Student theses

A research project to design, implement and assess the effectiveness of a sole eLearning module to prepare non-medical healthcare practitioners to report nuclear medicine bone scans

Supervisor: Castle, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Addiction and criminal justice interventions: a complex systems analysis

Supervisor: Professor Michael Nash (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

E-government services: an exploration of the main factors that contribute to successful implementation in Libya

Supervisor: Adams, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Evaluating the evidence base in pharmacovigilance decision making

Supervisor: Brown, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Financial reporting by small and medium enterprises in Thailand

Supervisor: Hines, T. (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Page (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Human temperature regulation in wind and waves

Supervisor: Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor) & Barwood, M. J. (External person) (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

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

(In)consistencies as cues to deception

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A ¹H NMR metabolomic study of the metabolic effects of pesticides on the non-target invertebrates the blue mussel Mytilus edulis and the non-biting midge larvae Chironomus riparius

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A Twitter-based study on the reach of a smoking cessation organisation and the social meaning of smoking

Supervisor: Professor Liz Twigg (Supervisor) & Dr Carol Ekinsmyth (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A bim-enabled procurement framework in new buildings for the Nigerian architecture, engineering and construction industry

Supervisor: Dr Sepehr Abrishami (Supervisor), Professor Mark Gaterell (Supervisor) & Dr Salam Al-Bizri (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

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 context-aware framework for personalised recommendation in mobile environments

Supervisor: Dr Linda Yang (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

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

A critical evaluative enquiry of the community based management model and alternative approaches for sustainable rural water management

Supervisor: Dr Julia Brown (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

A critical survey of BBC films: 1988 – 2013

Supervisor: Smith, J. (Supervisor) & Ede, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A cross-cultural analysis of gender and practitioner-child interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings in Scotland, Hong Kong, and Mainland China

Supervisor: Read, B. (External person) (Supervisor) & Schweisfurth, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A customizable grammar-based framework for user-intent text classification

Supervisor: Dr Mohamed Bader-El-Den (Supervisor), Dr Ella Haig (Supervisor) & Dr Glenn Hadikin (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A data mining approach for early mortality prediction of patients in intensive care units

Supervisor: Dr Mohamed Bader-El-Den (Supervisor), Professor Jim Briggs (Supervisor) & McNicholas, 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

A feasibility study assessing home video telemetry polysomnography (HVTP) as a diagnostic procedure for adult patients undergoing investigation for parasomnias

Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Stores (Supervisor) & Turner, L. (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

A framework for designing and evaluating ESP materials for English and communication skills in the doctor-patient interview

Supervisor: Wright, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A framework to understand how Baby Boomers socially construct online shopping ideologies in relation to ageing identity

Supervisor: Clark, L. (Supervisor) & Wheeler, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A fuzzy framework for human hand motion recognition

Supervisor: Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A fuzzy probabilistic inference methodology for constrained 3D human motion classification

Supervisor: Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A game-based learning approach to building conservation education in UK : undergraduate built environment degrees

Supervisor: Aygen, Z. (External person) (Supervisor), Pinchbeck, D. M. (Supervisor) & Dr Ann Veronica Coats (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A genealogy of the ethical subject in the Just War tradition

Supervisor: Jabri, V. (External person) (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

A geotechnical, geochemical and human health risk assessment of a dry oil lake site in Kuwait

Supervisor: Giles, D. (Supervisor), Watson, P. D. J. (Supervisor) & Ali, S. M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A grounded theory of emergent benefit in pervasive game experiences

Supervisor: Eglin, R. (Supervisor), Dr Brett Stevens (Supervisor) & Pinchbeck, D. M. (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

A higher class of men?: sailors and working-class communities in Bristol 1850-1914

Supervisor: Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten (Supervisor), Dr Karl Bell (Supervisor) & Professor Bradley Beaven (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A human factors view of organisational change

Supervisor: Professor James McCalman (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A hybrid intelligent technique for induction motor condition monitoring

Supervisor: Brown, D. (Supervisor) & Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A laboratory study of fluid-driven tensile fracturing in anisotropic rocks

Supervisor: Dr Philip Benson (Supervisor) & Dr Nick Koor (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) & MacKenzie, H. (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), Professor Valerie Anderson (Supervisor) & Rayner, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A methodology for the rapid identification of neotectonic features using geographical information systems and remote sensing: a case study from western Crete, Greece

Supervisor: Dr Derek Rust (Supervisor) & Professor Richard Teeuw (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) & Rich, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A mixed methods study to explore the diagnostic accuracy and acceptability of the tuning fork test in the detection of ankle fractures

Supervisor: Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Kilburn, S. A. (Supervisor)

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

A multi-method approach to the detection of fabricated symptoms

Supervisor: Professor Lorraine Hope (Supervisor), Ost, J. (Supervisor), Merckelbach, H. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jelicic, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A national evaluation of PEACE investigative interviewing

Supervisor: Professor Becky Milne (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A national scheme using digital images of blood cell morphology to support continuous professional development: evaluating morphology reporting

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor) & Mr Gavin Knight (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A neural network adaptive controller for non-linear systems

Supervisor: Ditmar, W. P. A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor David Sanders (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A new blackboard framework applied to a HRAR design program

Supervisor: Professor David Sanders (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A novel assay for the quantification of active transcription factors

Supervisor: Cree, I. A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A numerical study of turbulence-flame interaction in mild combustion

Supervisor: Dr James Buick (Supervisor) & Aspden, A. (External person) (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 psychosocial examination of organizational stressors, emotional labour, attitudes and associated outcomes in sport organizations

Supervisor: Dr Chris Wagstaff (Supervisor), Professor Richard Thelwell (Supervisor) & Dr Jo Corbett (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

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

A self-contained, intelligent, micro-controller expert system to augment powered wheelchair users

Supervisor: Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Dr Giles Tewkesbury (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A strange body of work: the cinematic zombie

Supervisor: Professor Lincoln Geraghty (Supervisor) & Harper, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Professor Jane Creaton (Supervisor) & Clements, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of application level information from the volatile memory of Windows computer systems

Supervisor: Dr Nick Savage (Supervisor), Ndzi, D. (Supervisor) & Dr Rinat Khusainov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of cyber security management within South Korean businesses : an examination of risks and cybercrime involving industrial security

Supervisor: Dr Victoria Wang (Supervisor), Loveday, B. (Supervisor) & Mr Chris Lewis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of fade mitigation and resource management of satellite networks in rain conditions

Supervisor: Gremont, B. (Supervisor) & Professor David Sanders (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of microcell and picocell wireless communication network channels

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of self-reported surgical site infection post total hip or total knee replacement

Supervisor: Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Dr Rebecca Stores (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

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), Dr Marie McCullagh (Supervisor) & Naysmith, J. (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

A study of the incorporation of antischistosomiasis drugs into polyheterocycles and DFT calculations on polymer precursors

Supervisor: Dr James Smith (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

A study of the perceptions of air safety and mid-air collision prevention during regulatory change

Supervisor: Professor Ashraf Labib (Supervisor) & Dr Philip Brabazon (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of the psychophysiological substrates of emotion-based learning

Supervisor: Professor Kim A. Bard (Supervisor) & Dr Roger Moore (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study of the relationship between the painter's intention and the spectator's interpretation, employing methods of social inquiry within the image field of football culture

Supervisor: Quinn, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Blacklock, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study on the importance of seismic parameter selection for the vulnerability assessment of mid-rise reinforced concrete structures

Supervisor: Dr David Begg (Supervisor) & Lee, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A study to develop a multi-loop learning framework for project management

Supervisor: Professor Ashraf Labib (Supervisor) & Dr Martin Read (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A system simulation model for exploring the population dynamics of Indian mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta) in the fisheries off peninsular Malaysia

Supervisor: Professor Pierre Failler (Supervisor) & Professor Andy Thorpe (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

A systematic approach to a quantitative vulnerability assessment for BYOD system variables through the discovering of threats

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Welch, C. (Supervisor) & Stowell, F. (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

A user centred mobile health approach to postnatal depression intervention adherence management using the theory of planned behaviour

Supervisor: Dr Alice Good (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

AAOIFI governance disclosure in Islamic banks: its determinants and impact on performance

Supervisor: Professor Khaled Hussainey (Supervisor) & Kallias, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Abnormalities in P2X7 receptor expression and function in muscle of the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Above all a patient should never be terrified: an examination of mental health care and treatment in Hampshire 1845-1914

Supervisor: Thomas, J. (Supervisor) & Dr Karl Bell (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

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

Accommodating trauma in police interviews: an exploration of rapport in investigative interviews of traumatized victims

Supervisor: Binder, P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Becky Milne (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

Across the iron curtain: European socialism between World War and Cold War, 1943-1948

Supervisor: Professor Wolfram Kaiser (Supervisor), Mr Emmanuel Godin (Supervisor) & Dr Jodi Burkett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Adaptation as an intertextual mode of practice: British nineteenth-century literature and the Hollywood Studio era

Supervisor: Dr Laurel Forster (Supervisor), Smith, J. (Supervisor), Etherington Wright, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Esther Sonnet (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: James, A. (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

Administering Europe: community officials and the bureaucratic integration of Europe (1952-1967)

Supervisor: Professor Wolfram Kaiser (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse (APVA): an investigation into prevalence, associations and predictors in a community sample

Supervisor: Hayden, C. (Supervisor), Dr Andie Shawyer (Supervisor) & Dr Richard Kapend (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Adoption issues and the displaced child in mid-nineteenth century English culture

Supervisor: Dr Christine Berberich (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

Adoption of learning management systems in Saudi higher educational institutions

Supervisor: Adams, C. (Supervisor), Dr Penny Hart (Supervisor) & Dr Nick Savage (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

Advanced design and traffic management methods for multi-service networks

Supervisor: Mr Rallis Papademetriou (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Dr James Brown (Supervisor) & Bhandari, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Dr Carol Ekinsmyth (Supervisor) & Professor Liz Twigg (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

Affordances of touch in multi-sensory embodied interface design

Supervisor: Dr Jenny Walden (Supervisor), Dr Marius Kwint (Supervisor) & Williams, R. (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

Aligning identity in legal services firms: do senior partners in legal services firms possess the core characteristics of identity to work in alignment within the firm?

Supervisor: Rayner, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Aligning the concepts of Lean Management and Value-based Management: Fosetering a shared understanding between operations and financial functions at the system level

Supervisor: Dr Philip Brabazon (Supervisor) & Beyer, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

All change in the age of alliances!: A critical evaluation of contemporary management theory and practice for major collaborative change;comparing the public and private sectors, with particular reference top olicing

Supervisor: Golding, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An English sensibility: the architecture of Oliver Hill

Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth Tuson (Supervisor) & Bunt, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An Investigation into Novel helicases from Plasmodium falciparum

Supervisor: Dr Darren Gowers (Supervisor), Professor Andrew Pickford (Supervisor) & Professor Anastasia Callaghan (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

An analysis of aspects of the Equality Act 2010

Supervisor: Hough, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An analysis of the management of packaging within new product development: an investigation in the UK food and drinks sectors

Supervisor: Professor Paul Trott (Supervisor), Wheeler, C. (Supervisor) & Lowman, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An application of object-functional programming to defence modelling

Supervisor: Dr Rich Boakes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An approach to enhancing security and privacy of the Internet of Things with federated identity

Supervisor: Dr Benjamin Aziz (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

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

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

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

Supervisor: Collins, A. (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 empirical analysis on the practice and determinants of risk disclosure in an emerging capital market: the case of United Arab Emirates

Supervisor: Dr Shaling Li (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Page (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An empirical exploration of aesthetic distance through mimetic interface design in videogames

Supervisor: Dr Brett Stevens (Supervisor), Eyles, M. (Supervisor) & Anderson, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

An enquiry into the Chinese housing market: evidence from spatial analysis and real options

Supervisor: Dr Konstantinos Vergos (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

An evaluation of vegetated SuDS ponds using experimental and numerical methods

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An examination into the efficacy of police advanced investigative interview training?

Supervisor: Professor Becky Milne (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An examination of entrepreneurial intentions of Arab entrepreneurs in Israel

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An examination of technological capability development In the Thailand automotive industry: the role of Thai government policy from 1960-2009

Supervisor: Professor Paul Trott (Supervisor) & Hoecht, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An examination of the dynamics of multi-agency arrangements in different cultural and legal contexts: the case of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and the International Child Protection Network

Supervisor: Savage, S. (Supervisor) & Dr Paul Norman (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

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

An experimental and computational study of damage and crack growth for a nickel-based superalloy under fatigue-oxidation conditions

Supervisor: Zhao, L. G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Tong, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An exploration of factors potentially affecting the perception and interpretation of medical images used in higher education

Supervisor: Professor Jim Briggs (Supervisor), Dr Tineke Fitch (Supervisor) & Prytherch, D. (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 exploration of the concept of branding in the higher education sector

Supervisor: Wheeler, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An exploration of the concepts of compassion in the care of older people amongst key stakeholders in nursing education: pre-qualifying nursing students, nurse educators and clinical mentors: a qualitative study

Supervisor: Hatton, K. (Supervisor), Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Pook, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An exploration of trustworthiness in the Nigerian investment field: perspective of financial advisors and investors

Supervisor: Professor Alessio Ishizaka (Supervisor) & Hoecht, A. H. (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 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

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

Supervisor: Dr Jiye Chen (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An illuminative evaluation of foster carers’ experiences of attending an Attachment Theory and Practice training programme offered by a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for Looked After Children

Supervisor: Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Dr Rebecca Stores (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An illuminative evaluation of the response of an acute healthcare NHS Trust to the National Dignity in Care Campaign in England

Supervisor: Dewey, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An in vitro study of the biological actions of a Chinese Herbal Formula on selected haematological and vascular processes related to endometrial receptivity

Supervisor: Dr Asmita Vithaldas Patel (Supervisor) & Dr Helen Fillmore (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An in-depth exploration of an aphasia care pathway

Supervisor: Markham, C. (Supervisor) & Dr Isobel Ryder (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An in-depth investigation into the associations between maternal dietary intake during pregnancy and obesity and allergy outcomes in children

Supervisor: Dean, T. (Supervisor), MacKenzie, H. (Supervisor) & Dr Suzannah Helps (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An integrated approach to recommending online video materials through sentiment analysis and hybrid filtering algorithms

Supervisor: Dr Linda Yang (Supervisor) & Dr Salem Aljareh (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An integrated framework for solving email management problems with unsupervised machine learning techniques and artificial neural networks

Supervisor: Dr Shikun Zhou (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Dr Rinat Khusainov (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

An investigation into electromyographical normalisation procedures for the triceps surae during high intensity muscle actions

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Wakefield-Scurr (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation into student experience and perceptions of clinical simulation as a teaching method for pharmacy undergraduate education at the University of Portsmouth

Supervisor: Portlock, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation into the adoption of e-commerce among older people

Supervisor: Dr Alice Good (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation into the applications of database techniques to the quality assurance of manufacture

Supervisor: Knight, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Hoddell, S. (External person) (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

An investigation into the effect of the decision-making process and human factors in prescribing errors within an inpatient mental health setting

Supervisor: Brown, D. (Supervisor) & Dr Helena Herrera (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation into the efficacy of reflexology on acute pain in healthy human subjects

Supervisor: Ebenezer, I. (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

An investigation into the relationship and integration between strategic quality management and corporate social responsibility: the case of some Saudi Arabian organisations

Supervisor: Savage, B. (Supervisor), Dr Debbie Reed (Supervisor) & Foley, A. (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

An investigation of MPharm students’ study habits and an evaluation of mentoring and the peer assisted learning programme at the University of Portsmouth

Supervisor: Brown, D. (Supervisor) & Portlock, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation of Sukuk structure risk

Supervisor: Dr Arief Daynes (Supervisor) & Dr Paraskevas Pagas (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation of ambient gameplay

Supervisor: Pinchbeck, D. M. (Supervisor), Hand, S. (Supervisor) & Eglin, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation of breast support for older women

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Wakefield-Scurr (Supervisor), Professor Richard Thelwell (Supervisor) & Dr Chris Wagstaff (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Dean, T. (Supervisor), Venter, C. (Supervisor) & MacKenzie, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation of heavy metal sediments geochemistry in Lagos Harbour, Nigeria

Supervisor: Professor Mike Fowler (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation of the accessible information process for adults with learning disabilities

Supervisor: Dean, T. (Supervisor), Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Jenkins, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An investigation of the factors affecting the lifecycle costs of COTS-based systems

Supervisor: Dr Tineke Fitch (Supervisor), Allan, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Ms Jane Chandler (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

An investigation on the use of baked milk foods in children with cow’s milk allergy

Supervisor: Dean, T. (Supervisor), Venter, C. (Supervisor), Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & MacKenzie, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An ontology-based hybrid approach to course recommendation in higher education

Supervisor: Dr Linda Yang (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

An optimised and generalised node for fat tree classes

Supervisor: Dr Mo Adda (Supervisor) & Carpenter, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Analysing galaxy clustering for future experiments including the Dark Energy Survey

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

Analysis of the initial nerve connections in the embryonic vertebrate brain

Supervisor: Dr Frank Schubert (Supervisor) & Dr Colin Sharpe (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

Android smartphone apps: privacy concerns of unregulated permissions on social and psychological contracts

Supervisor: Adams, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Anisotropic behaviour of magneto-electric coupling in multiferroic composites

Supervisor: Mercer, T. (External person) (Supervisor), Lepadatu, S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Melvin Vopson (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Application of next generation sequencing to aid in effective diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolaemia

Supervisor: Hodges, E. (External person) (Supervisor), Ganderton, R. (External person) (Supervisor), Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor) & Dr Sassan Hafizi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Applying human factors to improve patient safety in healthcare

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Applying “spidey sense”: emotional intelligence and police decision-making at domestic incidents

Supervisor: Dr Andy Williams (Supervisor) & Petrillo, M. R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Approaches to handling high consequence pathogens

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Approaches to the management of difficult airways in adults

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Appropriating, adapting and performing: new considerations of identity, genre and authorship in the Fiction of Sarah Waters

Supervisor: Dr Christine Berberich (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Are markers of fibrin turnover in blood and urine increased before and during exacerbation of asthma?

Supervisor: Professor Janis Kay Shute (Supervisor) & Professor Anoop Chauhan (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

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

Artificial neural network application in water resources management and flood warning: case study North West Malaysia

Supervisor: Ndzi, D. (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

Aspects of the microvertebrate fauna of the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England

Supervisor: Professor David Martill (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

Aspirin in type 2 diabetes: a survey of prescribing habits and investigation of effects on inflammation, oxidative stress, insulin resistance and endothelial function

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Assessing momentum investment strategies in the U.A.E. Stock Market

Supervisor: Dr Arief Daynes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Assessing the effectiveness of government security agencies in oil pipelines security management in Nigeria: a case study of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC)

Supervisor: Dr Richard Kapend (Supervisor) & Wakefield, A. J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Assessing the impact of microfinance programmes: learning through a collaborative project in Pakistan and Zimbabwe

Supervisor: Dr Joe Cox (Supervisor) & Professor Andy Thorpe (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

Assessing tourism sustainability in an ancient town: the case of Lijiang, China

Supervisor: Collins, A. (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

Audit Committee characteristics, financial reporting quality and corporate performance: the case of Oman

Supervisor: Professor Khaled Hussainey (Supervisor) & Dr Roza Sagitova (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Audit quality, IPOs and earnings management: evidence from Saudi Arabia

Supervisor: Professor Khaled Hussainey (Supervisor) & Dr Shaling Li (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Auditory processing and autistic symptomatology

Supervisor: Dr Beatriz Lopez (Supervisor), Reddy, V. (Supervisor) & Dr Paul Morris (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Automated performance prediction for personalised learning

Supervisor: Dr Linda Yang (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Automatic integrated structural design and optimisation in BIM

Supervisor: Dr Sepehr Abrishami (Supervisor) & Dr David Begg (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Automatic robot path planning with constraints

Supervisor: Billingsley, J. (External person) (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

Bacterial involvements in ulcerative colitis: molecular and microbiological studies

Supervisor: Zinkevich, V. (Supervisor) & Mitchell, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Bandwidth estimation and optimisation in rain faded DVB-RCS networks

Supervisor: Dr Rinat Khusainov (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

Barriers facing e-service adopting and implementation at local environment level in Nigeria

Supervisor: Dingley, K. (Supervisor), Dr Penny Hart (Supervisor) & Adams, C. (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

Bayesian network based intelligent mobility strategies for wireless sensor networks

Supervisor: Dr Djamel Azzi (Supervisor), Haynes, B. P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor David Sanders (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Beach budget analysis and shingle transport dynamics in West Dorset

Supervisor: Jones, D. K. C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Behavioural correlates of the equine stereotypy phenotype

Supervisor: Redhead, E. S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Goodwin, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Berberine8998, a new derivative of berberine, improves hyperlipidemia through additional mechanisms

Supervisor: Dr Asmita Vithaldas Patel (Supervisor), Wang, Y. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Better ‘tools’ for investigative monitoring under the Water Framework Directive

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

Beyond the script: an Interpretative phenomenological analysis of autobiographical selves within pedagogies of change

Supervisor: Scanlan, M. (External person) (Supervisor), de Sousa, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Warhurst, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Beyond ‘command & control’: developing a new paradigm for incident command systems, critical decision-making and 21st century crisis response

Supervisor: Wakefield, A. (Supervisor) & Dr Sara Hadleigh-Dunn (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Biased randomised heuristics for location routing problem

Supervisor: Dr Banafsheh Khosravi (Supervisor) & Professor Djamila Ouelhadj (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

Biochemical and biophysical characterisation of the genetically engineered Type I restriction-modification system, EcoR124I NT

Supervisor: Kneale, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Biologically inspired robotic search strategies in chemical fields

Supervisor: Cripps, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor David Sanders (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Biometric identification using user interaction with virtual worlds

Supervisor: Dr Nick Savage (Supervisor), Ndzi, D. (Supervisor) & Dr Rinat Khusainov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Biophysical analysis of the Nucleosome Assembly Protein and its interaction with histones

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Biophysical and kinetic analysis of Escherichia coli DNA ligase activity and inhibition

Supervisor: Dr Darren Gowers (Supervisor), Dr Alan Thorne (Supervisor) & Professor Andrew Pickford (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

Bisubstrate Kinetics and Processivity Measurements on Escherichia Coli DNA Ligase A

Supervisor: Dr Darren Gowers (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Blood transfusion matters: a narrative inquiry into patients' experience of receiving regular blood transfusion in a day unit setting whilst in a palliative stage of a haematological malignancy

Supervisor: Givati, A. (Supervisor) & Burnell, K. (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

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

Breast skin strain during gravitational and dynamic loading

Supervisor: Professor Joanna Wakefield-Scurr (Supervisor), Dr Chris Mills (Supervisor) & Dr Afshin Anssari-Benam (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

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Brothers in arms: an explorative study of turning points on the life path of young males involved in firearms offending

Supervisor: Loveday, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Burnout and work engagement levels in community pharmacists residing in three counties of the United Kingdom

Supervisor: Portlock, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Smith, J. (Supervisor) & Harper, S. (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

Can electronic prescribing prevent harmful paediatric prescribing errors?

Supervisor: Brown, D. (Supervisor) & Portlock, J. (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

Cathodic delamination of modelled sea cable connector assemblies

Supervisor: Dr James Smith (Supervisor) & Beech, I. (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

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

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

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

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

Characterisation of the microbial communities in the gastrointestinal tract of wood-eating organisms

Supervisor: Professor Joy Watts (Supervisor) & Professor Simon Cragg (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

Characteristics of genetic factors that influence gender in Atlantic salmon

Supervisor: Waring, C. P. (External person) (Supervisor) & McLellan, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Chemical compaction of Illite shale: an experimental study

Supervisor: Burg, J. P. (External person) (Supervisor), Dr Philip Benson (Supervisor) & Faulkner, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Chemical exposure and lung function in fragrance industry employees

Supervisor: Dr Isobel Ryder (Supervisor), Kilburn, S. A. (Supervisor), Ogollah, R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Chemical profile of ginseng, Epimedium, Rhodiola and Siberian ginseng extracts and stability of their formulated products

Supervisor: Dr Asmita Vithaldas Patel (Supervisor) & Professor Darek Gorecki (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

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

Chronic radiation doses to aquatic biota

Supervisor: Professor Jim Smith (Supervisor) & Dewdney, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Circulating DNA markers of gastro-intestinal cancers

Supervisor: Dr Alan Thorne (Supervisor), Bhandari, P. (Supervisor) & Cree, I. A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Clark Kent drives my bus: a study of safety and risk in public spaces through the narratives of young people

Supervisor: Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor) & Hayden, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Climate change and financial performance

Supervisor: Kizys, R. (Supervisor), Dr Roza Sagitova (Supervisor) & Chatziantoniou, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Climate-change-related technology transfer to China in the TRIPS era

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Clinical approaches to the prevention of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia

Supervisor: Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Clomipramine, a repurposed tricyclic antidepressant, as a treatment for paediatric high grade glioma

Supervisor: Hill, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Closing the gap between university curriculum in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning in networks : an interpretivist constructivist approach

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Coercion, drug treatment and the criminal justice system: a service user perspective

Supervisor: Dr Aaron Pycroft (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Collaborative interactions between humans and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)

Supervisor: Dr Juliane Kaminski (Supervisor), Dr Paul Morris (Supervisor) & Waller, B. (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

Collective induced phenomena in systems of coupled oscillators

Supervisor: Dr Andrew Burbanks (Supervisor), Hennig, D. (Supervisor) & Osbaldestin, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Combined nanostructural and isotopic analysis of baddeleyite: new horizons in solar system chronology

Supervisor: Dr James Darling (Supervisor), Moser, D. E. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Dean Bullen (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

Combining simulation and multi-objective optimisation for equipment quantity optimisation in container terminals

Supervisor: Professor Dylan Jones (Supervisor) & Dr Xiang Song (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Comparing serious or persistent absence from school in England and the Netherlands: an exploration of the influence of vulnerability and offending behaviour

Supervisor: Hayden, C. (Supervisor) & Professor Francis Pakes (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

Comparison of change in obesity parameters and the relationship between changes in body composition and physiological and psychological health status

Supervisor: Dr Clare Eglin (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Tipton (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

Computational intelligence margin models for radiotherapeutic cancer treatment

Supervisor: Brown, D. (Supervisor), Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor) & Dr Alexander Gegov (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

Computer-based modelling and analysis in engineering geology

Supervisor: Professor David Martill (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Concealed avoidance testing: response strategies of instructed malingerers during forced choice testing: new measures and criteria to detect concealed knowledge and feigned cognitive deficits

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor), Dr Sharon Leal (Supervisor) & Dr Hartmut Blank (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Conceptual procurement framework for Building Information Modelling uptake to enhance buildings' sustainability performance in the Jordanian public sector

Supervisor: Dr Salam Al-Bizri (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

Conservation of a Tudor warship: : investigating the timbers of the Mary Rose

Supervisor: Schofield, E. (External person) (Supervisor), Dr David Begg (Supervisor) & Dr Nikos Nanos (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Considerations in designing and evaluating material aimed at meeting the training and development needs of prospective teachers undertaking intensive initial ELT teacher education programmes

Supervisor: Rastall, P. (External person) (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

Constructing the network of influence model: and evidence-based theoretical framework to improve the implementation of Health Information Technology in developing countries

Supervisor: Dr Philip Scott (Supervisor), Dingley, K. (Supervisor) & Professor Jim Briggs (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

Continuous improvement: critical success factors in the Saudi public service sector

Supervisor: Dr Debbie Reed (Supervisor), Savage, B. (Supervisor) & Dr Jana Ries (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Contribution of molecular testing histocompatability in improving haematopoietic stem cell transplant outcomes

Supervisor: Rogers, D. (Supervisor) & Professor Graham Mills (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

Cooperative robotic search strategies for odour source localisation

Supervisor: Liu, Y. (Supervisor) & Professor David Sanders (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

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

Corporate governance and firm performance: the case of Kuwait

Supervisor: Professor Mike Page (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Corporate governance and firm performance: the case of UK

Supervisor: Mr Richard Trafford (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

Corporate investment efficiency, disclosure practices and governance: a systematic literature review and empirical evidence

Supervisor: Professor Khaled Hussainey (Supervisor) & Tao, L. (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

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

Corruption risk management in land administration in Malaysia

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor) & Mr Dean Blackbourn (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cosmological signatures of brane inflation

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cosmological tests of gravity

Supervisor: Professor Kazuya Koyama (Supervisor) & Zhao, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cosmology with photometrically-classified type Ia Supernovae

Supervisor: Professor Bob Nichol (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

Court intervention in commercial arbitral proceedings in Saudi Arabia: A comparative analytical study of Shari’ah based statutes and international arbitral practices

Supervisor: Professor Munir Maniruzzaman (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Crime prediction and detection with data mining

Supervisor: Bramer, M. (Supervisor), Adderley, R. (External person) (Supervisor), Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor) & Professor David Sanders (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cross-adaptation: the effect cold habituation has on the physiological responses to acute hypoxia in humans

Supervisor: Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor), Barwood, M. J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Jo Corbett (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Culture in the making: jointly structuring shared spaces of meaning and action in infant-­caregiver-­object interactions over the first year of life

Supervisor: Reddy, V. (Supervisor), Dr Beatriz Lopez (Supervisor) & Costall, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Cybercrime in Vietnam: : a critical analysis of its regulatory framework

Supervisor: Dr Victoria Wang (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Das Gesicht der Zeitschrift: Typographie und visuelle Darstellungsformen von Titelblättern am Beispiel des "Spiegel" und der "Polityka"

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Data-driven performance assessments for river channel restoration schemes

Supervisor: Dr Philip Soar (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

DePICT: a conceptual model for digital preservation

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Deacetylation of GD3^A as a potential therapeutic strategy for paediatric medulloblastoma

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Dead on the point of safety: occupational safety education on the Great Western Railway, c.1913-1939

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Dealing with crisis: a comparative study of simulation exercises in Korea and the UK

Supervisor: Borodzicz, E. P. (Supervisor) & Welch, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Decade of diversity: a history of 1970s British experimental film

Supervisor: McDonald, P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Harper, S. (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

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

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

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

Democratic legitimacy? : the online consultations of the European Commission

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Dental hygiene and therapy students experiences of psychological wellbeing in their undergraduate education

Supervisor: Wilson, C. (Supervisor), Holmes, S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr David Radford (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

Description of outcomes, patient experiences and related costs of care in low back pain patients undergoing chiropractic treatment in the UK

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor) & Bolton, J. E. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Design art furniture and the boundaries of function : communicative objects, performative things

Supervisor: Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan (Supervisor) & Evans, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Design by manufacturing simulation

Supervisor: Harrison, D. (External person) (Supervisor), Billingsley, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor David Sanders (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

Design using distributed intelligence within advanced production machinery

Supervisor: Professor David Sanders (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Designing a survivor-orientated restorative justice program for use in cases of sexual abuse: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Supervisor: Dr Jacki Tapley (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Wattage, P. (Supervisor) & Bloor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Designing and orchestrating ecosystem-based business models: processual study of value maximization in the sharing economy

Supervisor: Professor Martina Battisti (Supervisor) & Dr Chris Simms (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

Detecting abnormalities in aircraft flight data and ranking their impact on the flight

Supervisor: Brown, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Detecting and visualising proteins in Xenopus embryos

Supervisor: Professor Matt Guille (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

Detection of malicious hosts against agents in Mobile Agent networks

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Determinants of corporate corruption: : an investigation of the supply-side of corruption in development projects financed by multilateral development banks

Supervisor: Dr Branislav Hock (Supervisor) & Mr Chris Lewis (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

Determining probabilistic spatial patterns of lost persons and their detection characteristics in land search & rescue

Supervisor: Professor Richard Teeuw (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

Determining the LIBOR: a study of power and deception

Supervisor: Lapavitsas, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Determining the barriers to effective food safety governance in food manufacturing: a case study

Supervisor: Professor Lisa Jack (Supervisor) & Professor Mark Xu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Determining the role of the behavioural inhibition system in humans: an electroencephalographic examination of revised reinforcement sensitivity theory

Supervisor: Dr Roger Moore (Supervisor), Professor Kim A. Bard (Supervisor) & Dr Lorenzo Stafford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing a compositional ontology alignment framework for unifying business and engineering domains

Supervisor: Dr Shikun Zhou (Supervisor), Professor Mark Xu (Supervisor) & Professor Dylan Jones (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

Developing a credit scoring model using social network analysis

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing a customer-focused approach (DaCfA)

Supervisor: Dr Debbie Reed (Supervisor) & Kaye, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing a more effective framework for the investigative interviewing of suspected sex offenders

Supervisor: Ost, J. (Supervisor), Cherryman, J. (Supervisor) & Dr Paul Morris (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

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

Developing professional resilience: the impact of working with violent offenders on criminal justice social workers working in Scotland

Supervisor: Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Briggs (Supervisor) & Prytherch, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Developing the petrological potential of rutile

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

Development and implementation of regional platelet diagnostic laboratory in order to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of inherited platelet function disorders

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of a benchmarking tool to improve sales performance in a multinational corporation

Supervisor: Rogers, B. (Supervisor) & Mowdy, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of a biosensor using aptamer/antigen interactions

Supervisor: McClellan, J. (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: Professor Richard Teeuw (Supervisor), Dr Derek Rust (Supervisor) & Dr Andy Gibson (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of a knowledge-based system methodology for designing solid waste disposal sites in arid and semiarid environments

Supervisor: Hughes, D. J. (Supervisor) & Giles, D. (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 passive sampler for monitoring sources and fluxes of metaldehyde in natural waters

Supervisor: Professor Gary Fones (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) & MacKenzie, H. (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

Development of an RNA array to Protein array (RAPA) platform and its application to gene expression analysis of synthetic riboregulators

Supervisor: Professor Anastasia Callaghan (Supervisor), Dr Darren Gowers (Supervisor) & Dr Colin Sharpe (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of an auditing framework by Integrating ISO 9001:2015 Principles within Auditing: a case study of the Great Man-made River Project Authority in Libya

Supervisor: Professor Ashraf Labib (Supervisor) & Savage, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of flexible thin films using plasma sputtering and control of their magnetic properties via Substrate roughness

Supervisor: Dr Melvin Vopson (Supervisor) & Dr Hooshyar Assadullahi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Development of tolerogenic plasmid vectors for gene therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)

Supervisor: Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor), Dr Qian An (Supervisor) & Dr Colin Sharpe (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Different ladders for police progression?: reviewing black and minority officers' progression in the police service

Supervisor: Clements, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis