Student theses

Bridging the gap between detection and confirmation of B. anthracis in blood cultures

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor) & Miss Sarah Fouch (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

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

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

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

Valuing net benefits of biodiversity conservation in West African marine protected areas

Supervisor: Professor Andy Thorpe (Supervisor) & Bjorndal, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

No safety in numbers: detecting deception using a collective interviewing approach

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A critical survey of BBC films: 1988 – 2013

Supervisor: Professor Justin Smith (Supervisor) & Ede, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Combined quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Thai Silk Industry

Supervisor: Professor Dylan Jones (Supervisor) & Professor Djamila Ouelhadj (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Exploring infants' cooperative participation in early social routines

Supervisor: Dr Alessandra Fasulo (Supervisor), Professor Alan Costall (Supervisor) & Dr Beatriz Lopez (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Galaxy spectral analysis in the era of large-scale galaxy surveys

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intelligent methods for pattern recognition and optimisation

Supervisor: Dr Ivan Jordanov (Supervisor), Professor Jim Briggs (Supervisor) & Professor Max Bramer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Mechanistic approach to predicting the sorption characteristics of pharmaceuticals

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor), Whitley, D. (Supervisor) & Professor Richard Greenwood (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The legal framework for the sustainable development of Iraqi oil and gas: a study in particular reference to the Kurdistan Region, and with special emphasis on the New Delhi Declaration

Supervisor: Professor Munir Maniruzzaman (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A microeconomic investigation into the themes of social participation, social exclusion and collective action affecting individuals, households, state and society: evidence from a modern British city

Supervisor: Collins, A. (Supervisor) & Dr Judith Rich (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An exploration of older case management patients’ physical health, function and strength; and the feasibility of measures of muscle strength as an aid to monitoring

Supervisor: Walsh, B. (External person) (Supervisor) & Samuel, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An exploratory analysis and synthesis of the viability of groups with salient social identities using Stafford Beer’s VSM model

Supervisor: Mr Jim Rowe (Supervisor), Asby, R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Hoecht, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation into the impact of board composition and ownership structure on corporate performance: the case of the FTSE all share listed companies

Supervisor: Professor Mike Page (Supervisor) & Dr Arief Daynes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Electrohydrodynamic atomisation produced nanoparticles for the targeted delivery of cancer chemotherapeutics

Supervisor: Barbu, E. (Supervisor), Dr Susanna Van Der Merwe (Supervisor) & Dr John Tsibouklis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Families in crisis: parenting and the life cycle in English society c. 1450 - 1620

Supervisor: Murphy, N. (External person) (Supervisor), Mahlberg, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Handley, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Improving the preliminary stages of the criminal justice system to accommodate people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Supervisor: Professor Becky Milne (Supervisor) & Dando, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigation of spatially and temporally varying broadband wireless urban channels

Supervisor: Ndzi, D. (Supervisor), Dr Rinat Khusainov (Supervisor) & Professor David Sanders (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sources, occurrence and fate of Hydrocarbon pollutants in sustainable drainage systems

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The effect of thalidomide on cachexia in upper gastrointestinal cancer

Supervisor: Professor Geoff Pilkington (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Changing probation practice: frontline perspectives on a new model for supervising offenders

Supervisor: Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor) & Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Does the use of adjunct histopathological techniques to enhance lymph node yield improve tumour staging in colorectal cancer?

Supervisor: Dr Isobel Ryder (Supervisor), Carr, N. J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Wilkinson, 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

Source apportionment and dispersion mapping of fugitive dust using directional passive monitors

Supervisor: Dr Mike Fowler (Supervisor) & Giles, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The impact of blended learning technologies on student performance/learning in biomedical science higher education

Supervisor: Gibbs, R. (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The impact of regulation, risk, and resource on returns within renewable energy projects

Supervisor: Professor Ashraf Labib (Supervisor) & Dr Azad Camyab (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An alternative design framework for the generation of sound particles

Supervisor: Delve, J. (Supervisor) & Anderson, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing a customer-focused approach (DaCfA)

Supervisor: Dr Debbie Reed (Supervisor) & Emeritus Professor Mike Kaye (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Elite Association Football referee training and officiating: a comparative analysis of refereeing practices in three European Leagues’

Supervisor: Professor Barry Smart (Supervisor), Professor Richard Thelwell (Supervisor) & Taylor, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Optimising quality of service levels through experimentation on streaming multimedia applications using WiMAX

Supervisor: Dr Mo Adda (Supervisor) & Adams, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Packaging development in an ageing society: a case study approach in the United Kingdom fast-moving consumer goods industry

Supervisor: Professor Paul Trott (Supervisor), Simms, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Hoecht, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Andrea Branzi y la “Città senza architettura”: De la No-Stop City a los modelos de urbanización débil

Supervisor: Muñoz Jiménez , M. T. (External person) (Supervisor) & Quesada López, F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Computer-based modelling and analysis in engineering geology

Supervisor: Professor David Martill (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Performance culture meets police culture: the relationship between political ideologies, police reform and police culture

Supervisor: Savage, S. (Supervisor) & Golding, B. (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

A study in blue: exploring the relationship between the police and academia

Supervisor: Dr Jane Creaton (Supervisor) & Clements, P. (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), Ms Marie McCullagh (Supervisor) & Naysmith, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Artificial immune system for the detection of abnormal activity in ambient assisted living

Supervisor: Dr Djamel Azzi (Supervisor), Dr Rinat Khusainov (Supervisor) & Dr Branislav Vuksanovic (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Auditory processing and autistic symptomatology

Supervisor: Dr Beatriz Lopez (Supervisor), Professor Vasu Reddy (Supervisor) & Dr Paul Morris (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Bandwidth estimation and optimisation in rain faded DVB-RCS networks

Supervisor: Dr Rinat Khusainov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

But where is on earth is home: a cultural history of black Britain in 1970s film and television

Supervisor: Professor Justin Smith (Supervisor) & Harper, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Channel 4 Television: film policy and programming, 1982 – 2011

Supervisor: Professor Justin Smith (Supervisor) & McDonald, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Channel 4 and British film: an assessment of industrial and cultural impact, 1982-1998

Supervisor: Professor Justin Smith (Supervisor) & McDonald, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Designing an economic instrument for sustainable solid waste management in the household sector

Supervisor: Wattage, P. (Supervisor) & Dr Michelle Bloor (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Designing with data in mind : designer perceptions on visualising data within editorial information design practice

Supervisor: Dr Jenny Walden (Supervisor), Dr Michael Harkins (Supervisor) & Dauppe, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Detection of distal ulna and radius fractures using thermal imaging as a diagnostic tool on children in the emergency department setting

Supervisor: Dr Isobel Ryder (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of a liquid chromatography ion trap mass spectrometer method for clinical drugs of abuse testing with automated on-line extraction using turbulent flow chromatography

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of a patient reported experience measure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Supervisor: Kilburn, S. A. (Supervisor) & Dr Heather MacKenzie (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Extreme art film: text, paratext and DVD culture

Supervisor: Professor Deborah Shaw (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Introducing risk assessment to the Maltese probation service

Supervisor: Professor Alan Costall (Supervisor), Newberry, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Adrian Needs (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Metabotropic glutamate receptors in oligodendrocytes and astrocytes in white and grey matter brain regions

Supervisor: Professor Arthur Butt (Supervisor) & Dr Jerome Swinny (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

P2X7 receptor knockout alleviates the pathology in the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Supervisor: Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor), Arkle, S. (Supervisor) & Dr Jerome Swinny (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Risk management and people management: a critical reflection on how risk management can be incorporated into current HR practices

Supervisor: Borodzicz, E. P. (Supervisor) & Dr Martin Read (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sources of uncertainty impacting upon sperm cryopreservation for cancer patients

Supervisor: Kilburn, S. A. (Supervisor), Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor) & Dr Rhiannon Lloyd (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Systematic reviews regarding iron and iron supplementation in blood donors

Supervisor: Kilburn, S. A. (Supervisor) & Dr Amy Drahota (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

The impact of employees‟ personality traits in perceiving leadership styles and organizational attitude in Saudi Banking context

Supervisor: Professor Charlotte Rayner (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

Traversing trauma and consuming perverse pleasures in the neo-Victorian novel.

Supervisor: Dr Elodie Rousselot (Supervisor), Pulham, P. (Supervisor) & Dr Maggie Bowers (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

What is the strength of police and local authority cultural knowledge regarding anti-social behaviour?

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Expression and function of K_ir7.1 in the Murine Central nervous system

Supervisor: Dr Anthony Lewis (Supervisor) & Professor Arthur Butt (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Fundamental analysis and relative valuation multiples: a determination of value drivers and development of a value model for the US and UK markets

Supervisor: Mr Richard Trafford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Optical and near infrared properties of massive galaxies

Supervisor: Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor), Professor Claudia Maraston (Supervisor) & Percival, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Past and present visions of an island-city: Portsmouth's urban improvement plans 1750s-2010s.

Supervisor: Lemes De Oliveira, F. (Supervisor), Farrelly, L. (Supervisor) & Dr Marius Kwint (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Corporate governance and firm performance: the case of UK

Supervisor: Mr Richard Trafford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Effects of histone modifications on chromatin regulation

Supervisor: Dr Alan Thorne (Supervisor) & Dr Colin Sharpe (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

The animal rights movement: the challenge for corporate resilience

Supervisor: Dr Alison Wakefield (Supervisor) & Professor Mark Button (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Essays on executive stock options in Malaysia

Supervisor: Dr Everton Dockery (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Page (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Materialities in circulation: Italy and its colonies across time and space

Supervisor: Dr Jenny Walden (Supervisor) & Dr Marius Kwint (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

‘Voluntary’ promises in employment law: a study of the legal approach in the United Kingdom & the United States of America

Supervisor: Hough, B. (Supervisor) & Dr James Hand (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Making the transition to adulthood in Zambia: a comparison of the experiences of caregiving and non-caregiving youth

Supervisor: Evans, R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Bowlby, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Coordination buyer-supplier in supply chain models from net present value perspective

Supervisor: Professor Djamila Ouelhadj (Supervisor) & Professor Dylan Jones (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Molecular analysis of microbial communities from oil industry environments

Supervisor: Zinkevich, V. (Supervisor) & Beech, I. B. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An optimised and generalised node for fat tree classes

Supervisor: Dr Mo Adda (Supervisor) & Dr Bryan Carpenter (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating the effects of nutrient concentration and light intensity on benthic biofilm development and phytoplankton growth in UK rivers.

Supervisor: Professor Jim Smith (Supervisor) & Dr Michelle Hale (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

Mapping cosmological fields

Supervisor: Dr David Bacon (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The importance of consumer protection for the development of electronic commerce: the need for reform in Jordan

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The potential pathogenicity of Dolosigranulum pigrum in multiple sclerosis, and the occurrence of the organism in the upper respiratory tract

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

Addiction and criminal justice interventions: a complex systems analysis

Supervisor: Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor)

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

A theory of digital library metadata: the emergence of enriching and filtering

Supervisor: Dr Brett Stevens (Supervisor), Ross, P. (Supervisor) & Ms Jane Chandler (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Challenges to the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council

Supervisor: Professor Munir Maniruzzaman (Supervisor) & Osborne, G. (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

The royal dockyard worker in Edwardian England: culture, leisure and empire

Supervisor: Professor Bradley Beaven (Supervisor) & Dr Karl Bell (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Wnt and Lithium promote Gliogenesis in the adult optic nerve

Supervisor: Professor Arthur Butt (Supervisor) & Dr Anthony Lewis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Assessing the need for the adoption of operational and environmental performance systems in Omani shipyards

Supervisor: Goodhead, T. (Supervisor) & Dr Ann Veronica Coats (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cosmological signatures of brane inflation

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Decision support framework for resources allocation to corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes

Supervisor: Professor Ashraf Labib (Supervisor), Dr Debbie Reed (Supervisor) & Professor Alessio Ishizaka (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating the factors affecting readiness for lean system adoption within Kuwaiti small and medium-sized manufacturing industries

Supervisor: Professor Hom Dhakal (Supervisor) & Onuh, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Primordial perturbations from string inflation

Supervisor: Professor David Wands (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Searching for isocurvature non-Gaussianity in the CMB trispectrum

Supervisor: Professor Robert Crittenden (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Structural and mutational analysis of the controller protein C.Esp1396I and its role in gene regulation

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis