Theses

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

Measuring parental language in flying start areas in Wales

Supervisor: Hutchings, J. (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

The psychological underpinnings of diabetes-management for young people : an examination of relevant literature and lived experiences

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Patient preferences in the delivery of cancer genetic services

Supervisor: Edwards, R. T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Climate-driven changes in the recruitment success of marine invertebrates: the role of food supply and temperature

Supervisor: Gimenez Noya, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Experiences and Perceptions of Frequently Overlooked Groups in Mental Health Contexts

Supervisor: Jackson, D. M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Saville, D. C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Psychoeducational learning: a qualitative study

Supervisor: Young, N. (Supervisor) & Thomas, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Adjustment and well-being among parents of children and adults with intellectual disabihties : Aetiology and behavioural phenotypes

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Evaluating the Incredible Years Toddler Programme in disadvantaged areas of Wales

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Chemosensitivity and Perception of Effort before and after loading of respiratory and locomotor systems

Supervisor: Owen, J. (Supervisor) & Kubis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The nature of remotely-sensed surface turbidity in U.K. and Atlantic French Waters

Supervisor: Bowers, 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

Verbal regulation of behaviour in children: Establishing effective dental care

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Unravelling Map and Compass Cues in Bird Navigation

Supervisor: Holland, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An invitation to listen: exploring engagement in technologically mediated music. A portfolio of compositions

Supervisor: Lewis, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Long term negative priming and inhibition of return : episodic retrieval of inhibitory states

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Design and analysis of adaptively modulated optical orthogonal frequency division multiple access multiband passive optical networks

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor) & Shore, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Diverse approaches to modelling conformations of mycolic acids from Myobactrium tuberculosis

Supervisor: Croft, A. (Supervisor)

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

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

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

An ecological study of Chaetogaster limnaei( von Baer)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Aluminium tolerance in Brachiaria decumbens and Brachiaria ruzizenis

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

El Niño-induced upwelling variability in the central tropical Pacific Ocean.

Supervisor: Green, M. (Supervisor) & Williams, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

The population biology of Littorina obtusata (L) (Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata).

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Biotic and abiotic control of microbial community structure and activity in forest soils

Supervisor: Jones, D. L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rational design and delivery of peptide drugs

Supervisor: Payne, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Born to throw, climb, squat AND run. Biomechanical evolution within the human lineage and its inference for health and fitness

Supervisor: Winder, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

A behavioural analysis of rapid word learning in infants

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Amperometric biosensors for the detection of explosives

Supervisor: Kalaji, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

'Segur fydd y cŷn a'r morthwyl mwy' : dehongli portreadau o'r bröydd chwarelyddol ers 1972

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Bioreduction : an alternative strategy for storing fallen stock prior to disposal

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Developing Core Outcome Sets for Pleural Interventional Trials

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

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Synthetic Lipid Antigens for the Detection of Tuberculosis via ELISA and Novel Point-of-Care Flow-Through Assay

Supervisor: Gwenin, C. (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

Exploring the interface between emotion and cognition

Supervisor: Mills, D. (Supervisor) & Bentall, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Social skills in adolescents with autism : testing the specificity of the deficit, and development of a DVD training intervention

Supervisor: Jones, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An investigation examining the effects of specificity within the construct of anxiety on planning and execution of movement

Supervisor: Lawrence, G. (Supervisor)

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

Mechanisms of fatigue: Determinants of observational effort judgement of exercising individuals

Supervisor: Kubis, H. (Supervisor) & Moore, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

The human oncogenic germline gene TEX19 regulates cancer cell proliferation, histone dynamics and stem cells-like characteristics

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Effect of slate quarrying on the Barlwyd catchment and remediation strategies

Supervisor: Roberts, P. (Supervisor) & Bird, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An integrated meteorological / hydrological model for the Mawddach catchment, North Wales

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mother-Child Relationships and :Maternal Expressed Emotion in Families of Children with Autism

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

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

'You don't know what we're really like' : a profile of young people's values

Supervisor: Francis, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Resilience, Behavioural Problems and Well-being in Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and their Families.

Supervisor: Griffith, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Determining the effects of anthropogenic drainage structures on inanga (Galaxias maculatus) in the lowland waterways of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.

Supervisor: Fenner, N. (Supervisor), Milner, N. (Supervisor) & Fake, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Synthesis of mycobacterial cord factors and related compounds

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The development and settlement of certain marine tubeworm (Serpulidae and Spirorbidae) larvae in response to biofilms

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Characteristics of cultivated Calamus Manan grown under rubber tree canopy and the properties of acetylated rattan

Supervisor: Hale, M. (Supervisor) & Hill, C. (Supervisor)

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

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

Supervisor: Leitmeir, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Indigenous women in Gaul, Britannia, Germania and Celtic Hispania, 400 BC – AD 235

Supervisor: Karl, R. (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

The teddy bear's picnic : a study comparing 5 year old children's responses to a new narrative measure, with parent and teacher rated psychological problems and global concern.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Borders of the Self, Borders of Nations: An Exploration of Bordering Representations in Contemporary Welsh and Scottish Literature

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Deprivation, social capital and mental health: the influence of connection and its disruption through churn

Supervisor: Oakley, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

The Formation and Influence of Pwyllgor Diogelu Diwylliant Cymru and Undeb Cymru Fydd: Language and Cultural Preservation in Wales, c.1939-50

Supervisor: Edwards, A. (Supervisor) & Wiliam, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Computational simulations of thermally activated magnetisation dynamics at high frequencies

Supervisor: Chantrell, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Tear secretory IgA: a non-invasive biomarker of mucosal immune competence

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Development of a Continuous Hot Embossing System for Multifunctional Surface Structures

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Seasonal changes in the plankton of inshore waters: with special reference to the life history of certate copepods

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interspecific Differences in Treefrog Response to Artificial Light at Night and Spectral Manipulation

Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

The voice of instruments:The influence of vocal idioms in the works for solo strings and orchestra by Max Bruch

Supervisor: Leitmeir, C. (Supervisor), Collins, C. (Supervisor) & Schmidt, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master of Philosophy

Increasing physical activity in children

Supervisor: Horne, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The impact of anthropogenic and natural stresses on the coral reefs of Rodrigues, Western Indian Ocean

Supervisor: Turner, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Topological groupoids: coverings and universal constructions

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Developing excellence in outdoor provision: Enhancing training pathways for outdoor qualifications

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the implementation of National Guidelines relating to the diagnosis of asthma within two primary care clusters in North Wales: A Case Study Design

Supervisor: Brocklehurst, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Dimension and hierarchy in the description of psychological disorder

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparison between optical properties measured in the field and the laboratory, and the development of an optical model.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Estimating the cost-utility associated with multi-gene panel testing to avoid adverse drug reactions

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

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Improved procedures for the transport and storage of fruit and vegetables

Supervisor: Tomos, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Synthesis of Biologically Active Guanidines

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physiological stressors : the effects of sleep disruption, energy restriction and prolonged exercise on thermoregulation and immune function

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (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

The toxins that time forgot: Characterisation of marine toxins with emphasis on the neglected status of marine toxinology.

Supervisor: Mulley, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Naming, gesture, and categorisation in young children

Supervisor: Horne, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Assessing the Utility of Aqueous eDNA for Invertebrate Biodiversity Assessment in Reens and Ditches.

Supervisor: Creer, S. (Supervisor), Ellison, A. (Supervisor) & Perry, W. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Response of Benthic Fauna to Merchant Vessel Anchoring in the Point Lynas Anchorage, Anglesey

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

The Influence of Vitamin D, Psychosocial Factors and Sleep on Upper Respiratory Tract Infection and Mucosal Immunity

Supervisor: Roberts, R. (Supervisor) & Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Medieval and modern new towns : a comparative study.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A multiple method approach to economic evaluation in public health: yoga for managing musculoskeletal conditions in the workplace

Supervisor: Edwards, R. T. (Supervisor) & Phillips, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The impact of environmental cues in a corporate environment

Supervisor: Intriligator, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Talent Development in Elite Youth Football

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

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

Developing techniques for mass spectrometry-based detection of oxidative DNA and nucleotide damage

Supervisor: Hartsuiker, E. (Supervisor), Staples, C. (Supervisor) & Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Control of the postreinforcement pause in the continuous reinforcement schedule.

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Temporal orientation of behaviour.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Coastal and shelf sea hydro-morphodynamic modelling using process-based and data-based techniques

Supervisor: Neill, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fearest Enden: Including: Fearest Enden, a fantasy novel: Saviors, Scapegoats & Sacred Trees: A Critical Discussion

Supervisor: Gregson, I. (Supervisor), Wilcox, H. (Supervisor) & Rumens, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Apology Strategies in Central Kurdish with Reference to English: An Empirical Study in Socio-Pragmatics

Supervisor: Thomas, J. (Supervisor) & Luchjenbroers, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The relationship between pension funds and dividend payout : evidence from UK firms

Supervisor: Hodgkinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Strategic Thinking, Organizational Foresight, and Strategic Planning in High-tech SMEs in the UK

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Behind enemy lines: investigating suppression & coexistence between sympatric carnivores in Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

Supervisor: Hayward, M. W. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jones, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Educators' epistemological beliefs and their approaches to teaching

Supervisor: Baker, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The potential of a seismic flowmeter for mountain streams

Supervisor: Bennell, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy