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School of Society and Culture Theses

Browse theses by postgraduate research students from the School of Society and Culture.

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

A Delicate Matter: The Madhouses of the South West of England, 1770 – 1851, Emma Barrett

AN INVESTIGATION OF TWICE EXCEPTIONALITY (2E) IN THE UK CONTEXT: THE PARADOXICAL COMBINATION OF EXCEPTIONALITIES, Yunus Emre Demir

Collaboration in Higher Education: Theorising Co-Creation for Inclusive Learning and Teaching Praxis, Sandra Abegglen

Evaluating the Integration of a Mathematics Enhancement Programme into Jamaican Primary Mathematics Classes, Shandelene Khadine Kedisha Binns-Thompson

Evidence-Based Teaching: discourses of pedagogy and positionality, Jacklyn Barry

Exploring parents’ and teachers’ experience of a novel programme: SAFE with Schools [SwiS] – a systemic attachment-based approach for caregivers of autistic children, Tara Vassallo

Fatherhood in British Politics: A Study of Political Fathers and Their Children in Twentieth Century Britain, 1900 - 1950, Elliot Clark

How does living in a rural location affect experiences of acquired vision impairment?, Rebecca Ayrton Woods

Landscapes of Play: An exploration and illumination of children’s unsupervised play close to home and a researcher’s journey to becoming posthuman., Mandy Andrews

REFLECTIONS ON THE IHEART PROGRAMME BY DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS: Self-confidence, Mental Wellbeing and Resilience, GULSAH SELIN TUMKAYA

Re-Imagining Marginalised Tudor Voices: Working Women, Print Culture and the Rejection of Female Silence, Katherine Glew

Responding to Reading Difficulties: An Exploration from Different Professional Perspectives, Ezgi Unlu

Teaching an English geography curriculum abroad: who is the Other?, Kay Chapman

The Influence of Higher Education Study on Practitioners in the Field of Outdoor and Adventure Education, Katy Hensby

‘The more empowered I feel, the more vulnerable I become’: Exploring the entanglements of Human Rights Education (HRE), legal discourses and notions of agency and vulnerability amongst Human Rights Educators in Colombia, Claudia Maria Blandon

The role played by non-formal education in the lives of Iraqi-British citizens: A study of three Iraqi-British cultural institutions and how non-formal education empowers individuals and communities, Nadeem Al-Abdalla

THE STATUTORY ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS: A BOURDIEUSIAN ANALYSIS, Blanche Gibson

UNDERSTANDING DYSLEXIA IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: PERSPECTIVES OF STUDENTS (WITH AND WITHOUT CONFIRMED DIAGNOSIS) AND EDUCATORS, Kerissa Nelson

University sustainability in times of uncertainty: The impact of Brexit on EU staff and students, Diane Stanley

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

A Chronicle of Place: Three Novellas and a Critical Dissertation on Compositional Process with a Contextual Analysis of Annie Proulx's 'Barkskins' and Michael Cunningham's 'The Hours', Helen Chamberlain

Alterity in Central and Eastern European Illustrations for The Lord of the Rings 1981-1993, Joel Merriner

Artificial Intelligence Incorporated into Audio Analysis of Electronic Music, Ned Fellenor

Assessing National Progress of Mediterranean Countries in Shark Governance in the Context of International Legal Obligations, Lydia Koehler

Domesticity and Female Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Finnish Photography: Elina Brotherus, Aino Kannisto and Iiu Susiraja on the Footsteps of Cindy Sherman, Jenita Lindfors

Gender and literary form at the edge of the Arthurian world: Richard Johnson's Tom a Lincoln and William Rowley's The Birth of Merlin re-examined, Emilia Boone

George Morland (1763-1804) and the representation of social types, Heather Yeomans

I am a Camera, Subverted: Reflexivity, Sexuality, and Filming Styles in Bob Fosse’s 'Sweet Charity' (1969), 'Cabaret' (1972), and 'All That Jazz' (1979), Steven Downes

MY AUSCHWITZ STATE OF MIND: A study of the nature of emergence of a text in relation to Auschwitz, Ivan Alexander Pope

‘MY BLOOD IS IN IT’: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL STUDENTS’ EMBODIED EXPERIENCE OF A UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, Anne Bentley

Spectral Music; why create compositions with such a limited palette?, Iain Mason

Speculations on force and form: resisting the neurotypical in the neoliberal university, Helen Bowstead

THE CURRENT STATE OF SOUTH-WEST RURAL REPRESENTATION IN CONTEMPORARY THEATRE., Ryan Wilce

Towards Quantum Computing for Audio and Music Expression, Paulo Vitor Itaboraí

TRANSEUNTIS MUNDI, A NOMADIC ARTISTIC PRACTICE, Cândida Luiza Borges da Silva

Trial by Jury and English Political Radicalism c.1792 – 1825, Richard John Marshall

WHAT HAPPENED WITHIN THE POLICE SERVICE WHEN THE GOVERNMENT CREATED THE OFFENCE OF “CORRUPT OR IMPROPER PRACTICE” IN SECTION 26 OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND COURTS ACT 2015?, Brendan Brookshaw

When Reputation is at Stake: Honour, Masculinity and Militarism in the Courts Martial Records of the Marine Corps, 1755 – 1779, Lee-Jane Giles

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Accurate Data: Using Young Adult Science Fiction to Explore the Impacts of Compulsory Sexuality on Young Ace Lives, N Knight

Animating potential for intensities and becoming in writing: challenging discursively constructed structures and writing conventions in academia through the use of storying and other post qualitative inquiries, Mary Catherine Garland

Black Artists and Federal Muralism in New Deal Chicago: An examination of the Politics and Ideologies of African-American Muralists under the New Deal: The Illinois Federal Art Project as Case Study., James Cuffe

Deep Learning for Audio Segmentation and Intelligent Remixing, Satvik Venkatesh

Diagrams of Disturbance: conceptual diagrams and the production of a personal diagram poetry., Russell Evans

Influence and Innovation: Metapainting between the Collection and the Workshop in Seventeenth-Century Spain and the Netherlands, Robyn Burley

Investigation into a Brain-Computer Interface System for Music with Speech Imagery, Alberto Tates Puetate

'Mercy, Tenderness, and Compassion': A Study into the Inclusion of Acts of Communal and Familial Support within Seventeenth-Century Quaker Records of Sufferings, Toni Wadman

PAINTING, PLAYING, PERSONAS: INSERTING CHANGE IN AN ESTABLISHED PAINTING PRACTICE, Robyn Jean Thomas

‘People Not Profits’: Hawaiian Cultural Nationalism and Protest Against the United States, 1968-1980, Emily May Hough

Rethinking Liveness: An Exploration of Phenomenological Liveness, Documentation, and Audience, Samantha Sully

Robert Rauschenberg and Modernism’s (other) Masculinity, Harry Trepess

Solo Auto/biographical Theatre: Towards a process of self-transformation, Morris Isaac Cohen

The Neoliberal Game: An critical analysis of children's non competitive grassroots football, Grace Gallacher

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

A DIFFERENT CAGE WITH WORDS: A POETIC REIMAGINING OF FLIGHTLESS BIRDS, Rosemarie Corlett

An Intersectional Analytical Critique of the Troubled Families Programme in Cornwall, Rebecca Carter Dillon

Time Travellers and Storytellers: Representations of Dementia in Children's Fantasy Literature, Tracey Guiry

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

An examination of professional support in the life of the experienced urban primary teacher, Sue Langford

EXPERIMENTS IN MATERIALITY AND REPRESENTATION: THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS' CO-OPERATIVE 1968 – 1979, Charlotte Reardon

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Metaphors of Health and Disease in Nazi Film Propaganda, Melanie Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Ethnic group affiliation and social exclusion in Cornwall; analysis, adjustment and extension of the 2001 England and Wales Census data, Kerryn Husk

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

IMAGES OF ENGINEERING: AN INVESTIGATION OF GENDER AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS ENGINEERING, Liz Hodgkinson

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

'Consuming children' : a sociological analysis of children's relationship with contempory consumer culture, Julie Marianne Evans

Locating moral responsibility for war crimes : the new justiciability of 'system criminality' and its implications for the development of an international polity, Samantha Jane King

Non - legitimate illness, embodied experience and the moral career: the case of ME/CFS, Tracey Collett

THE DEVELOPMENT OF PARTY SYSTEMS AND THE DETERMINANTS OF PARTISAN VOTING IN ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS 1973-1998, LAWRENCE WARE

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

Management in the financial services : emotional labour and gender, Sarah Watson

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

1989 revolutions in east-central Europe : a comparative analysis, Ruth Rodda

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

THE CHANGING FACE OF POLICING: LOCAL ISSUES IN NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, PHILIP KESSELL BUNT

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

Instigating change in a globalised social environment : the impact of globalisation upon the promotion of vegetarianism in the United Kingdom, Andrew David Smart

Patriarchy and discordant discourses in the contemporary Roman Catholic Church : the voices of priests and women in parish settings, Geraldine Sharp

Probing probation : issues of gender and organisation within the probation service, Jill Annison

THE DETERMINANTS OF VOTER TURNOUT IN ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS, JAMES DANIEL DOWNE

Theses/Dissertations from 1985 1985

THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT IN DEVON AND CORNWALL, Ingrid FAERDEN