Theses

Proton MRS Studies in Ageing: investigating relaxation, concentration, and correlation with resting-state activity in the PCC

Supervisor: Mullins, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Provision of academic support to children who have a prolonged absence due to a physical condition in mainstream primary schools in Wales and England

Supervisor: Smith, A. (Supervisor) & Hoerger, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Psycho-social factors associated with terminal illness : comparison of patient and nurse perceptions over time.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Psychoeducational learning: a qualitative study

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

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Psychological Interventions for First-Episode Psychosis: An Exploration of Individual and Group Interventions

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

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Psychological adjustment among returned overseas aid workers.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Psychological adjustment to the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease : a qualitative analysis.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Psychological aspects of recurrent abdominal pain of childhood

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Psychological determinants of children's food preferences.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychological distress in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse : the role of shame, self-esteem and blame

Supervisor: Hargreaves, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Psychological mindedness and adult attachment styles.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Psychological processes of change in adolescents in a residential treatment setting.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychological resilience and youth offending: Can tailored interventions reduce recidivism?

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychological vulnerability in bipolar disorder

Supervisor: Bentall, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychophysiological evidence of a role for emotion in the learning of trustworthiness from identity-contingent eye-gaze cues

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychophysiological investigation of false memory in amnesiac patients

Supervisor: Rafal, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychosocial determinants of dimensions of performance

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychosocial interventions in rheumatoid arthritis: A patient centred approach using imagery and hypnotherapy

Supervisor: Callow, N. (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

Public Values and Project Management Practices & Processes in the Public Sector in the case of the State of Qatar

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Putting the ‘me’ in team: Narcissism, team processes, and emergent states

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pyschopathology and childhood sexual abuse : an investigation of the relationship between sexual arousal, attributional style, attributions of blame for CSA and psychological adjustment.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Quality in dementia care : evaluating staff attitudes and behaviour.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quality management in higher education in Mozambique.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quantifying Similarity of Correlations between Seabird and Cetacean Distributions and Environment in the Northeast Atlantic

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. G. (Supervisor) & Waggitt, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Quantifying and mitigating greenhouse gas emmissions from horticultural peat soils

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quantitative Methods for Producing Evidence to Support Sustainable King Scallop Management

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. G. (Supervisor), Szostek, C. (Supervisor), Kaiser, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Lambert, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quantitative evidence synthesis methods for the assessment of the effectiveness of treatment sequences for clinical and economic decision-making

Supervisor: Wilkinson, C. (Supervisor), Hughes, D. (Supervisor), Sutton, A. (External person) (Supervisor), Woolacott, N. (External person) (Supervisor), Williams, N. (External person) (Supervisor), Phillips, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Ruiz, F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quantum communication with continuous variables

Supervisor: Braunstein, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Queer tactical diaspora: Reading Caribbean Queer Narratives

Supervisor: Edwards, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Quim Monzó and contemporary Catalan culture : innovation, politics and public image

Supervisor: Bru-Dominguez, E. (Supervisor) & Cornella-Detrell, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

R. H. Tawney and the reform of English education

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

R.S. Thomas's God : : the possibilities of symbiosis

Supervisor: Brown, A. (Supervisor) & Davies, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rapid determination of parasite viability using AC electrokinetic techniques

Supervisor: Pethig, R. (Supervisor) & Burt, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rational design and delivery of peptide drugs

Supervisor: Payne, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Re-examining the Systematics of Asian Pitvipers Via Multilocus Analysis

Supervisor: Malhotra, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Re-imagining the Catholic secondary school in Wales in the twenty-first century : the voice of the students

Supervisor: Francis, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reading Between the Lines: Clothes, Linens and Washing-Lines in Film and Practice

Supervisor: Abrams, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reading witches, reading women : late Tudor and early Stuart texts

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Real-Time and Interactive Computer Graphics in Grid Environments

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Real-world solutions for improving estimates of land-atmosphere exchanges in heterogeneous landscapes

Supervisor: Rayment, M. (Supervisor) & Gibbons, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Receiving an uncertain diagnosis : experiences and discourse

Supervisor: Lamers, C. (Supervisor) & Salisbury, K. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Recent irreversible retreat phase of Pine Island Glacier

Supervisor: Green, M. (Supervisor), Gudmundsson, H. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jenkins, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reciprocal transplantations to study local specialisation and the measurement of components of fitness.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reconceptualising 'Uti Possidetis' principle to hone its invocation in the context of twenty-first century's phase of state-creation: the case of Kurdistan and Iraq in perspective

Supervisor: Linton, S. (Supervisor) & Smith, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Recovering the everyday: practices and tactics in postcolonial fiction

Supervisor: Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Recovery Outside of the Box: Examining Adventure Therapy for Mental Health

Supervisor: Jackson, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Rediscovering Lost Tacit Knowledge through an Integrated Empirical Model of Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning: A Classical Action Research enquiry into a Healthcare Technology Organisation.

Supervisor: Jones, S. (Supervisor) & Doloriert, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reducing the carbon footprint of red meat

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reform of the Iraqi Private International Law on Transnational Online Contracting: Lessons from the EU and the USA

Supervisor: Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reform of the Legal Requirements for Divorce Post-Owens: A Welsh Perspective

Supervisor: Parker, M. (Supervisor) & Owen, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Reformist framework of the foreign investment environment in the post-conflict : critical appraisal of Iraq case

Supervisor: Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Refugee Women Experiences of Reproductive Care Provision Focusing on Syrian Women Experiences of Reproductive Care in Transit and Temporary Settings

Supervisor: Williams, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Registration of 3D models to 2D X-ray images using fast X-ray simulation and global optimisation algorithms

Supervisor: Vidal, F. (Supervisor) & Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Regulation of fintech development: a critical analysis with a case study of crypto assets in the UK and EU

Supervisor: Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Regulation, patentability and morality of human embryonic stem cell in China: a comparative study of the US and Europe

Supervisor: Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reimagining Everyday Life in the GDR: Post-Ostalgia in Contemporary German Films and Museums

Supervisor: Saunders, A. (Supervisor) & Shortt, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reimbursement decisions for new medicines: exploration of the preferences of decision-makers and the public

Supervisor: Hughes, D. (Supervisor) & Edwards, R. T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Relationships Among Alcohol Use, Emotion, Motivation, and Goals

Supervisor: Cox, W. M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Relationships between autobiographical memory, identity and awareness in early-stage dementia

Supervisor: Clare, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Relationships between player-roles, action, attitudes towards individuals and the world, and gaming experiences

Supervisor: Rogers, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Relationships, motivations and meanings in informal caregiving for people with dementia

Supervisor: Clare, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Religion and health: a systematic review

Supervisor: Francis, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master of Philosophy

Religious phenomenology, sociodemography and ecology in the rural Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Supervisor: Brook, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Remembering identity after postmodernity

Supervisor: Armitt, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Remembering the prior body states of others : evidence from facial EMG and pupil size

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reminiscence and digital life story work for dementia care

Supervisor: Woods, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Remote determination of bathymetric changes using ground based radar

Supervisor: Davies, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Remote sensing of chlorophyll concentrations in a turbid shelf sea

Supervisor: Bowers, D. (Supervisor) & Mitchelson-Jacob, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Renal patients' lived experiences and perspectives on conservative kidney management and kidney transplantation

Supervisor: Parry-Jones, D. B. (External person) (Supervisor), Jackson, D. M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Gardner, D. P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Rensch’s Rule and the Drivers of Sexual Dimorphism in Ungulates

Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Repetitive prophetical and interpretative formulations in Luke's Gospel of Codex Bezae: an analysis of readings in D

Supervisor: Read-Heimerdinger, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reported and observed disruptive behaviours in children of depressed mothers prior to and following cognitive-behaviour therapy for maternal depression.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Representation of Iraqis in Hollywood Iraq war films: a multimodal critical discourse study

Supervisor: Shank, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Representations of Crossed Modules and Cat¹-Groups

Supervisor: Porter, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Representations of the grail quest in medieval and modern literature

Supervisor: Radulescu, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Representing identities in Tatarstan : a cartography of post-soviet discourses, schooling and everyday life

Supervisor: Davies, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reproductive compatibility and speciation in Celleporella hyalina Sensu Lato

Supervisor: Hughes, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rereading the Past: Jane Austen and Reflective Selfhood from Lady Susan to Persuasion

Supervisor: McCue, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rescue from over-indebtedness? : Christians against poverty

Supervisor: Wali, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Research in to the attitudes, perceptions and circumstances of Asian elders with respect to health and old age : a stress and coping perspective.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Resilience and well-being in palliative care staff

Supervisor: Jones, R. (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

Resistance in the 'Oppressor's' Tongue: English-language Welsh Writers and Spanish-language Catalan Writers

Supervisor: Webb, A. (Supervisor) & Bru-Dominguez, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Resistivity, thermal conductivity, porosity relationships for marine sediments

Supervisor: Taylor Smith, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Resource discovery and distributed computing over peer-to-peer networks

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Response selection processes under 'free choice' task conditions

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Responses of soil biological and functional diversity to anthropogenic change from plot- to national-scales

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor), Robinson, D. A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Creer, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Responsible China: A critical discourse analysis of soft power projection through transnational media

Supervisor: Bakir, V. (Supervisor) & McStay, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Resurgence and Insurgence: British Women Travel Writers and the Italian Risorgimento, 1844-1858

Supervisor: Colclough, S. (Supervisor) & Hiscock, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rethinking Frongoch

Supervisor: Robinson, G. (Supervisor) & Rees, L. A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rethinking and reconfiguring the anthropomorphic concept of corporate personality : some suggestions for personality needs in the light of corporate development in public companies with a particular focus on the United Arab Emirates

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Revealing components of the economic value for environmental goods and services from forest : an application of stated preference methods for forest valuation and conservation

Supervisor: Gibbons, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reviewing the physio-chemical parameters associated with in-situ Austropotamobius pallipes populations and its application to the establishment of ark sites

Supervisor: Dunn, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Revisioning a Pentecostal Theology of water Baptism: An ecclesial rite of embodied transformation

Supervisor: Thomas, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rhai o Gymunedau’n Llên: y Lleol a’r Cenedlaethol

Supervisor: Hunter, T. (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

Rheumatoid cachexia in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated in the current treat-to-target era: An exploration of the incidence, mechanisms, effects on physical function, and a potential nutritional treatment

Supervisor: Lemmey, A. (Supervisor) & OBrien, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rhwng Gwrthryfel a Gwacter:Agweddau ar y theatr Gymraeg, 1945-79

Supervisor: Wiliams, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rhwng Trawsfynydd a Pharis: Agweddau ar Waith John Rowlands

Supervisor: Price, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Richard Pennant, Samuel Worthington and the mill at Penlan: a history of the Penrhyn Mills on the Lower Ogwen

Supervisor: Karl, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Riparian areas: Delineation and contribution to ecosystem service provision

Supervisor: Jones, D. L. (Supervisor) & Williams, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Risk factors for offending behaviour in adults with an intellectual disability

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Road noise alters foraging duration and vigilance behaviour of three common tit species

Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Roads in the rainforests: Legacy of selective logging in Central Africa. : Evaluating the temporal and spatial dynamics of logging road networks.

Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor), Gourlet-Fleury, S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Sist, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Role of oxygen in the control of embryonic growth and metabolism in the edible crab Cancer pagurus

Supervisor: Whiteley, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Route navigation in homing pigeons (Columba livia): the use of visual cues over a familiar area.

Supervisor: Holland, R. (Supervisor) & Bishop, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Safety and Efficacy of First-line Atypical Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia: Evidence Based Medicine and Clinical Practice

Supervisor: Healy, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Salt tolerance in Oryza sativa L.(rice)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Scales and otoliths as biogeochemical tags of Salmo trutta

Supervisor: McCarthy, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Schedule control of temporally based behaviour.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Schizosaccharomyces pombe meiotic linear elements

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

School-based primary prevention programmes: Outcomes and the factors that affect their success

Supervisor: Saville, C. (Supervisor), Evans, S. (Supervisor) & Hutchings, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Sclerochronology at St Kilda: A study of late Holocene climate and hydrography on the western Scottish shelf using the shells of long-lived bivalve molluscs

Supervisor: Scourse, J. (External person) (Supervisor), Butler, P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Turner, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Screening for Novel Brain Tumour Initiation Mechanisms at Single Cell Resolution

Supervisor: Bossing, T. (Supervisor) & Barros, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Script development and interdisciplinary collaborations in the production of climate-fiction films

Supervisor: Bakir, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Seabed Integrity Around Objects in a Complex Marine Environment

Supervisor: Van Landeghem, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Seasonal and tidal cycles of suspended particulates in the Irish Sea

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

Seasonal variation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) in relation to primary production and yellow substrates (g440). in the Menai Strait, North Wales

Supervisor: Thomas, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Seasonal variations in aspects of Mytilus edulis L. immune function and allozyme genetics in relation to pollution

Supervisor: Beaumont, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Secondary Succession in Tropical Dry Forests: Drivers and Mechanisms of Forest Regeneration

Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sedimentary processes in the Dwyryd estuary.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sedimentological, geophysical and oceanographic studies of postglacial and contemporary sedimentary processes of the NE Menai Strait and Conwy Bay (Wales, U.K.)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Seeing both sides: wellbeing in maternity services post COVID-19

Supervisor: Piggin, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Seeing the forest for the trees: Tree species effects on soil microbial communities and nutrient cycling dynamics

Supervisor: McDonald, M. (Supervisor) & Vesterdal, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Seismic stratigraphy of shallow water Quaternary sediments around the UK

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Seismo-acoustic investigations of consolidated phenomena.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self and identity in people with early-stage dementia

Supervisor: Clare, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self through Remembrance: Identity Construction and Memory in the Novels of Octavia E. Butler

Supervisor: Niebrzydowski, S. (Supervisor) & Hiscock, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self, Infinity, Rebirth: A Jungian Critique of The Walking Dead

Supervisor: Huskinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self-Assembled Monolayers of Ferrocene-Terminated Alkyl Thiols on Gold Surfaces.

Supervisor: Kalaji, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self-Determination Theory: An Individual Differences Perspective

Supervisor: Woodman, T. (Supervisor) & Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self-Esteem and Self-Concept in Individuals with Poor Me and Bad Me Persecutory Beliefs.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Self-Regulation and Alcohol Consumption: Understanding University Students’ Motivation for Drinking

Supervisor: Cox, W. M. (Supervisor) & Intriligator, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self-concept: alternative perspectives and clinical applications

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self-efficacy and Performance Relationships: Examining the Roles of Personality, Bias, and Effort

Supervisor: Beattie, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Semantic Associations, Epistemic Priming and Cognitive Mechanisms in Media Discourse: A critical analysis of the British press use of the term Muslim women

Supervisor: Charteris Black, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Semantic categorisation of actions and objects in monolingual and bilingual children

Supervisor: Gathercole, V. (Supervisor) & Thomas, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Semiconductor Devices for Generating Terahertz Radiation

Supervisor: Pierce, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sense of belonging as an indicator for social capital: a mixed methods analysis of students’ sense of belonging to university

Supervisor: Davis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sense of place and the writing of early British history in medieval and early modern England

Supervisor: Radulescu, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sensorimotor integration in the control of goal-directed hand action

Supervisor: Jackson, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Separation and characterisation of components from agricultural residues by novel methods

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor) & Fowler, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Serious Leisure And Railway Volunteering: A Study Of The Welsh Highland, Ffestiniog And Talyllyn Railways

Supervisor: Mann, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master 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

Settlement and bioadhesion of two marine fouling organisms, Pomatoceros lamarckii and Laminaria digitata

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sex and the (hetero) erotic in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde

Supervisor: Niebrzydowski, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sex offenders' lived experiences of institutional life: A case study of a probation hostel

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sexual Dimorphism in the Common Hippopotamus

Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Sgiliau Iaith a Gwybyddiaeth Plant Dwyieithog mewn Cyd- destun Iaith Leiafrifol.

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Shades of Pierrot: Exploration of Analytical Concepts for Performing Arnold Schoenberg‘s Pierrot lunaire

Supervisor: Collins, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master of Philosophy

Shear dispersion in the surface layers of the sea.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sheep urine patch nitrous oxide emissions: measurement and mitigation

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

Should it come with the territory? Experiences and discourses of two groups of professionals.

Supervisor: Lamers, C. (Supervisor) & Rickard, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Signal processing for pulse-height spectroscopy

Supervisor: Owens, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Simulating Ethical Behaviour in Virtual Characters

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor) & Ap Cenydd, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Simulating Feedbacks between Tidal Stream Array Operation and the Marine Energy Resource

Supervisor: Neill, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Simulating the temporal and spatial variability of North Wales mussel populations

Supervisor: Neill, S. (Supervisor), Robins, P. (Supervisor) & Malham, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Simulation of the micromagnetic behaviour of nanoelements by an adaptive wavelet method

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Single tree felling gaps and regeneration in Tanzania montane forests

Supervisor: Hall, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Situating Crossley-Holland's Collection of Ancient Mexican Musical Instruments: Strategies for Interpretation, Dissemination, and Sustainability

Supervisor: Rees, S. (Supervisor)

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

Slate: a study of its thermal chemistry and its potential use in catalysis

Supervisor: Holliman, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sleep hygiene education and children with developmental disabilities

Supervisor: Huws, J. (Supervisor) & Burton, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sleep-wake reversal among people with psychosis: A functional contextualist interpretation

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

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Smallholder dairy farming land use in the Nairobi metropolitan region, Kenya

Supervisor: Brook, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Smoking, lung cancer and presentation of symptoms to primary care: accounts of smokers and people with lung cancer.

Supervisor: Neal, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Social Return on Investment: A Mixed Methods Approach to Assessing the Value of Adult Hospice Services in North Wales

Supervisor: Noyes, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Social Timing in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (M.Phil)

Supervisor: Wimpory, D. (Supervisor), Nash, S. (Supervisor) & Koldewyn, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Social change and alienation in Kuwait.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Social cognition and the manic defence: attributions, selective attention and self-schema in bipolar affective disorder.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Social cues in context the interdependence between social cue senders and receivers

Supervisor: Heerey, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Social engagement in preschool children with autism.

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

Socioeconomic and ecological implications of an ecosystem approach to marine resource management for Wales, UK

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Socioeconomic and ecological implications of special management areas (SMAs) regime in the Kingdom of Tonga

Supervisor: Kaiser, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Socioeconomic deprivation and psychopathology: associations at the global and local level

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor) & Jackson, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Socioeconomic valuation of the marine environment in Wales implications for coastal management

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Soil proteases: widening the bottleneck of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor), Hill, P. (Supervisor), Paterson, E. (External person) (Supervisor) & Baggs, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Soil-vegetation based remediation studies of landfill leachate

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Some aspects of gerundials and infinitivals in English

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Some aspects of growth and behaviour in the juvenile lobster HOMARUS GAMMARUS (LINNAEUS)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Some determinants of the postreinforcement pause on temporally-defined schedules.

Supervisor: Lowe, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Some factors affecting bilingualism amongst trainee teachers in Malaysia

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Some factors in movement schema development

Supervisor: Fazey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Some fertility problems associated with Kuwaiti calcareous soil and brackish irrigation water.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sources of error in the estimation of aboveground biomass carbon stocks in mangrove ecosystems

Supervisor: Fenner, N. (Supervisor) & Freeman, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master of Philosophy

Sovereign credit ratings and financial market volatility : bi-directional relationships and heterogeneous impact

Supervisor: ap Gwilym, O. (Supervisor) & Alsakka, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Space Beyond Place: Welsh Settings in European Fiction, 1900–2010

Supervisor: Tully, C. (Supervisor) & Jein, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Spatial considerations and environmental constraints on benthic prey resources for common scoter

Supervisor: Kaiser, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Spatially resolved characterisation of CdTe photovoltaic solar cells

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor) & Irvine, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Special Measures, Burnout And Occupational Stress In National Health Service Staff: Experiences, Interpretations And Evidence-Based Interventions.

Supervisor: Jackson, M. (Supervisor) & Robinson, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Speciation and differentiation in Lesser Antillean lizards

Supervisor: Thorpe, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Species delimitation in Bitis arietans – Are there any cryptic species present?

Supervisor: Wuster, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Spirit Christology in the christian tradition : from the patristic period to the rise of Pentecostalism in the twentieth-century

Supervisor: Thomas, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Split sovereign credit ratings : the causes and implications for the financial markets

Supervisor: ap Gwilym, O. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Splitters: A Nervous Novel

Supervisor: Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor) & Conran, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stabilised silicate and borate solutions for foliar agricultural sprays

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stability and performance assessment of organic photovoltaics using data analytics and machine learning

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stability and variability of the ecosystem engineer Sabellaria alveolata on differing temporal and spatial scales

Supervisor: Mitchelson-Jacob, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Staff Perspectives on challenges of working within the contemporary NHS

Supervisor: Burnside, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Staging a life lesson : sanctum a fluidic process to teaching life skills

Supervisor: Harper, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stakeholder perspectives on optimal follow-up care: An interdisciplinary economic and psychological investigation into gynaecological cancer

Supervisor: Edwards, R. T. (Supervisor) & Morrison, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

State anxiety, conscious processing and motor performance.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

State preparation and some applications in quantum optics within the context of quantum information theory

Supervisor: Braunstein, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Static acoustic monitoring of Cetaceans in Cardigan Bay, Wales

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Statistical learning of orthographic patterns in typically developing and dyslexic populations

Supervisor: Caravolas, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stephen Charnock's doctrine of the knowledge of God : a case study of the balance of head and heart in restoration Puritanism

Supervisor: Morgan, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stimuli Responsive Hyperbranched Polymers for Anti-cancer Drug Delivery Synthesized Via RAFT Polymerization

Supervisor: Tai, H. (Supervisor) & Hartsuiker, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stimulus control of time-related behaviour.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stimulus effects of reinforcement on variable-interval and variable-ratio schedules of reinforcement.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stimulus equivalence and developmental dyslexia

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stimulus equivalence and exposure learning: a cross-disciplinary study of rapid vocabulary acquisition

Supervisor: Dugdale, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stock enhancement of the mud crabs Scylla spp. in the mangroves of Naisud and Bugtong Bato, Ibajay, Aklan, Philippines

Supervisor: Le Vay, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stock market trend behaviour and continuation and reversal effects in stock market returns

Supervisor: Hodgkinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Storytelling and Screenwriting in Malta from 1970 to 2020

Supervisor: Price, S. (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

Strategic directions, innovation capacity and entrepreneurial firm performance in high-tech SMEs, UK

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor) & Mitchelmore, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Strategic study of forest development policy : a model for balancing demand and supply of forest resources in China.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Strategic timing of corporate disclosures: evidence from China

Supervisor: Hodgkinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Strategies and tactics of Nigerian Science teachers

Supervisor: Williams, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Strategy formulation and firms' performance : the case of high-tech SMEs in the UK

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stratigraphy and palaeobotany of Middle Pleistocene interglacial deposits in the North Sea.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stress and coping among direct care staff in a learning disability service.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Stress and information processing

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stress in home care staff working with older adults : an exploratory study of external stressors, moderating factors, and stress outcomes.

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Stress, coping and psychological well-being amongst healthcare professionals employed within forensic inpatient settings

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Structural and mechanistic studies of catalysts

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Structure and performance in European banking

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Structure, performance and efficiency in European banking.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Structure-conduct-performance and efficiency in Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) banking markets

Supervisor: Molyneux, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies in Antarctic palaeobotany.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies in cyclopropene chemistry.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies in indene and indole synthesis

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies in the flora of the Rhynie chert

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies of leaf growth in barley

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies of low cost biological photovoltaic cells

Supervisor: Holliman, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies of reversal processes in particulate recording media using pulsed field magnetometry

Supervisor: O´Grady, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies of the biological activity of a novel herbicide (Triasulfuron) including studies of mobility and persistence in soils.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies of the dye sensitization of inorganic colloids used in dye-sensitized solar cells

Supervisor: Holliman, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies of the synthesis of Cyclopropanes and Cyclobutenes

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies on fossil plants of Karoo age from Central & Southern Africa

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies on micro algal fine-structure, taxonomy and systematics : cryptophyceae and bacillariophyceae.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies on organ cultures of slug reproductive tracts

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy