Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions
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Essays in Inequality and Human Capital
(University of Exeter Economics, 20 January 2025)This thesis contributes to the understanding of the role of socioeconomic inequality on population health and human capital development. Chapter One analyzes data from urban Brazil using supervised machine-learning ... -
Make Love to Your Mind: Dance, Disco and American Liberalism, 1970-1988
(University of Exeter History, 13 January 2025)This thesis investigates American disco, 1970-1988, and argues that this history can give us an insight into how radically liberal values have spread into mainstream thinking through popular culture. Whilst disco’s embrace ... -
Performing the Office of Prime Minister: Ramsay MacDonald's Premierships in the Theatre of British Politics 1924-1935
(University of Exeter History, 20 January 2025)There is a large body of literature on the office of prime minister, about the roles it performs and how it has developed over time. But what has been underexplored is the role wider publics have played in this development. ... -
Delineating biallelic PI4KA variants as a cause of a complex neurological, gastrointestinal and immunological syndromic disorder
(University of Exeter Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, 13 January 2025)This thesis documents clinical, genomic and functional studies of a novel, highly variable and mechanistically complex syndrome associated with biallelic PI4KA variants (PI4KA-related disorder), which encodes phosphatidylinositol ... -
Is the DST a coherent response to taxing digital services under international obligations and norms? Comparative analysis of DSTs enacted in the United Kingdom and Türkiye
(University of Exeter Law, 13 January 2025)Taxation of the digital economy has long been on the international tax agenda; the delay in the OECD-led multilateral solution on how to allocate income from digital business models motivated countries to take their own ...