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Parents' Experiences of their Child's Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents (IPT-A) Intervention
(2024-11-04)Rationale and Aims: Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents (IPT-A) is an evidence-based intervention for treating depression in young people, with parental involvement encouraged as part of the process. While research ... -
Experiences of Change in Connectedness Through Forest Bathing Among Adults with Disabilities and/or Physical Health Difficulties
(2024-10-14)Nature exposure and forest bathing have been shown to benefit health, well-being, and connectedness on individual, societal, and environmental levels. However, they are rarely made accessible for people with disabilities, ... -
Trans and Non-Binary People's Experiences of Their Sexualities and Relationships Alongside Their Gender
(2024-10-14)Sexual health is an important aspect of one’s wellbeing. However, historically, research in this field within trans and non-binary (TNB) populations was either pathologizing, or focusing on risk-behaviours. Additionally, ... -
Therapeutically Trained Muslim Faith Leaders’ Experiences of Islamically Informed Therapeutic Support in the Muslim Community
(2024-11-13)Therapeutically Trained Muslim Faith Leaders (TTMFL) utilise a unique set of skills, knowledge and experience to provide a holistic approach to the Muslim community when managing mental health difficulties. Despite literature ... -
The Relationship Between Different Types of Curiosity and Mental Health Indicators
(2024-10-22)Background: Differences in curiosity are outlined by its influence on our behaviour, the type of information being sought, and motivation processes. Different facets of curiosity contribute to mental health indicators like ... -
Women’s Negative Experiences of IUD Procedures
(2024-10-24)The use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception has been steadily increasing due to the promotion of its benefits as a contraception choice. The most used devices are the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (IUS) and the ... -
Exploring the Experiences of Racial Trauma among Footballers
(2024-10-17)Background: The widespread and increasing number of reports of racism at all levels of football in the UK highlights the pervasiveness of the issue. Given the negative impact that racism has on mental health, it was crucial ... -
Muslim Migrants’ Experience of Migration and the Role Religion Plays in this Journey
(2024-10-21)Background: Muslim migrants report various challenges of migration, including adjustment, isolation, discrimination and Islamophobia. The literature shows that religion helps this cohort manage these challenges but does ... -
The Significance of Autism Assessment Reports for Parents within the Wider Diagnostic Journey
(2024-10-25)Autistic children may need a range of targeted supports, and parents of autistic children encounter various challenges. Existing research shows that the diagnostic journey is lengthy and stressful for parents. Despite an ... -
Raising Black Sons in the UK: the Unheard Voices of Black Fathers
(2024-10-10)BACKGROUND: Existing literature highlights a prevalence of deficit and problem saturated narratives of Black fatherhood. A paucity of literature focusing on the subjective experiences of Black fathers has limited the ability ... -
A Study of Low Mood and Anxiety in a Clinical Population of Dog Owners using Mobile Methods
(2024-10-14)Dog ownership has been indicated by previous research findings to provide beneficial impacts on mental and physical wellbeing in the general population. However, despite researchers efforts to understand such advantages ... -
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 ...