Browsing PhD Theses Collection by Title
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Cultural Influences on Psychiatrists' Constructions of Mental Health Problems: a Repertory Grid Study
(2018-11-08)Background: The literature suggests that people from different cultures make sense of their experiences in different ways, including how they understand mental health problems. Much of this research focused on how clients ... -
Cultural Variables Affecting Client/Therapist Consonance: the Perception of Efficacy in Arts Therapies Group Treatment
(2008-04-01)This thesis addresses the hypothesis “ Intragroup cultural differences between client and therapist will adversely affect client – therapist consonance in their perception of arts therapies group treatment” The ... -
Culture, Change and the Management of London's Taxi Drivers
(2017-01-16)This research has been based on my experiences of London taxi drivers, both before I entered the London Taxi Industry, whilst studying to be a London taxi driver and during the thirty years I spent within the industry in ... -
Culture-related Depression in Taiwanese Women and the Application of The BodyMind Approach TM
(2016-09-28)This research explores the connection between modernisation and depression in women in Taiwan from two perspectives, those of modernisation and individualisation, and the duality between body and mind. Many researches ... -
Curricular Processes as Practice: The Emergence of Excellence in a Medical School
(2008-03-28)This thesis deals with two related questions. The first relates to a critical inquiry into the processes of curriculum creation and formation within a medical school which has undergone a significant curriculum revision. ... -
Cytokine Gene and Protein Expression in BCG Vaccinated and Non-Vaccinated Mycobacterium bovis Infected cattle
(2009-07-01)The persistent increase of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) over the past twenty years has put a substantial strain on both the British economy and the welfare of livestock. However, the development of an effective bTB vaccine ... -
The Dark Side of Emotional Labour: Machiavellianism and Emotion Management Strategies within a Cultural Context
(2018-05-10)The current literature presents inconsistencies with regard to the ‘Bright’ and ‘Dark Sides’ of emotional labour and related emotion management strategies: it indicates that the negative effect of emotional labour cannot ... -
Darwinian Evolutionary Ideas in Business Economics and Organization Studies
(University of Hertfordshire, 2006-04)This thesis is a study of the use of Darwinian evolutionary ideas in business economics and organization studies. Mindful of the explosion of evolutionary rhetoric in the socio-economic domain over the last three decades ... -
David Roberts' Egypt & Nubia as Imperial Picturesque Landscape
(2010-06-29)This thesis examines and contextualises historically significant aspects of the ways in which David Roberts’ lucrative lithographic publication Egypt and Nubia (1846-49) represented the “Orient”. The analysis demonstrates ... -
Deceitful Bodies: Ideas, Performance and the Physicality of Bodily Fraud, 1540 - 1750
(2020-02-11)In early modern England it was believed that many people possessed the ability to alter and thereby mispresent their bodies. Various texts claimed that they were able to do so by either creating or restoring different ... -
Decolonising Clinical Psychology Training in Singapore: Trainee and Recently Qualified Psychologist Views about Diversifying Therapeutic Models
(2022-11-30)Despite literature suggesting that Western psychology and models might not be as culturally appropriate in other cultures (e.g. Henrich et al., 2010; Llewelyn & Shimoyama, 2012), clinical psychology courses in Singapore ... -
Defining 'Hard to Reach': the Work of Health Visitors with Vulnerable Families
(2015-08-20)The term ‘hard to reach’ first appeared in the Health Visiting Review (Lowe 2007). This review claimed that the health visiting service was able and experienced in reaching the ‘hard to reach’. Yet there was a dearth of ... -
A Defining Moment: Malaysian Nurses' Perspectives of Trans-National Higher Education
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-08-29)Abstract Transnational Higher Education (TNHE) post-registration top-up nursing degree programmes are relatively new in Malaysia and their impact in clinical settings is unknown. This research interprets Malaysian nurses’ ... -
Deglaciation Dynamics of the Feegletscher Nord, Switzerland: Implications for Glacio-Fluvial Sediment Transfer
(2016-04-14)Understanding of the processes of sediment transfer within, and from, glaciated catchments is of fundamental importance in order to establish rates of sediment transfer and resultant landscape evolution. Rates of ... -
Deleuze, Judgment and Artistic Research
(2016-07-19)The debate concerning the legitimacy of artistic research that has taken place over the last two decades is notable for the way in which it has drawn attention to rival 'representational' and 'performative' conceptions of ... -
Delivering Drug Treatment to New Minority Communities: Fresh Perspectives
(2017-05-12)This thesis addresses the confluence of the issues of drug use and migration. Using data that explores the needs of new communities, it argues that members of new minority communities who use drugs suffer double ... -
Demand and Capacity Modelling of Acute Services Using Simulation and Optimization Techniques
(2019-05-09)The level of difficulty that hospital management have been experiencing over the past decade in terms of balancing demand and capacity needs has been at an unprecedented level in the UK. Due to shortage of capacity, hospitals ... -
Demand Response Management and Control Strategies for Integrated Smart Electricity Networks
(2023-09-20)Demand Response (DR) programs are being introduced by some electricity grid operators as resource options for curtailing and reducing the demand of electricity during certain time periods for balancing supply and demand. ... -
The Democratization and Popularization of Luxury
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-08-22)This dissertation examines the nature of luxury and luxury branded products, and the meanings attached to them. This is the first study of its kind as materials, manufacturing, sales and marketing processes are analyzed ... -
Deploying Process Innovation in Manufacturing
(2023-05-05)Manufacturing companies are increasingly under pressure to innovate due primarily to the intense competition they face, particularly under global market conditions. Innovation is recognised as a precondition for survival. ...