Theses

Subtexts of Subversion: Counter-Hegemonic Discourses in Contemporary Fiction under Neoliberalism

Supervisor: Rorato, L. (Supervisor) & Jein, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The knowledge and practice of health visitors in North Wales in relation to child neglect : a critical enquiry

Supervisor: Iphofen, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Image and Reality in Medieval Weaponry and Warfare: Wales c.1100 – c.1450

Supervisor: Edwards, N. (Supervisor) & Pryce, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The feasibility of using brief cognitive behavioural therapy for depression associated with Parkinson's disease

Supervisor: Vaughan, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Electrical characterisation of organic nanostructures

Supervisor: Ashwell, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Manuel de Falla and his European contemporaries : encounters, relationships and influences.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Commonwealth Immigration, Policymaking, and the Labour party, c. 1960-1980

Supervisor: Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Aspects of the biology of Sacculina carcini (Crustacea: cirripeda: rhizocephala), with particular emphasis on the larval energy budget.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Not Just the Usual Suspects: Designing a new method for public consultation

Supervisor: Calder, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Doloriert, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quim Monzó and contemporary Catalan culture : innovation, politics and public image

Supervisor: Bru-Dominguez, E. (Supervisor) & Cornella-Detrell, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Zebra stripes, the ectoparasite hypothesis: using behavioural measures to determine ectoparasitic burdens in plains zebra (Equus quagga burchelli) in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.

Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor) & Hayward, M. W. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Child and adolescent mental health: Intervention and appropriate Measurement

Supervisor: Saville, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Shear wave studies of interfacial lubrication

Supervisor: Jones, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An empirical study into the effectiveness of performance management in the United Kingdom public sector

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Recovering the everyday: practices and tactics in postcolonial fiction

Supervisor: Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The behavioural ecology of aggression in Lake Malawi haplochromine cichlid fish

Supervisor: Turner, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the agronomic and environmental effects of herbal leys on lowland sheep production

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor) & Chadwick, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Developing coupled Reduced Order Models for Shielding and Reactor Physics applications

Supervisor: Spencer, P. (Supervisor), Pierce, I. (Supervisor), Pain, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Smith, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Cardio-respiratory fitness, obesity and traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Supervisor: Thom, J. (Supervisor) & Moore, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Task switching and response processes

Supervisor: Mari-Beffa, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Intonation in Anglesey Welsh

Supervisor: Mennen, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Intonation in Anglesey Welsh

Supervisor: Mennen, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Newfrontiers church planting in the UK: an examination of their distinctves and practices

Supervisor: Kay, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

From soil to stream: Spatial and temporal variations in the decomposition, generation and transport of Dom.

Supervisor: Freeman, P. C. (Supervisor) & Thomas, P. D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Elucidating the causes and consequences of individual behaviour: personality & plasticity in the marine gastropod, Littoraria irrorata.

Supervisor: McCarthy, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills training group for borderline personality disorder: A Scoping review and a feasibility study of an intervention in a public hospital in Santiago de Chile.

Supervisor: Roberts, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Towards a new system of group hypnotherapy for adult obesity

Supervisor: Iphofen, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Script development and interdisciplinary collaborations in the production of climate-fiction films

Supervisor: Bakir, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Music in the blood & Poetry in the soul? National identity in the life and music of Grace Williams

Supervisor: Thomas, W. (Supervisor) & Schmidt-Beste, T. C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Evaluation of a cognitive-behavioural pain management programme with severely chronic pain patients

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

A Study of the Geomicrobiology of Acid Mine Drainage-impacted Environments, with particular regard to the former Mynydd Parys Copper Mines, North Wales

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Resistance in the 'Oppressor's' Tongue: English-language Welsh Writers and Spanish-language Catalan Writers

Supervisor: Webb, A. (Supervisor) & Bru-Dominguez, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

'On aurait pensé que la nature s'était trompée en leur donnant leurs sexes' : masculine malaise, gender indeterminacy and sexual ambiguity in July Monarchy narratives

Supervisor: Frith, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

From research to practice : integrity and pragmatics in implementing mindfulness-based interventions

Supervisor: Griffith, G. (Supervisor) & Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

IMPACT OF MINDFULNESS TEACHER TRAINING ON MBSR PARTICIPANT OUTCOMES: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY

Supervisor: Dorjee, D. (Supervisor) & Crane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Molecular Phylogeography and Venom Evolution of Trimeresurus stejnegeri in Taiwan.

Supervisor: Malhotra, A. (Supervisor) & Thorpe, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Beyond Graduation: trajectories of graduates from higher education in North Wales

Supervisor: Davis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physiological capacities of Gammarid amphipods to survive environmental change

Supervisor: Whiteley, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The social world of climbing in North West Wales

Supervisor: Borland, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Effect of Combination Aerobic and Resistance Home Exercise Training on Endothelial Function in Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3-4: a Randomised Controlled Pilot Study

Supervisor: Macdonald, J. (Supervisor) & Moore, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Determinants of health in horticultural workers: a comparison of national and international supply chains

Supervisor: Edwards-Jones, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Linking On-farm Land Restoration and Livelihoods in the Drylands of Eastern Kenya

Supervisor: Pagella, T. (Supervisor) & Winowiecki, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Philosophy of History and the Philosophy of Religions in the work of Edgar Quinet

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

How does naming promote stimulus equivalence? An investigation into the role of instructions used during name training

Supervisor: Lowe, F. (Supervisor) & Dugdale, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The relation between crawling and allocentric spatial coding in infants

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Unheard Voices: Children and Parents’ Experiences of Respiratory Assistance

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

The assay of nitroreductases with CB1954 and immobilisation onto Gold surfaces

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Schedule control of temporally based behaviour.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Focussing selection to the letter level: understanding the letter search task

Supervisor: Mari-Beffa, P. (Supervisor) & Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A theoretical study of carrier dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots

Supervisor: Rees, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Converging Approach to Sex differences and Pain; an Examination of Social and Biological Mechanisms that May Account for Differences Between Male and Female Pain Reports

Supervisor: Mullins, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Effects of Multiple Stressors on the Development and Performance of Decapod Crustaceans

Supervisor: Gimenez Noya, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nietzsche's Will To Power: A Naturalistic Account of Metaethics Based on Evolutionary Principles and Thermodynamic Laws

Supervisor: Huskinson, L. (Supervisor) & Betenson, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The influence of sleep deprivation, cold exposure, exercise stress and nutritional intervention on selected immune responses

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Teaching Civics: A study of the educators’ conceptualisation of citizenship education in India

Supervisor: Smith, A. (Supervisor) & Sullivan, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

'A barbarous nook of Ireland' : representations of the Irish Rebellion in Milton and some contemporaries.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

'[A] shifting/identity never your own' : the uncanny and unhomely in the poetry of R.S. Thomas

Supervisor: Brown, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rhwng Trawsfynydd a Pharis: Agweddau ar Waith John Rowlands

Supervisor: Price, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The maladministration of the Coalition Provisional Authority in the duty to prevent criminal activities and its effects on illegal funds (causes and solutions)

Supervisor: Cahill, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A multi-method investigation of the relationship between life stress, coping strategies and psychological distress in adolescents.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An economic evaluation of a value added tax for Greece

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The relationship between leadership, organizational culture and job satisfaction : the empirical evidence from retail banking industry in Wales

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Current State of Scientific Literacy in Wales

Supervisor: Lewis, J. (Supervisor) & Jones, S. W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The relationship between physical well-being, mood states, physical self perceptions and participation and withdrawal from physical activity

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Discourse connectives in Syrian Arabic.

Supervisor: Borsley, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Informal childcare and childcare choice in Wales

Supervisor: Davies, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Climate change and Welsh catchments: Implications for hydrological regime, water quality and water abstraction

Supervisor: Patil, S. (Supervisor) & Williams, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rapid determination of parasite viability using AC electrokinetic techniques

Supervisor: Pethig, R. (Supervisor) & Burt, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

What are the Challenges of Evaluating Co-produced Initiatives?

Supervisor: Krayer, A. (Supervisor) & Carre, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Enamelwork from early Anglo-Saxon contexts

Supervisor: Edwards, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Impact of Transactional Website Adoption on Banks’ Performance

Supervisor: Carbo-Valverde, S. (Supervisor), Williams, G. (Supervisor) & Lopes, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Taxonomy and Biogeography of the Polychaetes of the Falkland Islands: Critical Analysis of Published Works

Supervisor: Gimenez Noya, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Control of Automatic Imitation - Neural Mechanisms and Individual Differences

Supervisor: Ramsey, R. (Supervisor) & Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Improving fallow productivity in the forest and forest-savanna transition of Ghana : a socio-economic analysis of livelihoods and technologies

Supervisor: Bright, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of regional development banks

Supervisor: Williams, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation of the process of microbial decomposition and the ‘enzymic latch’ mechanism in coastal wetland ecosystems

Supervisor: Freeman, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Shiite Resistance Against the British Occupation in Iraq 1914-1921

Supervisor: Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Forestry policy: hindsight, forethought and foresight

Supervisor: Price, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Role of Schemas in Psychosis and Voice-Hearing

Supervisor: Rydon-Grange, M. (Supervisor) & Jackson, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Discriminative control of operant response latency on temporally-based schedules.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stability and performance assessment of organic photovoltaics using data analytics and machine learning

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Temporal-Difference learning underpins the acquisition of intertemporal preferences for high-value food rewards in humans

Supervisor: Rogers, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

High Voltage Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF) Electroporation Systems

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor) & Palego, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The psychological wellbeing of carers of people with dementia: What role does knowledge play on carers' perception of dementia?

Supervisor: Lamers, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Synthesis and applications of guanidine heterocycles

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in coastal marine communities: Towards predicting the consequences of extinction for ecosystem functioning in natural assemblages

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. G. (Supervisor) & Jenkins, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN LIVING WITH DISABILITIES AND COMPLEX HEALTH NEEDS, AND THOSE OF THEIR FAMILIES

Supervisor: Lynch, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Davies Abbott, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Measuring and modelling sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (bong.) carriere) and birch (Betula spp.) crowns, with special reference to terrestrial photogrammetry

Supervisor: Pommerening, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Keeping up with the Neighbours: Cultural Emulation, Integration and Change in Southeast Wales c.1050 - c.1350.

Supervisor: Roberts, E. (Supervisor) & Pryce, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Veritas: : hanes a'r nofel ddirgelwch

Supervisor: Wiliams, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The academic writing of Japanese students of English : contrastive rhetoric and its implications for an integrated approach to composition pedagogy.

Supervisor: James, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An assessment of the contribution of Sir Hugh Owen to education in Wales

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Health service users' help-seeking decisions in primary healthcare: A health psychology approach

Supervisor: Fazey, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

What works to support brief smoking cessation in acute hospital settings?

Supervisor: Burton, C. (Supervisor) & Williams, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Archaeoleg ddisgyrsiol mewn pedair haen: Datganiadau cenedlaethol-drefedigaethol yn y wasg Gymreig a’r wasg Fasgaidd yn y 1890au

Supervisor: Jones, A. L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Digital Health Solutions for Medication Adherence Support

Supervisor: Hughes, D. (Supervisor) & Davies, E. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Dadansoddiad o nodau graddedig ar gyfer oedolion sy'n dysgu'r Gymraeg fel ail iaith

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Inferencing unknown words in reading

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A mixed methods exploratory case study into the rationale and behaviours underpinning routine blood tests in critically ill patients, and possible strategies to reduce the number performed

Supervisor: Williams, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

The Development of an Electrochemical DNA Hybridisation Biosensor for the Detection of Equine Hindgut Acidosis

Supervisor: Gwenin, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research