Theses

The role of nucleotide excision repair in providing resistance to the nucleoside analogue gemcitabine.

Supervisor: Hartsuiker, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of self-efficacy in multiple sclerosis

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

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

The use of urban plant resources for health and food security in Kampala, Uganda

Supervisor: McDonald, M. (Supervisor), Raebild, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Kehlenbeck, K. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Threats to Privately-Owned Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in China from the State-Owned Enterprise Policy and the State’s Interest: Towards Developing an Effective Legal Framework for the Protection of Chinese Privately-Owned SMEs

Supervisor: Cahill, D. (Supervisor) & Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Toward a Unified Account of Metonymy

Supervisor: Evans, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Transformational Leadership in Higher Education Research Supervision

Supervisor: Callow, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Trihalomethane Formation in Drinking Water; Impact of Drought, Treatment Wetlands and Methods of Analysis

Supervisor: Freeman, C. (Supervisor) & Murphy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Unheard Voices: Children and Parents’ Experiences of Respiratory Assistance

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Use of Microwaves for Skin Lesion Treatment

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Valuation of non-market ecosystem services of forests: Preferences for Recreation, Effect of Childhood Experience, and the Role of Environmental Attitudes

Supervisor: Gibbons, J. (Supervisor), Lundhede, T. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jacobsen, J. B. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Verses Nature: Heterogeneity and Dialogism in the Novel

Supervisor: Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Watermass Transformations near the Tip of the Antarctic Peninsula

Supervisor: Rippeth, T. (Supervisor) & Lenn, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

We Are Seven

Supervisor: Wilcox, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Y Gelefyddyd Gymodlawn': Gwaith T. Gwynn Jones a cherddoriaeth

Supervisor: Davies, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

‘Mae’r Beibl o’n tu’: Y dadleuon Beiblaidd ynghylch caethwasiaeth ar dudalennau gwasg gyfnodol Gymraeg America, 1838-1868

Supervisor: Davies, E. (Supervisor) & Hunter, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Generative Music from Fuzzy Logic and Probability: A Portfolio of Electroacoustic Compositions

Supervisor: Lewis, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Development and Evaluation of a Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Behaviour Change Intervention Targeting 3 – 4 year old Children at School, Extending to the Home.

Supervisor: Horne, P. (Supervisor) & Erjavec, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Applying Conversation Analysis to Family Therapy Process Research

Supervisor: Swales, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Population biology of two species of grey mullet, Liza abu in CentralIraq (Heckel, 1843) and Chelon labrosus (Risso, 1827) in North West Wales

Supervisor: McCarthy, I. (Supervisor) & Richardson, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Aspects of the Law of Real Property in England and Wales - A Welshman's Perspective

Supervisor: Cahill, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A novel microwave transmission Line with Impedance matching structures for Haemostasis of upper Gastrointestinal bleeding.

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A scalable approach for efficient and comparable characterisation of smallholder farming systems: The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey RHoMIS

Supervisor: Pagella, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ab-initio and Experimental NEXAFS Spectroscopy Investigations of Graphene: growth and post-processing effects

Supervisor: Campo, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

All-dielectric superlens and applications

Supervisor: Wang, Z. (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

Assessment of surface water quality and quantity in Great Zab river catchment, in the Kurdish region of Iraq

Supervisor: Bird, G. (Supervisor) & McDonald, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

At the Crossing: Changing Perceptions, Technologies and Screenplay Functions in Contemporary Cinema

Supervisor: Sherry, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Exploring discourses and experiences of work, welfare, policy and practice.

Supervisor: Seddon, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Brachyury in the Human Colon and Colorectal Cancer

Supervisor: Wakeman, J. (Supervisor) & Gollins, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Breaking the Silence: Challenges to Professional Boundaries in Therapeutic Work - A Qualitative Exploration

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

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Breaking up the Traditional Skyline: Writing Modernist Wales in English

Supervisor: Owen, T. (Supervisor) & Brown, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Comparing contextual patterns of workplace struggle in the UK and Republic of Ireland public transport sectors: London underground and Dublin bus

Supervisor: Merkl-Davies, D. (Supervisor) & Dobbins, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Compulsory Licensing of Patented Pharmaceuticals in the Developing World.: A Legitimate or Illegitimate Way to Enhance the Access to Medicines?

Supervisor: Hyland, M. (Supervisor) & Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Disturbance and climate change risks to forest carbon sinks and potential management responses

Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

E-procurement adoption impacts on organisations “Performance and Maturity”: An exploratory case study

Supervisor: Nikolopoulos, K. (Supervisor) & Batiz-Lazo, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master of Philosophy

Earnings Management in European Private Firms versus Public Firms

Supervisor: Jaafar, A. (Supervisor) & Hodgkinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Electrical Characterisation of Meso-Scale Biological Tissue for a Microwave Based Permittivity Identification Process

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

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Electrical, Environmental and Optical Stress Effects on PS-DNTT OTFTs

Supervisor: Taylor, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Enhancing the Antitrust Damages Action in China: Some Lessons from the EU

Supervisor: Cahill, D. (Supervisor) & Jing, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Essays in forecasting financial markets with predictive analytics techniques

Supervisor: Nikolopoulos, K. (Supervisor) & Xie, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Essays on financial structure and regional economic development

Supervisor: Altunbas, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Evolution & Extinction of the Great Auk: A Palaeogenomic Approach

Supervisor: Knapp, M. (External person) (Supervisor), Carvalho, G. (Supervisor), Gilbert, M. T. (External person) (Supervisor), Stewart, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Hofreiter, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring decision making to create an active offer of planned home birth

Supervisor: Rycroft-Malone, J. (Supervisor) & Burton, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors Influencing Welsh Medium School Pupils’ Social Use of Welsh

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor) & Hodges, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fine Scale Survey of Metals, Nutrients and Lipid Biomarkers in the Conwy Estuary

Supervisor: Malham, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Gender Differences and ASD: Exploring Professionals’ Perspectives

Supervisor: Kyffin, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Grammar-based preprocessing for PPM compression and classification

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Hybrid Group IV Nanophotonics

Supervisor: Nezhad, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Improving Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Through Novel Wood-based Panel Modifications

Supervisor: Ormondroyd, G. (Supervisor) & Curling, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the potential susceptibility of selected Malagasy species to the toxins produced by Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Asian Common Toad)

Supervisor: Wuster, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Macrofaunal Diversity and Functioning within Submarine Canyons of the Mid-Atlantic Bight, Western North Atlantic

Supervisor: Davies, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Minors' crimes in Saudi Arabia: Analytical thematic study on Saudi juveniles’ system

Supervisor: Wali, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Motor imagery as a potential tool for improvement of musculoskeletal function in physiotherapy practice

Supervisor: Kubis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Patterns and processes of saltmarsh area change at three spatial scales

Supervisor: Skov, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Perceptions of Justice and Equity in Energy Infrastructure: Stakeholder perspectives on electricity transmission infrastructure planning. Where does power lie?

Supervisor: Griffiths, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Personal Resources in Recovery: A Quantitative Study of Resiliency, Grit, and Coping in Rehabilitation Following Acquired Brain Injury

Supervisor: Coetzer, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Post-exercise hot water immersion: a novel approach to heat acclimation

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reconceptualising 'Uti Possidetis' principle to hone its invocation in the context of twenty-first century's phase of state-creation: the case of Kurdistan and Iraq in perspective

Supervisor: Linton, S. (Supervisor) & Smith, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rheolaeth strategol ar hyfforddiant iaith mewn gweithleoedd sector cyhoeddus

Supervisor: Hodges, R. (Supervisor) & Prys, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rheolaeth strategol ar hyfforddiant iaith mewn gweithleoedd sector cyhoeddus

Supervisor: Hodges, R. (Supervisor) & Prys, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

School-based primary prevention programmes: Outcomes and the factors that affect their success

Supervisor: Saville, C. (Supervisor), Evans, S. (Supervisor) & Hutchings, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Team Effectiveness in Professional Cricket

Supervisor: Hardy, J. (Supervisor) & Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Changing Face of Food Poverty with Special Reference to Wales

Supervisor: Gwilym, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity on the Relationship between Intellectual capital and Firm Performance in high-tech SMEs, UK

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Other Side’ of the Nigeria-Biafra War: A Transnational History

Supervisor: Sedlmaier, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Sino-Indian Border War and the Foreign Policies of China and India (1950-1965)

Supervisor: Hong, F. (External person) (Supervisor) & Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The causes and consequences of accounting fraud in China

Supervisor: Ashton, J. (Supervisor) & Jaafar, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The economics of Orphan Drugs

Supervisor: Hughes, D. (Supervisor) & Plumpton, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The kinematics of human tool use

Supervisor: Watt, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The meaning of suffering: An analysis of potential relationships between Buddhist thought and Kierkegaardian philosophy

Supervisor: Huskinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of epidermal solutes in the control of stomatal movement

Supervisor: Tomos, A. (Supervisor) & Steele, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The value of ‘third-wave’ therapies in Intellectual Disability services: service user experiences of adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

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

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Understanding High School Subject Choice and the Decision to Pursue a Career in STEM

Supervisor: Hughes, J. (Supervisor) & Hunter, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Understanding discursive persuasion in American and Iraqi call to arms discourse: discursive strategies as instruments of persuasive politics

Supervisor: Tenbrink, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Unsupervised Change Detection in Multivariate Streaming Data

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Why does Communication in Youth Justice Matter?

Supervisor: Feilzer, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Yr un hen stori a’r ffilm yn fy mhen: portffolio a dadansoddiad o broses greadigol

Supervisor: Wiliams, G. (Supervisor) & Price, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Characterisation of novel genome regulation functions of the cancer-associated proteins Translin and Trax

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Conservation of U.K. dune system native Lacertidae species

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

DSP-enabled Reconfigurable Optical Network Devices and Architectures for Cloud Access Networks

Supervisor: Giddings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Degradation and outdoor performance monitoring of next generation solar cells for building integrated appliscation

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Early Daoism, Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene: The Case of Edward Thomas

Supervisor: Webb, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Evaluation of the COPING parent online universal programme

Supervisor: Hutchings, J. (Supervisor) & Griffith, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Living with Stroke: a Wales context

Supervisor: Robinson, C. (Supervisor) & Seddon, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Natural regeneration models for Sitka spruce and other conifers in continuous cover forestry

Supervisor: Gibbons, J. (Supervisor) & Cahalan, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Riparian areas: Delineation and contribution to ecosystem service provision

Supervisor: Jones, D. L. (Supervisor) & Williams, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Social Timing in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (M.Phil)

Supervisor: Wimpory, D. (Supervisor), Nash, S. (Supervisor) & Koldewyn, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Synthesis of an α-mycolic acid from Mycobacterium brumae containing a cis-alkene and an α-methyl-trans-alkene

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor) & Al-Dulayymi, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of local knowledge in developing context sensitive agroforestry options for smallholder farmers

Supervisor: Sinclair, F. (Supervisor) & Pagella, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The social, cultural, and political impact of the British Military Administration on Libya, 1943-1951

Supervisor: Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wool fibres for the sorption of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from indoor air

Supervisor: Ormondroyd, G. (Supervisor) & Curling, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ymrestru o dan y Faner: Dadansoddiad o’r modd yr atgynhyrchwyd cenedlaetholdeb gan sefydliadau a gweisg Cymraeg Cymru yn y 19eg ganrif

Supervisor: Lynch, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A total population study of challenging behaviour and evaluation of Positive Behavioural Support outcomes

Supervisor: Totsika, V. (Supervisor), Hastings, R. (Supervisor) & Toogood, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self-Determination Theory: An Individual Differences Perspective

Supervisor: Woodman, T. (Supervisor) & Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The use of Randomised Control Trials in evaluating conservation interventions/ the case of Watershared in the Bolivian Andes

Supervisor: Jones, J. P. G. (Supervisor), Gibbons, J. (Supervisor) & Asquith, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Individual and Interpersonal Risk and Resiliency Factors in Primary and Secondary Trauma

Supervisor: Saville, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Towards clearer formulation of adult Autism Spectrum Disorder: exploring comorbidity and measurement.

Supervisor: Cole, K. (Supervisor) & Saville, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Working in Adult Mental Health: Burnout and the Effects of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training

Supervisor: Swales, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Completing a Banking Union in Europe: Evolution, challenges and market impact

Supervisor: Williams, J. (Supervisor) & ap Gwilym, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Graduate employment among Chinese graduates from UK universities: a case study of Bangor University

Supervisor: Dobbins, T. (Supervisor) & Sambrook, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy