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Research on African women entrepreneurs operating UK micro and small businesses demonstrates how the agency in enterprising works ethnicity and identity through social capital that fosters businesses. It showed that the shared "otherness" of ethnic identity is accompanied by a shared sense of ethnic responsibility and social obligation. In time, this spilt over into bridging social capital and connecting to the wider community. This study builds on previous research and provides an understanding of how self-employed women migrants in the UK operate to counter the perceptions of socially constructed values. Social capital may depend on frequent interaction and social proximity, both are difficult during times of isolation and social distancing. The COVID-19 crisis thus works as a stress test for the utility of social relations and social capital. Combating social exclusion is one of the most important issues at the present time, and particularly affects those currently socially marginalised. But social exclusion need not be a permanent condition. Entrepreneurship has been shown to facilitate economic and social integration. Recent studies report how gender and living situation relates to the use of digital communication for social connection and changes in digital media use may outlast Covid 19 pandemic. Women-led businesses are looking at new ways of working using digital platforms. We examine the complex nature of social exclusion and inclusion; the strategies, practices, and the process of women employing online digital platforms to connect to the wider community and facilitate social integration. We also examined how they responded to developing theory, explanations, and accounts of effective practices to facilitate social inclusion for marketing. Our research sample is based on self-employment and intersectional characteristics including gender and ethnicity. Our sample conforms to the criteria: each self-employed woman owns the business and operates the business for at least 2 years. We identified suitable respondents through purposeful sampling, which links the sampling strategy with the purpose of the research project, which is more concerned with what people do. We consider our potential respondents are subject to the intersectional nature of exclusion and disadvantage associated with being identified as female and migrants, cultural strangers. We interviewed sixteen female migrant entrepreneurs before and after the COVID-19 outbreak to examine their entrepreneurial enactment and how they mobilised their ethnicity and identity to overcome disadvantages through social resourcing and the use of digital resources for marketing. Data were analysed thematically using the constant comparative method which involves a recursive sense-making of the data to identify emerging categories and themes.

This study investigates how entrepreneurs and managers in the high-tech sector network to develop trusting relationships with clients in commercialisation of innovation, using electronic social network platforms (SNPs), despite a difficult time in Covid-19. Commercialisation of innovation plays a critical role in NPD (New Product Development). Entrepreneurs in small businesses are at a disadvantage in the innovation process due to limited resources and therefore struggling in forming business partnerships and benefiting from robust trusting relationships which lead them to an exposure innovation failure or result in delays in bringing new products to market. Covid-19 has brought in even more challenges to entrepreneurial networking due to social distancing and less mobility. Despite facing managing multiple roles in the daily operations of the commercialisation of innovation, small business entrepreneurs and managers in the high-tech sector have, in fact, shown that they are more resilient than we may have thought. In addition, the power of digital platforms opens a door of accessing new opportunities in developing business networks for new products to market, especially being as effective tools of reaching out during Covid-19 pandemic. It undertakes an empirical study underpinned a phenomenological approach through a case study in the high-tech sector in England, UK. We conducted in-depth interviews with the owner and managers involved in the innovation to collect their life experiences. Furthermore, the primary data was supplemented by secondary data collection. Data analysis was underpinned by thematic analysis incorporating consistent comparison techniques to identify emerging themes. We provided an explanatory account of the data, building plausible links and casual relationships between themes. This study explores the ways by which the entrepreneurs succeeded the innovation through trusting relationships using the digital platforms, managerial implications, and future research recommendations.

The primary objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to moral injury in social work staff. The secondary objective is to establish how moral injury has been defined in the literature in the context of social work. The review question is: what is currently known about moral injury in social work staff?

RRS James Cook cruise 231 departed Southampton 1st May 2022, operated in the Whittard Canyon (2-3 May) and the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory area (4-16th May), returning to Southampton 19th May 2022. The goal of the cruise was to continue time-series observations of the surface ocean, water column, and seafloor at the site, as first studied by NOC (then the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) in 1985. Also, to service a mooring at Whittard Canyon. These activities are supported by CLASS and EU project iFADO. Additional goals were to deploy a BGC Argo float and investigate particle flux (ANTICS team onboard, with some AtlantECO support). The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic resulted in reduced staff onboard but all operations were completed before the weather changed on 16th May. The main aims were to recover data and infrastructure and deploy replacement moorings at PAP and in the Whittard Canyon, to continue time series sampling at PAP-SO. The Met Office Mobilis buoy was successfully recovered and a similar one was redeployed with a sensor frame at 30m. The sediment traps were successfully turned around at both PAP and the Whittard canyon, this time deploying an Anderson trap. A series of water column observation and sampling operations were successfully carried out with a CTD instrument package. The CTD deployments included pre-and post-deployment calibrations of PAP1 and PAP3 sensors. Surface to 600m observations were made with a new camera frame plus Marine Snow Catchers (the old and new ‘Yuki’ style were used). Other water column observations included underway CO2 SubCtech system and day/night zooplankton nets. The benthic time series was continued with a series of seafloor sediment core sampling, amphipod traps and trawling. A Met Office Biogeochemistry Argo float was deployed but had to be recovered when it developed a fault.

Funding: T.A.M. thanks partial support by CEAUL (funded by FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, through the project UIDB/00006/2020). Publisher PDF Peer reviewed

Shalene Langen-Datta, Marie Curie Policy and Public Affairs Officer, Marie Curie, 89 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TP, shalene.datta@mariecurie.org.uk Helen Wesson, Research Assistant, Unit of Academic Primary Care, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill, CV4 7AL, helen.wesson@warwick.ac.uk Dr Joanna Fleming, Senior Research Fellow, Unit of Academic Primary Care, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill, CV4 7AL, j.l.m.fleming@warwick.ac.uk Dr Abi Eccles, Research Fellow, Unit of Academic Primary Care, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill, CV4 7AL, a.eccles@warwick.ac.uk Dr Catherine Grimley, Research Assistant, Unit of Academic Primary Care, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill, CV4 7AL, catherine.grimley@warwick.ac.uk Professor Jeremy Dale, Professor of Primary Care, Unit of Academic Primary Care, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill, CV4 7AL, jeremy.dale@warwick.ac.uk Professor Kathryn Almack, Professor, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB k.almack@herts.ac.uk Dr Catriona Rachel Mayland, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN, c.r.mayland@sheffield.ac.uk Dr Sarah Mitchell, Senior Clinical Fellow, Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN, s.j.mitchell@sheffield.ac.uk Ruth Driscoll, Associate Director for Policy and Public Affairs England, Marie Curie, 89 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TP, Ruth.Driscoll@mariecurie.org.uk Lynn Tatnell, Patient and Public Involvement representative, lynntatnell@gmail.com, (private email address not to be published) Lesley Roberts, Patient and Public Involvement representative, lesley.roberts.1944@gmail.com (private email address not to be published) Dr John I MacArtney, Marie Curie Associate Professor, Unit of Academic Primary Care, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill, CV4 7AL john.macartney@warwick.ac.uk

This paper presents the baseline approach for the organized 2nd Covid-19 Competition, occurring in the framework of the AIMIA Workshop in the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022). It presents the COV19-CT-DB database which is annotated for COVID-19 detection, consisting of about 7,700 3-D CT scans. Part of the database consisting of Covid-19 cases is further annotated in terms of four Covid-19 severity conditions. We have split the database and the latter part of it in training, validation and test datasets. The former two datasets are used for training and validation of machine learning models, while the latter is used for evaluation of the developed models. The baseline approach consists of a deep learning approach, based on a CNN-RNN network and report its performance on the COVID19-CT-DB database. The paper presents the results of both Challenges organised in the framework of the Competition, also compared to the performance of the baseline scheme.

Global concern about problematic usage of the internet (PUI), and its public health and societal costs, continues to grow, sharpened in focus under the privations of the COVID-19 pandemic. This narrative review reports the expert opinions of members of the largest international network of researchers on PUI in the framework of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action (CA 16207), on the scientific progress made and the critical knowledge gaps remaining to be filled as the term of the Action reaches its conclusion. A key advance has been achieving consensus on the clinical definition of various forms of PUI. Based on the overarching public health principles of protecting individuals and the public from harm and promoting the highest attainable standard of health, the World Health Organisation has introduced several new structured diagnoses into the ICD-11, including gambling disorder, gaming disorder, compulsive sexual behaviour disorder, and other unspecified or specified disorders due to addictive behaviours, alongside naming online activity as a diagnostic specifier. These definitions provide for the first time a sound platform for developing systematic networked research into various forms of PUI at global scale. Progress has also been made in areas such as refining and simplifying some of the available assessment instruments, clarifying the underpinning brain-based and social determinants, and building more empirically based etiological models, as a basis for therapeutic intervention, alongside public engagement initiatives. However, important gaps in our knowledge remain to be tackled. Principal among these include a better understanding of the course and evolution of the PUI-related problems, across different age groups, genders and other specific vulnerable groups, reliable methods for early identification of individuals at risk (before PUI becomes disordered), efficacious preventative and therapeutic interventions and ethical health and social policy changes that adequately safeguard human digital rights. The paper concludes with recommendations for achievable research goals, based on longitudinal analysis of a large multinational cohort co-designed with public stakeholders. © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Peer reviewed

This Toolkit is a direct outcome of the research project ‘Social Distancing and Reimagining City Life: Performative strategies and practices for response and recovery in and beyond lockdown’ (AH/V013734/1). Available at the Emergency Planning Society website: https://the-eps.org/toolkit/. Personal debriefing is critical to emergency planning. In this Toolkit, we introduce creative strategies that offer new methods of engaging in personal debriefing, both for individuals and to support team approaches. We start from understanding emergency planning ‘as’ performance (as explored at our EPS Huddle, 30th March 2022 and in publications) to introduce and investigate performance processes as creative, flexible, and dynamic strategies for personal debriefing. Too often, creative practice is understood through finished artworks or performances, yet many of the processes that arts practitioners use in making work offer creative, individually-nuanced ways of making sense of events or situations. The Toolkit offers a range of strategies for personal debriefing that we have developed through our work with emergency and resilience planning professionals in the UK and USA. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the UK Research and Innovation’s Covid-19 Rapid Response call.

COVID-19 infections are over-represented in ethnic minority groups and other deprived communities while low uptake levels for COVID-19 vaccines are observed in the same groups. The uptake of a vaccine depends not only on its perceived safety and effectiveness profile but also on how well vaccination policies are communicated by policy makers and subsequently implemented by practitioners. Scarcity of what was known about COVID-19 and its novel vaccines meant COVID-19 vaccination policies evolved quickly. We analysed how changes in government policies on COVID-19 vaccination in the UK (England) and Canada (Ontario) were communicated and experienced by diverse communities.