Croydon Pioneers

Research methods for children with multiple needs: Developing techniques to facilitate all children and young people to have ‘a voice’

Almost Giant Clusters for Percolation on Large Trees with Logarithmic Heights

This text is based on a lecture for the Sheffield Probability Day; its main purpose is to survey some recent asymptotic results [3, 4] about Bernoulli bond percolation on certain large random trees with logarithmic height. We also provide a general criterion for the existence of giant percolation clusters in large trees, which answers a question raised by David Croydon.

Improving the quality of care for mild to moderate dementia: an evaluation of the Croydon Memory Service Model.

BACKGROUND The large majority of people with dementia receive nothing in the way of specialist assessment and care at any stage of their illness. There is a particular lack of services focussed on early identification and intervention in dementia where there is the possibility of long-term harm reduction for people with dementia and their family carers. We have developed a model of care that is...

Pathfinding by identified zebrafish motoneurons in the absence of muscle pioneers.

To identify the cellular cues that guide zebrafish neuronal growth cones to their targets, we examined interactions between identified motor growth cones and identified muscle fibers and tested whether these fibers were required for growth cone navigation. Caudal primary motoneurons (CaPs) and middle primary motoneurons (MiPs) are identified motoneurons that innervate cell-specific regions of t...

A 'mystery shopper' project to evaluate sexual health and contraceptive services for young people in Croydon.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to evaluate the accessibility of, and advice provided by, sexual health and advice services for young people in Croydon, UK using a 'mystery shopper' approach. METHODS Nineteen young people aged 13-21 years were trained as mystery shoppers. The group developed a set of standards, based in part on existing guidelines of best practice, that should be met w...