Winter AVÊÓƵ 2015-16
Congratulations to the 76 doctoral researchers whose degrees were conferred at the 2015-16 Winter AVÊÓƵ ceremonies on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd January 2016.
School of Education & Social Work
Doctor of Education
Dorothy Abra Glover – Student participation in decision making in senior high schools in Ghana
Elaya Musangeya – Young women’s engagement with sport in Lusaka secondary schools, Zambia
Edwina Maureen Slater – A case study of the deployment of teaching assistants in secondary schools to support learning
Doctor of Philosophy
Sindi Fiona Gordon – Krik? Krak! Exploring the potential of creative writing for opening dialogic space and increasing personal freedom
School of Global Studies
Sufyan Abid – Islamic Reform, Piety and Charity among Muslim businessmen and entrepreneurs in Birmingham, UK
Matluba Anvar – Women and religious practices in Uzbekistan: transformation and changes in the capital of Uzbekistan in the light of the post-Soviet period
James Wallis Barnes – Stories, senses and the charismatic relation: A reflexive exploration of Christian experience
Can Muslim Cemgil – Dialectic of foreign policy and international relations: a social theory of a disciplinary gap
Narciso Antonio Mahumana – Rethinking indigenous medicine: illness (mis)-representation and political economy of health in Mozambique’s public health battlefield
Oliver Joseph Hermiston Weiss – Dependency theory and eastern bloc trade: reformulating a forgotten paradigm
Pin-Hsien Wu – Environmentalism in China and India: a comparative analysis of people and politics in two coal capitals
School of History, Art History and Philosophy
David John Boyne – Ordinary men in another world: British other ranks in captivity in Asia during the Second World War
Claudia Louise Field – Focusing the lens: the role of travel and photography in the personal and working lives of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant
Paul John Raymond Weir – British attitudes to the aerial bombardment of German cities during the Second World War
Institute of Development Studies
Naysan Adlparvar – “When glass breaks, it becomes sharper”: de-constructing ethnicity in the Bamyan valley, Afghanistan
Miniva Chibuye – The impact of rising food prices on household welfare in Zambia
School of Business, Management and Economics
Kalinca Copello – ‘Thinking and speaking for ourselves’: the development of shack dwellers’ political voice in the age of ICTs
Seong Hwang – Latecomers science-based catch-up in transition: the case of the Korea pharmaceutical industry
Vanessa Jean McKean – The role of expectations and visions of the future in the development of target-based environmental policies: the case of the UK Air Quality Strategy
Alvaro German Monge Zegarra – The demand side of the shadow economy: essays on informal consumption
Kwo-Feng Wan – Bounded thinking: framing and influences in the decision of capability investments
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Konstantinos Blazakis – Computational methods for investigating cell motility with applications to neutrophil cell migration
Nicholas Edward Devenish – Muon antineutrino disappearance in the MINOS experiment
Zara Jane Grant – Supersymmetry searches in events with at least four leptons using ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider
Prapanporn Rattana – Mean-field-like approximations for stochastic processes on weighted and dynamic networks
James Robert Sinclair – Positioning and timing calibration of SNO+
School of Engineering & Informatics
Sultan Ali Salem S.Helal Al-Mazroui – Microwave security systems and management
Li Cheng – Transient modelling of a diesel engine and air-path control
Mohsen Fatoorechi – Electroencephalogram signal acquisition in unshielded noisy environment
Marco Gilardi – A framework for local terrain deformation based on diffusion theory
Philip Goulding – The use of electrical potential sensors in nuclear magnetic resonance and particle detection applications
Karolina Anna Jablonka – Study of film thickness in elastohydrodynamic contacts by electrical capacitance
Christopher Simon John Lobstein Adams – Development of a medical imaging based treatment technology for cancer treatment
Eleanor Martin – It’s a team game: exploring factors that influence team experience
Danny Richard Matthews – MediateSpace: applying contextual mediation to the Tuple Space paradigm
Dawood Yusuf Parpia – Neural plasticity and the limits of scientific knowledge
Shinya Sato – Design and implementation of a low-level language for interaction nets
James Richard Harry Thorniley – Information transfer and causality in the sensorimotor loop
Xiaolin Zhang – Investigation of 3D electrical impedance mammography systems for breast cancer detection
School of Life Sciences
Muruj Barri – Functional analysis of motor neuron disease-associated mutations in Tar DNA-binding protein 43 and cytoplasmic dynein heavy chain 1
Andrew John Chetwynd – Development of nanoflow liquid chromatography-nanoelectrospray ionization mass spectrometry methodology for improved urine metabolomics
Freya Crawford – Ultrastructure-function properties of recycling synaptic vesicles in acute hippocampal slices
Lenzie Ford – AB’s effect on long-term memory: a top-down approach in Lymnaea Stagnalis
Jirapas Jongjitwimol – Investigating the role of SUMOylation of eukaryotic translation initiation factors
Jonathan Katz – Invasion of the small probe molecules: an NMR investigation of the small molecule-aggregate interaction phenomena
Wei Cheat Lee – Photoelectrochemical water splitting and gas ionisation sensing using metal oxide nanostructures
Mariella Mannino – Improving treatment of glioblastoma: new insights in targeting cancer stem cells effectively
Laura Elizabeth Nicholls – Uranium silicate complexes as models for surface immobilised uranium catalysts
Sarah Louise Parry-Morris – High-throughput screening technologies for identification and expression of functional domains of proteins of biomedical importance
Sunny Kumar Singh – Biophysical characterisation of LcrH, a class II chaperone of the Type Three Secretion System
Christopher Tranter – Defending the fortress: comparative studies in disease resistance in ant societies
School of Psychology
Hani Alnabulsi – The crowd psychology of the Hajj
Tamas Borbely – The role of inhibitory control in cooperation in high functioning children with autism
Giles Douglas Iain Hamilton-Fletcher – How touch and hearing influence visual processing in sensory substitution, synaesthesia and cross-modal correspondences
Samantha Holt – An investigation of other-awareness and the collaborative process in low-functioning children with autism using shareable technology
Megan Susan Vickerman Hurst – Get fit, feel great, look amazing! Regulation of exercise behaviour and body image in women
Jennifer Victoria Wathan – Social communication in domestic horses: the production and perception of facial expressions
School of English
Hugo Blumenthal – Deconstructing appearances in the eighteenth-century English novel
Paul Richard Dulley – ‘In front of your nose’: the existentialism of George Orwell
Diarmuid Eoin Hester – Passionate destruction, passionate creation: art and anarchy in the work of Dennis Cooper
Laura Ellen Ciara Joyce – Luminol theory and the excavation of narrative and The Dead Girl Scrolls: unearthed apocalyptic fictions
Yun Pei – The prophetic Wordsworth: anxiety and self-fashioning
Hsiang-Mei Wu – Chaucer and social prejudices: a critical study of The Canterbury Tales
School of Law, Politics and Sociology
Suliman Abdullah Alkharashi – Human rights in the stage of criminal investigation: a comparison between law and practice in Saudi Arabia and England and Wales
Jill Armstrong: Following in their mother’s footsteps? What the daughters of successful career women want from their work and family lives
Satoko Horii – Frontex and the evolution of cooperation on European border controls
Freya Ross Johnson – What state are we in? Activism, professional feminists and local government
Ahmet Fatih Ozkan – The review of the law on abuse of a dominant position through soft law in the European Union and Turkey: the commission’s guidance on Art.102 TFEU and implications for the guidelines on Art.6 in Turkey
School of Media, Film and Music
Ryan Patrick Burns – Tablet computers and technological practices within and beyond the laboratory
Umme Busra Fateha Sultana – Gender, sexuality and contraceptive advertisements in Bangladesh: representation and lived experience across social classes and generations
Catherine Elizabeth Thomas – The haunted university: academic subjectivity in the time of communicative capitalism
Rachel Melanie Wood – Consumer sexualities: women and sex shopping
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Francesca Cavicchioli – Epigenetic regulation of amino acids metabolic genes defines targets of synthetic lethality in breast cancer
Sabina Dizdarevic – Imaging physiological ABS transporter expression and its relation to disease using Tc-99m-hexakis-methoxy-isobutyl isonitrile (Tc-99m-MIBI)
Jane Peek – The lived experience of Parkinson’s: ‘a footprint in every room’
Gaby Pfeifer – The neural processes underpinning visual associative memory: a comparison of young grapheme-colour synaesthetes, older adults and young controls