PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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I Killed my Child(ren): a Qualitative Study Exploring the Phenomenon of Paternal Filicide in the South African Context
(2018-06-21)The present research investigated paternal filicide in South Africa. It aimed to understand the factors underlying fathers killing their child/children. Study one explored paternal filicidal offenders’ processes of ... -
Social Axioms as Predictors of Psychological and Subjective Well-Being in Iran and England
(2018-06-21)The concept of social axiom represents generalized beliefs regarding individuals, agencies and other social institutions, and the spiritual world. The relationship between social axioms and social and mental well-being has ... -
Making the General Particular: Practising Corporate Social Responsibility in a UK Higher Education Institution
(2018-06-21)This research deals with the ways Corporate Social Responsibility is interpreted in a UK Higher Education Institution. It evolved from my initial curiosity about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially the way ... -
Exploring Accounting Students' Interaction with Their Assessment Feedback in a UK Post-92 University
(2018-04-06)This thesis offers a holistic insight into the expectations and experiences of university students in relation to academic feedback. The subjects are a diverse group of first year accounting and finance students in a post-92 ... -
Precision Photometry at the University of Hertfordshire's Bayfordbury Observatory
(2018-03-21)This thesis presents work conducted at the University of Hertfordshire’s Observatory at Bayfordbury Hertfordshire to develop a model to predict the photometric precision of their 40cm aperture telescopes whilst observing ... -
Trainee Clinical Psychologists' Experiences of Personal Therapy and Its Relationship to Development Across Training: A Grounded Theory Study
(2018-03-21)Although it is not a professional requirement, research shows that some Trainee Clinical Psychologists (CPs) access PT (PT) whilst training (Nel, Pezzolesi & Stott, 2012). CPs’ practice is moving towards the Reflective-S ... -
Children's conversations with their friends about living with a parent experiencing mental distress: An IPA Study
(2018-03-21)Background and Aims Estimates suggest more than three million children and young people (CYP) live with a parent experiencing mental distress (PEMD). It is suggested that CYP are often left to make sense of the uncertain ... -
Student Stories about Mathematics: A tool to understand more about the teaching and learning of mathematics
(2018-03-15)This qualitative study sets out to explore the experiences of secondary school students while they are learning mathematics in school. By using student stories of learning mathematics as my main data collection method I ... -
Narrative accounts of parenthood following the death of a child to muscular dystrophy
(2018-03-05)Rationale and Aims: Research into the lived experience of parenting children with muscular dystrophy has typically addressed key transitions along the disease trajectory, such as diagnosis or end-of-life care. Families ... -
Smartphone Technology: Everyday prompts for those with prospective memory difficulties following brain injury
(2018-03-05)BACKGROUND: Prospective memory difficulties are one of the most common deficits following acquired brain injury. The application of smartphones as a compensatory aid to these difficulties has shown promising results. This ... -
Physiological and Clinical Effects of Radiofrequency-Based Therapy
(2018-02-22)Electrophysical agents (EPA) are a fundamental element of therapy practice and are vital for the treatment of a variety of conditions. Many of these agents employ some form of electromagnetic fields (EMF), in which ... -
Development and Evaluation of ADME Models Using Proprietary and Opensource Data
(2018-02-05)Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Elimination (ADME) properties are important factors in the drug discovery pipeline. Literature ADME data are often collected in large chemical databases like ChEMBL, which might be ... -
Life After Infertility: a Grounded Theory of Moving on From Unsuccessful Fertility Treatment
(2018-02-02)Despite the many advances of medical technology to help treat infertility, approximately half of women seeking fertility treatment will never give birth to a child. Women coping with treatment failure face many challenges, ... -
Eating Disorders from Parent to Child: Mothers' Perceptions of Transgenerational Effect
(2018-02-01)Introduction There is now a greater understanding of the significance of attachment and the importance of the mother-child dyad in relation to Eating Disorders (ED). Mothers with this illness may not be able to offer their ... -
Numerical Modelling of Mixing and Separating of Fluid Flows through Porous Media
(2018-02-01)In present finite element study, the dynamics of incompressible isothermal flows of Newtonian and two generalised non–Newtonian models through complex mixing–separating planar channel and circular pipe filled with and ... -
Wintertime Stable Boundary-Layer Processes in Alpine Valleys
(2018-02-01)Alpine valleys are rarely closed systems, implying that the atmospheric boundary layer of a particular valley section is influenced by the surrounding terrain and large-scale flows. A detailed characterisation and ... -
Unveiling the Reddest Galaxies in the Universe with VIDEO and Spitzer
(2018-02-01)We used data from the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) Survey and from the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Survey (SERVS) to generate a sample of Extremely ... -
Relationship Marketing and Customer Retention in Bangladesh’s Food Retailing Sector
(2018-01-31)The context of this study is Bangladesh`s food retailing sector. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) and customer retention. Since Independence ... -
Studies on Depression and Fatigue in People With End Stage Kidney Disease Receiving Haemodialysis
(2018-01-31)Depression is common in haemodialysis (HD) patients and is often unrecognised and undertreated, though associated with excess morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis is challenging due to symptom overlap with kidney failure, ... -
Usage of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in Higher Education Institutions in Pakistan
(2018-01-30)The purpose of this empirical study is to examine the usage of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERPS) in Higher Education Institutes (HEIs). Recently, rapid growth in information technology services compels developing ...