PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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A Mixed-Methods Study of Eating Behaviours and Mealtime Experiences in Relation to Young People with Tourette Syndrome
(2021-12-10)Research suggests that young people with neurodevelopmental disorders experience an increased prevalence of selective eating compared with their typically developing counterparts. However, very little research has specifically ... -
The Effect of Input from the Cerebellar Nuclei on Activity in Thalamocortical Networks
(2021-12-21)The cerebellum is a prominent brain structure that contains more than half of all neurons, in the brain, which are densely packed and make up 15% of the total brain mass (Andersen et al., 1992). It is well known for its ... -
A Qualitative Exploration of Facilitators' Experiences of Using the Tree of Life Methodology within Global Community Contexts
(2022-01-21)The Tree of Life methodology (ToL) is a Collective Narrative Practice developed to support communities to respond to collective hardships and trauma from a place of strength. In seeking more culturally-appropriate, localised, ... -
The Impact of Global Value Chains on the Retention of Staff in Chinese SMEs
(2021-12-16)Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent ninety-nine percent of China’s registered enterprises, yet they remain a much under researched phenomenon. In addition our knowledge of what constitutes human resource ... -
'Good Enough Parenting’: Social Workers’ Experiences of Assessing Parenting in Family Safeguarding Services
(2021-12-01)Research examining social workers experiences of supporting and assessing parenting is limited. Despite existing research indicating there are important skills that facilitate parent and social worker relationships and ... -
The Role of Market-Driven Initiatives and Support for Rural Poverty Alleviation - a Case Study of AgResults Program in Nigeria
(2021-11-27)The connection between persistence rural poverty in the developing nations, agricultural-related structural problems have been debated extensively in the literature. Surmounting both challenges of the extensive rural poverty ... -
Bioprospecting for Fungal-Based Biocontrol Agents
(2021-10-19)The research objective of this project was to investigate how a virus infecting the fungus can improve its effectiveness as a pesticide. This mycovirus-induced hypervirulence was investigated using microbiological and ... -
Micropower Generation using Buckling Piezoelectric Elements
(2021-08-05)In recent years, piezoelectric materials and structures have gained significant attention for energy harvesting purposes. This attention can be attributed to the enhancement of low-power electronics and the high energy ... -
The Physical Processes that Drive Galaxy Evolution - from Massive Galaxies to the Dwarf Regime
(2021-09-25)The study of galaxy formation and evolution is a cornerstone in astrophysics, as galaxies connect together all scales of the Universe. The physical processes that govern galaxies therefore needs to be fully understood if ... -
The Production of Phygital Social Spaces: a Study on the Influential Factors that Foster New Interactions amongst Second-Generation British Nigerian Youth
(2021-10-08)British Nigerian youths use of social media is undoubtedly altering the characteristics of urban festival landscapes, which no longer can be described merely as a physical construct. Shifts in the space-making paradigm ... -
Investigation of the Physical and Physiochemical Relationships in Nanoparticles and their Attributions to Antimicrobial Activities
(2021-09-02)Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to global health, as bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics leading to failure of treatments. This PhD project investigated the physical, chemical ... -
Using Feature Weighting as a Tool for Clustering Applications
(2021-10-24)The weighted variant of k-Means (Wk-Means), which assigns values to features based on their relevance, is a well-known approach to address the shortcoming of k-Means with data containing noisy and irrelevant features. This ... -
Learning Feature Weights for Density-Based Clustering
(2021-09-01)K-Means is the most popular and widely used clustering algorithm. This algorithm cannot recover non-spherical shape clusters in data sets. DBSCAN is arguably the most popular algorithm to recover arbitrary shape clusters; ... -
The Potential Contribution of Water-Soluble Vitamins in Ready Meals to the UK Reference Nutrient Intakes
(2021-08-24)The UK ready meal (RM) food industry had an estimated value of £2.7 billion in 2017/18. These meals are a convenient option for many people and are described as a processed food that require reheating before consumption. ... -
Choosing Geographic Scales for the Analysis of Labour Market and Related Statistics
(2021-08-16)Researchers often only have access to aggregated statistics about people and businesses rather than individual data. This means that research into the relationships between labour market outcomes for geographic areas and ... -
Assessment of Fatigue in Robot-Mediated Upper Limb Interactions Using EEG
(2021-09-26)Fatigue experienced during post-stroke rehabilitation and its implications for the therapy outcome are often overlooked in existing rehabilitation programmes. Past studies have shown that intensive and repetitive robot-mediated ... -
Women's Narratives of Miscarriage and their Role in Identity Construction
(2021-10-22)Rationale and Aims: Literature surrounding miscarriage is broad in scope, yet existing research into women’s narrative identity constructions following miscarriage is significantly under-explored. Few studies have utilised ... -
Working Class Women's Agency in the Labour Movement in East London, 1840 – 1914
(2021-08-12)This research reveals a hidden history of working-class women’s lives and agency in industrial East London, 1840 to 1914. “Sweated” industrial women were integral to East London’s industrial labour geographies, as demonstrated ... -
Health Visitors' Professional Identity and their Lived Experience of Service Change
(2021-09-15)This qualitative extended study explored 20 health visitors’ (HVs’) perceptions of their professional identity and their experience of living through a time of significant service change. Specifically, it investigated, ... -
The Newspaper Portrayal of Mothers Accessing Food Banks in the UK
(2021-10-07)Aim: This study investigated the newspaper portrayal of mothers’ accessing food banks in the UK. Specifically, how their identities were portrayed, how their experiences were portrayed and how the impact of this was ...