Theses

Uncovering the Houdini of Value Literature: Extending the Conceptualisation and Operationalisation of Perceived Value Scale Using Goal-Relevance

Supervisor: Shiu, E. (Supervisor) & Hanna, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Underlying motives for activity: An agentic emotion regulation and attachment perspective.

Supervisor: Woodman, T. (Supervisor) & Roberts, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding Writing Difficulties Amongst Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Cases of Dyslexia and/or Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)

Supervisor: Caravolas, M. (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

Understanding discursive persuasion in American and Iraqi call to arms discourse: discursive strategies as instruments of persuasive politics

Supervisor: Tenbrink, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding medication adherence: Application of health psychology and behavioural economic theories

Supervisor: Hughes, D. (Supervisor) & Morrison, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding personal experiences of being smacked: An IPA study with young adults

Supervisor: Hargreaves, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding plant residue decomposition in shrubland ecosystem

Supervisor: Roberts, P. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding rule-breaking in conservation

Supervisor: St John, F. (Supervisor) & Jones, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the Holistic Development of Elite Performance in Olympic Weightlifting: A Machine Learning Approach

Supervisor: Lawrence, G. (Supervisor) & Gottwald, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the Influence of Wood Species on Resin Modification and Property Enhancement in Resin modified Wood.

Supervisor: Spear, M. (Supervisor) & Ormondroyd, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the Role of Wastewater in the Spread of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor), Chigor, V. N. (External person) (Supervisor), McDonald, J. (Supervisor), Williams, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jones, D. L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the humanistic interaction with medical imaging technology

Supervisor: Reeves, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the impacts of changing soil temperature, water irrigation source and fertiliser types on C and N cycling in arid soils

Supervisor: Roberts, P. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Understanding the role of plant-microbe symbiosis in the cycling of carbon in temperate forest ecosystems

Supervisor: Smith, A. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Union theorems for double groupoids and groupoids: some generalisations and applications

Supervisor: Brown, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Unravelling Map and Compass Cues in Bird Navigation

Supervisor: Holland, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Unsupervised Change Detection in Multivariate Streaming Data

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Use of Microwaves for Skin Lesion Treatment

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Use of novel chitosan derivatives for the control of food-borne pathogens

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Use of woodchip for agricultural livestock bedding

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Using GFP-constructs to study the endomembrane system of Aspergillus nidulans

Supervisor: Assinder, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Using evidence-based methods to support children ‘at risk’ of poor academic outcomes to develop their mathematics skills

Supervisor: Hughes, C. (Supervisor), Watkins, R. C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Beverley, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Using high-throughput sequencing to investigate microbial mechanisms underlying drought-driven carbon release from peatlands

Supervisor: Creer, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Using local informant data and boat-based surveys to improve knowledge on the status of the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica)

Supervisor: Jones, J. P. G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Using precision teaching strategies and tactics to increase essential skill fluency

Supervisor: Hughes, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Utilising Applied Behaviour Analysis in Schools for Pupils with Special Educational Needs: Applied Behaviour Analysis in Schools

Supervisor: Hoerger, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Utilising the grid for augmented reality

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

VLSI implementation of a spectral estimator for use with pulsed ultrasonic blood flow detectors.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Valuation of non-market ecosystem services of forests: Preferences for Recreation, Effect of Childhood Experience, and the Role of Environmental Attitudes

Supervisor: Gibbons, J. (Supervisor), Lundhede, T. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jacobsen, J. B. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Values and ethos of the eighth-century prophets: A mizo perspective

Supervisor: Davies, E. W. (Supervisor)

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

Variability of CO2 Dynamics in Two Contrasting Shelf Sea Regimes on the NW European Shelf

Supervisor: Mitchelson-Jacob, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variation in aggressiveness and fungicide sensitivity in sexual and asexual progeny of Phytophthora infestans

Supervisor: Shattock, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variation in seed ecophysiology and temperature requirements for germination in Pinus Sylvestris

Supervisor: Cahalan, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variation of growth and reproduction in a marine bryozoan.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variations in subjective well-being : the role of psychological resilience in older age

Supervisor: Markland, D. (Supervisor) & Woods, B. (Supervisor)

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

Variations of alkalinity in the Northeast Atlantic

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vector trypanosome relationships

Supervisor: Lehane, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vegetation succession following the clearance of Rhododendron in the Vale of Ffestiniog.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vent mussel shells as indicators of environmental conditions at hydrothermal vents

Supervisor: Kennedy, H. (Supervisor), Clarke, L. (Supervisor), Richardson, C. (Supervisor) & Dando, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Verbal control of human operant behaviour.

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Verbal regulation of behaviour in children: Establishing effective dental care

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vergence-accommodation conflicts and visual performance in stereoscopic 3-D imagery

Supervisor: Watt, S. (Supervisor) & Intriligator, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Veritas: : hanes a'r nofel ddirgelwch

Supervisor: Wiliams, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Verses Nature: Heterogeneity and Dialogism in the Novel

Supervisor: Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Virtual dissection of subcortical non-image forming visual pathways in the human brain with DTI tractography

Supervisor: Rafal, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visions of equality : women's rights and political change in 1970s Britain

Supervisor: Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual and spatial processes underpinning intentional action

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual cognition of complex object stimuli : the role of global and local processing

Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Raymond, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual control of an unmanned aerial vehicle for power line inspection

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual orienting to emotion

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual texture integration processes and the role of selective attention

Supervisor: Raymond, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual-haptic integration during tool use

Supervisor: Watt, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visualisation, optimisation and Machine Learning: Application in PET Reconstruction and Pea segmentation in MRI Images

Supervisor: Vidal, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vitamin D and exercise performance: Influence of simulated sunlight and oral supplementation

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vitellaria paradoxa in Uganda : population structures and reproductive characteristics

Supervisor: Hall, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Vocabulary learning strategies : A case study of Sudanese learners of English.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wales in a global neighbourhood : perception of and reactions to local and global citizenship

Supervisor: Day, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Walking in the spirit: A study of Paul's teaching on the spirit and ethics in Galatians 5:13-6:10

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Supervisor: Leitmeir, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

War in Virginia Woolf's fictional and non-fictional works

Supervisor: Brown, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Washed in the Spirit: Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Water Baptism

Supervisor: Thomas, J. (Supervisor) & Green, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Water and Solute Relations of Salt stressed Wheat and Annual Suaeda maritima

Supervisor: Tomos, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Water dynamics and use in coffee shaded with Tabebula rosea Bertol and Simarouba glauca D.C. compared to full sun coffee in sub optimal environmental condition for coffee cultivation

Supervisor: Brook, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Water relations of salt stressed wheat

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

Wave generated flow over sand ripples and the resulting entrainment and suspension of sediment.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

We Are Seven

Supervisor: Wilcox, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Welsh students at Oxford, Cambridge and the inns of court during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Welsh, English or British? Hugh Hughes and late sixteenth-century Anglesey

Supervisor: Powell, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

West African monetary unification : the case for a common currency.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

What is special about faces? Examining face-categorisation with event-related potential measures

Supervisor: Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

What works? a realist evaluation of the role of intermediaries in promoting best practice in infection prevention control

Supervisor: Rycroft-Malone, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

When what you want is not what you need

Supervisor: Harper, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Whole tree harvesting and wood ash recycling to forests : case studies in upland Sitka spruce in Wales

Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Why do they care? Using mixed methods to explore adult informal caregivers’ motivations and willingness to provide care

Supervisor: Morrison, V. (Supervisor), Seddon, D. (Supervisor), Dekel, R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Vilchinsky, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Why does Communication in Youth Justice Matter?

Supervisor: Feilzer, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Why does the environment matter? : an analysis of environmental and development ethics within the debate on sustainability and social justice

Supervisor: Cooper, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wild deer in Wales, their impact and management in agriculture, private forestry and woodlands managed for conservation in Wales

Supervisor: Edwards-Jones, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Will warming affect food web structure?

Supervisor: Jenkins, S. (Supervisor), Gimenez Noya, J. (Supervisor) & Davies, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Without aim: perception and naming

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wool fibres for the sorption of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from indoor air

Supervisor: Ormondroyd, G. (Supervisor) & Curling, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Words and bilingualism : neural and behavioural correlates of crosslinguistic influence in category structure

Supervisor: Gathercole, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Work to live : the function of prison labour in the Russian prison system.

Supervisor: King, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Work, Identity, Narrative: Reconstructing the Working Experiences of Italians in Wales (1880s – 1950s)

Supervisor: Miranda-Barreiro, D. (Supervisor) & Bergamini, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Workload and surgeons' speciality for outcomes after colorectal cancer surgery

Supervisor: Maddison, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Writers in conflict : a comparative study of Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Writing the Robinsonade Novel in Context of Globalism and Self-Enlightenment: E Pluribus Unum

Supervisor: Conran, A. (Supervisor) & Durrant, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wyn Roberts: The Blue Dragon?: Conservatism, Welsh Patriotism and North Wales c. 1970s- 1990s.

Supervisor: Mann, R. (Supervisor) & Wiliam, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wyneb yn wyneb Hunaniaethau llenyddol Cymraeg a Chymreig yn erbyn cefndir refferenda 1979 a 1997

Supervisor: Davies, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Y Cymro 1932-45: Hanes sefydlu Y Cymro, ei ddatblygiad a'i gynnwys hyd ddiwedd yr ail ryfel byd.

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Y Gelefyddyd Gymodlawn': Gwaith T. Gwynn Jones a cherddoriaeth

Supervisor: Davies, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Y Gymraeg o fewn y byd digidol: Profiadau ac agweddau siaradwyr Cymraeg yng Ngwynedd o ddefnyddio apiau Cymraeg neu ddwyieithog

Supervisor: Prys, C. (Supervisor) & Hodges, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Y Tylwyth Teg. An Analysis of a Literary Motif.

Supervisor: Jones, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ymchwilio Addysg Ddwyieithog yn Ysgolion Cymru: Amrywiaeth Caleidosgopig

Supervisor: Thomas, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ymrestru o dan y Faner: Dadansoddiad o’r modd yr atgynhyrchwyd cenedlaetholdeb gan sefydliadau a gweisg Cymraeg Cymru yn y 19eg ganrif

Supervisor: Lynch, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ynys: Portffolio a dadansoddiad o broses greadigol

Supervisor: Price, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Yr Awdurdodaeth Gymreig: Dadansoddiad o Ddatblygiad a Chyfraniad Tribiwnlysoedd Cymreig i Awdurdodaeth Gyfreithiol ar wahân i Gymru

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy