Student theses

Acoustic Emission as a tool for the imaging and forecasting of damage evolution in rock deformation laboratory experiments.

Supervisor: Vinciguerra, S. C. (External person) (Supervisor), Dr Philip Benson (Supervisor) & De Siena, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Work, employment and careers in the ICT sector: a comparative study of the UK and Germany

Supervisor: Dr Stephen Williams (Supervisor), Dr Peter Scott (Supervisor) & Fontinha, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Security practitioners’ perspectives of the Alberta Basic Security Training programme

Supervisor: Wakefield, A. (Supervisor) & Mr Tom Ellis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The decline of the French Communist Party: the Party education system as a brake to change 1945-1990

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Approaches to the management of difficult airways in adults

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

From mission idealism to operational realism: a study of Norwegian contribution to international police reform missions

Supervisor: Dr Paul Norman (Supervisor) & Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of a quality management model for Thai small, medium and large enterprises (SMLEs)

Supervisor: Professor Hom Dhakal (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Dr Ivan Popov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Extent, dynamics, and timings of glaciation in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland, during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition

Supervisor: Dr Harold Lovell (Supervisor), Dr Clare Boston (Supervisor) & Dr Nick Pepin (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The basis and nature of attitudes toward animal use: a psychological approach

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor) & Professor Kim A. Bard (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

My Jewish London: performance and identity in co-creative documentary practice

Supervisor: Dr Esther Sonnet (Supervisor) & Dr Jenny Walden (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Determining probabilistic spatial patterns of lost persons and their detection characteristics in land search & rescue

Supervisor: Professor Richard Teeuw (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Using advanced techniques for the development of behavioural assays in ecotoxicology: assessing the impacts of psychotropic compounds on crustacean behaviour

Supervisor: Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor), Dr Matt Parker (Supervisor) & Dr Gordon Watson (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Ligand binding to pentraxins

Supervisor: Professor Steve Wood (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The resilience of marginal populations of Corallina officinalis (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) to climate change

Supervisor: Ragazzola, F. (Supervisor), Professor Craig Storey (Supervisor) & Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Eliciting information from cooperative sources about single & repeated multi-actor events

Supervisor: Professor Lorraine Hope (Supervisor), Taylor, P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intersubjectivity, social inclusion and meaning making in prison environments

Supervisor: Dr Adrian Needs (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A contribution to slope engineering in Hong Kong: the engineering geology approach

Supervisor: Professor Rob Strachan (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Temporalities of change: a synchronic and diachronic examination of the process from addiction to recovery

Supervisor: Dr Alessandra Fasulo (Supervisor), Dr Darren Van Laar (Supervisor) & Dr Adrian Needs (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

National and organisational cultural impact on talent management’s implementation: case studies from Greece

Supervisor: Mamman, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Hossain, F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Online contracting and the supply of digital content to consumers

Supervisor: Macdonald, E. (External person) (Supervisor) & Tettenborn, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Application of next generation sequencing to aid in effective diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolaemia

Supervisor: Hodges, E. (External person) (Supervisor), Ganderton, R. (External person) (Supervisor), Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor) & Dr Sassan Hafizi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Determining the barriers to effective food safety governance in food manufacturing: a case study

Supervisor: Professor Lisa Jack (Supervisor) & Professor Mark Xu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Generalised hybrid fuzzy multi criteria decision making based on intuitive multiple centroid defuzzification

Supervisor: Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reservoir quality determination and modelling of unconsolidated Canadian Oil Sands reservoir following analytical techniques

Supervisor: Hassan Sayed, M. (Supervisor), Dr Richard Wheaton (Supervisor) & Dr David Franklin (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A human factors view of organisational change

Supervisor: Professor James McCalman (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Persons of versatility: private security officers and private policing in residential estates in Hong Kong

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Possible alternatives to improve the efficiency of the Iranian method of buyback transaction in relation to the international oil and gas contractual framework

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identification, source and fate of flame-retardants in the environment: past, present and future concerns

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Designing and orchestrating ecosystem-based business models: processual study of value maximization in the sharing economy

Supervisor: Professor Martina Battisti (Supervisor) & Dr Chris Simms (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identifying measures of emotion in dairy cattle

Supervisor: Dr Leanne Proops (Supervisor) & Dr Marina Davila Ross (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Towards the determination of surface energy at the nanoscale

Supervisor: Dr James Smith (Supervisor) & Dr John Tsibouklis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effects of dual-task interviews on cognitive load and cues to deception

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor), Professor Lorraine Hope (Supervisor) & Waller, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social influences on visual attention in primates

Supervisor: Professor Kim A. Bard (Supervisor) & Professor Alan Costall (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Effort reduction and collision avoidance for powered wheelchairs: SCAD assistive mobility system

Supervisor: Professor David Sanders (Supervisor), Dr Giles Tewkesbury (Supervisor) & Chester, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Essays on financial development and economic growth

Supervisor: Professor Andrew Wood (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The development, measurement and implementation of a bystander intervention strategy: A field study on workplace verbal bullying in a large UK organisation

Supervisor: Professor Charlotte Rayner (Supervisor), Dr Iona Byford (Supervisor) & Dr Cheryl Brook (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Temporary appropriation: theory and practice of the street

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A psychosocial examination of organizational stressors, emotional labour, attitudes and associated outcomes in sport organizations

Supervisor: Dr Chris Wagstaff (Supervisor), Professor Richard Thelwell (Supervisor) & Dr Jo Corbett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

New music technology systems and methods to assist teachers

Supervisor: Professor David Sanders (Supervisor), Dr Giles Tewkesbury (Supervisor) & Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The development of a Quality Management implementation model for the Nigerian Space Industry

Supervisor: Dr Debbie Reed (Supervisor) & Mr Chris Milner (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Unravelling the choreography of the EnvZ/OmpR transmembrane Pas de Deux

Supervisor: Dr Roger Draheim (Supervisor), Dr Marianna Cerasuolo (Supervisor) & Professor Andrew Pickford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Establishing the particularities of cybercrime in Nigeria: theoretical and qualitative treatments

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Spectral analysis of galaxies in the ultraviolet

Supervisor: Dr David Bacon (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of the extent to which university English education fulfils workplace requirements for Vietnamese graduates and of the extent to which action research can lead to improvements in university English education

Supervisor: Wyatt, M. (Supervisor), Dr Marie McCullagh (Supervisor) & Naysmith, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Judicial Strategy in Insurgencies

Supervisor: Betz, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A genealogy of the ethical subject in the Just War tradition

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation into student experience and perceptions of clinical simulation as a teaching method for pharmacy undergraduate education at the University of Portsmouth

Supervisor: Professor Jane Portlock (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of a global data poverty index and disaster risk reduction applications in coastal regions by means of free geoinformatic

Supervisor: Professor Richard Teeuw (Supervisor), Dr Derek Rust (Supervisor) & Dr Andy Gibson (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An economic analysis of community safety: evidence from the City of Portsmouth

Supervisor: Collins, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Transatlantic policy networks and the formation of core Europe

Supervisor: Professor Wolfram Kaiser (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Aspects of the teaching environment, student learning, perceived confidence and feedback practices in dental education

Supervisor: Professor Chris Louca (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Understanding and unraveling the therapeutic correctional relationship, using a participatory approach

Supervisor: Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor) & Dr Dennis Gough (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A critical comparison between English marine insurance warranty and Chinese marine insurance warranty: a case for reform

Supervisor: Professor Munir Maniruzzaman (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An extended cohesive damage model for simulating crack propagation in fibre reinforced composies

Supervisor: Dr Jiye Chen (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of the incorporation of antischistosomiasis drugs into polyheterocycles and DFT calculations on polymer precursors

Supervisor: Dr James Smith (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social capital in an online brand community: Volkswagen in China

Supervisor: Wheeler, C. (Supervisor), Christy, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Clark, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Robust control design for vehicle active suspension systems with uncertainty

Supervisor: Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor) & Hand, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Electrotactile feedback for sensory restoration: modelling and application

Supervisor: Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor), Dr Jiacheng Tan (Supervisor) & Dr Nick Savage (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Mapping and characterizing spectral evolution of lava flows with remote sensing: from satellite imagery to field spectroscopy

Supervisor: Kervyn, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Carmen Solana (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Artificial and crowd intelligence based recommender system framework

Supervisor: Dr Linda Yang (Supervisor), Ndzi, D. (Supervisor) & Dr Branislav Vuksanovic (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Navigating a British South Atlantic, 1800-1815

Supervisor: Dr Cathryn Jean Pearce (Supervisor), Professor Bradley Beaven (Supervisor) & Dr Robert James (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Combining simulation and multi-objective optimisation for equipment quantity optimisation in container terminals

Supervisor: Professor Dylan Jones (Supervisor) & Dr Xiang Song (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Making sense of older adult’s lives with asthma

Supervisor: Burnell, K. (Supervisor), Pilkington, K. (Supervisor) & Dr Rebecca Stores (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Product based information sharing in project management

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Human-guided four-component photometric modelling of spiral galaxies

Supervisor: Dr Coleman Krawczyk (Supervisor), Masters, K. L. (Supervisor) & Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The control of natural ventilation with opposing wind and buoyancy

Supervisor: Woods, A. W. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Rule based systems for classification in machine learning context

Supervisor: Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor), Dr Ella Haig (Supervisor) & Dr Mohamed Bader-El-Den (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Vision-based human activity analysis

Supervisor: Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor), Dr Zhaojie Ju (Supervisor), Dr Zhaojie Ju (Supervisor), Dr Nick Savage (Supervisor) & Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The role of an A-form DNA element in transcriptional regulation of the Xenopus gata2 gene

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Palynology through the early Wenlock Ireviken Event

Supervisor: Dr Anthony Butcher (Supervisor) & Dr David Loydell (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Blood transfusion matters: a narrative inquiry into patients' experience of receiving regular blood transfusion in a day unit setting whilst in a palliative stage of a haematological malignancy

Supervisor: Givati, A. (Supervisor) & Burnell, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Determining the role of the behavioural inhibition system in humans: an electroencephalographic examination of revised reinforcement sensitivity theory

Supervisor: Dr Roger Moore (Supervisor), Professor Kim A. Bard (Supervisor) & Dr Lorenzo Stafford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Production and action of nitric oxide in the rat gastric mucosa

Supervisor: Dr James Brown (Supervisor) & Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Novel endoscopic techniques in early gastrointestinal neoplasia

Supervisor: Dr James Brown (Supervisor) & Cree, I. A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Flexibility analysis on a supply chain contract: deterministic and stochastic settings

Supervisor: Dr Xiang Song (Supervisor) & Professor Djamila Ouelhadj (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The sub-lethal impacts of waste water effluent and its components on Gammarus pulex

Supervisor: Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor) & Crooks, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Physical and physiological aspects of submarine tower escape

Supervisor: Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Robot force sensing using stochastic monitoring of the actuator current

Supervisor: Billingsley, J. (External person) (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Naghdy, F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cross-adaptation: the effect cold habituation has on the physiological responses to acute hypoxia in humans

Supervisor: Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor), Barwood, M. J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Jo Corbett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cooperative robotic search strategies for odour source localisation

Supervisor: Liu, Y. (Supervisor) & Professor David Sanders (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Chemical profile of ginseng, Epimedium, Rhodiola and Siberian ginseng extracts and stability of their formulated products

Supervisor: Dr Asmita Vithaldas Patel (Supervisor) & Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identification and functional characterisation ofpotassium channels in mouse GI tract

Supervisor: Dr Anthony Lewis (Supervisor) & Dr James Brown (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Novel nano-particulate/polymer treatment systems for masonry enhancement and protection

Supervisor: Dr Zhong Yi Zhang (Supervisor) & Professor Hom Dhakal (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The pro-inflammatory role of copper in chemokine multimerisation and the potential of copper chelators as anti-inflammatory agents

Supervisor: Professor Janis Kay Shute (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Self-inflicted disasters: moral disengagement in unconventional risk, crisis and disaster management strategy

Supervisor: Dr Sara Hadleigh-Dunn (Supervisor) & Hoecht, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Key determinants of research-knowledge sharing in UK higher education institutions

Supervisor: Professor Mark Xu (Supervisor), Welch, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Michael John Wood (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Receptors for hyaluronic acid and poliovirus: expression and role in glioma invasion

Supervisor: Professor Geoff Pilkington (Supervisor) & Professor Arthur Butt (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The network paradigm in criminal justice: an exploratory mixed methods study of the barriers to its integration into Europol’s analysis environment

Supervisor: Dr Paul Norman (Supervisor) & Dr Andy Williams (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cathodic delamination of modelled sea cable connector assemblies

Supervisor: Dr James Smith (Supervisor) & Beech, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reproducing budgeting and budgeting reproduction: cases on the adaptation of Greek hotels to the financial crisis

Supervisor: Professor Lisa Jack (Supervisor) & Bowhill, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Enhancing the performance of cementious composite through hooked end steel fibres and cement replacement materials

Supervisor: Dr Stephanie Barnett (Supervisor), Dr David Begg (Supervisor) & Dr Jay Jayanandana (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effect of ethnicity on the vascular responses to cooling in men

Supervisor: Dr Clare Eglin (Supervisor), House, J. R. (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Insight into the digestive processes of the wood-boring marine crustacean Limnoria quadripunctata

Supervisor: Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor) & Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The Assessment of deteriorated concrete structures using extended digital image correlation (EDIC)

Supervisor: Dr Jiye Chen (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation of the accessible information process for adults with learning disabilities

Supervisor: Professor Tara Dean (Supervisor), Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Jenkins, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Probabilistic techniques for estimating earthquake triggered landslide hazards

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Adoption of international financial reporting standards in Greece: a critical approach

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

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

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