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The use of multimethodology in operational research practice supporting strategic decision-making: prevalence, methods, designs, and causal mechanisms

Jane S. Christie (J.S.Christie-54@kent.ac.uk, website) Department of Analytics, Operations & Systems, Kent Business School, University of Kent, 2025 Download from repository Abstract Recently, there has been renewed and significant interest amongst both operational research (OR) academics and practitioners in how… Read More »The use of multimethodology in operational research practice supporting strategic decision-making: prevalence, methods, designs, and causal mechanisms

The Determinants of Research Culture: The Case of Indonesian Universities

Evan Doran (e.doran@sydney.edu.au) School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Sydney, 2025 Download from repository Abstract In its quest to climb the international higher educational rankings, Indonesia has trodden the well-worn path of using a publish or perish scheme… Read More »The Determinants of Research Culture: The Case of Indonesian Universities

Designing and evaluating game-based cognitive assessments for older people ageing at the margins: a critical realist analysis

Rhys Mantell (r.mantell@unsw.edu.au, website) School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, 2025 Download from repository Abstract This thesis takes aim at the cognitive health crisis facing older people “ageing at the margins”—those experiencing homelessness, incarceration, or persistent poverty.… Read More »Designing and evaluating game-based cognitive assessments for older people ageing at the margins: a critical realist analysis

A kaleidoscope of meaning fragments: Understanding the rule of law’s paradoxes in international development

Michael C. Leach Department of Public Law & Governance, Tilburg Law School, 2021 Download from repository Abstract Since the mid-1990s, the ‘Rule of Law’ as been recognized as being a dominant conceptual frame for legal and governance reform work in… Read More »A kaleidoscope of meaning fragments: Understanding the rule of law’s paradoxes in international development

Practitioner Identities and Sector Reform in Contemporary Further Education and Training in Ireland

Sarah Bates Evoy (sarah.bates-evoy@setu.ie, website) South East Technological University, Ireland, 2024 Download from repository Abstract The thesis is a largely empirical study of the professional identities of education and training practitioners whose activities were brought into a new sector of… Read More »Practitioner Identities and Sector Reform in Contemporary Further Education and Training in Ireland

Why do people go to university and why does it matter? Understanding differences in student experiences via a quantitative analysis of student reflexivity and student motivations

Richard Remelie (r.remelie@mmu.ac.uk, website) Manchester Metropolitan University, 2024 Download from repository Abstract Underpinned by the philosophy of Critical Realism, this thesis provides new ways to explain differences in student experiences of university. It achieves this by presenting quantitative evidence of… Read More »Why do people go to university and why does it matter? Understanding differences in student experiences via a quantitative analysis of student reflexivity and student motivations

The Pulse of Dialogue: Explaining Opposition to Energy Policies in Western Macedonia and Crete

Andreas Vavvos (vavvosandreas@gmail.com) Department of Psychology, University of Crete & Department of Social Anthropology, University of Saint Andrews, 2025 Download from repository Abstract Guided by two core questions, this dissertation undertakes an exploratory journey into the dialogical dynamics of knowledge… Read More »The Pulse of Dialogue: Explaining Opposition to Energy Policies in Western Macedonia and Crete

Realist Collage: Non-fiction Film Practice Addressing the History and Identity of ‘Welsh Wales’ through Critical Realism, Found Footage and Animation

Marc BoswardUniversity of the Arts London, 2022 Download from repository Abstract In the early 20th century, the techniques of collage and film montage were linked with the cultural production of political radicalism. The assemblage of new wholes from existing parts… Read More »Realist Collage: Non-fiction Film Practice Addressing the History and Identity of ‘Welsh Wales’ through Critical Realism, Found Footage and Animation

An explanatory empowerment theory for resilient development: a critical realist case study of women’s empowerment through ICT4D in the Indian Context

Tiyana Jovanovic (website) University of Queensland / Indian Institute Technology Delhi, 2025 Download from repository Abstract This doctoral thesis challenges the dominant modernist paradigm in development thinking and practice, offering a novel conceptualisation of empowerment that transcends the limitations of… Read More »An explanatory empowerment theory for resilient development: a critical realist case study of women’s empowerment through ICT4D in the Indian Context