PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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The Life of a Top Boy: a Qualitative Exploration of Young, Black Men and their Stories of Experiencing Violent Activity in the Context of Gang Affiliation and Trauma
(2023-11-14)Rationale and Aims: There is speculation that young Black men (YBM) exposed to gang-affiliated violence are likely to have negative impacts on their psychological functioning, but not enough research has explored this. It ... -
Being Value-Able: an Exploration of the Benefits of Conscious Connection to Values
(2023-11-08)Values have interested psychologists for decades. Research has shown impacts of shared values within organisations or teams, outcomes of mismatched values between employees and employers, and values contributing to well-being. ... -
Investigating the Role of the Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) Protein CELSR1 in Breast Cancer
(2023-11-18)Planar cell polarity (PCP) is essential for generating highly organized tissue structures and for directional cell movement/migration. The role of PCP in embryogenesis is well-documented, however its role in adult pathologies, ... -
The Social Processes Maintaining Engagement in Repetitive Self-Harm
(2023-10-03)Background: Epidemiological studies evidence increasing rates of self-harm within the United Kingdom and pressure on the National Health Service to adequately support individuals who engage in repetitive self-harm. Repetitive ... -
Bereaved Parents’ Narratives of their Journeys Through Grief
(2023-09-27)Rationale and aims: The death of a child is understood to be a particularly devastating form of loss for parents, and there remains a need to further understand bereaved parents’ experiences in order to inform the support ... -
Towards a Digital Capability Maturity Framework for Tertiary Institutions
(2023-10-19)Background: The Digital Capability (DC) of an Institution is the extent to which the institution's culture, policies, and infrastructure enable and support digital practices (Killen et al., 2017), and maturity is the ... -
The Influence of the Working Environment on Midwifery Staff and Students in Relation to the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE)
(2023-10-11)This qualitative study explores the experiences of practitioners and students in relation to the ‘newborn and infant physical examination’ (NIPE). Previous research relating to the NIPE has given some insight into practice ... -
Joining of Engineering Ceramics to Metals
(2023-09-12)In this research, successful joining of Al₂O₃ to Al₂O₃ was achieved through novel brazing methods involving the Ti-Al, Ti-Al-Ni, and Ti-Al-Fe systems. Subsequently, the Ti-Al-Ni-based braze was employed to join Al₂O₃ and ... -
A Dynamic Radio View of the Orion Nebula Cluster: Protostellar Nonthermal Variability at Centimeter and Millimeter Wavelengths
(2023-09-05)This thesis contains a comprehensive observational study of the radio time domain of young stars in the search for high-energy (HE) processes. This requires high spatiotemporal-resolution observations and thus the use ... -
WiGlove : A Passive Dynamic Orthosis for Home-based Post-stroke Rehabilitation of Hand and Wrist
(2023-09-11)Stroke survivors often experience varying levels of motor function deficits in their hands affecting their ability to perform activities of daily life. Recovering their hand functions through neurorehabilitation is a ... -
Judo as a Method of Moral and Psychological Development
(2023-10-23)This research is aimed at proving the moral and psychological effects of judo activities on children in the project "Judo in schools" in Croatia. There are numerous studies on the impact of judo on children in the segment ... -
Optical Measurement of Airborne Particles on Unmanned Aircraft
(2023-09-30)Aerosols and clouds are persistent causes of uncertainty in climate and weather models, which is due to their heterogeneous suspension and occurrence within the atmosphere, and complex interactions which are chaotic and ... -
Subjugation and Subterfuge: Struggling with Metrics as a Middle Manager in a UK Business School
(2021-05-20)This thesis explores the behaviours and emotions which emerge when middle managers in Higher Education (HE) use metrics as a tool to measure organisational performance. It uses autoethnography as a methodological approach, ... -
Characterisation of Temperature-Sensitivity of Brassica Resistance Against Leptosphaeria maculans
(2021-03-15)Variety resistance is an important tool in controlling against plant pathogens. As temperatures increase due to global warming, temperature-resilient resistance may play an important role in crop protection. However, the ... -
Thermogelling Materials for Topical Drug Delivery
(2021-02-26)This thesis describes the synthesis and characterisation of thermogelling materials and their evaluation as topical drug delivery excipients. Thermogelling materials are polymers which transition from solution to gel ... -
Assessing and Improving Prognosis in Patients with High Risk Acute Coronary Syndrome
(2020-08-11)Endogenous fibrinolysis, if impaired, has been identified as a novel risk factor in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). However, in-depth understanding of endogenous fibrinolysis, whether it varies day to day ... -
Understanding R Gene-Mediated Resistance Against Leptosphaeria maculans for Effective Control of Phoma Stem Canker in Oilseed Rape
(2020-01-28)This project aims to improve understanding of R gene-mediated resistance against Leptosphaeria maculans for effective control of phoma stem canker in oilseed rape. This was achieved through three objectives by (i) monitoring ... -
An Investigation of Airline Catering Supply Chain Processes, Performance and Practices using SCOR Model
(2023-05-29)Supply chain management is critical to airlines' ability to provide high-quality in-flight dining experience to passengers. Managing airline catering supply chain can be complex and difficult because the chain frequently ... -
Positive Geometries for Scattering Amplitudes in Momentum Space
(2023-05-25)Positive geometries provide a purely geometric point of departure for studying scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. A positive geometry is a specific semi-algebraic set equipped with a unique rational top ... -
High Efficiency Low Power Rectifiers and ZVS DC to DC Converters for RF Energy Harvesting
(2023-04-04)In recent years, advancements in modern technologies have grown the demand for low-power wireless devices. Considering that enhancing the lifetime of the required battery to maintain the operation of these devices is still ...