Children and young people with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries report common pervasive psychosocial difficulties, regardless of cause or nature of their visible difference. When present alongside the typical challenges of parenting (e.g.... Read More about Developing psychosocial support for parents and carers of children and young people with an appearance-affecting condition or injury.
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Development of frameworks for the management of materials procurement and construction waste for Nigerian contractors (2022)
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Construction is one of the industries that contributes the largest waste on the environment, resulting in pollution and high cost of projects. The industry is faced with waste management challenges undermining its quest for sustainable development. N... Read More about Development of frameworks for the management of materials procurement and construction waste for Nigerian contractors.
Designing dying well: Towards a new approach to the co-production of palliative care environments for the terminally ill (2022)
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This thesis brings forth a new awareness of the in-patient hospice to enable shared understanding between architectural and healthcare professionals in the UK. A timely study, inasmuch that there continues to be a reliance on the third sector to prov... Read More about Designing dying well: Towards a new approach to the co-production of palliative care environments for the terminally ill.
Petroleum disasters, such as the 1988 Piper Alpha incident, and more recently, the Gulf of Mexico Macondo well blowout, have left a legacy of environmental impacts with catastrophic effects. While these events evoked global apprehension and public ou... Read More about A framework for prioritising capability mechanisms for environmental disaster risk minimisation within Ghana's petroleum sector.
Learning through practice: A comparative study of student and graduate perceptions of learning to be and becoming a journalist (2022)
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This study examines approaches to learning and teaching journalism through practice at two UK Higher Education courses accredited by the UK Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC).
It explores how students and recent graduates from the two cour... Read More about Learning through practice: A comparative study of student and graduate perceptions of learning to be and becoming a journalist.
Current international guidelines and the associated “chain of survival” emphasise the recognition of critically unwell patients in the community followed by an efficient response in the hope of preventing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which occurs... Read More about Improving the Emergency Medical Service recognition and response for patients who are at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
This study performs an investigation of dynamic stall control (Gurney flap (GF)) and flow augmentation (straight upstream deflector (SUD)) devices to improve the performance of lift-driven Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) as they can improve the pow... Read More about Investigation of flow augmentation and dynamic stall control devices as performance enhancement of lift-driven vertical axis wind turbine using high-fidelity CFD methods.
Recent cumulative narratives indicate university cultures and learning environments are becoming less compassionate spaces and important relational characteristics eroded. This has important implications for nurse education where compassion is fundam... Read More about Specialist community public health nursing students’ experiences of receiving compassion from educators in higher education and on placement.
Towards a one-shot printed gripper for part extraction from powder-based 3D printing processes (2022)
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As 3D printing moves from a tool used predominantly for creating one-off prototype parts to being a key part in high volume manufacturing, the need for increased automation becomes desirable to save time and cost in the process. For 3D printing proce... Read More about Towards a one-shot printed gripper for part extraction from powder-based 3D printing processes.
With the centrality of physical appearance in society, having an atypical appearance or ‘visible difference’ as the result of a health condition or injury can cause psychosocial challenges. While some adjust without need for psychological support, ma... Read More about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for adults with visible differences: Advancing understanding and developing a self-guided intervention.
“I identified as a rugby player…now I’m a Dad”: Fathers’ experiences of physical activity in the postnatal period (2022)
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Background: Fatherhood is a significant life event that has the potential to impact fathers’ wellbeing and mental health. However, fathers’ experiences have been largely neglected in research and there remains a lack of awareness of pater... Read More about “I identified as a rugby player…now I’m a Dad”: Fathers’ experiences of physical activity in the postnatal period.
Camera trapping and occupancy model as a tool for monitoring the carnivore’s guild in Wadi Wurayah Man and Biosphere Reserve (2022)
Thesis
Understanding species habitat relationships and their relative importance to the carnivore guild is fundamental to determining optimal conservation strategies and guiding long-term management efforts in a man and biosphere reserve. In this study, I u... Read More about Camera trapping and occupancy model as a tool for monitoring the carnivore’s guild in Wadi Wurayah Man and Biosphere Reserve.
This study is a Case Study (CS) informed exploration of a pupil’s eye view of Character Education (CE), in a CS school. It is intended to find out what they think of CE claims it can be ‘caught, taught or sought’ (Jubilee Centre, 2018).
It consid... Read More about One size doesn’t fit all: Exploring complexity in young people’s perceptions of Character Education a critical realist case study.
Measuring sustainability performance of SMEs in a developing country: A study in the southern of Vietnam (2022)
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Given that sustainability performance measurement has gained a lot of momentum in recent years, there has been a shortcoming of sustainability metrics developed from SMEs perspective. This thesis investigated the most appropriate metrics for SMEs in... Read More about Measuring sustainability performance of SMEs in a developing country: A study in the southern of Vietnam.
Detecting the early essence of ‘modern’ project management – An historic case study approach (HMS Barham 1912-1915) (2022)
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This thesis investigates the management methods and tools and techniques used in the delivery of what we would today call a major project, but one which was completed some 50 years before Project Management was recognised as a management discipline.... Read More about Detecting the early essence of ‘modern’ project management – An historic case study approach (HMS Barham 1912-1915).
Art and design practices as a driver for deformable controls, textures and screen interactions (2022)
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In this thesis, we demonstrate the innovative uses of deformable interfaces to help de-velop future digital art and design interactions. The great benefits of advancing digital art can often come at a cost of tactile feeling and physical expression,... Read More about Art and design practices as a driver for deformable controls, textures and screen interactions.
Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’ (2022)
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Depictions of classroom teaching and learning in politics, policy and media tend to be over simplified and mechanistic. Insights from research on classroom learning draw largely on the ‘what works’ paradigm, which presents learning as directly caused... Read More about Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’.
Horse riding is a unique context for a human-animal study. It is both a leisure activity and the only Olympic sport where athletes compete against one another without having to declare their sex. Horse riding relies on rider and horse establishing... Read More about Profiles of British Equestrian Olympians: Evaluating historical, socio-cultural and sporting influences and how they could inform equestrianism in the future.
An interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring lived experiences of bulimia nervosa (2022)
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Bulimia nervosa is defined as a clinically recognised disorder, the key diagnostic features of which are eating an ‘abnormally’ large amount of food within a short space of time and compensatory behaviours such as abusing laxatives, vomit... Read More about An interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring lived experiences of bulimia nervosa.
Clients’ lived experiences of rooms used for talking therapies in the NHS (2022)
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Background: There has been little research into how clients experience rooms that are used for talking therapies within the National Health Service (NHS), despite the NHS being the single largest provider of talking therapies in the UK. This study us... Read More about Clients’ lived experiences of rooms used for talking therapies in the NHS.