Student theses

A critical evaluative enquiry of the community based management model and alternative approaches for sustainable rural water management

Supervisor: Dr Julia Brown (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Comparing serious or persistent absence from school in England and the Netherlands: an exploration of the influence of vulnerability and offending behaviour

Supervisor: Hayden, C. (Supervisor) & Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The use of computational fluid dynamics to simulate the flow in a high recirculation airlift reactor

Supervisor: Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Poland, T. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Across the iron curtain: European socialism between World War and Cold War, 1943-1948

Supervisor: Professor Wolfram Kaiser (Supervisor), Mr Emmanuel Godin (Supervisor) & Dr Jodi Burkett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An examination of the emergence and the development of professional accountancy in Developing Countries

Supervisor: Professor Lisa Jack (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Ischemia modified-albumin as a biomarker of myocardial ischemia: early diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome and cost effectiveness analysis

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor) & Mr Gavin Knight (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Surface electromyography driven hand motion recognition for long-term rehabilitation use

Supervisor: Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An enquiry into the Chinese housing market: evidence from spatial analysis and real options

Supervisor: Dr Konstantinos Vergos (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The study, modelling and implications of realised volatility for Chinese stock index futures and spot markets

Supervisor: Professor Shabbar Jaffry (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Essays on the housing market, foreign investment, and the stock market: evidence in the UK, Canada, and China

Supervisor: Kizys, R. (Supervisor) & Chatziantoniou, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Climate-change-related technology transfer to China in the TRIPS era

Supervisor: Professor Munir Maniruzzaman (Supervisor) & Mr Joe Sekhon (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Vision-based human motion analysis: : with deep learning

Supervisor: Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Corruption risk management in land administration in Malaysia

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor) & Mr Dean Blackbourn (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

ROS and mitochondrial genetic abnormalities as novel indicators to predict anticancer drug efficacy

Supervisor: Dr Qian An (Supervisor), Dr James Smith (Supervisor) & Dr Karen E. Ball (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Modelling human fairness in cooperative games: a goal programming approach

Supervisor: Beullens, P. (Supervisor) & Professor Dylan Jones (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Synecdoche, two-component systems: E. coli EnvZ/OmpR as a model of transmembrane communication and chimeric biosensor design

Supervisor: Dr Roger Draheim (Supervisor) & Ebenezer, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Towards a theory of e-participation: an actor-network theory (ANT) perspective

Supervisor: Adams, C. (Supervisor) & Dingley, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Distribution of landslides and geotechnical properties within the Hampshire Basin

Supervisor: Dr Andy Gibson (Supervisor) & Dr Malcolm Whitworth (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Berberine8998, a new derivative of berberine, improves hyperlipidemia through additional mechanisms

Supervisor: Dr Asmita Vithaldas Patel (Supervisor), Wang, Y. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Chinese undergraduate students’ academic coping and approaches to studying in the UK: a longitudinal study of four individual cases

Supervisor: Professor Sherria Hoskins (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A generative model for new houses based on the cultural traditions and sustainability: a study on villages of rice fields in the north of Iran

Supervisor: Ms Catherine Teeling (Supervisor), Martinsen, B. (External person) (Supervisor) & Goodhead, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Interpreting the ideological evolution of an insurgency: lessons from the North Caucasus, 2007-2015

Supervisor: Moore, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Averre, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Abnormalities in P2X7 receptor expression and function in muscle of the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Supervisor: Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor) & Arkle, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Laboratory simulation of reservoir-induced seismicity

Supervisor: Dr Philip Benson (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A context-aware framework for personalised recommendation in mobile environments

Supervisor: Dr Linda Yang (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Information systems framework to conceptualise the role of awareness in e-commerce success in developing countries: Jordanian context

Supervisor: Dingley, K. (Supervisor) & Adams, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Seismic fragility assessment of masonry buildings in the Kurdistan region

Supervisor: Dr Nikos Nanos (Supervisor) & Dr David Begg (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intersexuality and endocrine disruption in the amphipod Echinogrammarus marinus : from genes to physiology

Supervisor: Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor) & Kille, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Rainfall field modelling For European satellite networks

Supervisor: Ndzi, D. (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Brown, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Corporate governance, IFRS 7 compliance and the cost of equity capital in GCC banks

Supervisor: Professor Khaled Hussainey (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Vers une contribution dans le transport maritime de marchandises: optimisation de placement des conteneurs dans un port maritime

Supervisor: Gelareh, S. (Supervisor) & Bouamrane, K. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Multi criteria decision making methodology for fuzzy rule based systems and networks using TOPSIS

Supervisor: Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor), Dr Mohamed Bader-El-Den (Supervisor) & Dr Janka Chlebikova (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A cross-cultural analysis of gender and practitioner-child interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings in Scotland, Hong Kong, and Mainland China

Supervisor: Read, B. (External person) (Supervisor) & Schweisfurth, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intelligent methods for locomotion optimisation

Supervisor: Dr Ivan Jordanov (Supervisor), Dr Mo Adda (Supervisor) & Gaber, M. M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Modelling non-linear structure formation with modified gravity and massive neutrinos

Supervisor: Professor David Wands (Supervisor) & Professor Kazuya Koyama (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Playing with toys: animating the geographies of children's material culture

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A critical survey of BBC films: 1988 – 2013

Supervisor: Smith, J. (Supervisor) & Ede, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Trauma of the “Quasi-Prisoner” - the voice of visitors denied access at the prison gates.

Supervisor: Dr Jacki Tapley (Supervisor) & Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Falklands Royal Navy Wives: fulfilling a militarised stereotype or articulating individuality?

Supervisor: Dr Ann Veronica Coats (Supervisor), Goodhead, T. (Supervisor) & Packer, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation into the status of women in Sierra Leone

Supervisor: Professor Andy Thorpe (Supervisor), Dr Ann Matear (Supervisor) & Professor Tamsin Bradley (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Rural older adult physical activity participation and promotion in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Supervisor: Spencer, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Holt, N. L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reflection in policing: a study of how student constables in the Metropolitan Police conceptualise reflection

Supervisor: Clements, P. (Supervisor) & Professor Jane Creaton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Source apportionment and dispersion mapping of fugitive dust using directional passive monitors

Supervisor: Professor Mike Fowler (Supervisor) & Giles, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The role of an immersive 3-D virtual reality environment in the development of the spatial visualisation skill of pre-registration therapeutic radiography students

Supervisor: Dr Jason Oakley (Supervisor), Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Dr Mick Harper (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

full spectral fitting of stellar population models for studies of galaxy evolution

Supervisor: Professor Claudia Maraston (Supervisor) & Professor Daniel Thomas (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The carbon dynamics and phenology of oak woodland growing in south-east England

Supervisor: Tallis, M. J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Accidents in context: the relative contributions of pilot, equipment and environmental stress to paragliding incidents

Supervisor: Dr Heather Massey (Supervisor), Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor) & Dr Clare Eglin (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Constraining gravity models with clusters of galaxies

Supervisor: Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor) & Dr David Bacon (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Full-field characterisation of the deformation near fatigue crack tips using advanced imaging and diffraction techniques

Supervisor: Tong, J. (Supervisor) & Dr Sarinova Simandjuntak (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The application of airborne multi-spectral remote sensing and digital terrain modelling to the detection and delineation of landslides on clay dominated slopes of the Cotswolds Escarpment, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.

Supervisor: Murphy, W. (External person) (Supervisor) & Giles, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The communicative function of self-directed behaviours in macaques

Supervisor: Waller, B. (Supervisor), Dr Jerome Micheletta (Supervisor) & Dr Juliane Kaminski (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Drivers of change in mudflat macroinvertebrate diversity

Supervisor: Dr Gordon Watson (Supervisor), Herbert, R. J. H. (External person) (Supervisor) & Farrell, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implementation of an automated system for the detection of acute kidney injury in a district general hospital and its impact on patient outcomes

Supervisor: Dr John Young (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Combined nanostructural and isotopic analysis of baddeleyite: new horizons in solar system chronology

Supervisor: Dr James Darling (Supervisor), Moser, D. E. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Dean Bullen (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Breast support implications for female recreational athletes

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Wakefield-Scurr (Supervisor), Dr Chris Mills (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Doublecortin-like kinase 1 as a novel drug target and biomarker in gastrointestinal and renal cancers

Supervisor: Dr Sassan Hafizi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Using pre-recorded investigative interviews to improve the quality of complainant evidence in rape cases

Supervisor: Kebbell, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Becky Milne (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Towards a subjective knowledge elicitation methodology for the development of expert systems

Supervisor: Stowell, F. (Supervisor), Fluck, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Coleman, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of the relationship between the painter's intention and the spectator's interpretation, employing methods of social inquiry within the image field of football culture

Supervisor: Quinn, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Blacklock, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A hybrid intelligent technique for induction motor condition monitoring

Supervisor: Brown, D. (Supervisor) & Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A mixed methods study to explore the diagnostic accuracy and acceptability of the tuning fork test in the detection of ankle fractures

Supervisor: Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Kilburn, S. A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Democratic legitimacy? : the online consultations of the European Commission

Supervisor: Professor Wolfram Kaiser (Supervisor), Wright, S. (Supervisor) & Heard-Laureote, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Designing an economic instrument for sustainable solid waste management in the household sector

Supervisor: Wattage, P. (Supervisor) & Bloor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Ice-marginal process and retreat dynamics of Norwegian plateau icefields

Supervisor: Dr Harold Lovell (Supervisor) & Dr Clare Boston (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Elite Association Football referee training and officiating: a comparative analysis of refereeing practices in three European Leagues’

Supervisor: Professor Barry Smart (Supervisor), Professor Richard Thelwell (Supervisor) & Taylor, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Yes Prime Minister: Early indications of the impact of a change in policing governance and the introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners across England & Wales

Supervisor: Loveday, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social aerial circus : female experience, self-perception and self-representation

Supervisor: Dr Marius Kwint (Supervisor), Dr Matt Smith (Supervisor) & Professor Joan Farrer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Information and intelligence sharing in the fight against fraud and intellectual property crime: challenges and strategies for professional practice

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor) & Wakefield, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Grooming men: culture and constitution of masculine identities

Supervisor: Professor Barry Smart (Supervisor), Peggs, K. (Supervisor) & Dr Sarah Turnbull (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Physico-chemical and microbial factors affecting the operation of a package wastewater treatment plant

Supervisor: May, E. (Supervisor), Williams, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Mitchell, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Considerations in designing and evaluating material aimed at meeting the training and development needs of prospective teachers undertaking intensive initial ELT teacher education programmes

Supervisor: Rastall, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intergovernmental fiscal relations: a case study of Pakistan

Supervisor: Professor Shabbar Jaffry (Supervisor) & Judge, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Closing the gap between university curriculum in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning in networks : an interpretivist constructivist approach

Supervisor: Dr Vijay Vyas (Supervisor), Hoecht, A. (Supervisor) & Dr Zoe Dann (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reptilian welfare in a biological context

Supervisor: Dr Matt Parker (Supervisor) & Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

France in Rhodesia: French policy and perceptions throughout the era of decolonisation

Supervisor: Professor Tony Chafer (Supervisor), Mr Emmanuel Godin (Supervisor) & Evans, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Lying about intentions

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor) & Dr Sam Mann (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Analysis of the initial nerve connections in the embryonic vertebrate brain

Supervisor: Dr Frank Schubert (Supervisor) & Dr Colin Sharpe (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The future trend of Chinese currency renminbi exchange rates

Supervisor: Judge, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Asteris, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

To investigate relative effectiveness of the dimensions of interactivity

Supervisor: Fill, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Wheeler, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Assessing tourism sustainability in an ancient town: the case of Lijiang, China

Supervisor: Collins, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Face frontalization for facial expression recognition in the wild

Supervisor: Professor Hui Yu (Supervisor), Dr Brett Stevens (Supervisor) & Mr Neil Dansey (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Bigfooted border theories, barefooted border crossers: rethinking resilience and security through the vernacular sense-making and practices of border communities across Cameroon, Nigeria, and Gabon

Supervisor: Dr Olivia Rutazibwa (Supervisor), Dr Natalya Vince (Supervisor) & Professor Tony Chafer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Das Gesicht der Zeitschrift: Typographie und visuelle Darstellungsformen von Titelblättern am Beispiel des "Spiegel" und der "Polityka"

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Obsolete restrictive convenants: a socio-legal analysis of the problem and solutions

Supervisor: Goodhead, T. (Supervisor), Dr Ann Veronica Coats (Supervisor) & Dr Salam Al-Bizri (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An examination of the relationship between the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Orange Order since 2001

Supervisor: Loveday, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Facial expression in chimpanzees and humans

Supervisor: Professor Kim A. Bard (Supervisor) & Ost, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

On the edge of thermoregulation: a matter of physiology and physics

Supervisor: Dr Jo Corbett (Supervisor), House, J. R. (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Exploring resilience in children at risk of offending

Supervisor: Professor Claire Nee (Supervisor) & Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Undergraduate students’ intention to participate in the stock market : an analysis of financial literacy as well as attitudinal and normative factors

Supervisor: Professor Khaled Hussainey (Supervisor) & Daxhammer, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The role of TAM receptors in brain tumour cell signalling and behaviour

Supervisor: Dr Sassan Hafizi (Supervisor), Dr Qian An (Supervisor) & Pilkington, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

eXtensible business reporting language semantic error checking for accounting information systems

Supervisor: Dr Shikun Zhou (Supervisor), Ndzi, D. (Supervisor) & Onuh, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The awkward question: an examination of questioning techniques used by banks to prevent financial crime

Supervisor: Professor Becky Milne (Supervisor) & Dr Andie Shawyer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An alternative design framework for the generation of sound particles

Supervisor: Delve, J. (Supervisor) & Anderson, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A discourse on pterosaur phylogeny

Supervisor: Professor David Martill (Supervisor), Unwin, D. M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr David Loydell (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

No safety in numbers: detecting deception using a collective interviewing approach

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor), Dr Sharon Leal (Supervisor) & Dr Sam Mann (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Different ladders for police progression?: reviewing black and minority officers' progression in the police service

Supervisor: Clements, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effect of embedded lies on the verbal quality of statements and implications for credibility assessment

Supervisor: Dr Zarah Vernham (Supervisor), Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor) & Dr Sharon Leal (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Past and present visions of an island-city: Portsmouth's urban improvement plans 1750s-2010s.

Supervisor: Lemes De Oliveira, F. (Supervisor), Farrelly, L. (Supervisor) & Dr Marius Kwint (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Innovation in the German manufacturing SMEs: current issues, future prospects and potential remedies

Supervisor: Dr Vijay Vyas (Supervisor) & Schuhmacher, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Improving the efficiency of photovoltaic power plants with soft-computing model-based controllers

Supervisor: Virk, G. (External person) (Supervisor), Liu, Y. (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Dr Djamel Azzi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis