Student theses

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

Training for success: an analysis of the Irish Garda Siochana trainee programmes from 1922 to present day

Supervisor: Clements, P. (Supervisor), Johnston, L. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jones, J. C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A comparative study of teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD) in Nigeria and England: a study of primary schools in Abuja and Portsmouth

Supervisor: Holloway, D. (Supervisor), Horton, S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Birch, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An intelligent monitoring system to predict potential catastrophic incidents

Supervisor: Professor David Sanders (Supervisor), Mr Nick Capon (Supervisor) & Dr Giles Tewkesbury (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Characterisations and properties of nanocomposites based upon vinyl ester matrix and layered silicate

Supervisor: Professor Hom Dhakal (Supervisor), Dr Zhong Yi Zhang (Supervisor) & Bennett, N. (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) & Dr Heather MacKenzie (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An assessment of the impacts of chronic exposure of copper and zinc on the polychaete Nereis (Alitta) virens using an integrated ecotoxicological approach

Supervisor: Dr Gordon Watson (Supervisor) & Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implementing talent management in a global services company

Supervisor: Dr Valerie Anderson (Supervisor) & Dr Martin Read (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Police learning in the university context: student perceptions of the classroom environment on a police foundation degree course

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Residential home temperature prediction models that use space conditioning experiments and disparate sources of information

Supervisor: Dr Giles Tewkesbury (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Ramlall, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Resilient places? : healthcare gardens and the Maggie's Centres

Supervisor: Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan (Supervisor), Depledge, M. (External person) (Supervisor), Hawkins, D. (External person) (Supervisor) & Kamp, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Stated preferences for future management developments in the hospitality sector: A case study of Abu Dhabi, UAE

Supervisor: Professor Shabbar Jaffry (Supervisor) & Apostolakis, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Transforming the student’s experience in operating department practice: learning through simulation

Supervisor: Dr Chris Markham (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Extension of the gambler's ruin problem played over networks

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Quantifying the soil community on green roofs

Supervisor: Gange, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The impact of foreign aid and donations to Palestine on development of its economy under alternative Israeli- Palestinian economic interaction regimes

Supervisor: Dr Judith Rich (Supervisor), Collins, A. (Supervisor) & Judge, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Essays on the analysis of performance and competitive condition in the Chinese banking industry

Supervisor: Floros, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Judith Rich (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

European upstream energy cooperation : political risk, milieu-shaping and politico-commercial relations in the Caspian Sea region

Supervisor: Dr Paul Flenley (Supervisor), Professor Wolfram Kaiser (Supervisor) & Mr Fergus Carr (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Modified theories of gravity

Supervisor: Professor Kazuya Koyama (Supervisor) & Dr Marco Bruni (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 application of the passive sampling technique diffusive gradients in thin-films (DGT) to the measurement of uranium in natural waters

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A longitudinal case-study examination of HRM practices in high-performing work organisations in the Indian HRO/BPO industry

Supervisor: Dr Peter Scott (Supervisor), Dr Valerie Anderson (Supervisor) & Professor Charlotte Rayner (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Adoption of international financial reporting standards in Greece: a critical approach

Supervisor: Professor Lisa Jack (Supervisor) & Hines, T. (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

In textasis: matrixial narratives of textile design

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A molecular study of contemporary and museum Calliphoridae of forensic importance

Supervisor: Dr Colin Sharpe (Supervisor), Dr Alan Thorne (Supervisor) & Harvey, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

GABA_AR expression in brain noradrenergic and serotonergic centres and their plasticity in the context of stress induced behaviours

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Late-time acceleration: interacting dark energy and modified gravity

Supervisor: Professor Kazuya Koyama (Supervisor), Professor Roy Maartens (Supervisor) & Dr Marco Bruni (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A systemic study into the problem space of widening participation in UK Higher Education

Supervisor: Welch, C. (Supervisor) & Professor Frank Stowell (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation into the association of plasmid-borne qacAB and antimicrobial resistance in Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Aspects of the life history strategies of the Teredinidae

Supervisor: Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor) & Professor Alex Ford (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

Developing risk of Mortality and early warning score models using routinely collected data

Supervisor: Professor Jim Briggs (Supervisor) & Professor David Prytherch (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Early childbearing and behavioural flexibility in the United Kingdom

Supervisor: Mr Ed Morrison (Supervisor), Dr Paul Morris (Supervisor) & Professor Bridget Waller (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intergovernmental fiscal relations: a case study of Pakistan

Supervisor: Professor Shabbar Jaffry (Supervisor) & Judge, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating issues influencing knowledge sharing in a research organization, using the Appreciative Inquiry Method

Supervisor: Professor Frank Stowell (Supervisor), Professor Jim Briggs (Supervisor) & Mr Peter Bednar (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Local community involvement in cultural heritage management: a case study of Melaka Heritage Trail, Malaysia

Supervisor: Aygen, Z. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Elizabeth Tuson (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Memory, myth and forgetting: the British transatlantic slave trade

Supervisor: Rau, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Pathways to accountability?: Independent oversight, the right to life and the investigation of deaths involving the police

Supervisor: Savage, S. (Supervisor) & Clements, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The distribution and development of eruptive centres and lava flow-field characteristics at Somma-vesuvius, Italy

Supervisor: Dr Carmen Solana (Supervisor) & Kilburn, C. R. J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Uncovering the iceberg: mandating the measurement of fraud

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor) & Clements, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Undercover and collective interviewing to detect deception

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor), Professor Lorraine Hope (Supervisor) & Dr Sam Mann (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Advancing student geographies: habitus, identities and (re)sensing of place

Supervisor: Dr Carol Ekinsmyth (Supervisor) & Twigg, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Geotechnical properties of chalk putties

Supervisor: Watson, P. D. J. (Supervisor), Dr Steve Mitchell (Supervisor) & Giles, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reworkings in the textual history of Gulliver’s Travels: a translational approach

Supervisor: O'Sullivan, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Benjamin Dew (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Small area synthetic estimation of perceptions of alcohol and drug-related anti-social behaviour

Supervisor: Twigg, L. (Supervisor), Mohan, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jones, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Structure-function relationships in matrix metalloproteinase-1

Supervisor: Dr Andrew Pickford (Supervisor) & Kneale, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Transnational socialist networks in the 1970s: the cases of European Community development aid and southern enlargement

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Breast support implications for female recreational athletes

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Wakefield-Scurr (Supervisor), Dr Chris Mills (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Essays on macroeconometric modelling: housing and financial markets in the light of inflation targeting monetary policy. Evidence from the United Kingdom

Supervisor: Floros, C. (Supervisor), Judge, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Snell, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social capital in an online brand community: Volkswagen in China

Supervisor: Wheeler, C. (Supervisor), Christy, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Clark, L. (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

Understanding temporal and spatial temperature variation at the local scale in a high latitude environment

Supervisor: Dr Nick Pepin (Supervisor), Wilson, G. P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Philip Soar (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Advanced FRP for flooring in buildings: a low carbon material application in the construction industry

Supervisor: Dr Jiye Chen (Supervisor), Dr Zhong Yi Zhang (Supervisor) & Fox, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Assessment of methods for the diagnosis of Giardia infection in a clinical laboratory

Supervisor: Kilburn, S. A. (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Determining the LIBOR: a study of power and deception

Supervisor: Lapavitsas, C. (External person) (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

An investigation of food choice behaviour and dietary intake of children, teenagers and adults with food allergies

Supervisor: Professor Tara Dean (Supervisor), Venter, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Heather MacKenzie (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Computational methods for processing ground penetrating radar data

Supervisor: Dr Branislav Vuksanovic (Supervisor), Hewitt, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Gremont, B. (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

Determining sub-arachnoid haemorrhage in the clinical biochemistry laboratory utilising cerebrospinal fluid samples

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Distribution of landslides and geotechnical properties within the Hampshire Basin

Supervisor: Dr Andy Gibson (Supervisor) & Dr Malcolm Whitworth (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Holding police accountability theory to account

Supervisor: Savage, S. (Supervisor) & Mr David Pritchard (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Improving the prevention of money laundering in the United Kingdom: a situational crime prevention approach

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor) & Grieve, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Regulatory change in financial reporting, auditing and corporate governance: impact on perceptions and behaviours

Supervisor: Mr Richard Trafford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Tests of cosmological structure growth

Supervisor: Percival, W. (Supervisor) & Professor Robert Crittenden (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The role of microzooplankton grazing in trace element biogeochemistry

Supervisor: Dr Michelle Hale (Supervisor) & Professor Gary Fones (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

UK sales managers’ perceptions of the antecedents and moderating factors influencing the outsourcing of sales activities

Supervisor: Dr Beth Rogers (Supervisor), Wheeler, C. (Supervisor) & Professor Paul Trott (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Vampiric enterprise: metaphors of economic exploitation in the literature and culture of the Fin de siecle

Supervisor: Pulham, P. (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

A study of quasars: an investigation into the molecular gas of a high-redshift quasar and the radio loudness of radio-quiet quasars

Supervisor: Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor) & Kapinska, A. D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A grounded theory of emergent benefit in pervasive game experiences

Supervisor: Eglin, R. (Supervisor), Dr Brett Stevens (Supervisor) & Mr Daniel Mcguire Pinchbeck (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An econometric investigation of the relationship between the price of oil and U.K. macroeconomic performance

Supervisor: Judge, G. (External person) (Supervisor), Snell, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Collins, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Epigenetic basis for Tensin3 dysregulation in human renal cell carcinoma

Supervisor: Dr Sassan Hafizi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social intervention: supporting success, guiding desistance

Supervisor: Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cosmology with photometrically-classified type Ia Supernovae

Supervisor: Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of a quality management model for Thai small, medium and large enterprises (SMLEs)

Supervisor: Professor Hom Dhakal (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Dr Ivan Popov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

eXtensible business reporting language semantic error checking for accounting information systems

Supervisor: Dr Shikun Zhou (Supervisor), Ndzi, D. (Supervisor) & Onuh, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Exploring resilience in children at risk of offending

Supervisor: Dr Claire Nee (Supervisor) & Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intersexuality and endocrine disruption in the amphipod Echinogrammarus marinus : from genes to physiology

Supervisor: Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor) & Kille, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Multi-agent based cooperative search in combinatorial optimisation

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

The behaviour of pharmaceuticals in anaerobic digester sludge

Supervisor: Professor John Williams (Supervisor), Dr Julian Mitchell (Supervisor) & May, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Thermal comfort during and following water immersion in humans

Supervisor: House, J. R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis