Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Felt understanding: a key to improving international students’ wellbeing 

      Du, X (University of Exeter Psychology, 13 January 2025)
      Wellbeing issues among international students in UK higher education have been recognised as a crisis. I argue that more efforts still need to be put into understanding the characteristics of international students’ ...

    • Migration drivers and impacts: Youth migration from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to the UK 

      Blanchflower, A (University of Exeter Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 13 January 2025)
      The migration debate is front and foremost in the UK headlines this year with the government’s Rwanda Bill to curb undocumented migration via the English Channel taking centre stage. Despite this, the small boats keep ...

    • Investigating Associations Between Skin Microbiome and Disease in the Common Frog (Rana temporaria) 

      Pawlik, A (University of Exeter Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, 13 January 2025)
      Habitat loss and disease are causing global amphibian population declines. Commensal bacterial species on amphibian skin are crucial for host-pathogen defence, prompting an outpouring of studies of skin microbiome diversity ...

    • Contemporary Commercial Popular Comedy Theatre in Iraq in the 1980s and 1990s 

      Al-Hachami, MHN (University of Exeter Communications, Drama and Film, 16 December 2024)
      For the last five decades, Iraqi theatre has been undergoing constant intellectual, philosophical and political transformations, responding to the enervating modern and contemporary history of wars and challenging economic ...

    • Essays on Discrimination, Beliefs and Coordination 

      McCrea, A (University of Exeter Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, 2 December 2024)
      In labour markets, minority groups are often underrepresented. Chapter 1 and 2 focus on potential reasons for this continued underrepresentation, with a particular focus on the underrepresentation of women. Chapter 1 ...