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2014

Mathew, Anijo (2014). Interactive Placemaking: Creativity and User Experience at Urban Installations. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Mitchell, Andrew George Cairncross (2014). Theoretical and Experimental Investigations Into Umbilical Cables for Communications Under the Sea. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2013

Dupressoir, François (2013). Proving Cryptographic C Programs Secure with General-Purpose Verification Tools. PhD thesis Open University. file

Hetherington, Robina (2013). The Integration of Architectural Design and Energy Modelling Software. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Mbayi, Letsema (2013). Turning Rough Dreams into a Polished Reality? Investigating the Formation of Human Capital in Botswana’s Diamond Cutting and Polishing Industry. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Milne, Andrew J. (2013). A Computational Model of the Cognition of Tonality. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Montrieux, Lionel (2013). Model-Based Analysis of Role-Based Access Control. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Nguyen, Tu (2013). Generating Natural Language Explanations For Entailments In Ontologies. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Pantidi, Nadia (2013). An Ethnographic Study of Everyday Interactions in Innovative Learning Spaces. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Sach, Rien (2013). The Impact of Feedback on the Motivation of Software Engineers. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Tuck, Jackie (2013). An Exploration of Practice Surrounding Student Writing in the Disciplines in UK Higher Education from the Perspectives of Academic Teachers. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2012

Buckler, Alison (2012). Understanding the Professional Lives of Female Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: A Capability Perspective. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Heap, Tania Patricia (2012). An Investigation Into The Blogging Practices Of Academics And Researchers. PhD thesis The Open University. restricted access item, not available for direct download

Iacovides, Ioanna (2012). Digital games: motivation, engagement and informal learning. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Jedrzejczyk, Lukasz (2012). Supporting Location Privacy Management through Feedback and Control. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Logie, Nicholas (2012). The role of leadership in conducting orchestras. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Pihlaja, Stephen (2012). The development of ‘drama’ in YouTube discourse. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Rae, Adam (2012). Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Tariq, Faisal (2012). Interference Aware Cognitive Femtocell Networks. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Wilson, Anthea (2012). Supporting Student Nurses By The Educational Use of Self: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration of the Mentor Experience. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2011

Brier, John (2011). A Pattern-Based Approach to Changing Software Requirements in Brown-Field Business Contexts. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Collins, Tom (2011). Improved methods for pattern discovery in music, with applications in automated stylistic composition. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Gaved, Mark (2011). An investigation into grassroots initiated networked communities as a means of addressing the digital divide. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Hartnett, Elizabeth (2011). Cycles of Engagement: how public sector clients and their consultants engage on IT projects. PhD thesis Open University. file

Leedham, Maria (2011). A corpus-driven study of features of Chinese students' undergraduate writing in UK universities. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Pegler, Chris (2011). Reuse and Repurposing of Online Digital Learning Resources within UK Higher Education: 2003-2010. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Selvin, Albert M. (2011). Making Representations Matter: Understanding Practitioner Experience in Participatory Sensemaking. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Twiner, Alison (2011). Sociocultural understandings of technology-mediated educational practices: improvable objects and meaning-making trajectories in the ICT-literate classroom. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Upton, Mary (2011). The Politics of Health: Community Engagement in South African HIV Vaccine Trial Sites. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Victoria, Mabel (2011). Building Common Ground in Intercultural Encounters:a Study of Classroom Interaction in an Employment Preparation Programme for Canadian Immigrants. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2010

Green, Peter Geoffrey (2010). 'All Job's stock of asses': The fiction of Laurence Sterne and the theodicy debate. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Heuer, Manuela (2010). Combinatorial aspects of root lattices and words. PhD thesis The Open University. file

King, David (2010). An investigation into the role of a wiki in supporting collaborative learning activities. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Liu, Haiming (2010). A framework for understanding user interaction with content-based image retrieval: model, interface and users. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Llorente, Ainhoa (2010). Semantics and statistics for automated image annotation. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Matheson, Julia (2010). Common ground: horticulture and the cultivation of open space in the East End of London, 1840-1900. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Nikolov, Andriy (2010). Fusing Automatically Extracted Annotations for the Semantic Web. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Roby, Helen (2010). Using innovation and business models to analyse the organisational embedding of travel plans. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Scully, Marc (2010). Discourses of authenticity and national identity among the Irish diaspora in England. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Sieminski, Sandy (2010). Adaptations to major curriculum change: the case of Further Education lecturers. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Tarling, Barbara Frances (2010). Representations of the American War of Independence in the late eighteenth-century English novel. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2009

Adam, Karim (2009). Balancing privacy needs with location sharing in mobile computing. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Adams, John (2009). 'Challenge and Change in a Cinderella Service': A History of Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridgeshire, 1953 – 1995. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Blackmore, Christine (2009). Learning systems and communities of practice for environmental decision making. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Bucknall, Sue (2009). Children as researchers: exploring issues and barriers in English primary schools. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Dalziel, Robert (2009). Tenants and residents associations and council collaboration: rhetoric and reality. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Ferguson, Rebecca (2009). The Construction of Shared Knowledge through Asynchronous Dialogue. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Haley, Debra (2009). Applying latent semantic analysis to computer assisted assessment in the Computer Science domain: a framework, a tool, and an evaluation. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Hosein, Anesa (2009). Students' approaches to mathematical tasks using software as a black-box, glass-box or open-box. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Lozano Rodriguez, Angela (2009). Assessing the effect of source code characteristics on changeability. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Mcavoy, Jean (2009). Negotiating constructions of success and failure: women in mid-life and formations of subject, subjectivity and identity. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Pegg, Ann (2009). Boundaries, spaces and dialogue: learning to lead in an English primary school. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Wilks, Linda (2009). Initiations, interactions, cognoscenti: social and cultural capital in the music festival experience. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2008

Borda-Rodriguez, Alexander (2008). Knowledge for development? : reflections from consultants and advisors in Bolivia. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Hurd, Stella (2008). Second language learning at a distance: Metacognition, affect, learning strategies and learner support in relation to the development of autonomy. Volume 1: Introduction to the published work. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Hurd, Stella (2008). Second language learning at a distance: Metacognition, affect, learning strategies and learner support in relation to the development of autonomy. Volume 2: Submitted publications. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Hutchinson, Steven (2008). Boundaries, bricolage and student-teacher learning. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Huzair, Farah (2008). Innovative Capabilities of the Agricultural Biotechnology Sector in Hungary. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Mahony, Nick (2008). Spectacular political experiments: the constitution, mediation and performance of large-scale public participation execises. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Mugwagwa, Julius (2008). Supranational organisations and cross-national policy convergence: the case of biosafety in southern Africa. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Nixon, Mark (2008). The Construction of Closure and Cadence in Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde. PhD thesis The Open University. filefile

Rai, Lucy (2008). Student writing in social work education. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Salifu, Mohammed (2008). Analysing the requirements for monitoring and switching: A problem-oriented approach. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2007

Kear, Karen (2007). Investigating design features of a computer-mediated communication system. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Moran, Nicola (2007). Measuring musical interaction: analysing communication in embodied musical behaviour. PhD thesis The Open University. file

van Dijk, Geke (2007). Pick and Mix: consumers moving between online and offline channels. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Wells, Patrick Julian (2007). The rate of profit as a random variable. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2006

Carr, Jenni (2006). Discourses of Widening Participation and Social Inclusion. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Garforth, Jason P. (2006). Executive Attention, Action Selection and Attention-Based Learning in Neurally Controlled Autonomous Agents. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Tzanidou, Ekaterini (2006). Evaluating usability of e-commerce sites by tracking eye movements. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2005

Pinkney, Sharon (2005). Competing constructions of children's participation in social care : analysing text and talk. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2004

Farrington-Flint, Lee (2004). Analogical reasoning in children's reading and addition. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2003

Burrett, Julie Ann (2003). Identification of Randomized Trials for Inclusion in Meta-Analyses of Treatments for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, and Investigation of Factors Leading to Publication Bias. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2002

Bartos, Paul D. (2002). Connectionist modelling of category learning. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Chapman, David (2002). Dark signalling and code division multiple access in an optical fibre LAN with a bus topology. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Descombes, Christine Ruth Elisabeth Hermine (2002). Before ethics? : a study of the ethos of the medical profession. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Di Paolo, Terry (2002). An investigation of students' computer-based learning strategies. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Featherstone, David John (2002). Spatiality, political identities and the environmentalism of the poor. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Harris, Fiona J. (2002). Internal factors affecting brand performance. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Johns, Robert Geraint (2002). From farm training to therapy : a case study in the history of social work from a macro-micro social policy perspective. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Morris, Andy (2002). The geographies of multiculturalism: Britishness, normalisation and the spaces of the Tate Gallery. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Ormrod, Susan (2002). Sense-making and authorising in the organisation of mental health care. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Platman, Kerry (2002). The price of freedom: the opportunities and constraints of freelance employment for older workers : a study of media professionals. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Warwick, Jane (2002). Selecting tuning parameters in minimum distance estimators. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2001

Baker, Lee (2001). Evolution of water reservoirs in the early solar system through their oxygen isotopic composition. PhD thesis The Open University.

Berthelot, Didier (2001). Synthesis of novel heterocyclic α-amino acids. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Gilbert, Anthony Patrick (2001). Social welfare: care planning and the politics of trust. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Hardy, Julie (2001). Novel materials based on functionalised silsesquioxanes. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Harrison, Elaine (2001). Morphological correlates of synaptic plasticity after long term potentiation in the rat hippocampus. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Horrocks, Lisa (2001). Infrared spectroscopy of volcanic gases at Masaya, Nicaragua. PhD thesis The Open University. file

McAra, Lesley (2001). Parole in the penal system: towards a relational theory of penality. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Skinner, Denise Olwyn (2001). Barriers to the evaluation of human resource management initiatives : three public sector case studies. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Worrell, Marcia Lorraine (2001). The discursive construction of child sexual abuse. PhD thesis The Open University. file

2000

Abbott, Jennifer Ileana (2000). Carbon chemistry of giant impacts. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Brocksopp, Catherine (2000). Multiwavelength variability of black hole x-ray binaries in the low/hard state. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Cambon, Karine (2000). Influence of ApoE polymorphism on synaptic morphometry during aging in the dentate gyrus of ApoE knockout and human ApoE transgenic mice. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Coyle, Joanne Lyssa (2000). Trigonal based copper sites - a natural situation? PhD thesis The Open University. file

Gosling, Sally Catherine (2000). Sex and gender roles in gentle and noble families, c.1575-1660, with a particular focus on marriage formation. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Graham, Giles Andrew (2000). The mineralogy and chemistry of micrometeorites. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Harrop, Nicholas (2000). The exploitation of acoustic-to-seismic coupling for the determination of soil properties. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Humphrey, Judith Ann (2000). Liberating images: A feminist analysis of the girls' school-story. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Jones, Alison (2000). Ionic mobility in stuffed-silica minerals. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Kanaan, Mona N. (2000). Cross-spectral analysis for spatial point-lattice processes. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Lunn, Stephen (2000). Primary teachers' understandings of the nature of science and the purposes of science education. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Oram, Gerard Christopher (2000). “What alternative punishment is there?”: military executions during World War I. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Swanwick, Ruth Anne (2000). Deaf children's developing sign bilingualism: dimensions of language ability, use and awareness. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Williams, Helen Myfanwy (2000). Magmatic and tectonic evolution of Southern Tibet and the Himalaya. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Williams, Kadifa (2000). Black people and criminal justice in England and Wales: a study on bail. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Worth, Piers J. (2000). 'Localised creativity: a life span perspective'. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1999

Barclay, Robert Leslie (1999). A critical analysis of actions taken upon historic musical instruments through the period of the early music revival from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1990s. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Barnard, Jane (1999). Factors affecting the use of computer assisted learning by further education biology teachers. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Brilliant, Debra (1999). A study of nitrogen isotopic systematics in lunar soils and breccias. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Codling, Rosamunde Jill (1999). Wilderness and aesthetic values in the Antarctic. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Cottam, Hilary (1999). Zozobra: the tensions of urban space. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Forsyth, Michael (1999). Julia Kavanagh in her times : novelist and biographer, 1824-1877. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Hall, Edward Curzon (1999). Disability and flexible employment: an embodied approach. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Hazel, Ruth Mary (1999). The mediation in late twentieth-century English theatres of selected ancient Greek tragedy texts and themes concerned with women and power. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Hughes, Robert David (1999). The timescales of andesite generation at Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Morris, Erica (1999). The design and evaluation of Link: a CAL system designed to address psychology students' misconceptions about correlation. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Oreszczyn, Sue (1999). Participative Approaches to Hedgerow Conservation. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Reynolds, Kate (1999). Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner?: a policy journey through the abolition of the Inner London Education Authority and the introduction of local management of schools in inner London. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Rolph, Sheena (1999). The history of community care for people with learning difficulties in Norfolk 1930-1980 : the role of two hostels. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Smith, Kevin Grant (1999). The role of story telling in a police probationer training classroom. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Wood, Byron Charles (1999). The effects of forest disturbance and fragmentation on fruit-feeding butterflies in Trinidad. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1998

Adams, Victor W (1998). The potential of fuel cells to reduce energy demands and pollution from the UK transport sector. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Atkinson, Susan D. (1998). A living life, a living death: a study of Bessie Head's writings as a survival strategy. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Bräutigam, Sven (1998). Magnetoencephalographic studies of neural systems associated with higher order processes in humans. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Collins, Trevor (1998). The application of software visualization technology to evolutionary computation: a case study in Genetic Algorithms. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Kauffmann, Juliet Laura Dare (1998). The effect of environmental and social factors on the courtship and mating dynamics of the smooth newt, Triturus v. vulgaris. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Lewin, Cathy (1998). The development and evaluation of software for teaching reading at primary level. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Marsh, Alan John (1998). Formula funding and special educational needs. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Preedy, Margaret (1998). Tertiary colleges: a study of perspectives on organizational innovation. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Signorini, David F. (1998). Practical aspects of kernel smoothing for binary regression and density estimation. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Simpson, Donald (1998). The responses of local education authorities to changes in their functions: a study of in-service education and training. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Simpson, Ruth (1998). Does an MBA help women? : a comparative study of the career progress and labour market position of part time male and female MBA graduates. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Tofts, Richard James (1998). On the assembly of a grassland plant community. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Yang, Suidong (1998). Diagnostics and modelling of an inductively coupled RF low-pressure low-temperature plasma. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1997

Edirisingha, Palitha (1997). Interactive media in distance learning for UK farmers: the countryside disc. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Jones, Phyllis Kelson (1997). The religious beliefs of Charlotte Brontë as reflected in her novels and letters. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Lewis, Gail (1997). Living the differences: ethnicity, gender and social work. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Samarasekera, Jayaneththi (1997). Insecticidal natural products from Sri Lankan plants. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Taylor, Stephanie Joyce Ann (1997). Constructions of national identity and the nation: the case of New Zealand/Aotearoa. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1996

Chadwick, Kathryn Elizabeth (1996). “Out of the darkness into light”: a critical evaluation of Scottish prison reorganisation for long term imprisonment 1988 to the present. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Dewberry, Emma (1996). Ecodesign. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Fender, Robert P. (1996). Multiwavelength behaviour of Cygnus X-3 and related objects. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Hopkins, Stephen Anthony (1996). Laser cooling of rubidium atoms in a magneto-optical trap. PhD thesis The Open University. file

McClintock, David (1996). Metaphors that inspire 'researching with people': UK farming, countrysides and diverse stakeholder contexts. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Randall, Jennifer (1996). Home as a place of work. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Tomlinson, Nora (1996). The achievement of Ford Madox Ford as editor. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Wycherley, Darren (1996). The application of capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry to clinical and environmental problems. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1995

Bailey, Keith Alan (1995). The metamorphosis of Battersea, 1800-1914 : a building history. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1994

Altunoglu, Abdulkadir (1994). Hydrogen permeation through nickel and nickel alloys: surface reactions and trapping. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1993

Ward, Jennifer (1993). Origins and development of forensic medicine and forensic science in England, 1823-1946. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1992

Hughes, Peter Samuel (1992). A strategy for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from personal travel in Britain. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1991

Gray, Norman (1991). Dimensionally regulated on-shell renormalisation in QCD and QED. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Singh, K. D. (1991). The development of biomagnetic systems : planar gradiometers and software tools. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Warnaby, John Surtees (1991). The music of Peter Maxwell Davies based on the writings of George MacKay Brown. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1990

Gladstone, Helen Crawford (1990). Building an identity : two noblewomen in England 1566-1666. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1989

Sim, Joe (1989). Ordering for care and caring for order: medical power in English prisons. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1986

Cohen, Sheila Elizabeth (1986). The labour process and class consciousness. PhD thesis The Open University. file

1984

Bloomfield, Brian Peter (1984). Modelling the world : the social constructions of systems analysts. PhD thesis The Open University. file

Statham, June A. (1984). Non traditional sex role socialisation: parents' perceptions of non-sexist childrearing. PhD thesis The Open University. file

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