Becoming and being a counsellor: An exploration of the tension between graduate learning regimes and professional identity in a counsellor training programme in Singapore (2024)
Thesis
Tan, T. L. L. (2024). Becoming and being a counsellor: An exploration of the tension between graduate learning regimes and professional identity in a counsellor training programme in Singapore. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/850261

In this thesis, the author investigates and explores the experience of the ‘becoming’ and ‘being’ of Singaporean counselling graduates as they navigate their professional identity in a specific counselling training programme in Singapore. ‘Becoming’... Read More about Becoming and being a counsellor: An exploration of the tension between graduate learning regimes and professional identity in a counsellor training programme in Singapore.

Patterns of Social Media Use across Age Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study across Four Countries (2024)
Journal Article
Bonsaksen, T., Thygesen, H., Leung, J., Lamph, G., Kabelenga, I., & Østertun Geirdal, A. (2024). Patterns of Social Media Use across Age Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study across Four Countries. Social Sciences, 13(4), Article 194. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13040194

The aim of this study was to examine patterns of social media use across age groups in four countries (Norway, USA, UK, and Australia) two years after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, and whether types of use and time spent using social media was rela... Read More about Patterns of Social Media Use across Age Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study across Four Countries.

Hope and local food activism in a North Wales town: a conceptual and ethnographic study (2023)
Thesis
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.

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?.

In our own image: materialism’s impoverished image of humanity and what this means for our technological future (2022)
Thesis
Brayford, K. M. (2022). In our own image: materialism’s impoverished image of humanity and what this means for our technological future. (Thesis). Keele University

In this thesis, I seek to temper the commonly held faith in our technological endeavours. Recently this has taken the form of seeking to create humanlike technologies. In part one, I argue that progress in this is derailed by the image of humanity ad... Read More about In our own image: materialism’s impoverished image of humanity and what this means for our technological future.

Examining the self-representation of hijab fashion bloggers as a postfeminist phenomenon: discourses of empowerment and their limitations (2022)
Thesis
Mora, L. (2022). Examining the self-representation of hijab fashion bloggers as a postfeminist phenomenon: discourses of empowerment and their limitations. (Thesis). Keele University

In the last decade, hijab fashion bloggers on Instagram have gained remarkable levels of popularity among young Muslim women. While scholars have recognised the importance of describing and celebrating the empowering sides of hijab fashion as a subcu... Read More about Examining the self-representation of hijab fashion bloggers as a postfeminist phenomenon: discourses of empowerment and their limitations.

Exploring Serious Incident Investigation Practices in the NHS: towards a patient safety culture in Community Healthcare NHS Trusts (2020)
Thesis
Hulme, A. (2020). Exploring Serious Incident Investigation Practices in the NHS: towards a patient safety culture in Community Healthcare NHS Trusts. (Thesis). Keele University

Patient safety is a major challenge in healthcare systems worldwide. In an attempt to make healthcare safer, practices have been adopted from other safety critical industries, accepting the underlying theory of high reliability organisations (HROs).... Read More about Exploring Serious Incident Investigation Practices in the NHS: towards a patient safety culture in Community Healthcare NHS Trusts.

Police culture in a diverse society: provincial police force in transition? (2007)
Thesis
Loftus, B. (2007). Police culture in a diverse society: provincial police force in transition?. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/849118

This thesis is an ethnographic investigation into the occupational value systems and practices of contemporary police officers in a provincial English police force. Situated in the local context of Staffordshire Police, the thesis revisits the notion... Read More about Police culture in a diverse society: provincial police force in transition?.

Land agents and urban aristocratic estates in nineteenth century Staffordshire: a comparison of Longton and Walsall
Thesis
(2018). Land agents and urban aristocratic estates in nineteenth century Staffordshire: a comparison of Longton and Walsall

This thesis examines the impact of the social and economic policies of two aristocratic landowners on the development of Staffordshire towns. The integral role of land agents is demonstrated by comparing the earl of Bradford’s Walsall estate with the... Read More about Land agents and urban aristocratic estates in nineteenth century Staffordshire: a comparison of Longton and Walsall.

Hidden Ghettos: Jewish identity and the processes of its political, social and legal reconstructions in Poland from 1945 until today
Thesis
(2014). Hidden Ghettos: Jewish identity and the processes of its political, social and legal reconstructions in Poland from 1945 until today

The thesis probes into the transitions of and within Jewish identity in the transitional state of Poland since 1945 until today amidst concentricity of anti-Semitism, discrimination of rights, forced emigration of Jews, religious dialogues, identity... Read More about Hidden Ghettos: Jewish identity and the processes of its political, social and legal reconstructions in Poland from 1945 until today.

Malaysia and the commonwealth : the Mahathir era (1981-2003)
Thesis
(2013). Malaysia and the commonwealth : the Mahathir era (1981-2003)

There was a significant change in the Malaysia's attitude to the Commonwealth when Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's fourth Prime Minister, came to power in 1981. In contrast to his predecessors who had supported the Commonwealth, Mahathir took a dim... Read More about Malaysia and the commonwealth : the Mahathir era (1981-2003).

Men in the nursing profession: Masculinities and gendered identities
Thesis
(2013). Men in the nursing profession: Masculinities and gendered identities

Nursing as a profession has historically been largely dominated by females, both in terms of the demographical profile and the common perception of nursing being a task for women. A small minority of men do however practice as nurses and as such are... Read More about Men in the nursing profession: Masculinities and gendered identities.

Life without fatherhood: a qualitative study of older involuntarily childless men
Thesis
Hadley, R. A. (2015). Life without fatherhood: a qualitative study of older involuntarily childless men

This thesis reveals the complexities in older men’s experience of involuntary childlessness. Research literature on both involuntary childlessness and ageing has highlighted the paucity of material on men’s experience. The aim of this study was to ex... Read More about Life without fatherhood: a qualitative study of older involuntarily childless men.

Prenatal testing and reproductive autonomy: defending against disability discrimination concerns
Thesis
Leask, K. (2017). Prenatal testing and reproductive autonomy: defending against disability discrimination concerns

Arguments have been forwarded that terminating a pregnancy affected by a congenital abnormality discriminates against those living with disabilities and makes negative judgements about their lives.
For the clinical geneticist these arguments raise q... Read More about Prenatal testing and reproductive autonomy: defending against disability discrimination concerns.

Medical schools and the virtuous physician: how to ensure that physicians will do the right thing
Thesis
(2014). Medical schools and the virtuous physician: how to ensure that physicians will do the right thing

The focus of this thesis is moral education. This study is important as it aims at solving a prevailing and increasing problem that is harming the medical profession of our times, namely, the fact that physicians are losing touch with the nature of t... Read More about Medical schools and the virtuous physician: how to ensure that physicians will do the right thing.

Managerial agency: Personality, psychopathy, structure and leadership.
Thesis
(2017). Managerial agency: Personality, psychopathy, structure and leadership

This study begins with the clinical observation that psychopathic patients distort and disrupt the organisation containing and caring for them on one hand, and that organisational leaders manage to galvanise followers into realising his vision on the... Read More about Managerial agency: Personality, psychopathy, structure and leadership..