PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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An Exploration of Nutrition Information Practice in People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
(2022-04-06)People with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) need information about what to eat in order to be able to self-manage their diabetes and to prevent long term complications. Their information activities involve accessing ... -
Sensitivity of Simulated Boundary-Layer Flow to the Representation of Forest Canopies in Complex Terrain
(2022-04-19)Complex terrain covers a large fraction of the land surface of the Earth. Due to the limited uses of steeply sloped terrain a lot of this is undeveloped and often covered with a canopy of trees or shrubs. Vegetation canopies ... -
The Experience of Body Image in People with Sickle Cell Disease
(2022-05-11)Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a significant genetic blood disorder, causing a vast number of possible health complications, with a potentially huge impact on adjustment and quality of life. As with many other chronic ... -
An Exploration of Operational Risk Management and Basel Implementation in Banking: a Developing Economy Perspective
(2022-06-15)Within the past decade and a half, Operational Risk (OR, OpRisk) has evolved from being the risk without a definition, a residual category for risks, to become one of the dominant risks in the banking world. The Basel ... -
Relational Self-Confidence: a Human Resources Executive Perspective on Power Group Influences and the De-centering of the Self
(2022-06-08)This thesis develops the concept of relational self-confidence. In psychological and managerial research, self-confidence, and other related concepts: self-efficacy; self-esteem; organisation-based self-esteem (Bandura, ... -
Rethinking Loyalty within Relational Workplace Dynamics from the Perspective of an Organisational Consultant Practising in Israel
(2022-06-09)This thesis explores the theme of relations of loyalty among members of organisations, in particular during breakdown situations, during which a sense of loyalty is put to the test. The organisational development (OD) ... -
The Experiences and Understanding of Psychological Distress in the Pre- and Post-Natal Period Among Sikh Punjabi Women Living in the UK
(2022-06-16)There is increasing interest in the NHS to better cater to diverse needs. However, the literature exploring the perinatal mental health (PMH) experiences of specific ethnic groups is scarce. This is the first study to ... -
Mobile Commerce Innovation: a Case for Retailer Adoption and Consumer Acceptance in Nigeria
(2022-03-22)The purpose of this research project is to explore the adoption and acceptance of Mobile Commerce (MC) in the B2C retail sector in Nigeria. In an era of ever-evolving technological landscape, MC as a technological phenomenon ... -
Newly Qualified Nurses’ Early Experiences of Working as Unqualified Mentors
(2022-06-11)Although a wealth of research examines varying facets of mentorship within nursing, to date, the voices and perspectives of newly qualified nurses working as mentors without formal preparation have largely been excluded ... -
Stress Factors and Coping Mechanisms in Health Social Workers' Workplaces: an Exploratory Study in Saudi Arabian Western Provence Hospitals
(2022-03-04)There is a growing body of literature that recognises the increasingly complex challenges faced by health social workers (HSWs) in their workplaces, due to the nature of the social work profession. To date, however, there ... -
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 ... -
Primary Science Subject Leaders Creating Communities of Practice: Stories of Professional Development
(2021-12-02)A policy epidemic of marketisation and accountability in education (Ball, 2003) has led to a narrowing of the curriculum in English primary schools, and the importance of science has declined (Spielman, 2020). In addition, ... -
Access to Land, the Household, and Food Security: Exploring gendered links in Rural South India
(2022-02-17)Despite sufficient food production on the national level, an estimated 37% to 60% of households in India are food insecure. Food security is defined as when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to ... -
Exploring the Experience of Parenting when using Social Media: a Grounded Theory Study
(2022-03-09)Becoming a parent is a period of great transition in which a person’s relationship to their evolving identity can impact upon their wellbeing. Both group membership (Seymour-Smith et al, 2017) and social comparison (Gilbert, ... -
Investigations on Mycoviruses found in Dothistroma septosporum and Beauveria bassiana and their Effects on Fungal Pathogenicity
(2022-03-21)Mycoviruses specifically infect and replicate in fungi, and they are frequently cryptic in nature and usually associated with hypovirulence (reduced virulence) or, more unusually, hypervirulence. The research aim of the ... -
The Resilience and Sustainability of Suranga Irrigation in the Western Ghats of India
(2022-02-03)This study focused on a little known traditional water management system, known as suranga, historically used by marginalised agricultural communities in the remote foothills of the Western Ghats in India to evaluate the ... -
Knowledge Transfer for and through the Replication of Organisational Routines in Franchise Systems
(2022-01-07)Routines are dispositions to behave according to established sets of rules that are also repositories of the organisational memory about “how things get done”. Franchise systems are organisational forms which expand through ... -
Accessing Mental Health Services for the First Time: The Black African and Caribbean Experience
(2021-05-24)Background: Significant disparities and complex inequalities are experienced by individuals from black African and Caribbean communities and perpetuate the formation of barriers and the perception of poor outcomes from NHS ... -
Exploring the Processes that Nurture the Resilience of Young Refugees Living in the UK
(2021-11-26)Literature on young refugees has predominantly focused on pathology, symptom reduction and barriers for accessing services and help-seeking. In recent decades there has been a paradigm-shift towards exploring factors that ... -
Evaluation of the Regulatory Requirements for Development and Approval of Biosimilar Medicines in the BRICS-TM Countries: Improving Patients' Access
(2021-12-22)Biosimilars are affordable medicines of the original innovator biologic products that has the potential to improve access and create valuable savings for patients and the overall healthcare systems. Biosimilars are expected ...