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Constructing and maintaining a ‘noncriminal’ identity: a psychosocial narrative inquiry into the lives of people with convictions (2023)
Thesis
Collett, N. (2023). Constructing and maintaining a ‘noncriminal’ identity: a psychosocial narrative inquiry into the lives of people with convictions. (Thesis). Keele University

Despite burgeoning interest in the field of collateral consequences research, there is little empirical research exploring the subjective experiences of people living with convictions (PWCs), particularly within the jurisdiction of England and Wales.... Read More about Constructing and maintaining a ‘noncriminal’ identity: a psychosocial narrative inquiry into the lives of people with convictions.

Mystical Post-anarchism (2023)
Thesis
Lewis, K. J. (2023). Mystical Post-anarchism. (Thesis). Keele University

The aim of this thesis is to explore the theoretical response that a mystical approach to post-anarchism can provide to the problems of domination and control within the contemporary capitalist state. In doing this, it also seeks to find a way past s... Read More about Mystical Post-anarchism.

Hope and local food activism in a North Wales town: a conceptual and ethnographic study (2023)
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West, R. H. (2023). Hope and local food activism in a North Wales town: a conceptual and ethnographic study. (Thesis). Keele University

The aim of this thesis is to examine the relationship between hope and local food growing projects within a sustainability context. Hope has often been overlooked or dismissed as naïve in sociological and political discourse, while interstitial polit... Read More about Hope and local food activism in a North Wales town: a conceptual and ethnographic study.

A social realist challenge to the structuring of professional practice knowledge for initial teacher education in England (2023)
Thesis
Swift, D. (2023). A social realist challenge to the structuring of professional practice knowledge for initial teacher education in England. (Thesis). Keele University

Professional practice knowledge for beginning teachers involves grappling with the extent to which ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ should be evident during initial teacher education courses. The end point assessment tool for such programmes in England is tha... Read More about A social realist challenge to the structuring of professional practice knowledge for initial teacher education in England.

Conscious robots: what happens when a philosophical confusion becomes a societal reality? (2023)
Thesis
Ozdemir, S. (2023). Conscious robots: what happens when a philosophical confusion becomes a societal reality?. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis is an investigation into philosophical issues surrounding the production of human-like robots. I will argue that there is no reason to think conscious robots will ever be built, but that supposedly conscious robots that are able to emulat... Read More about Conscious robots: what happens when a philosophical confusion becomes a societal reality?.

Between pragmatism and ideology: role-conflict management in Turkey’s foreign policy towards Israel under the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP), 2002-2022 (2023)
Thesis
Çelik, A. (2023). Between pragmatism and ideology: role-conflict management in Turkey’s foreign policy towards Israel under the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP), 2002-2022. (Thesis). Keele University

The opposed tendencies in Turkey’s foreign policy—shifting between pragmatism and ideology—have become an issue of debate in both political and academic circles ever since the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, or AKP) came to... Read More about Between pragmatism and ideology: role-conflict management in Turkey’s foreign policy towards Israel under the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP), 2002-2022.

War stories: composure and discomposure in British veterans’ communication of their experiences of the Falklands War, 1982 (2023)
Thesis
Beales, J. M. (2023). War stories: composure and discomposure in British veterans’ communication of their experiences of the Falklands War, 1982. (Thesis). Keele University

Scholars have extensively studied the cultural and political impacts of the Falklands War in Britain. However, despite the proliferation of veterans’ memoirs, oral histories, and written accounts of the war there are few academic analyses of veterans... Read More about War stories: composure and discomposure in British veterans’ communication of their experiences of the Falklands War, 1982.