Theses

An Advanced Virtual Environment for Rugby Skills Training

Supervisor: John, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Analysis of Country Houses Interpretation in Wales

Supervisor: Evans, S. (Supervisor) & Pollock, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Analysis of Wetland Habitat Restoration and Biodiversity

Supervisor: Dunn, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

An Evaluation of the Incredible Years School Readiness Parenting Programme Delivered in Welsh Schools

Supervisor: Hutchings, J. (Supervisor) & Bywater, T. J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Exploration of Homelessness and Mental Health

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

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An Exploration of the Role Social Class has in Clinical Psychology Training and for Adults Engaging with Psychological Therapies in the UK.

Supervisor: Saville, C. (Supervisor) & Crew, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An Exploration of the potential markers of literacy difficulties in Welsh-English Bilinguals

Supervisor: Thomas, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Integrated Low-Cost Agent-Based Environment for Simulating And Validating the Design of Interesting Behaviours for Robots

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor) & Ritsos, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An International Criminal Framework to Prosecute the Legacy of Forced Internal Displacement in Iraq

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Investigation into How the Expanded Core Curriculum is Conceptualised and Implemented in the Vision Impairment Field for Female Students in the Saudi Arabian Educational System and How Its Implementation Relates to Teachers’ Professional Background and Training

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor) & Douglas, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Investigation of Implementation within the UK Radiography Profession

Supervisor: Burton, C. (Supervisor) & Williams, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An assessment of the contribution of Sir Hugh Owen to education in Wales

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An ecological study of Chaetogaster limnaei( von Baer)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An economic appraisal of forestry and the forest industries of Greece 1950-1990.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An economic approach to assessing the value of recreation with special reference to forest areas.

Supervisor: Price, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An economic evaluation of a value added tax for Greece

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An economic evaluation of agroforestry, forestry and agriculture projects in Orissa, India : with particular reference to financial profitability and basic needs fulfilment.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An empirical investigation of factors affecting corporate tax avoidance strategies for public listed companies in Malaysia

Supervisor: Hodgkinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An empirical study into the effectiveness of performance management in the United Kingdom public sector

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An empirical study of stream-based techniques for text categorization

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An empowerment evaluation using a critical ethnographic approach to examine the development of an empowerment education programme in Romania

Supervisor: Poland, F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An evaluation of adopting or excluding suggested prayers of response in evangelistic literature used by British Christians with particular reference to authorial intention

Supervisor: Sainsbury, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An evaluation of disciplinary guarantees of public employees in Libyan law

Supervisor: Cahill, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An evaluation of marriage-divorce-remarriage issues among Ghanaian Christian migrants as blamed on the radical impact of western and African cultural clashes in the UK

Supervisor: Routledge, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An evaluation of perennial mobile green manures for climate change mitigation in agriculture

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An evaluation of the Seren Programme for prospective medical school applicants: Mapping impact, sustainability and growth.

Supervisor: Williams, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

An evaluation of the effectiveness of Cymraeg bob dydd across the curriculum in English-Medium schools in North Wales

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An evaluation of two brief interventions aimed at reducing college students' alcohol use.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An evaluation study to investigate recruitment into social prescribing interventions and explore the skills sets of Link Workers in dealing with complex case referrals.

Supervisor: Lynch, M. (Supervisor) & Spencer, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

An examination of some leading motifs in the prophetic oracles against foreign nations

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An examination of the "Jewish Conspiracy Theory" from its inception to the present day.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An examination of the adequacy of the Libyan Penal Code to deal with credit and debit card forgery

Supervisor: Cahill, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An examination of the precise nature of ironic performance breakdown

Supervisor: Woodman, T. (Supervisor) & Cooke, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An experimental analysis of the momentary DRO schedule

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An experimental study on the migration of the African armyworm moth, Spodoptera exempta (Walker) (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae).

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An exploration of factors affecting goal choice, attrition and attendance at follow-up in an alcohol treatment unit.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An exploration of female violence and anger

Supervisor: Piggin, L. (Supervisor) & Darrell-Berry, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An exploration of mentoring among Indian School teacher: A mixed-method study

Supervisor: Buckley, C. (Supervisor) & Thomas, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An exploration of the characteristics of student nurse personal epistemologies and their relationships to approaches to studying

Supervisor: Rycroft-Malone, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An exploration of the factors that influence admission, inclusion and support for learners with special educational needs in international schools

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor) & Sullivan, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An exploration of the role of lay beliefs of genetics in the decision to pursue predictive genetic testing

Supervisor: Maguire, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An exploration of therapist self-disclosure in psychotherapy

Supervisor: Jones, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An exploration of virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An exploratory study investigating the help seeking attitudes of farmers : the relationship between stress, coping, attitudes towards seeking help and psychological well being.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An exploratory study of the linguistic and cognitive skills of Welsh-English bilingual children with moderate learning difficulties in Welsh-Medium education

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An fMRI Investigation of Visual Responses to Social Interactions

Supervisor: Koldewyn, K. (Supervisor) & Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An in vitro and in vivo study of the mechanical stress-controlling region of the extA extensin gene promoter from Brassica napus.

Supervisor: Shirsat, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An integrated approach to high-resolution modelling of a species range expansion using presence-only data: a case study on roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)

Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

An integrated geotechnical-geophysical procedure for the prediction of liquefaction in uncemented sands.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An interdisciplinary approach to understanding predator modification of antipredator traits in prey

Supervisor: Jenkins, S. (Supervisor), Whiteley, N. (Supervisor), McCarthy, I. (Supervisor) & Gimenez Noya, L. (Supervisor)

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

An interference continuum for selective attention in vision : evidence from the attentional blink

Supervisor: Shapiro, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

An investigation into cis and trans acting factors that may influence genomic rearrangements in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation into domestic violence, violence in pregnancy and implications for mother-child relationships.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An investigation into implicit and explicit learning with motor skills and the most beneficial time to give explicit rules

Supervisor: Fazey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master of Philosophy

An investigation into prospective memory performance in normal ageing and dementia

Supervisor: Woods, B. (Supervisor) & Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation into the Christian response to street children with particular reference to scripture union in Zimbabwe

Supervisor: Warrington, K. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An investigation into the effects of childhood atopic eczema on parental stress

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

An investigation into the effects of introducing international accounting standards on the Jordanian stock exchange.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation into the psychological responses of injured athletes.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation into the relationship between object file continuity and modulation of the attentional blink (AB)

Supervisor: Shapiro, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation into the spatial scales of genetic and reproductive variation in the scallop Pecten maximus L.

Supervisor: Beaumont, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation of internal mixing processes in a seasonally stratified shelf sea

Supervisor: Simpson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation of microstrip antennas and their feeder structures.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation of the process of microbial decomposition and the ‘enzymic latch’ mechanism in coastal wetland ecosystems

Supervisor: Freeman, C. (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

An offer she can’t refuse: scripting the anti-heroine pilot episode for an intended audience

Supervisor: Skains, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Anabolic and anticatabolic interventions for the treatment of cachexia in rheumatoid arthritis patients

Supervisor: Lemmey, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Anaerobic digestion : its potential to improve the economic and environmental performance of organic farming systems

Supervisor: Edwards-Jones, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysing and Correcting Dyslexic Arabic Texts

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysing the determinants of bank efficiency : the case of Italian banks.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysing the water-energy nexus: Benchmarking efficiency in water services

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor) & Styles, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis and design of organic semiconductor lasers

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis and synthesis of critical design-thinking for data visualisation designers and learners

Supervisor: Roberts, J. C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of Options by Context for Scaling Agroforestry in Northwest Vietnam

Supervisor: Sinclair, F. (Supervisor) & Pagella, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of biodiversity and soil C storage in the south Konkan coast of Maharashtra (India)

Supervisor: Godbold, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of cylindrical semiconductor metal-clad nano-lasers

Supervisor: Shore, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of genomic and transcriptomic studies of Alzheimer’s Disease to identify novel pathways for study in Drosophila melanogaster

Supervisor: Shepherd, D. (Supervisor) & Sivanantharajah, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Analysis of human germ lines genes for clinical applications

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of staff explanations about challenging behaviour

Supervisor: Jones, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of stem cell genome stability and cancer-associated developmental programmes

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of the Relationship between Pluripotency and DNA Damage Tolerance Recombination in Mammalian Stem Cells

Supervisor: Wakeman, J. (Supervisor) & Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of triglycerides using quantitative NMR techniques

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis, Design and Implementation of Multiple View Visualisations

Supervisor: Roberts, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Angela Carter's scarred texts.

Supervisor: Armitt, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Anisotropic Magnetic Nanoparticles as Reporters in a Magneto-optic Biodiagnostic System

Supervisor: Prabhakar, J. T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Anti-atherogenic effects of Schistosoma mansoni infection : modulation of host platelets and serum cholesterol

Supervisor: Doenhoff, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Anxiety and performance: cognitive and motivational mediating variables

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Anxiety, self-confidence, self-efficacy and performance : some challenges to current thinking

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (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

Application of DSP methods to sound reproduction.

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

Application of natural stable isotopes in aquaculture nutrition

Supervisor: Le Vay, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Application of the capability approach to health economics research involving informal carers of people with dementia

Supervisor: Edwards, R. (Supervisor) & Hounsome, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Applications of modified plant extracts in controlling parasites

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor) & Al-Dulayymi, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Applying Conversation Analysis to Family Therapy Process Research

Supervisor: Swales, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Appraising farm business financial performance indicators.

Supervisor: Bright, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Approach and avoid responses to Valenced Stimuli

Supervisor: Ward, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy