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?

  Author: WANG, W., 8 Nov 2020

  Supervisor: Hall, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Feng, A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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

  Author: LI, B., 16 Nov 2019

  Supervisor: Chong, A. (Supervisor), Wilson, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: WROCHNA, A. E., 8 Jul 2021

  Supervisor: Lam, C. (Supervisor) & Brown, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Twitter sentiment analysis in the era of emojis

  Author: Li, M., 15 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor) & Chong, A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Tourism demand forecasting: opportunities and new approaches

  Author: WEN, L., 8 Mar 2019

  Supervisor: Liu, C. (Supervisor) & Haiyan, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: SUN, B., 15 Nov 2020

  Supervisor: Askew, J. B. (External person) (Supervisor) & Cobbing, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

  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

  Author: CHEN, Y., 8 Jul 2020

  Supervisor: Hall, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Cooker, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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

  Author: Stevens, M. P., 1 Jul 2021

  Supervisor: Irwin, D. (Supervisor) & Adolphs, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

  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

  Author: ZHAO, Y., 15 Oct 2016

  Supervisor: Tan-Mullins, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Holland, B. (External person) (Supervisor)

  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

  Author: WANG, P., 8 Nov 2021

  Supervisor: Rees, W. (External person) (Supervisor) & Kavalski, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: SHI, X., 8 Jul 2020

  Supervisor: Hall, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• The identification of influential spreaders and communities in complex networks

  Author: Sun, H., 10 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor), Garibaldi, J. M. (External person) (Supervisor) & See, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: YU, C., 8 Nov 2020

  Supervisor: Lowe, J. (Supervisor) & Ainsworth, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

  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

  Author: CHEN, X., Mar 2023

  Supervisor: Adamson, R. (Supervisor)

  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

  Author: Pallaro, E., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Subramanian, N. (Supervisor), Abdulrahman, M. (Supervisor), Liu, C. (Supervisor) & Tan, K. H. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: GENG, Y., 8 Nov 2021

  Supervisor: Jin, L. (Supervisor), Veecock, C. (Supervisor) & Zhang, Y. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: Whyke, T. W., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Yu, L. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: WANG, S., Jul 2022

  Supervisor: Adamson, R. (Supervisor)

  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

  Author: LIN, W., 16 Nov 2019

  Supervisor: Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor), Milic-Frayling, N. (External person) (Supervisor) & Chan, H. K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: LI, L., 8 Jul 2020

  Supervisor: Feng, A. (Supervisor) & Evison, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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

  Author: Wang, L., Jul 2022

  Supervisor: Muir, C. (External person) (Supervisor), Dörnyei, Z. (External person) (Supervisor), Liu, X. (Supervisor) & Jin, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: Zhang, X., Nov 2022

  Supervisor: Xu, X. (Supervisor), Phang, D. (Supervisor) & Wang, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  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

  Author: HONG, T., 8 Nov 2019

  Supervisor: Zhang, X. (Supervisor), Morgan, S. (Supervisor) & Zhang, S. (Supervisor)

  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

  Author: MA, F., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Feng, A. (Supervisor) & Hall, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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

  Author: LIN, Y., 12 Jul 2021

  Supervisor: Gillon-Dowens, M. (Supervisor), Pellicer Sanchez, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Wilding, E. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: COMERIO, G., Mar 2022

  Supervisor: Irwin, D. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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

  Author: ZHOU, C., Jul 2022

  Supervisor: Feng, A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

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

  Author: LI, Y., 8 Sept 2020

  Supervisor: Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor), Cobb, S. (External person) (Supervisor) & See, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: TANG, B., 10 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Yu, L. (Supervisor) & Billingham, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: ZHUNUSSOVA, G., 8 Nov 2019

  Supervisor: Jin, L. (Supervisor), Cortazzi, M. (Supervisor), Du, P. (Supervisor) & Martin, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: SHEN, T., 8 Oct 2015

  Supervisor: Darkwa, J. (Supervisor) & Chow, D. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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

  Author: JEFFREY, R., 24 Aug 2018

  Supervisor: Lowe, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• Essays on trade restrictiveness and quality upgrading

  Author: NIU, Z., 27 Apr 2016

  Supervisor: Milner, C. (External person) (Supervisor), Liu, C. (Supervisor) & Gunessee, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Essays on technology and exporting by Indian firms in a globalised World

  Author: YANG, S., 1 Jul 2017

  Supervisor: Milner, C. (External person) (Supervisor), Lancheros, S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Gunessee, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Essays on interactive economic behaviors

  Author: XU, C., 7 Jul 2021

  Supervisor: Ma, A. (Supervisor), Lane, T. (Supervisor) & Zhou, H. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Essays on industrial agglomeration and location choice of foreign enterprises

  Author: LIU, J., 8 Jul 2019

  Supervisor: Yao, S. (Supervisor), Liu, C. (Supervisor) & Gunessee, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Essays on domestic market integration, government expenditure, and strategic interactions among local governments

  Author: ZHANG, C., 29 Jul 2017

  Supervisor: Gunessee, S. (Supervisor) & Liu, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Essays on Chinese cross-border mergers and acquisitions

  Author: HU, S., 8 Jul 2021

  Supervisor: Liu, C. (Supervisor), Gunessee, S. (Supervisor) & Wang, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Early and automatic processing of written Chinese: visual mismatch negativity studies

  Author: Wei, D., 13 Oct 2017

  Supervisor: Dowens, M. (Supervisor) & Sanchez, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Drawing QSers' mind : a cognitively-informed critical metaphor analysis tracing the cultural model of the Quantified Self

  Author: CONG, M., 8 Jul 2021

  Supervisor: Lucy, S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Murray, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• Dominant media frames in the language of news reports from major global news stations – a case study on North Korea

  Author: NOWACKI, L., 8 Jul 2021

  Supervisor: Liu, N. (Supervisor) & Zhang, S. I. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Disclosure relevance and earnings management in business group: evidence from UK private subsidiaries

  Author: ZHU, K., 8 Jul 2020

  Supervisor: Liu, W. (Supervisor), Dow, K. (Supervisor), Leung, W. (Supervisor) & Chen, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Development of a novel energy efficient phase change emulsion for air conditioning systems

  Author: SHAO, J., 8 Nov 2015

  Supervisor: Darkwa, J. (Supervisor) & Kokogiannakis, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Development of a novel energy efficient phase change emulsion for air conditioning systems

  Author: SHAO, J., 8 Nov 2015

  Supervisor: Darkwa, J. (Supervisor) & Kokogiannakis, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Development and integration of a green roof model within whole building energy simulation

  Author: DECRUZ, A., 28 Mar 2016

  Supervisor: Darkwa, J. (Supervisor) & Kokogiannakis, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• Developing intercultural communicative competence of home students in a multicultural class in a university in Eastern China

  Author: SHEN, L., Mar 2023

  Supervisor: Feng, A. (Supervisor) & Evison, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• Culture teaching in ELT: a study of a culture-based course in undergraduate English programmes in China

  Author: LIN, D., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Saxena, M. (Supervisor) & Gao, X. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Crossing the Ya-Lu River: Chinese economic activities in North Korea Post-2002

  Author: GAO, B., 16 Jul 2017

  Supervisor: Gatev, I. (Supervisor), Sullivan, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Moore, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Context-aware sentence categorisation: word mover’s distance and character-level convolutional recurrent neural network

  Author: Fu, X., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Ch'ng, E. (Supervisor) & Aickelin, U. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Collecting: a way of exploring the difficulty to leave game world

  Author: Guo, Y., 8 Jul 2015

  Supervisor: White, A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: MRes Thesis

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