Student theses

Investigating the role and significance of corporate stories in corporate reputation management

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating the implementation and sustainability of the Healthy Living Pharmacy project

Supervisor: Brown, D. (External person) (Supervisor), Portlock, J. (Supervisor) & Professor Paul Rutter (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating the impacts of transport and decay on the polychaete alitta virens: : implications for the taphonomy of the Burgess Shale

Supervisor: Dr Nic Minter (Supervisor), Sumner, E. J. (External person) (Supervisor), Mángano, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Buatois, L. (External person) (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

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating the determinants of customer experience with affordable luxury sport car brands in Germany

Supervisor: Professor Yuksel Ekinci (Supervisor) & Mintah, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating the coexistence of fiddler crabs in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia

Supervisor: Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating copper chelation with tobramycin as an anti-inflammatory therapy in cystic fibrosis

Supervisor: Professor Janis Kay Shute (Supervisor) & Dr David Laight (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating Metabolite-RNase communication

Supervisor: Miss Louise Butt (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Investigating HIV/AIDS prevalence in an antenatal population using sexually transmitted infections (hepatitis B (HBsAg), syphilis (TPHA) and genital herpes (HSV2)) and conflict related influences as risk markers in Sierra Leone

Supervisor: Smart, J. D. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Paul Rutter (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Introducing risk assessment to the Maltese probation service

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Introducing complementary foods to infants: a look at the practice of feeding in the UK and Italy

Supervisor: Reddy, V. (Supervisor), Dr Alessandra Fasulo (Supervisor) & Dr Lucy Akehurst (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intrinsic correlations of galaxy sizes and luminosities in weak lensing

Supervisor: Professor Robert Crittenden (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Interviewing to assess and manage threats of violence

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor), Granhag, P. A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Ask, K. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Dr Christine Berberich (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intersubjectivity, social inclusion and meaning making in prison environments

Supervisor: Dr Adrian Needs (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

Interrogating the future: imagining war in an age of change, 1870-1914

Supervisor: Professor Bradley Beaven (Supervisor), Dr Mike Esbester (Supervisor) & Dr Robert James (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Interpreting the ideological evolution of an insurgency: lessons from the North Caucasus, 2007-2015

Supervisor: Moore, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Averre, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Internships and the graduate labour market

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

International aspirations, French legacies and translingual practices

Supervisor: Dr Natalya Vince (Supervisor), Professor Tony Chafer (Supervisor) & Dr Mario Saraceni (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Interlaminar fracture toughness behaviour of flax/basalt reinforced vinyl ester hybrid composites

Supervisor: Professor Hom Dhakal (Supervisor), Dr Zhong Yi Zhang (Supervisor) & Dr Stephanie Barnett (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

Interacting with prosthetic hands via electromyography signals

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Inter-industry wage differentials and returns to education in Pakistan

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intelligent software agents for teaching across the WWW

Supervisor: Professor David Sanders (Supervisor), Dr Giles Tewkesbury (Supervisor) & Graham-Jones, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intelligent performance assessment in a virtual electronic laboratory

Supervisor: Dr Djamel Azzi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intelligent methods for pattern recognition and optimisation

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Intelligent methods for locomotion optimisation

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Integration of principal component analysis, fuzzy C-means and artificial neural networks for localised environmental modelling of tropical climate

Supervisor: Ndzi, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Integration and optimisation of an RFID-enabled inventory management system of a future generation warehousing system

Supervisor: Wang, Q. (Supervisor) & Bennett, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Integrated correlation of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Late Jurassic‒Early Cretaceous): a Boreal‒Tethyan transect

Supervisor: Professor Andy Gale (Supervisor), Professor David Martill (Supervisor) & Gradstein, F. M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Institutional shareholders preferences on corporate governance

Supervisor: Hines, T. (Supervisor) & Dr Paraskevas Pagas (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Insight into the digestive processes of the wood-boring marine crustacean Limnoria quadripunctata

Supervisor: Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor) & Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Professor Joy Watts (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Innovation in the German manufacturing SMEs: current issues, future prospects and potential remedies

Supervisor: Dr Vijay Vyas (Supervisor) & Schuhmacher, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Information systems framework to conceptualise the role of awareness in e-commerce success in developing countries: Jordanian context

Supervisor: Dingley, K. (Supervisor) & Adams, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Information and intelligence sharing in the fight against fraud and intellectual property crime: challenges and strategies for professional practice

Supervisor: Professor Mark Button (Supervisor) & Wakefield, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Influence of menthol on human temperature regulation and perception

Supervisor: House, J. R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Inflation: a quantum laboratory on cosmological scales

Supervisor: Professor David Wands (Supervisor), Vennin, V. (Supervisor) & Dr Hooshyar Assadullahi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Indicators of confirmation bias in the investigative interview with suspects

Supervisor: Professor Aldert Vrij (Supervisor), Koppen, P. J. V. (External person) (Supervisor), Dr Sam Mann (Supervisor), Dr Zarah Vernham (Supervisor) & Horselenberg, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Increasing the effectiveness and impact of Community Safety Partnerships in two London boroughs: practitioners’ perspectives

Supervisor: Loveday, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

In vitro synergy of tigecycline against Burkholderia cepacia complex and other multi-resistant, nonfermentative, Gram negative bacteria from cystic fibrosis patients

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

In vitro studies of bone-cement interface and related work on cemented acetabular replacement

Supervisor: Tong, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

In vitro mechanical characterization of the human natural and treated vertebrae

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

In textasis: matrixial narratives of textile design

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

In Vitro full-field methods for the biomechanical characterization of spine segments

Supervisor: Cristofolini, L. (External person) (Supervisor), Dr Gianluca Tozzi (Supervisor) & Dall׳Ara, E. (External person) (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

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Improving the efficiency of photovoltaic power plants with soft-computing model-based controllers

Supervisor: Virk, G. (External person) (Supervisor), Liu, Y. (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Dr Djamel Azzi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Improving project collaboration to minimise the energy performance gap in residential construction: case study of Kurdistan

Supervisor: Professor Mark Gaterell (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Improving customer generation by analysing website visitor behaviour

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Improving cosmological measurements from galaxy surveys

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Impossible endings? : reimagining the end of the French empire in the Sahara, 1951-1962

Supervisor: Dr Natalya Vince (Supervisor), Professor Tony Chafer (Supervisor) & Dr Olivia Rutazibwa (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implicit theory domains of technology ability and health related to people with Parkinson's engaging with a speech therapy smartphone application

Supervisor: Eglin, R. (Supervisor), Dr Brett Stevens (Supervisor) & Professor Sherria Hoskins (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implication and clinical application of translational medicine in the management of common urologic cancers

Supervisor: Dr John Young (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implementing talent management in a global services company

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implementation of the leadership, people, process and outcome model of Lean using soft systems methodology in triangulation

Supervisor: Professor Hom Dhakal (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implementation of brief opportunistic health promotion services (smoking cessation, weight management and alcohol intervention) in an NHS urgent care walk in treatment centre for minor injury and illness: a feasibility study using mixed methods

Supervisor: Professor Sasee Pallikadavath (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implementation of an electronic quality management system document management module to support reconfiguration of a district general hospital pathology department quality management system

Supervisor: Kilburn, S. A. (Supervisor) & Dr Isobel Ryder (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implementation and on-going improvement of an obstetric intra-operative cell salvage service

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Implementation and evaluation of a blood products traceability procedure in a District General Hospital

Supervisor: Kilburn, S. A. (Supervisor) & Higgins, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Dewey, A. (Supervisor) & Dean, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Image-based human pose estimation

Supervisor: Dr Zhaojie Ju (Supervisor) & Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identifying measures of emotion in dairy cattle

Supervisor: Dr Leanne Proops (Supervisor) & Dr Marina Davila Ross (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identifying cultural singularities of Egyptian staff as a social identity and their impact on cultural practices in Egyptian hospitality organizations: a case of crossvergence

Supervisor: Dr Peter Scott (Supervisor) & Dr Kajal Sharma (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identification, source and fate of flame-retardants in the environment: past, present and future concerns

Supervisor: Professor Graham Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identification and functional characterisation ofpotassium channels in mouse GI tract

Supervisor: Dr Anthony Lewis (Supervisor) & Dr James Brown (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identification and functional characterisation of a novel potassium channel from phytopathogenic fungi

Supervisor: Dr Anthony Lewis (Supervisor), Corran, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Darek Gorecki (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Identification and characterization of an A-form DNA promoter and its downstream novel Rab-Gdi gene in Xenopus

Supervisor: Dr Garry Scarlett (Supervisor) & Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Ice-marginal process and retreat dynamics of Norwegian plateau icefields

Supervisor: Dr Harold Lovell (Supervisor) & Dr Clare Boston (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

I.K. Brunel and William Gravatt, 1826-1841: their professional and personal relationship

Supervisor: Professor John Williams (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Hypoxia as a target for drug combination therapy of liver cancer

Supervisor: Lewis, A. L. (External person) (Supervisor), Lloyd, A. W. (External person) (Supervisor), Phillips, G. J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Macfarlane, W. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Hyperheuristiques pour des problèmes d’optimisation en logistique

Supervisor: Semet, F. (External person) (Supervisor), Gelareh, S. (Supervisor) & Khalil, W. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Humour in the pre-sessional classroom: the perceptions of teachers of English and their international students

Supervisor: Dr Peter Watkins (Supervisor), Dr Marie McCullagh (Supervisor) & Wright, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Human-guided four-component photometric modelling of spiral galaxies

Supervisor: Dr Coleman Krawczyk (Supervisor), Masters, K. L. (Supervisor) & Professor Bob Nichol (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

How do patient and carer-held beliefs about medication administration in domiciliary care affect initiation and use of Multicompartment Compliance Aids?

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

How do intermediaries experience their role in facilitating communication for vulnerable defendants?

Supervisor: Professor Becky Milne (Supervisor) & Professor Jane Creaton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Holding police accountability theory to account

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Histone deacetylases in paediatric glioblastoma

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM): memory distortion paradigms and individual differences

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

High resolution ammonite biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Aalenian and Bajocian stages (Middle Jurassic) of Dorset and Somerset, UK

Supervisor: Professor David Martill (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Heterostilia e especialização sexual em espécies de Erythroxylum P. browne (erythroxylaceae) no Cerrado do Brasil Central

Supervisor: Consolaro, H. (External person) (Supervisor) & Perez-Barrales, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Harnessing emerging supercomputers for remote and interactive visual discovery in astronomy

Supervisor: Dr Mel Krokos (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Hardware based approach to confine malicious processes from side channel attack

Supervisor: Dr Mo Adda (Supervisor) & Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Habitat creation for animals by teredinid bivalves in Indonesian mangrove ecosystems

Supervisor: Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor) & Professor Scott Armbruster (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Grooming men: culture and constitution of masculine identities

Supervisor: Professor Barry Smart (Supervisor), Peggs, K. (Supervisor) & Dr Sarah Turnbull (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Graph partitions with proportional density and colouring constraints

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Governing elite and civil society in Côte d'Ivoire: the construction of foreign policy towards France (1973-1995)

Supervisor: Professor Tony Chafer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Good faith in the lex mercatoria : an analysis of arbitral practice and major Western legal systems

Supervisor: Professor Munir Maniruzzaman (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Global coagulation assays in haemophilia: Comparison and correlation with conventional assays and clinical phenotype

Supervisor: Tuddenham, E. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Giving feeling form: B. S. Johnson’s literary project

Supervisor: Dr Christine Berberich (Supervisor) & Nicol, B. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Geotechnical properties of chalk putties

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Geotagging matters?: the role of space and place in politicised social media discourse

Supervisor: Professor Richard Healey (Supervisor) & Professor Humphrey Southall (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis