‘Incorporate into one body torne and scattered limmes’: Recontextualising Principal Navigations within the networks of Richard Hakluyt by Stevenson, E

“…These two sections work to place Hakluyt and his work within wider cultural and literary contexts. While scholarship has examined his editorial approach, this has generally been within the context of individual accounts. …”

The skype state: digital pushbacks and the absence of asylum on mainland Greece by Damianos, S

“…Skype played a dominant role in the governance of asylum applicants in Greece for approximately eight years, but existing scholarship has not ethnographically explored the digital bureaucratic procedure. …”

Collegiality and religious authority in the Roman Republic by Webb, K

“…This thesis will demonstrate that collegiality is more complex than this lack of direct attention in current scholarship suggests. A comprehensive analysis of how the Romans viewed and engaged with this concept would clarify how Roman republican society functioned at an intrinsic level and, consequently, is highly desirable. …”

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the anticompetitive effects of horizontal shareholding, and a discussion of potential solutions under EU and UK competition law by Reyntjens, TML

“…This thesis demonstrates that economic theory and established findings from corporate law and governance scholarship do not support the claim that such shareholder heterogeneity makes it implausible that horizontal shareholding can cause anticompetitive effects.…”

Climate change, human rights, and adaptive mobility by Nishimura, LS

“…Furthermore, unlike legal scholarship that considers the problems posed by climate-related displacement, this thesis begins from the premise that mobility can be a beneficial adaptation strategy—particularly if undertaken in an anticipatory, proactive, and precautionary manner. …”

Communication and hope in Thomas Bernhard's later prose writings by Darukhanawala, P, Darukhanawala, Percy Soli

“…<p>The aim of this study is to make an original contribution to the body of scholarship on the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) by presenting a text-based investigation of his five-part autobiographical cycle (<em>Die Ursache</em> (1975), <em>Der Keller</em> (1976), <em>Der Atem</em> (1978), <em>Die Kälte</em> (1981), and <em>Ein Kind</em> (1982)), and the prose narratives, <em>Beton</em> (1982) and <em>Auslöschung</em> (1986).…”

A commentary on Pindar's Emmenid odes: O.2, O.3, P.6, I.2 by Sicka, D

“…The main introduction sets out the Emmenid odes' historical context, and the commentary's approach to them in relation to Pindaric scholarship. There follows a synopsis of the textual readings adopted, indicating divergences from Snell-Maehler. …”

The Princely States v British India: fiscal history, public policy and development in modern India by Strachey, A

“…The study goes beyond previous anthropometric scholarship by assessing the impact of institutions and policies on biological living standards, deploying a new database of adult male heights in South India. …”

Realising a layered digital library: Exploration and analysis of the Live Music Archive through linked data by Page, K, Bechhofer, S, Fazekas, G, Weigl, K, Wilmering, T

“…This highlights the need to incorporate robustness to inevitable ‘imperfections’ when undertaking scholarship within the digital library, be that from mislabelling, poor quality audio, or intrinsic limitations of computational methods. …”

The mythopoetics of debt: exploring the works of Ismail Kadare by Chaka, Z

“…It makes a contribution to scholarship on Kadare by demonstrating a formal and thematic coherence within some of his major works. …”

Christian Science by Gartrell-Mills, C, Gartrell-Mills, Claire F.

“…It has drawn on an existing body of sociological scholarship into these questions to provide a basis for its different concerns.…”

Imperial villas in Italy, Antoninus Pius to Maxentius: a study in architecture and functions by Poletto, A

“… <p>This thesis considers the architecture, functions, and usage patterns of imperial villas in Italy, with a focus on the period between Antoninus Pius and Maxentius (AD 138–312). Modern scholarship has been concerned either with imperial ownership— which has been examined in its historical issues—or with Roman villas; some imperial villas have been analysed individually, but a work addressing them as a study subject per se is lacking. …”

The lives, deaths, and afterlives of John Garang: history-making and politics in Sudan and South Sudan by Del Vicario, D

“…Drawing on recent methods in biographical scholarship to consider how Garang performed different identities as he navigated Sudan’s political space, I build a new empirical account of Garang—as an intellectual, a maker of history, a social actor, and a soldier-politician—and through him of Sudan and South Sudan. …”

The New Hellenism: Oscar Wilde and ancient Greece by Ross, IA

“…The late-nineteenth-century professionalisation of classical scholarship and the rise of the new science of archaeology from the 1870s onwards endangered the status of antiquity as a textual source of ideal fictions rather than a material object of positivist study. …”

The grammar and poetics of Mūrti-Sevā by Valpey, K

“…First, it augments existing scholarship on Hindu temple image worship and Caitanya (Gaudīya) Vaishņavism by focusing on two contemporary temple communities one in the north Indian pilgrimage centre Vrindavan, the second near Watford, outside London. …”

The sea officers: gentility and professionalism in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 by Wilson, E

“…<p>This thesis argues that British naval officers provide a useful category of analysis for social and cultural historians. While previous scholarship has largely ignored naval officers or treated them as equivalent, socially and professionally, to army officers or the traditional professions, the present study argues that the nature of service at sea presented challenges to officers' social status. …”

The reform of the British civil service: life cycle, family, and class in the treasury, c.1847-1914 by Galan-Guerrero, L

“…It reveals the interconnections between the aristocracy and the professions over the nineteenth century, and the Treasury’s key role in the professionalization of government administration.</p> <p>Existing scholarship on the Civil Service has provided the foundations of our understanding of reforms and public departments. …”

A linguistic analysis of dated poems from the book of Taliesin by Sadler, B

“…The language of the poems is analysed, using the language of the other manuscripts as a linguistic control, informed by other scholarship, to assess the survival of archaic forms through the process of subsequent redaction to arrive at the Book of Taliesin.…”

Animal research nexus: a new approach to the connections between science, health and animal welfare by Davies, G, Gorman, R, Greenhough, B, Message, R, Palmer, A

“…Third, we explore how existing social sciences and humanities scholarship on animal research tends to focus on different aspects of the connections between scientific research, human health and animal welfare, which we suggest can be combined in a nexus approach. …”

'But if you can't rape your wife, who can you rape?' toward a course-of-conduct offence centring partner sexual coercion in Canada by Zaccour, S

“…</p> <p>Beyond its exploration of concrete legal reform possibilities, my work contributes to the sexual violence field by focusing on the context of intimate relationships, which is often neglected by legal scholarship. My research confronts the injustices still faced by victims of partner sexual violence and opens up new ways of thinking about legal responses to sexual violations.…”