Student theses

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: Professor Geoff Pilkington (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) & Dr 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: Professor Geoff Pilkington (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

Clinical approaches to the prevention of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia

Supervisor: Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Comparing the policing and management of security in private/hybrid space in South Korea and the United Kingdom

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor) & Golding, B. (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

Design knowledge capture and reuse in an integrated and collaborative working environment

Supervisor: Wang, H. (Supervisor), Professor Hom Dhakal (Supervisor) & Tong, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Determination of organotin compounds in coastal sediment pore-water by diffusive gradients in thin-films (DGT) technique

Supervisor: Professor Gary Fones (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Fatal call - getting away with murder: a study into influences of decision making at the initial scene of unexpected death

Supervisor: Professor Becky Milne (Supervisor), James, A. (Supervisor) & Dr Stephanie Bennett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Gene regulation in the ventral midbrain of the developing chick embryo

Supervisor: Dr Frank Schubert (Supervisor) & Professor Matt Guille (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

Intertextual, literary and intercultural influences in the poetry of Perveen Shakir

Supervisor: Dr Christine Berberich (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

It’s better to light a candle than to fantasize about a sun: social media, political participation and slacktivism in Britain

Supervisor: Chadwick, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & O'Loughlin, B. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

No e-asy solution: e-working change: a case study exploring the increasing use of e-working in a local authority

Supervisor: Gilmore, S. (Supervisor) & Dr Stephen Williams (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Rainfall field modelling For European satellite networks

Supervisor: Ndzi, D. (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Brown, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Respectable deviance? : negotiating the opportunities and risks in online medicine purchasing

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social influences on the meta-cognitive regulation of eyewitness’ memory reports

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The Boys’ Brigade and urban cultures, 1883 – 1933: a relationship examined

Supervisor: Professor Bradley Beaven (Supervisor), Dr Karl Bell (Supervisor) & Dr Jodi Burkett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The conservation of archaeological sites in Syria: Ugarit as a case study

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Understanding basement processes in sub-volcanic settings by laboratory measurement

Supervisor: Burg, J. P. (External person) (Supervisor), Dr Philip Benson (Supervisor), Violay, M. E. (External person) (Supervisor) & Rutter, E. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of the implementation of quality management systems (QMS) within the Kuwaiti manufacturing industry

Supervisor: Professor Hom Dhakal (Supervisor), Pereira, V. (Supervisor) & Wang, Q. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implementation of an automated system for the detection of acute kidney injury in a district general hospital and its impact on patient outcomes

Supervisor: Dr John Young (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

New methods to improve the pixel domain steganography, steganalysis, and simplify the assessment of steganalysis tools

Supervisor: Dr Benjamin Aziz (Supervisor), Adams, C. (Supervisor) & Hernandez-Castro, J. (External person) (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

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

Supervisor: Collins, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Corporate venturing dynamics and patient involvement in service innovation: an exploratory study of private sector hospitals in Northern Greece

Supervisor: Professor Paul Trott (Supervisor) & Dr Chris Simms (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Disruptive game design: a commercial design and development methodology for supporting player cognitive engagement in digital games

Supervisor: Dr Brett Stevens (Supervisor), Eyles, M. (Supervisor) & Mr Daniel Mcguire Pinchbeck (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intelligent methods for locomotion optimisation

Supervisor: Dr Ivan Jordanov (Supervisor), Dr Mo Adda (Supervisor) & Gaber, M. M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Young people, tobacco and cannabis: social and place-based complexities in co-consumption

Supervisor: Twigg, L. (Supervisor) & Dr Julia Brown (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cooling hot property?: an assessment of the impact of property marking on residential burglary crime reduction, crime displacement or diffusion of benefits and public confidence

Supervisor: Loveday, B. (Supervisor) & Mr Tom Ellis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Figuring the photographic portrait studio as a psychic apparatus

Supervisor: Lowry, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Heron, F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An examination of the emergence and the development of professional accountancy in Developing Countries

Supervisor: Professor Lisa Jack (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Local government transnational networking in Europe: a study of 14local authorities in England andFrance

Supervisor: Heard-Laureote, K. (Supervisor), Professor Wolfram Kaiser (Supervisor) & Dr Robert Frith (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

Seismic fragility assessment of masonry buildings in the Kurdistan region

Supervisor: Dr Nikos Nanos (Supervisor) & Dr David Begg (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The impact of knowledge management on project success

Supervisor: Professor Ashraf Labib (Supervisor) & Lee, A. (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

An evaluation of vegetated SuDS ponds using experimental and numerical methods

Supervisor: Professor John Williams (Supervisor) & Mant, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Denying the deniers? an examination of the probation service working with sex offenders in denial

Supervisor: Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor), Dr Andy Williams (Supervisor) & Savage, S. (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

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Enhancing Quality of Life for elderly people through effective decision-making processes in the planning and design of the external residential environment on the UK South Coast

Supervisor: Moobela, C. (Supervisor), Whitehead, T. (Supervisor) & Goodhead, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Essays on energy consumption and oil resource management in oil producing African countries

Supervisor: Kizys, R. (Supervisor), Dr Nikos Antonakakis (Supervisor) & Professor Shabbar Jaffry (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Extended-spectrum β-lactamases and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: pre-empting a mechanism that could abolish cephalosporins for the treatment of gonorrhoea

Supervisor: Dr Darren Mernagh (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Hospitality industry decision analysis in Malta: application of a hybrid-balanced scorecard

Supervisor: Professor Ashraf Labib (Supervisor), Apostolakis, A. (Supervisor) & Professor Alessio Ishizaka (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigation of the antifouling properties of extracts from marine microalgae

Supervisor: Professor Paul Hayes (Supervisor) & Hellio, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Mediation and gangs: a study of violence reduction in the Metropolitan Police area in London

Supervisor: Clements, P. (Supervisor) & Dr Nick Pamment (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

On the edge of thermoregulation: a matter of physiology and physics

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Renormalization in a variety of quasiperiodically forced systems

Supervisor: Professor Andrew Osbaldestin (Supervisor) & Dr Andrew Burbanks (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

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

Supervisor: Dr Jiye Chen (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

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

The effect of interpreters on eliciting information, cues to deceit, and rapport

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor), Dr Lucy Akehurst (Supervisor) & Dr Sharon Leal (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

Ultrasound sensing and hand gesture recognition for dexterous prosthetic devices

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intuition based decision making methodology for ranking fuzzy numbers using centroid point and spread

Supervisor: Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor), Dr Mohamed Bader-El-Den (Supervisor) & Dr Janka Chlebikova (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Tackling fraud in UK central government: a review of the legal powers, skills and regulatory environment

Supervisor: Wakefield, A. (Supervisor) & Smith, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Using a supportive second interviewer to elicit cues to deceit

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

full spectral fitting of stellar population models for studies of galaxy evolution

Supervisor: Professor Claudia Maraston (Supervisor) & Professor Daniel Thomas (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A hermeneutic inquiry into adult acute mental health nurses’ experience of physical restraint procedures and their intervention using forced touch with patients

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Advanced endoscopic imaging in the gastrointestinal tract: improving the view of Neoplasia

Supervisor: Dr James Brown (Supervisor) & Mr Pradeep Bhandari (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An examination of the relationship between the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Orange Order since 2001

Supervisor: Loveday, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Interacting with prosthetic hands via electromyography signals

Supervisor: Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor), Dr Brett Stevens (Supervisor) & Dr Zhaojie Ju (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

Pedestrians counting and event detection In crowded environment

Supervisor: Dr Shikun Zhou (Supervisor), Dr Khalil Alkadhimi (Supervisor) & Ndzi, D. (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

VSL#3® probiotic supplementation in subjects with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, proof-of-concept trial assessing biophysical markers of endothelial function, oxidative stress, vascular inflammation, insulin sensitivity and liver injury

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Judicial Strategy in Insurgencies

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Analysis of human electrocardiogram for arrhythmia auto-classification and biometric recognition systems using analytic and autoregressive modeling parameters

Supervisor: Dr Branislav Vuksanovic (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Digital public service integration in refugee camp: camp to city : just to time bureaucracy

Supervisor: Adams, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Rich Boakes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Directed molecular evolution of novel DNA aptamers raised against an antibiotic resistant escherichia coli.

Supervisor: Dr Darren Gowers (Supervisor), Dr Garry Scarlett (Supervisor) & Dr Andrew Pickford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Landslide assessment in a remote mountain region: a case study from the Toktogul region of Kyrgyzstan, central Asia

Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Whitworth (Supervisor) & Dr Nick Koor (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Modelling the environmental transfers of radioactivity following the Fukushima accident

Supervisor: Professor Jim Smith (Supervisor) & Dr Mike Fowler (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The impact of professionalisation on elite level rugby union: players’ perspective

Supervisor: Professor Barry Smart (Supervisor), Dr Chris Wagstaff (Supervisor) & Hughes, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A reflective study of how security conceptualises the international standardisation of security

Supervisor: Jones, J. C. (Supervisor), Clements, P. (Supervisor) & Mr Chris Lewis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Exploring social constructions regarding bullying between children in schools by adult stakeholders working in the British education system

Supervisor: Linnell, M. E. (Supervisor), Dr Treena Jingree (Supervisor) & Professor Sherria Hoskins (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Immigrant Arab women: knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards breast cancer and cancer awareness practice

Supervisor: Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Professor Tara Dean (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigation of surface defects for extruded aluminium profiles using pattern recognition techniques

Supervisor: Dr Ivan Popov (Supervisor), Dr Ivan Jordanov (Supervisor) & Dr Krassimir Dotchev (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Molecular and functional characterisation of GABA-A receptors in the enteric nervous system of the mouse colon

Supervisor: Dr Jerome Swinny (Supervisor), Dr James Brown (Supervisor) & Dr Jeremy Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Site fidelity, social structure and spatial distribution of Short-Finned Pilot Whales, Globicephala macrorhynchus, off the South West Coast of Tenerife

Supervisor: Willis, T. J. (Supervisor) & Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis