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: Professor David Brown (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: Dr Judith Rich (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) & Professor Richard Greenwood (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: Professor Justin Smith (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: Professor Sue Wright (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), Mr Daniel Mcguire Pinchbeck (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) & Mr Daniel Mcguire Pinchbeck (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) & Professor Charlotte Rayner (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) & Dr Judith Rich (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: Dr Chris Markham (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) & Professor Brian Lee (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) & Professor Frank Stowell (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), Professor Justin Smith (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) & Mr Pradeep Bhandari (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis