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Complexity and the Practices of Communities in Healthcare: Implications for an Internal Practice Consultant
(2012-09-07)
Current literature regarding quality health services frequently identifies
interprofessional collaboration (IPC) as essential to patient-centred care, sustainable
health systems, and a productive workforce. The IPC ...
Reflecting on a Period of Change in a Governmental Development Agency: Understanding Management as the Patterning of Interaction and Politics
(2012-09-07)
Management was once described as the art of getting things done through the efforts of oneself and other people (Follett, 1941) and is functionalised through acts of planning, organising, leading and controlling tasks and ...
A Reappraisal of the Involvement of an Internal Consultant in Processes of Culture Change in a Public Transport Organisation
(2012-09-06)
In the dominant management discourse, managers and consultants are credited with the ability to move their organisation in a planned, controlled way towards an idealised future. The assumptions underpinning this discourse ...
Leadership Development as Reflexive Practice
(2012-09-06)
This thesis examines Leadership Development in both a corporate setting and an expedition-based setting. The assumptions that are the foundations of current Leadership Development originate, and are informed by, aspects ...
The Effect of Soil pH on Degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
(2012-09-06)
The environmental fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) is a significant issue, raising interest in bioremediation. However, the physio-chemical characteristics of PAHs and the physical, chemical, and biological ...
The Environments of High Redshift Active Galactic Nuclei
(2012-08-30)
In this thesis I study the links between Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and
their surrounding large scale environments mainly at high redshift. I firstly
use Spitzer space telescope data for one of the largest and most ...
Reflective Conversations with Headteachers: Exploring the Realities of Leadership in UK Secondary Schools
(2012-08-21)
The aim of this practitioner research is to explore and analyse how headteachers reflect on their own professional practice to help them sustain themselves and improve secondary schools. The research has two aspects: the ...
The Relationship Between Improvisation and Cognition
(2012-08-16)
“After the group had played [improvisation] game[s]…colours became brighter, people and spaces seem of a different size, focus is sharper. Our normal thinking dulls perception…” Keith Johnstone (1979, pg. 131)
Improvisation ...
A MacIntyrean Philosophy of Work
(2012-08-09)
This thesis outlines and defends a MacIntyrean account of contemporary work. MacIntyre's virtue ethics seems to entail a wholesale rejection of the modern order; throughout his writings MacIntyre is highly critical of ...
Exploring the Personal Constructs of Looked After Children and their Foster Carers: a Qualitative Study
(2012-06-29)
Previous research has indicated the unique contribution that the interaction between looked after children and their foster carers might have on young people’s behaviour, emotional well-being and subsequent placement ...