Browsing PhD Theses Collection by Title
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The Paradox of freedom in Everyday Leadership Practice - an Inquiry into the Identity Work of Developing Leadership in the Public Sector in Denmark
(2022-03-03)This thesis is an autoethnographic inquiry into the identity work of leaders working in the public sector in Denmark. The research is about how degrees of freedom can be experienced when it is acknowledged that leaders are ... -
The Paradoxes of Project Management: a Project Management Consultant’s Inquiry into the Social Reality of Technology-Driven Change Projects
(2018-08-22)This thesis is a practice-based inquiry into project management. It adds to the critique of more traditional discourse in project management literature (PMI 20013, IPMA 2010, Prince2 2009, Agile Alliance Organisation 2001) ... -
Parallel Solution of Diffusion Equations using Laplace Transform Methods with Particular Reference to Black-Scholes Models of Financial Options
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-07-22)Diffusion equations arise in areas such as fluid mechanics, cellular biology, weather forecasting, electronics, mechanical engineering, atomic physics, environmental science, medicine, etc. This dissertation considers ... -
Parent-Trainee Experiences of Child and Mental Health Training: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2011-01-24)Aims: Research examining the process of clinical psychology training has essentially focused on the outsider perspective and given little consideration of the trainee’s lived experience. Using qualitative methodology this ... -
Parental Experiences of Intercountry Adoption: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Study
(2009-02-19)Intercountry adoption, where children are born in one country and adopted by families in another country, has become an increasing global phenomenon (Scherman & Harré, 2004). As indicated by a review of the literature, the ... -
Parents of Children with Autism who Blog: a Thematic Analysis
(University of Hertfordshire, 2015-01-29)This study used thematic analysis to investigate the blogs of parents of children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Condition, with a particular focus on themes that emerge when parents write about themselves, their child ... -
Parents’ experiences of being abused by their adolescent children: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Study of Adolescent-to-Parent Violence and Abuse
(2016-04-13)Background: Adolescent-to-Parent Violence and Abuse (APVA) continues to be one of the most hidden forms of family-abuse, remaining unrecognised at a policy level and under-researched at a theoretical level, especially in ... -
A Participatory Study into the Student Experience of First Year Under-Represented Students in a UK University
(2019-08-14)This thesis explores the experience of ten undergraduate students at Southeastern (a UK post-1992 university) as they transition into higher education (HE) during their first year. The research focuses on the widening ... -
Partnership, Planning and Decision Making as Pre Conditions for Success of Social Marketing: a Case Study of Nutrition Cell Balochistan
(2019-03-28)This research is based on an agreed definition approved by the European Social Marketing Association (ESMA), Australian Association of Social Marketing (AASM), and the International Social Marketing Association (ISMA). It ... -
Paths, Players, Places: Towards an Understanding of Mazes and Spaces in Videogames
(2010-08-25)This thesis contributes to the field of academic game studies by reworking and updating the established theories of Espen Aarseth, Janet Murray and Marie-Laure Ryan in understanding the path in videogames. It also draws ... -
Patient and Doctor Perceptions of Hypertension and its Treatment: a Qualitative Study in Urban Hospitals of Pakistan
(2019-12-23)Hypertension (HTN) is a chronic disease that has become a growing public health problem in countries around the world, including Pakistan. Successful HTN control is an essential cornerstone in the prevention of morbidity ... -
Patient Perspectives on Learning of a Psychosis Diagnosis
(2023-10-17)Background: The experience of receiving psychiatric diagnoses is under researched. The impact of how an individual receives a diagnosis of psychosis, as used in early intervention services is particularly lacking in empirical ... -
Patients and their Use of Medicines: a Discourse Analysis of Encounters with Nurse Prescribers
(2016-05-18)Patients’ use of medicines is widely recognised as sub-optimal with a high proportion of patients with a long-term condition not taking their medicines as prescribed. Research and policy guidance emphasise the importance ... -
Patients' Health Related Quality of Life After Coronary Revascularization: A Longitudinal Mixed Method Study
(2017-08-21)Aims: Coronary Revascularization (CR) has increased patients’ survival rate globally. However, the lack of a consensus definition of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and the different methodological and conceptual ... -
Patterns of construing and post-traumatic stress disorder
(University of Hertfordshire, 2007)Four studies were conducted in order to investigate the way people construe their most stressful and traumatic experiences. Personal constl1,lct theory was the main theoretical approach used in all studies but the thesis ... -
Perceptions and Embodiments of Masculinities Amongst Men Who Use(d) Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs: a Mixed-Methods Approach During COVID-19 and Beyond
(2023-05-09)The use of IPEDs (Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs) has become a growing area of concern for public health, particularly over the last decade (Santos and Coomber, 2017). The vast majority of the population consuming ... -
Perceptions of Causes and Long Term Effects of Academic Underachievement in High IQ Adults
(2015-10-12)A great deal is known and has been written about the difficulties that high IQ children can experience in the classroom when their special educational needs are not met. Evidence suggests that these difficulties can result ... -
Performance Measurement in the Product Development Process
(2015-10-09)The intention of the programme was to evaluate Product Development (PD) strategies within the automotive industry and to identify areas in which improvements could be made in PD project performance that would also provide ... -
The Performance of Associative Memory Models with Biologically Inspired Connectivity
(2009-04-01)This thesis is concerned with one important question in artificial neural networks, that is, how biologically inspired connectivity of a network affects its associative memory performance. In recent years, research on the ... -
Performance of people with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer's disease on the behavioural assessment of the dysexecutive syndrome test battery
(University of Hertfordshire, 2004)Aim: Decline in executive functioning in Mild Cognitive Impairment has only been investigated with single tests to date. A battery of executive function tasks (BADS: Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome) ...