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• Dynamic modelling and simulation of turbulent bubbly flow in bubble column reactors

  Author: SHI, W., 10 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Yang, X. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Travel time prediction using ensemble learning algorithms

  Author: LI, X., 10 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Bai, R. (Supervisor), Siebers, P. O. (External person) (Supervisor) & Wagner, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Modelling soil erosion and sediment transport of the Nqoe River Catchment at 'Muela

  Author: KHABA, L., 10 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Griffiths, J. A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Colin, T. (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

• 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

• Environmentally persistent free radicals(EPFRs) in the airborne particulate matter

  Author: GUO, D., 10 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Xu, M. (Supervisor), Wu, T. (Supervisor) & Pang, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: MRes Thesis

• A case study on thermal comfort in maternity hospital in Beijing

  Author: DU, B., 10 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Xia, L. (Supervisor), Lun, I. (Supervisor) & Su, Y. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: MRes Thesis

• Online travel UGC as persuasive communication: explore its informational and normative influence on pro-environmental personal norms and behaviour

  Author: HAN, W., 10 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Wang, Y. (Supervisor), McCabe, S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Chong, A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• The effects of government subsidies on firm innovation：Evidence from China

  Author: WANG, M., 10 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Hua, X. (Supervisor) & Liu, W. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Hyper-heuristic approaches to automatically designing heuristics as mutation operators for evolutionary programming on function classes

  Author: HONG, L., 8 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Cartlidge, J. (Supervisor), Özcan, E. (External person) (Supervisor) & Bai, R. (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

• Development of time-frequency analysis for extraction of dynamic characteristics for rotating machinery and bridge structures

  Author: HARTONO, D., 15 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Halim, D. (Supervisor) & Roberts, G. W. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Understanding serendipity and its application in the context of information science and technology

  Author: ZHOU, X., 15 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Sun, X. (Supervisor) & Sharples, S. (External person) (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

• Chinese women and sport: an analysis on how gender and class affect their attitudes towards sport participation

  Author: Song, W., 8 Jul 2018

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

  Student thesis: PhD 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

• The application of entransy theory in heat transfer optimization of heat exchanger networks and multi-stage latent heat storage systems

  Author: ZHANG, X., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Zhou, T. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: MRes 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

• CFD modelling and simulation of multiphase flow in a PEM fuel cell using OpenFOAM

  Author: Kone, J., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Zhang, X. (Supervisor) & Yan, Y. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• The financial reporting quality, choice of payment and due diligence auditor in M&As: evidence from China

  Author: Tang, J., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Bi, X. (Supervisor) & Newton, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Controllable synthesis for fabrication of micro/nano-structured mesoporous precursor particles for high performance lithium-ion batteries

  Author: Dong, B., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Yang, X. (Supervisor) & Chen, Z. G. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Mapping buried utilities in difficult environments

  Author: Zhang, P., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Hancock, C. (External person) (Supervisor), Roberts, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Tang, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Stain separation, cell classification and histochemical score in digital histopathology images

  Author: Liu, J., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Qiu, G. (Supervisor) & Garibaldi, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Using mobile technology to facilitate the user experience of group holiday decision-making

  Author: ZHANG, L., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Sun, X. (Supervisor) & Wagner, C. (External person) (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

• Preparation and investigation of phosphate glass fibres and organic coupling agents for fully resorbable PGF/PCL composites

  Author: Tan, C., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Rudd, C. (External person) (Supervisor), Ahmed, I. (External person) (Supervisor), Parsons, A. (External person) (Supervisor), Sharmin, N. (Supervisor) & Liu, X. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Transforming audience experience to design enjoyable exhibition

  Author: WANG, N., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Xia, L. (Supervisor), Sun, X. (Supervisor), Lawson, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Pradel, P. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Thermal analysis of the synergistic influence of the organic and mineral constituents of biomass on coal and biomass fuel blends

  Author: OLADEJO, J. M., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Adegbite, S. (Supervisor), Wu, T. (Supervisor) & Liu, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Measurement and modelling of layered plasmonic structures

  Author: Shen, M., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Zhang, Y. (Supervisor) & Somekh, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Advanced analysis and lightweight design of annular extrusion dies

  Author: NIE, Y., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Lin, Y. J. (Supervisor) & Sun, W. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• 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

• China's reform of the Hukou system and consequences for workers and firms

  Author: JIN, Z., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Upward, R. (External person) (Supervisor), Epifani, P. (Supervisor) & Scheffel, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Manufacture of yarns and textiles from novel resorbable phosphate-based glasses

  Author: Wang, Y., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Sharmin, N. (Supervisor), Ahmed, I. (External person) (Supervisor), Parsons, A. (External person) (Supervisor), Liu, X. (Supervisor) & Rudd, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Essays on Chinese corporate tax avoidance

  Author: Lin, J., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Gunessee, S. (Supervisor) & Wright, B. (External person) (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

• Assessment of biomass burning impact on the regional air quality of Yangtze River Delta, China

  Author: XU, J., 8 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: He, J. (Supervisor), Snape, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Large, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• An investigation into automatic people counting and person re-identification

  Author: XU, B., 5 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Qiu, G. (Supervisor) & Garibaldi, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• An investigation of deep learning for image processing applications

  Author: Hou, X., 1 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Qiu, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Chinese college students’ management of their online identities

  Author: QIN, Y., 1 Jul 2018

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

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• High performance permanent magnet electrical machine for electrical vehicle applications

  Author: Shi, B., 11 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Gerada, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Zhang, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• The influence of shame on status consumption with restorative tendency as shame response within a Chinese context

  Author: Chen, Y., 15 Mar 2018

  Supervisor: Moosmayer, D. (Supervisor), Cluley, R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Winklhofer, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Novel materials for CO2 adsorption and reduction to methanol via hydrogenation

  Author: EZEH, I. C., 15 Mar 2018

  Supervisor: Yang, X. (Supervisor), Snape, C. (External person) (Supervisor), Sun, C. G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Wang, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

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• An evaluative study of the effectiveness of content-based instruction as an EFL approach in China’s tertiary education

  Author: WANG, P., 15 Mar 2018

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

  Student thesis: EdD Thesis

• Electro-mechanical braking system development and hybrid electric vehicle power management for urban driving

  Author: WEI, Z., 15 Mar 2018

  Supervisor: Xu, J. (Supervisor) & Halim, D. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Change detection and deformation monitoring of concrete structures using terrestrial laser scanning

  Author: MUKUPA, W., 11 Nov 2017

  Supervisor: Roberts, G. (Supervisor), Hancock, C. (Supervisor) & Al-Manasir, K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Politically motivated overseas mergers and acquisitions and stock market reactions: evidence from Chinese central state-owned business groups

  Author: WANG, Z., 11 Nov 2017

  Supervisor: Bi, X. (Supervisor) & Lei, L. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Life cycle based decision support for sustainable automotive engineering and energy planning

  Author: LI, X., 11 Nov 2017

  Supervisor: Bai, R. (Supervisor) & McKechnie, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Modelling of multiphase flow containing ionic liquids in a stirred tank reactor

  Author: Dong, J., 10 Nov 2017

  Supervisor: Hu, B. (Supervisor), Yang, X. (Supervisor) & Miles, N. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Design, fabrication and evaluation of a label-free silicon-on-insulator “Lab on a Chip” optical biosensor

  Author: NAJEEB, N., 8 Nov 2017

  Supervisor: Zhang, Y. (Supervisor) & Benson, T. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis

• Investigation of deposits and flashing effect on spray characteristics in gasoline direct injection engines

  Author: WANG, B., 8 Nov 2017

  Supervisor: Zhang, X. (Supervisor) & Yu, Y. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: PhD Thesis