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A-Z list of doctoral theses by Author Surname:  A-E,  F-J,  K-O,  P-T,  U-Z

Theses A-E

• Adams JS (2009) 'Challenge and change in a Cinderella service': a history of Fulbourn Hospital  Cambridgeshire, 1953 – 1995 (PDF 3.1KB), D.Phil., Open University.
• Agnew R (2012) A critical exploration of nurses practice in the management of urinary incontinence in patients following stroke (PDF 3.10MB), Ph.D., University of Salford.
• Aiyegbusi A (2011) Managing the nurse-patient relationship with people diagnosed with personality disorders in therapeutic community and secure mental health settings (MS Word 2MB), Ph.D., Middlesex University.
• Ashmore R (2012) The Implementation of Section 5(4) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (PDF 4.17MB), Ph.D., Sheffield Hallam University.
• Baillie L (2007) A case study of patient dignity in an acute hospital setting (PDF 3.9KB), Ph.D., London South Bank University.
• Beech N (2011) Restoring a sense of wellness following colorectal cancer: a ground theory (PDF 1.51MB), Doctorate in Clinical Practice, University of Surrey.
• Bignell (2005) The promotion of continence: implementing clinical guidelines for community nurses (PDF 1.54MB), Ph.D. University of Surrey.
• Birtwistle J (2005) The role of the community nurse in bereavement (PDF 3.1KB), Ph.D., University of Southampton.
• Black S (2011) Being a mentor who fails a pre-registration nursing student in their final placement: understanding failure (PDF 4.93MB) Ph.D., London South Bank University.
• Brown Wilson CR (2007) Exploring relationships in care homes: a constructivist inquiry (PDF 2.1KB), Ph.D., University of Sheffield.
• Cable S (2000) Clinical experience: preparation of medical and nursing students for collaborative practices (PDF 2.0KB), Ph.D., University of Dundee.
• Carey N (2010) An evaluation of a diabetes specialist nurse prescriber on in-patient services (PDF 3.1KB), Ph.D., University of Surrey.
• Clarke KA (2007) A phenomenological approach to the experience of chronic pain (PDF 3.1KB), Ph.D., University of Wales.
• Cobain K (2009) Alcohol treatment in the National Health Service: challenging the paradigm (PDF 4.1KB), D.Phil., University of Liverpool.
• Collier E (2012) A biographical narrative study exploring mental ill health through the life course (PDF 2.27MB), Ph.D., University of Salford.
• Conway B (2012) Patients from lower socio-economic backgrounds who do not access cardiac rehabilitation programmes: a phenomenological journey, (PDF 1.34MB), D. Nursing, University of Northumbria.
• Duncan F (2009) Prospective observational study of postoperative epidural analgesia for major abdominal surgery (PDF 3.0KB), D.Phil., University of Salford.
• Evans C (2007) The analysis of experiences and representations of older people’s health in care homes to develop primary care nursing practice (PDF 1.4KB), Ph.D., King’s College London.

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Theses F-J

• Farquhar M (2005) Older people’s definitions of quality of life and the relevance of various scales (PDF 1.5KB), Ph.D., St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
• Finigan V (2010) The experiences of women from three diverse population groups of immediate skin-to-skin contact with their newborn baby following birth (PDF 2.24MB), Doctor of Health and Social Care, University of Salfford.
• Fleming S (2010) Children with asthma and their carers' experience of hospital care: decision making at home and in the hospital clinic (PDF 4.5KB), Ph.D., Royal Holloway.
• Gibson F (2001) Defining specialist practice through competencies: the notion of the general and specialist children's nurse (PDF 1.78MB), Ph.D., South Bank University.
• Gregory J (2012) An exploration of factors impacting on pain assessment practice on a medical unit (PDF 1.77MB), Ph.D., Manchester Metropolitan University.
• Griffiths P (2007) Nursing patients in transition: an ethnography of the role of the nurse on an acute medical admissions unit (PDF 2.7KB), Ph.D., University of Wales.
• Haigh C (2005) Using new technology to compare morphometric presentation of osteoporosis in women with differing pathologies (PDF 1.6KB), Ph.D., University of Salford.
• Harrison J (2008) Living with schizophrenia: a phenomenological study of people with schizophrenia living in the community (PDF 2.05MB), D.Phil., University of Bradford.
• Holt J (2006) Attitudes of nurses to euthanasia (PDF 5.2KB), Ph.D., University of York.
• Hood G (2009) Two decades of chronic illness: completing a 'diabetes biography' for older adults with T2DM (PDF 1.9KB), D.Phil., Roehampton University.
• Howarth M (2012) Being believed and believing in: the impact of delegitimation on person-centred care for people with chronic back pain (PDF 2.62MB), Ph.D., University of Salford.
• Hughes C (2009) Women’s experience of laparoscopic surgery in endometrial cancer: a phenomenological study (PDF 2.8KB), Ph.D., University of Surrey.
• Jack K (2011) Emotional nurse being: a Heideggerian hermeneutical analysis (PDF 1.60MB), Ph.D., Manchester Metropolitan University.
• Jefferies HJ (2008) The lived experience of younger women with cancer of the vulva: a phenomenological study (PDF 3.5KB), D.Phil., University of Birmingham.
• Jeffers L (2011) Maximising survival: the status passage from cancer diagnosis to inherited genetic condition in women with hereditary breast and/or ovarian cancer (PDF 2.07MB), Ph.D., University of Ulster.
• Jolley MJ (2003) A Social History of Paediatric Nursing 1920-1970 (PDF 1.5KB), Ph.D., University of Hull.
  
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Theses K-O

• King K (2008) “It’s life - but not as we know it” Adolescents’ Perspectives
  of Type 1 Diabetes (PDF 1.9KB), Ph.D., University of Sunderland.
• Likupe G (2011) Motivations, migration and experiences of Black African nurses in the United Kingdom, (PDF 1.36MB), Ph.D. University of Hull.
• Lillie AK (2009) 'The missing discourse': how does the family history of cancer affect the care needs of palliative care patients? (PDF 1KB), D.Phil, University of Birmingham.
• Lupari M (2011) An investigation of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the case management approach for people with multiple chronic conditions within a community healthcare setting, (PDF  7.96MB), Ph.D., University of Ulster.
• Mackay E (2007) Involvement of family carers in nurses' education (PDF 2.55MB), D. Phil., University of Brighton.
• Maxwell E (2011) A qualitative case study investigation into the process of shaping new nursing roles in England (PDF 2.87MB), Ph.D., London South Bank University.
• McClelland G (2011) The indentification of barriers and solutions to meeting the physical and psychological health needs of young people involved in or vulnerable to sexual exploitation, (PDF 1.49MB), Ph.D., University of Bradford.
• McCreaddie M (2009) Reconciling the good patient persona with problematic and non-problematic humour: a grounded theory (PDF 1.9KB), D.Phil., University of Strathclyde.
• McGeorge SJ (2011) Dynamic complexity: invisible nursing: the construction of age-related complexity by registered nurses working in mental health services (MS Word 1.14MB), Doctorate in Professional Studies: Advancing Practice, Teeside University.
• McMahon A (2008) The politics of innovation: a critical analysis of the conditions in which innovations in health care may flourish (PDF 1.15KB), Ph.D., University of Salford.
• Marriott S (2008) Inclusion and exclusion in the NHS: power, innovation and rejection in Nursing (PDF 703KB), D.M., University of Hertfordshire.
• Middleton C (2011) To develop an assessment tool to recognise acquired pharmaco-dynamic opioid tolerance in patients suffering from chronic pain: a Delphi study (MS Word 3.25MB), Combined Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Nursing, Cardiff University.
• Moore LJ (2009) The power of experiential learning and mindful inquiry: making sense of work-based learning and changing paradigms in practice and education (PDF 10.6MB), D.Phil., University of the West of England, Bristol.
• Neill SJ (2008) Family management of acute childhood illness at home.  A grounded theory study (PDF 12.9MB), Ph.D., King’s College London.
• Nicholson C (2009) Holding it together: a psycho-social exploration of living with frailty in old age (PDF 2.62KB), Ph.D, City University.
• Noble HR (2009) Opting not to dialyse: a practitioner research study to explore patient experience (PDF 2.31MB), Ph.D., City University London.
• Orr LC (2011) Involving carers in drug services: perspectives of carers, service providers and policy makers (PDF 1.07MB), Ph.D., University of Dundee.
• O'Sullivan Burchard DJH (2010) An exploration of family health assessment in community practice framed within a family nursing approach (PDF 2.91MB), Ph.D., Glasgow Caledonia University.
• Ousey K (2007) Being a real nurse: nurses' accounts of learning and working in practice (PDF 2KB), Ph.D., University of Salford.
  
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Theses P-T

• Pooler A (2009) Exacerbations of severe asthma: psychosocial predictors and the impact of a nurse-led clinic (PDF 14.3MB), Ph.D., Keele University.
• Richardson G (2009) Can health visitors assist clients to optimise health-determining aspects of the indoor environment through provision of evidence-informed messages? (PDF 1.7KB), Ph.D., University of Plymouth.
• Salvage A (2010) Caring towards death: a phenomenological inquiry into the process of becoming and being a hospice nurse (PDF 2KB), Ph.D., Roehampton University, University of Surrey.
• Samuriwo R (2011) The impact of nurses' values on the prevention of pressure uclers: a Straussian grounded theory study (PDF 3.98MB), Ph.D., University of Glamorgan.
• Shawe J (2008) The prevention of unplanned pregnancy in women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes millitus: a case study (PDF 2.21KB), D.Phil., University of Surrey.
• Schneider Z (1988) Thinking and learning in pregnancy: an investigation of the cognitive performance of individual women prior to conception and throughout their pregnancies (PDF 18.7MB), Ph.D., Monash University, Melbourne.
• Schofield I (2008) A critical discourse analysis of how nurses understand and care for older patients with delirium in hospital (PDF 1.9KB), D.Phil., Glasgow Caledonian University.
• Smith J (2011) Parents' management of their child's hydrocephalus and shunt (PDF 1.91MB), Ph.D., University of Leeds.
• Snowden A (2010) The construction of competence in mental health nurse prescribing (PDF 1.54MB), D. Phil., University of the West of Scotland.
• Staniland KM (2007) Clinical governance and nursing: a sociological analysis (PDF 1.45MB), D. Phil., University of Salford.
• Taylor C (2007) Restoring embodied control: a grounded theory study of recovery following curative surgery for colorectal cancer (PDF 2.46MB), D. Phil., King’s College London.
• Taylor R (2008) Health-related quality of life in young people after liver transplantation (PDF 8.75MB), D. Phil., King’s College London.

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Theses U-Z

• Van Cleemput P (2007) Gypsies and Travellers accessing primary health care: interactions with health staff and requirements for 'culturally safe' services (PDF 1.99MB), Ph.D., University of Sheffield.
• Venkatasalu M (2011) Understanding home, homeland, and family at the end of life: a qualitative study of older South Asians in East London (PDF 4.47MB), PH.D., University of Nottingham.
• Volante MA (2005) Biographical landscapes: nurses' and health visitors' narratives of learning and professional practice (PDF 1.55MB), D. Phil., University of East London.
• Williamson GR (2003) Developing lecturer practitioner roles in nursing using action research (PDF 1.25MB), Ph.D., University of Plymouth.
• Wray J (2011) Bouncing back?  An ethnographic study exploring the context of care and recovery after birth through the experiences and voices of mothers (PDF 1.59MB), Ph.D., University of Salford.
• Wrigley MJ (2008) Engaging families with a premature family history of heart disease: a primary prevention study for coronary heart disease (PDF 1.65MB), Ph.D., University of Southampton.