The importance of breastfeeding for both maternal and infant health is well established. However, it remains the case that only a small percentage of infants are breastfed after the first six months of life. Maternal negative breastfeeding attitudes are associated with a reduced likelihood of breastfeeding an infant, but they are a malleable target for…Continue Reading Parenting styles and types: Breastfeeding attitudes in a large sample of mothers
Year: 2021
Professor Elizabeth Kirk Joins Prof Des Fitzgerald, University of Exeter and Prof Tanya Wyatt, University of Northumbria to talk about all things environmental law on the BBC Radio 3 Green Thinking Podcast this week.
Professor Elizabeth Kirk, of the Lincoln Centre for Ecological Justice and Lincoln Law School, joined Prof Des Fitzgerald, University of Exeter and Prof Tanya Wyatt, University of Northumbria to talk about all things environmental law on the BBC Radio 3 Green Thinking Podcast this week. Professor Kirk discussed the challenges of making and enforcing environmental…Continue Reading Professor Elizabeth Kirk Joins Prof Des Fitzgerald, University of Exeter and Prof Tanya Wyatt, University of Northumbria to talk about all things environmental law on the BBC Radio 3 Green Thinking Podcast this week.
International Student Research Seminar Series is a Success
The Lincoln Sport and Exercise Psychology Research Club’s first seminar series in partnership with the Motivation of Health Behaviours (MoHB) Lab at Central Queensland University (CQU), Australia recently concluded after six excellent seminars focused on student research projects. During 2021, six undergraduate or postgraduate students in the School of Sport and Exercise Science and six…Continue Reading International Student Research Seminar Series is a Success
Collaborating on Climate Change
This week (1st-5th November), the University is hosting Climate Week, to engage staff, students and members of the public in climate action, in support of COP26, the climate change conference taking place in Glasgow. On Wednesday 3rd November (1.45-5pm), the ‘Collaborating on Climate Change’ event is taking place in Stephen Langton Building (followed by drinks…Continue Reading Collaborating on Climate Change
Telephone peer recruitment and interviewing during a respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey: feasibility and field experience from the first phone-based RDS survey among men who have sex with men in Côte d’Ivoire
Background Many respondent-driven sampling (RDS) methodologies have been employed to investigate hard-to-reach populations; however, these methodologies present some limits. We describe a minimally investigated RDS methodology in which peer recruitment and interviewing are phone-based. The feasibility of the methodology, field experiences, validity of RDS assumptions and characteristics of the sample obtained are discussed. Methods We…Continue Reading Telephone peer recruitment and interviewing during a respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey: feasibility and field experience from the first phone-based RDS survey among men who have sex with men in Côte d’Ivoire
Trends, variations and prediction of staff sickness absence rates among NHS ambulance services in England: a time series study
Objectives Our aim was to measure ambulance sickness absence rates over time, comparing ambulance services and investigate the predictability of rates for future forecasting. Setting All English ambulance services, UK. Design We used a time series design analysing published monthly National Health Service staff sickness rates by gender, age, job role and region, comparing the 10 regional ambulance…Continue Reading Trends, variations and prediction of staff sickness absence rates among NHS ambulance services in England: a time series study
Having options alters the attractiveness of familiar versus novel faces: Sex differences and similarities
Although online dating allows us to access a wider pool of romantic partners, choice could induce an ‘assessment mindset’, orienting us toward ‘optimal’ or alternative partners and undermining our willingness to commit or remain committed to someone. Contextual changes in judgements of facial attractiveness can shed light on this issue. We directly test this proposal by activating…Continue Reading Having options alters the attractiveness of familiar versus novel faces: Sex differences and similarities
Culture Wars in the Post-Soviet Space
In the last decade the term culture war has become hard to avoid. If it is not yet the buzzword of the first part of the twenty-first century, it soon will be. Culture wars seem to be around us everywhere. Each passing week brings some new mention of an outbreak in a public institution, civic space or political arena in some part of the globe….Continue Reading Culture Wars in the Post-Soviet Space
Want: Still the easiest giant to attack?
Beveridge claimed that ‘want’ was ‘in some ways the easiest [giant] to attack’ and yet 80 years after his report was published, poverty persists and indeed, has been increasing in recent years. In this article, we review both the key features of the Beveridge Report in relation to poverty and its implementation by the Labour government 1945–51, before…Continue Reading Want: Still the easiest giant to attack?