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Experience and Viewpoints in the Social Domain of Space Technology
(Plymouth University, 2014)
This thesis is about how space technology is experienced in the social domain and how its purpose is recast from different viewpoints. The author is an artist and the approach taken foregrounds qualities of experience and ...
Tracing the Compositional Process. Sound art that rewrites its own past: formation, praxis and a computer framework
(Plymouth University, 2014)
The domain of this thesis is electroacoustic computer-based music and sound art. It investigates
a facet of composition which is often neglected or ill-defined: the process of composing itself
and its embedding in time. ...
The impact of terrain on British operations and doctrine in North Africa 1940-1943.
(Plymouth University, 2014)
This thesis focuses on the extent to which the physical terrain features across Egypt, Libya and Tunisia affected British operations throughout the campaign in North Africa during the Second World War. The study analyses ...
Towards Sustainable Middle Eastern Cities: A Local Sustainability Assessment Framework
(Plymouth University, 2014)
The construction of a guiding methodological framework for local sustainability assessment is a key to achieving a sustainable future. This study develops an approach to local sustainability assessment (ALSA), a methodological ...
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 ...
Students' Experiences of Dance: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
(Plymouth University, 2015)
Abstract
The dominance of instrumentalism and utilitarianism in education today tends to reduce the value of dance. Research on dance in education is very limited. Recent reviews of research on the arts in education propose ...
Extended notation. The depiction of the unconventional
(Plymouth University, 2013)
Most extended instrumental playing techniques are still deprived of a conventional method of notation. In order to facilitate the utilisation of these unconventional musical elements, a coherent and consistent notation ...
HOMING PLACE: TOWARDS A PARTICIPATORY, AMBULANT AND CONVERSIVE METHODOLOGY
(Plymouth University, 2009)
The practice-as-research project Homing Place proposes a transferable percipient-led
methodology of performance and research activated by ambulant and conversive mechanisms
as the culmination of this research. The thesis ...
A Reconsideration of the Interpretation and Analysis Typically Applied to Edward Hopper’s Art During the 1940s
(Plymouth University, 2014)
This study aims to reframe the consideration and appreciation of Edward Hopper’s art focusing on the 1940s. The thesis proposes that Hopper should be categorised as a Modernist. This notion was explored by selecting and ...
Sustainability in Secondary Education in England: An Ethnographic Study
(Plymouth University, 2014)
This research sets out to establish both the extent to which and the ways in which English Secondary schools have a school culture focusing upon sustainability. I visited three case study schools for six weeks each: these ...