Browsing PhD Theses Collection by Title
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The Struggle for Plurality and Politics in School Leadership Practice: Exploring the Importance of Thoughtful Action in Conditions of Uncertainty
(2021-04-16)This thesis draws upon relational explanations of human action to understand the author’s experiences of school leadership in conditions of uncertainty. The central arguments arrived at in this inquiry recognise the ... -
The Struggle to Stay in Relation: How the Dominance of an Ideology of Certainty Marginalises Practical Judgment and Political Action, from the Perspective of a Senior Manager in the NHS
(2023-11-03)In this thesis I explore my everyday work as a director of research in an NHS mental health trust. I use collaborative narrative autoethnography to explore episodes where research activity and evidence is contested, ... -
Student Stories about Mathematics: A tool to understand more about the teaching and learning of mathematics
(2018-03-15)This qualitative study sets out to explore the experiences of secondary school students while they are learning mathematics in school. By using student stories of learning mathematics as my main data collection method I ... -
Students’ Sense-Making of Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Relationship to Mental Wellbeing
(2023-10-03)Superordinate constructions and meaning making structures are hypothesised by different psychological theories to provide individuals with a sense of integration of events or sense-making, which is associated to psychological ... -
Studies Exploring Non-Adherence in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients
(2020-11-10)Non-adherence to immunosuppressive medication is a major risk factor for poor clinical outcomes post-transplantation, including graft rejection and graft loss. However, it remains a common issue. Patients can experience ... -
Studies of Depression and Illness Representations in End-Stage Renal Disease
(2010-08-20)Depression is a substantial psychopathology encountered in the dialysis population yet its association with potentially modifiable psychological antecedents are not well known. Of these potential antecedents, individual’s ... -
Studies of Metal Poor T Dwarfs in UKIDSS
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-07-31)I have used blue near-infrared colours to select a group of UKIDSS T dwarfs with spectral types later than T4. From amongst these I identify two kinematic halo T-dwarf candi- dates. Blue near-infrared colours have been ... -
Studies of Unexplained Inflammation in Haemodialysis and the Role of Endotoxin
(2019-07-29)Clinical outcomes for patients with end-stage kidney disease on haemodialysis remain poor and have similar mortality risk to some cancers. A significant proportion of haemodialysis patients have chronic unexplained ... -
Studies on cannabinoid effects in intestinal tissue and in neuroblastoma
(University of Hertfordshire, 2007)The growing numbers of putative receptors and allosteric sites in which cannabinoids have been observed to act upon has called in to question the established action of cannabinoids through solely the CB1 receptor in the ... -
Studies on Depression and Fatigue in People With End Stage Kidney Disease Receiving Haemodialysis
(2018-01-31)Depression is common in haemodialysis (HD) patients and is often unrecognised and undertreated, though associated with excess morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis is challenging due to symptom overlap with kidney failure, ... -
A Study in Positivism and Physiology: Readings of Gustave Courbet
(2010-06-30)This thesis explores ways in which the mid-nineteenth-century current of positivist thought impacted upon the work of the French artist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). Guided by certain methodological imperatives set out in ... -
A Study of AGN and their Environments in the Far-Infrared
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-08-28)My Ph.D. has been composed of work involving the use of far–IR and submm observations of AGN. During this time it has focused on the in- terplay between AGN and their host galaxies and cluster environments. Understanding ... -
A Study of Inhibition in Preschool Children at Risk of Developmental Language Disorder
(2020-07-13)Background: For many years, research and practice have noted the impact of the heterogeneous nature of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD - also known as language impairment or specific language impairment) on diagnosis ... -
Subjugation and Subterfuge: Struggling with Metrics as a Middle Manager in a UK Business School
(2021-05-20)This thesis explores the behaviours and emotions which emerge when middle managers in Higher Education (HE) use metrics as a tool to measure organisational performance. It uses autoethnography as a methodological approach, ... -
Submillimetre Observations of Clusters of Galaxies
(2020-03-01)Advances in submillimetre astronomy has opened the doors to carrying out surveys and high-resolution imaging of intense star forming galaxies out to and beyond the cosmic star-formation peak (ɀ ≈ 1- 4). The Submillimetre ... -
A Submillimetre Study of Massive Star Formation Within the W51 Complex and Infrared Dark Clouds
(2012-01-13)Despite its importance the fundamental question of how massive stars form remains unanswered, with improvements to both models and observations having crucial roles to play. To quote Bate et al. (2003) computational models ... -
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Mothers' Experiences of Parenting
(2013-04-12)Background: The death of a child has been found to have long term consequences for both individual and family functioning. This is particularly true for bereaved siblings who have been found to be at increased risk of ... -
The support of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cell lines by different matrices
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-09-11)The future of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research with regards to their applicability in a therapeutic setting, relies on the development and standardisation of consistent and robust methods to demonstrate their ... -
Surfing the Turbulence: Fluctuations in Self-Perceptions of Expertise in the Long Term Developmental Journeys of Expert-Like Male Sports Coaches
(2017-07-20)The aim of this study is to investigate how self-perceptions of expertise among sports coaches may develop, regress, and redevelop over time within the context of coaching, in light of recent reconceptualisations of ... -
Sustainable Strawberry Production and Management Including Control of Strawberry Powdery Mildew
(2017-07-24)At present, the global population is increasing, while soil and fresh water resources for crop production are declining. It is important to adopt sustainable practices to optimise the use of limited natural resources ...