All Outputs (19)

Russian strategic culture after the Cold War: understanding Russia’s changing Foreign Policy towards Syria from a strategic subculture perspective, 1986-2016 (2019)
Thesis
Nurberdiyev, S. (2019). Russian strategic culture after the Cold War: understanding Russia’s changing Foreign Policy towards Syria from a strategic subculture perspective, 1986-2016. (Thesis). Keele University

By developing a rigorous analytical framework, built on strategic subculture assumptions, this thesis contributes to the operationalization of strategic culture as an analytic perspective that can explain strategic behaviour. The thesis offers a taxo... Read More about Russian strategic culture after the Cold War: understanding Russia’s changing Foreign Policy towards Syria from a strategic subculture perspective, 1986-2016.

Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon: A framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon’s Sunni demographic (2005-2016) (2019)
Thesis
El Sayed, M. (2019). Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon: A framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon’s Sunni demographic (2005-2016). (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414941

The aim of this research is to examine how the Lebanese Sunni political actors frame intra-Sunni political division in Lebanon. The research draws on Max Weber’s “interpretivist” approach of understanding (Verstehen), which denotes that reality is so... Read More about Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon: A framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon’s Sunni demographic (2005-2016).

Sex education, gender and sexualised behaviour in the primary school: a qualitative analysis of parent, teacher and pupil perspectives (2019)
Thesis
Wire, T. (2019). Sex education, gender and sexualised behaviour in the primary school: a qualitative analysis of parent, teacher and pupil perspectives. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414952

This thesis compares teachers’ and parents’ views concerning content and delivery of KS1 Sex and Relationships Education with children’s lived experiences and understanding of gender and sexuality. Data was gathered through 18 focus group interviews... Read More about Sex education, gender and sexualised behaviour in the primary school: a qualitative analysis of parent, teacher and pupil perspectives.

Secondary school pupils and English Literature (2019)
Thesis
Dutton, F. J. (2019). Secondary school pupils and English Literature. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/417801

This research is centred on the school subject of GCSE English Literature and the experiences of current secondary-school pupils following the recent changes to the discipline. It is an exploration of their views towards GCSE English Literature as ta... Read More about Secondary school pupils and English Literature.

The Argentine military, the military family and the violence of the 1970s: an ethnographic study of kinship (2019)
Thesis
Natale, E. (2019). The Argentine military, the military family and the violence of the 1970s: an ethnographic study of kinship. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414957

This thesis addresses the military of the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). The findings are based on original empirical data, gathered through interviews with former subaltern officers of the 1970s, their wives and children. By adopting an... Read More about The Argentine military, the military family and the violence of the 1970s: an ethnographic study of kinship.

Child protection decision-making and ethical engagement: a comparative analysis of social work practice in England and Finland (2019)
Thesis
Falconer, R. (2019). Child protection decision-making and ethical engagement: a comparative analysis of social work practice in England and Finland. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414974

The decision to intervene in family life to protect a child necessitates weighing up ethical and legal considerations, a task shaped by the knowledge, skills and personal values of social workers and situated in organisational and local policy contex... Read More about Child protection decision-making and ethical engagement: a comparative analysis of social work practice in England and Finland.

Teachers and multi-agency working: a study of secondary school teachers’ engagement with multi-agency work in the context of the Every Child Matters agenda (2019)
Thesis
Somerfield, R. (2019). Teachers and multi-agency working: a study of secondary school teachers’ engagement with multi-agency work in the context of the Every Child Matters agenda. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414421

This thesis seeks to uncover how teachers engage with multi-agency working within the context of the Every Child Matters agenda (DfES, 2003) and how this impacts on their sense of identity. To do this it provides an account of a qualitative study of... Read More about Teachers and multi-agency working: a study of secondary school teachers’ engagement with multi-agency work in the context of the Every Child Matters agenda.

Fragmentation, demonisation and breakdown : an exploration of how neoliberalism and the recession have affected older people's lives in Stoke-on-Trent (2019)
Thesis
Jones, A. L. (2019). Fragmentation, demonisation and breakdown : an exploration of how neoliberalism and the recession have affected older people's lives in Stoke-on-Trent. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413778

Whilst there has been an academic ‘obsess[ion]’ with the topics of neoliberalism and the recession, there remains a significant gap in sociological and gerontological literature concerning how these macro forces have impacted upon real people, specif... Read More about Fragmentation, demonisation and breakdown : an exploration of how neoliberalism and the recession have affected older people's lives in Stoke-on-Trent.

Ghana’s Health Policy: Human Resources and Health Outcomes Inequality in Northern and Southern Ghana (2019)
Thesis
Dery, L. G. (2019). Ghana’s Health Policy: Human Resources and Health Outcomes Inequality in Northern and Southern Ghana. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413811

Despite evidence of widening geographical inequalities in maternal and child health (MCH) coverage and outcomes between the Upper West region (UWR) in the north and the Ashanti region (AR) and Greater Accra region (GAR) in southern Ghana, the relativ... Read More about Ghana’s Health Policy: Human Resources and Health Outcomes Inequality in Northern and Southern Ghana.

Perceptions of climate change as a security issue in the case of Greece: an application of Q-methodology in security studies (2019)
Thesis
Gerosideris, C. (2019). Perceptions of climate change as a security issue in the case of Greece: an application of Q-methodology in security studies. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413816

This study establishes the stakeholders’ perceptions of environmental and energy security through the application of Q methodology in the case of Greece. It explains in detail the essentiality of including individual viewpoints and the opinions of ac... Read More about Perceptions of climate change as a security issue in the case of Greece: an application of Q-methodology in security studies.

‘Lowering your standards’?: assessing the procedural legitimacy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2019)
Thesis
Mason, S. (2019). ‘Lowering your standards’?: assessing the procedural legitimacy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413817

Today technical web standards have become one of the most important mechanisms of internet governance, impinging on a wide range of areas of public policy from privacy and to freedom of speech. Despite their importance, however, the processes through... Read More about ‘Lowering your standards’?: assessing the procedural legitimacy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography (2019)
Thesis
Molesworth, S. K. (2019). Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413840

This inquiry considers the importance of tacit knowledge, and how it might be characterised in an NHS memory service and a local authority day-care and respite service for people with dementia. When investigating the sorts of knowledge that might be... Read More about Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography.

The consciousness science paradox (2019)
Thesis
Balmer, A. L. (2019). The consciousness science paradox. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413842

This thesis argues that there are two claims we can persuasively make about consciousness. The first is that we should be able to identify consciousness through the sort of empirical observation characteristic of standard scientific practices. The se... Read More about The consciousness science paradox.

Factors that affect the decisions made by skilled professionals to migrate to the UK: A qualitative study of Cypriot migrant and returning physicians. (2019)
Thesis
Konstantinou, K. (2019). Factors that affect the decisions made by skilled professionals to migrate to the UK: A qualitative study of Cypriot migrant and returning physicians. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414418

Background: Migration theorists have been slow to consider international mobility of physicians as well as the feminisation of medicine and physicians’ migration and identify the key characteristics for efficient physicians’ migration management. Thi... Read More about Factors that affect the decisions made by skilled professionals to migrate to the UK: A qualitative study of Cypriot migrant and returning physicians..

Freedom as the pursuit of self-realisation: T. H. Green and the contemporary debate on the nature of freedom (2019)
Thesis
Swinbank, A. D. (2019). Freedom as the pursuit of self-realisation: T. H. Green and the contemporary debate on the nature of freedom. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414416

This dissertation explores Green’s theory of freedom, it discusses where it sits in the contemporary debate on the nature of freedom, and what it contributes to it. I argue that Green presents us with a nuanced notion of freedom, informed by his robu... Read More about Freedom as the pursuit of self-realisation: T. H. Green and the contemporary debate on the nature of freedom.

Between a rock and a hard place: exploring the views and accounts of undergraduate student writers in a consumer-led Higher Education system (2019)
Thesis
Aiken, V. J. (2019). Between a rock and a hard place: exploring the views and accounts of undergraduate student writers in a consumer-led Higher Education system. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414220

This thesis problematizes the student-as-consumer mantra from the perspective of students’ academic writing. It is beginning to be argued that a consumer-led higher education sector reducing the value of a degree to employability credentials leaves l... Read More about Between a rock and a hard place: exploring the views and accounts of undergraduate student writers in a consumer-led Higher Education system.

The dynamics of community participation: evidence from practice (2019)
Thesis
Mawomo, K. (2019). The dynamics of community participation: evidence from practice. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414217

This study investigated the dynamics of community participation (CP) manifest in participatory processes, both formal (‘invited’ or ‘induced’) and informal (‘created’ or ‘organic’), in two Tswana speaking rural communities in Botswana, namely Mogonye... Read More about The dynamics of community participation: evidence from practice.

No man’s land? Veterans’ experiences of 21st century warfare and the return to post-conflict life (2019)
Thesis
Wilkinson, H. R. (2019). No man’s land? Veterans’ experiences of 21st century warfare and the return to post-conflict life. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis presents original research exploring how serving in 21st century theatres of war impacts on the return to ‘civilian’ life (‘civvy street’). Through a rich analysis of in-depth narrative interviews with former military personnel, this rese... Read More about No man’s land? Veterans’ experiences of 21st century warfare and the return to post-conflict life.

A collaborative approach to developing a shared morality to protect the natural environment (2019)
Thesis
Udrea, L. I. (2019). A collaborative approach to developing a shared morality to protect the natural environment. (Thesis). Keele University

Given the limitations of current governmental approaches in influencing people to take pro-environmental action, especially in the longer term, this thesis explores whether a shared morality towards nature can be developed. Focusing on one community... Read More about A collaborative approach to developing a shared morality to protect the natural environment.