Browse more theses by postgraduate research students from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business.
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
ON THE NATURE OF FIELDWORK A COMPOSER'S INTERDISCIPLINARY THEORY AND PRACTICE, MATTHEW THOMAS MARTIN
Policing Partnerships: An Investigation into the Police Response to Partnership Working in the Wake of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, Stuart David Lander
Politicizing a film practice, Gary Anderson
SPEAKING OF GENDER, LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY: WRITING THE PERSONAL, BARBARA BRIDGER
Stewards of the earth? : a study of teenagers' pro-environmental attitudes and lifestyles in Devon, UK and Malaga, Spain, Jennie Winter
The resistance of an established profession towards an emergent occupation, Richard William Goslin
THE UNKNOWN That what I say is not what I mean, Tomasz Wendland
Tourism and crime, whose problem? : a Cornish perspective, Carol Jones
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
A practice of painting : living with the reception and generation of image on the visual threshold, Gladin Fryer
GESTURES TOWARDS EMPTINESS: AN EXPLORATION OF RITUAL WITH REFERENCE TO BUDDHIST TRADITION AND INNOVATION, LUISE HOLTBERND
Migration & Economy in Cornwall, Stuart James Burley
Mis-Guided Exploration of Cities: an ambulant investigation of participative politics of place, SIMON BERNARD PERSIGHETTI
PERFORMANCE AND THE PAGE: An artist's investigation of the dialogue between the musical event and the written score, Michael Joseph McInerney
Shared Habitats: the MoverWitness Paradigm, Eila Goldhahn
Tarmac cowboys : an ethnographic study of the cultural world of boy racers, Zannagh Hatton
THE CHALLENGE OF INTERAGENCY INFORMATION SHARING: A SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS OF TWO SURE START CHILDREN'S CENTRES, SUSAN MOIRA RICHARDSON
THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF FOUR OVERWEIGHT HISPANIC ADOLESCENT FEMALES, Wanda Lee Rhodes
The rape of Mary Raymond : a radical view of rape in Mary Hays's The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice, Sarah Ann Oliver
Vesica: using Neolithic British ritual art and architecture as a model for making contemporary art, Michael Pearce
William Andrews Nesfield (1794-1881) artist and landscape gardener, Shirley Rose Evans
WILLIAM ANDREWS NESFIELD [1794-1881] ARTIST AND LANDSCAPE GARDENER, Shirley Rose Evans
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
An Enquiry into Fully Lived Moments, Philip Hawkins
An investigation into the survival of medieval plaster in Dorset churches, Bruce Induni
Articulations of equity: practice, complexity and power in facilitated art projects, GILL CLAIRE MELLING
Automatism and art practice, Anne Martin
Church monuments of Devon and Cornwall c1660-c1730, Clive James Easter
CREATIVE ACTS: Curating and Writing with Artists, Tracey Karen Warr
European integration and European identity : case study : the European dimension in secondary schooling, Sandra Barkhof
HARMONIC INTONATION AND IMPLICATION (ANALYSES AND COMPOSITIONS): Harmonic perception and intonation in the reception and performance of alternative tuning systems in contemporary composition, JOHN PAUL SWOGER-RUSTON
LIBERTY HORSES (A NOVEL): NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS IN POSTMODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TEXTS, DAVID JAMES HUMPHREY
READING NEUROSCIENCE: VENTRILOQUISM AS A METAPHOR FOR MULTIPLE READINGS OF SELF, David Evans
RETHINKING ABSENCE: ART PRACTICE AND THE CRITICAL METAPHYSICS OF JACQUES DERRIDA AND JACQUES LACAN, KAREN GEORGETTE ROULSTONE
Sustainable development : the reflexive governance of risk, Gregory John Borne
The navy as the ultimate guarantor of freedom in 1940?, Anthony John Cumming
Three officially commissioned women war artists of the Second World War : Ethel Gabain, Evelyn Gibbs and Evelyn Dunbar, Alice Marina Strickland
USING ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING THEORY AS A MEANS OF MOBILISING KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES IN THE CONTROL OF INFECTION, Andy Nichols
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
ACADEMIC FEMINISM IN BRITAIN AND THE USA 1980 AND 1998: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, RACHEL TORR
Appropriate practice? : a study of the role and co-ordination of volunteer appropriate adults for young suspects, Harriet Louise Pierpoint
Broken contract : the autobiographical performance or producing 'self' in the act of writing a life, Joshua Leo Sofaer
Carhampton magistrate district in relation to the 1856 County and Borough Police Act : a case for non-statutory policing, Janet Susan Setterington
Collage music : the development of a language of studio composition, Paul Lewis Mumford
PERFORMING A PRACTICE: NARRATIVE • TRANSLATION • LIVE INSTALLATION • URBAN INTERVENTION, Anya Lewin
USING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE AS A CONCEPTUAL TOOL: AN EXAMINATION OF COGNITION IN IMPROVISED MUSICAL PERFORMANCE, TIMOTHY THOMAS SAYER
Writings, Readings and Not Writing: poems, prose fiction and essays, John Hall
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Bird song as a basis for new techniques and improvisational practice with the baroque flute, Stephen Preston
Designing the Performative Object: a study in designing mindful interaction through artefacts, Kristina Niedderer
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE ACTIVATED PRESENCE, JOANNA LOUISE MAYES
Film and the Dartington Experience, David Edward Hilton
German-Polish cross-border co-operation and the politics of transgression, Ulrich Best
Matching provision to needs : the example of victim support, Lesley Simmonds
MELTING INTO THE MARGINS: THE DIS-APPEARANCE OF NORMALITY, RUTH MARIE HEHOLT
'Missing youth' : a discourse analysis of policy formulation on 'child prostitution', Lyvinia Elleschild
MOVING IMAGE - STILL LIFE, KIKI PETRATOU
Points on my Curve to Find: A Journey around the Self to Find the World, MORGAINE GAYE
SELF(ISH)-FUSION THINKING AND PRACTICE- A (MAINLY) VISUAL INVESTIGATION OF POLY-MODAL ART-MAKING, PAULINE AMOS
THE DISTRIBUTION OF ATTITUDINAL ATTACHMENT TO THE MALE BREADWINNER ROLE: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE PLYMOUTH TRAVEL-TO-WORK AREA, SUZANNE E. CHAMBERLAIN
The Illustration of Experience, Richard Jones
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
An analysis of the role of the Baltic states ports in the trans Siberian railway market, Anastasia Liliopoulou
Antenatal education in the transition to motherhood, Suzanne Elizabeth Burley
Britain in Europe : a discourse-theoretical approach, Gavin Moorhead
Children and family values : a critical appraisal of 'family' in schools, Rowena Alexandra Passy
Creating emotionally aware performance environments: a phenomenological exploration of inferred and invisible data space, Richard Mark Povall
From 'Le cri de la nature' to 'Pygmalion' : a study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy of music and aesthetic and reform of opera, Stephen John Xavier Baysted
Indentity-in-motion : the narrative duration of the dis/continous film moment, Maria Walsh
Not Art: An Action History of British Underground Cinema, Duncan Reekie
PHILOSOPHIES OF COLOUR: GENDER AND ACCULTURATION, Helen V. Andrew
POLITICAL DEALIGNMENT IN BRITAIN : THE LOCAL EVIDENCE 1959-1979, PAUL JAMES LAMBE
'THE COST OF BANKING ON EASTERN PROMISES' AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF CHANGING BANK STRATEGIES ON EMPLOYEES, SUSAN JANE CHILD
The kinesfield : a study of movement-based interactive and choreographic art, Gretchen Elizabeth Schiller
The Materiality of Text and Body in Painting and Darkroom Processes: An Investigation through Practice, Deborah Robinson
TRANSMISSION & THE INTERNET: THE CONTEMPORARY RESPONSE OF A TRADITIONAL MUSICAL COMMUNITY, Griselda Sanderson
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
CONTROLLING THE POLICE: LOCAL AUTONOMY IN POLICY AND PRACTICE, RICHARD JOHN APPLEGATE
Dorothy Elmhirst and the visual arts at Dartington Hall 1925 - 1945, Rachel Harrison
From here to diversity : ethnicity in the national health service, Nicholas Richard Johns
Liminal blankness : mixing race and space in monochrome's psychic surface, Angeline Dawn Morrison
PAINTING SILENCE, GRAHAM CLUCAS
Spaces of Appearance: Writings on Contemporary Theatre and Performance, ANTONY DAVID C. WILLIAMS
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS PSYCHOMETRIC TOOL FOR ENHANCING FUNCTIONAL FLUENCY, SUSANNAH FLEUR TEMPLE
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham & Margaret Mellis - The Gendered Construction of 'St Ives' Display, Positioning and Displacement, Nedira Yakir
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE FACTORS DETERMINING RUMINANT LIVESTOCK DISTRIBUTION IN THE FAR SOUTH WEST, DAFYDD HUW DAVIES
Designing a visual component of communication within 3D avatar virtual worlds, Nicholas John Earle
From Rio to Romola: Morality and Didacticism in the English Appreciation of Early Italian Art 1836-1863, Matthew T.W. Plampin
METHODOLOGICAL EMBODIMENTS:: PSYCHICAL CORPOREAL PERFORMANCES OF SUBJECTIVE SPECIFIC AUTO[EROTIC)-REPRESENTATIONS, Ryya Aviva Sanders
Music in Reality The relation of music, emotion and Pre-Socratic myth, BRIAN CAPLETON
Phonographies: Practical and Theoretical Explorations into Composing with Disembodied Sound, John Levack Drever
Poetic Anatomy of the Numinous Creative Passages into the Self as Beloved, PARTOU ZIA
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING The Autobiographical Subject in the Drama and Memoirs of Ronald Duncan, ANNA CLAIRE TRUSSLER
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Acts of Writing: Writings on Contemporary Performance, RICHARD DAVID ALLSOPP
Criminality of women in the 18th century in the South West of England, Amy Alexander Williams
Live interpretation: an asset, or an indulgence? In the fields of education and entertainment, how valuable is live interpretation as an effective tool of communication?, DAWN HELEN STEVENS
Processing Writing: From Text to Textual Interventions, CAROLINE BERGVALL
SOUTH ASIAN DIVORCE AND DISPUTES INVOLVING CHILDREN OF SOUTH ASIAN ORIGIN, WILLIAM HAY
The Architectural Expression of Anglican Rituals as Disseminated Through a Photographic Enquiry of Six Devon Churches, Simon Standing
The Disappearing Frame.: A Practice-based investigation into composing virtual environment artworks, Thomas James Patrick Corby
WRITING THE REAL: THE COLLAGES OF HANNELORE BARON, VALERIE JAMES REARDON
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
A framework for improving the implementation of process based change, Zoe Katherine Nash
An investigation into attitudes towards illegitimate birth as evidenced in the folklore of South West England, Sarah Joanne Davies
''Even the Truth needs a Barnum'' Nicolas Nabokov, Music and the Cold War, Ian Hugh Wellens
In the Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Disidentity in the Nineteenth Century, Richard Joseph Walker
