Theses

Determining the habitat requirements of demersal fish for the design of marine protected areas

Supervisor: Jenkins, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Development of bioinfirmatic analytical approach to identify novel human cancer testis gene candidates

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Dialectical behaviour therapists' experience of young people with features of borderline personality disorder : a qualitative analysis

Supervisor: Swales, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Dimension-specific effects of endogenous and exogenous spatial cueing : indication for integration of spatial and feature-based attention

Supervisor: Sapir, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Supervisor: Miguelez-Carballeira, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

ESDGC in primary schools : exploring practice, development and influences

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Empirical essays on short selling

Supervisor: Jaafar, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Enamelwork from early Anglo-Saxon contexts

Supervisor: Edwards, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

English lexical collocation knowledge of Libyan university students

Supervisor: Evans, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exercise and joint health in rheumatoid arthritis

Supervisor: Thom, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Eye movements and the visual perception of shape

Supervisor: Leek, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Facial Signals of Personality in Humans and Chimpanzees

Supervisor: Ward, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fragmented forests in South-West Ethiopia : impacts of land-use change on plant species composition and priorities for future conservation

Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

From vision to touch : the cortical and behavioural effects of viewing others in pain

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Full circle : employee engagement in the Welsh public service

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Function of cancer associated protein translin

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Genetic dissection of neurocognitive phenotypes : implications for psychopathological susceptibility

Supervisor: Linden, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Genetic variation in field emergence and related traits in naked and covered spring barley

Supervisor: Brook, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Supervisor: Waddington, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Irish medium education : cognitive skills, linguistic skills, and attitudes towards Irish

Supervisor: Thomas, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Is there an author in this text? : a re-evaluation of authorial intent pursued as ontological disclosing the being of the entity of the composition in understanding an author's communication

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Latitudinal and climatic driven changes in local patterns of intertidal macroalgae : implications for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Supervisor: Jenkins, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Local knowledge regarding trade-offs among coffee productivity and other ecosystem services in a range of different agroforestry systems in Central America

Supervisor: Sinclair, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Marine protected areas : efficacy, implementation and management

Supervisor: Jenkins, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Migration, Memory and Identity: Italians and Nation-Building in Wales, 1940-2010

Supervisor: Tanner, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modelling greenhouse gas emissions for the UK and overseas food production

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor) & Edwards-Jones, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Montessori Education in nurseries in England: Two case studies.

Supervisor: Humphreys, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Morphosyntactic complexity and exposure in the acquisition of gender in Welsh

Supervisor: Gathercole, V. (Supervisor)

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

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

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (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

Pharmacologically-based mechanistic modelling in health economic evaluation

Supervisor: Hughes, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pivoting the Player: A Methodological Toolkit for Player Character Research in Offline Role-Playing Games

Supervisor: Ensslin, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Preliminary evidence for a neuro-cognitive model of mental toughness

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Preposition stranding in Welsh

Supervisor: Bury, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Supervisor: Brook, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Supervisor: Heerey, E. (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

Static acoustic monitoring of Cetaceans in Cardigan Bay, Wales

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. G. (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

Survival and transport of Escherichia coli in the aquatic environment

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The English in north-west Wales. Migration, identity and belonging 1970-2010 : an oral history

Supervisor: Edwards, A. (Supervisor) & Tanner, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Grief Support of Bereaved Family Members in Evangelical Churches in Peninsular Malaysia

Supervisor: Dyer, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

The behavioural ecology of aggression in Lake Malawi haplochromine cichlid fish

Supervisor: Turner, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The development of leaders within a church network in Austria 'Life church Osterreich'

Supervisor: Alexander, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

The distribution and potential northwards spread of the non-native gastropod Crepidula fornicata in Welsh coastal waters

Supervisor: Richardson, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The effect of magnetic field on the dielectric properties of DNA

Supervisor: Bone, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The effects of probability and uncertainty on spatial attention

Supervisor: d'Avossa, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The effects of static, dynamic and behavioural social cues on social utility and decision‐making.

Supervisor: Heerey, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The evolution of Irish crime fiction

Supervisor: Gregson, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The identification and development of training behaviours in Professional Rugby players

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The impact of environmental cues in a corporate environment

Supervisor: Intriligator, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The innovation of nineteenth-century annuals : a new social influence

Supervisor: Colclough, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Supervisor: Khan, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Supervisor: Richardson, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The motives for participation in high-risk sport

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Thermocline Mixing in a Seasonally Stratified Shelf Sea

Supervisor: Rippeth, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Twenty-nine short stories and threat, invasion and dread : the short story and the home

Supervisor: Gregson, I. (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

Visual-haptic integration during tool use

Supervisor: Watt, S. (Supervisor)

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

Word and power : a critical evaluation of the compatibility of the theology of John Wimber with reformed principles, for possible application to the life and witness of Presbyterian congregations

Supervisor: Routledge, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Workload and surgeons' speciality for outcomes after colorectal cancer surgery

Supervisor: Maddison, P. (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

Young people's experiences of mental health difficulties

Supervisor: Swales, M. (Supervisor) & Huws, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in Wales During the Age of the Princes, c.1100 - c.1283

Supervisor: Pryce, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Constituent grammatical evolution

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Design, synthesis and characterization of novel low band gap conjugated polymers for use in bulk heterojunction photovoltaic solar cells

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Foretasting the kingdom: toward a pentecostal theology of the Lord's supper

Supervisor: Thomas, J. C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Functional molecular wires from self-assembled films

Supervisor: Ashwell, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Growth and characterisation of functional molecular wires

Supervisor: Ashwell, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Guanidine glycomimetics

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Low cost procedures towards photovoltaic devices

Supervisor: Holliman, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Marital Property Agreements, The Family and The Law: Status and Contract?

Supervisor: Rees, O. (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

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

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Synthesis of mycolic acids and related sugar ester

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The synthesis of mycolic acids

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Characterisation of non-metal cation polyborate salts and silicate solutions

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Approaches for spacially explicit negotiation of impacts of land use change on ecosystem services

Supervisor: Sinclair, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Bioactive carbohydrates: isolation, synthesis and conjugation

Supervisor: Lahmann, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Effects of salinity on soils of the Gefara Plain, Libya

Supervisor: Godbold, D. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The relation between gestural imitation and naming in young children

Supervisor: Erjavec, M. (Supervisor) & Horne, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The relationship between behavioural phenotypes and social interactions in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

Supervisor: Croft, D. (Supervisor) & Hughes, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparative study of the subspecies of Sclerocarya birrea: Their potential for domestication in Tanzania

Supervisor: Teklehaimanot, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ecosystem carbon dynamics - as influenced by tree species and mixture in temperate deciduous woodland

Supervisor: Godbold, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Self and identity in people with early-stage dementia

Supervisor: Clare, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adaptive Optical OFDM for Local and Access Networks

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Characterisation of AAE7/ACN1 and aconitase isoforms from Arabidopsis thaliana 

Supervisor: Hooks, M. (Supervisor) & Murphy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Phonological impairment in developmental dyslexia during reading: when, insights from event-related potentials

Supervisor: Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Electrical and Optical Response of Organic MIS and Related Structures

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Establishing multi-bivalve species Sclerochronology

Supervisor: Scourse, J. (Supervisor) & Richardson, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Organisational innovation in food sector SMEs: innovation orientation, types and process

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Role of Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 CTBP-Interacting Protein (MRN-CtIP) In Providing Resistance against Camptothecin

Supervisor: Hartsuiker, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Wood Extractives as Natural Preservatives against Termites and Fungi

Supervisor: Hale, M. (Supervisor) & Tomos, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The impact of emotional images on motivation, attention and decision making

Supervisor: Intriligator, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Acidophilic consortia and microbial interactions involved in securing mineral wastes and remediating mine waters

Supervisor: Johnson, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Cognitive, metacognitive and dissociative factors underlying psychotic hallucinations and nonclinical hallucination-proneness

Supervisor: Bentall, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Enablers and constraints of an effective and sustainable mother tongue-based multilingual education policy in the Philippines

Supervisor: Baker, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mechanisms of speciation and coexistence in corydoradinae catfishes

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy