Student theses

Primordial perturbations from early universe cosmology

Supervisor: Professor David Wands (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Primordial perturbations from string inflation

Supervisor: Professor David Wands (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Private security career paths: establishing the foundations of a structured progression model for the manned guarding sector

Supervisor: Wakefield, A. (Supervisor) & Tunley, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Probabilistic techniques for estimating earthquake triggered landslide hazards

Supervisor: Murphy, W. (External person) (Supervisor) & Giles, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Probation policy and practice with vulnerable women: a focus on the challenges of organisational and personal change for women workers and women service users

Supervisor: Dr Jacki Tapley (Supervisor) & Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Procedural justice?: an examination of the Finnish approach to policing

Supervisor: Dr Sarah Charman (Supervisor) & Dr Fiona Wadie (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Process development and purification of biosurfactants from bacteria

Supervisor: Sharma, S. (External person) (Supervisor), Khare, S. K. (External person) (Supervisor) & Rahman, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Process innovation strategies for implementing effective smart factories in German manufacturing companies

Supervisor: Professor David Grant Pickernell (Supervisor) & Dr Alan Tait (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Procoagulant activity, airway remodelling and inflammation in moderate and severe asthma

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Product based information sharing in project management

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Product complexity: its impact on new product development and practical application

Supervisor: Barclay, I. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Production and action of nitric oxide in the rat gastric mucosa

Supervisor: Dr James Brown (Supervisor) & Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Project management: : the implication of project management practices on project success in Saudi Arabia

Supervisor: Dr Philip Brabazon (Supervisor) & Dr Jana Ries (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Projecting disaggregated household energy demand data into future scenarios: a tool to improve decision-making

Supervisor: Professor Mark Gaterell (Supervisor), Professor Victor Becerra (Supervisor) & Dr David Hutchinson (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Protection of the marine environment from oil pollution by ahips in the Arabian Gulf and the role of Saudi Arabia: a study in international law with Special reference to Islamic law

Supervisor: Professor Munir Maniruzzaman (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Protection of the muscle stem cell state from premature differentiation

Supervisor: Dr Susanne Dietrich (Supervisor), Professor Matt Guille (Supervisor) & Dr Frank Schubert (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Providing explicit knowledge in an experience-driven culture: levels of professionalism in intelligence analysis and its role in the law enforcement knowledge management apparatus

Supervisor: Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor), Winstone, J. (Supervisor) & Wakefield, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Psychophysiology of survival: the impact of psychological strategies on the physiological responses to thermal environments

Supervisor: Professor Richard Thelwell (Supervisor) & Professor Mike Tipton (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Public preferences on the trade-off between privacy and surveillance in public spaces

Supervisor: Professor Shabbar Jaffry (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Quality management at European hospitals: staff perceptions of content, implementation and effects in elderly-related, acute stroke care in England and Germany

Supervisor: Dr Debbie Reed (Supervisor), Hoecht, A. (Supervisor) & Dr Michael John Wood (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Quantifying the soil community on green roofs

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

RNA interaction studies: a pathway to the development of a surface-based technology

Supervisor: Professor Anastasia Callaghan (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

ROS and mitochondrial genetic abnormalities as novel indicators to predict anticancer drug efficacy

Supervisor: Dr Qian An (Supervisor), Dr James Smith (Supervisor) & Dr Karen E. Ball (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Radical service innovation capabilities and competences and its performance measurement in the Egyptian banking sector

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Railway scheduling in the presence of uncertainties

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Rainfall field modelling For European satellite networks

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reactions to the Soviet interventions in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, amongst French and Italian Communist Party members in the shipbuilding towns of La Seyne and Monfalcone.

Supervisor: Evans, M. (External person) (Supervisor), Wright, S. (Supervisor) & Mr Emmanuel Godin (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Receptors for hyaluronic acid and poliovirus: expression and role in glioma invasion

Supervisor: Pilkington, G. (Supervisor) & Professor Arthur Butt (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Recidivism in the Republic of Ireland: a national prospective cohort study

Supervisor: Dr Andy Williams (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Recovery of spermatozoa from superabsorbent polymers to assist in the forensic interpretation of sexual offences

Supervisor: Professor Joy Watts (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Red-dotted: A case study analysing how the national Taser training standards are received, interpreted and operationalised by specially trained officers

Supervisor: Dr Paul Smith (Supervisor) & Mrs Claire Rhodes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reflection in policing: a study of how student constables in the Metropolitan Police conceptualise reflection

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reforming Saudi foreign direct investment laws: the legal impact, challenges and prospects

Supervisor: Professor Munir Maniruzzaman (Supervisor) & Welch, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Regeneration and reproduction in Sabella pavonina (Savigny): developing a novel method to culture marine ornamental sabellids

Supervisor: Dr Gordon Watson (Supervisor), Bentley, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Giangrande, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Supervisor: Mr Richard Trafford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Rehabilitation of older people in the Lodge Rehabilitation Unit: a case study

Supervisor: Hatton, K. (Supervisor), Shepherd, P. (Supervisor) & Sander, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Relationship between microstructure and fatigue performance of 26XX aluminium alloys

Supervisor: Shollock, B. (External person) (Supervisor), Lindley, T. (External person) (Supervisor) & McLean, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Renormalization for Siegel discs

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Renormalization in a variety of quasiperiodically forced systems

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Repositioning independent community pharmacy in the National Health Service primary care sector

Supervisor: Jones, I. (Supervisor) & Professor Paul Rutter (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reproducing budgeting and budgeting reproduction: cases on the adaptation of Greek hotels to the financial crisis

Supervisor: Professor Lisa Jack (Supervisor) & Bowhill, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reproductive cycle of the house gecko, Hemidactylus flaviviridis, in Oman in relation to morphological and ultrastructural changes and plasma steroid concentrations with reference to localisation of progesterone receptors

Supervisor: Waring, C. P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reptilian welfare in a biological context

Supervisor: Dr Matt Parker (Supervisor) & Professor Alex Ford (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Reservoir quality determination and modelling of unconsolidated Canadian Oil Sands reservoir following analytical techniques

Supervisor: Hassan Sayed, M. (Supervisor), Dr Richard Wheaton (Supervisor) & Dr David Franklin (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Resource curse reduction through innovation: the case of Kuwait

Supervisor: Professor Paul Trott (Supervisor) & Professor Andy Thorpe (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Responding to change? : a cultural analysis of Garda perceptions of police reform agendas within the Republic of Ireland

Supervisor: Dr Sarah Charman (Supervisor) & Savage, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Responses of domestic horses (Equus caballus) to human emotional signals

Supervisor: McComb, K. (External person) (Supervisor), Dr Leanne Proops (Supervisor) & Reby, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Risk assessment by statistics? a critical examination of the clinical and actuarial risk assessment approaches used within the probation service to assess sexual offenders

Supervisor: Dr Andy Williams (Supervisor) & Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Risky business? A study exploring the relationship between harm and risk indicators in missing adult incidents

Supervisor: Dr Karen Shalev Greene (Supervisor) & Professor Francis Pakes (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Robot force sensing using stochastic monitoring of the actuator current

Supervisor: Billingsley, J. (External person) (Supervisor), Professor David Sanders (Supervisor) & Naghdy, F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Robust comparisons of socio-economic well-being

Supervisor: Hunt, L. C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Robust control design for vehicle active suspension systems with uncertainty

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Robust dynamic and stochastic scheduling in permutation flow shops

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Role of CD15 and CD15s in the cellular mechanisms of cancer cell metastasis from lung to the brain

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Role of deformation on partial melting of metapeletic rocks

Supervisor: Dr Philip Benson (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Rule based systems for classification in machine learning context

Supervisor: Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor), Dr Ella Haig (Supervisor) & Dr Mohamed Bader-El-Den (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Rural older adult physical activity participation and promotion in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Supervisor: Spencer, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Holt, N. L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Rutile: a new petrogenetic tool to investigate old subduction zones

Supervisor: Professor Craig Storey (Supervisor) & Professor Rob Strachan (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sailorhoods: sailortown and sailors in the port of Portsmouth circa 1850-1900

Supervisor: Professor Bradley Beaven (Supervisor), Dr Karl Bell (Supervisor) & Dr Robert James (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Schema and deviation effects in adults’ memory for repeated events

Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Koppel (Supervisor) & Dr Hartmut Blank (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

School based safeguarding programmes: a critical investigation into the role of the police in schools

Supervisor: Clements, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

School vision: a stakeholder analysis

Supervisor: Professor Sherria Hoskins (Supervisor) & Wyatt, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Searching for Manila: personal and political Journeys in an Asian megacity

Supervisor: Moore-Gilbert, B. (External person) (Supervisor), Vakil, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Steinitz, T. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Searching for isocurvature non-Gaussianity in the CMB trispectrum

Supervisor: Professor Robert Crittenden (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Security practitioners’ perspectives of the Alberta Basic Security Training programme

Supervisor: Wakefield, A. (Supervisor) & Mr Tom Ellis (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Security sector reform and the confusion and competition nexus: the case of Kosovo

Supervisor: Dr Theresa Callan (Supervisor), Dr Paul Flenley (Supervisor) & Professor Wolfram Kaiser (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Seismic fragility assessment of masonry buildings in the Kurdistan region

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Self-inflicted disasters: moral disengagement in unconventional risk, crisis and disaster management strategy

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sensing and adaption for long-term hand rehabilitation

Supervisor: Dr Zhaojie Ju (Supervisor), Dr Nick Savage (Supervisor) & Professor Honghai Liu (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sensitivity to and functional effects of tricyclic agents on glioma: an immunohistochemical and in vitro study

Supervisor: Pilkington, G. (Supervisor) & Professor Arthur Butt (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sentiment analysis on students’ real-time feedback

Supervisor: Dr Ella Haig (Supervisor), Fallahkhair, S. (Supervisor) & Dr Alexander Gegov (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Serum proteomic analysis of prostate cancer progression

Supervisor: Aukim-Hastie, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dr Jeremy Mills (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sexual and seasonal dimorphisms in the dermal, dental and ampullary structures of the lesser-spotted catshark, Scyliorhinus canicula

Supervisor: Waring, C. P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Professor Simon Cragg (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Silvernanowires and their potential applications in 3D scaffolds for biomedical applications

Supervisor: Dr Marta Roldo (Supervisor), Dr Gianluca Tozzi (Supervisor) & Barbu, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sim-heuristic algorithms for Robust Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demand

Supervisor: Professor Djamila Ouelhadj (Supervisor), Professor Dylan Jones (Supervisor) & Dr Banafsheh Khosravi (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Simulation model architectures for channel allocation in cellular networks

Supervisor: Mr Rallis Papademetriou (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social aerial circus : female experience, self-perception and self-representation

Supervisor: Dr Marius Kwint (Supervisor), Dr Matt Smith (Supervisor) & Professor Joan Farrer (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social capital in an online brand community: Volkswagen in China

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social communication in crested macaques (Macaca nigra)

Supervisor: Waller, B. (Supervisor) & Mr Ed Morrison (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social influences on visual attention in primates

Supervisor: Professor Kim A. Bard (Supervisor) & Costall, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social intervention: supporting success, guiding desistance

Supervisor: Professor Michael Nash (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social media and police investigations: understanding the strategies that officers pursue when they encounter social media in their investigations

Supervisor: Dr Vasileios Karagiannopoulos (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Social media practices in SME marketing activities: a dynamic capability approach

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Sources of uncertainty impacting upon sperm cryopreservation for cancer patients

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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

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

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

South African higher education institutions as learning organisation: a leadership process model

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Spatial data mining approaches for GIS vector data processing

Supervisor: Dr Ella Haig (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Spatial effects in random walks

Supervisor: Dr James Burridge (Supervisor), Dr Michal Gnacik (Supervisor) & Osbaldestin, A. H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Spectacles of suffering: self-harm in new woman writing 1880-1900

Supervisor: Pulham, P. (Supervisor) & Dr Charlotte Boyce (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Spectral analysis of galaxies in the ultraviolet

Supervisor: Dr David Bacon (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis