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Mobilities, migration and Covid-19 in Italy and the UK: qualitative comparative perspectives from two towns (2025)
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Fani, A. (2025). Mobilities, migration and Covid-19 in Italy and the UK: qualitative comparative perspectives from two towns. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1279862

The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and the subsequent declaration of a pandemic in March 2020 led to a period of fast-paced policy changes and shifting landscapes of risk and threat. In order to control the spreading of the virus, most democratic sta... Read More about Mobilities, migration and Covid-19 in Italy and the UK: qualitative comparative perspectives from two towns.

Petrodollar system and the US hegemony in the Middle East: A case study of the US relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran (2025)
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Okonkwo, I. R. Petrodollar system and the US hegemony in the Middle East: A case study of the US relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109913

The research explores the relationship between the petrodollar system and the US foreign policy as the global hegemonic power in the Middle East, particularly concerning US relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran. Throughout recent history, the oil-rich... Read More about Petrodollar system and the US hegemony in the Middle East: A case study of the US relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Creativity as a scientific-social phenomenon (2024)
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Kamran, S. Creativity as a scientific-social phenomenon. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/857263

In recent years, educational academics, teachers, and politicians from all over the world have turned their attention to the need to encourage children's creativity in their academic studies. Creativity is a critical component of thinking and learnin... Read More about Creativity as a scientific-social phenomenon.

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)
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Tan, T. L. L. 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. 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.

Hope and local food activism in a North Wales town: a conceptual and ethnographic study (2023)
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West, R. H. Hope and local food activism in a North Wales town: a conceptual and ethnographic study. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/518097

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)
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Ozdemir, S. Conscious robots: what happens when a philosophical confusion becomes a societal reality?. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/518830

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)
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Brayford, K. M. In our own image: materialism’s impoverished image of humanity and what this means for our technological future. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/422680

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.

Exploring Serious Incident Investigation Practices in the NHS: towards a patient safety culture in Community Healthcare NHS Trusts (2020)
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Hulme, A. Exploring Serious Incident Investigation Practices in the NHS: towards a patient safety culture in Community Healthcare NHS Trusts. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/418460

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.

Patterns and dialogues in youth work practice: qualitative research into the professional identities and practices of qualified youth workers (2018)
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Pope, P. M. Patterns and dialogues in youth work practice: qualitative research into the professional identities and practices of qualified youth workers. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/411466

This qualitative research study into professional youth work identities and practices offers an insider perspective on the youth work community of practice. The research inquiry adopts a socially constructivist theoretical framework and was contextua... Read More about Patterns and dialogues in youth work practice: qualitative research into the professional identities and practices of qualified youth workers.

Family responsibilities, obligations, and commitment in the Seychelles (2018)
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Henriette, F. G. Family responsibilities, obligations, and commitment in the Seychelles. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/411147

Drawing on a small-scale qualitative study, this thesis examines family relations in post-colonial Seychelles. The Seychelles is considered a post-colonial society because it used to be a colony. The aim of this qualitative research, using an interpr... Read More about Family responsibilities, obligations, and commitment in the Seychelles.

Malaysia and the commonwealth : the Mahathir era (1981-2003)
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Malaysia and the commonwealth : the Mahathir era (1981-2003). https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/424004

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).

Prenatal testing and reproductive autonomy: defending against disability discrimination concerns
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Leask, K. Prenatal testing and reproductive autonomy: defending against disability discrimination concerns. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/408271

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.

Hidden Ghettos: Jewish identity and the processes of its political, social and legal reconstructions in Poland from 1945 until today
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Hidden Ghettos: Jewish identity and the processes of its political, social and legal reconstructions in Poland from 1945 until today. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/410254

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.

Men in the nursing profession: Masculinities and gendered identities
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Men in the nursing profession: Masculinities and gendered identities. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/408997

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.

Medical schools and the virtuous physician: how to ensure that physicians will do the right thing
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Medical schools and the virtuous physician: how to ensure that physicians will do the right thing. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/408368

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.

Life without fatherhood: a qualitative study of older involuntarily childless men
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Hadley, R. A. Life without fatherhood: a qualitative study of older involuntarily childless men. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/408395

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.