Browse more theses by postgraduate research students from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business.
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Times and the Manchester Guardian’s editorial perspectives on Irish Home Rule and the adoption of referendum debates during the British constitutional crisis: December 1910-August 1911, David Frederick Ernest Moore
The Use of Blogs for Teaching and Learning in UK and US Higher Education, Elaine Garcia
Transitions-felt: William James, Locative Narrative and the Multi-stable Field of Expanded Narrative, Emma Whittaker
Unconventional Computing and Music: An Investigation into Harnessing Physarum polycephalum, Edward Braund
WHO AM I? SUBJECTIVITIES IN THE SOCIETY OF ACCOUNTABILITY, AMOS BIANCHI
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A GROUNDED THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS IN A BRITISH UNIVERSITY: MAKING THE GRADE, Patrick McMahon
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF NHS REFORMS ON PHYSIOTHERAPY AND ITS MANAGEMENT STRUCTURES IN ENGLAND AND WALES, Fiona Jenkins
A Theoretical Model for the Design of a Transcultural Visual Communication System in a Posthuman Condition, Haytham Nawar
BRAIN-COMPUTER MUSIC INTERFACING: DESIGNING PRACTICAL SYSTEMS FOR CREATIVE APPLICATIONS, Joel Eaton
Community Planning, Community Safety and Policing: a local case study of governance through partnership, Gareth Addidle
Critical Firm-based Enablers-Mediators-Outcomes (CFEMOs): A New Integrated Model for Product Innovation Performance Drivers in the Context of U.S. Restaurants, Mohamed Farouk Shehata Ali
Defining new knowledge produced by collaborative art-science research, Juanita Schlaepfer-Miller
Development of Recognition Memory: Process Dissociation of Recollection and Familiarity in Children, Laura Koenig
Doing Community Safety by Locality Working: Regime Theory and Micro-Climates of Crime and Disorder Co-Governance, Neil Chappell
Duchamp Meets Turing: Art, Modernism, Posthuman, Gabriela Galati
Embodying Topeng: Gender, Training and Intercultural Encounters, Tiffany Strawson
Female Virtue In Gothic Literature 1780-1810, Philippa Catnach
‘History Engraved on his Shoulder’: A Comparative Study of the Influence of British First World War Poetry on Post 1980 Iraqi War Poetry "embargoed indefinitely", Adhraa Al Shammari
Immigration policy and the role of political discourses in the relationship between foreign nationals and crime in England and wales, Khamael Hasan Naji Al-Faris
LABYRINTH PSYCHOTICA - SIMULATING PSYCHOTIC PHENOMENA, Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a)
Literal and figurative meanings of Spanish spatial prepositions in Chinese students’ acquisition of Spanish as a third language, Pablo Encinas Arquero
MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES OF COMPLEX ONLINE SERVICES: an e-government case study, Janet Denise Kneller
Performing LGBT Pride in Plymouth 1950 - 2012, Alan Butler
Poems to the Sea and Painterly Poetics: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Cole Swensen, Peter Gillies
Social Exclusion, Resort Decline and the English Seaside, Steven Jakes
That Dark Remembered Day - a novel, and critical self-reflection on composition and the editorial process, Tom Vowler
THEŌRIA: THE VENERATION OF ICONS VIA THE TECHNOETIC PROCESS, Ekaterini Karoussos
Thermography Approaches for Building Defect Detection, Matthew Fox
Tommy Atkins, War Office Reform and the Social and Cultural Presence of the Late-Victorian Army in Britain, c.1868-1899, Edward Peter Joshua Gosling
Towards a Cinema of Imperfection: Participatory Film as Research, Allister Gall
Visual Narrative: A Theory and Model for Image-Driven Digital Historiography based on a Case Study of China’s Boxer Uprising (c. 1900), Ellen Irene Sebring
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
A comparative study of the obligation of due diligence to provide a seaworthy vessel under the Hague/Hague-Visby Rules and the Rotterdam Rules, Talal Aladwani
Airport Territory as Interface: Mobile Work and Travel in Hybrid Space., Monika Ewa Codourey
An Artistic Equivalence of my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Tom Baugh
An Ontology of Space: Methodological Recursiveness and the Diagram, Rita Cachao
Are You Known To Us? Inscribing a Gendered Body Through Play in the Public Built Environment, Danielle Zahra Abulhawa
Art in the public realm and the politics of rural leisure: Access and environment, Alex Murdin
DESIGNING A TAXONOMY FOR VIRTUAL MUSEUMS FOR THE USE OF AVICOM PROFESSIONALS, Simona Caraceni
Devising Solo Performance: A Practitioner’s Enquiry, Misri Dey
Ecological Understanding through Transdisciplinary Art and Participatory Biology, Brandon Ballengée
Every Frame Counts: Creative Practice and Gender in Direct Animation, Kayla Parker
Faith in Practice: A Mixed Method Study Exploring the Impact of Faith Based Organisations in Delivering Voluntary and Community Sector Activities in Cornwall, Lois Elizabeth Wild
Intercorporeality and Technology: toward a new cognitive, aesthetic and communicative paradigm in the performing arts, Isabelle Choinière
International study visits and the promotion of intercultural capabilities: an exploratory study, Valerie Huggins
JOHN HOYLAND: THE MAKING AND SUSTAINING OF A CAREER - 1960-82, Christopher Anthony Davies
Knowledge management competence for ERP implementation success, Uchitha Jayawickrama
Legitimising Discourses and the Efforts to Reform the European Union’s Fiscal Governance Arrangements, Thomas Warren
Machine Performers: Agents in a Multiple Ontological State, Louis-Philippe Demers
Making the Past: The Concepts of Literary History and Literary Tradition in the Works of Thomas Gray, Raheem Rashid Mnayit Albu-Mohammed
Natural Strange Beatitudes: Geoffrey Hill's The Orchards of Syon, Poetic Oxymoron and Post-Secular Poetics AND An Atheist's Prayer-Book, Jonathan Wooding
New Routes to HCI - A transdisciplinary approach, Marcio Rocha
PETIT TRIANON AND MARIE ANTOINETTE: REPRESENTATION, INTERPRETATION, PERCEPTION, Denise Cristina Ioana Maior-Barron
Polyphibianism: Evolving Transdisciplinarity into an Imaginary Organism of Living Knowledge, Ziva Ljubec
Pudu Jail's Graffiti: Beyond the Prison Cells, Khairul Ismail
Reanimating the Wound: Dermatilliomanic Practice and the First World War, Camilla Nock
Reflecting on the Development of British Ocean Cruise Tourism: Keeping the Romance Afloat, Martin John Cholwill
Reproducing ‘geopolitics’ – national identity representations of foreign affairs in Moldova, Roxana Adina Huma
Rex Whistler (1905-1944) Patronage and Artistic Identity, Nikki Frater
The Construction of National Identity in post-1918 Poland, Bartosz Lyszkiewicz
The Effectiveness of the Church of England Guidance for Assessing Significance, Bridget Gillard
The Go-Between. The Film Archive as a Mediator Between Copyright and Film Historiography., Claudy Wilhelmina Elisabeth Op den Kamp
The Legal Regimes Governing Marine Renewable Energy in England and Wales, Victoria Jane Hamlyn
The Ontology of the Venetian Halo in its Italian Context, Susan Morag Martin
Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism, Aviva Rahmani
Walk Like an Egyptian: Belly Dance past and present practice in England, Siouxsie Cooper
Women and the Violent Workplace, Sharon Beckett
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
A History of the Cornish Male Voice Choir:The Relationship between Music, Place and Culture, Susan Margaret Skinner
An Investigation of the Coherence of Instrumental Accumulation, Using a Sculptural Methodology, Nicola Ann Gilmour
A Reconsideration of the Interpretation and Analysis Typically Applied to Edward Hopper’s Art During the 1940s, Ana-Ciara Evelini Ulamoleka
Between Selves and Others: Exploring Strategic Approaches within Visual Art, Teresa Chen
Blackshirts and White Wigs: Reflections on Public Order Law and the Political Activism of the British Union of Fascists, Iain Channing
Creative Responses to Maltese Culture and Identity: Case Study and Portfolio of Compositions, Mariella Cassar
Experience and Viewpoints in the Social Domain of Space Technology, Joanna Griffin
Facing Experience: A Painter's Canvas in Virtual Reality, Margaret Dolinsky
German-German Relations in the Fields of Sport, with Particular Reference to the Olympic Games 1952-1972, Bernd Raeke
Incumbency Effects in English Local Elections 1974-2010: Assessing the Advantage of Electoral Defence, Michael Thomas Eugeniusz Turner
Legal Risk Associated with Electronic Funds Transfer, Samahir Abdulah
Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language, Tine Melzer
MI9's escape and evasion mapping programme 1939-1945, Barbara A. BOND
Montage As A Participatory System: Interactions with the Moving Image, James Moore
Northeast Asian containerised maritime logistics: supply chain collaboration, collaborative advantage and performance, YOUNG-JOON SEO
On the Evolution of the Heavenly Spheres: An Enactive Approach to Cosmography, David McConville
'Ourfoodstories@e-mail.com', an Auto/Biographical Study of Relationships with Food., Julie Parsons
Outline of a Subversive Technopoetic: for a Libertarian Pedartgogy, Francesco Monico
Perceiving voids: Memory And Sight Afflictions In Contemporary Cinema, Francesco Marineo
Puncturing the Silence: Painting Over the Found Photograph, Sarah Lesley Chapman
Re-appropriating Chinese Art in the Context of Digital Media: From the Chinese Past into a Mediated ‘Presence’ through Creative Practice, Keung David HUNG
The British Way of War in North West Europe 1944-45: A Study of Two Infantry Divisions, Louis Paul Devine
The impact of terrain on British operations and doctrine in North Africa 1940-1943., Neal Dando
Towards Sustainable Middle Eastern Cities: A Local Sustainability Assessment Framework, Mustafa AL-ALwani
Tracing the Compositional Process. Sound art that rewrites its own past: formation, praxis and a computer framework, Hanns Holger Rutz
Working-class housing in Plymouth 1870-1914, Ann Bond
