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AFZALI, YALDA (2017) Gender Relations in Higher Education in Afghanistan: A case study. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ALDERSON, SUSAN (2015) AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE IMPACT
OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
PERPETRATOR PROGRAMMES
ON CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

AMAESHI, IHEOMA,JOSEPHINE (2020) Divided We Stand: Exploring the Alcohol Industry Framing of the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act Consultation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

AMINI, ELHAM (2017) The Gendered and Sexual Experiences of Iranian Muslim Menopausal Women: A Biographical Narrative Approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Armitage, Vici (2012) The Inbetweeners: Young people making sense of youth anti-social behaviour. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ARMSTRONG, VICTORIA,EMMA (2016) Mental distress and stigma: exploring the significance of interactions in the context of support provision. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BAKER, CATHERINE,ELIZABETH (2012) An ethnographic enquiry into the use of sports science and technologies in professional rugby. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BANKS, DAVID (2009) Exploring Irish Nursing Careers in the British National Health Service. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BAUMGARTNER, ERIC,CHRISTIAN,GUNTER (2014) Boys will be boys, or will they? A study of youth offending team practitioners’ constructions of masculinity of the young men with whom they work. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BLACKMAN, FIONA,MAEVE (2014) The Angel of the North: Public Art and Wellbeing. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BOTHA, ANTON,IVAN (2024) Denial of the Mainstream Consensus: A Case-Based Complexity Approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BOWS, HANNAH (2017) Rape and serious sexual assault against women aged 60 and over. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BROCK, THOMAS,GEORGE,JAMES (2012) Against Morality: A Critical Realist Examination of a History of Western Sexual Normativity.

An Appeal for Emancipation and Explanation through Emergentist Social Science. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BURRELL, STEPHEN,ROBERT (2019) Engaging men and boys in the prevention of men's violence against women in England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BUTTERWORTH, KATE (2018) Breaking barriers and building bridges: Police responses to same-sex partner abuse in England and Wales. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CAMPBELL, ROSEMARY (2016) Not Getting Away With It: addressing violence against sex workers as hate crime in Merseyside. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CAREY, JOHN,FERNANDO (2017) Initial Assessment in Forensic Psychiatry: The Forensic Assessment Format as a boundary object. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CASEY, BETH,ANNE (2013) Performing child neglect in social work practice. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CHANDRIOTIS, CLEANTHIS (2013) Initial Public Offerings in the Cyprus Stock Exchange. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CHIANG, YACHI (2012) The Impact of the New Taiwan Intellectual Property Court upon the Practice of Litigating Patent and Copyright Cases. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CHIU, WAN-YU (2014) CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES IN TAIWAN. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CHOWDHURY, MEHZEB,RAHMAN (2020) An Overview of Crime Scene Practice and its Practitioners in the United Kingdom. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

COOK, GRAHAM,VICTOR (2010) 'Active Sports' The First Step to Sporting Excellence? Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CRAIGE, WILLIAM,ARTHUR (2015) The Pinboard in Practice: A Study of Method through the Case of US Telemedicine, 1945-1980. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CROSSLEY, STEPHEN,JAMES (2017) ‘Making trouble’: a Bourdieusian analysis of the UK Government’s Troubled Families Programme. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CUI, KE (2014) Negotiated Dynamics: Exploring the role of parental educational expectations as a mechanism for encouraging children’s social mobility. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DARLING, ANDREA,JEAN (2018) Understanding Female-Perpetrated Child Sexual Abuse in Organisational Contexts. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DEACON, LESLEY,ANN (2015) Children’s Social Care Services’ Response to Children who Display Sexually Harmful Behaviour. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

EDWARDS, MARK,JUSTIN (2011) The impact of School Sport Partnerships on primary schools:
An in-depth evaluation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

El-Yakub, Kaka (2009) An Auto-Ethnographical Study of Integration of Kanuri Traditional Health Practices into the Borno State Health Care Stystem. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ELLIOTT, KAREN (2013) Policy implementation as a wicked problem: A study of the horse-world. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ELLIS, LIZ (2011) Towards a Contemporary Sociology of Children and Consumption. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FARLEY, KATHERINE,LAURA (2010) Patterns and trends in ethnic residential segregation in England, 1991-2001: a quantitative and qualitative investigation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FAULKNER, HILARY,MARY (2011) Actor-Directors: The Working Lives of Prison Governors. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GASTON, LINDSEY,EUGENE (2014) The Rugby Players Association’s Benevolent Fund: A Sociological Study of the Development of a Social Integration Discourse in Rugby Football. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GATENBY, HELEN,JULIE (2019) How do youth work students develop their professional values during qualifying education? Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GIANNOU, DIMITRA (2017) “Normalized Absence, Pathologised Presence”
Understanding the Health Inequalities of LGBT People in Greece. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GIAZITZOGLU, ANDREAS,GEORGE (2010) “Working out our melancholy, our muscles and our masculinities” Depression, anomie, alienation, commodity fetishism, body-modification and masculinity in a de-industrialised Northumbrian Town. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GILL, WENDY,VICTORIA (2023) ‘Do traditional youth work organisations hold the key to sustainability for twenty-first century youth provision? Lessons from The Guide Association.’. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GOMM, REBECCA,MARIA (2016) Women making meaning of their desistance from offending: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GREENHOW, SARAH,KATHRYN (2015) Chatting Online With My Other Mother: Adoptive family views and experiences of the use of traditional and technological forms of post-adoption contact. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GREER-MURPHY, AMY,ALEXANDRA (2018) Invisible Inequalities of Austerity: Everyday Life, Mothers and Health in Stockton-on-Tees. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GRIFFIN, NATHAN,DAVID,STEPHENS (2015) Queering Veganism: A Biographical, Visual and Autoethnographic Study of Animal Advocacy. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HALL, KIRSTEN,ELLEN (2021) How do Children and Young People, who have lived with Domestic Violence, View, Understand and Experience the Idea of Home? Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HALLS, AMY,VICTORIA (2013) Marginal Men: Men with breast cancer negotiating gender. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HANSON, CORAL,LUCY (2017) Advancing understanding of effective exercise on referral: a mixed methods evaluation of the Northumberland scheme. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HART, PETER (2016) An Ethnographic Study of Ethical Practices in Relationships Between Young People and Youth Workers. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HAYTON, JOHN,WILLIAM (2013) Looking on the SUNEE side:
An analysis of student volunteering on a university sports-based outreach project. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HENDERSON, KELDA (2019) The role of housing in a coordinated community response to domestic abuse. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HESLOP, PHILIP,ANDREW (2014) Fathers Who Foster: Exploring Gendered Narratives from Foster-Fathers. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HICKEY, COLM,PATRICK (2015) Performing off the Pitch:
An investigation of identity management strategies of professional footballers as part of their career transition from the Premier League. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HODGE, ALEXANDER,CARL (2018) Athlemaphilia: (n) meaningful affective connections with sport. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JUPP-KINA, VICTORIA,KAREN (2010) Participant or Protagonist? The impact of the personal on the development of children and young people’s participation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KAWANZARUWA, GALLIE (2015) LIVED EXPERIENCES OF EMIRATI SENIOR WOMEN MANAGERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KRIZNIK, NATASHA,MARIE (2015) “What’s the problem of “health inequality” represented to be?”: A post-structuralist analysis of English public health policy 1980-2011. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LANDALE, SARAH,A (2012) Trajectories, Transitions
and Turning Points: Sports, Substance Misuse and Desistance. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LARI, NOORA,AHMED (2016) GENDER AND EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE – A STUDY OF QATARI WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LIYANAGE, LAKSHIKA,SAJEEVANIE (2012) Social Work in Community Mental Health Teams:
An Ethnographic Study with Two Community Mental Health Teams. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MANLEY, ANDREW,THOMAS (2012) Surveillance, Disciplinary Power and Athletic Identity: A Sociological Investigation into the Culture of Elite Sports Academies. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MARTINEZ-HERRERO, MARIA,INES (2017) Human Rights and Social Justice in Social Work Education: A critical realist comparative study of England and Spain. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MATEOS-GONZALEZ, JOSE,LUIS (2019) Non-EU International Students in UK Higher Education Institutions: Prosperity, Stagnation and Institutional Hierarchies. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MAY, THOMAS,ALEXANDER (2015) Negotiating Marginality: Young men’s post-industrial transitions in the context of a sports-based intervention project. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MCDOWELL, MARGARET,JANE (2015) How is women’s homelessness governed in contemporary society? A Foucauldian perspective. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

McIntyre, Mary Patricia (1992) The response to the 1984-85 miners' strike in Durham County : women, the Labour Party and community. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MEABY, VICTORIA (2019) Nothing to lose?
A Constructed Grounded Theory of loss in the lives of young people who offend. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MEERSOHN-SCHMIDT, CYNTHIA,CAROLINA (2015) From Mid-Life to Later Life: Strategies for Controlling Age Transitions Among Chileans in Metropolitan Santiago. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MOGER, PAULINE (2016) Uncovering The Legacy of Policy
An Ethnographic Account of a Secondary School’s Commitment to Creativity. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MOHAMED, ASMA,K,I (2021) Preclinical Evaluation of Cardiotoxicity Associated with Vascular Disrupting Agents Used for the Treatment of Cancer. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MORRIS, MAX (2018) Incidental Sex Work: Casual and Commercial Encounters in Queer Digital Spaces. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MUNSAKA, EDSON (2012) INCLUDING A DISABILITY AGENDA IN DEVELOPMENT: MYTH OR REALITY? A CASE STUDY OF BINGA DISTRICT IN ZIMBABWE. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

NG, ANGIE (2016) Symbolic Violence, the Sale of Sex
and Sex Trafficking in Hong Kong. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

NKHOMA, PEARSON (2017) Understanding Child Prostitution in Malawi: A Participatory Approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

NOONE, CATRIN (2023) The changing role of the day centre for older people in addressing loneliness: a participatory action research study. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

NUSEIBEH, RAWAN,AHMAD,FARID (2013) Educational Exclusion under an Ethnocratic State:
The Case of East Jerusalem. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

O'MALLEY, CLAIRE,LOUISE (2019) Characterising the determinants of fruit and vegetable consumption in pre-school children. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

OGILVIE, MARK,EDWARD (2019) Masculinities and Sexualities of Elite Male Team Sport Athletes: An Ethnographic Examination. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

PARKER, ETHNA,THERESE (2015) Dementia is a disease, not a person: exploring the experiences of people with dementia, carers and mental health practitioners on dementia and dementia services via a qualitative evaluation of a community-based memory service. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

PELLY, LYNN (2013) Farming In Transition? An Exploration of Agricultural Experience in the North East of England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

PETERSEN-WAGNER, RENAN (2015) Cosmopolitan Fandom: A Critical Postcolonial Analysis of Liverpool FC’s Supporters Discourses in Brazil and Switzerland. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

PHILLIPS, JOSEPHINE,HOLCOMB (2016) Relationships in therapy: Perspectives of practitioners, carers, and young people affected by child sexual abuse. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

PITCHER, KAREN,DIANNA (2020) Assessing Adolescents who display Harmful Sexual Behaviours:
The Challenge of the Developmental Transition. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

QUARLESS, CHARLOTTE (2013) Learning from the Case: A Grounded Account of Best Value Practice from within Easington District Council. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

RAFFLES, LARISSA,ELLEN (2016) To move or not to move? Decision-making about migration or ageing-in-place for older Orthodox Jewish people from Gateshead. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

RAYMEN, THOMAS,WILLIAM (2017) The Paradox of Parkour: An Exploration of the Deviant-Leisure Nexus in Late-Capitalist Urban Space. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

RICH, STEPHANIE,FRANCES (2018) Is Welfare Working? A qualitative longitudinal multi-case study on the experiences of young unemployed people engaging with Active Labour Market Policies, in the North-East of England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

RIGBY, BENJAMIN,PETER (2022) Complexity and physical activity policy: considerations for theory and practice. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ROBINSON, MARGARET,ANNE (2020) Working it out for yourself: how young people use strategies and resources to reshape or reinvent identities which they experience as problematic and/or limiting in their progress towards adulthood. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ROBSON, SUSAN (2015) Towards reflexive, dynamic and accountable community development practice. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ROONEY, LEIGH (2019) The Pinboard and the Paradox of Pain: An Experiment of Post-Epistemological Method in Representing the Lived Experience of Persistent Pain. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ROY, BIVAKAV (2012) An exploration of the experience of patients who have had an episode of Tuberculosis in Bangladesh focusing on delay in seeking treatment and the socioeconomic impact on patients and their families. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ROYAL, KATHRYN,ELIZABETH (2019) ‘It’s like wallpaper’: Victim-blaming, sexual violence and the media. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

RUTTER, NIKKI (2022) “It’s like living in a house with constant tremors, and every so
often, there’s an earthquake”
A Glaserian Grounded Theory study into harm to parents, caused by the
explosive and controlling impulses of their pre-adolescent children. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SADAF, FOUZIA (2022) PAKISTANI FEMALE ACADEMICS’ CAREER PROGRESSION TRAJECTORIES: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF INFLUENCES OF INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES AND STRUCTURES. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SAMBALI, JOSEPH,JAMES (2015) Exploring health risks and Resilience in a Rural Population in the Context of Environment-Related Diseases, Ngara, Tanzania. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SEMPIJA, RACHEL,ANNE (2011) Service-user and provider perspectives on the ‘Team Around the Family’: a Q-methodological analysis of four cases. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SHENTON, FELICITY,ANNE (2015) Even if it is legally defensible, does that make it morally right? Children explore the use of physical restraint in custody. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SORIANO-RIVERA, SILVIA,JUDITH (2017) EXPLORING THE UNEVEN EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC RECESSION AND AUSTERITY ON LONE MOTHERS: A CRITICAL REALIST INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SOUTHBY, KRIS (2013) Supporting the Fans: Learning-disability, Football Fandom and Social Exclusion. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

STEPANOVA, EVGENIA (2014) Understanding the Nature of Institutionalization for Children in Russia. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

STOCKDALE, KELLY,JANE (2015) The implementation of restorative justice policy: a case study of one police force in England and Wales. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

THORLBY, KATIE,ELAINE (2015) Global Perspectives on Sustainable Exit from Prostitution:
An analysis of social enterprise approaches adopted by faith-based projects supporting women to leave prostitution. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

TINARWO, MOREBLESSING,TANDEKA (2011) Making Britain ‘Home’: Zimbabwean Social Workers’ Experiences of Migrating To and Working in a British City. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

TURNBULL, GAVIN,JOHN (2017) The dynamic nature of risk practice: A study of youth practitioners’ accounts of risk in work with young people. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

VICKERS, TOM (2010) The Management of Oppression:
Focussing on relationships between refugees and the British state in Newcastle upon Tyne. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

VOUROUTZIDOU, POLYXENI (2011) The social organisation of learning difficulties at university: a qualitative study of four Higher Education Institutions in the North East Region of England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WALKER, DAVID,IAN (2010) Narrating Identity: Career Soldiers Anticipating Exit from the British Army. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WALLING-WEFELMEYER, ROSA,GABRIELA (2022) Scrapbooking the Everyday Scaffolding of Sexual Violence:
Making Sense of ‘Rape Culture’. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WAN-AHMAD, SHARIFAH,SOPHIA (2010) CULTURE, POWER AND RESISTANCE: POST-COLONIALISM, AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MALAYSIAN INDEPENDENCE. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WARD, JAMES,CHRISTOPHER (2014) Women’s Imprisonment, Self-Harm and Emancipatory Research: Developing a Framework for Transformative Research in a Women’s Prison. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WARREN, JONATHAN (2011) Living the Call Centre –Global, Local, Work, Life, Interfaces. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Westmarland, Louise (1998) An ethnography of gendered policing. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

XUE, HANDAN (2018) The Happiness of Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in Shanghai: Comparing Migrant Workers and Shanghai’s Urban Residents. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

YANG, MAN-JAE (2011) COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT IN SOUTH KOREA: TOWARDS
DEVELOPING A LOCAL MODEL FOR PRACTICE. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Masters

CARROLL, CHRISTINE (2013) Lives worthy of human dignity: investigating the impact of UK Asylum Policy on the well-being of asylum seekers in the North East of England. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Eaves, Malcolm Jonathan Cunliffe (1961) The development of child welfare with particular reference to Skellow Hall Children's Home in the West Riding. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HOLLAND, JOHN,DELWYN (2009) A Welfare Consensus?
Social Policy from Thatcher to Blair. Masters thesis, Durham University.

LAWRENCE, JANET (2015) EMERGENCY CARE: EMOTIONAL CONTROL
An exploration of what constitutes emotional labour
for a UK paramedic. Masters thesis, Durham University.

PITT, MARK,WILLIAM (2010) IDENTIFYING A PREDICTABLE PROPERTY CRIME TREND MODEL IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND. Masters thesis, Durham University.

WAUCHOPE, EMMA,CATHERINE (2018) AN ANALYSIS OF THE DIETARY PRACTICES OF 9 TO 12 YEAR OLD PHYSICALLY ACTIVE CHILDREN AND THE NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR PARENTS. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Unspecified

HARDMAN, RORY,MATTHEW (2019) ‘Deviant’ Or Criminal? On-field ‘Sports Violence’ and the Involvement Of Criminal Law In English Rugby Union. Unspecified thesis, Durham University.