Theses

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

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Postglacial vegetational dynamics in Lowland North Wales.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Posthumanism in Literary Studies: The Nomad and Anthropocentrism

Supervisor: Hiscock, A. (Supervisor) & Webb, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Potential uses of red alder (Alnus rubra Bong) in silvopastoral systems

Supervisor: Teklehaimanot, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Power and Control: The Lived Experiences of Homeless Youth in Supported Accommodation

Supervisor: Wardhaugh, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Power in the Blood: The significance of the blood of Jesus to the spirituality of early British pentecostalism and its precursors

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pragmatic and Conversational Features of Arabic-Speaking Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Examining performance and caregivers’ perceptions

Supervisor: Tenbrink, T. (Supervisor) & Sanoudaki, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pragmatic evaluation of group cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome

Supervisor: Lyon-Jones, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Praise and performance : congregational and choral music in the Nonconformist chapels of North-east Wales and Liverpool during the 19th century

Supervisor: Thomas, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Praxis and practice : the 'what, how and why' of the UK environmental direct action movement in the 1990s

Supervisor: Day, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Preaspiration in phonological stop contrasts : an instrumental phonetic study

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Predicting recovery of soft sediment communities following physical disturbance

Supervisor: Kaiser, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Predicting the impact of towed fishing gears on emergent epifauna

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Prediction of the coverage and performance of the Datatrak low-frequency tracking system

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Predictive power of contrastive analysis : Syrians' learning of the English DP.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Preliminary evidence for a neuro-cognitive model of mental toughness

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Preliminary stages in the validation of a talent identification model in cricket

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Preparation and characterisation of uranium and tungsten borides for applications in the nuclear industry

Supervisor: Spencer, P. (Supervisor) & Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Preparation and characterization of electrografted polymer films for surface functionalization

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Preposition stranding in Welsh

Supervisor: Bury, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Prepositions and the syntax of complementation.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Prevalence and spread of pathogenic Escherichia Coli O157 on farms in north Wales

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Priming of reach trajectory when observing actions within and beyond peripersonal space

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Principle of indemnity and related doctrines in Nigerian insurance law and practice: A comparative study with the counterparts in other jurisdictions

Supervisor: Jing, Z. (Supervisor) & Griffith, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Prism adaptation in neurorehabilitation

Supervisor: Rafal, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Prison overcrowding in Nigeria : the nature of the problem, its causes, and consequences

Supervisor: Feilzer, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Probing the impact of familiarity on effective connectivity within the Action Observation Network

Supervisor: Cross, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Process and drivers of vegetation change in African drylands : a case study of Yankari Game Reserve

Supervisor: Pullin, A. (Supervisor) & Gibbons, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Processes contributing to the evolution and destruction of stratification in the Liverpool Bay ROFI

Supervisor: Rippeth, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Processes controlling spatial and temporal variations in cockle Cerastoderma edule (L.) abundance and distribution

Supervisor: Richardson, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Production, characterisation and testing of polyaniline-rhodium electrocatalysts for aqueous hydrogenation reactions

Supervisor: Holliman, P. (Supervisor) & Kalaji, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Productivity and nutrient dynamics of Avicennia Marina (Forsk). Vierh. Mangroves grown on the Red sea coast of Saudi Arabia

Supervisor: McDonald, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Proffilio gwallau : dadansoddiad o'r gwallau a wneir gan gyfieithwyr Saesneg-Cymraeg

Supervisor: Webb-Davies, P. (Supervisor), Prys, D. (Supervisor) & Kaufmann, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Profiling the Language Abilities of Welsh-English Bilingual Children with Down Syndrome

Supervisor: Sanoudaki, E. (Supervisor) & Thomas, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Project appraisal under risk, threat and uncertainty : a case study of the afforestation project of Bihar, India.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Projection of personal space and schema beyond the physical body

Supervisor: Downing, P. (Supervisor), Tipper, S. (Supervisor) & Ward, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Propaganda Censorship and the Media: An Ethnographic Study of Ghana Dagbon Chieftaincy Crisis-2002-2019

Supervisor: Bakir, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Properties and function of the tendon-muscle complex in rheumatoid arthritis

Supervisor: Thom, J. (Supervisor) & Lemmey, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Properties of Nanocrystalline Thin Films of Metal and Metal Alloys Obtained at the Oil – Water Interface

Supervisor: Prabhakar, J. T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Proprietors, people, transition and change on a Welsh estate: Gregynog Hall, Montgomeryshire, 1750-1900

Supervisor: Rees, L. (Supervisor) & Evans, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Proteomic analysis of neural differentiation in mouse embryonic stem cells

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Proton MRS Studies in Ageing: investigating relaxation, concentration, and correlation with resting-state activity in the PCC

Supervisor: Mullins, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychological determinants of children's food preferences.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychological processes of change in adolescents in a residential treatment setting.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychological resilience and youth offending: Can tailored interventions reduce recidivism?

Supervisor: Beattie, S. (Supervisor), Roberts, R. (Supervisor) & Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychological vulnerability in bipolar disorder

Supervisor: Bentall, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychophysiological evidence of a role for emotion in the learning of trustworthiness from identity-contingent eye-gaze cues

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychophysiological investigation of false memory in amnesiac patients

Supervisor: Rafal, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychosocial determinants of dimensions of performance

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychosocial interventions in rheumatoid arthritis: A patient centred approach using imagery and hypnotherapy

Supervisor: Callow, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pterosins and Pterosides in Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn)

Supervisor: Fitzsimmons-Thoss, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Public Speaking Anxiety: Past, Present, and Future

Supervisor: Callow, N. (Supervisor) & Beattie, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Public Values and Project Management Practices & Processes in the Public Sector in the case of the State of Qatar

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor) & Nikolopoulos, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Putting the ‘me’ in team: Narcissism, team processes, and emergent states

Supervisor: Hardy, J. (Supervisor) & Roberts, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quality in dementia care : evaluating staff attitudes and behaviour.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quality management in higher education in Mozambique.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quantifying and mitigating greenhouse gas emmissions from horticultural peat soils

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quantitative Methods for Producing Evidence to Support Sustainable King Scallop Management

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. G. (Supervisor), Szostek, C. (Supervisor), Kaiser, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Lambert, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quantitative evidence synthesis methods for the assessment of the effectiveness of treatment sequences for clinical and economic decision-making

Supervisor: Wilkinson, C. (Supervisor), Hughes, D. (Supervisor), Sutton, A. (External person) (Supervisor), Woolacott, N. (External person) (Supervisor), Williams, N. (External person) (Supervisor), Phillips, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Ruiz, F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quantum communication with continuous variables

Supervisor: Braunstein, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Queer tactical diaspora: Reading Caribbean Queer Narratives

Supervisor: Edwards, J. (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

R. H. Tawney and the reform of English education

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

R.S. Thomas's God : : the possibilities of symbiosis

Supervisor: Brown, A. (Supervisor) & Davies, J. (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

Rational design and delivery of peptide drugs

Supervisor: Payne, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Re-imagining the Catholic secondary school in Wales in the twenty-first century : the voice of the students

Supervisor: Francis, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reading Between the Lines: Clothes, Linens and Washing-Lines in Film and Practice

Supervisor: Abrams, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reading witches, reading women : late Tudor and early Stuart texts

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Real-Time and Interactive Computer Graphics in Grid Environments

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Real-world solutions for improving estimates of land-atmosphere exchanges in heterogeneous landscapes

Supervisor: Rayment, M. (Supervisor) & Gibbons, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Recent irreversible retreat phase of Pine Island Glacier

Supervisor: Green, M. (Supervisor), Gudmundsson, H. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jenkins, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reciprocal transplantations to study local specialisation and the measurement of components of fitness.

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

Recovering the everyday: practices and tactics in postcolonial fiction

Supervisor: Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rediscovering Lost Tacit Knowledge through an Integrated Empirical Model of Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning: A Classical Action Research enquiry into a Healthcare Technology Organisation.

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reducing the carbon footprint of red meat

Supervisor: Williams, A. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reflections in Soil: Multi-element analysis of later prehistoric and early historic house floors in Britian

Supervisor: Waddington, K. (Supervisor) & Edwards, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reform of the Iraqi Private International Law on Transnational Online Contracting: Lessons from the EU and the USA

Supervisor: Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reformist framework of the foreign investment environment in the post-conflict : critical appraisal of Iraq case

Supervisor: Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Regional modelling of nitrous oxide emissions from fertilised agricultural soils within Europe

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Registration of 3D models to 2D X-ray images using fast X-ray simulation and global optimisation algorithms

Supervisor: Vidal, F. (Supervisor) & Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Regulation, patentability and morality of human embryonic stem cell in China: a comparative study of the US and Europe

Supervisor: Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reimagining Everyday Life in the GDR: Post-Ostalgia in Contemporary German Films and Museums

Supervisor: Saunders, A. (Supervisor) & Shortt, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reimbursement decisions for new medicines: exploration of the preferences of decision-makers and the public

Supervisor: Hughes, D. (Supervisor) & Edwards, R. T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Relationships between player-roles, action, attitudes towards individuals and the world, and gaming experiences

Supervisor: Rogers, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Relationships, motivations and meanings in informal caregiving for people with dementia

Supervisor: Clare, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Religious phenomenology, sociodemography and ecology in the rural Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Supervisor: Brook, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Remembering identity after postmodernity

Supervisor: Armitt, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Remembering the prior body states of others : evidence from facial EMG and pupil size

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reminiscence and digital life story work for dementia care

Supervisor: Woods, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Remote determination of bathymetric changes using ground based radar

Supervisor: Davies, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Remote sensing of chlorophyll concentrations in a turbid shelf sea

Supervisor: Bowers, D. (Supervisor) & Mitchelson-Jacob, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Repetitive prophetical and interpretative formulations in Luke's Gospel of Codex Bezae: an analysis of readings in D

Supervisor: Read-Heimerdinger, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Representation of Iraqis in Hollywood Iraq war films: a multimodal critical discourse study

Supervisor: Shank, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Representations of Crossed Modules and Cat¹-Groups

Supervisor: Porter, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Representations of the grail quest in medieval and modern literature

Supervisor: Radulescu, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Representing identities in Tatarstan : a cartography of post-soviet discourses, schooling and everyday life

Supervisor: Davies, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reproductive compatibility and speciation in Celleporella hyalina Sensu Lato

Supervisor: Hughes, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rereading the Past: Jane Austen and Reflective Selfhood from Lady Susan to Persuasion

Supervisor: McCue, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy