Theses

Understanding the humanistic interaction with medical imaging technology

Supervisor: Reeves, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Application of model based predictive control to a pumped storage hydroelectric plant

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variations of alkalinity in the Northeast Atlantic

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

State anxiety, conscious processing and motor performance.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A transtheoretical approach to exercise : self-determination, stages of change, processes of change and personal construction of exercise.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Developing a Planning Tool for Heritage Interpretation

Supervisor: Pierce, S. (Supervisor) & Lane, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Some aspects of gerundials and infinitivals in English

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Bank Competition, Monetary Policy Transmission, and Financial Stability in the U.S.

Supervisor: Goddard, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The moderating and mediating effect of the environmental management control systems on environmental performance : the case of Malaysian hotel sector

Supervisor: Lane, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Herrschaft in Gallien: Studien zur Entwicklung der Keltischen Herrschaftsfroment im Vorromischen Gallien

Supervisor: Waddington, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Cognitive Function and Wellbeing of People with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Refugees with PTSD

Supervisor: Bracewell, R. (Supervisor) & Coetzer, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Serious mental illness and wellbeing: An exploration of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and interventions to improve social functioning

Supervisor: Jackson, M. (Supervisor) & Owen, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Response selection processes under 'free choice' task conditions

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Contrastive and error analysis : a case study

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Size-spectra of reef fish assemblages within distinct coral habitats, before and after a mass coral bleaching event

Supervisor: Richardson, L. (Supervisor), Williams, G. (Supervisor) & Robinson, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

The interdependency between motor programming and movement integration in multiple target aiming

Supervisor: Khan, M. (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

The Role of Cognitive Challenges in Endurance Performance and Recovery

Supervisor: Blanchfield, A. (Supervisor), Cooke, A. (Supervisor) & Hardy, J. (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

Higher Dimensional Algebroids and Crossed Complexes

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The perceptions of teacher educators, senior mentors and trainee teachers on effective initial teacher education in North and Mid-Wales

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor) & Jones, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master of Philosophy

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An interdisciplinary understanding of coastal resource collection in Wales

Supervisor: Jenkins, S. (Supervisor) & St John, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The psychology of information selection and reasoning

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

Electrical and spectral characterisation of inkjet printed poly(3,4-ethtylenedioxythiophene) : poly(4-styrenesulphonate)

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self-concept: alternative perspectives and clinical applications

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stimulus equivalence and developmental dyslexia

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Inhibition of return is mediated by object identity

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The impact of a structured life review process on people with memory problems living in care homes.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Sustainability of craft beer produced in Wales

Supervisor: Lane, E. (Supervisor) & Styles, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The invasion potential of the non-native Chilean oyster (Ostrea chilensis Philippi 1845) in the Menai Strait (North Wales, UK) : present observations and future predictions

Supervisor: Richardson, C. (Supervisor)

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

Hanes Geiriaduraeth yng Nghymru o 1547 hyd 1914 : gyda sylw arbennig i ddylanwad John Walters a William Owen Pughe ar eiriadurwyr 1805-1850

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical receiver design and optimisation for multi-gigahertz applications

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

Beyond carbon accounting: A landscape perspective on measuring and monitoring tropical forest degradation

Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor) & Klein, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Health Economics and Motor Neurone Disease: Evidence for health technology assessments

Supervisor: Hughes, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Graphs of groups: word computations and free crossed resolutions

Supervisor: Brown, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Shift-Free Wide-Angle Metamaterial Narrowband Filters for Anti-Laser Striking Applications

Supervisor: Wang, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Assessment of marine recreational fisheries using: social media, fisheries dependent data and image analysis

Supervisor: Kaiser, M. (Supervisor), Vidal, F. P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Hyder, K. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Behavioural disturbance in residential care for the elderly mentally ill: the challenge for staff

Supervisor: Woods, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Keratin from Human hair and Sheep wool: Characterisation and its uses in the Fabrication of Hydrogels

Supervisor: Tai, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master of Philosophy

Athlete monitoring in rugby union: inter- and intra-week associations of objective and subjective training markers with load during an entire Rugby Union Season.

Supervisor: Owen, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Structure and performance in European banking

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

Bank efficiency, competition and the Southeast Asian financial crisis

Supervisor: Casu, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multivariate statistical analyses in lipid biomarker studies

Supervisor: Mudge, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Long-term effects of bank privatisation on performance and bank business models

Supervisor: Williams, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel di- and multitopic hydroxamate ligands towards discrete and extended network complexes

Supervisor: Jones, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Approaches to methylcyclopropanes and a new route to methylenecyclopropanes

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The generic modification of enzymes towards an anti-cancer prodrug activation system

Supervisor: Gwenin, C. (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

Micronutrient studies on cotton growth on Syrian calcareous soils.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Agreement in relative clauses and the theory of phrase structure : a study of Standard Arabic

Supervisor: Macdonald, P. (Supervisor) & Deuchar, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Empirical essays on short selling

Supervisor: Jaafar, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The acquisition of the Arabic gender and number systems

Supervisor: Gathercole, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical remote sensing of sediments and phytoplankton pigments in an estuary: towards retrieving CDOM and salinity

Supervisor: Bowers, D. (Supervisor) & Thomas, D. (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

Effect of climate variability and extreme events on microbial activity in soils

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor) & Hill, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Extraction of Frankincense Resins

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

AC electrokinetic bioassays: development of electrorotation assay for detection of viable and non-viable bacteria and macromolecules

Supervisor: Bone, S. (Supervisor) & Pethig, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors affecting the enhancement of Acacia hybrid particleboard

Supervisor: Hale, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Control of pathogenic bacteria in marine larval culture systems

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of bio-inoculants on phosphorous relations of barley

Supervisor: Brook, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Discovering the big other : modernisation, otherness, and the nation in early twentieth-century Spanish New York narratives

Supervisor: Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neuromuscular performance and exercise stress associated with the stabilisation of synovial joints

Supervisor: Gleeson, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies on plant-animal interactions : Terrestrial molluscs and their food plants.

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

Molecular studies using the Aspergillu nidulans a-COP homologue

Supervisor: Assinder, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The drivers of soil organic matter turnover across spatial scales and the effect of climate change on gaseous losses of C and N from heathland systems

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigations into low band-gap, semiconducting polymers

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An experimental analysis of the momentary DRO schedule

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The effect of inter-stimulus competition on visual short-term memory capacity.

Supervisor: Shapiro, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The precise release time of crustacean hyperglycaemic hormone (CHH) in response to environmental stressors in the shore crab Carcinus maenas

Supervisor: Webster, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

The ecology and management of traditional homegardens in Bangladesh.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Advanced Virtual Environment for Rugby Skills Training

Supervisor: John, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A behaviourist approach to pyscho-analysis

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The metousiastics of culture : European relativism in literature and cinema

Supervisor: Rorato, L. (Supervisor) & Bushell, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Development of attention to social interactions in naturalistic scenes

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Circulation, mixing and renewal in the Clyde Sea

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

Identification of novel MARK3 substrates and upstream regulators

Supervisor: Muller, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The music of the fiddler in eighteenth-century Wales: a study of the manuscript of John Thomas

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A molecular modelling study of electron trapping in polythylene

Supervisor: Quirke, N. (Supervisor)

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 adaption of Herge's The Adventures of tintin in the Arab world

Supervisor: Price, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The obfuscation hypothesis re-examined : analyzing impression management in corporate narrative report documents

Supervisor: Mcleay, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The physiological ecology of the phase polymorphism in the African armyworm moth, Spodoptera exempta (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The effects of restoration on biodiversity, water quality and greenhouse gas fluxes in a rich fen peatland

Supervisor: Fenner, N. (Supervisor), Pullin, A. (Supervisor), Jones, L. (External person) (Supervisor) & Evans, C. (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

Exploring and Explaining the Role of Boundary Objects in Implementation through the National Institute of Health Research’s Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRCs)

Supervisor: Rycroft-Malone, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Process of Scaling an Early Childhood Development Parenting Programme by Integrating into Primary Health Care Services in Bangladesh

Supervisor: Henningham, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Synthesis and Applications of Proline Derived Guanidine Catalysts in Asymmetric Michael Addition Reactions

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Watermass Transformations near the Tip of the Antarctic Peninsula

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Imagery and the Mental Manipulation of Knots

Supervisor: Baker, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Behavioural responses of the shore crab Carcinus maenus to salinity variation.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Toward a pentecostal eschatology: discerning the way forward

Supervisor: Thomas, J. C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy