Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

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• What is the impact of recent reforms on English teaching in vocational education in Ningbo?

  WANG, W. (Author), Hall, C. (Supervisor) & Feng, A. (Supervisor), 8 Nov 2020

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• What influences the dissemination of online rumour messages in social media: the role of message, communicator, channel and rumour features

  LI, B. (Author), Chong, A. (Supervisor), Wilson, M. (Supervisor) & Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor), 16 Nov 2019

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Visibility of the translator: a data-driven study of Julia Lovell’s translator style

  Zhang, Y. (Author), Hall, G. (Supervisor) & Yu, L. (Supervisor), Mar 2024

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• Uhm Jung-hwa and the figure of new Korean woman

  WROCHNA, A. E. (Author), Lam, C. (Supervisor) & Brown, M. (Supervisor), 8 Jul 2021

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Twitter sentiment analysis in the era of emojis

  Li, M. (Author), Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor) & Chong, A. (Supervisor), 15 Jul 2018

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Tourism-related consumption in relation to subjective well- being and sustainability

  Cai, Y. (Author), Liu, C. (Supervisor), Wen, L. (Supervisor) & Li, G. (Supervisor), Jul 2024

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Tourism demand forecasting: opportunities and new approaches

  WEN, L. (Author), Liu, C. (Supervisor) & Haiyan, S. (Supervisor), 8 Mar 2019

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Three essays on coalition formation and its applications

  SHEN, J. (Author), Qu, C. (Supervisor) & Qian, X. (Supervisor), 17 Mar 2025

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Three essays about the community mental health in China

  DENG, F. (Author), Hubbard, R. (Supervisor), Chen, Z. (Supervisor) & Chua, C. (Supervisor), Nov 2023

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• The peaceful wave = 靜靜的漣漪 : a study of the history of Ningbo 1820s-1949

  SUN, B. (Author), Askew, J. B. (Supervisor) & Cobbing, A. (Supervisor), 15 Nov 2020

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• The learning motivation and experience of students in the International Baccalaureate stream of a Chinese government school

  CHEN, Y. (Author)Hall, C. (Supervisor) & Cooker, L. (Supervisor), 8 Jul 2020

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• The interactive ecology of construal in gesture: a microethnographic analysis of peer learning at an EMI university in China

  Stevens, M. P. (Author), Irwin, D. (Supervisor) & Adolphs, S. (Supervisor), 1 Jul 2021

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• The implementation issue in norm diffusion: the cases of WTO anti-dumping duty and countervailing duty in China

  ZHAO, Y. (Author)Tan-Mullins, M. (Supervisor) & Holland, B. (Supervisor), 15 Oct 2016

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• The impact of ‘Standing’ on China-U.S. security relations: a constructivist approach to relations between a rising power and an established power

  WANG, P. (Author), Rees, W. (Supervisor) & Kavalski, E. (Supervisor), 8 Nov 2021

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• The impact of teaching about the nature of science in a senior high school in China

  SHI, X. (Author)Hall, C. (Supervisor), 8 Jul 2020

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• The identification of influential spreaders and communities in complex networks

  Sun, H.-L. (Author), Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor), Garibaldi, J. M. (Supervisor) & See, S. (Supervisor), 10 Nov 2018

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• The examination of the implementation of learning in regular classes(LRC) from the perspectives of teachers

  JIN, X. (Author), Feng, A. (Supervisor) & Trent, J. (Supervisor), Nov 2023

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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• Teachers’ responses to Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) adoption in a secondary vocational School in Ningbo, China

  YU, C. (Author), Lowe, J. (Supervisor) & Ainsworth, S. (Supervisor), 8 Nov 2020

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• Task and language production: a study of task characteristics and task conditions on spoken language production in an English listening and speaking course in a University of Science and Technology in China

  CHEN, X. (Author), Adamson, R. (Supervisor), Mar 2023

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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• Sustainable value generation in the Chinese truck sector: role of a regenerative result-oriented product-service business model

  Pallaro, E. (Author), Subramanian, N. (Supervisor), Abdulrahman, M. (Supervisor), Liu, C. (Supervisor) & Tan, K. H. (Supervisor), 8 Jul 2018

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Studying the symbolic and cultural practices of city diplomacy: the case of Seattle

  SIMON, C. (Author), Trombetta, M. J. (Supervisor) & Bourdais Park, J. (Supervisor), Jul 2024

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• Students’ Translanguaging in Task-based Learning in a Senior High School in China

  WANG, H. (Author), Adamson, R. (Supervisor), Jul 2023

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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• Search for culturally responsive practice: narratives on instructional beliefs in an international school in China serving local and foreign national students

  GOULD, D. (Author), Weekly, R. (Supervisor) & Medwell, J. (Supervisor), 15 Jul 2025

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• Researching motivation and emotion of Chinese older adults in English language learning

  GENG, Y. (Author), Jin, L. (Supervisor), Veecock, C. (Supervisor) & Zhang, Y. (Supervisor), 8 Nov 2021

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Queering the late imperial Chinese Zhiguai tales: strange encounters in the non/human realm

  Whyke, T. W. (Author)Yu, L. (Supervisor), 8 Jul 2018

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Professional identity of teachers in the context of the new school curriculum reform in China

  WANG, S. (Author), Adamson, R. (Supervisor), Jul 2022

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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• Predictive models for E-commerce optimisation: effectiveness of social media and real-time interventions in online sales

  LIN, W. (Author), Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor), Milic-Frayling, N. (Supervisor) & Chan, H. K. (Supervisor), 16 Nov 2019

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Novice teachers constructing professional identities in teacher communities in China

  Yang, C. (Author), Adamson, R. (Supervisor) & Weekly, R. (Supervisor), 16 Apr 2025

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• NATO's new design: struggles, practices, and the alliance's post-Cold war transformation

  HANTKE, A. (Author), Trombetta, M. J. (Supervisor) & Dawson, G. (Supervisor), 7 Jul 2024

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• Motivation trajectories of Chinese L2 learners in a Sino-Canadian study-abroad program – a longitudinal study

  LI, L. (Author), Feng, A. (Supervisor) & Evison, J. (Supervisor), 8 Jul 2020

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• Motivation and motivational dynamics of Chinese students learning languages other than English as college majors

  Wang, L. (Author), Muir, C. (Supervisor), Dörnyei, Z. (Supervisor), Liu, X. (Supervisor) & Jin, L. (Supervisor), Jul 2022

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• Motivational factors influencing intention to use mobile health in older adults: an integrated model of the technology acceptance model and uses and gratifications theory

  Zhang, X. (Author), Xu, X. (Supervisor), Phang, D. (Supervisor) & Wang, J. (Supervisor), Nov 2022

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• Making the world in our image: the New York Times & Financial Times' mediation of China's public diplomacy messages

  HONG, T. (Author), Zhang, X. (Supervisor), Morgan, S. (Supervisor) & Zhang, S. (Supervisor), 8 Nov 2019

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Low achievement in English language learning: a case study of a Chinese tier-3 university under the lens of complex systems theory

  MA, F. (Author), Feng, A. (Supervisor) & Hall, C. (Supervisor), 8 Jul 2018

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• Learning a new language at older ages: neuro-cognitive and psychological well-being effects

  LIN, Y. (Author), Gillon-Dowens, M. (Supervisor), Pellicer Sanchez, A. (Supervisor) & Wilding, E. (Supervisor), 12 Jul 2021

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Isolation, insecurity, incomprehension: teacher agency and teaching excellence on a British transnational campus

  COMERIO, G. (Author), Irwin, D. (Supervisor), Mar 2022

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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• Investigating effective mechanisms for crowdsourcing photogrammetry-based 3D cultural heritage via collective behaviour analysis

  CHENG, D. (Author), Chng, E. (Supervisor) & Wang, X. (Supervisor), Oct 2023

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Investigating CLIL effects on learners’ academic performance in a Chinese tertiary education programme

  ZHOU, C. (Author), Feng, A. (Supervisor), Jul 2022

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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• Investigating Chinese junior high school teachers' beliefs about the teaching of reading in a time of reform

  XIONG, Y. (Author), Feng, A. (Supervisor) & Bell, D. (Supervisor), Oct 2023

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• Interaction, communication and engagement in hybrid virtual and augmented reality environments

  LI, Y. (Author), Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor), Cobb, S. (Supervisor) & See, S. (Supervisor), 8 Sept 2020

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Implementing collaborative learning in second round review stage in senior high school physics class

  ZHANG, Y. (Author), Adamson, R. (Supervisor), Jul 2024

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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• Hegemony on a Leash?: Neo-Conservatism, American foreign policy, and the United Nations

  MATONHODZE, T. (Author), Kiwuwa, D. (Supervisor) & Trombetta, M. J. (Supervisor), Mar 2024

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• Gender inequality, class-bound relationships, and filial piety: contextualized use of dating Apps in China

  Wu, X. (Author), Ainslie, M. (Supervisor) & Gilardi, F. (Supervisor), 15 Jul 2025

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• Feminist translation equivalence and norms: gender and female alienation in Chinese translation of Chinese American women's literature

  TANG, B. (Author)Yu, L. (Supervisor) & Billingham, S. (Supervisor), 10 Nov 2018

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Exploring the role of social media influencers in public diplomacy through the framing process for country image building and communication on cross- border social media platforms

  Wang, Y. (Author), Zhang, S. (Supervisor) & Fallon, T. (Supervisor), 17 Mar 2025

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Exploring the perceptions and experiences of returnee academics’ re-adaptation and professional identity (Re-)construction at an application-oriented university in a second-tier city in China

  RUAN, B. (Author), Bell, D. (Supervisor) & Feng, A. (Supervisor), Jul 2024

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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• Exploring teachers’ and students’ expectations of good English teachers in Kazakhstan through narrative and metaphor analyses

  ZHUNUSSOVA, G. (Author), Jin, L. (Supervisor), Cortazzi, M. (Supervisor), Du, P. (Supervisor) & Martin, J. (Supervisor), 8 Nov 2019

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Evaluation of urban heat island situation in developed cities of Zhejiang province

  SHEN, T. (Author), Darkwa, J. (Supervisor) & Chow, D. (Supervisor), 8 Oct 2015

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Evaluation and enhancement of practicality in educational assessments: a conceptual analysis and three cases

  JEFFREY, R. (Author)Lowe, J. (Supervisor), 24 Aug 2018

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• Essays on trade restrictiveness and quality upgrading

  NIU, Z. (Author), Milner, C. (Supervisor), Liu, C. (Supervisor) & Gunessee, S. (Supervisor), 27 Apr 2016

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis