The thesis investigates social workers’ perspectives on Continuing Professional Development (CPD), focusing on how decisions about CPD are made, who makes them and the facilitators and constraints that govern these choices. The study acknowledges the regulatory requirement since 2021 for social&#...

In the Bayesian world, referring to a variable as “random” means that this vari-able – a scalar, tensor, a network, etc. – takes a value with a probability, such that it attains a values that live in the support of this probabilistic distribution. lies in a given...

This study investigates the complex trade-off between security and privacy in the context of Pakistan’s evolving urban landscape with a particular focus on the controversial Safe Cities initiative in Lahore. Despite the growing global interest in smart and safe city frameworks, there re...

This paper estimates the causal effect of fiscal decentralization and newly gained spending autonomy on educational outcomes in Ukraine. Exploiting the staggered voluntary formation of amalgamated local governments (hromadas) between 2015 and 2020, we use an event-study design applied to student-...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region is exceptionally well positioned for large-scale green hydrogen development, combining among the highest global solar irradiance levels with strategically significant export access to both the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf maritime corridors. However, despite ...

This thesis explores doubling motifs in British films in the 1940s/1950s, focusing on case studies that conform to realist traditions. British realist films are often analysed on a purely literal level whereas this study is aimed at exploring ways to re-examine these texts usi...

Camera-based mobile applications are widely used as assistive technologies, helping people with visual impairments access information about their surroundings. However, the use of these technologies in public spaces often increases the social visibility of people with disabilities, exposes users to&#x...

In this dissertation I examine trans-disabled individuals’ lives and communities to argue that trans-disabled individuals have a shared sense of stigma which is compounded by having dual marginalised identities. This qualitative research deploys theories of intersectionality and of stigma, ...

Telomeres are specialised structures localized at the ends of eukaryotic linear chromosomes. Telomeres play an important role in protecting chromosome ends by preventing the activation of DNA damage response (DDR). In normal cells, telomeres become shorter with each cell division,&#x...