PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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Engineered Emulsions Stabilised by Thermoresponsive Branched Copolymers for Pharmaceutical Applications
(2023-12-07)This research work explored thermoresponsive emulsions and investigated their potential in delivering drugs through in situ gelling pharmaceutical formulations. Employing thermoresponsive branched copolymer surfactants ... -
Probing the Multiphase Interstellar Medium in an Extreme Starburst at High Redshift
(2023-12-14)In this thesis we present a range of observations and results relating to the lensed hyperluminous sub-mm galaxy ‘9io9’ at z = 2.6, where we have used sub-mm/mm spectroscopy targeting the dense and cold interstellar ... -
The Use of Online Photovoice to Explore the Experiences of Mothers who have been Subject to Recurrent Care Proceedings
(2023-10-10)Research has been carried out to explore the prevalence and pattern of repeated care proceedings in England, whereby birthparents return to the family court, resulting in multiple children being removed from their care ... -
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 ... -
Anxiety and Extreme Demand Avoidance in Children and Adolescents: the Roles of Sensory Sensitivities and Intolerance of Uncertainty
(2023-10-17)Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a diagnosis that has been described in clinical practice but not recognised by official diagnostic and statistical manuals. The National Autistic Society (UK) describes PDA as ‘a ... -
Understanding the Perspectives of UK-Based Family Members of People who have Chosen to End their Life by Assisted Dying
(2023-10-10)Assisted dying is growing global momentum as an option to end unbearable suffering in particular medical circumstances, but remains illegal in the UK. Currently, UK citizens wishing for an assisted death must go to ... -
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, ... -
Colour, Dress and Modernism: the Significance of Colour in Representations of Clothing in Modernist Literature by Women
(2023-11-30)This dissertation explores the significance of the colour of dress in modernist literature written by women from the beginning of World War I to the start of World War II (1914–1939). It establishes the closely interwoven ... -
Near-Real Time, Semi-Automated Threat Assessment of Information Environments
(2023-11-19)Threat assessment is a crucial process for monitoring and defending against potential threats in an organization’s information environment and business operations. Ensuring the security of information infrastructure requires ... -
A Grounded Theory Analysis of Trainee Clinical Psychologists’ Use of Self-Disclosure in Problem-Based Learning
(2023-10-04)A limited body of literature suggests complex self-disclosure experiences exist across the career of a Clinical Psychologist. Self-disclosure experiences begin at a doctoral training level within small-group working exercises ... -
Weight Stigma in Clinical Psychology: a Critical Discursive Psychology Analysis with Trainees
(2023-10-04)Background Weight stigma is defined as negative attitudes towards and beliefs about others because of their weight (Andreyeva, Puhl, & Brownell, 2008). Biased views of fat individuals by professionals in physical healthcare ... -
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 ... -
Residential Childcare Workers’ Experiences of Behaviours that Challenge
(2023-10-05)Background: The role of Residential Childcare Workers (RCWs) in the UK is pivotal in providing support to children and young people in care who have complex emotional and behavioural needs. Behaviours that challenge (BTC) ... -
Characterising Ultracool Dwarfs in the Gaia Mission All Sky Survey
(2023-12-04)I present here the characterisation of ultracool dwarfs having been observed through direct, ground-based campaigns. These ultracool dwarfs have been used to assist with the parameterisation of objects as observed by ... -
The Role of Experiences of the Body and Embodiment in Type 1 Diabetes and Disordered Eating
(2023-10-27)Type 1 Diabetes and Disordered Eating (T1DE) is a term used to describe the presence of disordered eating patterns that are specific to those with Type 1 Diabetes. Research has highlighted that conventional eating disorder ... -
A Critical Discourse Analysis into the Policy and Debate Relating to “Adults at Risk” detained within Immigration Removal Centres in the UK
(2023-10-31)This research uses a critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses in a UK parliamentary debate and a policy document about “adults at risk” in immigration detention. Immigration detention centres in the UK are ... -
Young People’s Experiences of Leaving Homelessness: A South Wales Study
(2023-10-30)Understanding how homelessness is experienced is key in developing meaningful and effective interventions. In recent years there has been a shift from research concerned with routes into homelessness towards investigations ... -
“It does get good again, and it will.” A Grounded Theory Exploration of Cis Women’s Journey from Rape or Unwanted Sex in Adulthood to Joy and Enjoyment in Sexual Intimacy
(2023-10-30)Literature on the sexual impact of sexual violence has predominantly focused on dysfunction and risk, suggesting a hopeless future for those impacted. This grounded theory study explores how cis women in the UK are able ... -
A Narrative Analysis of Stories Told in the Windrush Generation and Descendants of Windrush Generation
(2023-09-26)Background: Research concerning intergenerational trauma has often looked at a historic event(s) experienced in one generation and the effect of this on subsequent generations. This excludes ongoing, cumulative experiences ... -
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. ...