PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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The Struggle to Stay in Relation: How the Dominance of an Ideology of Certainty Marginalises Practical Judgment and Political Action, from the Perspective of a Senior Manager in the NHS
(2023-11-03)In this thesis I explore my everyday work as a director of research in an NHS mental health trust. I use collaborative narrative autoethnography to explore episodes where research activity and evidence is contested, ... -
Colour, Dress and Modernism: the Significance of Colour in Representations of Clothing in Modernist Literature by Women
(2023-11-30)This dissertation explores the significance of the colour of dress in modernist literature written by women from the beginning of World War I to the start of World War II (1914–1939). It establishes the closely interwoven ... -
Near-Real Time, Semi-Automated Threat Assessment of Information Environments
(2023-11-19)Threat assessment is a crucial process for monitoring and defending against potential threats in an organization’s information environment and business operations. Ensuring the security of information infrastructure requires ... -
A Grounded Theory Analysis of Trainee Clinical Psychologists’ Use of Self-Disclosure in Problem-Based Learning
(2023-10-04)A limited body of literature suggests complex self-disclosure experiences exist across the career of a Clinical Psychologist. Self-disclosure experiences begin at a doctoral training level within small-group working exercises ... -
Weight Stigma in Clinical Psychology: a Critical Discursive Psychology Analysis with Trainees
(2023-10-04)Background Weight stigma is defined as negative attitudes towards and beliefs about others because of their weight (Andreyeva, Puhl, & Brownell, 2008). Biased views of fat individuals by professionals in physical healthcare ... -
Students’ Sense-Making of Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Relationship to Mental Wellbeing
(2023-10-03)Superordinate constructions and meaning making structures are hypothesised by different psychological theories to provide individuals with a sense of integration of events or sense-making, which is associated to psychological ... -
Residential Childcare Workers’ Experiences of Behaviours that Challenge
(2023-10-05)Background: The role of Residential Childcare Workers (RCWs) in the UK is pivotal in providing support to children and young people in care who have complex emotional and behavioural needs. Behaviours that challenge (BTC) ... -
Characterising Ultracool Dwarfs in the Gaia Mission All Sky Survey
(2023-12-04)I present here the characterisation of ultracool dwarfs having been observed through direct, ground-based campaigns. These ultracool dwarfs have been used to assist with the parameterisation of objects as observed by ... -
The Role of Experiences of the Body and Embodiment in Type 1 Diabetes and Disordered Eating
(2023-10-27)Type 1 Diabetes and Disordered Eating (T1DE) is a term used to describe the presence of disordered eating patterns that are specific to those with Type 1 Diabetes. Research has highlighted that conventional eating disorder ... -
A Critical Discourse Analysis into the Policy and Debate Relating to “Adults at Risk” detained within Immigration Removal Centres in the UK
(2023-10-31)This research uses a critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses in a UK parliamentary debate and a policy document about “adults at risk” in immigration detention. Immigration detention centres in the UK are ... -
Young People’s Experiences of Leaving Homelessness: A South Wales Study
(2023-10-30)Understanding how homelessness is experienced is key in developing meaningful and effective interventions. In recent years there has been a shift from research concerned with routes into homelessness towards investigations ... -
“It does get good again, and it will.” A Grounded Theory Exploration of Cis Women’s Journey from Rape or Unwanted Sex in Adulthood to Joy and Enjoyment in Sexual Intimacy
(2023-10-30)Literature on the sexual impact of sexual violence has predominantly focused on dysfunction and risk, suggesting a hopeless future for those impacted. This grounded theory study explores how cis women in the UK are able ... -
A Narrative Analysis of Stories Told in the Windrush Generation and Descendants of Windrush Generation
(2023-09-26)Background: Research concerning intergenerational trauma has often looked at a historic event(s) experienced in one generation and the effect of this on subsequent generations. This excludes ongoing, cumulative experiences ... -
Demand Response Management and Control Strategies for Integrated Smart Electricity Networks
(2023-09-20)Demand Response (DR) programs are being introduced by some electricity grid operators as resource options for curtailing and reducing the demand of electricity during certain time periods for balancing supply and demand. ... -
The Life of a Top Boy: a Qualitative Exploration of Young, Black Men and their Stories of Experiencing Violent Activity in the Context of Gang Affiliation and Trauma
(2023-11-14)Rationale and Aims: There is speculation that young Black men (YBM) exposed to gang-affiliated violence are likely to have negative impacts on their psychological functioning, but not enough research has explored this. It ... -
Being Value-Able: an Exploration of the Benefits of Conscious Connection to Values
(2023-11-08)Values have interested psychologists for decades. Research has shown impacts of shared values within organisations or teams, outcomes of mismatched values between employees and employers, and values contributing to well-being. ... -
Investigating the Role of the Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) Protein CELSR1 in Breast Cancer
(2023-11-18)Planar cell polarity (PCP) is essential for generating highly organized tissue structures and for directional cell movement/migration. The role of PCP in embryogenesis is well-documented, however its role in adult pathologies, ... -
The Social Processes Maintaining Engagement in Repetitive Self-Harm
(2023-10-03)Background: Epidemiological studies evidence increasing rates of self-harm within the United Kingdom and pressure on the National Health Service to adequately support individuals who engage in repetitive self-harm. Repetitive ... -
Bereaved Parents’ Narratives of their Journeys Through Grief
(2023-09-27)Rationale and aims: The death of a child is understood to be a particularly devastating form of loss for parents, and there remains a need to further understand bereaved parents’ experiences in order to inform the support ... -
Towards a Digital Capability Maturity Framework for Tertiary Institutions
(2023-10-19)Background: The Digital Capability (DC) of an Institution is the extent to which the institution's culture, policies, and infrastructure enable and support digital practices (Killen et al., 2017), and maturity is the ...