Student theses

The legal implications of the term ‘good oilfield practice’ in protecting the environment and society from onshore upstream oil and gas operations

Supervisor: Dr Fang Ma (Supervisor) & Professor Munir Maniruzzaman (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

Dynamic capabilities within a Saudi Arabian context

Supervisor: Professor Mark Xu (Supervisor) & Dr Foteini Kravariti (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Strongly lensed supernovae: a powerful probe of astrophysics and cosmology

Supervisor: Dr Thomas Collett (Supervisor), Dr David Bacon (Supervisor) & Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing a credit scoring model using social network analysis

Supervisor: Kizys, R. (Supervisor) & Professor Mark Xu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Testing and emulating modified gravity on cosmological scales

Supervisor: Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor), Dr David Bacon (Supervisor) & Professor Kazuya Koyama (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

Ice-marginal process and retreat dynamics of Norwegian plateau icefields

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Predicting failure mechanism of syntactic foam core sandwiches with multi-layered core

Supervisor: Dr Xiang Song (Supervisor), Dr Jiye Chen (Supervisor) & Dr Sarinova Simandjuntak (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Delegated safeguarding or surveillance by proxy?: the problem with Prevent – a critical discourse analysis of community-level counterradicalisation strategy

Supervisor: Dr Naheem Jabbar (Supervisor), Dr Ed Stoddard (Supervisor) & Dr Paul Norman (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Fool me once, fool me twice: the relationship between statement consistency and veracity across repeated recalls

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor), Dr Lucy Akehurst (Supervisor) & Professor Lorraine Hope (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Interrogating the future: imagining war in an age of change, 1870-1914

Supervisor: Professor Bradley Beaven (Supervisor), Dr Mike Esbester (Supervisor) & Dr Robert James (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Petroleum reservoir performance evaluation based on compositional grading models

Supervisor: Dr Jebraeel Gholinezhad (Supervisor) & Hassan Sayed, M. G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Narrative disclosure tone in the UK: determinants and consequences from upper echelons theory

Supervisor: Dr Tarek Mohamed Hassan AbdelFattah (Supervisor) & Dr Sonia Brandon (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Price to earnings (P/E) determinants and the valuation of private firms: a cross-country comparison

Supervisor: Mr Richard Trafford (Supervisor) & Dr Konstantinos Kallias (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effects of joint brand advertising on tourists’ behavioural response

Supervisor: Professor Giampaolo Viglia (Supervisor) & Professor Yuksel Ekinci (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of the day-ahead-energy market auctions from a multi-objective perspective

Supervisor: Dr Banu Lokman (Supervisor) & Koksalan, M. (External person) (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

Finding the first quasars at birth

Supervisor: Dr Andrew Lundgren (Supervisor) & Dr Daniel Whalen (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identifying cultural singularities of Egyptian staff as a social identity and their impact on cultural practices in Egyptian hospitality organizations: a case of crossvergence

Supervisor: Dr Peter Scott (Supervisor) & Dr Kajal Sharma (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigation into GA and GSOA optimisation approaches for solving assembly sequence problems

Supervisor: Wang, Q. (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Bennett, N. G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Robust comparisons of socio-economic well-being

Supervisor: Professor Lester Hunt (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Advocacy and ‘non-instructed’ advocacy with disabled children and young people with complex communication needs

Supervisor: Professor Anita Franklin (Supervisor), Dr Lexie Scherer (Supervisor) & Dr Catherine Carroll-Meehan (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implication and clinical application of translational medicine in the management of common urologic cancers

Supervisor: Dr John Young (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Schema and deviation effects in adults’ memory for repeated events

Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Koppel (Supervisor) & Dr Hartmut Blank (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The adaptive reuse of inner-city car parking structures for innovative controlled environment agriculture systems: an architectural and urban investigation into the potential for the sustainable regeneration of modern derived infrastructures in some contemporary UK cities

Supervisor: Dr Antonino Di Raimo (Supervisor), Lemes De Oliveira, F. (Supervisor) & Lehmann, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The causes and costs of intersexuality in two freshwater populations of the amphipod, Gammarus minus found in Montgomery County, Virginia USA

Supervisor: Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor), Glazier, D. S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Downer, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The development of dysfunctional expertise in burglars: pathways into crime and the implications for offender rehabilitation and situational crime prevention

Supervisor: Professor Claire Nee (Supervisor) & Dr Zarah Vernham (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Understanding and targeting epigenetic dysregulation, aberrant metabolism, and immune evasion in cancer with ascorbic acid

Supervisor: Dr Sassan Hafizi (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

A secure co-owned data sharing framework using fuzzy group decision making and users reputation

Supervisor: Dr Benjamin Aziz (Supervisor) & Dr Mo Adda (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An evaluation of psycholinguistic analysis for financial communications in the context of institutional theory

Supervisor: Mr Richard Trafford (Supervisor) & Professor Lisa Jack (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Mesocosm studies to resolve the fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in grass swales as components of Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) treatment trains

Supervisor: Professor John Williams (Supervisor), Dr Fay Couceiro (Supervisor) & Professor Joy Watts (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effects of a wastewater effluent on population, transcriptomic and metabolomic markers in the freshwater amphipod Gammarus fossarum

Supervisor: Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor), Werner, I. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Samuel Robson (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

The role of the eyes in animal-human emotional communication

Supervisor: McComb, K. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Leanne Proops (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Addressing resistance to change: an explorative study of the potential of external coaching

Supervisor: Professor Karen Johnston (Supervisor) & Lai, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Context fusion for recognising activities of daily living from indoor video data

Supervisor: Dr Rinat Khusainov (Supervisor), Dr John Chiverton (Supervisor) & Dr Djamel Azzi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Geomorphic process mechanisms and quantification of storm-induced intertidal boulder transport using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging technology

Supervisor: Dr Rob Inkpen (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Life after taking a life: the processes of meaning reconstruction and identity for men who committed homicide

Supervisor: Dr Dominic Pearson (Supervisor), Dr Treena Jingree (Supervisor) & Dr Adrian Needs (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

Power and publishing: contemporary Arabophone and Francophone Algerian literature and its national and transnational conditions of production

Supervisor: Dr Olivia Rutazibwa (Supervisor), Dr Christine Berberich (Supervisor) & Dr Natalya Vince (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

Traffic channelisation and pavement deterioration: an investigation of the lateral wander on asphalt pavement rutting

Supervisor: Dr Nikos Nanos (Supervisor), Dr Lee Woods (Supervisor) & Dr Stephanie Barnett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Banking competition, market structure and financial stability of the Gulf Cooperation Council region

Supervisor: Kizys, R. (Supervisor), Badunenko, O. (Supervisor) & Professor Shabbar Jaffry (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

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

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Inflation: a quantum laboratory on cosmological scales

Supervisor: Professor David Wands (Supervisor), Vennin, V. (Supervisor) & Dr Hooshyar Assadullahi (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

Littoral, river and sea: exploring the maritime history of Deptford, 1700-1850

Supervisor: Dr Cathryn Jean Pearce (Supervisor), Dr Karl Bell (Supervisor) & Professor Bradley Beaven (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The life-stories of young adult men in the criminal justice system: a critical narrative analysis

Supervisor: Professor Francis Pakes (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

Carnivalesque politics and popular resistance: a Bakhtinian reading of contemporary Jordanian political humour

Supervisor: Dr Maggie Bowers (Supervisor), Dr Natalya Vince (Supervisor) & Dr Graham Spencer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Challenges of implementing quality of care into practice among care providers for people with complex needs

Supervisor: Dr Isobel Ryder (Supervisor) & Dr Annabel Tremlett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Evidence based surgery: evaluating outcome measurement, 4 methodology and reporting quality

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An automated IPD cost management system: BIM and blockchain based solution

Supervisor: Dr Sepehr Abrishami (Supervisor), Professor Mark Gaterell (Supervisor) & Mr Richard Wise (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Corporate defamation in English law: corporate reputation, freedom of speech and the Defamation Act 2013

Supervisor: Mr Daniel Bedford (Supervisor) & Mr Joe Sekhon (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Humour in the pre-sessional classroom: the perceptions of teachers of English and their international students

Supervisor: Dr Peter Watkins (Supervisor), Dr Marie McCullagh (Supervisor) & Professor Sue Wright (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Improving project collaboration to minimise the energy performance gap in residential construction: case study of Kurdistan

Supervisor: Professor Mark Gaterell (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intersubjectivity, social inclusion and meaning making in prison environments

Supervisor: Dr Adrian Needs (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Pakastani university english Language teachers' cognitions and practices

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Spatial effects in random walks

Supervisor: Dr James Burridge (Supervisor), Dr Michal Gnacik (Supervisor) & Osbaldestin, A. H. (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

The effect of wearing military loads on ventilatory function and soldier performance

Supervisor: Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor) & Dr Mitch Lomax (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The implications of dysglycaemia and microvascular endothelial perturbation upon aerobic exercise function in cystic fibrosis

Supervisor: Dr Zoe Saynor (Supervisor) & Professor Janis Kay Shute (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Transferring the benefits of Agile project management using Scrum to a firm-fixed-price context: a study of German software development projects

Supervisor: Dr Debbie Reed (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Chris Louca (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Basement control on volcanic edifice stability: application to Mount Etna

Supervisor: Walker, R. (External person) (Supervisor), Dr Philip Benson (Supervisor) & Ougier-Simonin, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing a contextualised competency framework for further education middle managers in England

Supervisor: Professor Karen Johnston (Supervisor) & Lai, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Effects of customer relationship management (CRM) implementation on business performance in business to business (B2B) markets in Germany

Supervisor: Professor Yuksel Ekinci (Supervisor) & Professor Giampaolo Viglia (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Female labour in Saudi Arabia under the Nitaqat programme: a gendered power relations approach

Supervisor: Dr Stephen Williams (Supervisor) & Dr Cheryl Brook (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Leading change: adopting a transformational approach to leadership within the Internal Security Forces of Lebanon, enabling a community based style of policing

Supervisor: Dr John Fox (Supervisor), Dr Sarah Charman (Supervisor) & Loveday, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Mapping the Universe with weak lensing

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Multi-scale evaluation of bone combining indentation, in situ XCT mechanics and digital volume correlation

Supervisor: Dr Gianluca Tozzi (Supervisor) & Dr Jurgita Zekonyte (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reptilian welfare in a biological context

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sensing and adaption for long-term hand rehabilitation

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The development,iImplementation and validation of a physical employment standard and recommendations for a physical training programme for the RAF Regiment

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

Using intersubjectivity to explore processes of change in equine-facilitated psychotherapy for clients with histories of trauma

Supervisor: Dr Adrian Needs (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) & Dr Ioannis Chatziantoniou (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Feeding behaviour and movement as sublethal endpoints to study the impact of pharmaceuticals on the freshwater amphipod Gammarus pulex

Supervisor: Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor), Bloor, M. C. (Supervisor) & Dr Matt Parker (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Life after traumatic injury: narratives of embodiment and identity of United Kingdom ex-service personnel

Supervisor: McSorley, K. J. (Supervisor) & Ms Laura Hyman (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

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

The impacts of small-scale cultural events on market town vitality

Supervisor: Wrigley, N. (External person) (Supervisor), Clarke, N. (External person) (Supervisor) & Sunley, P. (External person) (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

Decision analytical models for the sustainable development of marine renewable energy

Supervisor: Dr Graham Wall (Supervisor) & Professor Dylan Jones (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The Regional Innovation System–University–Science Park nexus: University roles within an emerging peripheral region developing-economy innovation system. A study of the Chiang Mai University (CMU) Science Park in Northern Thailand

Supervisor: Professor David Grant Pickernell (Supervisor), Dr Chris Simms (Supervisor) & Professor Paul Trott (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The three aspects of police culture

Supervisor: Dr Sarah Charman (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

Women’s desistance from crime: a gender-responsive, trauma-informed analysis

Supervisor: Dr Jacki Tapley (Supervisor) & Dr Dennis Gough (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Board diversity, earnings management and firm performance: the case of Kuwait

Supervisor: Mr Imad Chbib (Supervisor) & Professor Khaled Hussainey (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Essays on the relationship between oil and financial markets

Supervisor: Kizys, R. (Supervisor) & Filis, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

From auditor to frauditor: developing the internal audit role beyond fraud risk assessment to detect and investigate fraud in the UK Public Sector

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Measuring personality in great apes: special focus on naturally occurring contexts

Supervisor: Professor Kim A. Bard (Supervisor) & Dr Marina Davila Ross (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

The durability of polyurethane protective coatings for sub-marine applications

Supervisor: Dr James Smith (Supervisor) & Dr Zhong Yi Zhang (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effects of political connections in banking

Supervisor: Wohlschlegel, A. (Supervisor) & Pescetto, G. M. R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The upper Silurian Downton Bone Bed of Weir Quarry, Herefordshire, England

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis