by Cairn Macfarland | 12th December 2022
Thesis Title: Learning Science: What’s Curiosity Got To Do With It? Abstract: While there is more demand than ever for scientists and engineers, few school students aspire to those careers, instead seeing school science as too ‘brainy’ or ‘for other people’. Teachers...
by Cairn Macfarland | 12th December 2022
Thesis Title: Essays on social choice and welfare theory Abstract: My research interests are in social choice and welfare theory. I am especially interested in behavioral welfare economics. First Supervisor: Marco Mariotti and Roberto Veneziani Pathway: Pathway 4:...
by Cairn Macfarland | 12th December 2022
Thesis Title: Emotion Regulation and Youth Mental Health: A Transdiagnostic Mechanism and Clinical Target? Abstract: Mental health problems cover a range of symptoms and difficulties with emotions, behaviours, and thoughts and affect 1 in 6 children and young people...
by Cairn Macfarland | 12th December 2022
Thesis Title: Transparency and Bureaucratic Quality Abstract: Transparency initiatives have received considerable support as a means to combat corruption. However, many fear that they may lead politicians to substitute towards untargeted forms of malfeasance, such as...
by Cairn Macfarland | 12th December 2022
Thesis Title: Conceptualising “Health” at the United Nations Security Council Abstract: This project is concerned with tracking how health concerns in conflict zones have been approached by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Through tracking the...
by Cairn Macfarland | 8th December 2022
thesis Title: From Taboo to Pleasure: A UK Study of Breast Cancer Survivorship and Sexual Selfhood. Abstract: One in seven women in the UK will develop breast cancer. Advances in detection and treatment are turning cancers into “chronic rather than terminal...
by Cairn Macfarland | 8th December 2022
Thesis Title: The Amazonian Bioeconomy? A storyline shaping deforestation and governance in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Abstract; This project explores the ‘bioeconomy’ discourse in Brazil and its role in shaping governance in Brazil’s Amazon...
by Cairn Macfarland | 8th December 2022
Thesis Title: To co-produce or not to co-produce? A critical examination of the translation of IPCC climate science into national adaptation policies Abstract: Commitments to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and keep temperature rise below 1.5 ºC, will only reduce...
by Cairn Macfarland | 8th December 2022
Thesis Title: Postcolonial geographies of urban precarity: race, pollution, and everyday life in Hounslow Abstract; Foregrounded by decades of austerity and ecological degradation, COVID-19 drew back the veneer of the welfare state and revealed with stark clarity the...
by Cairn Macfarland | 8th December 2022
Thesis Title: The embodied experience of childhood trauma and its role in survivors’ relationships with themselves and others: a survivor-led qualitative study Abstract: A third of children and young people in the UK experience trauma and more than half globally....
by Cairn Macfarland | 8th December 2022
Thesis Title: Health System Shocks & Care Seeking Behaviour: How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected care seeking behaviour for pregnant women who belong to ethnic minority or socially complex groups? Abstract: This research project aims to gain in-depth insight on...
by Cairn Macfarland | 8th December 2022
Thesis Title; Shifting Baselines of Climate Change Adaptation Abstract: Recent international reports have highlighted shortcomings in current efforts to adapt to climate change, including the undervaluation of nature-based solutions. One challenge facing the use of...
