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A Critique of the Legality of the Power to Levy and Disburse Tax: The Kenyan Constituency Development Fund and the Right to Development

Addressing health inequalitites in a deprived area: the myths, possibilties and realities for health visitors - a case study.

Advanced Care Planning for Palliative Patients

A Grammar of Derived Nominals in Akan

An Exploration of Chronic Illness between Disablism and Emancipation - Narratives from Portugal and England

An exploration of substance use in different leisure settings

An investigation of the influence of asynchronous video and mobile technologies on learner engagement with the assessment and feedback process

Approvement and Improvement in Early-Modern England: Conclusions from the Lowland Wastes of Lancashire 1500-1700

Architects, town planners, electricians and plumbers: where and why does the occupational pipeline leak?

Assessment as textually mediated activity within a community of practice

A study of children and young persons' participation in policy and programme development in Trinidad, West Indies

Attachment and separation in foster placements

Becoming indigenous: the making of the politics of nature and indigeneity in two Atayal villages of Taiwan

Becoming Intimately Mobile

'Best screened and not heard' - The ethical and social implications of research into genes and crime for young people

Between learning processes and the rhetoric of judge-penitence. How Germany, Austria and Denmark have dealt with the Holocaust since 1989

Bioart: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics in the Tissue Culture and Art Project

Body Enacted: Pleasure and Anxiety in Prenatal Screening and Testing in Taiwan

Cancer co-morbidity in people aged 75 and over

Climate Change and Ideologies of Collapse: Questioning Catastrophic Imaginaries and the Naturalization of Social Conflict

Cognitive transfer and computer game environments

Conflict in Computer-Mediated Communication

Conflict in the virtual learning communities

Connecting Mobilities: Networking, Performing and Imagining

Constitutionalism and Complexity Theory

Contemporary Music: Ideology and Subjectivity

Counting, Selling, Loving and Saving in Contemporary Approaches to Taxonomy and Biodiversity: The impasse of additive social sciences and Badiou's subtractive ontology

Covering Muslim women: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of the BBC and Arab News

Creating a sense of place: Cumbrian traditional songs and dialect since 1750

Critique of Terror after 9/11

Darwin200: Bicentennial Representations of Charles Darwin

Defining significant harm: Children Act 1989

De-institutionalisation of people with schizophrenia.

Disturbing Times: Metaphors of Temporality in Modernist Works (1960-1965)

Does God exist?

Earnest Words: The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859-1918

Effectiveness of complementary therapies.

(Em)bodied Competitiveness Towards a corporeal political economy of tourism destination competitiveness

European Monetary and Financial Crisis Managament: Materiality and Discourse in Variegated Capitalism

Experiences and influences on use of CancerCare Services.

Experiences of women with learning disabilities in a secure service

Experts, Expertise and Policymaking: the case of HPV vaccination global policy

Exploring primary school teachers' motivation for music

Exploring the barriers to Inclusive Education for boys with visual disabilities in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Exploring the lived experiences of young adult cochlear implant users.

Exploring the Symbiotic Relationship behind the Practice of Creative Writing and Critical Theory

Fabricated and Induced Illness in Children

Factors affecting parental decision-making to consent to newborn bloodspot screening

Falling Exclusions: Have Pupils with Special Educational Needs benefited?

Fauns, Ghosts and Vampires: The Politics of Fantasy and Horror in Mexican and Spanish Cinema

Forms, functions, and effects of flash-back/flash-forward between prose fiction and film narratives-with special reference to The Constant Gardener

Gendered social markers and social practices in a group friendship formation: A case study of the Irish Countrywomen's Association

Geographical variation in the nature and quality of Parkinson's disease management.

Global accounting standardisation, capital markets, and the European Union

Homeland through Diasporic Eyes: A Study of Fiction of Pakistani Expatriate Writers

Identity Positioning Thresholds of Doctoral Students in Networked Learning Environments

Illness beliefs in people with Parkinson's disease and ability to predict psychological outcome.

Induced Affect for Learning within Virtual Social Learning Systems

Informal Relationships within the Doctoral Student Process: A Situated Leaning Perspective

Information needs of people with Motor Neurone Disease.

Inventive infrastructures - an exploration of mobile phone 'repair' cultures in Kampala, Uganda

In/Visible Lesbians: Popular Culture and the Pedagogy of Fandom

In what way is the language of dialogues in Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series (1997-2003) manipulated to signal changes in identity

Jamie Oliver as a promoter of a lifestyle: Recontextualisation of a culinary discourse and the transformation of cookery books in Slovenia

Leo Lowenthal and the sociology of literature

'Les Mamelles de Tirésias: Music, Text and Context'

Loose policy and local adaptation: a comparative study of master degrees in the context of the Bologna Process

Making Liquid Spaces: Art and Technology as a Social Practice

Masculinity, intergenerationality and place

Measuring collective violence

Measuring the impact of trauma on the mental health of people with intellectual disabilities.

mock/surface politeness

My research is exploring two issues. First, the underrepresentation of women in senior academic leadership in UK Higher Education and whether gendered leadership culture plays a part in producing the imbalance. And second, how well leadership development can help tackle this underrepresentation.

Narratives of schizophrenia.

Navigating Liminality: The Experience of Distance in Doctoral Education

Negotiating the technology minefield: Family responses to the discourses of youth and technology

Nursing rural England: migrant care workers' positioning in rural communities

Oil spills, Rural livelihoods and Human health: A Case Study of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Parliament Politics: A material-semiotic analysis of liberal democracy

Participation in International Human Rights

Personal and official representations of adult literacy learners

Photographic imaginaries: history in theory, c. 1918-1980

Photography, Artificial Intelligence and Visual Art

Poetry and radio: practicalites for working poets

Post- Feminism, Online Social Networking Sites and Encounters with Girlhood

'Power and Authority in a 'Total Institution': The Experience of Captivity in British POW Camps in Germany during the First World War'

Practicing Display: An ethnography of Window Dressing and Window Shopping

Re-Imagining Sustainable Agro-Food Futures: Alternative (Bio)Economies in a Knowledge Society Era

Religion, society and identity in Northern England, with special reference to the parish of Addingham, 1800-1939

Scandinavian Identity in Cumbria

Services for breast cancer.

Settlement patterns in Sicily and Calabria in the pre-Norman and Norman periods

Sexual risk taking amongst excluded young men: what motivates and underpins their decision-making?

'She is the man of the house': The construction of gender identity in the discourses of Ghanaians in the UK diaspora

Sociology and the Photographic Image

Spatial Theory and British Romantic Poetry

Staging and Sensing Atmosphere! The Making of Amis Harvest Festival

Struggle and Survival: creating times and spaces for recovery in an arts for mental health service

Student withdrawal and persistence in Initial Teacher Education

'That Weeping Constellation': Narratives of Loss and Recovery in Contemporary Women's Writing

The Archaeology of Desire

The Care of Children with Life-Threatening Diseases in former states of Yugoslavia

The construction and trajectories of cases of domestic violence in emergency departments in the North West of England

The Construction of Gender and Sexualty in Iranian Love Blogs: A discursive approach to couples' love

The Contribution of the Scots Abroad to Scottish Devolution

The Effect of Peace Organizations on Terrorism in the Basque Region of Spain: Gesto Por La Paz & Lokarri

The Europeanisation of Media Discourses: The Debate on the Common Agricultural Policy in the German and Spanish Press

The excess of migration

The Future of Natural History Societies in England

The Governance of Common Land in South Shropshire and the Welsh Borders from the Late Medieval to the Present (Supervisor: Dr. A.J.L. Winchester)

The home-school relationships between parents of children with SEN (with and without BESD) and educational practitioners: perceptions of blame, partnership and empathy

"The Human Right to Development and Poverty Eradication: Legal, Practical Problems and Critical Perspectives"

The interpretation and use of SEAL in primary schools.

Thematisation and Persuasive Discourse

The online discursive performance of self

The processing demands of non-native-like learner collocations on native speakers

The Recent Reconfiguration of Language Roles and Powers in Egypt

The status of Juvenile Justice System in India: Children's Experiences, Perceptions and Right to Participation

To what extent is Realism in painting a relevant and vital force in contemporary art?

Using physical activity as an intervention to improve fitness levels, reduce challenging behaviour and increase overall well-being.

Verbal expressions of Evidentiality in English: A usage-based approach

Who are the interacting agents in the context of ubiquitous computing and how do the boundaries between them come to be enacted?

With God on Our Side: British Christian responses to the Spanish Civil War