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Adapting, testing and evaluating an elearning resource for healthcare professionals to enhance the provision of sexual support with patients and their partners in cancer care.

Supervisor: Dunwoody, L. (Supervisor), Semple, C. (Supervisor), Flannagan, C. (Supervisor) & Mc Caughan, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis

A multiple component study and pilot randomised controlled trial to explore the feasibility and effectiveness of Freestyle Libre in multiple acute settings for people living with diabetes

Supervisor: Coates, V. (Supervisor), Mc Cauley, C. (Supervisor), McCann, M. (Supervisor), O'Kane, M. (Supervisor) & Gillespie, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

An exploration of the impact of support services in identifying and meeting the needs of older male caregivers caring for a chronically ill spouse/partner

Supervisor: Mc Ilfatrick, S. (Supervisor) & Ryan, A. (Supervisor)

An exploration of the methodological and practical challenges in undertaking randomised controlled trials with adults with intellectual disabilities

Supervisor: Taggart, L. (Supervisor), Coates, V. (Supervisor) & McAloon, T. (Supervisor)

An exploration of the predictive validity of the selection criteria for nursing programmes at one university in the United Kingdom

Supervisor: Black, P. (Supervisor), Fitzpatrick, B. (Supervisor) & Melby, V. (Supervisor)

Antiepileptic drugs- Salivary testing of infants with breastmilk exposure and the decision-making processes of women with epilepsy regarding infant feeding

Supervisor: Reid, B. (Supervisor), Callan, B. (Supervisor) & Sinclair, M. (Supervisor)

A study of attendance trends and care experiences of older people with mental health needs in Emergency Medical Services settings.

Supervisor: Ryan, A. (Supervisor), Slater, P. F. (Supervisor) & Melby, V. (Supervisor)

Cognitive, behavioural and educational outcomes in children aged 5-11 years with Spina Bifida in Northern Ireland

Supervisor: Casson, K. (Supervisor), Loane, M. (Supervisor) & Simms, V. (Supervisor)

Critical Appraisal of Remote Vital-Sign Telemonitoring

Supervisor: Mc Cullagh, P. (Supervisor) & Kernohan, G. (Supervisor)

Design, development, usability testing and feasibility study of VITAL-COMS: a 3D-virtual simulator to improve weight-related communication skills training for healthcare professionals

Supervisor: Moorhead, A. (Supervisor), Bond, R. (Supervisor), McAloon, T. (Supervisor) & Zheng, H. (Supervisor)

Designing and developing a physical activity intervention for women with gestational diabetes mellitus using the behaviour change wheel

Supervisor: Casson, K. (Supervisor), Sinclair, M. (Supervisor) & Murphy, M. (Supervisor)

Developing, testing and evaluating a web-based self-management intervention for upper limb rehabilitation after surgery for breast cancer

Supervisor: Blackburn, N. (Supervisor), Kerr, D. (Supervisor), Wilson, I. (Supervisor), Mc Caughan, E. (Supervisor), Flannagan, C. (Supervisor) & O'Connor, S. (Supervisor)

Developing and feasibility testing a novel intervention to promote self-management for Jordanian patients presenting with an Acute Coronary Syndrome and Type 2 diabetes

Supervisor: Coates, V. (Supervisor) & Slater, P. F. (Supervisor)

Development and testing of a school-based multi-component walking intervention for children with intellectual disabilities

Supervisor: Murphy, M. H. (Supervisor) & Taggart, L. (Supervisor)

Emotional intelligence among nurse teachers and the relationship with students’ motivation, resilience, and emotional intelligence levels among nursing students in Jordan

Supervisor: Kirby, K. (Supervisor) & Barr, O. (Supervisor)

Examining young people’s knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of palliative care within a public health context: a mixed methods study

Supervisor: Slater, P. (Supervisor), Mc Ilfatrick, S. (Supervisor), Hasson, F. (Supervisor) & Casson, K. (Supervisor)

Exploring and informing the provision of nutrition advice to patients with cancer and healthcare professionals, with a focus on cancer survivorship

Supervisor: Keaver, L. (Supervisor), Semple, C. (Supervisor), Hughes, C. (Supervisor), Hanna, J. (Supervisor) & Ryan, L. (Supervisor)

Exploring chronic and comorbid maternal conditions and pregnancy and birth outcomes: a case study at a joint maternity cardiac clinic and statistical analysis using the Northern Ireland Maternity System (NIMATS)

Supervisor: Sinclair, M. (Supervisor), Bunting, B. (Supervisor) & Condell, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Exploring person-centredness in residential services with older people with intellectual disabilities, their family members and staff : a mixed methods study

Supervisor: Barr, O. (Supervisor), Melby, V. (Supervisor) & Slater, P. (Supervisor)

Exploring person-centredness in the emergency department : a mixed methods study

Supervisor: Mc Cance, T. (Supervisor), Melby, V. (Supervisor) & Slater, P. F. (Supervisor)

Exploring social media connectedness as perceived by young people: A constructed grounded theory of online engagement and early intervention prior to suicidal behaviour

Supervisor: Mc Kenna, H. P. (Supervisor) & Hasson, F. (Supervisor)

Exploring the use of key performance indicators to influence nursing and midwifery practice

Supervisor: Mc Cance, T. (Supervisor) & Brown, D. (Supervisor)

Facilitating family support when a parent of dependent children is at end of life

Supervisor: Mc Caughan, E. (Supervisor), Semple, C. (Supervisor) & Beck, E. R. (Supervisor)

Group online EMDR for breastfeeding trauma recovery

Supervisor: Sinclair, M. (Supervisor), McCullough, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Miller, P. W. (Supervisor)

Heart rate variability biofeedback: an investigation into its adoption and benefit in people with autistic spectrum disorder

Supervisor: Kernohan, W. G. (Supervisor) & Donnelly, M. (Supervisor)

How does a 100% single-room environment influence the experience of person-centred practice in an acute-care setting?

Identification of eating, drinking and swallowing difficulty in early-stage dementia.

Supervisor: Duffy, O. (Supervisor), Kernohan, G. (Supervisor) & Henderson, M. (Supervisor)

Learning to become a person-centred healthcare professional : a mixed methods study

Supervisor: Mc Ilfatrick, S. (Supervisor), Mc Cance, T. (Supervisor) & Mc Cormack, B. (Supervisor)

Online medication purchasing behaviour in pregnancy

Supervisor: Sinclair, M. (Supervisor), Zheng, H. (Supervisor) & Gillen, P. (Supervisor)

Post Treatment for Prostate Cancer: The Experiences and Psychosocial Needs of Black African and Black Caribbean Men and their Partners

Supervisor: Parahoo, K. (Supervisor), Lagan, B. (Supervisor), McGarvey, H. (Supervisor) & McCaughan, E. (Supervisor)

Prevalence and Risk Factors of Congenital Heart Disease in Northern Ireland

Supervisor: Casson, K. (Supervisor), Loane, M. (Supervisor), Dolk, H. (Supervisor) & Slater, P. (Supervisor)

Residents’ Experiences of Moving from Home into a Care Home: A Grounded Theory Study

Supervisor: Tracey, A. (Supervisor), Laird, L. (Supervisor) & Ryan, A. (Supervisor)

Temporal visual attention metrics reveal distinct behaviour within demographic groups and performance levels of healthcare professionals when performing clinical tasks and procedures

Supervisor: Bond, R. (Supervisor), Mc Cullagh, P. (Supervisor) & Black, P. (Supervisor)

The development and testing of a classroom-based intervention targeting working memory, attention and language skills in 4-5 year old children from areas of social disadvantage: a cluster randomised feasibility trial

Supervisor: Titterington, J. (Supervisor) & Taggart, L. (Supervisor)

The Development of the Concept ‘Researcher Practitioner Engagement’ and an Investigation of its presence in Nursing, Midwifery and Therapies Research and Practice in the United Kingdom

Supervisor: Casson, K. (Supervisor), Mc Donough, S. (Supervisor) & Gillen, P. (Supervisor)

The effect of the Duke of Edinburgh award programme on adolescents with intellectual disability

Supervisor: Taggart, L. (Supervisor), Breslin, G. (Supervisor) & Cousins, W. (Supervisor)

The role of human resource development as an enabler of creativity

Supervisor: McCracken, M. (Supervisor), Woods, J. (Supervisor) & Moffett, S. (Supervisor)

The Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care: Part A: Literature Review. Part B: Paper for Publication

Supervisor: Kernohan, G. (Supervisor) & McLaughlin, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Master's Thesis

The Spatio-Temporal Impact of Climate Change on Malaria Transmission, Control and Elimination in Southern Africa: The Case of Zambia

Supervisor: Moore, A. (Supervisor), Cook, S. (Supervisor) & Bi, Y. (Supervisor)

The use of pit latrine squat-hole covers to reduce insect infestation

Supervisor: Deeny, P. (Supervisor) & Kernohan, G. (Supervisor)

Using a drama-based approach to enhance the education of sympathetic presence and support communication skills for person-centred nursing students

Supervisor: Jennings, M. (Supervisor), Mc Cance, T. (Supervisor) & Mc Cormack, B. (Supervisor)

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Copyright in theses is normally held by the author, so as the author you will own the copyright in your Ulster thesis, unless you have made an agreement to transfer it, for example to a sponsor.

Your thesis may contain material protected by copyright. This could be, for example, material which you have authored and previously published, the copyright for which you have assigned to a publisher; or it could be other published material, the copyright for which is held by another individual or body. The latter is known as third party copyright and may include extracts from publications such as books or journals, or illustrations such as images, maps, photographs, tables etc. These examples should not be considered exhaustive.

Ideally you should seek permission to include copyright material in your thesis as you go along rather than leaving it until you are preparing the final draft. The Researcher Development Programme will run training courses in conjunction with the Library Team to help you understand copyright and access restriction in relation to electronic theses.

Material you have published yourself

If you intend to include material that you yourself have published, such as journal articles, you need to check if the publisher will permit you to include these as part of your thesis. The easiest way to do this is by contacting the publisher directly and explaining what you would like to do. Once you have approval from the publisher, you should indicate in your thesis that you have obtained permission to include material you have had published.

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You will need to seek permission if you want to include any third party copyright material such as extracts from books, journals or other publications, or illustrations such as images, maps, photographs, tables, etc. Under certain conditions, images from third party copyright material can be made available as defined in the 'The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Quotation and Parody) Regulations 2014' (Directive 2011/77/EU).

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the primary UK legislation governing copyright, provides for the reproduction of limited amounts of copyright material under ‘fair dealing for criticism or review’ without permission so long as they are properly cited and, if images, are not cropped or altered. This 'fair dealing' exclusion is reasonably likely to apply to your use of third party material such as extracts from publications such as books or journals, whether text or illustrations, in an academic doctoral thesis. For example, if the third party copyright material within your thesis consists of a short quotation from a published work and you have acknowledged and referenced it adequately it will probably not be necessary to seek permission from the copyright holder. Copyright law does not define how much material can be reproduced for this purpose, however, so if in doubt, request permission.

If you have included third party copyright material which has not been published, for example photographs of art works in a gallery or copies of web documentation of a performance, or you are including a substantial amount or the whole of a work then it is likely that you will need to seek permission from the copyright holder to include that in the final version of your thesis. A different 'fair dealing' exception applies to the use of copyright material for the purpose of examination.

To seek permission to include third party material within the electronic version of your thesis you need to contact the rights holder: this may be the author of a work, a publisher, an illustrator etc. In the case of material from books and journals your first course of action should be to contact the publisher.

You should note that failure to obtain permission to include third party copyright material in the electronic version of your thesis will not affect the outcome of your oral examination in any way. If you cannot clear copyright for all material included in your thesis, or if there is confidential or commercial information which cannot be made open access, you should consider submitting an edited version of your thesis. If only small parts of your thesis are affected, you may edit, remove or redact the material if it does not affect the thesis as a whole. Speak to your supervisory team for more information about this. The edited version can then be made available on open access, without an embargo, enabling you to secure the benefits of open access.

What to do if permission is granted

If permission is granted you should indicate this at the appropriate point in your thesis and retain the evidence.

What to do if permission is not granted

If you are unable to obtain permission you will not be able to make the full version of the thesis publicly available online and should consider restricting access.

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