England (A. Anderson, ARU)

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The way rugby union is structured in England means volunteers have significant control over major decision making. Voluntary leadership roles continue to be inaccessible for those with minoritized identities, especially women. When women do take on leadership, they face a labyrinth of normalised and institutionalised barriers, lack the support to develop and are more likely to leave roles earlier than men. Photo elicitation methodology was used to facilitate unique, diverse, and rich insight into the perspectives of women who volunteer in rugby leadership. The labyrinth shown here is a collage of photos contributed by participants, subverting the idea of the restrictive labyrinth created by men. Through creative methods in collaboration with participants, this research facilitates micro moments of resistance that can begin to break down the walls of the labyrinth in working towards a more socially just volunteering landscape. 

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The Labyrinth of Leadership – by Kate Marks (Leeds Beckett University)

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The Labyrinth of Leadership – by Kate Marks (Leeds Beckett University)

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Trauma informed care (TIC) is increasingly advocated as an important approach to service delivery, which can be especially valuable for people who experience severe and multiple disadvantages (SMD), as it assumes all individuals who are accessing person centred services may have experienced trauma. SMD is used to describe individuals experiencing any combination of homelessness, alcohol and/or substance misuse, violence and abuse and mental health difficulties.
My early research findings suggest that listening to the voices of women, in an environment they feel safe, is crucial to the development of TIC. This picture was taken after a day at a women’s centre in the East Midlands. Many anxious discussions are had over a smoke and a cuppa. It is often the beginning of some incredible work, breaking down barriers.

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A multiple perspective understanding of trauma informed care for women experiencing severe and multiple disadvantages. – Nicola Allen – Anglia Ruskin University

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A multiple perspective understanding of trauma informed care for women experiencing severe and multiple disadvantages. – Nicola Allen – Anglia Ruskin University

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The emissions from internal combustion engines (ICEs) destroy our environment causing climate change, global warming, and air pollution. Besides, carbon emissions are harmful for human health contributing to some life-threatening diseases, namely heart attack and cancer. Similarly, NOx emissions are toxic substances influencing our health and environment. Additionally, fossil fuels are finite resources which will be depleted in next generations. This highlights the urgency to develop clean combustion approaches to achieve decarbonization and meet Net Zero policies. This research aims to employ computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to determine impacts of varying engine parameters, boundary conditions, and fuel mixtures of ammonia and hydrogen on the performance and emissions of ICEs. The research promised results are developing a clean and efficient strategy for combustion of ICEs and providing knowledge regarding behaviour of ammonia mixtures in ICEs. This research lays a potential cornerstone for future exploration into green and sustainable combustion for ICEs.

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Title: Computational Modelling of Ammonia Combustion for Clean and Efficient Internal Combustion Engines. By Haitham B. Al-Wakeel, Teesside University, H.Al-Wakeel@tees.ac.uk

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Title: Computational Modelling of Ammonia Combustion for Clean and Efficient Internal Combustion Engines. By Haitham B. Al-Wakeel, Teesside University, H.Al-Wakeel@tees.ac.uk

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My research is about beating pathogens forever. Imagine that, a world without infection. No more Ebola, no more long covid. No more schistosomulum, no more anything. Just a clean, sterile world now and forever more. Sounds like a fantasy, right? But at the University of Hertfordshire, we’ve done just that. AVNPs are an exciting new area of material science that allows scientists to work at the very small scale. Copper AVNPs have been tested and found to eliminate T4, coronavirus (by extension) and E. coli so it has been established that copper AVNPs sterilise viruses and bacteria. Bioinformatics and modeling simulations are showing that the mechanism by which AVNPs eliminate bacteria and viruses would also work on fungi and parasites so essentially a universal disinfectant has been discovered, one that is more effective and as safe if not safer than some disinfectants on the market. By Simeon Beckford-Tongs