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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 ... -
Children and Young People’s Experiences of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
(2024-10-08)Aims: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is a family-based psychotherapeutic intervention designed to help children and young people with the psychological difficulties that may result from early experiences of ... -
The Impact of Hotel Accommodation on the Mental Health of Asylum Seekers in the UK
(2024-10-07)In a global context of war and instability, more asylum seekers are seeking refuge in the UK. Due to backlogs in processing asylum applications, the Home Office is increasingly housing asylum seekers long-term in ... -
Exploring the Infrared Variable Sky with Machine Learning
(2024-08-13)The last decade in astronomy has seen the growth of time-series data and with it, the emergence of large surveys. Surveys such as PTF (Law et al., 2009), ZTF (Bellm et al., 2019), CoRoT (Auvergne et al., 2009), HOYS ... -
Climate Change Resilience: Sustainable Bioconservation Strategies for Built Heritage
(2024-07-16)Climate change poses a significant threat to the cultural and historical significance of built heritage. Rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and shiIing environmental condtions endanger not only the physical ... -
Life Assessment Methods for Inconel 600 as an Essential Material in Micro Gas Turbines
(2024-07-23)In this research, a comprehensive investigation was conducted to understand the mechanical behavior and fatigue characteristics of Inconel 600. The study involved a series of experimental tests and Finite Element simulations, ... -
Ultra-Survivable Mixed-Criticality Systems based on Empiric Worst-Case Execution Time and Criticality Arithmetic
(2024-07-22)Most of the existing mixed-criticality schedulers don't take into account the fact that low-criticality tasks operate as a group to implement one or more high-criticality ser- vices. Consequently, arbitrary dropping of ... -
Innovation as a Breakdown of Habits and a Reimagining of the Self: Exploring the Experiences of Public Sector Innovators in a Norwegian Municipality
(2024-03-15)The underlying assumption in the discourse of innovation is often that ‘innovation is good’. The public sector is frequently characterised as not being sufficiently geared towards innovation and hence unable to address the ...