PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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Talking and Making Meaning About Parental Mental Health Problems: the Role of Children's Family Caregivers
(2018-10-12)When parents with severe and enduring mental health problems (MHP) are less able to meet their children’s needs, other family members often help with childcare. Research with children and parents with MHP has pointed to ... -
Off-Label and Unlicensed Medicines' Related Problems in Paediatric In-Patients
(2018-10-15)Background: Current legislations such as paediatric investigation plan (PIP) require pharmaceutical companies seeking marketing authorisation for a new medicine to provide evidence of studies in paediatrics to justify the ... -
Monsters, Dreams, and Discords: Vampire Fiction in Twenty-First Century American Culture
(2019-01-28)Amongst recent scholarly interest in vampire fiction, twenty-first century American vampire literature has yet to be examined as a body that demonstrates what is identified here as an evolution into three distinct yet ... -
Automatic Object Detection and Categorisation in Deep Astronomical Imaging Surveys Using Unsupervised Machine Learning
(2018-09-05)I present an unsupervised machine learning technique that automatically segments and labels galaxies in astronomical imaging surveys using only pixel data. Distinct from previous unsupervised machine learning approaches ... -
Feeling Beyond Words: Exploring the Relationship between Mothers with Eating Disorders and their Toddlers
(2018-10-22)Literature on mothers with an eating disorder diagnosis has focused almost exclusively on identification of deficits, for both the mother and the infant. This literature suggests that, from conception through to the postnatal ... -
Fathers' Experiences of Caring for an Adult Child with Psychosis: a Qualitative Study
(2018-10-29)Aim: Previous research has looked at parental experiences of caring, which has highlighted the rewarding nature of caring but also the difficulties associated with this role. However, within these studies the majority ... -
An Exploration of the Meaning and Development of Critical Thinking in Diagnostic Radiography
(2018-11-05)The development and application of critical thinking skills is a requirement and expectation of higher education and clinical radiographic practice. There is a multitude of generic definitions of critical thinking, however, ... -
The Associated Impacts of Stress and Expectancy Upon the Elite Coach-Athlete Relationship in Individual Based Sports
(2018-09-29)This project of research presents a series of three studies that evolved over the duration of the body of work. Steered by existing research and the findings of each individual study, this project investigates associated ... -
Screening for Mental Health Difficulties in Looked After Children referred to a Specialist CAMHS Team using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: a Mixed Methods Study
(2018-10-22)Looked after children (LAC) are at high risk of developing mental health difficulties. In England, 45 percent meet the criteria for psychiatric diagnosis (Ford, Vostanis, Meltzer & Goodman, 2007), while levels of emotional ... -
Influences of Time of Day on Teaching and Learning of Adolescents in Secondary School
(2019-02-08)This study uses a mixed methods approach to explore the possible influences of time of day on the teaching and learning of adolescents in secondary school. School scheduling has always been an issue within schools with ... -
Face De-Identification for Privacy Protection
(2019-02-07)The ability to record, store and analyse images of faces economically, rapidly and on a vast scale brings people’s attention to privacy. The current privacy protection approaches for face images are mainly through masking, ... -
Examining the Adoption, Use and Diffusion of Tablet and Mobile Devices by Older Adults in Hertfordshire County, UK
(2019-02-04)Ubiquitous or mobile computing is the new trend of this modern era whereby information can be accessed anytime and anywhere. It is anticipated that this form of computing will be more effective than the Internet because ... -
A Haptic Study to Inclusively Aid Teaching and Learning in the Discipline of Design
(2019-01-23)Designers are known to use a blend of manual and virtual processes to produce design prototype solutions. For modern designers, computer-aided design (CAD) tools are an essential requirement to begin to develop design ... -
Incivility in Pre-Registration Nursing Education: a Phenomenological Exploration of the Experiences of Student Nurses, Nurse Tutors and Nurse Mentors in a UK Higher Education Institution
(2019-01-16)This study provides a unique insight into incivility in pre-registration nursing education through a phenomenological exploration of the experiences of student nurses, nurse tutors and nurse mentors. Incivility is the ... -
The Adoption of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programmes in Ministry of Health Hospitals in Saudi Arabia
(2018-10-31)Aim: This thesis aims to explore and investigate the level and process of adoption of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programmes (ASPs) and factors influencing their implementation in Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) hospitals. ... -
Developing Pupil Understanding of School-Subject Knowledge: an Exploratory Study of the Role of Discourse in Whole-Class Teacher-Pupil Interaction During English Literature Lessons
(2018-12-10)In this submission I explore the role played by discourse in the development of pupils’ understanding of school-subject knowledge in secondary school classrooms in England, following changes to GCSE (General Certificate ... -
Signal Transduction Mechanisms for Lysophosphatidic Acid Mediated Cardiac Differentiation of P19 Stem Cells
(2018-12-07)The role of endogenous molecules in facilitating stem cell differentiation into cardiomyocytes is yet to be fully understood. SPC and S1P, common biolipids, promote cardiac differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells and ... -
Evaluation of Pavement Roughness and Vehicle Vibrations for Road Surface Profiling
(2018-01-14)The research explores aspects of road surface measurement and monitoring, targeting some of the main challenges in the field, including cost and portability of high-speed inertial profilers. These challenges are due to the ... -
Optimising Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Interference Alignment and Space-Time Coding
(2018-03-04)In this thesis, the process of optimizing Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio has been investigated in fast-fading environments where simulation results have shown that its performance is limited by the Probability ... -
Exploring the Experiences of Injecting Drug Users Living with Leg Ulceration: a Qualitative Design
(2018-10-02)There is a paucity of scientific evidence into the lived experience of people who have a history of injecting drug use and are living with leg ulceration. Portraying the true voice of injecting drug users (IDUs) through ...