Background: In Oman, 33.3% of women attended late for publicly funded antenatal care in 2015 and 24% did not attend for the recommended 4-6 visits during their pregnancy. This low attendance suggests a need to explore attendance for antenatal care for low-risk pregnant women in …
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Early modern Poland-Lithuania figured significantly in the political perceptions of Europeans in the long seventeenth century – not only due to its considerable size and enormous commercial and military resources, but also, and just as importantly, due to its exceptional religio…
The work selected for this portfolio comprises two language-specific case studies (‘Russian and Soviet loanwords and calques in the Czech lexicon since the beginning of the twentieth century’ and ‘Češi a slovenština’ [The Czechs and the Slovak language]), two publications on the…
The need for a more sustainable approach to water consumption has increasingly gained attention in the last decade. The domestic sector accounts for over half of abstracted water in the UK and, as such, has become a major target for water efficiency interventions. Current resear…
The aim of this thesis is to provide insights into what the concept of audit quality means for a number of parties who have responsibilities for delivering, commissioning or evaluating audit quality in practice - auditors, AC members and quality inspectors concerning. It explore…
Cornwall is a peripheral rural location in the South West of the UK, and has experienced almost continual socio-economic decline for more than a century. It has a nationalist heritage and is a popular tourist resort. It is also one of the poorest parts of the UK. Academic work h…
This thesis seeks to explore the experiences of Muslim students in college and understand their needs within the education system. Furthermore, it will investigate the factors which shape their academic achievement as well as their lived experiences in school. Insights from this…
The current dissertation contains three series of studies that revealed laypeople's nuanced, meticulous, and early-emerging attentiveness to gender membership, gender self-identification, and gender roles and norms in their personal and social life. Specifically, the studies tog…
Currently, very little is known about the nature, scope, and quality of college-in-prison programs. Particularly given the reinstatement of Pell grants for incarcerated college students in December 2020—after a 26-year long ban—it is timely and urgent to center these issues and …
Professional identity stories are significant to better understand the influences and perceptions of teachers who describe past experiences that link to present reflections and connect to continual future evolution. The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore the influe…
Racialization, the process by which society's systems and organizations build and reassert hierarchies through the social construct of race, is deeply embedded in society. Educational systems in the United States, influenced by these socio-cultural practices, are rooted in racia…
This qualitative research study investigates the perceptions of children, parents, and staff members at a Boston multi-service nonprofit for Haitian immigrants. It is an exploration of how children cultivate their identity, and how a center for immigrants functions in the curren…
Why do we like the music that we like? This seemingly simple question is surprisingly understudied. This dissertation aims to give some answers to this question, with a focus on analyzing the dataset of the FAV Corpus, a collection of pieces and excerpts that 140 survey particip…
Social policies that criminalize students can create a school environment that pushes immigrant students out of school and into immigration enforcement agencies' crosshairs. The school-to-prison pipeline is a well-documented phenomenon rooted in institutional racism and affects …
Conservation conflict, whether human-wildlife or human-human, and specifically those that include the public as stakeholders, is seen as one of the most influential reasons reintroduction and/or conservation of species or landscapes is difficult to accomplish. This is due to the…
Renowned as a theater of the Cold War, the Korean peninsula has been divided between North Korea and South Korea over the past 70 years, with each country developing its distinctive political, economic, and cultural systems. Over the past 30 years, approximately, 33,000 North Ko…
For this study, a generic qualitative inquiry approach was used to explore the experiences of jurors in different types of criminal trials. The theoretical framework consisted of attribution theory that was applied to event perception. A literature review provided research on ju…
Contextual factors—environmental stimuli external to individuals—are historically understudied loci of leadership. This dissertation comprises two chapters exploring characteristics of distal and historical context that impose constraints on leaders. In the first chapter, I exam…
The understanding of subjective aspects of communities is a powerful tool for stakeholders (policy-makers, government officials, community organizers, etc.) to advance the creation of measures to improve public well-being. Each community has its unique needs and characteristics,…