UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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Probing the Multiphase Interstellar Medium in an Extreme Starburst at High Redshift
(2023-12-14)In this thesis we present a range of observations and results relating to the lensed hyperluminous sub-mm galaxy ‘9io9’ at z = 2.6, where we have used sub-mm/mm spectroscopy targeting the dense and cold interstellar ... -
Exploring Aquaponics Systems as part of Food Planning and Environmental Management Strategy, Policy and Sustainable Placemaking: Examining Chinese and UK Food Growing Project Case Studies
(2023-08-10)This study aims to analyse several factors concerning the role of aquaponics in contributing to food availability in urban, suburban, and rural areas from the perspective of food planning and environmental management ... -
The Use of Online Photovoice to Explore the Experiences of Mothers who have been Subject to Recurrent Care Proceedings
(2023-10-10)Research has been carried out to explore the prevalence and pattern of repeated care proceedings in England, whereby birthparents return to the family court, resulting in multiple children being removed from their care ... -
Patient Perspectives on Learning of a Psychosis Diagnosis
(2023-10-17)Background: The experience of receiving psychiatric diagnoses is under researched. The impact of how an individual receives a diagnosis of psychosis, as used in early intervention services is particularly lacking in empirical ... -
Anxiety and Extreme Demand Avoidance in Children and Adolescents: the Roles of Sensory Sensitivities and Intolerance of Uncertainty
(2023-10-17)Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a diagnosis that has been described in clinical practice but not recognised by official diagnostic and statistical manuals. The National Autistic Society (UK) describes PDA as ‘a ... -
Understanding the Perspectives of UK-Based Family Members of People who have Chosen to End their Life by Assisted Dying
(2023-10-10)Assisted dying is growing global momentum as an option to end unbearable suffering in particular medical circumstances, but remains illegal in the UK. Currently, UK citizens wishing for an assisted death must go to ... -
Land Tenure and Food Security in South India
(2023-09-30)Tenure security with land titles is considered important for agricultural productivity and growth. In this view, formal titles enable land to be used as collateral, facilitate access to credit markets and increase productivity ... -
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, ... -
Emotion dysregulation, impulsivity and anger rumination in borderline personality disorder: the role of amygdala and insula
(2023-04-22)Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental disorder, characterized by deficits in emotion regulation, interpersonal dysfunctions, dissociation and impulsivity. Brain abnormalities have been generally explored; ... -
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 form of mental simulation with significant enhancements enabling teamwork training
(2021-09-21)Mental simulation is a type of simulation in which the clinician mentally practices a task without physically doing it. With mental simulation, the clinician can individually go through all the steps of technical and ... -
Socio-economic practices of households coping with hardship
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)Top-down responses to major shocks have been of major interest to social scientists and they contributed to our understanding of restructuring, transformation and development. Research into socio-economic practices of ... -
Critical perspectives on resilience
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)This chapter aims to contribute to the critical discussion of the concept of resilience and its pertinence and usefulness to contexts of socioeconomic hardship. Starting from an approach that contrasts the poverty studies ... -
Comics on Screen : Pages and Places in the Cloud
(Brill Publishing House, 2019-07-22)Comics has long been a form of sequential art that has evolved alongside the printed page. As the print industry has developed so too have comics. From the black and white strips of newspapers to the colourful serial print ... -
Embodied leadership: A Perspective on Reciprocal Body Movement
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023-11-17)This chapter explores the concept of embodied leadership and its ontological and epistemological underpinnings in educational and other organisational settings. Embodiment, derived from phenomenology, emphasises body-mind ... -
Cancer and exercise: a narrative analysis to understand the recovery journey undertaken for female dragon boat competitors.
(2016-03-22)Background: A cancer diagnosis, and the subsequent period, is a largely unexplored phenomenon regarding short and long term effects exercise has on mental well-being. With an increasing number of people surviving cancer, ... -
Physical harm caused to British and Japanese Judoka by abuse
(2017)Judo is a form of budo, or martial way, developed in Japan by Professor Jigoro Kano (1860–1938) and originally called Kodokan Judo (Bennett, 2009). The three fundamental tenets of judo are described as: physical education, ... -
Design of a high efficiency cyclone for collection of rare and low concentration airborne pathogens
(2017-03-16)Recent serious outbreaks of pathogens such as Chalara Fraxinea, (Ash Dieback) demonstrate the vulnerability of UK’s forests, woods, and trees. Early detection of threats is critical in the fight against such tree pests and ...