• Re-performance, Mourning and Death: Specters of the Past 

  Julius, Sarah (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This research conducts an in-depth analysis into the recent trend for creating re-performances, interrogating the relationship between re-performance and issues of death, loss and memorial. The interrogation is underpinned ...

• Women’s Fashion Consumption in Saudi Arabia 

  Abu Nab, Elham (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This study investigates the influence of the sociocultural factors affecting the fashion and clothing consumption of Saudi women. It is a multidisciplinary study that combines fashion and consumer behaviour approaches in ...

• Unseen Horrors: The Unmade Films of Hammer 

  Foster, Kieran (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This doctoral thesis is an industrial study of Hammer Film Productions, focusing specifically on the period of 1955-2000, and foregrounding the company’s unmade projects as primary case studies throughout. It represents a ...

• Evaluating the impact of patient and public involvement on cancer research outcomes: A UK mixed methods study 

  Pandya-Wood, Raksha (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Interest in patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare research has been growing. In the UK and internationally there is increasing demand for researchers to demonstrate the value of PPI both in their work and to ...

• Exploring Sense-Making in Health Policy: Implementing Health Policy in Nigeria 

  Fawehinmi, Olawale (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This study employed the concept of sense-making as an interpretive lens to explore the cognitive dimensions of the actions of policy actors implementing the Nigerian Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) – a major health policy ...

• Identifying Boundary Spanning Behaviours, Capital Conversions and Practices in Multicultural Teams 

  McHardy, Peter (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This study concerns boundary spanning within and across multicultural teams, and will examine the impact of behaviours, roles, and boundary spanning practices in a multicultural team environment. Definitions of boundaries, ...

• An Investigation into Factors Affecting the Chilled Food Industry 

  Quinn, Peter (Thesis or dissertation / Masters / MPhil)

• A Case Study of the Evolution of Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner (as an instance of Advanced Practice Nursing) Roles in Palestine 

  Ma’ali, Ahmad (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This thesis investigated the evolution of the Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner (ONP) role in Palestine. The study aimed to explore and explain how and why the ONP role developed and what were the contextual factors that both ...

• An action research evaluation to understand and inform the role of the Integrated Care Pharmacist across health and social care 

  Navti, Phyllis (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Introduction A research study was commissioned to understand and inform the new role of an Integrated Care (IC) Pharmacist, founded to work as part of the health and social multidisciplinary team (MDT) within the IC program ...

• ‘Structures, Experiences and Discourses’: The Middlesex Military Service Tribunals and their Appellants, 1916-1918. 

  Harris, Peter (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The Military Service Tribunals were established following the First Military Service Act of January 1916 to consider applications for exemption from military service by men eligible for conscription. Conscription was not ...

• Creating ‘community’ through criminal justice policy: Engaging citizens and determining responsibility 

  Atherton, Susan (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This thesis explores the claims of community justice initiatives to bring about a ‘sense of community’ for local citizens, through improving their quality of life, and engaging them in working with the state to deal with ...

• An Investigation of Holographic Technologies Applied to Contemporary Art Practice A new approach to temporal aesthetics 

  Chang, Yin-Ren (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The works of contemporary art using audio, 35mm slide, video, film and computer- based technologies are commonly referred to as time-based media, since they have duration as a dimension. By looking at artworks which are ...

• Tracing and Common Law Claims to Substitute Assets: Separating Myth From Reality 

  Silver, Jonathan (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Tracing is a process by which a claimant shows that an asset represents a substitute for an original asset for the purposes of making a claim in respect of that substitute. Orthodox tracing theory says that this process ...

• Consumer Location Based Service Perceptions and Response: a focus on Location Based Services and Emerging Mobile Lifestyles 

  Giwa, Shelton Refuge (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Location Based Services (LBS) and electronically mediated lifestyles (e-lifestyles) represent emergent new areas with approaches (e.g. apps and e-activities) billed to change customer experiences and responses. Marketers ...

• British Dance and the African Diasporas, the Discourses of Theatrical Dance and the Art of Choreography: 1985 to 2005 

  Adewole, Oluwafunmilayo Adetinuke (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The aim of this thesis is to devise a theoretical approach to writing histories of theatrical dance, which draws on African and Diaspora forms. Most choreographers who work with these forms in Britain are usually of African ...

• Participation and Advocacy in Community Media 

  Watson, Robert (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Community media is less well funded, supported and researched than other forms of media, and yet it holds considerable potential as a transformative experience and as an agent for social change. This thesis explores how ...

• Mathilde Blind's The Ascent of Man: A Case Study of the Intellectual History, Composition, Publication, Reception History and Recovery of a Late Nineteenth-Century Volume of Poetry 

  Kuharenoka, Maija (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This thesis is a case study of Mathilde Blind’s (1841-1896) volume of poetry The Ascent of Man (1889) which focuses on the volume’s intellectual history, composition, publication, and reception history, including its recent ...

• Stanley Kubrick: Producers and Production Companies 

  Fenwick, James (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This doctoral thesis examines filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s role as a producer and the impact of the industrial contexts upon the role and his independent production companies. The thesis represents a significant intervention ...

• In Quest of Wisdom: Louise Rosenblatt, H.D., and the Transactional Literary Experience 

  Vytniorgu, Richard (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  his thesis theorises the relationship between the transactional literary experience and the experience of being in quest of wisdom in literary studies. It achieves this by constructing a dialogue between two thinkers deeply ...

• The roles of the assigned expatriate manager in multinational companies: reviewing the application of existing theoretical frameworks to the operationalisation of expatriate functions in foreign subsidiaries 

  Haynes, Rochelle (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The purpose of this thesis is to examine the functions that assigned expatriate (AE) managers perform within the foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies (MNCs). Its primary objectives are to explore the extent to ...

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