Background: There is very little research, and no qualitative research, to date that has explored the lived experiences of sex and sexuality for women with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is thought that OCD could impact on sexuality because... Read More about 'One dead bedroom': Exploring the impact of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) on women's lived experience of sex and sexuality.
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Alopecia areata (AA) is an unpredictable appearance changing hair loss condition that biomedicine is currently powerless to cure. The physical symptoms are not painful or life-threatening but people living with AA report high levels of distress and a... Read More about Exploring the subjectivities of people with alopecia areata - a critical qualitative study to inform applied psychology practice.
Application of renewable fuels in ternary blends for the reduction of emissions in diesel engines (2020)
Thesis
The increasing use of biofuels to replace fossil fuels as well as more stringent emission regulations for internal combustion engines cause a challenge for the engine manufacturers to design engines that can cope with a wide range of fuels, but still... Read More about Application of renewable fuels in ternary blends for the reduction of emissions in diesel engines.
The interaction and collaboration between the constituent systems in System of Systems (SoS) context entail more complex and new challenges that face the application of Change Management (ChM) frameworks. Some of these challenges include: (i) the ins... Read More about OntoSoS.BPA.ChM: A semantically-enriched and business process architecture-driven framework for change management in system of systems context.
Application of environmental process engineering for pollutants reduction and energy savings in crude oil production processes (2020)
Thesis
Crude oil production generates pollutants whose management require capital and recurrent investment in energy intensive treatment facilities. Produced water is the main pollutant and the volume generated increases as the oil wells get older. Benzene,... Read More about Application of environmental process engineering for pollutants reduction and energy savings in crude oil production processes.
This thesis is a submission of eight published papers with a critical commentary to meet the requirements for a DPhil in accordance with the regulations of the University of the West of England (UWE, Bristol). These papers have resulted from three pr... Read More about Enhancing communication and engagement between people living with dementia and health care professionals across the well pathway for dementia.
Statistical inference with paired observations and independent observations in two samples (2020)
Thesis
A frequently asked question in quantitative research is how to compare two samples that include some combination of paired observations and unpaired observations. This scenario is referred to as `partially overlapping samples'. Most frequently the de... Read More about Statistical inference with paired observations and independent observations in two samples.
Analysis of the cross-examination of complainants and defendants within rape trials (2020)
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Research continues to raise concerns over the treatment of rape complainants at trial, despite the numerous criminal justice reforms implemented in the last two decades. Attention has been paid to the difficulties of giving evidence, particularly dur... Read More about Analysis of the cross-examination of complainants and defendants within rape trials.
An exploratory study of the contributions to low carbon policy making in Bristol using WEF Nexus as a heuristic device (2020)
Thesis
Cities around the world have taken up the challenge to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by designing policies to bring about low carbon futures. Research on climate change suggests that we are not only facing an issue of increased emissions but... Read More about An exploratory study of the contributions to low carbon policy making in Bristol using WEF Nexus as a heuristic device.
The focus of this research was to investigate both how further education (FE) lecturers and middle managers engage in professional development and what they perceive to constitute effective professional development. This focus represents an area of s... Read More about The view from the deck - exploring lecturers’ and middle managers’ perceptions of English FE sector professional development: A case study evaluation.
Dual wield: Adventures at the interplay of poetry and computer games (2020)
Thesis
In recent years, poets and digital game developers alike have begun to experiment with the possibilities of poem-game interplay and hybrid poetry games. The results of such experiments are intimately connected to poetry’s expansion into digital-inter... Read More about Dual wield: Adventures at the interplay of poetry and computer games.
The practice of attention in the workplace - Phenomenological accounts of lived experience (2020)
Thesis
In this very moment, our attention is being captured, tracked and traded as a commodity in the commercial market. As a global community, we are facing one of the most serious cultural crises of our time yet we are too distracted to be aware of it a... Read More about The practice of attention in the workplace - Phenomenological accounts of lived experience.
Realising young children's rights: Researching conversations with rights respecting early childhood leaders (2020)
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Children in the UK have been rights bearing citizens since ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1991). Between 1996-2017 the Department of Education, published 5 iterations of a curriculum for children youn... Read More about Realising young children's rights: Researching conversations with rights respecting early childhood leaders.
Peer-informed support for parents of burn-injured children (2020)
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Burns are the fifth most common cause of non-fatal childhood injuries. In addition to the trauma of suffering a burn, the painful and intrusive medical procedures required to treat them can impact on the developing child cognitively, emotionally, psy... Read More about Peer-informed support for parents of burn-injured children.
In vitro modelling of tongue derived microbial biofilms and their reponse to treatment (2020)
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This work concerns the development of a flat plate perfusion model to study biofilms derived from human tongue biota. The model has been derived from a previous sorbarod model, via a flat plate model (used to study wound organisms), to the model desc... Read More about In vitro modelling of tongue derived microbial biofilms and their reponse to treatment.
Targeting the splice factor kinase CLK1 in prostate cancer cells (2020)
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Prostate cancer is the most rampant diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer related death in men between middle age and old age. There is a need to identify the molecular genetic processes that underpin prostate cancer and to search f... Read More about Targeting the splice factor kinase CLK1 in prostate cancer cells.
This is a qualitative research project, exploring how being childfree through choice is constructed by British women who self-identify with this term. Using a grounded theory approach to analyse rich narratives gathered through semi-structured interv... Read More about “Being the person people can’t handle”: A grounded theory exploration of British women’s constructions of living childfree through choice.
Antimicrobial activity of essential oils as liquid and vapour applications (2020)
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Essential oils produced by plants have been used as antimicrobial agents historically, however, many essential oils remain under-exploited as alternatives to antimicrobials. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to evaluate the antibacterial efficacy... Read More about Antimicrobial activity of essential oils as liquid and vapour applications.
In a man’s world: The experiences of women in academic employment in Nigerian universities (2020)
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Despite the fact that women are increasingly embracing academic opportunities, evidence suggest that not only are women numerically underrepresented in academic employment, their progress is often slowed down and stifled by a range of barriers and ch... Read More about In a man’s world: The experiences of women in academic employment in Nigerian universities.
Nigeria requires an efficient and a capable skilled workforce to manage the construction industry. The workforce comprises the engineers, technicians and the craftsmen from Nigerian universities, polytechnics and technical colleges. The importance of... Read More about Skills gap assessment to enhance the delivery of technical and vocational education: A case study of electrical installation graduates in Ogun and Kaduna states of Nigeria.