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Engaging patients in their own pain management: an action research study

Burrows, Dee (2000-05)

Traditionally analgesics have been the main stay of postoperative pain management. Taught non-pharmacological strategies have also been used. The possibility that patients may have a repertoire of self-generated strategies ...
Evolution, artefacts, meaning and design

Batchelor, Ray (2004-10)

The manner in which our ancestors and ancestor species negotiated their physical and social environments has had consequences for how we engage with artefacts today. Like language, the ability to attribute significance ...
Contemporary Craft in Iceland: Communicating

Hawson, Thomas (2006-05)

This doctoral project develops an interdisciplinary collaborative approach to furniture designer\maker practice. At its core is a practice-based framework that can be used to assess and reflect upon the tacit, primarily ...
Cambridge sub-region traveller needs assessment

Greenfields, Margaret; Home, Robert (2006-05)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. This project assesses service needs for Gypsies and Travellers in the Cambridge area. The area covered was the Cambridge sub-region, comprising Cambridge City, East Cambs, Fenland, Forest Heath ...
Welfare as control: contradiction, dilemma and compromise

Howard, Keelin (2006-06)

Informed by particular theories of migration and of new global migrations as problematic European states, pulled by both exclusionary particularist and inclusionary universalist tensions, have taken increasing measures ...
Signed & Sealed: Agenda 21 and the Role of the Furniture

Koomen, Philip John (2006-09)

The aim of this thesis has been to develop and document a research project that takes the form of a strategic response by a furniture designermaker (Philip Koomen Furniture) to the challenging ecological issues raised ...
Heritage, Hermeneutics and Hegemony

Hassard, Frank (2006-11)

In recent times, the concept of ‘intangible heritage’ has gained credence within the international heritage community, reflecting wider concerns relating to the cultural impact of global economic, technological and ...
E-Business Impact on SCM in the apparel industry operating

Gamage, Asanka Hiroshana Horadugoda (2007-02)

This thesis examines the impact of e-Business in the B2B segment of the Supply Chain between UK retailers and Sri Lankan manufacturers in the apparel sector. The literature review explored four interrelated themes, two ...
An investigation into the suitability of selected lesser utilised Ghanaian hardwoods for use as outdoor furniture and decking

Opoku, Francis Yaw (2007-05)

The potential for using the Ghanaian lesser utilised hardwoods esa (Celtis mildbraedii), denya (Cylicodiscus gabunensis) and dahoma (Piptadeniastrum africana) for garden furniture and decking in the UK is investigated. ...
East Kent Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment Report (2007-2012)

Richardson, Jo; Bloxsom, John; Greenfields, Margaret (Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, 2007-07-17)

1.0 Aims of the Study 1.1 De Montfort University and partners were commissioned in February 2007, by the four East Kent local authorities (Canterbury City Council, Dover District Council, Shepway District Council, and ...
Dancing with design: some insights from the perspective of human evolution on the relationship between the body, gesture, the unconscious and design

Batchelor, Ray (2007-09)

Dancing with design: some insights from the perspective of human evolution on the relationship between the body, gesture, the unconscious and design
West of England: Gypsy Traveller Accommodation (and other needs) Assessment 2006-2016

Greenfields, Margaret; Home, Robert; Cemlyn, Sarah; Bloxsom, John; Lishman, Ros (2007-10-01)

This Gypsy Traveller Accommodation Assessment, in addition to calculating pitch requirements for the time-period 2006-2016, explores a comprehensive range of services and provision appropriate to improving accommodation ...
Exploring Gypsy and Travellers’ Perceptions of Health and Social Care Careers: Barriers and Solutions to Recruitment, Training and Retention of Social Care Students

Greenfields, Margaret (Aimhigher South East, 2008-07)

This report was commissioned by the Aimhigher South East Healthcare Strand, which is actively concerned with raising the aspirations and awareness of careers and progression routes into and within the Health and Social ...
Well-being and outdoor pedagogies in primary schooling: the nexus of well-being and safety

Humberstone, Barbara; Stan, Ina (Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 2009)

Society today is inundated by a multitude of messages regarding the risks and dangers that affect youngsters, with media constantly talking about ‘cotton wool’ kids (see Furedi, 1997, 2001, 2006) and an ‘obesity epidemic’ ...
Gypsies, Travellers and accommodation

Greenfields, Margaret (A Race Equality Foundation Briefing Paper, 2009-01)

Gypsies and Travellers are one of the most marginalised, vulnerable and socially excluded populations in the UK today (CRE, 2006, p. 1). Of the diverse travelling communities in the UK, only Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers ...
Inside/outside the Western 'Bubble': The nexus of adventure, adventure sports and perceptions of risk in UK and Mauritius

Humberstone, Barbara (Leisure Studies Association, 2009-04)

Globalization can be thought of as the widening, deepening and quickening of the worldwide interconnections in social, cultural, political and economic life (Held et al., 1999). For adventure sports enthusiasts from the ...
Grown furniture: a move towards design for sustainability

Cattle, Christopher (2010-11-08)

This thesis deals with the proposal that environmentally benign items of free standing furniture may be produced by the use of such well established techniques as training and grafting natural tree growth to shape. The ...
In splendid isolation - Is the field missing something? Research in outdoor sports and outdoor education: principles into practice

Humberstone, Barbara (2010-11-24)

It can be argued that much research in outdoor sport and outdoor activities has been undertaken and represented in ‘splendid isolation’ without recourse to research and theorizing from major disciplines. Wagner (1993) ...
Third age and leisure research: principles and practice - introduction

Humberstone, Barbara (2010-11-24)

It [the increasing proportion of older people] is such a fundamental change in the nature and structure of society that it should lead to a fundamental shift in the way that society is understood and the way that society ...
The English mahogany trade 1700-1793

Bowett, Adam (2011-03-08)

This thesis describes the origins and development of the English mahogany trade from its origins to the beginning of the French Revolutionary War. It is based primarily on statistical and commercial information, most of ...

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