Objectives
The aim of the research was to hear the voices of participants with complex mental health needs, gaining insight into the experience of living in residential care homes. These voices often get lost; as people with complex mental health ne...
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All Outputs (1096)
Facilitating family engagement in older people's home-based reablement: A realist inquiry (2021)
Thesis
An ageing population brings pressures and opportunities. Since 2010, the UK Government has invested substantially in reablement, to release pressure in health and social care services and to promote wellbeing. When a deterioration in an individual’... Read More about Facilitating family engagement in older people's home-based reablement: A realist inquiry.
The experience of emotion in people with Fibromyalgia: A thematic analysis (2021)
Thesis
Emotion is widely recognised as one of the central factors which influence the experience and management of pain (International Association for the Study of Pain, 2020). There is a substantial research base on how emotion may exacerbate or ameliorate... Read More about The experience of emotion in people with Fibromyalgia: A thematic analysis.
Trade Union collective identity, mobilisation and leadership – a study of the printworkers’ disputes of 1980 and 1983 (2021)
Thesis
The National Graphical Association (NGA) typified the British model of craft unionism with substantial positional power and organisational strength. This study finds that it relied upon, and was reinforced by, the common occupational bonds that membe... Read More about Trade Union collective identity, mobilisation and leadership – a study of the printworkers’ disputes of 1980 and 1983.
“It’s such a hard and lonely journey”: Women’s experiences of perinatal loss and the subsequent pregnancy (2021)
Thesis
Background: Perinatal losses are devastating life changing events for mothers, with psychological consequences both after loss and in the following pregnancy. Societal taboos result in disenfranchised grief, with inconsistent support available.
Ai... Read More about “It’s such a hard and lonely journey”: Women’s experiences of perinatal loss and the subsequent pregnancy.
Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) can play a significant role in improving a company’s sustainability performance by addressing the social, environmental and economic issues affecting the supply chain; including suppliers, in-house operation... Read More about Investigating the motives, barriers and enablers associated with the implementation of a sustainable supply chain management in the Saudi manufacturing industry.
Diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs when blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high in the body (NHS, 2016). Diabetes UK (2009) estimates that self-management is 95% of managing diabetes. Self-management refers to an individual’s abil... Read More about How do illness perceptions influence the effectiveness of self-management in individuals living in Bermuda with type 2 diabetes?.
Technology enhance learning: A case study of the potentials of mobile technologies in Nigerian College of Education (2021)
Thesis
Technology has proven to be an effective tool and a driving force for developments in the education sector, hence the term “technology enhanced learning” (TEL). Despite the continuous impact of technology in education, the lack of TEL in teacher educ... Read More about Technology enhance learning: A case study of the potentials of mobile technologies in Nigerian College of Education.
Using Constructivist Grounded Theory Methodology, this study explores the perceptions of learning of eight career changing trainee teachers enrolled on four one-year primary or secondary postgraduate Initial Teacher Education programmes in England. T... Read More about Experiencing Initial Teacher Education as a career changer in England: A Constructivist Grounded Theory exploration of trainee teachers' perceptions of learning.
Exploring online identities of influential users in online communities: A mixed methods approach (2021)
Thesis
At present the use of online communities has become a great interest to practitioners and scholars alike due to the potential for recruitment and social marketing (Johnson, Safadi, & Faraq, 2015). However, despite the growth in interest for online co... Read More about Exploring online identities of influential users in online communities: A mixed methods approach.
Background
Armed forces personnel frequently witness traumatic events and suffer the consequences of involvement in combat. Improving treatment of post-traumatic stress and related problems for Veterans of these conflicts is important to optimise re... Read More about Is the Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Integrative Group Treatment Protocol (EMDR-IGTP) effective for UK military veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? A pilot study.
Following the global financial crisis, and a number of tax evasion scandals, there has been an increased public demand for countries to tackle tax evasion. In response, the past two decades have seen the diffusion of international cooperation in tax... Read More about A critical and comparative analysis of the prevention of tax evasion through the application of law and enforcement policies in the United Kingdom and United States of America.
Dynamic technique analysis of the female equestrian rider (2021)
Thesis
Equestrian dressage is the ultimate test of the rider’s ability to train the horse. The aim of this thesis was to present several methods to analyse the dynamic technique of dressage riders and horse-rider coordination. Competitive dressage riders we... Read More about Dynamic technique analysis of the female equestrian rider.
Genotoxicity testing is required for all new compounds utilising 2D assays, such as the in vitro micronucleus (MN) assay, before moving to in vivo assays such as the rodent bone marrow MN assay. Two-dimensional cell culture has traditionally been use... Read More about Bridging in vitro and in vivo testing: The utilisation of a novel in vitro three-dimensional model of human bone marrow for toxicity and genotoxicity testing.
A processual account of organisational change: Focusing attention on interaction and emergence (2021)
Thesis
This research proposes organisational change as unpredictable, uncontrollable and emergent, through the changing patterns of relating between participants. This contrasts with prescribed frameworks such as Six Sigma, which use a structured DMAIC (def... Read More about A processual account of organisational change: Focusing attention on interaction and emergence.
In the field of architecture, there has been little research on how the accumulation of material possessions is impacting on space for living in the home. There has been little understanding of what households own, collect, store and dispose of, nor... Read More about Stuff and space in the home: How can an understanding of material possessions help to inform spatial storage design in UK housing?.
A web-based Decision Support System (DSS) for preliminary risk assessment of Brownfield sites (2021)
Thesis
Reusing brownfield sites always raises concern for the health and safety of site workers involved in site renovations and redevelopments and, subsequently, for the residents or occupants of the sites. As a minimum, a preliminary risk assessment is ne... Read More about A web-based Decision Support System (DSS) for preliminary risk assessment of Brownfield sites.
Homing of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to the bone marrow (BM) niches after transplantation (HSCT) is controlled by chemotactic signalling released from the BM microenvironment. This process is incompletely understood, but some factors are known,... Read More about Investigation of haematopoietic stem cell homing post-transplantation using an in vitro model of the bone marrow/vasculature interface.
This research thesis qualitatively explores young peoples’ lived experiences of transitioning from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provided by the National Health Service (NHS) into voluntary and charitable sector services. Within... Read More about The transition from statutory Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services into third sector voluntary and charitable services: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of young peoples’ experiences.
Targeting the splice factor kinases SRPK1 and CLK1 in leukaemia (2021)
Thesis
This study was aimed at investigating the effect of inhibiting SRPK1 in leukaemic cells. It was also aimed at exploring the potential utility of combining conventional leukaemia chemotherapy (such as imatinib) with compounds that inhibit SRPK1.
SR... Read More about Targeting the splice factor kinases SRPK1 and CLK1 in leukaemia.