new vistas
New Vistas is a fully open access, peer reviewed journal published by the University of West London. It provides a forum to disseminate research, commentary, and scholarly work that engages with the complex agenda of higher education in its local, national and global context.
New Vistas welcomes contributions from academic staff and doctoral students, with the explicit intention to give a voice to early-career researchers and scholars.
The journal aims to publish twice a year, with occasional special issues, and publishes for a broad academic, international and professional readership.
Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Editor's note
Special issue - 27th Annual Doctoral Conference at the University of West London
Caroline Lafarge
2025-03-04 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Articles
AI-assisted chemical analysis and monitoring of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in water and wastewater.
Babak Kavianpour
2025-02-21 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
A multi-objective optimisation model for pump scheduling using renewable solar energy in water distribution networks
Saeid Najjar-Ghabel
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Recovery of tree trunk properties by extraction of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) attributes from 3-D GPR data
Saeed Parnow
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Exploring civil structure dynamics through ground-based interferometric radar and augmented reality integration
Saeed Sotoudeh
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Optimizing UAV task processing in disaster response with lyapunov-based edge computing
Rakan Armoush
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Enhancing mitotic figure detection using attention modules in digital pathology
May Hlaing Kyi
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Classification of laryngeal pathologies using audio, bioimpedance measurements and deep learning
Julia Zofia Tomaszewska
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Enhancing ASR systems for dysarthric speech through deep learning approaches and dataset expansion
Leon Turner
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Dietary and lifestyle habits in relation to the risk of type 2 diabetes among ethnic minorities in London: generational shift
Arif Ahmed
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Unveiling the distinction: Exploring how key airport stakeholders differentiate between status and reputation
Forough Jonghani
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Navigating the safety space of resource management for secondary sub-systems in high reliability organisations – an application to aviation ground operations
Nadine Muecklich
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Feasibility study: Effect of virgin coconut oil in older adults diagnosed with mild to moderate dementia
Kirti Paik-Inkar
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
The ‘tie that binds’: museum funding, soft power and K-pop
Jamie Johnson
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Beyond Sight: Cinematic virtual reality for the visually impaired
Cesar Portillo
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Authenticity and authentication in music for media
Liane Gualdim Silva
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
A reflection on the exploration and development of novel haptic solutions in relation to operation and control of audio and music production technologies within an extended reality environment
Andy Visser
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
The impact of country of origin and marketing communications on student identification with local and foreign partners in transnational higher education
Mohammad Waqar Abbasi
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Thymic-derived Tregs: A potential novel source for suppressive and efficacious Treg-EVs for clinical use
Jordan Bazoer
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
The politics of understanding
Amy Cowan
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Understanding positive body image during pregnancy and postpartum: A systematic review
Hannah Griffin
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Literature review on unbalanced lighting in classrooms and its effect on student learning
Prapooja Kc
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
An orchestra of athletes: Comparing perceptions of creativity held by team athletes and group musicians
Neil Livingstone
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) to monitor and control Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) in higher education buildings
Mukhtar Maigari
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Exploring probiotic derived extracellular vesicles as novel therapeutic agents in the management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Robert Matthews
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Studying the effects of quasiperiodicity in the swing equation
Bhairavi Premnath
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Comparative analysis of single and ensemble machine learning models in predicting soil shear strength
Mohamed Rabie
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Combatting antibiotic resistance: health literacy insights from young adults in the United Kingdom
Rim Wazni
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Investigating the role of mechanical and hybrid ventilation methods in improving the IAQ
Atefeh Abbaspour
2025-02-19 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Whole-life embodied carbon assessment and reduction strategies in UK buildings: A comprehensive analysis
Maryam Keyhani
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Prioritising residential buildings retrofits using an AI-data-driven tool to enhance EPC rating
Hamidreza Seraj
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Integrating artificial intelligence and building information modelling in school building design: A feasibility study and future outlook
Seeja Sudhakaran
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
The relationship between entrepreneurial finance and success of high tech young entrepreneurial firms focusing on funding and ownership structures.
Farshad Eshraghi
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Effect of intermediate care model on the functional outcome and quality of life of older adult stroke survivors in Southwest Nigeria
Temitope Hannah Farombi
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Knowledge, health beliefs and lifestyle among Lebanese adults to maintain a healthy gut microbiome
Rita Kmeid
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Student emotional engagement in blended-learning – A qualitative evaluation of teacher perception in Further Education (FE) contexts
Suha Kuttar
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Freedom to conform: American identity and study abroad
Polly Penter
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
A Meta-ethnographical review: How are Black British people coping with racism?
Cheryl Taylor
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Qualitative study of the issues faced by UK and Ireland adult males bereaved by suicide.
John Whitebrook
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
Investigating the musical principles behind mix preparation within the digital realm of audio mixing
Ashour Ahmed
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024
I’m weird, not queer: (Not) Performing music as an outsider to an outsider’s world
leon clowes
2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024