Research repository - Queen Margaret University: Recent submissions
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In the shadow of occupation: Racism, shame and grief
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A realist process evaluation within the Facilitating Implementation of Research Evidence (FIRE) cluster randomised controlled international trial: an exemplar
(BioMed Central, 2018)Background Facilitation is a promising implementation intervention, which requires theory informed evaluation. This paper presents an exemplar of a multi-country realist process evaluation that was embedded in the first ... -
Social networking in family businesses in a local economy
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T2 Trainspotting’s obsession with the past says a lot about today
(The Conversation, 2017-01-30)A review of T2 (2017), the sequel to Trainspotting (1996), which arrived in UK cinemas in January 2017. -
Scottish cinema now (Book Review)
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-09-28)Review of: Scottish cinema now, edited by Jonathan Murray, Fidelma Farley and Rod Stoneman, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, 244 pp., £39.99 (hbk), ISBN 978-1443803311. -
Traveling groups stick together: How collective directional movement influences social cohesion
(Sage, 2018-08-02)We tested the hypothesis that the social act of moving through space with others - collective directional movement - is associated with greater levels of group cohesion compared to static activities. We asked participants ... -
General practitioners' views towards diagnosing and treating depression in five southeastern European countries.
(2018-10-02)To assess and compare general practitioners' (GPs') views of diagnosing and treating depression in five southeastern European countries. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Albania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, and ... -
Palestinian Women Reproductive Health Rights: Knowledge, Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward. A Qualitative Study in Bethlehem Area in the West Bank.
(2017)Background: Reproductive health rights were declared as fundamental human rights since the ICPD 1994 and the Beijing 1995 conferences. The acknowledgement of the importance of these rights was a momentous point for ... -
Cuba’s Strategy Toward Universal Health
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An evaluation of the “National Nutrition Policy 2015” in Bangladesh through specific and sensitive nutrition lens
(2017)Bangladesh has been experiencing three burdens of malnutrition: undernutrition (stunting, wasting, and underweight), micronutrient deficiency and obesity (resulting in NCDs). Bangladesh developed a Nutrition Policy in 2015 ... -
Advancing the science behind human resources for health: highlights from the Health Policy and Systems Research Reader on Human Resources for Health
(BioMed Central, 2018-08-14)Health workers are central to people-centred health systems, resilient economies and sustainable development. Given the rising importance of the health workforce, changing human resource for health (HRH) policy and practice ... -
AlcoLOLs Project: Final report, March 2016
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2016-03-31)This report evaluates the AlcoLOLs project, funded by the Robertson Trust and conducted in Edinburgh 2013-2015. The project was designed to tackle the issues alcohol presents for young people and worked by combining ... -
Fatigue interventions in long term, physical health conditions: A scoping review of systematic reviews
(Public Library of Science, 2018-10-12)Objective Fatigue is prominent across many long term physical health conditions. This scoping review aimed to map the fatigue intervention literature, to ascertain if certain interventions may be effective across conditions, ... -
Scottish family businesses: Innovative strategies for education and business support
(InderScience Publishers, 2018)Family business is of critical importance to economies, communities and societies across Scotland, but academic research that considers and supports this group of businesses through links to the policy agenda is in the ... -
Charcot neuroarthropathy patient education among podiatrists in Scotland: a modified Delphi approach.
(BioMed Central, 2018-09-24)Background This evaluation sought to determine current Charcot neuroarthropathy (CN) diabetes patient education practices among Scottish National Health Service (NHS) and academic podiatrists and evaluate novel visual ... -
Predictive parameters of arteriovenous fistula maturation in patients with end-stage renal disease.
(2018-09-30)The objevctive of the present study was to explore the potential influence of blood markers and patient factors such as risk factors, kidney function profile, coagulation profile, lipid profile, body mass index, blood ... -
In the shadow of occupation: Racism, shame and grief
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-10-10)In Freud’s seminal paper on mourning and melancholia, he distinguished between those who are able to mourn (i.e. relinquish their loved object or an idealised self) and those who become melancholic (i.e. forever lamenting ... -
Episodic volunteer management at festivals: The case of Valletta Film Festival, Valetta, Malta
(Routledge, 2018-09-01)A film festival now opens every 36 hours somewhere in the world (Archibald and Miller, 2011, p. 249). As argued elsewhere (Dickson, 2017a), the extraordinary rate at which the number of festivals has increased signals a ...