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An Exploration of the Worklife Experiences of Autistic Women in the UK
(2024-03-15)
Existing studies suggest that few autistic women are employed in the workplace. However, because many autistic women have been diagnosed or self-identify later in life they may well have been employed in numerous workplaces, ...
The Newspaper Portrayal of Mothers Accessing Food Banks in the UK
(2021-10-07)
Aim: This study investigated the newspaper portrayal of mothers’ accessing food banks in the UK. Specifically, how their identities were portrayed, how their experiences were portrayed and how the impact of this was ...
Behind the Mask of a CEO of a Management Training Institution: Exploring Breakdowns of Identity in the Struggle for Recognition
(2021-02-05)
This thesis explores how idealisations of management identity influence everyday practice as a CEO, drawing on narrative accounts from my experience over a number of years. Combining the performative perspective of Erving ...
Organisational Change and the Politics of Identity: Four Reflexive Inquiries into Ordinary Power Struggles and their Role in Shaping Organisations and Individuals
(2019-12-18)
This thesis sheds light on the ideals we construct in the workplace and how these emergent ideologies mask over power dynamics and political struggles for meaning and identity. Challenging the idea that ‘office politics’ ...
Collaboration as the Politics of Affect: the Client-Consultant Relationship as an Embodied Moral Practice
(2019-04-18)
This thesis explores the ideology of collaboration from the context of the consultant–client relationship. The ideology is contrasted with the actual experience of collaboration in everyday organizational life, taking a ...
The Experiences of Birth Relatives who Engage in Person-Centred Counselling Following the Loss of their Children to Compulsory Adoption or Foster Care
(2018-09-26)
This study was concerned with exploring the meaning birth relatives gave their experiences of counselling following the removal of their children from their care. An exploratory research question was formulated and addressed ...
Acting Into the Living Present: Taking Account of Complexity and Uncertainty when Leading Consultancy Teams in International Water Projects
(2018-01-29)
This thesis addresses how leaders find themselves doing something even when they don’t know what to do. It is based on my own practice as an experienced team leader and it deals with questions of action, time, identity and ...
Formal Approaches to a Definition of Agents
(2017-04-13)
This thesis is a contribution to the formalisation of the notion of an agent
within the class of finite multivariate Markov chains. In accordance with
the literature agents are are seen as entities that act, perceive, ...
Refugee Mothers' Experiences of Forced Migration and its Impact upon Family Life
(2016-05-18)
In line with dominant Western discourses regarding mental health, research concerning the wellbeing of forced migrants has tended to take an individualistic, symptom-focused approach. Although not without value and utility, ...
A Repertory Grid Study Investigating Factors Associated With Treating People Diagnosed With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): the Construct of Illness and the Therapeutic Relationship
(2016-05-17)
People diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) have been subjected to stigma and told that their difficulties are untreatable. Although recovery is now understood to be possible for this client group, much ...