Browse theses by postgraduate research students from the School of Psychology.
Theses/Dissertations from 2026
A Psychosocial and Psychometric Exploration of Hikikomori in the UK, Gregory Gorman
Multimodal Imaging Markers of Brain Dysfunction in Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy: Sleep-Wake Regulation and Metabolic Dysfunction, Hannah Windmill
Neural basis of private and social decision-making: new insights from transcranial ultrasound stimulation and multivariate analysis, Mathilde Lojkiewiez
The Effects of Altered Partial Pressures of Gas on Cognitive and Neural Function, Daniel Graham
Virtually Painless: An Investigation into the Therapeutic Potential of Virtual Natural Environments for Chronic Low Back Pain, Alexander Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Project Exploring the Experiences of Suicidal Distress for Autistic Adults: An Interpretive Phenomenological Study, Kyah Sisulu, Emily Hustwick, Philippa Wood, Bethany George, and Lealah Hewitt-Johns
Bridging The Gap: A Mixed Methods Study of Trainee Clinical Psychologists’ Experiences and Learning Needs for Working with Refugees, with Co-produced Training Guidelines., Megan Stuart-Richards
Detecting Meaningful Longitudinal Cognitive Change in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease From Statistics to Clinical Tools: A Psychometric and Multivariate Evaluation, Wayelina Marianne
Developing New Memory Tests in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Development and Initial Pilot Study., Áine Maguire
Engaging Student Nurses in Lifestyle Management: The Role of Technology-Based Interventions and Mobile Health Applications, Daniela Austin
Ethnographically informed research exploring the impact of embedding trauma-informed principles in a befriending programme for refugees., Zahraa Abdulreda
Exploring the Caring Experiences of Parent-Carers of People with Learning Disabilities using Reflexive Thematic Analysis, Lauren Moore
Exploring the Experience of Co-Designing Mental Health Services in the National Health Service as an Expert by Experience, Annabelle McCall
Exploring the mechanisms of functional imagery training for sleep problems: A single arm pilot study, Ross Allen and Jackie Andrade
Functional Imagery Training for Increasing Employee Psychological Resilience, Despina Djama
‘I am free, but I am not free’: Nature-Based Interventions with Refugee and Asylum Seekers – An Ethnographic Action Informed Study, Louise Morgan
Masculinity, Muscles, and Minds. Investigating the Interplay of Factors Affecting Gym-Attending Men for Psychological Formulation., Abigail Middlecote
Meditation Techniques and Their Relationship to Psychotic-Like and Mystical Experiences, Timothy Palmer
Predictive Perception in Autism, Robert Harlow
The Comparison of Human and Machine Performance in Object Recognition, Gokcek Kul
The Effect of Caring for Trafficked Survivors. An Exploration of Staff Wellbeing within an Anti-Human Trafficking Non-Profit Organisation in South Africa., Elizabeth Aderanti
“The True Me”: Unravelling the Dual Narrative of Borderline Personality Disorder and Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Robin Iliffe-Lewis
Using Social Robots to Deliver Behaviour Change Interventions, Leonie Cooper
What helps and hinders staff supporting people with intellectual disabilities regarding sex and relationships, Laurence Constable and Deanna Gallichan
“Without This Part, It’s Hard to Truly Recover”: Adults’ Experiences of Body Compassion in Eating Disorder Recovery—A Reflexive Thematic Analysis, Vasiliki Anagnostopoulou
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
A Novel Measure Of Habits And Goal-Directed Control, Katie Wood
Exploring the behavioural and neural bases of impulsivity in a transdiagnostic approach relevant for addiction., Kenza Kadri
Is there a Relationship between Parents' Screen Usage and Young Children’s Development?, Delphine Nguyen
The design and implementation of group based Functional Imagery Training for weight loss., Sarah O'Rourke
The effectiveness of imagery use in motivating physical activity and exercise, Karol Nedza
The Effect Of Mindfulness-based Interventions On Anxiety Disorders Through Intolerance Of Uncertainty And Resilience, Aysun Parlar Yazici
Understanding Support Workers’ Experiences of their Roles in Health and Social Care in Great Britain and Ireland: A Systematic Literature Review, Caoimhe Sheelan
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Development of two disease specific scales to assess the impact of severe asthma on patients' lives, Joseph Lanario
Single-System and Dual-Process Accounts of Explicit and Implicit Memory, Rory Wilfrid Spanton
Testing the adequacy of formal models of an irrational learning effect, Lenard Dome
The Phonetic Specificity of British English-Learning Infants’ Word Form Recognition in Their First Year of Life, Paul Ratnage
What Relationships Exist Between Words In The Lexical-Semantic Systems Of Toddlers?, Nadine Fitzpatrick
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Behavioural determinants of human and planetary health: the role of nature contact and nature connectedness., Leanne Martin
Contributions of Motility to Large-scale Search and Navigation, Rory Baxter
Social identity processes involved in the acceptance and collective actions regarding large-scale energy technologies: The case of deep geothermal energy in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland., Francesca Ausilia Tirotto
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Assessing language development in Arabic-learning monolingual and bilingual toddlers, Alshaimaa Gaber Salah Abdel Wahab
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Culture and Time Perception: Implications for Mental Representation and Decisions, Siew Hong Tan
Neurosensitivity: Implications for Cognition and Creativity., David Bridges
Preferences for shared medical decision-making: Cross-cultural perspectives, Fatimah Alharbi
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Critique of a dual-system model of category learning, C E R Edmunds
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Age-related differences in visuomotor integration as measured by object affordance effects - a combined behavioural and neurophysiological investigation, Elisabeth Linnet
An Investigation into the Role of Subliminal Inputs in Placebo Response, Sally A F Pearce
Exploring the Factors which underpin Young Drivers' Over-Representation in Road Traffic Collisions, Lauren Weston
‘Food that disagrees with me’: An exploration from a psychological perspective., Alexander Wheatley
Subjective Well-Being Among Malaysian Students, Mazni Mustapha
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
An Electrophysiological Investigation Of Reward Prediction Errors In The Human Brain, Thomas Sambrook
Believe It or Not: Examining the Case for Intuitive Logic and Effortful Beliefs, Stephanie Howarth
Cognitive Processes in Craving: From the Laboratory to the Real World., Jessica Skorka-Brown
One step ahead: Investigating the influence of prior knowledge on the perception of others’ actions, Toby Nicholson
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Rocky Shores: From Habitat Threat to Marine Awareness & Well-Being Benefits, Kayleigh Wyles
The Contribution of Planning-related Motor Processes to Mental Practice and Imitation Learning, Bassem Khalaf
The Effect of Choice Set Size and Other Choice Architectures on Decisions to Volunteer, Lauren Carroll
The influence of long-term exposure to dialect variation on representation specificity and word learning in toddlers., Samantha Durrant
The Ties that Bind: An Investigation into the Effect of Action Restriction on Motor Simulations, Rachel Shaw
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
From Placebo to self-help: Investigating retention, outcome and mechanisms in self-directed gratitude interventions, Adam William Alfred Geraghty
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Acute Effects Of Self-paced Walking On Smoking Withdrawal And Cravings, Magdalena Katomeri
Memory And Metamemory In Patients With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, CHARLOTTE EMMA HOWARD
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Geometric and Extra-Geometric Spatial Conceptualisation: A cross-linguistic and non-verbal perspective, Anne Crum-Lindqvist
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Counterfactual Thinking And The False Belief Task: A Developmental Study, FREDERIQUE ARRECKX
Exploring The Fate Of No Longer Relevant Spatial Information Using A Modified Sternberg Task, KIRSTEN BURGHARDT
Feature Binding In Visuo-spatial Working Memory, JANE VICTORIA ELSLEY
The effect of GM label variation on perceptions of genetically modified foods, Alexandra Jane Costello
The Social And Psychological Effects Of SMS Text Messaging, Donna Reid
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Investigating the processing style account of the effects of Naval processing on face recognition performance, Nicola Jane Weston
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Perceived Similarity Between Complex Sounds: The Contribution Of Acoustic, Descriptive And Categorical Features, KIRSTEEN M ALDRICH
Predicting leadership and performance in uniformed organisations using the five factor model of personality, Christopher John James Allender
The Effects Of Idea Elaboration On Unconscious Plagiarism, LOUISA-JAYNE STARK
Training and dual processes in human thinking, Helen Louise Neilens
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Affordance, Attention And Laterality, LARI VAINIO
Deconstructing the Tower of London : resolution, alternatives and executive function, Hassina Carder-Gilbert
Factors Influencing The Accuracy Of Task Completion Time Estimates, KEVIN EDWARD THOMAS
Towards A New Theory Of Social Perception: The Effects Of Sex And Sexuality On Rape Attributions, LOUISE FARBUS
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Exploration Of Relevance Effects In Reasoning, SIMON FRANCIS VENN
Individual differences and strategies for human reasoning, Alison Bacon
Retrieval, Action And The Representation Of Distance In Cognitive Maps, DAVI VANN BUGMANN
Retrieval, action and the representation of distance in cognitive maps, Davi Vann Bugmann
The Coupling Of Perception And Action In Representation, Ed Symes
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
A Meeting Of Minds Across The Workspace: Common Ground In Collaborative Design, SUSAN ELIZABETH REED
Individual Differences In Secretory Immunoglobulin A (S-IgA) Reactivity To Acute Stress, MARK ANTHONY WETHERELL
Micro-affordances in visual mental imagery and visual short-term memory, Noreen Derbyshire
Postive Consequences Of Illness, SAMANTHA CLAIRE SODERGREN
Toward a Women-Centred Approach to Infant Feeding Research, Lynne Callaghan
