Theses

The role of language in the emergence of equivalence relations: a developmental study

Supervisor: Lowe, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of learning strategies in vocabulary acquisition

Supervisor: Shank, C. (Supervisor) & Foltz, A. (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 role of mRNA splicing factor B52 in regulating Choline Acetyltransferase and larval locomotion in Drosiphila

Supervisor: Bossing, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of naming in stimulus equivalence : differences between humans and animals.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of nucleotide excision repair factors and the Mre11 nuclease in nucleoside analogue sensitivity

Supervisor: Fleck, O. (Supervisor) & Hartsuiker, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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 oestrogen in exercise-induced muscle damage

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of phonological processing and attention in developmental dyslexia: an event-related potential investigation

Supervisor: Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of plant-fungus and plant-insect interactions in the dynamics of secondary and mature tropical rainforests

Supervisor: Markesteijn, L. (Supervisor), Healey, J. (Supervisor) & Engelbrecht, B. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of potassium as an osmoticum in barley leaf cells.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of pre-supplementary motor area in spatial vector transformation: evidence from Parkinson's disease

Supervisor: Leek, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of regional development banks

Supervisor: Williams, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of the apoplast as an osmotic compartment in Suaeda maritima L. Dum. and Beta vulgaris L.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of the basal ganglia in the selection and control of sequential action

Supervisor: Malloch, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of the oospore in the population dynamics of Phytophthora infestans

Supervisor: Shattock, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of verbal cues in task-goal maintenance

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of vision in the preparation and execution of multiple target movements

Supervisor: Lawrence, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of visuo-spatial resources in object recognition

Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor), Leek, C. (Supervisor) & Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of working memory as the pathway to long-term memory |b electrophysiological investigation of encoding and retrieval processes

Supervisor: Boehm, S. (Supervisor) & Linden, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The rôle of transition metal-ions in organic layers : from scaffolds to electronic gates

Supervisor: Kalaji, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The sacred music of John Weldon (1676-1736)

Supervisor: Cunningham, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The self-reported needs of people with a long-term mental illness

Supervisor: Crosby, C. (Supervisor) & Evans, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The sensory and motor consequences of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Supervisor: Watt, S. (Supervisor) & Valyear, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The significance of enzymes in the biogeochemical functioning of constructed wetlands

Supervisor: Freeman, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The social capital of cathedral congregations : an individual differences approach

Supervisor: Francis, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The social construction of human beings and other animals in human-nonhuman relations : welfarism and rights, a contemporary sociological analysis

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The social work profession in the Czech Republic

Supervisor: Rees Jones, I. (External person) (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 social, cultural, and political impact of the British Military Administration on Libya, 1943-1951

Supervisor: Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The soul of St Davids: Mapping the spiritual quest of visitors to St Davids cathedral

Supervisor: Francis, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The spatiotemporal distribution of inhibition in visual attention

Supervisor: Houghton, G. (Supervisor) & Leek, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The stress of parenting a child with an intellectual disability: a longitudinal study of the impact of child factors and parental resources on positive and negative parental well-being

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The study of some phenomena observed with monochromatic X-ray beams.

Supervisor: Owen, E. A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The sublethal effects of chronic agrochemical exposure in the buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris audax)

Supervisor: Cross, P. (Supervisor) & Reynolds, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The symphonies of Robert Simpson

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The synthesis of dynamic combinatorial libraries of peptidomimetic receptors by alkene metathesis

Supervisor: Fletcher, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The synthesis of mycolic acids

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The synthesis of mycolic acids

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The synthesis of novel homochiral polymers derived from amino acids

Supervisor: North, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The synthesis of phosphine-based ligands and their application in Pd-catalysed processes in the production of polymethylmethacrylate

Supervisor: Butler, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The synthesis of substituted pyridines via aza-diels-alder reactions, using novel aza-dienes

Supervisor: Fletcher, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The theology of the Charismatic Movement in Britain from 1964 to the present day.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The time-course of attention orienting via observed gaze direction: facilitation, inhibition, and the effects of emotional expression

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The truth of the legend of successful criminal procedure reform in post-Saddam Iraq : a critical analysis of pre-trial rights in the light of international human rights law

Supervisor: Linton, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The undermining of the indemnity principle - a plea for a return to basics and the rediscovery of full indemnity in insurance law - a case study of Vietnam

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The underworld of agriculture and its economic implications

Supervisor: Bright, G. (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

The use of biogeochemical tags to determine the origins and movement patterns of fishes

Supervisor: McCarthy, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The use of constructed treatment wetlands for water quality amelioration in conservation scenarios

Supervisor: Fenner, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The use of effort rating scales to control exercise intensity in children

Supervisor: Eston, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The use of herd data to teach dairy cattle breeding in further and higher education colleges

Supervisor: Ap Dewi, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The use of instability as the dependent variable in the study of young children's spelling.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The use of motor imagery in the treatment of the hemiplegic hand in adults

Supervisor: Bracewell, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

The utility of benthic infaunal production for selecting marine protected areas in the Irish Sea

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The uxorial lifecycle and female agency in Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Supervisor: Pryce, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The views of Church in Wales clergy on Christian initiation : 1993-2003

Supervisor: Francis, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The vulnerability of red colobus monkeys to anthropogenic threats

Supervisor: Jones, J. (Supervisor), Georgiev, A. (Supervisor), Blount, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Davenport, T. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The water quality of the Ria Formosa lagoon, Portugal.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The winds of change? : A comparative study of community energy developments in Scotland and Wales

Supervisor: Griffiths, G. (Supervisor), McDonald, M. (Supervisor) & Parkhill, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The world is hard on women : Women and marriage in the novels of Wilkie Collins.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Theoretical and experimental investigations of optical OFDM for local and access networks

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Theoretical investigation of self-pulsating laser diodes for optical storage applications

Supervisor: Rees, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Theory applied to social healthcare systems to gain a better understanding of implementation of evidence A multi-method research project using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to explore complex causality when assuming the implementation of evidence context is a social complex adaptive system

Supervisor: Rycroft-Malone, J. (Supervisor) & Noyes, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Thermally stimulated current and electrokinetic investigations of HV cable models

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Thermocline Mixing in a Seasonally Stratified Shelf Sea

Supervisor: Rippeth, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Thermoregulation and mucosal immunity : the effects of environmental extremes

Supervisor: Oliver, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Thiophene substituted tetrathiafulvalenes and tetrathiafulvalene substituted polythiophenes

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

This is for the record: A case for video recording as part of a unified method of data collection for the academic study of PC games

Supervisor: Muse, E. (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

Three Essays on Financial Inclusion

Supervisor: Molyneux, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Three empirical essays on absenteeism.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Three essays on banking policy & government intervention in the US banking sector

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Three essays on the implications of internal capital markets for bank behaviour

Supervisor: Altunbas, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Tidal modulation of seabed light and its implications for Benthic Algae

Supervisor: Bowers, D. (Supervisor) & Davies, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Timeshare beds : a pluralistic evaluation of rota bed systems in continuing care hospitals.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Top-down and exogenous effects on covert and overt orienting

Supervisor: d'Avossa, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Topographic learning and memory in habitat selection by Lipophrys pholis L.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Topological Ideas in Inverse Semigroup Theory

Supervisor: Lawson, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Topological groupoids, measures and representations

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Topological groupoids: coverings and universal constructions

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Glossolalia

Supervisor: Thomas, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Sanctification

Supervisor: Thomas, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Toward a Unified Account of Metonymy

Supervisor: Evans, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Toward a pentecostal eschatology: discerning the way forward

Supervisor: Thomas, J. C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Toward a three-dimensional conceptualization of performance anxiety : conceptual model, measurement development and initial validations

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Towards a model of human body perception

Supervisor: Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Towards a new system of group hypnotherapy for adult obesity

Supervisor: Iphofen, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Towards a new understanding of the right of self-determination in the post-colonial context : the case of the Iraqi Kurdistan region

Supervisor: Linton, S. (Supervisor) & McDermott Rees, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Towards a science of human action: an investigation into the applicability of the "self-identification form" of Kelly's Rep. Test to selected areas of occupational, educational and medical description.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Towards an increasing honey production in Northern Uganda : a multi-perspective approach

Supervisor: Smagghe, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Cross, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Towards successful community mangrove management and rehabilitation

Supervisor: Rayment, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Towards sustainable fisheries management; addressing evidence-gaps in baited-pot fisheries in the Irish Sea

Supervisor: Jenkins, S. (Supervisor) & Bloor, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Trace elements and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners in Liverpool Bay sediments.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Traddodiad a newydd-deb yn nofelau Wiliam Owen Roberts

Supervisor: Price, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Traddodiadau a defodau Sipsiwn benywaidd Cymru o safbwynt gymharol, 1900-2021

Supervisor: Pollock, K. (Supervisor) & Rees, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Trade-offs in macroalgal chemical defences: battle of the sexes,invaders and consumers

Supervisor: Davies, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Trans-generational responses of gammarid amphipods to salinity change: energy budgets and life history traits.

Supervisor: Whiteley, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Transcendent Experience, Process, and Praxis Within the ‘Transcendence Movement’

Supervisor: Huskinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Transformation of peptides and amino acids in soil and plants

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor), Roberts, P. (Supervisor) & Murphy, D. V. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Transformational Leadership in Higher Education Research Supervision

Supervisor: Callow, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Transformational leadership in higher education lecturing

Supervisor: Callow, N. (Supervisor) & Hardy, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Transformations of the Merlin Legend in Late-Medieval England: Contextualizing Translation in Of Arthour and of Merlin, Henry Lovelich’s Merlin, and the Prose Merlin

Supervisor: Radulescu, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Translanguaging as a strategy to boost human learning : an event-related potential (ERP) investigation

Supervisor: Parkinson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Translating Caterina Edwards' The lion's mouth into Italian : an example of cultural translation in practice

Supervisor: Rorato, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Translating The Spanish Bestseller: Transnational Consecration in the Global Literary Market

Supervisor: Miranda-Barreiro, D. (Supervisor) & Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Translating evidence-based practice into an autism specific special school: Model, evaluation and outcomes

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor) & Hughes, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Translation and L2 Teaching: Tracing an Invisible Relationship in the Monolingual and Post-monolingual Teaching Context

Supervisor: Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Transplanting sorghum and pearl millet- a key to risk management in semi-arid areas

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Treatment of Cr (VI) effluents using electroprecipitation

Supervisor: Kalaji, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Tree crown pruning as a management tool to enhance the productivity of parklands in West Africa

Supervisor: Teklehaimanot, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Trees and indigenous ecological knowledge about agroforestry practices in the rangelands of Shinyanga Region, Tanzania.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Tri dramodydd cyfoes: Meic Povey, Siôn Eirian ac Aled jones Williams

Supervisor: Wiliams, G. (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

Trilingual Education in the Kam-Speaking Region of Guizhou: Policy, Praxis, and Perceptions

Supervisor: Smith, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Triple bottom line mission and Financial Performance in Egyptian SMEs: The role of CSR”

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Turbulence control of floc size in suspended particulate matter in the river estuary transition zone

Supervisor: Jago, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Turbulence control of the properties and flux of suspended matter in a tide-stirred shelf sea

Supervisor: Jago, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Turnover of S-containing amino acids (cysteine and methionine) in grassland soils and their availability to plants

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Twenty-nine short stories and threat, invasion and dread : the short story and the home

Supervisor: Gregson, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Twf a datblygiad ffuglen o fewn gwasg gyfnodol Gymraeg y ddeunawfed ganrif

Supervisor: Wiliams, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Two languages, one mind: How accent and lexical stress modulate bilingual language activation

Supervisor: Thierry, G. (Supervisor) & Foltz, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Two rhymed offices composed for the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary: comparative study and critical edition

Supervisor: Niebrzydowski, S. (Supervisor) & Vlhová-Wörner, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Two terminal organic nonvolatile memory devices

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Unbounded dependencies in Korean

Supervisor: Borsley, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Uncovering the Houdini of Value Literature: Extending the Conceptualisation and Operationalisation of Perceived Value Scale Using Goal-Relevance

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Underlying motives for activity: An agentic emotion regulation and attachment perspective.

Supervisor: Woodman, T. (Supervisor) & Roberts, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding Writing Difficulties Amongst Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Cases of Dyslexia and/or Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)

Supervisor: Caravolas, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding and improving the adoption of soil fertility interventions at the forest margin in Ghana

Supervisor: Sinclair, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Understanding medication adherence: Application of health psychology and behavioural economic theories

Supervisor: Hughes, D. (Supervisor) & Morrison, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding personal experiences of being smacked: An IPA study with young adults

Supervisor: Hargreaves, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding plant residue decomposition in shrubland ecosystem

Supervisor: Roberts, P. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding rule-breaking in conservation

Supervisor: St John, F. (Supervisor) & Jones, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the Holistic Development of Elite Performance in Olympic Weightlifting: A Machine Learning Approach

Supervisor: Lawrence, G. (Supervisor) & Gottwald, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the Influence of Wood Species on Resin Modification and Property Enhancement in Resin modified Wood.

Supervisor: Spear, M. (Supervisor) & Ormondroyd, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the Role of Wastewater in the Spread of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor), Chigor, V. N. (External person) (Supervisor), McDonald, J. (Supervisor), Williams, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jones, D. L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the humanistic interaction with medical imaging technology

Supervisor: Reeves, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the impacts of changing soil temperature, water irrigation source and fertiliser types on C and N cycling in arid soils

Supervisor: Roberts, P. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the role of plant-microbe symbiosis in the cycling of carbon in temperate forest ecosystems

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Union theorems for double groupoids and groupoids: some generalisations and applications

Supervisor: Brown, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Unravelling Map and Compass Cues in Bird Navigation

Supervisor: Holland, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Unsupervised Change Detection in Multivariate Streaming Data

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Use of Microwaves for Skin Lesion Treatment

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Use of novel chitosan derivatives for the control of food-borne pathogens

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Use of woodchip for agricultural livestock bedding

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Using GFP-constructs to study the endomembrane system of Aspergillus nidulans

Supervisor: Assinder, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Using evidence-based methods to support children ‘at risk’ of poor academic outcomes to develop their mathematics skills

Supervisor: Hughes, C. (Supervisor), Watkins, R. C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Beverley, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Using high-throughput sequencing to investigate microbial mechanisms underlying drought-driven carbon release from peatlands

Supervisor: Creer, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Using local informant data and boat-based surveys to improve knowledge on the status of the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica)

Supervisor: Jones, J. P. G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Using precision teaching strategies and tactics to increase essential skill fluency

Supervisor: Hughes, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Utilising Applied Behaviour Analysis in Schools for Pupils with Special Educational Needs: Applied Behaviour Analysis in Schools

Supervisor: Hoerger, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Utilising the grid for augmented reality

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

VLSI implementation of a spectral estimator for use with pulsed ultrasonic blood flow detectors.

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

Values and ethos of the eighth-century prophets: A mizo perspective

Supervisor: Davies, E. W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Values, management and contributions of the high altitude wetlands to local livelihoods

Supervisor: Young, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variability of CO2 Dynamics in Two Contrasting Shelf Sea Regimes on the NW European Shelf

Supervisor: Mitchelson-Jacob, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variation in aggressiveness and fungicide sensitivity in sexual and asexual progeny of Phytophthora infestans

Supervisor: Shattock, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variation in seed ecophysiology and temperature requirements for germination in Pinus Sylvestris

Supervisor: Cahalan, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variation of growth and reproduction in a marine bryozoan.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variations in subjective well-being : the role of psychological resilience in older age

Supervisor: Markland, D. (Supervisor) & Woods, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variations in the carbon isotope ratio of phytoplankton and dissolved inorganic carbon in the marine environment.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variations of alkalinity in the Northeast Atlantic

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vector trypanosome relationships

Supervisor: Lehane, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vegetation succession following the clearance of Rhododendron in the Vale of Ffestiniog.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vent mussel shells as indicators of environmental conditions at hydrothermal vents

Supervisor: Kennedy, H. (Supervisor), Clarke, L. (Supervisor), Richardson, C. (Supervisor) & Dando, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Verbal control of human operant behaviour.

Supervisor: Miles, T. R. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Verbal regulation of behaviour in children: Establishing effective dental care

Supervisor: Lowe, F. (Supervisor) & Horne, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vergence-accommodation conflicts and visual performance in stereoscopic 3-D imagery

Supervisor: Watt, S. (Supervisor) & Intriligator, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Veritas: : hanes a'r nofel ddirgelwch

Supervisor: Wiliams, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Verses Nature: Heterogeneity and Dialogism in the Novel

Supervisor: Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Virtual dissection of subcortical non-image forming visual pathways in the human brain with DTI tractography

Supervisor: Rafal, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visions of equality : women's rights and political change in 1970s Britain

Supervisor: Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual and spatial processes underpinning intentional action

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual cognition of complex object stimuli : the role of global and local processing

Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Raymond, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual control of an unmanned aerial vehicle for power line inspection

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual orienting to emotion

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual texture integration processes and the role of selective attention

Supervisor: Raymond, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual-haptic integration during tool use

Supervisor: Watt, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visualisation, optimisation and Machine Learning: Application in PET Reconstruction and Pea segmentation in MRI Images

Supervisor: Vidal, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vitamin D and exercise performance: Influence of simulated sunlight and oral supplementation

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vitellaria paradoxa in Uganda : population structures and reproductive characteristics

Supervisor: Hall, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vocabulary learning strategies : A case study of Sudanese learners of English.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wales in a global neighbourhood : perception of and reactions to local and global citizenship

Supervisor: Day, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Walking in the spirit: A study of Paul's teaching on the spirit and ethics in Galatians 5:13-6:10

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Walter of Evesham Abby and the intellectual milieu of fourteenth-century English music theory

Supervisor: Leitmeir, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

War in Virginia Woolf's fictional and non-fictional works

Supervisor: Brown, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Washed in the Spirit: Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Water Baptism

Supervisor: Thomas, J. (Supervisor) & Green, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Water and Solute Relations of Salt stressed Wheat and Annual Suaeda maritima

Supervisor: Tomos, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Water dynamics and use in coffee shaded with Tabebula rosea Bertol and Simarouba glauca D.C. compared to full sun coffee in sub optimal environmental condition for coffee cultivation

Supervisor: Brook, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Water quality in the culture of crustacean larvae and postlarvae : effects of microbial environment and use of closed recirculation systems

Supervisor: Jones, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Water relations of salt stressed wheat

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

Wave generated flow over sand ripples and the resulting entrainment and suspension of sediment.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

We Are Seven

Supervisor: Wilcox, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Welsh students at Oxford, Cambridge and the inns of court during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Welsh, English or British? Hugh Hughes and late sixteenth-century Anglesey

Supervisor: Powell, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

West African monetary unification : the case for a common currency.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

What is special about faces? Examining face-categorisation with event-related potential measures

Supervisor: Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

What works? a realist evaluation of the role of intermediaries in promoting best practice in infection prevention control

Supervisor: Rycroft-Malone, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

When what you want is not what you need

Supervisor: Harper, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Whole tree harvesting and wood ash recycling to forests : case studies in upland Sitka spruce in Wales

Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Why do they care? Using mixed methods to explore adult informal caregivers’ motivations and willingness to provide care

Supervisor: Morrison, V. (Supervisor), Seddon, D. (Supervisor), Dekel, R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Vilchinsky, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Why does Communication in Youth Justice Matter?

Supervisor: Feilzer, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Why does the environment matter? : an analysis of environmental and development ethics within the debate on sustainability and social justice

Supervisor: Cooper, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wild deer in Wales, their impact and management in agriculture, private forestry and woodlands managed for conservation in Wales

Supervisor: Edwards-Jones, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Will warming affect food web structure?

Supervisor: Jenkins, S. (Supervisor), Gimenez Noya, J. (Supervisor) & Davies, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Without aim: perception and naming

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

Words and bilingualism : neural and behavioural correlates of crosslinguistic influence in category structure

Supervisor: Gathercole, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Work to live : the function of prison labour in the Russian prison system.

Supervisor: King, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Work, Identity, Narrative: Reconstructing the Working Experiences of Italians in Wales (1880s – 1950s)

Supervisor: Miranda-Barreiro, D. (Supervisor) & Bergamini, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Workload and surgeons' speciality for outcomes after colorectal cancer surgery

Supervisor: Maddison, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Writers in conflict : a comparative study of Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Writing the Robinsonade Novel in Context of Globalism and Self-Enlightenment: E Pluribus Unum

Supervisor: Conran, A. (Supervisor) & Durrant, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wyn Roberts: The Blue Dragon?: Conservatism, Welsh Patriotism and North Wales c. 1970s- 1990s.

Supervisor: Mann, R. (Supervisor) & Wiliam, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wyneb yn wyneb Hunaniaethau llenyddol Cymraeg a Chymreig yn erbyn cefndir refferenda 1979 a 1997

Supervisor: Davies, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Y Cymro 1932-45: Hanes sefydlu Y Cymro, ei ddatblygiad a'i gynnwys hyd ddiwedd yr ail ryfel byd.

Supervisor: Jones, D. G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Supervisor: Davies, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Y Gymraeg o fewn y byd digidol: Profiadau ac agweddau siaradwyr Cymraeg yng Ngwynedd o ddefnyddio apiau Cymraeg neu ddwyieithog

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Y Tylwyth Teg. An Analysis of a Literary Motif.

Supervisor: Jones, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ymchwilio Addysg Ddwyieithog yn Ysgolion Cymru: Amrywiaeth Caleidosgopig

Supervisor: Thomas, E. (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

Ynys: Portffolio a dadansoddiad o broses greadigol

Supervisor: Price, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Yr Awdurdodaeth Gymreig: Dadansoddiad o Ddatblygiad a Chyfraniad Tribiwnlysoedd Cymreig i Awdurdodaeth Gyfreithiol ar wahân i Gymru

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Yr awen ddemocrateiddiol : agweddau ar waith Gwyn Thomas, 1962-2010

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Yr iaith Gymraeg a Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin

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

c.G. Jung's reception of Picasso and abstract art

Supervisor: Huskinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

he Arabidopsis extensin gene at Ext1: studies on protein function and gene regulation

Supervisor: Shirsat, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

he effect of observing averted gaze on attention: object-based effects and individual differences.

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor) & Di Pellegrino, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

risk-e The risk management pathway, an e-learning tool for healthcare professionals.

Supervisor: Roberts, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ælfric's Old English Admonition to a spiritual son : an edition

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

‘Agricultural policy change and the sustainability of farming in the uplands’

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

‘Game Changers’: Discriminating Features within the Microstructure of Practice and Developmental Histories of Super-Elite Cricketers - a Pattern Recognition Approach

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor), Lawrence, G. (Supervisor) & Brandon, R. (External person) (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

‘Sche evyr desyryd mor and mor’: The appropriation of mercantile language and practice in fifteenth to seventeenth-century English women’s writing

Supervisor: Niebrzydowski, S. (Supervisor) & Wilcox, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

‘The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter’: William Sharp and the Literary Network

Supervisor: Durrant, M. (Supervisor) & Koehler, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Contextual Behavioural Perspective on Substance Use Disorder

Supervisor: Hogan, L. (Supervisor) & Jackson, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

A brief cognitive therapy intervention to reduce the fear of falling and enhance daily living amongst older adults undergoing rehabilitation after hip fracture.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

A feasibility study to explore the potential benefit of a cognitive therapy treatment approach for depression with individuals fulfilling ICD-10 criteria for dementia : a case study approach.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

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

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

A qualitative study of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for relapse prevention of mood disorder.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

A study of the multiple ways in which adolescent boys talked about their admissions to a regional adolescent unit.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Academic Transformation or Accommodating Students' Needs: Responding to Internationalisation at one UK University

Supervisor: Ware, D. J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Kyffin, D. F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Accessing Support: Young People's Mental Health

Supervisor: Saville, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Acquired brain injury: Psychological sequelae and holistic approaches to intervention

Supervisor: Coetzer, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Acquired brain injury, violence, and anti-social behaviour: Disentangling cause and effect

Supervisor: Coetzer, R. (Supervisor), Saville, C. (Supervisor) & Byrne, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates