Benjamin Hicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 227738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Hicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hicks |
| SIGNATURE | HICKS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brighton and Sussex Medical School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6445-2415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Experiences of age-related declining navigation abilities and impact on use of outdoor environments: A Qualitative Study of Young-Old Adults With Self-Reported Memory Difficulties
Laboratory-based experiments show ageing negatively impacts navigation abilities, yet a paucity of research explores lived experience. This exploratory study examined young-old adults' experiences of declining navigation abilities during 16 semi-structured telephone interviews. Findings reveal: (a) ‘Behavioural drivers’ that underpinned the participants' experiences and actions when engaging with their environments, (b) ‘Avoidance’ and (c) ‘Activ…
Causal reasoning with causal graphs in educational technology research
Researchers tasked with understanding the effects of educational technology innovations face the challenge of providing evidence of causality. Given the complexities of studying learning in authentic contexts interwoven with technological affordances, conducting tightly-controlled randomized experiments is not always feasible nor desirable. Today, a set of tools is available that can help researchers reason about cause-and-effect, irrespective of…
Understanding university failure: Zero-fails, Covid-19 and commencing student outcomes at an Australian university
Universities actively promote themselves to potential students, control admissions and deliver programs of study. For most students globally, there are financial costs to attending university. At the extreme end of failure are students who receive ‘zero-fails’: they enrol, do not submit any assessments, and receive a mark of 0 out of 100. A quantitative descriptive analysis was performed and provides student performance details for bachelor-level…
Measures Determining Dementia-Related Attitudes in Adolescents: A Scoping Review
Reducing stigma is a key benefit to intergenerational programs. However, little is known about the availability and suitability of measures that capture dementia-related attitudes in adolescents, thus limiting interpretations of the efficacy of such programs. The aim of this scoping review was to provide an overview of outcome measures used to capture dementiarelated attitudes in adolescents. Scoping review methodology was used to systematically …
Factors associated with dementia-related stigma in British adolescents
This study highlights that modifiable factors such as level of contact, ageism, and empathy have a potentially important role in how dementia-related stigma may start to form in the adolescent years. Developing contact-based strategies that stimulate empathetic responses may be useful targets for stigma reduction initiatives for adolescents
Contextualizing Adolescent’s Experiences of Dementia in England
Adolescents represent an under-researched group that may already have experiences of\ndementia. In this study, we aimed to capture adolescents’ level of contact (frequency)\nand quality of contact (whether experiences were positive or negative) with people\nliving with the condition. In this cross-sectional study, 1,371 adolescents (aged 11-18\nyears old) across England were recruited. Descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations, and\nregressions w…
Taking ‘A walk through dementia’: Exploring care home practitioners’ experiences of using a virtual reality tool to support dementia awareness
Emerging research has outlined the possibility for virtual reality (VR) experiences, which situate users into the perspective of someone living with dementia, to enhance dementia awareness. Currently, there is limited VR research that engages care home practitioners. It is imperative this population has high levels of dementia education given their requirements to provide care and support to residents, many of whom will be living with the conditi…
‘We go for a homely feel … not the clinical dementia side’: Care home managers’ experiences of supporting residents with dementia to orientate and navigate care environments
Living with dementia can adversely affect people's spatial (orientation and navigation) and reality (time, date and place) orientation, which can detrimentally impact on their sense of social inclusion and wellbeing. This is an important challenge to address within United Kingdom (UK) care homes where around 70 per cent of the residents are living with dementia or severe memory problems. Care home managers have some autonomy in decision-making th…
Effectiveness of cognitive stimulation for dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Cognitive stimulation (CS) is a nonpharmacological intervention often involving group activities and social interaction used to treat cognitive declines in people with dementia. This preregistered systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of CS in producing benefits on cognition (primary outcome) and quality of life, activities of daily living, and psychological symptoms (secondary outcomes) across 44 randomized-controlled t…
Exploring the ‘active mechanisms’ for engaging rural-dwelling older men with dementia in a community technological initiative
Research has suggested ecopsychosocial initiatives can promote a sense of wellbeing and inclusion in people with dementia. However, few studies have elucidated the ‘active mechanisms’ whereby such initiatives can achieve these outcomes, so hindering their generalisability. This is particularly pertinent when seeking to support community-dwelling older men with dementia who are reluctant to engage with traditional health and social care initiative…
Tool development for digital reconstruction: A framework for a database of historic Roman construction materials
Despite the fact that digital reconstructions of historic structures and sites are a rich asset for understanding both humanistic and scientific facets of the past, tools to ease the generation of accurate models are lacking. This work presents an interactive database of historic Roman construction materials which was designed specifically for the purposes of aiding in digital reconstructions. For the scope of this work, only ancient Roman timber…
Does Digital Gaming Enable Healthy Aging for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia
This article critically explores the benefits of commercial digital gaming technology for healthy aging of people with dementia. Research with community-dwelling people with dementia has highlighted the need for enhanced access to nonpharmacological interventions to support social engagement. Commercially available technologies offer a means to engage people with dementia. This article expands on this body of knowledge by assessing the benefits o…
Spartan kings
The Spartan dual kingship, drawn from the Heraclid dynasties of the Agiads and Eurypontids, represented a unique evolution of basileia “monarchy” within the polis .
Does Digital Gaming Enable Healthy Aging for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia
This article critically explores the benefits of commercial digital gaming technology for healthy aging of people with dementia. Research with community-dwelling people with dementia has highlighted the need for enhanced access to nonpharmacological interventions to support social engagement. Commercially available technologies offer a means to engage people with dementia. This article expands on this body of knowledge by assessing the benefits o…
Contextualizing Adolescent’s Experiences of Dementia in England
Adolescents represent an under-researched group that may already have experiences of\ndementia. In this study, we aimed to capture adolescents’ level of contact (frequency)\nand quality of contact (whether experiences were positive or negative) with people\nliving with the condition. In this cross-sectional study, 1,371 adolescents (aged 11-18\nyears old) across England were recruited. Descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations, and\nregressions w…
Exploring the ‘active mechanisms’ for engaging rural-dwelling older men with dementia in a community technological initiative
Research has suggested ecopsychosocial initiatives can promote a sense of wellbeing and inclusion in people with dementia. However, few studies have elucidated the ‘active mechanisms’ whereby such initiatives can achieve these outcomes, so hindering their generalisability. This is particularly pertinent when seeking to support community-dwelling older men with dementia who are reluctant to engage with traditional health and social care initiative…
Spartan kings
The Spartan dual kingship, drawn from the Heraclid dynasties of the Agiads and Eurypontids, represented a unique evolution of basileia “monarchy” within the polis .
Does Digital Gaming Enable Healthy Aging for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia
This article critically explores the benefits of commercial digital gaming technology for healthy aging of people with dementia. Research with community-dwelling people with dementia has highlighted the need for enhanced access to nonpharmacological interventions to support social engagement. Commercially available technologies offer a means to engage people with dementia. This article expands on this body of knowledge by assessing the benefits o…
Tool development for digital reconstruction: A framework for a database of historic Roman construction materials
Despite the fact that digital reconstructions of historic structures and sites are a rich asset for understanding both humanistic and scientific facets of the past, tools to ease the generation of accurate models are lacking. This work presents an interactive database of historic Roman construction materials which was designed specifically for the purposes of aiding in digital reconstructions. For the scope of this work, only ancient Roman timber…
Exploring the ‘active mechanisms’ for engaging rural-dwelling older men with dementia in a community technological initiative
Research has suggested ecopsychosocial initiatives can promote a sense of wellbeing and inclusion in people with dementia. However, few studies have elucidated the ‘active mechanisms’ whereby such initiatives can achieve these outcomes, so hindering their generalisability. This is particularly pertinent when seeking to support community-dwelling older men with dementia who are reluctant to engage with traditional health and social care initiative…
Effectiveness of cognitive stimulation for dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Cognitive stimulation (CS) is a nonpharmacological intervention often involving group activities and social interaction used to treat cognitive declines in people with dementia. This preregistered systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of CS in producing benefits on cognition (primary outcome) and quality of life, activities of daily living, and psychological symptoms (secondary outcomes) across 44 randomized-controlled t…
‘We go for a homely feel … not the clinical dementia side’: Care home managers’ experiences of supporting residents with dementia to orientate and navigate care environments
Living with dementia can adversely affect people's spatial (orientation and navigation) and reality (time, date and place) orientation, which can detrimentally impact on their sense of social inclusion and wellbeing. This is an important challenge to address within United Kingdom (UK) care homes where around 70 per cent of the residents are living with dementia or severe memory problems. Care home managers have some autonomy in decision-making th…
Taking ‘A walk through dementia’: Exploring care home practitioners’ experiences of using a virtual reality tool to support dementia awareness
Emerging research has outlined the possibility for virtual reality (VR) experiences, which situate users into the perspective of someone living with dementia, to enhance dementia awareness. Currently, there is limited VR research that engages care home practitioners. It is imperative this population has high levels of dementia education given their requirements to provide care and support to residents, many of whom will be living with the conditi…
Causal reasoning with causal graphs in educational technology research
Researchers tasked with understanding the effects of educational technology innovations face the challenge of providing evidence of causality. Given the complexities of studying learning in authentic contexts interwoven with technological affordances, conducting tightly-controlled randomized experiments is not always feasible nor desirable. Today, a set of tools is available that can help researchers reason about cause-and-effect, irrespective of…
Understanding university failure: Zero-fails, Covid-19 and commencing student outcomes at an Australian university
Universities actively promote themselves to potential students, control admissions and deliver programs of study. For most students globally, there are financial costs to attending university. At the extreme end of failure are students who receive ‘zero-fails’: they enrol, do not submit any assessments, and receive a mark of 0 out of 100. A quantitative descriptive analysis was performed and provides student performance details for bachelor-level…
Measures Determining Dementia-Related Attitudes in Adolescents: A Scoping Review
Reducing stigma is a key benefit to intergenerational programs. However, little is known about the availability and suitability of measures that capture dementia-related attitudes in adolescents, thus limiting interpretations of the efficacy of such programs. The aim of this scoping review was to provide an overview of outcome measures used to capture dementiarelated attitudes in adolescents. Scoping review methodology was used to systematically …
Factors associated with dementia-related stigma in British adolescents
This study highlights that modifiable factors such as level of contact, ageism, and empathy have a potentially important role in how dementia-related stigma may start to form in the adolescent years. Developing contact-based strategies that stimulate empathetic responses may be useful targets for stigma reduction initiatives for adolescents
Contextualizing Adolescent’s Experiences of Dementia in England
Adolescents represent an under-researched group that may already have experiences of\ndementia. In this study, we aimed to capture adolescents’ level of contact (frequency)\nand quality of contact (whether experiences were positive or negative) with people\nliving with the condition. In this cross-sectional study, 1,371 adolescents (aged 11-18\nyears old) across England were recruited. Descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations, and\nregressions w…
Experiences of age-related declining navigation abilities and impact on use of outdoor environments: A Qualitative Study of Young-Old Adults With Self-Reported Memory Difficulties
Laboratory-based experiments show ageing negatively impacts navigation abilities, yet a paucity of research explores lived experience. This exploratory study examined young-old adults' experiences of declining navigation abilities during 16 semi-structured telephone interviews. Findings reveal: (a) ‘Behavioural drivers’ that underpinned the participants' experiences and actions when engaging with their environments, (b) ‘Avoidance’ and (c) ‘Activ…
Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Dementia (8 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (4 works) · Disease (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)