Student theses

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

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

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

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

General relativistic effects on cosmological observations

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social communication in crested macaques (Macaca nigra)

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

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

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

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

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

Modelling and optimization of an RFID-based supply chain network

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

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

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

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

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

Machine learning approaches for astrophysics and cosmology

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

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

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 dynamics of bride price in Zimbabwe and the diaspora

Supervisor: Professor Tamsin Bradley (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Computational intelligence margin models for radiotherapeutic cancer treatment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The regulation of the determination of executive remuneration

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

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

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

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

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

The initial perception of humidity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Supervisor: Ndzi, D. (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

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

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

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

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

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

An in vitro study of the biological actions of a Chinese Herbal Formula on selected haematological and vascular processes related to endometrial receptivity

Supervisor: Dr Asmita Vithaldas Patel (Supervisor) & Dr Helen Fillmore (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Recovery of spermatozoa from superabsorbent polymers to assist in the forensic interpretation of sexual offences

Supervisor: Professor Joy Watts (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

How do intermediaries experience their role in facilitating communication for vulnerable defendants?

Supervisor: Professor Becky Milne (Supervisor) & Professor Jane Creaton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Digital spray: Channel 4, innovation and youth programming in the age of new technologies

Supervisor: Professor Lincoln Geraghty (Supervisor) & Dr Trudy Barber (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The mystery of mapness: the void between mind and map

Supervisor: Newland, P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Mullen, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An exploration of factors potentially affecting the perception and interpretation of medical images used in higher education

Supervisor: Professor Jim Briggs (Supervisor), Dr Tineke Fitch (Supervisor) & Professor David Prytherch (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Occupational fraud: a comparative study of Ghana and Nigeria

Supervisor: Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor) & Tunley, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Nurses working in Northern Israel: the effect of religion, attitudes, perceptions and professional behaviour towards organ donation

Supervisor: Dr Darren Van Laar (Supervisor) & Linnell, M. E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Measurement of supraspinatus tendon strain ration with sonoelastography: an exploratory study

Supervisor: Hatton, K. (Supervisor), Dr Jason Oakley (Supervisor) & Delf, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of application level information from the volatile memory of Windows computer systems

Supervisor: Dr Nick Savage (Supervisor), Ndzi, D. (Supervisor) & Dr Rinat Khusainov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implementation of an electronic quality management system document management module to support reconfiguration of a district general hospital pathology department quality management system

Supervisor: Kilburn, S. A. (Supervisor) & Dr Isobel Ryder (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The influence of the rights-based approach on the decision-making of civil society organisations in the delivery of development aid: a case of Actionaid and Ofam-Novib in Nigeria

Supervisor: Dr Angela Crack (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Transgressing boundaries: gender, identity, culture, and the ‘other’ in postcolonial women’s narratives in East Africa

Supervisor: Dr Christine Berberich (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Prediction of reservoir fluid properties using machine learning

Supervisor: Hassan Sayed, M. (Supervisor), Dr Mohamed Bader-El-Den (Supervisor) & Dr James Buick (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Formulation and preliminary evaluation of delivery vehicles for the boron neutron capture therapy of cancer

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A user centred mobile health approach to postnatal depression intervention adherence management using the theory of planned behaviour

Supervisor: Dr Alice Good (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

What makes a successful volume crime investigator?

Supervisor: Professor Becky Milne (Supervisor), Grieve, J. (Supervisor) & Bull, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Empirical investigation of the impact of foreign direct investment on manufacturing firms and banks in Nigeria

Supervisor: Snell, M. (Supervisor) & Collins, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Concealed avoidance testing: response strategies of instructed malingerers during forced choice testing: new measures and criteria to detect concealed knowledge and feigned cognitive deficits

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor), Dr Sharon Leal (Supervisor) & Dr Hartmut Blank (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

To what degree have the non-police public services adopted the National Intelligence Model? : what benefits could the National Intelligence Model deliver?

Supervisor: James, A. (Supervisor) & Savage, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Barriers facing e-service adopting and implementation at local environment level in Nigeria

Supervisor: Dingley, K. (Supervisor), Dr Penny Hart (Supervisor) & Adams, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Native expression of voltage-gated potassium channels in the mouse striatum and their plasticity in models of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases

Supervisor: Dr Marisa Van Der Merwe (Supervisor) & Professor Jerome Swinny (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Energy efficient cluster based algorithm for underwater sensor networks

Supervisor: Dr Nick Savage (Supervisor), Ndzi, D. (Supervisor) & Onuh, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Are markers of fibrin turnover in blood and urine increased before and during exacerbation of asthma?

Supervisor: Professor Janis Kay Shute (Supervisor) & Professor Anoop Chauhan (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing a more effective framework for the investigative interviewing of suspected sex offenders

Supervisor: Ost, J. (Supervisor), Dr Julie Cherryman (Supervisor) & Dr Paul Morris (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Phenotypic and genotypic variations in floral traits that affect mating system of Collinsia heterophylla

Supervisor: Professor Scott Armbruster (Supervisor) & Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The purification and functional study of compounds produced by Escherichia coli BP that induce and Inhibit sulphate reducing bacteria growth

Supervisor: Zinkevich, V. (Supervisor), Dr Julian Mitchell (Supervisor) & Banting, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Essays on non-market returns to education: evidence from a natural experiment in Turkey

Supervisor: Wohlschlegel, A. (Supervisor), Professor Andy Thorpe (Supervisor) & Torrisi, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The taxonomic diversity of British Jurassic pterosaurs

Supervisor: Professor David Martill (Supervisor) & Dr David Loydell (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

‘Narratives of blame’ HIV/AIDS and harmful cultural practices in Malawi: implications for policies and programmes

Supervisor: Professor Tamsin Bradley (Supervisor), Professor Sasee Pallikadavath (Supervisor) & Professor Tony Chafer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Oral thiamine (Vitamin B1) supplementation in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial assessing biophysical markers of endothelial function, oxidant stress, insulin sensitivity and vascular inflammation

Supervisor: Dr Michael H. Cummings (Supervisor) & Dr David Laight (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The expression of Hex, fli1 and Tal1 proteins in Xenopus embryos

Supervisor: Page, S. J. (External person) (Supervisor), Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor) & Dr Garry Scarlett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis