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Feedback is always appreciated to assist with improving the website. It would also be appreciated if you could let me know if you have benefited from suggestions given in the website or if you have any stories about wasp stings and their avoidance.
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Sue McBean was formerly a nursing lecturer at the University of Ulster (UU) in Coleraine in Northern Ireland. With a first degree in Botany & Zoology from Bristol University & a Masters in Health Education from King’s College, London, she combines in this website her passion for nursing and love of nature to create a unique tool to benefit her third devotion - public health.
Sue has been a registered general nurse and public health nurse for over thirty years and a nurse teacher for over twenty. Sue has been a natural historian all her life and her love of insects started with a bee keeping father. Many of the photographs on this website were taken by James McBean, Sue's son.
The original concepts behind this website were peer reviewed by the UK Public Health Association for a conference presentation in Edinburgh in 2006.
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McBean, S. (2006) Prevention and treatment of wasp stings, Primary Health Care, Vol. 16, No. 7, September: 20 – 23 (Researching internet sites on wasp sting prevention and aftercare)
McBean, S. (2006) Creatures in the news: journalism or journalese? Biologist, Vol. 53, No. 2, April: pp 59 – 60
McBean, S. (2006) Biological approach to wasp sting prevention, Teaching Ecology Newsletter, Spring, p. 13
http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/TEN-Issue-35.pdf
Referencing this website
In line with Harvard style, advice on standard suggestions for referencing it are to use the structure: Author, Date, Title, place & publisher. This translates as:
McBean, S. F. (2008) Wasps And Sting Prevention (W.A.S.P.), Name the specific web page within the website (e.g.) Public Health, url (not known as this is written), University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, Date last updated: December 2007, Date accessed: your date here.
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This project started in the summer of 2005 when I questioned the evidence base of the use of vinegar on wasp stings. In September 2006 I published on my research about the quality of English language internet advice on wasp sting treatment. In March 2007 a poster about the work was presented to the UK Public Health Association. An Academic Enterprise grant from the University of Ulster contributed to this website being launched in 2008.