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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

Mental health best practice in the UK music industry: Investigating better relationships between managers and artists 

Brenda Combs

2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024

Historical adaptation, anachronism, and appropriation: Functioning outside of chronology 

Vanessa Fisher

2025-02-20 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • UWL Annual Doctoral Students' Conference 2024