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The Care of Kin: A case study approach to kinship care in the South of England & Zululand , South Africa (2016)
Thesis
Davey, J. (2016). The Care of Kin: A case study approach to kinship care in the South of England & Zululand , South Africa. (Thesis). Bournemouth University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2756324

This thesis focuses on kinship care specifically for children and young people requiring this provision away from their biological parent and for whom Children’s Social Services, United Kingdom and Child Welfare Agencies, South Africa, have a statuto... Read More about The Care of Kin: A case study approach to kinship care in the South of England & Zululand , South Africa.

Recontextualising the lived experience of hepatitis C and its treatment (2016)
Thesis
Whiteley, D. J. (2016). Recontextualising the lived experience of hepatitis C and its treatment. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/979740

BACKGROUND: Rapid advances in the treatment of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) have been witnessed in clinical practice over the last five years. Pharmacological developments have ended the reliance on the drug interferon-α as a component of successful t... Read More about Recontextualising the lived experience of hepatitis C and its treatment.

Creating Social Reciprocity – The Role of Trust Network Reproduction and Social Learning: Evidence from a Medium-Sized Family Firm in Germany (2016)
Thesis
Winsor, J. (2016). Creating Social Reciprocity – The Role of Trust Network Reproduction and Social Learning: Evidence from a Medium-Sized Family Firm in Germany. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/977842

This research introduces a framework for explaining why managing family members create a shared understanding of caring and being cared for with their nonfamily employees, called ‘Social Reciprocity’. Applying an embedded case study design, using gro... Read More about Creating Social Reciprocity – The Role of Trust Network Reproduction and Social Learning: Evidence from a Medium-Sized Family Firm in Germany.

An exploration of professional identity in the information technology sector (2016)
Thesis
Smith, S. (2016). An exploration of professional identity in the information technology sector. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9731

At present the Information Technology profession appears to be dogged by high profile project failure, high graduate unemployment rates, employers unable to recruit suitable staff and a professional body under attack. It is not even clear that IT can... Read More about An exploration of professional identity in the information technology sector.

Creating Sustainable Workplaces Together: Employee Relations Practice and Environmental Management (2016)
Thesis
Bratton, A. (2016). Creating Sustainable Workplaces Together: Employee Relations Practice and Environmental Management. (Thesis). University of Strathclyde. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2781227

The aim of this research is to examine how employee relations enables and improves environmental management in the workplace. The objective is to understand the dynamics around the relationship between existing HR practices, individual and collective... Read More about Creating Sustainable Workplaces Together: Employee Relations Practice and Environmental Management.

Interactive dynamics in the design process: 'model' skills from the perspectives of the client and the designer (2016)
Thesis
Chan, Y. Interactive dynamics in the design process: 'model' skills from the perspectives of the client and the designer. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1030827

Increased concerns have been raised regarding the lack of coherence between interior design education and its industry in China. Although this phenomenon persists, there have been limited research studies addressing the issue. The underlying causes o... Read More about Interactive dynamics in the design process: 'model' skills from the perspectives of the client and the designer.

H. Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy: A Revisionist Approach to Haggard’s African Fiction (2016)
Thesis
Simpson, K. C. S. H. Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy: A Revisionist Approach to Haggard’s African Fiction. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978289

The history that H. Rider Haggard writes about in his imperial adventure romance fiction is neither collusive nor consensual with the Zulu who are often the focus of his novels. He writes a complex colonial narrative that characterises the Zulu as a... Read More about H. Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy: A Revisionist Approach to Haggard’s African Fiction.

Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong Public sector: A critique of leadership development from a labour process perspective (2016)
Thesis
O'Neil, J. J. Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong Public sector: A critique of leadership development from a labour process perspective. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978274

Critical scholars have written about the ‘squeezed middle’ and the new labour process of front line and middle managers generally, but there is a gap in the literature relating to both how changes to managerial work have affected those subjected to t... Read More about Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong Public sector: A critique of leadership development from a labour process perspective.

Ibris Study: intervention supporting breastfeeding in substance dependency (2016)
Thesis
MacVicar, S. Ibris Study: intervention supporting breastfeeding in substance dependency. (Thesis). Robert Gordon University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1023772

Introduction: Breastfeeding offers the substance exposed mother and child potential short and long-term health benefits, with breast milk shown to alleviate the severity of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. Substance dependent women, however, have limite... Read More about Ibris Study: intervention supporting breastfeeding in substance dependency.

"More than just a Teaching Fellow": The Impact of REF and implications of TEF on Life Science Teaching-Focused Academics in UK HEIs (2016)
Thesis
Tierney, A. "More than just a Teaching Fellow": The Impact of REF and implications of TEF on Life Science Teaching-Focused Academics in UK HEIs. (Thesis). Durham University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1652776

This study seeks to understand the effect of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) on Teaching-Focused Academics working in Life Sciences in UK higher education institutions. Twenty-one full-time Teaching-Focused Academics from England, Scotland an... Read More about "More than just a Teaching Fellow": The Impact of REF and implications of TEF on Life Science Teaching-Focused Academics in UK HEIs.

Mediators of coping in caregivers of children with complex needs (2016)
Thesis
Delaney, C. Mediators of coping in caregivers of children with complex needs. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978828

Mediators of coping in caregivers of children with complex needs and factors associated with coping has rarely been investigated in the past. A systematic review of the quantitative caregiver coping literature indicated that previous research had a s... Read More about Mediators of coping in caregivers of children with complex needs.

Understanding the lived experience of how individuals aged between 33 and 62 years of age diagnosed with coronary heart disease (CHD) feel they obtain emotional support post percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (2016)
Thesis
McHale, S. Understanding the lived experience of how individuals aged between 33 and 62 years of age diagnosed with coronary heart disease (CHD) feel they obtain emotional support post percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/977873

Background Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is a major cause of ill health in Scotland and one of the main methods of symptom management for this disease is Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI). This treatment relieves the symptoms of the disease bu... Read More about Understanding the lived experience of how individuals aged between 33 and 62 years of age diagnosed with coronary heart disease (CHD) feel they obtain emotional support post percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’ (2016)
Thesis
Kranert, M. Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’. (Thesis). University College London. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/402527

This thesis undertakes a comparison of the discursive strategies of New Labour and the German SPD at the turn of the twenty-first century, when both parties engaged in a discourse of the Third Way in order to win over ‘the middle ground of the electo... Read More about Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’.

The German automotive industry’s strategic sustainability management - dealing with the ongoing global carbon crisis through sustainable-value creation (2016)
Thesis
Legl, C. The German automotive industry’s strategic sustainability management - dealing with the ongoing global carbon crisis through sustainable-value creation. (Dissertation). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1878163

The importance of leading German automotive industry’s low/non-carbon transition is set upon a collaborative-undertaking approach towards sustainable-value creation. By discussing single corporation’s strategic environmental and social sustainability... Read More about The German automotive industry’s strategic sustainability management - dealing with the ongoing global carbon crisis through sustainable-value creation.

Entrepreneurial behaviour and the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems under uncertainty: Essays on regenerative medicine venturing at the university-industry boundary (2016)
Thesis
Johnson, D. Entrepreneurial behaviour and the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems under uncertainty: Essays on regenerative medicine venturing at the university-industry boundary. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1174449

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are an important economic consideration but remain an understudied phenomenon. In particular, research emphasising the role of the entrepreneur within entrepreneurial ecosystems is scant. Entrepreneurial universities, parti... Read More about Entrepreneurial behaviour and the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems under uncertainty: Essays on regenerative medicine venturing at the university-industry boundary.

Pop-ups, Meetups and Supper Clubs: An exploration into Online Mediated Commensality and its role and significance within contemporary hospitality provision (2016)
Thesis
Urie, G. J. Pop-ups, Meetups and Supper Clubs: An exploration into Online Mediated Commensality and its role and significance within contemporary hospitality provision. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/995625

This thesis introduces the concept of Online Mediated Commensality (OMC) as an example of contemporary hospitality provision. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century an increase of exchanges of hospitality being mediated using online technolo... Read More about Pop-ups, Meetups and Supper Clubs: An exploration into Online Mediated Commensality and its role and significance within contemporary hospitality provision.

Creativity and Attention: A Multi-Method Investigation (2016)
Thesis
Carruthers, L. Creativity and Attention: A Multi-Method Investigation. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1052411

Creativity is a valuable attribute that involves the generation of original ideas; attention is a vital function that facilitates information selection. Past research has related these cognitive constructs, having found that highly creative people te... Read More about Creativity and Attention: A Multi-Method Investigation.

Redefining leadership in a higher education context: Views from the front line (2016)
Thesis
Cook, M. C. Redefining leadership in a higher education context: Views from the front line. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978802

The study aim was to investigate the perceptions of senior leaders within the sector to determine their views of the key challenges in contemporary academic leadership and to inform practice for the future. Academic leadership is a key component o... Read More about Redefining leadership in a higher education context: Views from the front line.

Sustainable festivals and events – an inquiry of leadership and futures (2016)
Thesis
Robertson, M. J. (2016). Sustainable festivals and events – an inquiry of leadership and futures. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/979708

As a societal phenomenon, festivals and planned events are discussed in a wide policy context. They have entered a broader discussion with regard to sustainability in which the factors that contribute to being sustainable are part of a new paradigm o... Read More about Sustainable festivals and events – an inquiry of leadership and futures.