MPhil Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Development of 3D Metamaterials with Independent and Controllable Electric and Magnetic Properties
(University of Exeter Physics, 7 January 2013)The work detailed within this thesis concerns the development of 3D metamaterials with independent and controllable electric and magnetic properties over a large frequency range. Electromagnetic (EM) responses of 3D ... -
Telling a Neglected Story: Leadership of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Difficult Times
(University of Exeter Theology and Religion, 13 January 2011)The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church connection is a major, historic Black Christian denomination which has long been ignored as a subject of serious academic reflection, especially of an historic nature. This was ... -
Control, co-operation and conflict: an interdiscinplinary study of later medieval urban water management in Britain AD 1066-1540
(University of Exeter Archaeology, 13 March 2012)Abstract The inter-relationship between the development of complex societies, their beliefs and the degree of sophistication of their urban water management systems is not a subject which has attracted a great deal of ... -
The Birth of Psychedelic Literature: Drug Writing and the rise of LSD Therapy 1954 – 1964
(University of Exeter English, 20 September 2012)This thesis examines hallucinogen drug literature published between 1954-1964 in Britain and North America. By arguing that these texts are medically and culturally contingent to psychiatric research that was being undertaken ... -
Biting Tongues/ Critical Theory as Creative Tool: Using Bakhtin’s Theory of Double-Voiced Discourse to Edit a Short Novel
(University of Exeter English, 2 April 2012)Biting Tongues is a short, character-driven novel set in South East England in 2001. Central to its narrative present is the recovery of 27-year old Adam Strange from a 13-year coma and its repercussions on his mother, ...