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The Historical Association Between Class Origins and Male Career Trajectories in UK Film Production
(2020-08-03)
The characterisation of the contemporary creative and cultural industries (CCIs) as ‘cool, creative and egalitarian’ (Gill, 2002) has been unpicked in recent literature (Grugulis and Stoyanova, 2012; Eikhof and Warhurst, ...
Mental Health Inpatient Experience of Patients with Autistic Spectrum Conditions: a Phenomenological Study
(2020-07-16)
Aims
This study is pertinent to the current political and policy driven climate regarding increasing rights, choices, inclusion, independence and awareness for people with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). Since the ...
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 ...
The Social History of Medical Self-Help in 20th-Century England: a Microhistory of a Rural Community
(2020-06-16)
This thesis focuses on the health experiences of an Oxfordshire village 1900-1947 and the aim of the study is to obtain a holistic view of the health status and health strategies of one agricultural community. The period ...
Probing the Role of AGN Feedback and Galactic Mergers in Galaxy Evolution
(2020-06-09)
In this thesis we aim to probe the role of two of the processes that can dictate the evolution of galaxies
– feedback from the central active galactic nucleus (AGN) and mergers. To study the importance of
AGN feedback ...
Registered Nurses' Perceptions of Workplace Stress in Paediatric Intensive Care Units in Saudi Arabia: a Mixed-Method Research Study
(2020-05-22)
Background: Workplace stress among nurses in Intensive Care Units (ICU) has been shown to variously affect their health, the quality of nursing care, healthcare delivery and national healthcare costs (Mokhtar et al., 2016). ...
The Application of Data Mining Techniques to Learning Analytics and Its Implications for Interventions with Small Class Sizes
(2020-05-12)
There has been significant progress in the development of techniques to deliver effective technology enhanced learning systems in education, with substantial progress in the field of learning analytics. These analyses are ...
An Evaluation of the Regulatory Environment in South Africa: Improving the Review Process and Patients' Access to Medicines
(2020-05-05)
National regulatory authorities (NRAs) are responsible for the evaluation of medicines and for ensuring that only those products which meet the requirements of quality, safety and efficacy are registered and made available ...
Processes of Compromise in International Development Consultancies - Getting Heard as a Social Scientist
(2020-04-30)
This thesis explores the theme of compromise from the perspective of a social scientist working in the technically oriented environment of international development. My involvement is through my employment in a Danish ...
Constructing Autism Inside and Outside the Clinic: Exploring Relationships Between Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists' and Activists' Discourses
(2020-04-23)
This research investigated the construction of autism in clinical and social terrains. Study one drew from Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP) to examine the language of psychoanalytic psychotherapists in constructing the ...