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  • Aisha Naz Ansari: ": Researching the Effectiveness of Pre-Service Teacher Education Programmes (Pre-STEPs)"
  • Aisling Madden: "Exploring the Role of Urban Density in Social Housing through Graphic Anthropology in Belfast, UK"
  • Aislinn Fanning: "Achieving Equality: Anti-Discrimination Law in Northern Ireland after Brexit"
  • Alan McKinstry: "Criminalised victims: Recognising, understanding, and challenging modern slavery and child criminal exploitation amongst young people from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Belfast"
  • Alex Hibberts: "The Sustainability of Settlement and Exploitation of Liminal Environments in the North Sea Region, c. 1150-1400"
  • Alison McDonald: "Examining the Implementation and Experiences of Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes"
  • Amandine Visine: Understanding the effect of seasonal variability on BaYaka children’s foraging, cognitive development, and social learning
  • Amy Hill: "An intersectional study of gender and the Royal Air Force"
  • Amy Robson: "Beyond Extinction: Climate Activisms and the (Re)Making of Futures"
  • Anas Almassri: Capabilities for Peace? A Critical Realist Study of International Scholarships Impact in Palestine.
  • Anas Ismail: "Exploring the health and social impacts of outside medical referrals and evacuation of Palestinian patients from Gaza"
  • Angela Long: "The Role of Community Pharmacy in the Management of Age-Related Musculoskeletal Conditions"
  • Anil Sindhwani: "From House to Home: Social Citizenship, State-Led Displacement, and the Haringey Development Vehicle"
  • Anuji De Za: Investigating the effects of topic and word familiarity on written paragraph level comprehension of typical readers and people with aphasia
  • Ashleigh Regan: "Welsh-Medium Education: Exploring the attitudes, beliefs and experiences of parents and pupils from non-Welsh speaking households"
  • Ben Main: Features of precarious housing
  • Brett Cherry: "In Search of a Just Transition to Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Adaptation: A Nexus for Social Justice in the North of Tyne"
  • Brightman Makoni: "The production and policing of new categories of migrants: Zimbabwean migrant families and the UK Health and Care Worker Visa Scheme"
  • Cait Jobson: "Domestic Violence and Abuse Help-seeking for LGBTQ+ Young people: A Participatory Approach"
  • Caitlin Mackinlay: "Queering Carcerality: Exploring queer experiences of UK prisons"
  • Calanthe Hendrikse: Understanding menstrual pain and its management: the co-creation of an educational intervention.
  • Cara Leavey: "Precarious work, precarious health: The impact of precarious employment on young adults’ health and wellbeing in the UK"
  • Carlo Ceglia: "Out of the Blue: The Republic of Seychelles and the Evolving Financial-Institutional Architecture around Ocean Spaces"
  • Cécile Blouin: "Open Doors? Cross-border itineraries of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia, Ecuador & Peru"
  • Cecilia Frascaroli: "The ethics of genital interventions: how to protect the autonomy and bodily integrity of children"
  • Celia Mason: "Precarity and mental health: What role can mutual aid play in mitigating social determinants of health in left-behind communities?"
  • Charalampos (Harris) Paraskevopoulos: "Migrants at Work: How Legal Status and Regional Geography Affect Migrant Labour Market Experiences in the UK"
  • Charles Hierons: "Beyond Islamist Movements: Religion and Power in Dynamic Socio-Political Fields"
  • Charlie Greenall: “Eating behaviour in autism: co-produced conceptualisation & scale development”
  • Charlie Pearson: "Applying Critical Security Theory to Military Rescue Operations in Times of Humanitarian Crisis: How EU Irregular Migration Policy Has Transformed in the Modern Political Sphere"
  • Charlie Roberts: "Monetising homophobic discourse: hate speech, derogatory language, and the hetero-masculine male body on OnlyFans."
  • Chi-Chi Shi: "Climate change and the Rohingya refugee regime’
  • Chloe Cherry: Social media and its effect on adolescents: A secondary data analysis of household panel data
  • Chloe Fielding: School Distress, Anxiety, and Attendance Difficulties for Neurodivergent Pupils
  • Christopher Little: "Populism and the British Far-Right: The Psycho-Discursive Construction of Tommy Robinson as Anti-Establishment, Working-Class ‘Hero’"
  • Chung-Yen Cheng: "Reorienting Western Theories of Atmospheres: A case study of Feng Shui practices in Taiwan and Northeast England"
  • Ciarán Canning: "Improving Delay of Gratification in Children: A Role for Episodic Future Thinking?"
  • Claire Castles: An ethnography of international evangelical missions and ethnic relations in Northern Ireland
  • Colin Leonard: "Young People’s Pandemic Rights and Responsibilities"
  • Connor Malcolm: "Exploring the role of social ties for well-being in adolescent children from serving military families"
  • Constantin Torve: "Valleys of Fear: Mapping Irish Secret Societies between Agrarian and Industrial Unrest, 1840-1880"
  • Courtney Neal: "Does Food Insecurity Affect Food-Related Cognition?"
  • Dale Pankhurst: "States and “Pro-Government” Militias (PGMs): Delegation, Deniability, Acquiescence or Antagonism? Explaining Variation in State-PGM Relationships in the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and Colombia"
  • Daniel Jones: "Geographies of Impulse: A Study of Individuals with Tourettes Syndrome and the Embodied Experience of Public Space"
  • David Eagleson: Legality of Non-Consensual Active Debris Removal
  • Diana Ortega: "Women narrating justice: The value of women's storytelling in response to gender violence during Mexico's war on drugs"
  • Edward Jiru Zeng: "Topics, Strategies and Women’s Political Behaviour in Legislatures: A Cross-Regional Study among Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan based on Parliamentary Speeches (1999-2023)"
  • Elle McWilliam: "Exploring the Relationship between Auditory, Written and Multi-Modality Comprehension at Discourse Level"
  • Em Richardson: "Working with Words: Improving metalinguistic awareness of words with multiple meanings in autistic children"
  • Emily Faux: "When Nukes Go “POP”: Nuclear Weapons in Contemporary Popular Culture"
  • Emily Jeffries: "The Moral of the Story: Investigating the co-evolution of storytelling and prosociality using comparative analysis and game theory experiments"
  • Emily Upson: "Influencing Governance in Xinjiang: How to Understand and Utilise Correlations between Global Discourses and Post-2016 CCP Policy Changes"
  • Emily Wray: "'Culturephilia' for Whom and Where? Questioning the ‘Curing Qualities’ of Culture in a ‘Post-Troubles’ City: An Analysis of Derry/Londonderry"
  • Emma Hodgson: "Understanding young people’s online sexual behaviour, nature, cases, context and consequences."
  • Emma Maslin: "Commuting to Class: An Ethnography of Commuting Students’ Experience of Higher Education"
  • Erik Crnkovich: What does it mean to be a twenty-first century farmer? An ethnography of Scottish agriculture's 'just transition' to sustainable farming
  • Erin Dawson: "An Investigation Into the Mathematical Learning Experiences of Pupils in Northern Ireland Special Schools"
  • Erin-Beth Nugent: "Making Professionals: Training regimes, everyday practices, and the experiences and perspectives of boys and their families in professional football academies"
  • Esther Outram: "Why is no one talking about Disability? An Investigation into Grammar Schools and the disabling barriers experienced by dyslexic pupils"
  • Esther Regina Neira Castro: "Health and Stigma of Migrant Women in the Colombo-Venezuelan Border"
  • Evie Heard: "Education in ASEAN: A Children’s Rights Analysis"
  • Farhan Anshary: "The city, the periphery, and the faraway: Contesting imaginaries of “cities” and “non-cities” in a mega-city region"
  • Fiona Lowe: "Digital Business Model Innovation and the Institutional Preservation of the Arts and Heritage Sector"
  • Fleur Riley: "Young female prisoners: exploring trust in a traumatised population"
  • Fran Cavanagh: “An investigation of potential relationships between ostracism, political narratives, social attitudes and outgroup perception”
  • Frida Citlati Jaime Franco: "Critical intercultural education for social transformation through intercultural responsibility in a context of decoloniality and internationalisation"
  • Gary Reynolds: "County lines and the criminal exploitation of children and young people: An exploratory and critical study of the system response to child criminal exploitation and the local authority care provision for children and young people in Cumbria"
  • Gemma Herbert: "The social experiences of autistic pupils in mainstream secondary schools: A mixed-methods study of what inclusion means for autistic and neurotypical adolescents"
  • Giulia D’Avino: The effect of tiredness on attention, word learning and their respective brain regions in infancy.
  • Grace McCabe: Staying Safe in an Online World: the Case of Williams Syndrome
  • Hannah Ferris Blair: Exploring Late-Diagnosed ADHD Within the Desistance Process
  • Hannah Morgan: "(Un)suspended Temporality: Everyday Smartphone Practices and the Navigation of Slow Emergency for Asylum Seekers in the UK"
  • Harriet Broadfoot: "Towards Communities of Compassion: Exploring What Affords a Compassion Enabling Environment in Early Childhood Education"
  • Heather Proctor: "The Role of the Arts and Political Memory in Forming Mixed Ethnic Identity"
  • Helen Watt: "In the Name of God: Examining how religious belief and practice influences villent behaviours within NRMs through the study of politically violent groups"
  • Ioulia Barakou: "Self-regulation and physical activity behaviour in individuals who are experiencing fatigue symptoms: designing a tailored intervention to promote physical activity through optimizing activity pacing"
  • Jack Lumsdon: Cross-contextual comparison of physical activity in people with Parkinson’s in the UK and Ghana: Exploring the influence of disease related and socioecological factors
  • Jack Simmonds: "The Young LGBT+ Lived Experience and Relationship with the Police Service in Greater Manchester"
  • James Doyle: Consultation as transformation: An ethnographic study of liminal space in the planning process
  • James McLeod: “A mixed methods study of the factors that influence engagement in physical activity for autistic adolescents”
  • Jamie Emmerson: Trauma and healing in the aftermath of ecological violence: a relational perspective
  • Jane Wardle: "The Road to Resilience: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Stigma and Empowerment in Single and Divorced Mothers in Turkey"
  • Janelle Rabe: "Step up, Speak Out: A participatory action research project on young people's views of sexual violence and its prevention"
  • Jess Hirst: "Developing a holistic understanding of the barriers and facilitators to school outcomes for autistic pupils in mainstream schools"
  • Jessica Miller: "Food Redistribution and Responsibility"
  • Jessica Spratt: "Drug Consumption Amongst Members of LGBTQ Communities in Northern Ireland"
  • Jo Baker: "Seeing Phonological Disorders More Clearly: Understanding the Impact of Phonological Awareness Intervention on the Speech Sound System of Children with Consistent Phonological Disorder"
  • Joanna Li: "Tracking vanishing foods: a comparative study of the strategy and dynamics of a ‘Chinese’ diasporic identity in the UK"
  • Joanne Walker-McGowan: "Working with rather than for partner organisations: re-defining the role of youth work in safeguarding young people from extra-familial harm."
  • Joaquim Gaignard: "Transforming a Nation by turning North: Scotland’s external policy efforts to promote a new Northern Scottish identity"
  • Jonathan Horner: "Beyond Boilerplate? An Analysis of the Effect of the ‘Section 172(1) Statement’ requirement on the reporting of FTSE 100 companies’."
  • Jonny Armstrong: "An analysis of the design and implementation of Restorative Practice models of conflict management and accountability in Northern Ireland’s Schools"
  • Jordan Leinster: "Analysing the Legal Implications of Cross-Border Data Collection and Usage Within Connected and Autonomous Vehicles on the Island of Ireland: Selling Safety for Privacy?"
  • Julia Guy: "Changing the Tracks: Investigating sexual harassment on public transport in the North-East of England"
  • Karina Dyliaeva: "Does assessment legitimise ableist supremacy in higher education? A participatory investigation of assessment experiences of students with disabilities"
  • Kate Howley: "Discourses of non-participation in Higher Education and the reproduction of class inequalities"
  • Kyle Richmond: "Market Structure, Innovation, and Britain’s Relative Economic Decline"
  • Laura Hill: Political astuteness skills and everyday practice: an interactionist analysis of volunteer sport coaches' perspectives.
  • Laura McGuire: "Community Gardening and Social Prescription: An Ethnographic Exploration"
  • Laura Tidd: "Border Lands: Women’s Experiences of Diagnosis, Treatment and Everyday Life with Borderline Personality Disorder"
  • Lauren Clucas: “Investigating the effects of gesture on early word learning”
  • LeAnne Zarroug: Which Strategies do Black women use to navigate and nurture relationships while studying with predominantly white environments?
  • Linda Arrighi: "Interactive Effects of Sex Hormones, Psychosocial Stress and Self-Efficacy on Cognitive Sex Differences"
  • Lisa Meek: “Player Connected: Understanding interaction between players, videogames and their environments”
  • Loes Lijnders: “Death Mobilities: Funerals, Translocal Families and Urban Life in South Sudan and Sudan"
  • Lucy Edgar: The Science of Celebration: Why Do Positive Outcomes Lead to More Reward-Seeking?
  • Lucy Jameson: "Collective Creation: Disabled Innovation and the British Post Office."
  • Luke Green: "The Financialised University in the Neoliberal City? A Comparative Study of University Real Estate Investment Strategies in Edinburgh and Manchester, UK"
  • Lydia Mckeown: "The Experience of Loneliness during Adolescence when a Parent has Cancer"
  • Lydia Millar: "The Environment-Conflict Nexus: The Weaknesses of the Transitional Justice Regime and its Consequences for Conflict-Induced Environmental Harm"
  • Lynne Cairns: "Risk and Protection? The Lived Experience of Young Men with Harmful Sexual Behaviours: Towards a Contextual Understanding"
  • Mary Freer-Dalziel : Understanding the safety of accompanied children seeking asylum: A North-East case study
  • Meg Russell: Selling yourself as an endurance athlete: Labour, agency, and negotiating wellbeing amongst networks of governance
  • Melissa Schorah: "Individual differences in temporal predictions in speech: word segmentation and conversational turn-taking"
  • Melody Bishop: "A qualitative longitudinal study on the illness experiences of UK students with long-term health conditions during their first year of transition to an elite collegiate university"
  • Mengyu Wu: "The Governance of Industrial Heritage-Led Regeneration: The Case of Chengdu, China"
  • Métrey Tiv: "Responses to Lassa fever disease in Nigeria: A multilevel ethnography of a health system"
  • Michaela Hodge: "Transgressive Friendships: To what extent do moral identity and religion play a role in transgressive friendships and prosocial dynamics?"
  • Mizuho Kawashima: "Negotiated ‘Chineseness’ in Newcastle: The Making and Remaking of Identity amongst Three Generations of Hong Kong Chinese Migrant Families"
  • Molly Manister: "Agent of support or agent of surveillance? The expectations on children’s social care professionals in the prevention of youth radicalisation"
  • Natasha Black: "A study of work in relation to refugees and asylum seekers in Northern Ireland"
  • Nathaniel McGrory: "Trading as ‘Voice’: How Ought Market Actions be Understood as Investor Stewardship within the UK Corporate Governance Regime?"
  • Nichola McNulty: "Examining Femicide in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland Through the Lens of Feminist Jurisprudence and Making Recommendations for Effective and Impactful Legislative Reform"
  • Nicole Devlin: "Intergenerational trauma, identity, and well-being: How the trauma of the Troubles conflict has impacted social identities in Northern Ireland."
  • Nouhad Abou Melhem: “Exploring key drivers of individual differences in the language development of 3 year-old Lebanese children”
  • Orla Kerrigan: "The Unspoken Conflict? The Impact and Legacy of Sexual Violence during the Northern Irish Troubles"
  • Oscar Daniel: "Towards Gender Inclusive Healthcare: Improving Transgender Healthcare Education Amongst Medical Students"
  • Parisa Diba: "The Dark Side of Enhancement: An Examination of Crime and Harm in Offline and Online Image-Enhancement Markets"
  • Patricia Bartley: The Conditions of Solidarity: Ambiguity in the Protection of Human Rights
  • Peter Mason: "Misreading Masculinity? An Exploration of How Perceptions of Masculinity Might Influence Boys’ Underperformance in Reading"
  • Phevos Simeonidis: "Frozen assets: Posthumous politics and the governance of bodies discovered on the Greece-Turkey border"
  • Qile Xie: Patriotic mercury: Socialist extraction and embodied politics in southwest China
  • Rachel Kurtz: "A transdisciplinary Perspective on Embodied Learning to Enhance Educational Outcomes and Physical and Mental Health"
  • Rebecca Walton: "The End of the Assize: Deregulating Britain’s Bread Industry"
  • Renzo Szkwarok: "Radical hope beyond hospitality and tolerance: embracing pro-migrant futures out of the UK’s hostile environment"
  • Rhys McKendry: "Explaining Inequality via Trade and Productivity: The Case of the UK"
  • Rhys Proud: "Looking into the Eyes of a Friend: Evidence from Autism"
  • Robert Gilmore: "Participating our way to low-carbon cities or decarbonising our way to urban democracy: An exploration of processes and outcomes in contemporary urban climate change politics"
  • Rosalyn Millar: "Coercive Control: Understanding and Experiences in a Post-Bill Environment"
  • Rosemary Coleran: "An exploration into the role of not-for-profit NGO schools in Cambodian primary education."
  • Saga Hamdan: "Healthcare Under Attack: Sociological Impacts and Barriers to Enforcing International Humanitarian Law in Gaza"
  • Sam Colclough: “A Labour Theory of Knowledge: Political Epistemology and UK Scientific Advice During a Pandemic”
  • Sam Hoyle: Problematising the ‘Pax Britannica’ and Indian Ocean Piracy during the Mid-19th-Century.
  • Sam Jensen: What role does psychological safety play in promoting well-being amongst high-performance coaches?
  • Sarah White: A new examination of command hallucinations
  • Scarlett Hart : "Phonological Change in Later-Life"
  • Siew Ying Shee: "New technologies of the volumetric city: The politics, practices, and possibilities of urban drone use in Singapore"
  • Sophie Lively: "Narrating Masculinities: Racism, Nationalism and Belonging amongst Working Class Men in Tyneside"
  • Steven Farquhar: "Quantum Geographies of Quantum Science and Technology: Future Ecologies in the UK"
  • Stuti Pradhan: "Gender and Citizenship in the Eastern Himalayan Borderlands"
  • Suzanne Butler: "Women’s ‘Stories’: The emotional consequences of poverty in childhood and the shaping of women’s lives"
  • Tania Alahendra: "Intersectionality and Everyday Peace in Sri Lanka"
  • Thomas Lian-Hoare: "Sino-Central Asian relations within the framework of wider regional relations"
  • Tilly Hall: "Care(ing) in the Disaster Risk Management Assemblage: An Empirical Study of Wildfire Disaster Risk Management in Sonoma County, California"
  • Tobias Niblock: "Exploring Young People’s Involvement in Drug Markets in Northern Ireland"
  • Toby Donegan-Cross: "Food production, accounting and consumption on Durham Priory’s estate, c. 1250–1500"
  • Tom Bradshaw: "A critique into the way policymakers have managed the economy over the past century"
  • Vu Tran-Thanh: "Exploring Queer Teachers’ Professional Identity Through LGBTQ+ Inclusivity in the ESOL Classroom"
  • Wangyin Zhao: "A disaster for whom? The conditional impact of natural disasters on civil conflicts"
  • Will Lloyd: "An Ethnographic Study of Trail Running, Feminism and Development in Nepal"
  • Xiang He: "Mapping Longitudinal Development Pressures in Northern Ireland Based on Machine Learning"
  • Xin Fan: "School choice fever: Parents’ perceptions and practices in rural China"
  • Xuechun Ding: "Four-Day Work Week and Occupational Stress: A Mixed-Method Study of Older Workers"
  • Yasmin Zhuang-Mackie: "The medicalisation of race and culture: Inequalities and organ donation in the UK"
  • Yosley Carrero Chavez: "Affective Polarisation, Social Media and One-Party States: The Cuban Case Study"
  • Yuanya Zhang: "Chinese rural students’ digital engagement in relation to their schooling experiences"
  • Yufei Zhang: "A longitudinal study of prosodic convergence in psychotherapy sessions for people with depression, and its potential clinical application"
  • Yushan Tang Wilson: "Scaffolding the Future: How Parents Guide Children’s Critical Thinking on Difficult Topics"
  • Yvonne Moynihan: "Exploring the Experiences of Migrant Pupils in Different School Types in Northern Ireland"
  • Zohreh Fakhari Zavareh: "Voluntary Labour and Climate Adaptation: The Role of Humanitarian Health Interventions"
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