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• A Reconsideration of the influence of John Wycliffe, Wycliffism, Lollardy and Hussitism, upon 15th Century Scotland

  Author: Nicholson, R., 16 Jan 2024

  Supervisor: Ritchie, B. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

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• Coarse Stone Tools from the Ness of Brodgar: Investigating the Function and Significance of Orcadian Neolithic Multi-Hollowed Cobbles

  Author: Lloyd, G., 28 Mar 2024

  Supervisor: Downes, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

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• Development and use of a synthetic biology toolkit to enhance high value lipid production in Nannochloropsis oculata

  Author: Rock, A. G., 9 Apr 2024

  Supervisor: Green, D. (Supervisor) & Owens, N. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

• Understanding the source and distribution of marine macro-plastics in coastal environments

  Author: Allison, N., 21 Mar 2024

  Supervisor: Narayanaswamy, B. (Supervisor) & Dale, A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Inhabited perspectives on the North Coast 500: Re-making local heritage in touristed communities of the Scottish Highlands

  Author: Grant, J. M., 8 May 2024

  Supervisor: Robertson, I. J. M. (Supervisor) & Dean, L. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Evaluation of LiDAR Visualisation Techniques within the National Scenic Area of Orkney

  Author: Begg, C., 10 Jan 2023

  Supervisor: Mainland, I. (Supervisor) & Moore, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

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• Language and culture as a societal asset: Strategic alignment of language policy to a sustainable socio-economic market for gaelic

  Author: Cameron, G., 30 May 2023

  Supervisor: Ó Giollagáin, C. (Supervisor), De Lima, P. (Supervisor) & Caimbeul, I. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Establishing land tank cultivation of Asparagopsis taxiformis in Scotland

  Author: Grisenthwaite, R., 2 Mar 2023

  Supervisor: Stanley, M. (Supervisor) & Montalescot, V. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

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• Balancing outdoor tourism and recreation development and environmental conservation after major infrastructure improvements: dualling the A9 through Cairngorms National Park.

  Author: Schulz, L. K., 3 Jan 2023

  Supervisor: Price, M. F. (Supervisor), Bryce, R. (Supervisor) & Bowditch, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Hydrogen peroxide-induced genotoxicity and transgenerational implications in sea urchins

  Author: Liu, F., 7 Nov 2023

  Supervisor: Reinardy, H. (Supervisor) & Last, K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• The future social implications of seaweed cultivation for bioenergy production

  Author: Rostan, J., 2 Mar 2023

  Supervisor: Hughes, A. (Supervisor) & Billing, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• A Historical Archaeology of Whisky in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. c.1500-1850

  Author: Bratt, D. D. M., 20 Feb 2023

  Supervisor: Downes, J. (Supervisor) & Ritchie, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• "One Island's Harvest". Heritage, Diaspora & Ancestral Tourism to Tiree

  Author: Rodgers, J., 15 Sept 2023

  Supervisor: Robertson, I. J. M. (Supervisor), de Jong, A. (Supervisor) & Varley, P. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Mapping of Digital Connectivity and Island Governance: A Comparative Study of the Scottish Archipelagos and Irish Islands.

  Author: Ward, F. L., 27 Apr 2023

  Supervisor: Jennings, A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Assessing the risk to aquaculture from Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)

  Author: Gianella, M. D. F., 6 Feb 2023

  Supervisor: Davidson, K. (Supervisor) & Burrows, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• A Realist Study of Self-management Apps to help People living with Chronic Low Back Pain

  Author: Hunter, R. J., 5 Oct 2023

  Supervisor: Gorely, T. (Supervisor) & Beattie, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Exploring the role of technology-enabled dementia education and support for health and social care practitioners in rural Scotland

  Author: Muirhead, K., 18 Apr 2023

  Supervisor: Macaden, L. (Supervisor) & Smyth, K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Seabird use of tidal stream environments and potential interactions with tidal energy devices

  Author: Isaksson, N., 6 Apr 2023

  Supervisor: Masden, E. (Supervisor) & Benjamins, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

• Surveyance of the marine environment for beached plastic debris using a novel, hyperspectral shortwave infrared camera on an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV)

  Author: Cocking, J. L., 9 May 2023

  Supervisor: Cottier, F. (Supervisor), Narayanaswamy, B. (Supervisor) & Williamson, B. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Typology according to Matthew: A Study of Contextuality and the Theological Foundations of Typological Interpretation in Matthew’s Missionary Discourse

  Author: Institoris, J., 18 Feb 2023

  Supervisor: Morrison, H. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Womanhood & the Body: An investigation of experience, community, and reclamation, through Practice as Research.

  Author: Walker, L., 5 Apr 2023

  Supervisor: Mickel, L. (Supervisor) & Jennings, A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

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• Improvements Deferred: An historical-archaeological study of transitional farms in the Grampian Highlands of Scotland, during the Agricultural Improvements of the 18th and 19th centuries.

  Author: Worth, S., 21 Jun 2023

  Supervisor: Robertson, I. J. M. (Supervisor) & Timpany, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• The ‘Next Great War': Eric Linklater’s Responses to the Crises of the 1930s

  Author: Gilbert, A., 12 Sept 2023

  Supervisor: Chand, A. (Supervisor) & Blyth, I. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

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• Constructed Realities, Divine Incomprehensibility, and the Vocative Self: Towards an Epistemology for Christian Education

  Author: Fraser, J., 10 Aug 2023

  Supervisor: Grant, J. (Supervisor) & Visagie, I. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• The Shepherd Motif in the Psalter

  Author: Sladek, D., 6 Dec 2023

  Supervisor: Grant, J. (Supervisor) & Morrison, H. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Acoustic target classification of zooplankton using machine learning

  Author: McGowan-Yallop, C., 20 Oct 2023

  Supervisor: Last, K. (Supervisor) & Cottier, F. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• The governance of rewilding in Scotland: discourse, process, and practice

  Author: Martin, A., 29 Jun 2023

  Supervisor: Smith, M. (Supervisor), Fischer, A. (Supervisor) & McMorran, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Spatial ecology of grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) in an urban environment

  Author: Fitzpatrick, D., 9 Feb 2023

  Supervisor: Smith, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

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• An investigation into the Humoral Response in Cutaneous Melanoma

  Author: MacKinnon, C., 22 Mar 2023

  Supervisor: Pritchard, A. (Supervisor) & Stalmach, A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

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• Community Land Trusts: resilient in a crisis and a potential model for local development in the Outer Hebrides

  Author: Campbell, R., 1 Jun 2023

  Supervisor: Rennie, F. (Supervisor) & Davies, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• A phenomenographic study of lived experience in a residential street in a small city in the Scottish Highlands

  Author: Sillars, M., 12 Dec 2023

  Supervisor: Rennie, F. (Supervisor) & Smyth, K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Bioprospecting for novel marine polysaccharides for the life sciences

  Author: Trimby, G., 14 Apr 2023

  Supervisor: Green, D. (Supervisor), Ditchfield, A. (Supervisor) & Boag, B. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

• The spatial scale of adaptive population differentiation in Atlantic Salmon: local adaptation in smolt migration timing

  Author: Bradbury, S., 13 Dec 2023

  Supervisor: Verspoor, E. (Supervisor) & Williamson, B. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• The Essence of Home: An ethnography of the home and its meaning in the context of extended hospital stays in a pandemic

  Author: Hughes, K. R., 23 Apr 2023

  Supervisor: Grindle, M. (Supervisor) & Gorely, T. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Seabird usage of tidal stream environments in relation to fine-scale surface turbulent features- using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a survey tool.

  Author: Slingsby, J., 18 May 2023

  Supervisor: Williamson, B. (Supervisor) & McIlvenny, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

• Assessing Dynamic Seabed Change on the Scottish Continental Shelf

  Author: Armstrong, C., 5 Aug 2023

  Supervisor: Howe, J. (Supervisor), Allen, C. (Supervisor) & Bates, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Design and Development of a Novel Immunological Method to Quantify target-specific cysteine redox state in a microplate

  Author: Tuncay, A., 31 Jul 2023

  Supervisor: Cobley, J. (Supervisor) & Husi, H. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Ecotourism and engagement with freshwater biodiversity: a case study of three Scottish lochs

  Author: Delugin, C. M., 21 Oct 2023

  Supervisor: Verspoor, E. (Supervisor), De Lima, P. (Supervisor) & Price, M. F. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• A Critical Exploration and Theological Critique of Michael Polanyi’s Structured Ontology

  Author: Steiger, A. W., 18 Jan 2022

  Supervisor: Visagie, I. (Supervisor) & Grant, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Càite a bheil settings? Fèin-aithne agus ideòlasan cànain luchd-labhairt aig Cearcaill Chòmhraidh na Gàidhlig tro mheadhan cleachdaidhean na Beurla

  Author: Flower, I. J., 25 Sept 2022

  Supervisor: Armstrong, T. C. (Supervisor) & NicLeòid, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

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• Assessing the condition of the Flow Country peatlands to support their future protection: Monitoring blanket bog functioning during drought and mapping post-wildfire recovery

  Author: Sterk, H. P., 24 Jan 2022

  Supervisor: Andersen, R. (Supervisor) & McIlvenny, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Addressing the impact of the EU CFP landing obligation on the northern North Sea ecosystem and Shetland fisheries in a changing climate.

  Author: Hill, C. E., 26 May 2022

  Supervisor: Fox, C. (Supervisor) & Heymans, S. J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• The Impact of Wind-Driven Mixing in the Barents Sea

  Author: Rodgers, J., 11 Jul 2022

  Supervisor: Cottier, F. (Supervisor), Davies, G. (Supervisor) & Inall, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• The siting of renewable energy developments in a crowded marine space

  Author: Withouck, I., 7 Dec 2022

  Supervisor: Shucksmith, R. (Supervisor), Tett, P. (Supervisor) & Doran, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Host pathogen interaction between European strains of red algae 'Bangia' and oomycete Olpidiopsis porphyrae var. scotiae, and phylogenetic analysis for European 'Bangia' strains

  Author: Attar, B., 3 Aug 2022

  Supervisor: Brakel, J. (Supervisor), Gachon, C. (Supervisor) & Green, D. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Research (awarded by UHI)

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• Exploring the Role of Health Literacy in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Mixed Methods Approach

  Author: Walters, C., 14 Feb 2022

  Supervisor: Gorely, T. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Hydrodynamic Characterisation and Wave Current Interaction around Dunnet Head in the Pentland Firth with Implications for Marine Energy Generation

  Author: MacDowall, C., 25 Apr 2022

  Supervisor: Gleizon, P. (Supervisor), Williamson, B. (Supervisor) & Murray , R. O. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Scotland’s blue carbon: the contribution: the contribution from seaweed detritus

  Author: O'Dell, A., 20 Jul 2022

  Supervisor: Burrows, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

• A comprehensive study of the impact of contrast medium on endothelial cells in vitro: validating the protective effects of n-acetylcysteine and assessing the importance of endothelin-1 and glutathione on contrast-induced nephropathy in patients with chronic kidney disease

  Author: Khuram, R., 31 Oct 2022

  Supervisor: Megson, I. (Supervisor), Treweeke, A. (Supervisor) & Cobley, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• The potential for the refurbishment of historic hydropower generation for the benefit of local communities in the Highlands & Islands region

  Author: Bachell, A. J., 7 Apr 2022

  Supervisor: Price, M. F. (Supervisor) & Boyd, R. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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