This study investigates how young people and employers perceive equal opportunities in the world of work. Events such as the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry (Macpherson, 1999), the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 and other legislation to promote equal opportunities, for example, Em…
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Employability is highly topical in UK Higher Education. There is related literature debating the purpose of higher education, learning and skills, contextual social and economic issues and policy matters for the sector as a whole, but no published work on the ways in which unive…
This thesis explores the working lives of British Born South Asian Ethnic Minorities (BB SAEMs), critiquing the homogenous identities ascribed to them in previous research. Its methodology is life-story interviews analysed using Nvivo. This identified four hybrid categories emer…
One of the pieces found in the Himie Voxman Research Archive which has not been distributed or seen as an active piece of the bassoon repertoire for many years is the Concerto for Oboe or Clarinet, Bassoon and Orchestra by Johann Friedrich Schubert. After studying the set of par…
Harry Sparnaay was a major contributor to the development of unaccompanied works for the bass clarinet and commissioned over 100 pieces for bass clarinet alone. While Sparnaay’s book, The Bass Clarinet: A Personal History , includes a list of works written for him, there is mini…
The period between South Africa’s unification in 1910 and its departure from the British Commonwealth in 1961 was a momentous period of social change whereby South Africans of diverse racial, cultural and linguistic backgrounds strove with varying degrees of success to realize t…
Commodore Matthew Perry was impactful for the United States Navy and the expansion of America's diplomacy around the world. He played a vital role in negotiating the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa, which established trade between the United States and Japan, and helped reform the Unite…
This thesis intends to identify the precise prescriptions for social and economic mobility intended by Horatio Alger Jr. and Russell H. Conwell in their works Ragged Dick and “Acres of Diamonds.” Furthermore, to explain why their prescriptions diverge from one another using the …
The Permian Basin has been a critical source of oil and gas in the United States since its discovery in the early 1900’s. Recent developments in unconventional resource extraction have driven the United States to reach milestones in its domestic energy industry, including becomi…
This thesis aims to provide a new insight into the so-called anti-monastic reaction which took place after King Edgar’s death in 975 by analysing all the available evidence from fourteen different monasteries and bishoprics known to be affected during this period. It has been us…
The study was undertaken at the headquarters of a telecommunications company, Telco Digital Wireless Mobile Landline (DWML) based in Northern Europe from 2016 to 2018. The company had experienced significant changes from 2010 through 2016. Changes were introduced based on market…
Retention of engineering students to graduation and career is important business for both United States (U.S.) industries and engineering education institutions alike. Industries need competent engineers dedicated to working in the field of engineering beyond graduation in order…
Slåtter, Norwegian Peasant Dances , Op. 72 is a composition for solo piano by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). This set is one of his greatest contributions to piano literature, and shows his attempt to bring the traditional folk music to the rest of the world. The o…
Sonata for Solo Violin in D major, Opus 115 by Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) and Cadenza for Solo Violin by Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) have been rarely performed in concert. These pieces were written in the twentieth century and represent the coexistence of both tradition a…
Attitudes about women in the workforce shifted drastically after the Second World War. During the War, women were encouraged to work as a patriotic duty. Afterward, there was a renewed emphasis on home life; however, millions of women continued working to pursue their careers. I…
Hugh Walpole was born in 1884, and arrived on the literary scene at the first attempt with his novel The Wooden Horse (1909), just as literary modernism was making its mark. Loyal to the traditional novel of plot and character, he was nevertheless aware that writers of his own g…
This study sought to examine how graduates of the "at-risk youth" category experience their selfhood years after they populated this category. The sample comprised adults who had been removed from their homes in their youth by court order or at the local welfare department's rec…
This dissertation explores the cabaret works of Erik Satie, Frederick Hollander, and Femme Lunatique Productions and discusses how the genre cultivates community. Cabaret shows function unlike any other styles of performance. The historically small venues, the absence of a “four…