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Dr Amanda Wilson

Job: Lecturer Psychology

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Applied Social Sciences

Address: 51Âþ»­, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 2078 815

E: amanda.wilson@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Dr Wilson (she/her) is a trauma informed Cognitive Behavioral Therpaist, a Chartered Psychologist amd Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. She leads the Health Psychology and Psychological Well-being Research Cluster in the Psychology Division. She uses a wide repertoire of research methods to better understand public health psychology through the lenses of marginalisation, health, and well-being, and is broadly interested in applying research to address health disparities in local, national, international, and online communities/virtual reality. Her areas of subject expertise is in human sexual and reproductive behaviors, psychatric well-being, and scale validation. Her background also includes practical experience providing harm reduction and education to injecting drug users (illicit and/or image and performance enhancing drugs), including individuals with a dual diagnosis and sex workers. 

Dr Wilson completed a qualitative PhD in Psychology using discourse analysis to explore British men’s engagement in family planning in order to improve maternal and infant health. She investigated multiple perspectives to further understand how British men’s engagement is influenced by: men themselves, health services, nurse practitioners, training manuals, female partners, male contraceptive methods, and seminal constructs. She holds a professional degree from the University of Chicago, for which she completed independent research on poverty and marginalisation in India, focusing on family planning within a Muslim slum community. She also gained further experience in the non-profit sector in Chicago.

Dr Wilson continues to use the principles of social justice and reproductive justice to guide her work, and remains active further volunteering in her community through outreach with street sex workers on the local beat and she volunteers with the local LBGT+ sexual health service. In addition Dr Wilson is a volunteer trauma informed CBT practitioner within her local community and is training three puppies to use in her practice, one as a psychiatric assistant dog and two others as therapy dogs. 

Research group affiliations

The Institute for Psychological Sciences, the Centre for Reproduction Research, and the Mary Seacole Research Centre

Lead Health Psychology and Psychological Well-being Research Cluster

Publications and outputs

1.     Human Sexual and Reproductive Behaviors

Kambashi, N., Rechdan, J., Noon, E., & Wilson, A. D. (2023). Adult male rape myths in England since 1994: A systemic mixed methods review. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 

Smith, E., Short, E., Rai, R., Rajput, P., & Wilson, A. (2023). It Is Not Your Fault, Tell Someone: Case Studies of Young Women’s Experiences of Online Grooming in England. Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice, 6(1), 7-24. 

Jordan, A., & Wilson, A. D. (2023). A comprehensive overview by region of condoms, natural family planning, and spermicide as a contraceptive method among men aged 13–54 years attending contraceptive services in England. Public Health, 219, 110-116.

Wilson, A., Jin, Y., Xiao, C., Yan, H., Yu. B. Li, J., Wang, YY. (2023) A Confounding Discourse Analysis of Vietnamese Sex Workers’ Talk in the City of Kaiyuan, China. Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Li, J., Jin, Y., Xu, S., Luo, X., Wilson, A., Li, H., Wang, X., Sun, X. & Wang, Y. (2023). Anxiety and depression symptoms among youth survivors of childhood sexual abuse: a network analysis. BMC Psychology, 11(1), 278.

Li, J., Jin, Y., Xu, S., Wilson, A., Chen, C., Luo, X., Liu, Y., Ling, X., Sun, X. & Wang, Y. (2023). Effects of bullying on anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder among sexual minority youths: network analysis. JMIR public health and surveillance, 9(1), e47233.

Wydera, S., & Wilson, A. (2022). A 16-year overview of vasectomy and vasectomy reversal in the United Kingdom. AJOG Global Reports, 2(4), 100105.

Wilson, A. (2022). Men as Irrational Variables in Family Planning? Understanding the Landscape, Technological Advancements, and Extending Health Psychology Theories and Models. Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse, 225-246.

Duan, Z., Wang, L., Guo, M., Ding, C., Huang, D., Yan, H., Wilson, A. & Li, S., (2021). Psychosocial characteristics and HIV-related sexual behaviors among cisgender, transgender, and gender non-conforming MSM in China. BMC Psychiatry, 21(1), pp.1-8.

Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, G., Duan, Z., Wilson, A., Yang, Y., Sun, S. & Chen, R. (2022). Latent profile analysis to identify subgroups of Chinese sexual minority adolescents at risk of suicidality. Preventive Medicine, 157, 107007. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107007

Lin, Y., Xie, H., Huang, Z., Zhang, Q., Wilson, A., Hou, J., Zhao, X., Wang, Y., Pan, B. Liu, Y., Han, M. & Chen, R. (2021). The mental health of transgender and gender non-conforming people in China: a systematic review. The Lancet Public Health, 6(12), e954-e969. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00236-X

Wilson, A., Wang, Y.Y., Chen, R., Cen, P., Wang, Y., Yao, X., Wang, T., Li, S., & Yan, H. (2021) A thematic analysis of experiences of HIV risks among female sex workers in the Yunnan-Vietnam Chinese border region. BMC Women's Health 21, 7.

Wang, Y., Feng, Y., Han, M., Duan, Z., Wilson, A., Fish, J., Sun, S. & Chen, R. (2021). Methods of attempted suicide and risk factors in LGBTQ+ youth. Child Abuse & Neglect, 122, 105352. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105352

Wang, Y., Ma, Z., Wilson, A., Hu, Z., Ying, X., Han, M., Cui, Z., & Chen, R. (2021). Psychopathological symptom network structure in transgender and gender queer youth reporting parental psychological abuse: a network analysis. BMC Medicine, 19(1), 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-02091-5

Wang, Y., Wilson, A., Hu, Z. Lu, L., Li, W., Peng, K., Wu, L., Xin, Y., Drescher, J., Ou, J., & Chen, R. (2021) Counselling and psychotherapy service use in Chinese sexual minority populations: a nationwide survey. BMC Psychiatry 21, 11.

Wang, Y., Pan, B., Liu, Y., Wilson, A., Ou, J., & Chen, R. (2020). Health care and mental health challenges for transgender individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 8(7),564-565. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30182-0

Duan, Z., Wang, Y., Jiang, P., Wilson, A., Guo, Y., Lv, Y., Yang, X., Yu, R., Wang, S., Wu, Z.,& Xia, M. (2020). Postpartum depression in mothers and fathers: a structural equation model. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03228-9

Lu, L., Duan, Z., Wang, Y., Wilson, A., Yang, Y., Zhu, L., Guo, Y., Lv, Y., Yang, X., Yu, R., & Wang, S. (2020). Mental health outcomes among Chinese prenatal and postpartum women after the implementation of universal two-child policy. Journal of Affective Disorders, 264, 187-192. DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.12.011

Wang, Y., Wilson, A., Chen, R., Hu, Z., Peng, K., & Xu, S. (2019). Behind the rainbow," Tongqi" wives of men who have sex with men in China: a systematic review Running head: Wives of Chinese MSM. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2929. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02929/full

Wilson, A. D. (2019). British Couples’ Experiences of Men as Partners in Family Planning. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 28(1), 22-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/106082651984283

Wilson, A. D. (2018). ‘Do you know how to use a condom?’–UK nurse practitioners’ conversation about men and family planning. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 17, 26-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2018.05.005

Wilson, A. D. (2018). “Put It in Your Shoe It Will Make You Limp”: British Men’s Online Responses to a Male Pill. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 26(3), 247-265. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1060826518761433

Wilson, A. D., Fylan, F., & Gough, B. (2018). Marginalisation of men in family planning texts: An analysis of training manuals. Health Education Journal, 77(4), 387-397. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896917751832

2. Psychiatric Wellbeing

Li, J., Jin, Y., Xu, S., Yu, Y., Wilson, A., Chen, C., & Wang, Y. (2024). Hazardous drinking in youth with co-occurring PTSD and psychosis symptoms: a network analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders.

Yu, Y., Feng, Y., Xu, S., Wilson, A., Chen, C., Ling, X., Chen, R. & Wang, Y. (2024). The influence of childhood trauma and chronotype on suicide attempts in Chinese emerging adults with severe depressive symptoms. BMC Psychology, 12(1), 12.

Jin, Y., Li, J., Ye, J., Luo, X., Wilson, A., Mu, L., Zhou, P., Lv, Y.,  & Wang, Y. (2023). Mapping associations between anxiety and sleep problems among outpatients in high-altitude areas: a network analysis. BMC Psychiatry, 23(1), 1-14.

Wang, Y., Ma, Z., Lu, S., Duan, Z., Wilson, A., Jia, Y., Yang, Y., & Chen, R. (2023). Associations between sex differences, eating disorder behaviors, physical and mental health, and self-harm among Chinese adolescents. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11(1), 1-15.

Wang, Q., Xiao, X., Zhang, J., Jiang, D., Wilson, A., Qian, B., Song, P. & Yang, Q. The Experiences of East Asian Dementia Caregivers in Filial Culture: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 701.

Gao, J., Feng, Y., Xu, S., Wilson, A., Li, H., Wang, X., Sun, X. & Wang, Y. (2023). Appearance anxiety and social anxiety: A mediated model of self-compassion. Frontiers in Public Health, 11.

Marandure, B. N., Mhizha, S., Wilson, A., & Nhunzvi, C. (2023). Understanding the nature of substance use in Zimbabwe: State of the art and ways forward: A scoping review protocol. Plos One, 18(3), e0272240.

Raghavan, R., Brown, B., Hussain, S., Kumar, S., Wilson, A., Svirydzenka, N., Kumar, M., Ali, A., Chandrasekharan, A., Soletti, A.B., Lakhanpaul, M., Iyer, M., Venkateswaran, C., Dasan, C. Sivakami, M., Manickam, S., Barrett, A., & Wilson, M. (2023). How do Muslim service users, caregivers, and community members in Malappuram, Kerala, use their faith to address the challenges associated with mental ill health?. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 1-14.

Wang, Y., Ma, Z., Lu, S., Duan, Z., Wilson, A., Jia, Y., Yang,Y. & Chen, R. (2023). Associations between sex differences, eating disorder behaviors, physical and mental health, and self-harm among Chinese adolescents. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11(1), 1-15.

Liu, J., Wang, Y., Wilson, A., Chen, H., Liu, P., Chen, X., Tang, H., Luo, C., Tian, Y., Wang, X., & Zhou, J. (2022). Anticipating unipolar depression and bipolar depression in young adult with first episode of depression using childhood trauma and personality. Frontiers in Public Health, 10.

Jin Y, Xu S, Chen C, Wilson A, Gao D, Ji Y, Sun, X., & Wang, Y. (2022) Symptom association between social anxiety disorder, appearance anxiety, and eating disorders among Chinese University students: A network analysis to conceptualize comorbidity. Frontiers Public Health 10:1044081.

Raghavan, R., Brown, B., Horne, F., Kamal, S.R., Parameswaran, U., Raghu, A., Wilson, A., Venkateswaran, C., Svirydzenka, N., Lakhanpaul, M., & Dasan, C. (2022). Multiple Mental Health Literacies in a Traditional Temple Site in Kerala: The Intersection Between Beliefs, Spiritual and Healing Regimes. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1-23.

Raghavan, R., Brown, B., Horne, F., Kumar, S., Parameswaran, U., Ali, A. B., Raghu, A., Wilson, A., Svirydzenka, N., Venkateswaran, C., Kumar, M ., Kamal, S., Barrett, A., Dasan, C., Varma, A., & Banu, A. (2022). Stigma and mental health problems in an Indian context. Perceptions of people with mental disorders in urban, rural and tribal areas of Kerala. International Journal of Social Psychiatry.

Marandure, B. N., Mhizha, S., & Wilson, A. (2022). “Spice Was Made, by the Devil Himself”: A Thematic Analysis of the Experience of an Addiction to Synthetic Cannabinoids. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1-9.

Wang, Y., Warmenhoven, H., Feng, Y., Wilson, A., Guo, D., & Chen, R. (2021). The relationship between childhood trauma and suicidal ideation, the mediating role of identification of all humanity, indifference and loneliness. Journal of Affective Disorders, 299, 658-665.

Wang, H., Wang, Y., Wang, G., Wilson, A., Jin, T., Zhu, L., Yu, R., Wang, S., Yin, W., Song, H., & Yang, Y. (2021). Structural family factors and bullying at school: a large scale investigation based on a Chinese adolescent sample. BMC Public Health, 21(1), 1-10.

He, S., Shuai, L., Wang, Z., Qiu, M., Wilson, A., Xia, W., Cao, X., Lu, L., & Zhang, J. (2021). Online Learning Performances of Children and Adolescents With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 58, 00469580211049065.

Liang, S., Zhang, J., Zhao, Q., Wilson, A., Huang, J., Liu, Y., Shi, X., Sha, S., Wang, Y., & Zhang, L. (2021). Incidence Trends and Risk Prediction Nomogram for Suicidal Attempts in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 983.

Zhao, Q., Guo, T., Li, Y., Zhang, L., Lyu, N., Wilson, A., Zhu, X., & Li, X. (2021). Clinical characteristic of prodromal symptoms between bipolar I and II disorder among Chinese patients: a retrospective study. BMC Psychiatry, 21(1), 1-11.

Zhang, J., Li, W., Zhang, H., Wilson, A., Shuai, L., Xia, W., Wang, Z., Qiu, M., & Wang, Y. (2021). Callous-unemotional traits in Chinese preschool children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 15(1), 1-9.

Shuai, L., Wang, Y., Li, W., Wilson, A., Wang, S., Chen, R., & Zhang, J. (2020). Executive Function Training for Preschool Children With ADHD: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Attention Disorders.

Li, D., Wang, Y., Yu, H., Duan, Z., Peng, K., Wang, N., Zhou, Q., Hu, X., Fang, K., Wilson, A. and Ou, J., (2021). Occupational burnout among frontline health professionals in a high-risk area during the COVID-19 outbreak: A structural equation model. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12.

Chen, R., Wang, Y., Liu, L., Lu, L., Wilson, A., Gong, S., Zhu, Y., Sheng, C., Zeng, Y., Li, Y., & Ou, J. (2020). A qualitative study of how self-harm starts and continues among Chinese adolescents. BJPsych Open, 7(1). doi: 10.1192/bjo.2020.144

Wang, Y., Yu, H., Yang, Y., Li, R., Wilson, A., Wang, S., ... & Chen, R. (2020). The victim-bully cycle of sexual minority school adolescents in China: prevalence and the association of mood problems and coping strategies. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 29. doi: 10.1017/S2045796020000918

Zhong, S., Lu, L., Wilson, A., Wang, Y., Duan, S., Ou, J., Shi, L., Ge, J., Chen, L., Zhao, K., & Chen, R. (2020). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms and suicidal ideation among college students: A structural equation modeling approach. Journal of Affective Disorders, 279, 572-577. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.10.020

Wang,Y., Hu, Z., Feng, Y., Wilson, A., & Chen, R. (2020). Changes in network centrality of psychopathology symptoms between the COVID-19 outbreak and after peak. Molecular Psychiatry, 1-10. doi: 10.1038/s41380-020-00881-6

Wang, Y., Duan, Z., Peng, K., Li, D., Ou, J., Wilson, A., Wang, N., Si, L., & Chen, R. (2020). Acute stress disorder among frontline health professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak: A structural equation modelling investigation. Psychosomatic Medicine. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000851

Wang, Y., Duan, Z., Ma, Z., Mao, Y., Li, X., Wilson, A., Qin, H., Ou, J., Peng, K., Zhou, F., Li, C., Liu, Z., & Chen, R. (2020). Epidemiology of mental health problems among patients with cancer during COVID-19 pandemic. Translational Psychiatry, 10(1), 1-10. doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-00950-y

Duan, S., Duan, Z., Li, R., Wilson, A., Wang, Y., Jia, Q., Yang, Y., Xia, M., Wang, G., Jin, T., & Wang, S. (2020). Bullying victimization, bullying witnessing, bullying perpetration and suicide risk among adolescents: A serial mediation analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 273, 274-279. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.143

Shi, L., Wang, Y., Yu, H., Wilson, A., Cook, S., Duan, Z., Peng, Ke., Hu, Z., Ou, J., Duan, S., Yang, Y., Ge, J., Wang, H., Chen, Li., Zhao, K., & Chen, R. (2020). The relationship between childhood trauma and Internet gaming disorder among college students: A structural equation model, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 9(1), 175-180. doi: 10.1556/2006.2020.00002

Duan S, Wang H, Wilson A, Qiu J, Chen G, He Y, Wang Y, Ou J, Chen R.(2020). Developing a Text Messaging Intervention to Reduce Deliberate Self-Harm in Chinese Adolescents: Qualitative Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 8(6):e16963. doi: 10.2196/16963. PMID: 32392173

Chen, R., Peng, K., Liu, J., Wilson, A., Wang, Y., Wilkinon, M. R., Wen, S., Cao, X., & Lu, J. (2020). Interpersonal Trauma and Risk of Depression Among Adolescents: The Mediating and Moderating Effect of Interpersonal Relationship and Physical Exercise. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 194. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00194. PMID: 32351408

3- Scale Validation

Chen, R., Feng, Y., Su, D., Wilson, A., Han, M., & Wang, Y. (2023). Utrecht Gender Dysphoria Scale–Gender Spectrum in a Chinese population: scale validation and associations with mental health, self-harm and suicidality. BJPsych Open, 9(1), e17. doi:10.1192/bjo.2022.617

Kambashi, N., & Wilson, A. (2022). A mixed method study of UK Nurses’ perceptions of reproductive coercion in comparison to people with a wombs’ responses to the Reproductive Coercion Scale Adaption in an ethnic probability sample of UK residents (No. gc76d). Center for Open Science. https://osf.io/gc76d/

Feng, Y., Warmenhoven, H., Wilson, A., Jin, Y., Chen, R., Wang, Y., & Hamer, K. (2022). The Identification With All Humanity (IWAH) scale: its psychometric properties and associations with help-seeking during COVID-19. Current Psychology, 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-03607-9

Han, M., Pan. B, Wang, Y.Y., Wilson, A., Chen, R., & Wu, R. (2022). Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Gender Identity Scale for Transgender Women in China. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 792776. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.792776

Wang, Y., Feng, Y., Su, D., Wilson, A., Pan, B., Liu, Y., Wang, N., Guo, B., Han, M., Zucker, K.J.,  & Chen, R. (2021). Validation of the Chinese Version of the Gender Identity/Gender Dysphoria Questionnaire for Adolescents and Adults. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 18(9), 1632-1640. 

Research interests/expertise

  • Trauma Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapu
  • Human Sexual and Reproductive Behaviors
  • Psychiatric Wellbeing
  • Scale Validation

Areas of teaching

  • Introduction to Research Methods
  • Conceptual Issues and Critical Debates in Psychology
  • Human Sexual and Reproductive Behaviors
  • Lifestyle, Wellness and Well-being
  • MSc Ethics Coordinator

Qualifications

  • PhD
  • AM
  • BA (Hons) 

Courses taught

  • BSc Psychology
  • MSc Psychological Well-being

Membership of professional associations and societies

  • Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), Since 2023
  • Affiliate Member, The Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, Since 2021
  • Chartered Psychologist, the British Psychological Society, Since 2019
  • Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Since 2018
  • Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society, Since 2015
  • Member of the American Psychological Association, Since 2015

Current research students

Ngosa Kambashi, Full-time, 1st Supervisor

Sara Taylor, Part-time, 1st Supervisor

Alan Lo, Part-time, 1st Supervisor 

Theo Anson, Part-time, 1st Supervisor

Dr. Sanjana Kumar, 1st Supervisor

Radhika Chauhuan, 2nd Supervisor

Awarded:

Emily Smith, Full-time, 2nd Supervisor

Externally funded research grants information

Professionals' and Survivors' Perceptions of The Internet of Things and Coercive Control, ‘Living in a Digital Society’ 2022 ‘Spotlight’ Funding, Principal Investigator, £2,500

Online Safety Resource for Students in the Commercial Sex Industry, Academic Innovation Project, Principal Investigator, £1,287.06

Mental Health Literacy in Urban and Rural Communitites in India: An interdisciplinary approach using applied theatre methodology (MeHeLP), ESRC/AHRC/GCRF, 12/2018-10/2021, Co-Investigator, £680,000

Internally funded research project information

Reproductive Coercion Scale Phase 3 Adaption and Re-Validation. Institute for Psychological Sciences 11/2023-current. Principanl Investigatior, £500

Participatory Evaluation Project. Life Long Wellbeing Theme. Co-Investigator, £2,757.60

Mental Health Literacy Questionnaire Development. Mary Seacole Research Centre 11/2023-current. Co-Investigator, £1,454.44

Reproductive Coercion Scale Phase 2 Adaption and Re-Validation. Institute for Psychological Sciences 11/2022-current. Principanl Investigatior, £1,000

Community Pharmacists' Engagement of Men in Sexual and Reproductive Health. Institute for Psychological Sciences 05/2021-current. Principal Investigator, £2,500

Gay, Bisexual and Men who have Sex with Men’s Experiences of Risks during Chemsex, Institute for Psychological Sciences, 02/2019-02/2020, Principal Investigator, £784

Young People's Experiences of Online Crimes, Institute for Psychological Sciences, 02/2020-02/2021, Principal Investigator, £1,000

What Stressors are experienced by UG and PG students- a pilot study, Insitute of Psychological Sciences, 02/2020-02/2021, Co-Investigator, £500

Professional esteem indicators

Research Topic Frontiers in Psychiatry on The Internet of Things and its Use for Coercive Control and Domestic Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic or Recovery Period is open for submission 

Media Appearance- The Breakfast Show GBNews https://youtu.be/LKk3-NJ-jRU  

Review Editor, Frontiers in Public Health

External Ethics Reviewer, University of Sheffield

Chair, DMU Early Career Research Network Psychology

Case studies

The Internet of Things and how it can be used to facilitate Domestic Abuse and Coercieve Control. In development

Developing Culturally Sensitive and Evidence-Based Interventions to Promote the Health and Well-Being of Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Gay, Bisexual and Men Who Have Sex with Men (GBMSM). Impact Case Study REF 2021.

ORCiD

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4381-689X