PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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Radio Continuum Emission as a Star Formation Tracer: Bridging the Spatial Scales
(2019-01-07)Radio continuum emission has been demonstrated to be an excellent tracer of recent star formation, yet current understanding remains empirical, and is primarily based upon integrated multi–frequency or resolved mono–chromatic ... -
Concurrent Use of Prescription Drugs and Herbal Medicinal Products Among Older Adults
(2020-01-09)Background: Polypharmacy is a recognised patient safety risk, with older adults at greater risk due to co-morbidities and reduced clearance of drugs due to ageing. However, very little is known about the concurrent use of ... -
Reducing Errors in Optical Data Transmission Using Trainable Machine Learning Methods
(2019-03-15)Reducing Bit Error Ratio (BER) and improving performance of modern coherent optical communication system is a significant issue. As the distance travelled by the information signal increases, the bit error ratio will ... -
An Exploration of What it Means to be Struggling as a Secondary Teacher in England
(2019-10-30)This research emerged from a conversation with a teacher who expressed concerns about the impact of lesson observations on ‘struggling’ teachers. Struggling is a term found regularly in the literature and it has gained ... -
Film Websites: a Transmedia Archaeology
(2019-11-19)Websites have become a familiar feature of contemporary cinema and they contribute to the overall audience experience. Yet as a hybrid of storytelling and marketing, they have often been seen as little more than promotional ... -
Life Threatening Complications in Childbirth: a Discursive Analysis of Fathers' Accounts
(2015-01-29)Referral letters are the standard method of communication between GPs and specialist mental health services. However, previous research suggests these letters often fail to provide the information these services feel they ... -
Personal Constructions of the Mother Role: Perceptions of Mothers in Health Care
(2018-06-14)This study aimed to explore the personal constructs of mothers in health care, their own role, that of the doctors and how they felt the doctors they consulted construed them in their role. In addition, the study aimed to ... -
Disordered Eating in a Digital Age: Narratives of Withdrawal From Pro-Ana/Mia Forums by Regular Site Users
(2017-10-09)Background & Aims: Studies estimate that over 500 live Pro-Ana websites are in existence (Hansen, 2008). Broadly speaking they advocate that eating ‘disorders’’ are a ‘life-style’ choice rather than a mental health problem ... -
Accessing Mental Health Support: Where do Young Adults Seek Help and what Barriers do they Face?
(2016-04-28)Over half of all lifetime mental health disorders emerge during early adulthood and is associated with many adverse outcomes including: lower educational achievement, substance misuse and premature death. Despite the ... -
The Impact of Professional and Team Identification on the Leadership Beliefs of Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Clinicians
(2015-10-27)Introduction and Aims - The term ‘clinical leadership’ has received widespread promotion in the NHS in recent years and encourages frontline clinicians to be involved in the leadership of services. Few research studies ... -
Mothers' Experiences of their Child: the Validation of a Self-Report Antenatal and Postnatal Questionnaire
(2014-12-05)The concept of Mind-Mindedness has important implications for the parenting relationship and infant outcomes (McMahon & Meins, 2012; Meins, Centifanti, Fernyhough, & Fishburn, 2013; Meins et al., 2012). Recent research has ... -
Young People's Narratives of their Parents' Separation and/or Divorce
(2013-10-09)BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The psychological impact of parental divorce or separation upon children has long been debated. There is a wealth of quantitative research which offers contradictory findings yet young people who ... -
Family Stories about Mental Health Difficulties: an Intergenerational Perspective
(2013-10-28)Background and aims: While individual family members’ experiences of living with mental health difficulties have been widely researched few attempts have been made to understand how families talk about and make sense of ... -
The Stories of Parents who have an Adult Child with High-Functioning Autism or Aspergers' Syndrome - a Narrative Study
(2013-12-10)Background and Aims: Although existing research has begun to explore the experiences of parents who have an adult child with Autism, there are limited studies available that explore how a parent makes sense of this ... -
Experiences of Acceptance and Adjustment for People Living With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(2013-10-10)BACKGROUND: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is an incurable, chronic condition that is known to impact the physical and psychosocial well-being of those living with it. Evidence consistently demonstrates there is an ... -
Open-set Speaker Identification
(2018-12-20)This study is motivated by the growing need for effective extraction of intelligence and evidence from audio recordings in the fight against crime, a need made ever more apparent with the recent expansion of criminal and ... -
The Anishinaabe Worldview and the Child Reader in Louise Erdrich's The Birchbark House series
(2019-03-11)Louise Erdrich is an award-winning Anishinaabe-American author, whose works of fiction have attracted a significant body of scholarly interest. To date, her output of children's fiction has received comparatively less ... -
The Paradoxes of Project Management: a Project Management Consultant’s Inquiry into the Social Reality of Technology-Driven Change Projects
(2018-08-22)This thesis is a practice-based inquiry into project management. It adds to the critique of more traditional discourse in project management literature (PMI 20013, IPMA 2010, Prince2 2009, Agile Alliance Organisation 2001) ... -
A Qualitative Exploration of Candidates’ Expectations and Preparations for Weight Loss Surgery in the NHS
(2018-10-26)Introduction: Weight loss surgery is the primary intervention offered by the NHS for patients with morbid obesity and associated health conditions (Welbourn, Fiennes & Kinsman, 2014). There are relatively few studies looking ... -
Cultural Influences on Psychiatrists' Constructions of Mental Health Problems: a Repertory Grid Study
(2018-11-08)Background: The literature suggests that people from different cultures make sense of their experiences in different ways, including how they understand mental health problems. Much of this research focused on how clients ...