PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Antifungal Agents Targeting the Fungal Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase
(2020-04-06)Fungal infections now contribute significantly to microbe-related morbidity and mortality due to there being a limited number of available antifungal agents and limited modes of delivery. Over the past two decades, many ... -
Institutional Complementarities in the Performance of UK and French Cooperative Firms: a Comparative Analysis
(2020-04-05)This thesis attempts to identify institutional arrangements that allow cooperative firms to overcome the underinvestment problem identified in the theoretical literature. The comparative institutional analysis focuses on ... -
Influence of Chronic Ankle Instability on Human Movement: a Three Dimensional Kinematic and Electromyographic Analysis
(2020-04-17)Context: Lateral ankle sprains are one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries in the general and sporting population and as such present high-cost implications and time lost to sport and employment. Following an initial ... -
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 ... -
Balancing Interoception and Exteroception: Vestibular and Spatial Contributions to the Bodily Self
(2019-11-18)Experiencing the body as a coherent, stable, entity involves the dynamic integration of information from several internal (i.e. interoceptive) and external (i.e. exteroceptive) sensory sources, to produce a feeling that ... -
Organisational Change and the Politics of Identity: Four Reflexive Inquiries into Ordinary Power Struggles and their Role in Shaping Organisations and Individuals
(2019-12-18)This thesis sheds light on the ideals we construct in the workplace and how these emergent ideologies mask over power dynamics and political struggles for meaning and identity. Challenging the idea that ‘office politics’ ... -
Transitioning to a Trauma Informed Forensic Unit: Staff Perceptions of a Shift in Organisational Culture
(2019-12-13)Background: Trauma-informed care can be defined as “a system development model that is grounded in and directed by a complete understanding of how trauma exposure affects service user’s neurological, biological, psychological, ... -
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 ... -
Young People's Narrative Accounts of Participation in the Design and Delivery of NHS Mental Health Services
(2019-12-09)Rationale and Aims: Youth participation in the design and delivery of mental health services has continued to gain momentum both nationally and internationally over recent years. However, research in this area has largely ... -
Single Mothers' Experiences of Temporary Accommodation and Mental Health: a London-Based Study
(2019-12-23)Numbers of families experiencing homelessness and living in temporary accommodation in London are rising each year (House of Commons, 2019), with families headed by single mothers being extremely overrepresented (Shelter ... -
The Importance of Ethnic Identity and Well-being in the Lives of Third- Generation British Bangladeshi People
(2020-01-27)Rationale and Aims: Ethnic Identity (EI) refers to the extent to which an individual identifies with their cultural group (Phinney, 2000) and has been widely documented as being beneficial for well-being (Smith and Silva, ... -
Design and Implementation of a Re-Configurable Arbitrary Signal Generator and Radio Frequency Spectrum Analyser
(2016-06-29)This research is focused on the design, simulation and implementation of a reconfigurable arbitrary signal generator and the design, simulation and implementation of a radio frequency spectrum analyser based on digital ... -
Development of a Digital Microfluidic Toolkit: Alternative Fabrication Technologies for Chemical and Biological Assay Platforms
(2020-02-05)This thesis proposes the development of a digital microfluidics (DMF) device using alternative fabrication methods and materials for application in chemical and biological assays. DMF technology which relies on ... -
Deceitful Bodies: Ideas, Performance and the Physicality of Bodily Fraud, 1540 - 1750
(2020-02-11)In early modern England it was believed that many people possessed the ability to alter and thereby mispresent their bodies. Various texts claimed that they were able to do so by either creating or restoring different ... -
Understanding r-process Nucleosynthesis in the Milky Way
(2020-02-16)Elements heavier than Fe are formed by neutron capture processes when fusion becomes energetically unfavourable; the slow s-process and site are reasonably well understood, but the rapid r-process site is still a highly ... -
Creating Stories From Parents' Premature Birth Experiences to Engender Empathy in Nursing Students
(2020-01-30)Introduction: In healthcare, stories are an evocative way to educate nurses about the emotional experiences of patients. Little is known however, about the impact of storytelling in neonatal nursing practice and education. ... -
Understanding Young People's Experiences and Perceptions of Relational Bullying: a Mixed Methods Study
(2020-03-02)Aim This research sought to understand the experience and perception of relational bullying among young people in England. Background Bullying among young people has been widely acknowledged as a public health concern. ... -
Development of Novel Sustained Release Formulations for Older Adults With Swallowing Difficulties
(2019-10-14)The older cohort is the fastest growing subsection in the population; they are the major users of medicines and are also more vulnerable to dysphagia which can make safe swallowing of solid oral dosage forms challenging. ... -
The Effects of PPARβ/δ Ligands on Lung Inflammation and Vascular Reactivity
(2020-01-13)The peroxisome proliferator activated receptor beta/delta (PPARβ/δ) is a transcription factor ubiquitously expressed in cells, although more highly active in skeletal muscle, arteries and endothelium. Signalling via PPARβ/δ ...