Browsing by Author "Faculty of Arts and Humanities"
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Airport Territory as Interface: Mobile Work and Travel in Hybrid Space.
(Plymouth University, 2015)Premise In order to understand the future potential of work and air travel experience for constant travellers, design approaches from architecture and research methods from social studies should be combined. Abstract Global ... -
Algorithmic Sovereignty
(University of Plymouth, 2018)This thesis describes a practice based research journey across various projects dealing with the design of algorithms, to highlight the governance implications in design choices made on them. The research provides answers ... -
Analysis and Correction of Corneal Astigmatism in Modern Pseudophakia
(Plymouth University, 2016)Toric intraocular lenses (IOLs) are designed to reduce spectacle dependency by correcting corneal astigmatism at the time of surgery. However, these IOLs are reliant on the accurate prediction of post-operative corneal ... -
Are You Known To Us? Inscribing a Gendered Body Through Play in the Public Built Environment
(Plymouth University, 2015)This thesis begins from a concern over the perceived lack of female involvement in performances of play in the public built environment. Its starting point is the male-dominated practice of skateboarding. Although a popular ... -
Arhitectura 1950-1989. Interstitial Spaces of Communist Romanian Architecture
(University of Plymouth, 2019)This thesis examines the relationship between communist Romanian architecture as a politicised field of cultural production, and power embodied in the state’s institutions. While it is generally acknowledged that the ... -
Art in the public realm and the politics of rural leisure: Access and environment
(Plymouth University, 2015)Exploring both political aesthetics and the politics of aesthetics to outline an environmental ruralism for art in public spaces, this practice lead research project postulates a “complemental practice”, outlining its ... -
An Artistic Equivalence of my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(Plymouth University, 2015)An Artistic Equivalence of my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Thomas Baugh Abstract In this research I explore my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and make manifest equivalent experiences of it through art practice. I ... -
Artistic Modulation of Consciousness by Bioelectromagnetic Stimulation
(University of Plymouth, 2019)The thesis demonstrates why the application of bioelectromagnetic stimulation as a medium of artistic expression allows for the production of new and unprecedented realisations of integrative art. Furthermore, the modulation ... -
Assessment of a solid-state fermentation product in contemporary and lupin-containing diets for commercial finfish
(Plymouth University, 2016)This body of research explores the dietary application of a bioactive, solid-state fermentation (SSF) product in contemporary and lupin-containing diets of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niltoticus) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus ... -
Beliefs and Relationships during Children’s Transition to School: Parents, Practitioners and Teachers
(Plymouth University, 2016)Young children’s experiences, which include their transition to school, can influence not only their academic outcomes but also their life chances. This understanding has led to governments in England investing in the ... -
Between Selves and Others: Exploring Strategic Approaches within Visual Art
(Plymouth University, 2014)This body of research investigates how visual artists express ideas or meanings about Otherness and issues of belonging in their art. The focus of this study is on women artists with an (East) Asian diasporic background; ... -
Biodiversity crisis and recovery during the Triassic-Jurassic greenhouse interval: testing ocean acidification hypotheses
(Plymouth University, 2014)The Late Rhaetian (Late Triassic) extinction event is characterised by shelled species showing a reduction in size, and thickness, which together with changed mineralogy is thought to be as a result of increased atmospheric ... -
Birds with Wolf Hearts, a Collection of Poetry, with an Analysis of Contemporary Nepalese Women’s Poetry
(University of Plymouth, 2019)This thesis is comprised of a collation of women’s poetry from Nepal and its contextualising material, and a creative element which is poetry of my own responding to that work. The critical introduction argues that ... -
BRAIN-COMPUTER MUSIC INTERFACING: DESIGNING PRACTICAL SYSTEMS FOR CREATIVE APPLICATIONS
(Plymouth University, 2016)Brain-computer music interfacing (BCMI) presents a novel approach to music making, as it requires only the brainwaves of a user to control musical parameters. This presents immediate benefits for users with motor disabilities ... -
The British Way of War in North West Europe 1944-45: A Study of Two Infantry Divisions
(Plymouth University, 2014)This thesis will examine the British way of war as experienced by two British Infantry Divisions - the 43rd ‘Wessex’ and 53rd ‘Welsh’ - during the Overlord campaign in North West Europe in 1944 and 1945. The main locus ... -
CATCH | BOUNCE: Towards a relational ontology of the digital in art practice
(University of Plymouth, 2017)How might ‘the digital’ be conceived of in an ‘expanded field’ of art practice, where ontology is flattened such that it is not defined by a particular media? This text, together with an installation of art work at the ... -
Challenging Fragmentation: Overcoming the Subject-Object Divide through the Integration of Art-Making and Material Culture Studies
(Plymouth University, 2014)This practice-led thesis explores ways in which to integrate art and material culture studies as a manifestation of philosophy’s process thread. In doing so, its goal is to generate a praxis which is able to come to ... -
Challenging Robot Morality: An Ethical Debate on Humanoid Companions, Dataveillance, and Algorithms
(University of Plymouth, 2019)In this thesis, I reflect on ethical, moral, and agenthood debates around social and humanoid robots in two ways. I focus on how the technological agency of social robots is understood in ethical canons by shifting from ... -
Character on Trial: Reading and Judgement in Henry Fielding's Works
(University of Plymouth, 2018)To be placed above the Reach of Deceit is to be placed above the Rank of a human Being - Henry Fielding, A Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning, 1753. Throughout his literary and legal careers, Fielding was concerned ... -
Cognitive Processes in Craving: From the Laboratory to the Real World.
(Plymouth University, 2015)Elaborated Intrusion (EI) Theory posits that craving involves mental imagery in the same sensory modalities as the craved substance or activity. Visual imagery predominates, therefore craving should selectively interfere ...
