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This thesis investigated the experiences of children who have a parent with a mental illness, using qualitative methods. It is divided into three separate sections, the first two written as standalone journal papers. Paper 1 is a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative st…

Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of medication error reporting is key to enhancing patient safety. The aim of this research was to explore medication error reporting in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), examining the attitudes, beliefs, behaviors and experiences of healt…

Robots have been used in a variety of education, therapy or entertainment contexts. This thesis introduces the novel application of using humanoid robots for Robot-Mediated Interviews (RMIs). In the initial stages of this research it was necessary to first establish as a baselin…

This thesis reports a study of the relationship of CAD use in designing and creativity through a Creative Behaviours Framework. This thesis provides a description of the establishment of a framework for gathering empirical evidence to support the analysis of links between CAD an…

This study focused on an assessment of a formal mentoring program at a Christian university in the northwest. The research design employed surveys and interviews with both mentees and mentors. The survey of mentees used a series of measures to assess mentor inputs (career-relate…

The problem was identified that hiring managers of different generations use the initial impression of appearance to influence the credibility of job candidates during the interview process by Skype. The researcher targeted 36 hiring managers from three generations, which includ…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the forgiveness experience by examining first-person accounts of those who had forgiven. The research question was “what was the experience of those who have granted forgiveness to others?” Generic qualitative inquiry was used to inve…