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• Words and Waves: Ecological Dialogism as an Approach to Discourse, Community, and Marine Renewable Energy in Orkney

  Author: Ford, R., 21 Jan 2022

  Supervisor: Heddle, D. (Supervisor)

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

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• Interactions between harbour porpoises and aquaculture on the west coast of Scotland

  Author: Sim, T. M. C., 27 Apr 2022

  Supervisor: Wilson, B. (Supervisor) & Benjamins, S. (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)

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Supporting community-led digital moving image archives: Between grubby flesh and insubstantial pixel.

  Author: Darrell Hewins, M. R., 5 Oct 2021

  Supervisor: Clarke, S. (Supervisor) & Stiùbhart, D. U. (Supervisor)

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

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• Bàrdachd Baile an Naoidheamh Linn Deug – Ath-mheasadh

  Author: Howieson, I. G., 8 May 2021

  Supervisor: Bateman, M. (Supervisor) & Cox, R. A. V. (Supervisor)

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

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• The Meaning of Landscape for Communities: Integrating Perceptions of Change with Spatial Planning

  Author: Lovie, R., 2 Dec 2021

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

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

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• Microplastic adherence to common species of macroalgae found throughout Scottish coastal zones

  Author: Ferguson, N. M., 9 Oct 2021

  Supervisor: Stanley, M. (Supervisor) & Narayanaswamy, B. (Supervisor)

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

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• Seaweed as a value-added product for the food and drink sector

  Author: Badmus, U., 18 Jan 2021

  Supervisor: Boyd, K. (Supervisor) & Taggart, M. (Supervisor)

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

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• Physical suitability of sites for community-scale tidal power generation

  Author: Whettall, E., 12 Nov 2021

  Supervisor: Dale, A. (Supervisor)

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

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• The design, implementation and testing of a technology enhanced learning evaluation tool for healthcare professional education programmes: A Realist Evaluation Study

  Author: Nicoll, P., 9 Aug 2021

  Supervisor: MacRury, S. (Supervisor), Smyth, K. (Supervisor) & van Woerden, H. C. (Supervisor)

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

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• Rackwick - A study into its role in the development of contemporary art and culture in Orkney

  Author: Parkinson, A. R., 29 Mar 2021

  Supervisor: Plumb, O. (Supervisor) & Heddle, D. (Supervisor)

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

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• What role can Scottish-caught pelagic fish plan in delivering a climate smart future?

  Author: Sandison, F., 2021

  Supervisor: Marshall, T. (External person) (Supervisor), Hastings, A. (Supervisor), Mouat, B. (Supervisor) & MacDonald, P. (Supervisor)

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

• Nightlands: Playwriting in the Ruins of the Soviet-Arctic

  Author: Reid, J. M., 3 Mar 2021

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

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

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• Using Green Exercise as a Motivator in Health Management

  Author: Fraser, M., 15 Mar 2021

  Supervisor: Munoz, S. (Supervisor), MacRury, S. (Supervisor), Taylor, S. (Supervisor) & Varley, P. (Supervisor)

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

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• Using wildlife to biomonitor for antimicrobial resistance in the Scottish environment

  Author: Elsby, D., 18 Jan 2021

  Supervisor: Taggart, M. (Supervisor) & Boyd, K. (Supervisor)

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

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• Designing and Testing a Virtual Reality Intervention for Improving Patient Mental Health and Wellbeing in Secondary Care

  Author: Jerdan, S. W., 16 Apr 2021

  Supervisor: Grindle, M. (Supervisor) & van Woerden, H. C. (Supervisor)

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

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• Investigating the Immunological Effect of Schizophrenia-Related Antigens and Anti-psychotic Medication.

  Author: Whelan, R., 27 Apr 2021

  Supervisor: Wei, J. (Supervisor) & Pritchard, A. (Supervisor)

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

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• From monasteries to monopolisers: the salmon fishing industry of the inner Moray Firth region, 1500 to 1800

  Author: Thomas, J. E., 25 Nov 2021

  Supervisor: Worthington, D. (Supervisor), Harland, J. (Supervisor) & Marcello, L. (Supervisor)

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

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• An Analysis of Kirkwall's Royal Charters

  Author: Rosie, S. J., 31 May 2021

  Supervisor: Plumb, O. (Supervisor) & Heddle, D. (Supervisor)

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

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• Yahweh's 'Priestly Kingdom': A Metaphor for Israel's Priestly Status Function in Exodus 19.6a

  Author: Hawley, M. L., 13 Jul 2021

  Supervisor: Grant, J. (Supervisor) & Wilson, A. (Supervisor)

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

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• Fish counters: what are they counting and what does it tell us?

  Author: Roderick, E. O., 28 May 2021

  Supervisor: Verspoor, E. (Supervisor) & Coulson, M. (Supervisor)

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

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• DOES FAT MATTER? Lipidomics investigations during Blue mussel (Mytilus sp.) hatchery production

  Author: Laudicella, V. A., 19 Apr 2021

  Supervisor: Hughes, A. (Supervisor), Whitfield, P. D. (Supervisor) & Doherty, M. (Supervisor)

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

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• Population Genomics of the Sugar Kelp Saccharina latissima

  Author: Thomson, A. I., 24 Aug 2021

  Supervisor: Stanley, M. (Supervisor)

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

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• Improving the predictability of harmful algal blooms around the Shetland Islands

  Author: Dees, P., 3 Nov 2021

  Supervisor: Davidson, K. (Supervisor), Mouat, B. (Supervisor) & Dale, A. (Supervisor)

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

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• Multi-omic Approaches to Investigate the Inflammatory Response in Activated Macrophage Cells

  Author: Brace, N., 9 Jul 2021

  Supervisor: Mainland, I. (Supervisor) & Megson, I. (Supervisor)

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

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• Pharmaceutical occurrence, distribution and degradation in rural wastewaters and surface waters in Scotland

  Author: Niemi, L. M., 25 Jan 2021

  Supervisor: Gibb, S. (Supervisor), Taggart, M. (Supervisor) & Boyd, K. (Supervisor)

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

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• Investigating bird flight characteristics and habitat use to better understand ornithological impacts of wind farms

  Author: Largey, N., 5 May 2021

  Supervisor: Masden, E. (Supervisor) & Wilson, B. (Supervisor)

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

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• Marinobacter as an algal panacea?

  Author: De Boever, F., 23 Jan 2020

  Supervisor: Green, D. (Supervisor) & Pond, D. (Supervisor)

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

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• An analysis of the emergence of adaptive governance for sustainable management of marine resources

  Author: Greenhill, L., 11 Nov 2020

  Supervisor: Tett, P. (Supervisor) & Kenter, J. O. (Supervisor)

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

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• Modelling the food web in the Irish Sea in the context of a depleted commercial fish community

  Author: Bentley, J., 26 Jun 2020

  Supervisor: Fox, C. (Supervisor)

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

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• 'A Peculiar Diversity': Public Health in Inverness County 1845 - 1912

  Author: Souter, M., 10 Mar 2020

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

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

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• The Relationship of the So-Called Semi-Pelagians and Eastern Greek Theology on the Doctrine of Original Sin: An Historical-Systematic Analysis and its Relevance for 21st Century Protestantism.

  Author: Jaros, T. K., 20 Feb 2020

  Supervisor: Needham, N. (Supervisor) & Shillaker, R. (Supervisor)

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

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• Structure and Coherence of flow through a Tidally Energetic Channel measured by High Frequency Radar

  Author: Marasco, M., 13 Mar 2020

  Supervisor: Gleizon, P. (Supervisor) & Gillibrand, P. (Supervisor)

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

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• Sediment Deposition in the Deep Sea: from Seamounts to the Hadal Trenches

  Author: Stehlikova, J., 7 Jan 2020

  Supervisor: Turnewitsch, R. (Supervisor), Howe, J. (Supervisor) & Glud, R. (Supervisor)

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

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• Seeing the Woods for the Trees: A palaeoecological investigation of past woodlands to inform present and future woodland conservation management strategies in northern Scotland

  Author: Sybenga, J. E., 2 Dec 2020

  Supervisor: Timpany, S. (Supervisor), Andersen, R. (Supervisor) & Smith, M. (Supervisor)

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

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• Runic writing in Orkney: expression of a Norse identity?

  Author: Freund, A., 26 Feb 2020

  Supervisor: Sanmark, A. (Supervisor) & Brink, S. (Supervisor)

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

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• Samuel Rutherford's Response to the Antinomian Controversy in England and its Impact on His Doctrine of Sanctification

  Author: Poon, S., 4 Aug 2020

  Supervisor: Shillaker, R. (Supervisor) & Needham, N. (Supervisor)

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

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• Organic Enrichment of Scottish Salmon Fish Farm Sediments: A Quantitative Analysis of Sulphur Biogeochemistry

  Author: Gosling, J., 14 Jan 2020

  Supervisor: Crocket, K. (Supervisor), Black, K. (Supervisor) & Stahl, H. (Supervisor)

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

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• Using microalgal mixotrophy to maximise larval nutrition

  Author: Smith, J. K. P., 26 Oct 2020

  Supervisor: Hughes, A. (Supervisor) & McEvoy, L. (Supervisor)

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

• Utilising microalgal mixotrophy to maximise larval nutrition

  Author: Penhaul Smith, J. K., 26 Oct 2020

  Supervisor: Hughes, A. (Supervisor) & McEvoy, L. (Supervisor)

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

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• Bioenergetic and functional impacts of glucose, fructose and insulin in endothelial cells: implications for cardiovascular disease in diabetes

  Author: Fiorello , M., 29 Sep 2020

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

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

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• Today's No Ground to Stand Upon: A Study of the Life and Poetry of George Campbell Hay

  Author: Artymiuk, A., 29 Aug 2019

  Supervisor: Heddle, D. (Supervisor), Riach, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Baker, T. (External person) (Supervisor)

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

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• Towards a sustainable production of Osmundea pinnatifida: insight into the cultivation and biochemical composition of the species

  Author: Biancacci, C., 12 Dec 2019

  Supervisor: Stanley, M. (Supervisor), Day, J. (Supervisor) & Mcdougall, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

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

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• Eukaryotic Parasites of Toxic and Bloom-forming Diatoms: Molecular insights in their diversity and physiology

  Author: Garvetto, A., 12 Jul 2019

  Supervisor: Gachon, C. (Supervisor)

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

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• Nuclear fission and social fusion: the impact of the Dounreay Experimental Research Establishment on Caithness, 1953-1966

  Author: Ross, L. M., 4 Sep 2019

  Supervisor: MacPherson, J. (Supervisor), Kirk, N. (External person) (Supervisor) & McDonald, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

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

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• Reduction of the Premature Aging of PEM Fuel Cell - Battery systems by Implementing an Advanced Hybrid Control System Based on Double PID, Neural Network Load Predicting Algorithm and Optimal Battery Sizing Algorithm.

  Author: Ortisi, V., 26 Aug 2019

  Supervisor: MacLeod, A. (Supervisor) & Gazey, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

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

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