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Changing the Tune: Conceptualising the Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Stakeholder Perceptions of Corporate Value
(2019-01-31)
Could shareholder primacy, with its assumed short-termist practices, have had its day when it comes to managerial activity centered on creating corporate value? Many business and opinion leaders appear to take this position, ...
Narratives of Young People Living with a Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME)
(2017-02-06)
CFS/ME (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) is a distressing and potentially debilitating condition. It can also be understood as a contested condition, surrounded by controversy about its nature, causes ...
Bereaved Parents' Stories of their Emotional Relationship with their Surviving Children Following the Death of Another
(2016-05-17)
Background: The death of a child can be a devastating experience for many parents; research suggests it results in an intense and enduring grief which can negatively impact on parents’ psychological well-being. Parents ...
Life Threatening Complications in Childbirth: a Discursive Analysis of Fathers' Accounts
(2015-01-29)
Referral letters are the standard method of communication between GPs and specialist mental health services. However, previous research suggests these letters often fail to provide the information these services feel they ...
Power and Narrative in Project Management: Lessons Learned in Recognising the Importance of Phronesis
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-07-16)
A component part of modern project management practice is the ‘lessons learned’ activity that is designed to transfer experience and best practice from one project to another, thus improving the practice of project management. ...
Behind the PBL Mask: Narratives of Identity Change Amongst Clinical Psychologists Engaged in Problem-Based Learning
(2013-05-07)
Clinical psychologists’ experiences of training are under-represented in the research area, particularly in the field of transformational and experiential learning and its influence on trainees during their training. Yet, ...
Learning from Practice: the Value of Story in Nurse Education
(2013-04-10)
The central contention of this thesis is that story as an aid to learning, particularly student nurses' own stories of practice, is not being used to its full potential in nurse education. The dominant tendencies in nurse ...
Narratives of Young People Living with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
(2012-10-31)
Background and aims: Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common genetic, life threatening disorder in the UK (Cystic Fibrosis Trust, 2010). Given the trajectory of the illness, adolescence may be a particularly challenging ...
Making Sense of Leadership Development: Reflections on my Role as a Leader of Leadership Development Interventions
(University of Hertfordshire, 2011-12-09)
This thesis examines my experience of leading leadership development. During the last three years I have been researching my role as Head of Leadership and Organisational Development at the University of Hertfordshire (UH), ...
Beauty and the Beast: Clients' Experience of Counselling Within a Narrative Framework, Considering Concepts of Containment and Freedom
(2008-11-04)
The experience of opposition between what could be contained in my internal world, and what I wanted freedom from containing while a client in counselling led to the conception of this research. Containment and freedom ...