Theses

Moving on together: what makes a successful transition into adulthood for young disabled people (14-25 years of age)?

Supervisor: Noyes, J. (Supervisor) & Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multidisciplinary approach to support the design of a local policy of payment for hydrological ecosystem services, in a microwatershed located in northern Veracruz Mexico

Supervisor: McDonald, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multilocus phylogeography and species delimitation in the widespread African puff adder (Bitis arietans), and the systematics of the genus Bitis

Supervisor: Wüster, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multiples of the same : a semiotic study of Steve Reich's Counterpoint series

Supervisor: Collins, C. (Supervisor) & ap Sion, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multivariate analysis and survival analysis with application to company failure.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multivariate statistical analyses in lipid biomarker studies

Supervisor: Mudge, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Muscle function after exercise-induced muscle damage

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Music in the blood & Poetry in the soul? National identity in the life and music of Grace Williams

Supervisor: Thomas, W. (Supervisor) & Schmidt-Beste, T. C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Muslims and crime : a comparative criminological study of South Asian Muslims in Britain and Pakistan

Supervisor: Wardhaugh, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mussel assemblages as biomonitors of anthropogenic disturbance in estuarine environments

Supervisor: Seed, R. (Supervisor) & Mudge, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mutagenesis, spectroscopic and crystallographic studies of recombinant cytochrome c' from Alcaligenes xylosoxidans

Supervisor: Murphy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mutual fund performance : evidence of stock selection and market timing ability from Islamic mutual funds

Supervisor: Molyneux, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

My mother's handbag: : questioning categorisation in English literary canonisation

Supervisor: Gregson, I. (Supervisor) & Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mynd: A Sonic Representation of a Seemingly Quiet and Vast Landscape - Its Ecology, Geology, Past and Present Histories.

Supervisor: Puw, G. (Supervisor) & Lewis, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

NEXAFS Spectroscopy Studies of Polymer Nanocomposites

Supervisor: Campo, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

NMR studies of borate and silicate systems involving Na / TAA cations.

Supervisor: Beckett, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nada Brahman: Pandit Pran Nath and La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Rhys Chatham and Michael Harrison

Supervisor: ap Sion, P. (Supervisor) & Cunningham, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Naming and categorisation in pre-school infants

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Naming and generalisation of behaviour in infants

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Naming and levels of categorisation in young children

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Naming, gesture, and categorisation in young children

Supervisor: Horne, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nanofabrication approaches for Group IV Photonic MEMS devices

Supervisor: Nezhad, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Narration in the Screenplay Text

Supervisor: Price, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Narratives of Belonging: Experiences of Learning and Using Welsh of Adult “New Speakers” in North West Wales

Supervisor: Davis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Natural regeneration and bark production in Prunus Africana (Hook.F.) Kalkman (Rosaceae) and its sustainable utilization and conservation in Kenya

Supervisor: Hall, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Natural regeneration models for Sitka spruce and other conifers in continuous cover forestry

Supervisor: Gibbons, J. (Supervisor) & Cahalan, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Natural variations in the zooxanthellae of temperate symbiotic Anthozoa.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nature and magic: rediscovering connections - a portfolio of compositions

Supervisor: Lewis, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neoliberalism and accounting in everyday relational practices: The effects of the UK tax credits system on the financial hardship of claimants

Supervisor: Merkl-Davies, D. (Supervisor) & Bartels, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nestling begging in Southern Grey Shrikes

Supervisor: Wright, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Network-state dependent effects in naming and learning

Supervisor: Tainturier, M. (Supervisor) & Mullins, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neural and mechanical factors associated with exercise-induced muscle damage and the repeated bout effect.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neuroanatomical and perceptual deficits in auditory agnosia : a study of an auditory agnosia patient with inferior colliculus damage

Supervisor: Rafal, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neurocognitive Processes Underpinning Different Aspects of Mental Robustness in British Military Personnel

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neurocognitive investigation of objectin-scene representations

Supervisor: Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neurocognitive study of mindfulness with primary school pupils

Supervisor: Dorjee, D. (Supervisor) & Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neuroimaging of Chronic Pain

Supervisor: Mullins, P. (Supervisor) & Jones, J. (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

Neuropsychology of Motivated Forgetting

Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Bracewell, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

New Directions in Team Resilience

Supervisor: Beattie, S. (Supervisor) & Hardy, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

New Impulses for Disability Studies: Bringing Together the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory, Foucault’s Theory of Power, and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Feminism as Responses to the Postmodern Critique of the Social Model of Disability

Supervisor: Stoetzler, M. (Supervisor) & Davies, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

New Voice : the patterns and provisions for girl choristers in the English cathedral choirs

Supervisor: Collins, C. (Supervisor) & Harper, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

New reactions relating to Lewis acidic properties of borate esters

Supervisor: Beckett, M. A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

New roles of S.pombe Casein kinase 1 epsilon (Hhp1) in DNA replicatation stress

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Newfrontiers church planting in the UK: an examination of their distinctves and practices

Supervisor: Kay, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

News in Late-Seventeenth Century Britain

Supervisor: Claydon, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nid trwy sbectol y sais y dylai Cymro edrych ar wlad ddieithe: astudiaeth o gyfieithiadau T. Hudson-Williams o'r rwseg i'r Gymraeg

Supervisor: Price, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nietzsche's Will To Power: A Naturalistic Account of Metaethics Based on Evolutionary Principles and Thermodynamic Laws

Supervisor: Huskinson, L. (Supervisor) & Betenson, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nimby, network or social movement? individual and collective opposition to windfarms

Supervisor: Day, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nitrogen donor complexes of molybdenum and tungsten and new routes to bis-1,2 & tris-1,2,3 substituted ferrocenes

Supervisor: Butler, I. (Supervisor) & Baker, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nitrogen dynamics in boreal forests

Supervisor: DeLuca, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

No-take or no way: The case for a no-take policy along the Cocos-Galapagos Swimway: Critical analysis of published works

Supervisor: Turner, J. (Supervisor) & McCarthy, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Non-invasive techniques for studying behavioural mechanisms and physiological states of marine invertebrates

Supervisor: Hughes, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Noncommutative involutive bases

Supervisor: Wensley, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nonlinear Dynamics of Discrete Mode Lasers and Applications

Supervisor: Hong, Y. (Supervisor) & Spencer, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Normative and practical recommendations toward improved judicial independence in contemporary Iraq: The question of embedding judicial independence

Supervisor: Nason, S. (Supervisor) & Mawhinney, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Norovirus contamination of Mytilus edulis shellfisheries : assessing the threat to human health

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Not Just the Usual Suspects: Designing a new method for public consultation

Supervisor: Calder, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Doloriert, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Note taking in English lectures: A study of Omani EFL university students

Supervisor: Williams, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel Isoforms and Functions of the S.pombe Rad9 Checkpoint Protein

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Devices Delivering Microwave and RF Energy for Smart Surgery

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Novel Methods of Microplastic Identification and Mitigation in Water

Supervisor: Dunn, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Novel Roles of the Circadian Clock Protein Neuronal PAS Domain Protein 2 (NPAS2) in the Response to Oxidative andHeat Stress

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel Variants of the DNA Damage Checkpoint Protein Cds1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel Variants of the DNA Damage Checkpoint Protein Hus1 in Fission Yeast and Human Cells

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel bio-active fatty acids

Supervisor: Baird, M. (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

Novel dielectrophoretic techniques for the manipulation of bio-particles

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel insights into heat acclimation by post-exercise hot water immersion

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel isoforms and functions of the S. pombe Rad9 checkpoint protein

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel roles of the Canadian clock protein neuronal PAS domain protein 2 (NPAS2) in the response to oxidative and heat stress

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nucleotide excision repair-independent functions of the XPG homologue Rad13 of fission yeast

Supervisor: Fleck, O. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nutritional studies on fish and crustacean larvae

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

O'r sect i'r enwad datblygiad enwadau ymneilltuol Cymru, 1840-1870.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Object representations in the human brain: a functional MRI survey

Supervisor: Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Object- and location-based forms of representation in inhibition of return.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Object-based representations facilitate memory for inhibitory processes

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Observations and modelling of the western Irish Sea gyre

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Oes modd ail-greu rhyngweithio dosbarth cyfathrebol Cymraeg i Oedolion drwy ddulliau digidol i gefnogi cywirdeb ac ynganiad iaith dysgwyr ar lefel dechreuwyr cwrs Mynediad (A1)?

Supervisor: Thomas, E. (Supervisor) & Cooper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Older people and end of life choices : an exploration of the options and related discourses

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Olfactory stimuli and social behaviour in the guinea pig

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Olympic trials

Supervisor: Gregson, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On books that sell 192-book study of the American YA fiction market showing particularly strong audience resonance in matters of race, gender and moral identity

Supervisor: Harper, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On the Nature of Moral Judgements

Supervisor: Betenson, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

On the banking capital in Europe and its relationship with risk and efficiency.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On the equivalence of brains and machines: consistency and determinism in first-order logic machines

Supervisor: Betenson, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

On the lexical representation and selection of written words in proficient Welsh-English bilinguals: A behavioural and fMRI investigation

Supervisor: Tainturier, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On the mechanical properties of bast fibre reinforced thermosetting polymer matrix composites.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On the normal use of oculomotor reflexes

Supervisor: Rafal, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On-site Wastewater Treatment Systems as Sources of Phosphorus and other Pollutants in Rural Catchments: Characteristics and Tracing Approaches

Supervisor: Withers, P. (Supervisor) & Stutter, M. I. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

One generation and two different age groups on arrival: Arabic-English code-switching in the conversations of Iraqi Arabic male immigrants living in Greater Manchester

Supervisor: Webb-Davies, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Operational Ocean Modelling: a Critical Evaluation of Published Works

Supervisor: Bowers, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical Effects on the Dynamical Properties of Semiconductor Laser Devices and Their Applications

Supervisor: Hong, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical Measurements of Suspended Sediments

Supervisor: Bowers, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical OFDM with Multiple Information-carrying Dimensions for Elastic Access Networks

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor) & Giddings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical effects on the spectral, dynamical and noise properties of semiconductor laser devices

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical pulse generation using an optically injected Nd:YVO4 laser

Supervisor: Shore, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical receiver design and optimisation for multi-gigahertz applications

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

Optimal operating conditions and security considerations for optical chaos communications

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy