Theses

Information enhancement and goal setting: interventions for enhancing motivation

Supervisor: Cox, W. M. (Supervisor), Woods, B. (Supervisor) & Ingledew, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Information needs and experience of knowledge exchange of young people with epilepsy and parents during transition from children to adult services: comparative embedded case study

Supervisor: Noyes, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Inhibition of return is mediated by object identity

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Inhibitory Processes in Temporal Selection

Supervisor: Mari-Beffa, P. (Supervisor) & Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Innovative Topical Formulations from Bio-Based Polymers for Transdermal Drug Delivery

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Integrated sensor suite for indoor building inspection with an unmanned aerial vehicle

Supervisor: Pierce, I. (Supervisor) & Mansoor, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Integrating farmers' knowledge and decision-making in the planning of participatory research of cassava/maize intercropping

Supervisor: Sinclair, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change: A Differentiated Patent Regime for Environmentally Sound Technologies

Supervisor: Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Intensity modulation of optical OFDM signals using low-cost semiconductor laser devices for next-generation PONs

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Inter-temporal choice for high-value food rewards as a model of food-scheduling behaviour

Supervisor: Rogers, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interaction between the bacterial and phytoplanktonic inorganic nitrogenous nutrition

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interaction of lexical-semantic and imagery representations.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interactions between bacteria, enzymes and the sheep scab mite, Psoroptes ovis

Supervisor: Lehane, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interactions between components of rubber agroforestry systems in Indonesia.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interactions between limbs and constraints in the expression of maximum force

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interactions, particle size and surface effects in magnetic nanoparticle systems.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interactons between achievement goal orientations and motivational climate

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interest Rate Pass-through and pricing behaviour of financial products in UK financial industry and Interest Margin Determinants in EU countrie

Supervisor: Goddard, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interfacial effects in polymer MIS devices

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Intersubband optical processes in semiconductor quantum wells.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interventions aimed at increasing literacy skills in those at risk of offending behaviour

Supervisor: Hughes, C. (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

Intraprelearning (corporate entrepreneurship, organisational learning and change) within two Welsh NHS Trusts: an autoethnography

Supervisor: Sambrook, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Introducing and evaluating the 'Books Together Programme'

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Invasion of host tissue by infective larvae of Ascaris suum (Goeze, 1782)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating fitness consequences of hybridisation between farmed and wild Atlantic salmon

Supervisor: Carvalho, G. (Supervisor), Creer, S. (Supervisor), Glover, K. (External person) (Supervisor) & Taylor, M. I. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating floral resource use by pollinators using pollen DNA metabarcoding

Supervisor: Creer, S. (Supervisor) & de Vere, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating mechanisms of genome expansion in Corydoradinae catfish

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the Bilingual ‘Catch-up’ in Welsh-English Bilingual Teenagers

Supervisor: Thomas, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the Ecology and Infection Biology of Gymnopus fusipes, a Fungal Root Rot Pathogen of Woodland Trees

Supervisor: McDonald, J. (Supervisor) & Denman, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the Feasibility of Using Focussed Airborne Ultrasound as Tactile Feedback in Medical Simulators

Supervisor: John, N. W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the Physical and Psychological Impact of Assistive Technology Use (and its Influences) Among People Living with Multiple Sclerosis

Supervisor: Morrison, V. (Supervisor) & Williams, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the action-inaction asymmetry within the TPB framework: An exploration of the belief-based model and extended direct measure models

Supervisor: Shiu, E. (Supervisor) & Parry, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the comprehension and production of Wh-questions in monolingual and bilingual German and French children with and without SLI

Supervisor: Chondrogianni, V. (Supervisor) & Tamburelli, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the foraging preferences of the honeybee, Apis mellifera L., using DNA metabarcoding

Supervisor: Creer, S. (Supervisor) & De Vere, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the impact of trees and hedgerows on landscape hydrology

Supervisor: Smith, A. (Supervisor), Robinson, D. (External person) (Supervisor) & Marshall, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the integration between person knowledge and person perception processes

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the neurocognitive bases of social cognition from a general semantics perspective

Supervisor: Binney, R. (Supervisor) & Koldewyn, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the relationship between farmer health and farm income

Supervisor: Edwards-Jones, G. (Supervisor) & Edwards, R. T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation into cis and trans acting factors in fission yeast genome stability

Supervisor: Hartsuiker, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation into memory effect in organic semiconductor devices

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation into the physical and chemical properties of soap bubbles with respect to their performance

Supervisor: Fitzsimmons-Thoss, V. (Supervisor) & Lahmann, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation into the regulation of DNA repair by the S.pombe cell cycle kinase Cdc2-cyclinB

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation of Machine Vision and Path Planning Methods for use in an Autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicle

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation of food 'wanting' and 'liking' in free-living individuals using a novel smart phone application: mind eating

Supervisor: Kubis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation of real-time spectral analysis techniques for use with pulsed ultrasonic doppler blood flow detectors.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation of the reward value of exercise using discounting paradigm

Supervisor: Kubis, H. (Supervisor) & Rogers, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation of the roles of HERC2 in Centrosome and Cilia Biology

Supervisor: Staples, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation of the structural changes in LDPE and XLPE induced by high electrical stress.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigations into low band-gap, semiconducting polymers

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigations into the biotechnological applications of dielectrophoresis.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigations into the epidemiology of ovine psoroptic mange (scab) in Great Britain : with special reference to otoacariasis and the taxonomy of the genus Psoroptes

Supervisor: Lehane, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigations of the role of the human anterior cingulate cortex in observing others' pain

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigations towards sustainable sea salt production at Halen Môn

Supervisor: Lahmann, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Irish medium education : cognitive skills, linguistic skills, and attitudes towards Irish

Supervisor: Thomas, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Is inverted diglossia coming to Wales? Domain use and language attitudes among Welsh-speaking youth.

Supervisor: Tamburelli, M. (Supervisor) & Webb-Davies, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Is there an author in this text? : a re-evaluation of authorial intent pursued as ontological disclosing the being of the entity of the composition in understanding an author's communication

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Isaac Williams (1802-1865), the Oxford Movement and the High Churchmen: A Study of his Theological and Devotional Writings.

Supervisor: Morgan, D. (Supervisor) & Pope, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Islamic banking

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Isokinetic force ratios, muscle function and anaerobic performance of the knee extensors and flexors

Supervisor: Eston, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Isolation and development of microsatellite DNA markers in the cockle Cerastoderma Edule

Supervisor: Beaumont, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Joseph Aloysius Hansom and the changing practice of Architecture, 1820-1860

Supervisor: Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Kampfen um die kelten: Archaologische argumente in der neuheidnischen literatur und der keltenbegriff in der fachliteratur

Supervisor: Karl, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Kate Roberts a’r Ddrama

Supervisor: Hunter, J. (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

Keyframe Summarisation of Egocentric Video

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Kinetics of the wood-acetic anhydride reaction

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

King Arthur and the privy councillor : Albert Schulz as a cultural mediator between the literary fields of nineteenth century Wales and Germany

Supervisor: Tully, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Knowledge sharing in Higher Education

Supervisor: Sambrook, S. (Supervisor) & Doloriert, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

LAND COVER CHANGE IMPACTS ON WATER AND ENERGY BALANCE IN EAST AFRICA

Supervisor: Patil, S. (Supervisor) & Marshall, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Landscape-scale genetic diversity in Fraxinus excelsior L. : genetic structure within and among populations and the influence of regeneration practices on genetic variation

Supervisor: Cahalan, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Language and Executive Functioning Skills in Greek-English Bilingual Children in the U.K.

Supervisor: Sanoudaki, E. (Supervisor), Thomas, E. (Supervisor), Tamburelli, M. (Supervisor) & Chondrogianni, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Language, belonging and psychosis: a mixed methods study testing the presence of a linguistic group density association in Wales and its possible mechanisms

Supervisor: Saville, C. (Supervisor) & Jackson, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Laser control of the photoisomerisation of azo-compounds: a theoretical study

Supervisor: Hughes, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Laser-fibre system for in situ stress monitoring of thin films

Supervisor: Irvine, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Late Quaternary benthonic Foraminiferal stratigraphy the western U.K. Continental Shelf.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) on tomato: evaluation of pathogen population structure in Britain and development of resistant tomato cultivars for growing outdoors

Supervisor: Steele, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Late pleistocene sea-level change in the Celtic Sea : radiocarbon dated macrofauna as palaeo-water-depth indicators

Supervisor: Scourse, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Latitudinal and climatic driven changes in local patterns of intertidal macroalgae : implications for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Supervisor: Jenkins, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Latitudinal variations in the energy consumption of gammarid amphipods

Supervisor: Whiteley, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Leaf ion concentrations and salt tolerance in barley.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Learning Analytics Integrating Student Attendance Data

Supervisor: Perkins, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Learning from adverse incidents: using action research cycles to generate individual and organisational knowledge

Supervisor: Williams, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Learning to read and spell in Albanian, English and Welsh : the effect of orthographic transparency

Supervisor: Ellis, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Lessons Learned from Implementing the KiVa Antibullying Programme in UK Primary Schools

Supervisor: Hutchings, J. (Supervisor) & Hoare, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Letteratura e contestazione: Il '68 nella letteratura italiana tra neoavanguardia e postmoderno

Supervisor: Rorato, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Lexical cohesion and the determination of text intelligibility by non-native readers of English

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Life domain conflicts in elite sport

Supervisor: Markland, D. (Supervisor), Hardy, J. (Supervisor) & Birrer, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Life events and psychological problems in people with intellectual disabilities

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Lignin based adhesives for particleboard production.

Supervisor: Hale, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Linguistic relativity electrified :|event-related potentials investigation of the way in which language affects cognition

Supervisor: Thierry, 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

Links between parental affect, cognitions, parenting, and child outcomes

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Lithium Accelerated Corrosion of Zirconium Alloys

Supervisor: Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor), Rushton, M. (Supervisor) & Cole-Baker, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Little Man Everyday Estrangement and Ordinary Re-connection

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Livestock production and food security in a changing socio-cultural environment due to involuntary relocation of agro-pastoralists into semi-arid areas of Makueni District, Kenya.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Living at Home with Family: : Psychological Adaptation and Well-being Among Family Carers and Adults with an Intellectual Disability

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Living at the edge: Ecology of Patella species in Britain

Supervisor: Jenkins, S. (Supervisor) & Hawkins, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Living with Stroke: a Wales context

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy