Gavin Stewart

Thesis title: Ageing, Social Cognition and Autism Spectrum Disorders (a CASE project with Autistica & Meet Me at the Albany) Abstract: This study will explore how social understanding skills change with age, whether these changes precede age-related decline of...

Sahana Shankar

Thesis title: Overcoming the Era of #FakeNews: A Contingency Learning Approach Abstract: In the age of the Internet, the increased prevalence of fake news is supporting an increase in beliefs that are not founded on evidence. Algorithms used by social media and search...

Celia (Grace) Smith

Thesis title: Early detection and prevention of childhood anxiety Abstract: On average, in every primary school classroom in the UK about 6 children will experience clinically significant levels of anxiety. Celia’s PhD aims to improve our ability to detect...
Jessica Tatchell

Jessica Tatchell

Thesis title: Situating Paternal Effects in Epigenetic Research Abstract: There is a small, but growing, body of life science research that examines the role a father’s physiology and behaviours can have on the genetic expression of his offspring. This research is the...
Anna Louise Smith

Anna Louise Smith

Thesis title: Ecological Grief and Species Decline: Exploring Human Reactions to Nonhuman Loss through African Wild Dogs Abstract: As the environment continues to change, so do the ways in which humans relate and react to it. Anthropogenic causes accelerate such...

Margaret Hunnaball

Thesis title: Independent state school partnerships (ISSPs): a critical exploration of partnership enactment Abstract: In 1997 the Labour government charged independent schools with sharing their facilities and their teachers with local state maintained schools (DFEE,...

Paula Christen

Thesis title: The role of mathematical modelling for knowledge production in infectious disease outbreak responses: An evaluation of the extent of its application and the interaction between model producers and consumers (a CASE project with the GAVI Alliance and The...

Jennifer Bates

Thesis title: Insurgent feminism: women’s agency and feminist politics in the context of transition from war to peace in Colombia Abstract: Extant literature on gender, conflict and peace has consistently pointed to the (re)-marginalisation and de-politicisation of...

Peter Burgess

Thesis title: Exploring the political engagement, learning and development of young Muslims in West London Abstract: Peter’s research will explore the social, political and ethical ideas and political engagement of socially progressive young Muslims and their...
Katherine Crofts-Gibbons

Katherine Crofts-Gibbons

Thesis title: The Response of Post-Soviet Central Asian Governments to Street Protest Abstract: My research seeks to understand how and why nondemocratic governments in former Soviet Central Asia respond to street protest, focusing on the choice to offer concessions,...

John Callaghan

Thesis title: Social entrepreneurship: Organisational change to increase social impacts Abstract: Social entrepreneurship can be seen as a mode of business that prioritises the solution of social and environmental problems over the maximisation of financial profits....

Emanuela Estera Boncea

Thesis title: Visualising infection transmission routes in order to identify, monitor and prevent antimicrobial resistant infection Abstract: Healthcare-associated infection (HCAI), and specifically antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing threats to...