Student theses

An empirical investigation of market structure, determinants of profitability, competitiveness and productivity in MENA economies banking sector

Supervisor: Dr Konstantinos Vergos (Supervisor) & Professor Lisa Jack (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

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

Supervisor: Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Impact of P2RX7 purinoceptor ablation on the morphometric, mechanical and tissue properties in the murine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Supervisor: Tong, J. (Supervisor), Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor) & Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

It’s all in the detail: examining verbal differences between children’s true and false reports using cognitive lie detection techniques

Supervisor: Dr Lucy Akehurst (Supervisor), Cherryman, J. (Supervisor) & Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Strategic information systems: their contribution to organisational performance

Supervisor: Professor Ashraf Labib (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

A critical examination of features differentiating attempted and completed cases of male perpetrated stranger child abduction in the UK

Supervisor: Dr Karen Shalev Greene (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Agent-based graphic sound synthesis and acousmatic composition

Supervisor: Moore, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Moore, D. (External person) (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

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

Making sense of life narratives: the perspectives of British armed forces ex-service personnel

Supervisor: Burnell, K. (Supervisor), Wilson, C. (Supervisor) & Bown, K. (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

Social media practices in SME marketing activities: a dynamic capability approach

Supervisor: Clark, L. (Supervisor), Wheeler, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Sarah Turnbull (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Condition monitoring for machine health prognosis using dominance based rough sets

Supervisor: Brown, D. (Supervisor) & Dr Edward Smart (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Private security career paths: establishing the foundations of a structured progression model for the manned guarding sector

Supervisor: Wakefield, A. (Supervisor) & Tunley, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A force for good: exploring the future of non-crime policing

Supervisor: Loveday, B. (Supervisor) & Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Availability and inequality in the distribution of health workers in the public health system in rural India

Supervisor: Professor Sasee Pallikadavath (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Biophysical characterisation of the serum amyloid P component - DNA interaction

Supervisor: Dr Simon Kolstoe (Supervisor), Dr Sassan Hafizi (Supervisor) & Kneale, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Characterisation of alternative materials for human vibration representation

Supervisor: Dr Ya Huang (Supervisor) & Tong, J. (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

Duty to consult: quantifying critical incidents – assessing community impact

Supervisor: Loveday, B. (Supervisor) & Clements, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Friend or foe?: exploring police and offender relationships in integrated offender management: a challenging issue in a challenging environment.

Supervisor: Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Internships and the graduate labour market

Supervisor: Dr Peter Scott (Supervisor), Dr Iona Byford (Supervisor) & Dr Stephen Williams (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intrinsic correlations of galaxy sizes and luminosities in weak lensing

Supervisor: Professor Robert Crittenden (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Measuring performance in reverse supply chain

Supervisor: Professor David Sanders (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

Multi-player online video games for cognitive rehabilitation for the brain injured

Supervisor: Gnanayutham, P. (External person) (Supervisor), Professor Jim Briggs (Supervisor), Turner, L. (Supervisor) & Dr Alice Good (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

New insights on police culture: a critical evaluation of direct entry into senior leadership roles in the police service

Supervisor: Loveday, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sim-heuristic algorithms for Robust Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demand

Supervisor: Professor Djamila Ouelhadj (Supervisor), Professor Dylan Jones (Supervisor) & Dr Banafsheh Khosravi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The role of belief in the regulation and reporting of memories

Supervisor: Professor Lorraine Hope (Supervisor) & Ost, J. (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

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

Supervisor: Dr Jiye Chen (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), Dean, T. (Supervisor), Venter, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Rebecca Stores (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Organizational justice in an Arab context: a mixed methods study

Supervisor: Dr Stephen Williams (Supervisor), Dr Liza Howe-Walsh (Supervisor) & Bozionelos, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The performance of UK financial institutions over periods of market stability and volatility: 1980-2015

Supervisor: Dr Everton Dockery (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Visual odometry and mapping in natural environments for arbitrary camera motion models

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Watermarked face recognition scheme: enhancing the security while maintaining the effectiveness of biometric authentication systems

Supervisor: Dr Salem Aljareh (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Eliciting admissions from suspects in criminal investigations

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An exploratory study to assess perceptions of the power dividend: does external power affect the fairness of public policing in Dublin's north inner city?

Supervisor: James, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing the petrological potential of rutile

Supervisor: Professor Craig Storey (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Fowler (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

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

Portsmouth Coastal Flood Vulnerability and Risk: assessment and mapping of impacts at microscale.

Supervisor: Professor Richard Teeuw (Supervisor) & Professor Andy Gale (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), Mitchell, J. (Supervisor) & Banting, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

In vitro mechanical characterization of the human natural and treated vertebrae

Supervisor: Cristofolini, L. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Gianluca Tozzi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An analysis of aspects of the Equality Act 2010

Supervisor: Hough, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Complicit silence: organisations and their response to occupational fraud

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor) & Tunley, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Molecular epidemiological study of extended spectrum betalactamase (ESBL) producing bacteria from teaching and district general hospitals within Hampshire

Supervisor: Zinkevich, V. (Supervisor), Dr James Brown (Supervisor) & Mitchell, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Novel role for Gas6 as a positive regulator of myelination

Supervisor: Dr Sassan Hafizi (Supervisor)

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

Prescribing guidance and practice: exploring the factors that have an impact on prescribing in a mental health environment

Supervisor: Brown, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Protection of the muscle stem cell state from premature differentiation

Supervisor: Dr Susanne Dietrich (Supervisor), Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor) & Dr Frank Schubert (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effects of diffuse pollution on the European eel Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758)

Supervisor: Willis, T. J. (Supervisor), Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor) & Sheahan, D. (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

Thermoregulation in an encapsulated environment: Reducing thermoregulatory strain Experienced by warfighters when wearing fully encapsulating protective clothing with additional investigations of thermoregulatory control

Supervisor: House, J. R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of an individualised and cognitive behavioural communication intervention for informal carers of people with dementia

Supervisor: Markham, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Rebecca Stores (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of the naturalisation and dispersal of a non-native bivalve, the Manila clam, Ruditapes philippinarum (Adams and Reeve 1850) in estuaries along the South coast of England

Supervisor: Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor), Humphreys, J. (Supervisor) & Farrell, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Exploring associated factors and dynamic relationships between lecturers and their engagement with Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Supervisor: Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Delf, P. (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

Implementing KM in a public organization: the case of the Dubai Police Force

Supervisor: Welch, C. (Supervisor), Professor Ashraf Labib (Supervisor) & Dr Lynn Day (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigation of the daylighting and the thermal environment of Nigeria’s low-income housing: the case of Abuja

Supervisor: Al-Maiyah, S. (Supervisor) & Cook, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The search for superluminous supernovae with the Dark Energy Camera

Supervisor: Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor), D'Andrea, C. B. (Supervisor) & Sullivan, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Factors affecting the accurate detection of trait aggression from gait

Supervisor: Dr Paul Morris (Supervisor), Dr Lucy Akehurst (Supervisor) & Professor Claire Nee (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Modelling and measuring cosmological structure growth

Supervisor: Percival, W. (Supervisor), Manera, M. (Supervisor) & Professor Robert Crittenden (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 economic analysis of spectator demand, club performance, and revenue sharing in English Premier League football

Supervisor: Dr Joe Cox (Supervisor), Professor Andy Thorpe (Supervisor) & Rich, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation of the readiness of implementing the learning and growth perspective of the Balanced Scorecard within the Saudi Arabian public sector performance management system

Supervisor: Brown, E. (Supervisor) & Dr Stephen Williams (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Between rhetoric and implementation of EU relations in the Mediterranean: the case of the European neighbourhood policy (ENP) in Egypt

Supervisor: Carr, F. (Supervisor), Professor Tony Chafer (Supervisor) & Dr Paul Flenley (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Foreign correspondents in Francoist Spain (1945-1975)

Supervisor: Professor Wolfram Kaiser (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Innovative approaches for the development of new non-toxic antifouling solutions

Supervisor: Professor Joy Watts (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigation of aneurysm formation: a macro-structural approach

Supervisor: Dr Andrea Bucchi (Supervisor), Tong, J. (Supervisor) & Dr Gianluca Tozzi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Living with mental illness, dying of disease: the impact of stress, depression and the self-defeating attitudes on physical health

Supervisor: Wilson, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Motivations and attitudes towards learning English in Pakistan: a mixed-methods study of urban-rural postgraduate learners' motivations and attitudes towards studying English at a public university in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

Supervisor: Dr Mario Saraceni (Supervisor), Wyatt, M. (Supervisor) & Dr Darren Van Laar (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Primordial non-Gaussianity in the large-scale structure of the Universe

Supervisor: Professor David Wands (Supervisor), Ross, A. J. (Supervisor) & Tasinato, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

RNA interaction studies: a pathway to the development of a surface-based technology

Supervisor: Professor Anastasia Callaghan (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Risk assessment by statistics? a critical examination of the clinical and actuarial risk assessment approaches used within the probation service to assess sexual offenders

Supervisor: Dr Andy Williams (Supervisor) & Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The relationship between three dimensional human cephalic animation, audiences perception and emotional response

Supervisor: Eglin, R. (Supervisor), Dr Brett Stevens (Supervisor) & Powell, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Use of agricultural waste fibres as enhancement of soil blocks for low-cost housing in Ghana

Supervisor: Dr Brett Martinson (Supervisor), Dr Muhammad Ali (Supervisor) & Professor John Williams (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Born to fight: the university experiences of the daughters of single mothers who are first-generation students in the United Kingdom

Supervisor: Burke, P. J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Hinton-Smith, T. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Butylglyceryl-modified polysaccharide nanoparticles for drug delivery to the brain

Supervisor: Barbu, E. (Supervisor) & Gorecki, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Delivering positive reminiscence through a ubiquitous device application designed for people living with dementia and their care-givers

Supervisor: Dr Alice Good (Supervisor), Wilson, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Tineke Fitch (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

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

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

LDHA as a potential therapeutic target for medulloblastoma

Supervisor: Pilkington, G. (Supervisor), Donovan, L. (Supervisor) & Dr Helen Fillmore (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Measuring galaxy environment in large scale photometric surveys

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Thomas (Supervisor), Professor Claudia Maraston (Supervisor) & Capozzi, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sentiment analysis on students’ real-time feedback

Supervisor: Dr Ella Haig (Supervisor), Fallahkhair, S. (Supervisor) & Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The hidden world of e-learning in small and medium enterprises

Supervisor: Gilmore, S. (Supervisor) & Professor Valerie Anderson (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The (change) blindingly obvious: investigating fixation behaviour and memory recall during CCTV observation

Supervisor: Dr Lucy Akehurst (Supervisor), Ost, J. (Supervisor) & Page, J. (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

Academic entrepreneurship in Petroleum Rentier States

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Child-against-parent abuse in Greater Manchester: key themes, collaboration and preventative interventions

Supervisor: Hall, N. (Supervisor), Winstone, J. (Supervisor) & Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Collecting and predicting patient reported outcomes in chiropractic practice

Supervisor: Newell, D. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing local community participation within shoreline management in England: the role of Coastal Action Groups

Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Potts (Supervisor), Bray, M. (Supervisor) & Dr Julia Brown (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development and assessment of a haemodynamic based numerical model for stenosis growth in the carotid artery

Supervisor: Dr James Buick (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development and evaluation of a remediation strategy for the oil lakes of Kuwait

Supervisor: Dr Muhammad Ali (Supervisor) & Professor John Williams (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Role of CD15 and CD15s in the cellular mechanisms of cancer cell metastasis from lung to the brain

Supervisor: Pilkington, G. (Supervisor), Dr Helen Fillmore (Supervisor) & Dr Zaynah Maherally (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

Adapting to a new security environment: Turkey’s border security

Supervisor: James, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis