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Maltese primary teachers’ perceptions on the inclusion of students with autism in the mainstream classroom: A Critical Disability Theory perspective (2025)
Thesis
Borg Saliba, N. Maltese primary teachers’ perceptions on the inclusion of students with autism in the mainstream classroom: A Critical Disability Theory perspective. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109894

The number of students with autism in mainstream classrooms is globally surging year after year. As a result, teachers are experiencing extra pressure and increased responsibility to effectively meet these students’ individual needs and ensure their... Read More about Maltese primary teachers’ perceptions on the inclusion of students with autism in the mainstream classroom: A Critical Disability Theory perspective.

How do stroke survivors self-manage their life-career transitions? (2024)
Thesis
Wilson, C. T. How do stroke survivors self-manage their life-career transitions?. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/857256

Background
Using the metaphor of life-thread, medical sociologists have drawn attention to the biographical disruption caused by stroke. However, there is little literature examining stroke-survivors’ (approaches to life-career transitions after ac... Read More about How do stroke survivors self-manage their life-career transitions?.

A social realist challenge to the structuring of professional practice knowledge for initial teacher education in England (2023)
Thesis
Swift, D. A social realist challenge to the structuring of professional practice knowledge for initial teacher education in England. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/518059

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.

Lifelong learning among accountants: exploring the links with professional identity (2018)
Thesis
Adjei-Kusi, K. Lifelong learning among accountants: exploring the links with professional identity. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/411440

This thesis explores links between lifelong learning and professional identity among a group of eighteen accountants working across three countries between 2013 and 2016. The substantive aim of this study was to contribute to existing but limited lit... Read More about Lifelong learning among accountants: exploring the links with professional identity.

Inhabiting a woman’s world: the experience of male general student nurses in the Republic of Ireland (2018)
Thesis
Neary, M. Inhabiting a woman’s world: the experience of male general student nurses in the Republic of Ireland. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/411468

This thesis explores the experience of being a male general student nurse in the feminised world of nursing in the Republic of Ireland, where only 5% of general nurses are male. The main focus of the thesis is the experienceof male general student nu... Read More about Inhabiting a woman’s world: the experience of male general student nurses in the Republic of Ireland.