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The Language of Ownership and the Rise of Shareholder Value: the Corporate Governance Discourse, 1980-1999
(2024-08-15)The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the changing discourse on corporate governance in the USA during the last two decades of the 20th century, with a focus on persuasive strategies and linguistic choices. A ... -
Societal Pressures and Confidence Dilemmas in Women Deputy Headteachers’ Pursuit of Headship in Secondary Schools
(2024-08-02)The focus of this research is women in educational leadership roles. It explores the topic of women's career aspirations for headship in secondary schools in England. The study involves investigating the career aspirations ... -
The Impact of Family Separation on Refugee Men
(2024-10-14)Background: Many refugees face post-migration stressors during resettlement in host countries including forced separation from loved ones. This qualitative study aimed to examine the impact of family separation on refugee ... -
The Importance of Visual Sustainability in Urban Design Strategy
(2024-08-16)This research addresses interactions in urban environments—when defined as interaction types and used as a metric—as they provide an effective strategy for understanding the relationship between urban heterogeneity and ... -
Using Morphology to understand Galaxy Evolution across the Dwarf and Massive-Galaxy Regimes
(2024-08-08)The morphological properties of galaxies are important tracers of the physical processes, e.g. minor/major mergers, gas accretion and tidal interactions, that have shaped their evolution. This thesis first studies the ... -
Learning to Count Small and Clustered Objects with Application to Bacterial Colonies
(2024-08-28)Counting small and clustered objects is a challenging Computer Vision task with many realworld applications. Many researchers have attempted to apply prevalent machine learning algorithms to count objects. However, feature ... -
Chest Radiograph Interpretation with Deep Learning
(2024-08-19)Chest radiographs are one of the most commonly used diagnostic modalities in healthcare due to their effectiveness in detecting conditions related to the thoracic region. However, the increasing demand for radiological ... -
Staff Experiences of Their Journey with Trauma-Informed Care in Homeless Services
(2024-10-08)BACKGROUND: A paradigm shift in the homelessness sector has been called for given the high prevalence of trauma for people experiencing homelessness (PEH) and the challenging conditions for staff working in the sector. ... -
A Qualitative Exploration of the Experience of Bereavement Amongst Gujaratis in the South Asian Community
(2024-10-07)Background: Research indicates that bereavement care for specific ethnic groups is inadequately addressed, largely due to a lack of awareness and knowledge of individuals' personal faith and culture. The COVID-19 pandemic ... -
A Qualitative Exploration of Alopecia: Impact, Coping and Interactions with Professionals
(2024-10-08)Background: Alopecia relates to hair loss. This thesis focuses on types of Alopecia mainly believed to be triggered by an autoimmune response, such as Alopecia areata (AA). Although Alopecia is not a life threatening ... -
The Experiences of Dyads Who Have Jointly Been Exposed to Domestic Abuse: Narratives of Growth, Connection and Resistance
(2024-10-09)Background: The psychological impact of Domestic violence and/or abuse (DVA) can continue long after the abuse. There is limited research on psychological interventions for people who have experienced DVA historically. ... -
Learning from Compassion-Fatigue and Moral Injury within the Clinical Psychology Profession during the COVID-19 Era
(2024-10-09)Rationale and Aims: Recognition that the physical and mental wellbeing of healthcare workers is crucial to safe and effective healthcare is well established. There is emerging research into the impact of the pandemic on ... -
Parental Experiences of Accessing Healthcare in England for Children with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
(2024-10-09)This thesis explores the complex healthcare journey experienced by parents of children diagnosed with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) in England. Through a mixed-methods approach, combining a systematic ... -
The Lived Experiences of People with an Acquired Brain Injury Returning to a Different Work Role, Post-Injury
(2024-10-09)Introduction: The position of work and employment can have a large impact on how individuals perceive themselves and their identity within the world. Research suggests that this can be due to historical, political, and ... -
The Perspectives of Systemic Therapists on Using their Relational Skills to Work with Friends: a Qualitative Study
(2024-10-09)This research examines systemic therapists' perspectives on using relational skills to work with friends in therapeutic settings. The main objective was to explore how systemic practitioners perceive and approach the concept ... -
Words Left Unspoken: Exploring the Unspoken Narratives of Loved Ones Supporting a Person who has Survived a Suicide Attempt
(2024-10-07)Informal care (care provided by family/friends) is overlooked by policymakers in physical health contexts (Cruz et al., 2023), and is significantly overlooked by policymakers in mental health contexts (Eikemo, 2018). ... -
Children of the Windrush Generation: Exploring the Psychological Consequences of Serial Migration through the Narratives of Older-Adult Caribbean “Left Behind” Children
(2024-10-08)Background: Black-Caribbean older-adults in the UK statistically have poorer mental health outcomes and are unlikely to seek help from mental health services, than their racial counterparts. Childhood serial migration, ... -
Applied Artificial Intelligence for Delay Risk Prediction of BIM-Based Construction Projects
(2024-08-01)Construction projects are complex endeavours requiring intricate coordination among stakeholders, resources, and timelines. However, delays are a pervasive issue, causing financial losses, reputational damage, and ... -
The Computer and the Controller: Dismantling Performance and Pedagogic Barriers to Music Composition
(2022-05-20)Over the last decade, many new ‘clever’ technologies with expertise built in as part of their design have been developed with the novice market in mind, to enable the production of professional sounding music at home. ... -
Unspoken Stories: Exploring the Narratives of Self-defined Family Members who have Experienced Suicide Bereavement
(2024-10-08)Aims: This study explores the unspoken narratives experienced by individuals who have been bereaved by suicide. Method: Nineteen semi-structured interviews were carried out with individuals who classified themselves as ...