Student theses

Numerical development in children with Down syndrome: the role of parent-child interaction

Supervisor: Emeritus Professor Sue Buckley (Supervisor) & Fluck, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The economics of electricity market reforms in developing countries: an African experience and lessons

Supervisor: Professor Andy Thorpe (Supervisor), Mr Robert Gausden (Supervisor) & Dr Yaseen Ghulam (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of fade mitigation and resource management of satellite networks in rain conditions

Supervisor: Gremont, B. (Supervisor) & Professor David Sanders (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Utzon: Travel thinking making travel studies as a site for creative-critical formation in architecture

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Drawing comic traditions': British television animation from 1997 to 2010

Supervisor: Professor Sue Harper (Supervisor) & Dr Graham Spencer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of an RNA array to Protein array (RAPA) platform and its application to gene expression analysis of synthetic riboregulators

Supervisor: Professor Anastasia Callaghan (Supervisor), Dr Darren Gowers (Supervisor) & Dr Colin Sharpe (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Artificial neural network application in water resources management and flood warning: case study North West Malaysia

Supervisor: Ndzi, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Levee stability and the evolution of ‘A’ a lava flow-fields

Supervisor: Dr Carmen Solana (Supervisor) & Kilburn, C. R. J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implicit theory domains of technology ability and health related to people with Parkinson's engaging with a speech therapy smartphone application

Supervisor: Eglin, R. (Supervisor), Dr Brett Stevens (Supervisor) & Professor Sherria Hoskins (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Analysing galaxy clustering for future experiments including the Dark Energy Survey

Supervisor: Percival, W. (Supervisor), Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor) & Professor Robert Crittenden (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of a benchmarking tool to improve sales performance in a multinational corporation

Supervisor: Dr Beth Rogers (Supervisor) & Mowdy, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Meeting the challenges of flood risk assessment developing countries, with particular reference to flood risk management in Lagos, Nigeria.

Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Whitworth (Supervisor), Dr Brian Baily (Supervisor) & Dr Rob Inkpen (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Corporate social responsibility and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa: exploring the perceptions of Ugandan SME's

Supervisor: Rodgers, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Landslide inventories for risk assessment in a world heritage site: a case study of Lulworth Cove, UK

Supervisor: Dr Andy Gibson (Supervisor) & Dr Rob Inkpen (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A comprehensive new IT value model : “the case for Lebanon”

Supervisor: Welch, C. (Supervisor), Dr Martin Read (Supervisor) & Roberts, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Running the tightrope: negotiating femininities in the night time economy in Newcastle

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cybercrime in Vietnam: : a critical analysis of its regulatory framework

Supervisor: Dr Victoria Wang (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Youth offending in Vietnam: an investigation into the relative importance of different factors associated with youth offending and the implications for intervention

Supervisor: Hayden, C. (Supervisor), Twigg, L. (Supervisor) & Mr Tom Ellis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The internationalisation of higher education in Vietnamese universities

Supervisor: Dr Mark Field (Supervisor), Heard-Laureote, K. (Supervisor) & Dr Nora Siklodi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The initial perception of humidity

Supervisor: Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor) & Mekjavic, I. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Tracing galaxy evolution through internal structures

Supervisor: Masters, K. (Supervisor), Hess, K. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Biophysical analysis of the Nucleosome Assembly Protein and its interaction with histones

Supervisor: Professor John McGeehan (Supervisor) & Kneale, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Eliciting information in intelligence interviews through priming: an examination of underlying mechanisms

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor), Granhag, P. A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Sharon Leal (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The plight of the planner: A consideration of the quality and consequent utility of the literature on business continuity/resilience (BCR) to inform ‘professional’ practice

Supervisor: Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The role of reflection in the emerging professionalisation of Teaching Assistants

Supervisor: Professor Jane Creaton (Supervisor), Dr Jessica Gagnon (Supervisor) & Dr Ann Emerson (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Effect of combined stressors on heat acclimation and temperate exercise

Supervisor: Dr Jo Corbett (Supervisor), Dr Heather Massey (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The regulation of the determination of executive remuneration

Supervisor: Dr Lee Roach (Supervisor) & Carney, D. P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identification and characterization of an A-form DNA promoter and its downstream novel Rab-Gdi gene in Xenopus

Supervisor: Dr Garry Scarlett (Supervisor) & Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating the implementation and sustainability of the Healthy Living Pharmacy project

Supervisor: Brown, D. (External person) (Supervisor), Professor Jane Portlock (Supervisor) & Professor Paul Rutter (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Preparation and evaluation of a thermosensitive hydrogel for the nasal delivery of insulin

Supervisor: Dr Marta Roldo (Supervisor), Dr Marisa Van Der Merwe (Supervisor) & Dr John Tsibouklis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An exploration of the concepts of compassion in the care of older people amongst key stakeholders in nursing education: pre-qualifying nursing students, nurse educators and clinical mentors: a qualitative study

Supervisor: Hatton, K. (Supervisor), Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Pook, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Determinants of corporate corruption: : an investigation of the supply-side of corruption in development projects financed by multilateral development banks

Supervisor: Dr Branislav Hock (Supervisor) & Mr Chris Lewis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study on the importance of seismic parameter selection for the vulnerability assessment of mid-rise reinforced concrete structures

Supervisor: Dr David Begg (Supervisor) & Professor Brian Lee (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Constructing the network of influence model: and evidence-based theoretical framework to improve the implementation of Health Information Technology in developing countries

Supervisor: Dr Philip Scott (Supervisor), Dingley, K. (Supervisor) & Professor Jim Briggs (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Fuelwood and vegetation change in Northern Nigeria: an exploration using remote sensing (RS), geographical information systems (GIS) and field reports

Supervisor: Professor Richard Healey (Supervisor), Collier, P. (Supervisor) & Dr Brian Baily (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Molecular functions of the androgen receptor and BEX2 in breast cancer

Supervisor: Dr Jeremy Mills (Supervisor) & Banting, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Computational intelligence margin models for radiotherapeutic cancer treatment

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of a knowledge-based system methodology for designing solid waste disposal sites in arid and semiarid environments

Supervisor: Dr David John Hughes (Supervisor) & Giles, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sustainable design strategy: assessment of the impact of design variables on energy consumption of office buildings in Abuja, Nigeria

Supervisor: Mr Roger Tyrrell (Supervisor), Dr Brett Martinson (Supervisor) & Goodhead, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An empirical analysis on the practice and determinants of risk disclosure in an emerging capital market: the case of United Arab Emirates

Supervisor: Dr Shaling Li (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Page (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A feasibility study assessing home video telemetry polysomnography (HVTP) as a diagnostic procedure for adult patients undergoing investigation for parasomnias

Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Stores (Supervisor) & Turner, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The extent by which self-identity dimensions can be ascertained in people living with dementia admitted to an acute psychiatric hospital using a culturally adapted self-identity in dementia questionnaire: a feasabilty study

Supervisor: Dr John Crossland (Supervisor) & Burnell, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Regeneration and reproduction in Sabella pavonina (Savigny): developing a novel method to culture marine ornamental sabellids

Supervisor: Dr Gordon Watson (Supervisor), Bentley, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Giangrande, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An integrated approach to recommending online video materials through sentiment analysis and hybrid filtering algorithms

Supervisor: Dr Linda Yang (Supervisor) & Dr Salem Aljareh (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Collective induced phenomena in systems of coupled oscillators

Supervisor: Dr Andrew Burbanks (Supervisor), Hennig, D. (Supervisor) & Osbaldestin, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The dynamics of bride price in Zimbabwe and the diaspora

Supervisor: Professor Tamsin Bradley (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Optimisation models and heuristic methods for deterministic and stochastic inventory routing problems

Supervisor: Professor Djamila Ouelhadj (Supervisor) & Dr Graham Wall (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effects of DNA damage caused by sperm cryopreservation in Xenopus

Supervisor: Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor), Dr Colin Sharpe (Supervisor) & Gardner, T. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Military and naval campaigning on behalf of the health of society, with reference to eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain.

Supervisor: Dr Karl Bell (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Machine learning approaches for astrophysics and cosmology

Supervisor: Dr David Bacon (Supervisor) & Professor Kazuya Koyama (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Exploring how fishermen respond to the challenges facing the fishing industry: a study of diversification and multiple-job holding in the English Channel fishery

Supervisor: Collins, A. (Supervisor), Glenn, H. J. (Supervisor) & Bjorndal, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Fish and shellfish allergy: a study of prevalence, clinical characteristics and health-related quality of life in adults

Supervisor: MacKenzie, H. (Supervisor), Professor Tara Dean (Supervisor), Venter, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Rebecca Stores (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sailorhoods: sailortown and sailors in the port of Portsmouth circa 1850-1900

Supervisor: Professor Bradley Beaven (Supervisor), Dr Karl Bell (Supervisor) & Dr Robert James (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Integration of principal component analysis, fuzzy C-means and artificial neural networks for localised environmental modelling of tropical climate

Supervisor: Ndzi, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A customizable grammar-based framework for user-intent text classification

Supervisor: Dr Mohamed Bader-El-Den (Supervisor), Dr Ella Haig (Supervisor) & Dr Glenn Hadikin (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Modelling and optimization of an RFID-based supply chain network

Supervisor: Wang, Q. (Supervisor) & Dr Misha Filip (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Countering fraud in the insurance industry : a case study of Malaysia

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor) & Johnston, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effect of breast support on running biomechanics

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Wakefield-Scurr (Supervisor), Dr Chris Mills (Supervisor) & Dr Jo Corbett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Fitness Standards for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the oil and gas industry

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Eye spy a liar: the effect of deception on fixation-based measures of memory

Supervisor: Professor Lorraine Hope (Supervisor), Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor) & Sauer, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Linear and non-linear effects in structure formation

Supervisor: Dr Marco Bruni (Supervisor), Professor David Wands (Supervisor) & Professor Roy Maartens (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating the coexistence of fiddler crabs in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia

Supervisor: Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social communication in crested macaques (Macaca nigra)

Supervisor: Waller, B. (Supervisor) & Mr Ed Morrison (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

General relativistic effects on cosmological observations

Supervisor: Dr Marco Bruni (Supervisor), Professor David Wands (Supervisor) & Professor Roy Maartens (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A lonely endeavour: clinical nurse leadership and the older unpopular patient in community settings

Supervisor: Dewey, A. (Supervisor), Burnell, K. (Supervisor) & MacKenzie, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An examination of the dynamics of multi-agency arrangements in different cultural and legal contexts: the case of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and the International Child Protection Network

Supervisor: Savage, S. (Supervisor) & Dr Paul Norman (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Spectacles of suffering: self-harm in new woman writing 1880-1900

Supervisor: Pulham, P. (Supervisor) & Dr Charlotte Boyce (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The relationship between emotion regulation and self-control effects on health-related exercise behaviours

Supervisor: Dr Chris Wagstaff (Supervisor), Dr Matt Dicks (Supervisor) & Barwood, M. J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The role of bars in disk galaxy evolution

Supervisor: Masters, K. (Supervisor) & Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Giving feeling form: B. S. Johnson’s literary project

Supervisor: Dr Christine Berberich (Supervisor) & Nicol, B. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The complexities of reflective practice in theacher education: a new approach

Supervisor: Professor Karen Johnston (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Robust comparisons of socio-economic well-being

Supervisor: Professor Lester Hunt (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

International aspirations, French legacies and translingual practices

Supervisor: Dr Natalya Vince (Supervisor), Professor Tony Chafer (Supervisor) & Dr Mario Saraceni (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The sustainability of community-based ecotourism in southern Africa

Supervisor: Edwards, V. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Circulating DNA markers of gastro-intestinal cancers

Supervisor: Dr Alan Thorne (Supervisor), Mr Pradeep Bhandari (Supervisor) & Cree, I. A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The study and application of underwater decomposition from an entomological perspective for the purpose of post-mortem interval estimation

Supervisor: Dr Katherine Brown (Supervisor), Dr Paul Smith (Supervisor) & Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study to develop a multi-loop learning framework for project management

Supervisor: Professor Ashraf Labib (Supervisor) & Dr Martin Read (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Military intervention in theory and practice: French policy in sub-Saharan Africa since 1960

Supervisor: Professor Tony Chafer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Tout! in context 1968-1973: French radical press at the crossroads of far left, new movements and counterculture

Supervisor: Evans, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Sue Wright (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The impact of effectuation on small firm buyer−seller relationships

Supervisor: Dr Shuangfa Huang (Supervisor), Professor Martina Battisti (Supervisor) & Professor David Grant Pickernell (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing and validating an integrated framework explaining pro-environmental behaviour in the workplace

Supervisor: Rodgers, C. (Supervisor), Dr Michael John Wood (Supervisor) & Brown, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A framework for designing and evaluating ESP materials for English and communication skills in the doctor-patient interview

Supervisor: Professor Sue Wright (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse (APVA): an investigation into prevalence, associations and predictors in a community sample

Supervisor: Hayden, C. (Supervisor), Dr Andie Shawyer (Supervisor) & Dr Richard Kapend (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating the effects of nutrient concentration and light intensity on benthic biofilm development and phytoplankton growth in UK rivers.

Supervisor: Professor Jim Smith (Supervisor) & Dr Michelle Hale (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

‘Nipcheese’ the Beancounter: Purser accounting and accounting change in the Royal Navy 1665-1832

Supervisor: Hines, A. (Supervisor) & Professor Lisa Jack (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Governing elite and civil society in Côte d'Ivoire: the construction of foreign policy towards France (1973-1995)

Supervisor: Professor Tony Chafer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Channel 4 and British film: an assessment of industrial and cultural impact, 1982-1998

Supervisor: Professor Justin Smith (Supervisor) & McDonald, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Beyond the script: an Interpretative phenomenological analysis of autobiographical selves within pedagogies of change

Supervisor: Scanlan, M. (External person) (Supervisor), de Sousa, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Warhurst, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Mapping the Universe with weak lensing

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Deacetylation of GD3^A as a potential therapeutic strategy for paediatric medulloblastoma

Supervisor: Professor Geoff Pilkington (Supervisor) & Dr Helen Fillmore (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

School vision: a stakeholder analysis

Supervisor: Professor Sherria Hoskins (Supervisor) & Wyatt, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effect of a cows’ milk exclusion diet and substitute formula in infancy on childhood eating habits

Supervisor: Dean, T. (External person) (Supervisor), Venter, C. (Supervisor) & Arshad, S. H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Andrea Branzi y la “Città senza architettura”: De la No-Stop City a los modelos de urbanización débil

Supervisor: Muñoz Jiménez , M. T. (External person) (Supervisor) & Quesada López, F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The 'where' of sovereign power and exception: Palestinian life and refugee camps in Lebanon

Supervisor: Amoore, L. (External person) (Supervisor), Campbell, D. (External person) (Supervisor) & McEwan, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Structural and mutational analysis of the controller protein C.Esp1396I and its role in gene regulation

Supervisor: Professor John McGeehan (Supervisor) & Kneale, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Multi-agent based cooperative search in combinatorial optimisation

Supervisor: Professor Djamila Ouelhadj (Supervisor) & Professor Dylan Jones (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Designing a survivor-orientated restorative justice program for use in cases of sexual abuse: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Supervisor: Dr Jacki Tapley (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Characterisation of the microbial communities in the gastrointestinal tract of wood-eating organisms

Supervisor: Professor Joy Watts (Supervisor) & Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identification and functional characterisation of a novel potassium channel from phytopathogenic fungi

Supervisor: Dr Anthony Lewis (Supervisor), Corran, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The development of Self-Compassion and Mindfulness as a possible intervention for weight loss

Supervisor: Wilson, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis