Moray House School of Education : Recent submissions
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Applying performance psychology to specialist medical teams: facilitating change in the UK national organ retrieval service
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-23)Applying human performance science to medical contexts is important and widely recognised; however, prior to the current thesis, there had been no published research investigating the performance psychology of individuals ... -
Three-dimensional kinematics in backstroke swimming: reliability, isokinetic strength and asymmetries at sub-maximal and maximal paces
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-23)Research in front crawl (FC) swimming has revealed that: a) a change of pace affects stroke kinematics, b) asymmetries in some variables may affect performance and, c) the arms are estimated to contribute up to 85% of the ... -
Listening to children on the spectrum: exploring opportunities for meaningful interactions during research
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-28)Children on the autism spectrum face significant barriers to having their views listened to in research. They sometimes have diverse and idiosyncratic ways of expressing themselves, and may find the demands of face-to-face ... -
Evaluating the use of automated writing evaluation programs as tools for formative feedback in English as a Second Language postgraduate students
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-20)Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) programs use natural language processing techniques to analyse texts and score them according to pre-defined parameters. Most of these programs also offer feedback functions, providing ... -
Participation and inclusion in extracurricular physical activities: an ethnographic study alongside children with disabilities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-16)The aim of this thesis is to explore how children with disabilities experience their participation in extracurricular physical activities. The thesis closes a gap in literature by contributing an in-depth year-long ... -
Moving messages: building the evidence base on physical activity messaging to inform research and policy, and improve practice
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-09)Physical activity (PA) is a leading cause of non-communicable disease, and global PA trends are not improving. To address this, a systems approach has been advocated. Such an approach acknowledges that, alongside changes ... -
Exploring Chinese higher vocational college teachers' perceptions of critical reading and teaching critical reading in English
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-06)This thesis reports on an exploration of Chinese higher vocational college teachers’ perceptions of critical reading and teaching critical reading in English. Previous studies have suggested that language teachers’ ... -
Investigation of Chinese academics' language attitudes towards English language norms in UK universities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-10)English is now used as a global lingua franca as a result of the internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the UK. Given that people’s views on a person, such as his/er supposed capabilities, beliefs ... -
‘Troubling’ music education: playing, (re-)making and researching differently
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Traditional theorising around music teacher education has focused largely on dichotomies between theory and practice. The dominant stories of teaching, knowing and researching which underpin this theorising arise from ... -
Culture and the ESL classroom in relation to learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) at a public university in Malaysia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This study investigates the influence of culture on WTC in ESL (English as a Second Language) classrooms in a public university in Malaysia. In the literature, culture in language teaching is generally treated as ... -
Foster carer recruitment
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-31)This thesis presents the pursuit of a better experience of permanence and stability for children in foster care. In this case, permanence and stability is not about legal permanence but about relational and geographical ... -
Identity, space, place and power: an ethnographic study of a community garden
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-23)This ethnographic inquiry examined the lived experiences of the Granton Community Gardeners. I explored how their social and nonhuman interactions influence the community garden volunteers by developing two sub-questions ... -
‘To talk or not to talk?': Investigating the complex dynamic emergence of willingness to communicate in a Chinese as a foreign language classroom
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)My thesis sets out to investigate Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in Chinese, its mediating factors and their interrelationships embedded in the learner and the classroom context. It adopts a longitudinal qualitative ... -
Achieving positive physical activity behaviour change among women: does the couch to five k have a contribution to make?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-17)Despite evidence supporting the wide-ranging benefits of regular physical activity, participation among women could be better. In addition to existing formal interventions, a number of current less formal recreational ... -
Solving the Rubik’s cube of Indian sport: exploring impactful factors and alternative ways to facilitate success
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-17)The heavy investment of nations in high-performance sport seems justified by the belief that high-performance sporting success can lead to national pride and mass participation. This would then provide a larger pool of ... -
Exploration of secondary EFL teachers' and students' perceptions of extensive reading in English and its implementation in Chinese secondary schools: a longitudinal case study
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-14)Set against the backcloth of increasing recognition and attention to the benefits of extensive reading (ER) on L2 acquisition (here and after, L2 refers to second language and foreign language), this PhD thesis research ... -
Running free: the impact of frame running on the psychosocial wellbeing and quality of life of novice and experienced athletes with cerebral palsy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-02-23)Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability in childhood and occurs in approximately 1 in 500 live births. CP is characterised by disorders of the development of movement and posture leading to abnormal ... -
Effects of unilateral vs. bilateral resistance training on lower body muscle strength and sport-specific performance in adolescent rugby union players
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-03)Youth rugby players require multiple physical fitness including muscle strength, endurance, agility and acceleration. Resistance training (RT) which is often included as a part of rugby players’ training, helps improve ... -
Where to study and where to live? Young people's higher education decisions in Scotland and the role of family, finance and region
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-03)This thesis is concerned with young people’s higher education (HE) decisions in Scotland, particularly how school leavers make decisions about where to study and where to live while studying. Using a mixed methods approach, ... -
Socio-material reading of belonging: mobile children and mobile devices in school spaces
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-03)Despite national incentives and additional resourcing, large numbers of children from traditionally mobile families (specifically Gypsies and Travellers) do not engage with school in Scotland beyond the age of eleven. ...
