Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences research student profiles

Social Sciences student profiles

Charlotte O’Neill

Thesis title: A comparison between the terrestrial behaviour of Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelli) and Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), to determine if this is a natural behaviour or caused by external factors.

Started: January 2023

Director of Studies: Dr. Susan Cheyne

Second supervisor: Prof. Vincent Nijman

Charlotte O’Neill

Claire Cardinal

Thesis title: Encounters in the forest: social and ecological dimensions of lemur hunting, habitat change and biodiversity conservation in south-east Madagascar.

Started: September 2017, awarded September 2023

Director of studies: Professor Giuseppe Donati

Claire Cardinal

Kat Scott

Thesis title: Orangutans in the New Frontier: Strategies for Survival in Altered Landscapes’.

Started: January 2017

Director of studies: Professor Vincent Nijman

Kat Scott

Miranda Strubel

Thesis title: Shared Landscapes: the reintroduction of red kite in the UK.

Started: January 2015

Director of studies: Professor Catherine Hill

Miranda Strubel

History, Philosophy and Liberal Arts student profiles

Deborah McGuire

Thesis Title: Emotional Journeys. The British Quilt in Space and Time, 1770-1920.

Started: October 2022.

Director of Studies: Professor Joanne Begiato 

Second Supervisor: Dr Sally Holloway 

Deborah McGuire

Mike Power

Thesis Title: The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In of 1971/72

Started: September 2022.

Director of Studies: Prof. Glen O'Hara

Mike Power

Sarah Slator

Thesis title: Politics in the Court Room: International Diplomacy, the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Rivonia Trial, South Africa, 1963-64’.

Started: September 2015, awarded June 2024.

Director of studies: Dr Tom Crook

Sarah Slator

Thomas Dobson

Thesis title: People, place and policy. Westminster college and methodist teacher training in the early twentieth century.

Started: September 2019, awarded June 2024.

Director of studies: Professor William Gibson

Education student profiles

Scott Newson

Thesis title: My provisional thesis title is ‘How neuroscientific insights on curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving can help guide and enrich existing approaches to enquiry-based learning.’

Started: 2022

Director of Studies: Dr James Percival

Scott Newson

Adam Tate

Thesis title: Becoming a full-time undergraduate university student: the impact of affective influences on student behaviours in the current Higher Education context.

Started: October 2018

Director of Studies: Dr Susannah Wright

Polly Bell

Thesis title: Exploring creativity in teaching and learning in innovative science and arts primary practitioners’ lessons.

Started: September 2017

Director of Studies: Professor Debra McGregor

Polly Bell

Sally Howard

Thesis title: A cross-phase investigation contrasting primary and science teachers’ understanding of, and pedagogic practice related to science inquiry.

Started: December 2015

Director of Studies: Professor Debra McGregor

Sally Howard