All Outputs (1067)

Improving physical activity and movement skill competency in Gloucestershire’s key stage two children (2022)
Thesis

Sport England’s ‘Active Lives, Children and Young People’ survey for the academic year 2019 to 2020 identified that 66% of children in England aged between 5 and 18 were not meeting the recommended amount of physical activity. In addition to low leve... Read More about Improving physical activity and movement skill competency in Gloucestershire’s key stage two children.

Displaced Polish elite nationalists and the Catholic Church in England 1940-1952 (2022)
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Using unexploited primary sources, this thesis will explain how, during the period June 1940 to August 1952, the English Catholic Church offered the émigré Polish population help based on the fraternal relationship of their respective religious bodie... Read More about Displaced Polish elite nationalists and the Catholic Church in England 1940-1952.

A risk allocation framework for public private partnerships (PPP) water infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka (2022)
Thesis

In Sri Lanka continuous infrastructure development is necessary for the country’s future but this creates a serious financial burden for the government. To deliver infrastructure within constrained public finances, it is necessary for the government... Read More about A risk allocation framework for public private partnerships (PPP) water infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka.

Hotels and the human right to water: Prospect and challenges in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2022)
Thesis

This study examines how the use of water by the tourism industry affects local communities, within the Yogyakarta region of Java, Indonesia as a case study. This study takes into account the business and human rights (to water) framework. Such a fram... Read More about Hotels and the human right to water: Prospect and challenges in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Family transitions and home education: circumstances, processes and practices (2022)
Thesis

This study investigates the processes leading certain UK families to home educate. The research focus is: What circumstances inform the transitions of families to home education? The analysis draws upon a large-scale online survey, face-to-face inter... Read More about Family transitions and home education: circumstances, processes and practices.

Exploring the value of group dream experience (GDE): A qualitative study of psychotherapists’ experiences of group dream sharing and dream work (2022)
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Despite the longstanding interest of psychological research and practice in group dream sharing and group dream work, to date no research has been conducted examining group dream experience (GDE) of psychotherapists. Furthermore, GDE has not been con... Read More about Exploring the value of group dream experience (GDE): A qualitative study of psychotherapists’ experiences of group dream sharing and dream work.

Extending activist reach and influence through Dwelling Space Activism: An autoethnographic and practice-led enquiry through activism, performance and life praxis (2022)
Thesis

This research sets out to explore a distinct and original form of activist practice, which I name Dwelling Space Activism, and which holds potential both to extend activist reach and influence and to contribute to embedded and sustainable change. Dwe... Read More about Extending activist reach and influence through Dwelling Space Activism: An autoethnographic and practice-led enquiry through activism, performance and life praxis.

Re-thinking transformative visitor experience in a science exhibition: Implications for science communication theory and practice (2022)
Thesis

Science communication addresses some of the contemporary world’s most challenging and intractable problems. Whether climate change or the recent coronavirus pandemic, science communication has an important role to play in these urgent issues. Concurr... Read More about Re-thinking transformative visitor experience in a science exhibition: Implications for science communication theory and practice.

Improving compliance and enforcement of environmental regulation of the petroleum sector in Nigeria: The role of institutionalism (2022)
Thesis

Regardless of the existence of a wide range of regulatory instruments and agencies, the petroleum sector has remained largely unregulated in Nigeria. The impact of lack of or weak regulation is seen in the increasing environmental degradation across... Read More about Improving compliance and enforcement of environmental regulation of the petroleum sector in Nigeria: The role of institutionalism.

Experiences of foreign counselling therapists working in the UK: A qualitative study (2022)
Thesis

Objectives: This study’s aim is to explore foreign therapists’ experiences practicing in the UK, focusing on the therapeutic relationship and how foreign therapists interpret cultural differences in the relationships with their clients. To date, litt... Read More about Experiences of foreign counselling therapists working in the UK: A qualitative study.

The responsibility to protect principle: A comparative perspective on the last decade of implementation (2022)
Thesis

The central task of this thesis is to question how the international community and particularly, the United Nations Security Council, has or failed to invoke the principle of Responsibility to Protect and how this has elicited different reactions an... Read More about The responsibility to protect principle: A comparative perspective on the last decade of implementation.

The problem with picking: Permittance, escape and shame in problematic skin picking (2022)
Thesis

Problematic skin picking is a poorly understood experience characterised by a drive to repeatedly pick the skin and related psychosocial impact. Researchers have sought to understand and conceptualise this picking through noting its common characteri... Read More about The problem with picking: Permittance, escape and shame in problematic skin picking.

Investigation of nanocrystalline zinc oxide and zinc oxide/copper oxide composites for use in a continuous flow biosensor (2022)
Thesis

There are an increasing number of applications for point-of-care biosensing technologies that are able to monitor biochemical levels over a period, rather than as a measurement at a single time point. As with all point-of-care devices, cost and appro... Read More about Investigation of nanocrystalline zinc oxide and zinc oxide/copper oxide composites for use in a continuous flow biosensor.

Composing entanglement: Temporal structures of audio augmented reality (2022)
Thesis

Through an integrated portfolio of practice and writing, this research proposes a compositional framework for audio augmented reality (AAR). In articulating the relationships between time (experiential and measurable), geospatial movement and sound i... Read More about Composing entanglement: Temporal structures of audio augmented reality.

An analysis of the NHS Cord Blood Bank; Barriers to cord blood donation and quality parameters limiting storage (2022)
Thesis

The NHS Cord Bank was established in 1996 to build an inventory of altruistically donated cord blood units to provide equity of access to all patients eligible for a stem cell transplant. Fixed cord blood collection sites were selected in areas of hi... Read More about An analysis of the NHS Cord Blood Bank; Barriers to cord blood donation and quality parameters limiting storage.

Intelligent data processing to support self-management and responsive care (2022)
Thesis

This research is situated in the area of ambient intelligent systems for assisted living. The motivation for the research was to understand how ambient intelligent systems could be used to support people with learning disabilities in providing more p... Read More about Intelligent data processing to support self-management and responsive care.

Confident leaders– by design: A case study of self-efficacy in educational leadership development (2022)
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Effective leadership is second only to the quality of teaching as a lever for improving educational outcomes (National College of School Leadership, 2006) and is vital to the success of most school improvement efforts (Leithwood et al., 2019). Leader... Read More about Confident leaders– by design: A case study of self-efficacy in educational leadership development.

Illicit financial flow and the vulnerability of banks - The link between corruption and money laundering, a socio-legal study of the laws and practice in the UK and Nigeria (2021)
Thesis

Secrecy jurisdictions, banking secrecy and corporate secrecy are intricately connected to illicit financial flow (IFF), that facilitate corruption and money laundering but the Corruption Perceptions Indicator (CPI) provides a misleading interpretatio... Read More about Illicit financial flow and the vulnerability of banks - The link between corruption and money laundering, a socio-legal study of the laws and practice in the UK and Nigeria.

Non-walkability in the car-centric city (2021)
Thesis

Background
Increasing the levels of walking for transport is a widespread urban policy goal, aligning with actions related to climate change, public health, equity of access and participation, and more liveable cities. The walking environment (WE),... Read More about Non-walkability in the car-centric city.

Women’s suffrage societies and the gendering of power: The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) as pioneers of women-led organisations (2021)
Thesis

This work challenges the consistent application by historians of the term’s militant to the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and constitutional to the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The continuous links with militancy... Read More about Women’s suffrage societies and the gendering of power: The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) as pioneers of women-led organisations.