PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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The Impact of Clinical Application Protocols for Multiple Topical Products on Drug Delivery to the Skin
(2020-08-28)In the treatment of inflammatory skin conditions patients are often prescribed more than one topical product: a topical corticosteroid (TCS), an emollient and a topical antibiotic in cases of clinically infected skin. ... -
Structural Plasticity and Associative Memory in Balanced Neural Networks With Spike-Time Dependent Inhibitory Plasticity
(2020-09-10)Several homeostatic mechanisms enable the brain to maintain desired levels of neuronal activity. One of these, homeostatic structural plasticity, has been reported to restore activity in networks disrupted by peripheral ... -
Preconditions for Service Design in Colombia: Governance and Community Challenges
(2020-09-15)Owing to the conditions of poverty in which 28% of its inhabitants live, the national government of Colombia provides services through its local administration in order to care for the needs of its vulnerable communities. ... -
Experiences of Workplace Bullying from the Perspectives of Trainee Clinical Psychologists: a Qualitative Study
(2020-08-20)Research has identified that workplace bullying is a significant problem within healthcare, with healthcare trainees at particular risk. However, there are no studies of workplace bullying within clinical psychology or of ... -
The Historical Association Between Class Origins and Male Career Trajectories in UK Film Production
(2020-08-03)The characterisation of the contemporary creative and cultural industries (CCIs) as ‘cool, creative and egalitarian’ (Gill, 2002) has been unpicked in recent literature (Grugulis and Stoyanova, 2012; Eikhof and Warhurst, ... -
The Social History of Medical Self-Help in 20th-Century England: a Microhistory of a Rural Community
(2020-06-16)This thesis focuses on the health experiences of an Oxfordshire village 1900-1947 and the aim of the study is to obtain a holistic view of the health status and health strategies of one agricultural community. The period ... -
A Study of Inhibition in Preschool Children at Risk of Developmental Language Disorder
(2020-07-13)Background: For many years, research and practice have noted the impact of the heterogeneous nature of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD - also known as language impairment or specific language impairment) on diagnosis ... -
Mental Health Inpatient Experience of Patients with Autistic Spectrum Conditions: a Phenomenological Study
(2020-07-16)Aims This study is pertinent to the current political and policy driven climate regarding increasing rights, choices, inclusion, independence and awareness for people with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). Since the ... -
Registered Nurses' Perceptions of Workplace Stress in Paediatric Intensive Care Units in Saudi Arabia: a Mixed-Method Research Study
(2020-05-22)Background: Workplace stress among nurses in Intensive Care Units (ICU) has been shown to variously affect their health, the quality of nursing care, healthcare delivery and national healthcare costs (Mokhtar et al., 2016). ... -
Submillimetre Observations of Clusters of Galaxies
(2020-03-01)Advances in submillimetre astronomy has opened the doors to carrying out surveys and high-resolution imaging of intense star forming galaxies out to and beyond the cosmic star-formation peak (ɀ ≈ 1- 4). The Submillimetre ... -
An Evaluation of the Regulatory Environment in South Africa: Improving the Review Process and Patients' Access to Medicines
(2020-05-05)National regulatory authorities (NRAs) are responsible for the evaluation of medicines and for ensuring that only those products which meet the requirements of quality, safety and efficacy are registered and made available ... -
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 ...