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Harkening the Loud Claps: The Representations of Hijras in Bollywood, Indian Anglophone Literature and Life Writings from 1990 to 2020

Rukhsar Hussain

Supervisors: Prof. Churnjeet Mahn (Humanities) and Prof. Yvette Taylor (Education)

Examiners: Dr. Rohit K Dasgupta (External); Dr. Navan Govender (Internal)

Rukhsar Hussain’s thesis investigates how subjectivity, agency, religion, and queer forms of kinship circulate across different cultural texts. It has collected and unpicked the patterns and politics of representation for hijras inter/ transnationally. Rukhsar foregrounded the need to understand difference within local contexts without becoming subsumed by typically western notions of gender diversity that are used to read and understand non-western contexts and experiences. In this regard, the thesis is part of a wider decolonial project that seeks to undermine the myth of universality by taking seriously the local. Hijra identities, cultures, experiences, practices, and storying are, therefore, important starting points for disrupting multiple gendered orders.

Student’s name Programme Thesis Title

Charlotte Allan MPhil Education Missed Connections and Silver Linings: researching Theatre for Early Years audience experience during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nadeem Aslam PhD English Bodies of History in Anglophone Writing on Partition

Clare

Binning MRes English

Leanne Black EdD Education

Lannette Kambole Chiti

PhD Law The Incel Bookclub: Inceldom, Toxic Masculinity and the Literary Canon

An Explorative Case Study of a Secondary School Nurture Group Focusing upon the Transfer of Learning from the Nurture Group to the Wider School Setting

Sustainable Energy, Climate Change Mitigation and International Energy Law: Hard, Soft Law and the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative

Yu Wei Chua PhD Education

Andrew Currie MRes English

Mila

Daskalova PhD English

Laura Elina del Carpio PhD Psychology

Kelsey Entrikin PhD English

Alyson Evans PhD Law

Sarah Farman

MRes Creative Writing Movement and socioemotional development – a multilevel approach examining subsecond motor patterns and behaviour in infancy and early childhood

Literary Interpretations of Linguistic Form: A Psychological Account

Printing and Periodical Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum

Life after loss: A theory-based investigation into the impact of bereavement by suicide or other causes on adolescents in Scotland

Romancing the Beast: Intersections of Power, Gender, and Sexuality in Omegaverse Fan Fiction

Legal Rights in the Children’s Hearings System: Evolution or Revolution?

Under the Eclipse

Ashley Fenwick EdD Education

Jonathan William Firth

PhD Education

Lauren Gavin MRes History

Miranda Geelhoed PhD Law Practice Focused Study of Outdoor Learning in Five Scottish Secondary Schools 2011-2019

Memory and Metacognition in Classroom Learning: The Role of Item Order in Learning with Particular Reference to the Interleaving Effect

How did societal changes influence the development of movement assessment research and shape the definition of a normal child in Britain 1945-1985?

Agroecology at the Nexus Between Biodiversity Law and Human Rights Law

Jenny Gillespie

PhD Physical Activity for Health Translation and feasibility testing of the Healthy Habits Happy Homes (4H) Intervention to Scotland (4HS)

Marion Henry PhD History Building Community with Music

Rukhsar Hussain PhD English Harkening the Loud Claps: Hijra Representation in the Mainstream Indian Cinema, Literature and Life Writing

Ryan Innes

Douglas Jack

MRes Physical Activity for Health

PhD Law

David Henry Kanyumi PhD Social Work

Elizabeth Nicol King

PhD Psychology COVID-19: Why are the media obsessed with Vitamin D?

Defending the Scotland Act 1998 as a ‘third way’ bill of rights

An exploration and analysis of the role which local non-governmental welfare organisations play in social service provision and their impact on service users in Tanzania

A mixed methods investigation of the impact of attachment theory on the policy and practice within early years and primary education in a Scottish Local Authority

Catherine Mann

MRes Physical Activity for Health

Francesca Masciullo MRes French University of Strathclyde student experiences of an online physical activity programme

Denied and Disowned Motherhood in the Works of Dacia Maraini and Annie Ernaux

Brendan Luke

Louise

McGillen PhD Politics

McKeever

PhD Speech and Language Therapy

Rachel Meach PhD History

Adam Mitchell

MRes Physical Activity for Health

Maria

Ntona PhD Law

Stefania Pagani PhD Psychology

Michelle Patrick PhD Psychology

Eilidh Russell

MRes Physical Activity for Health

Mika

Schroder PhD Law

Tia

Joshua Kenny

David

Simanovic PhD Criminology

Simpson PhD Education

Spalding PhD Psychology Incorporating Emotion into Securitisation Studies: Fear-Based Psychological Models of Securitisation Attitudes

Speech- Fine- and Gross-Motor Control in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

A Spoonful of Sugar: Dietary Advice and Diabetes in Britain and the United States, 1945-Present

Exploring the use of Active Commuting as part of the COVID – 19 Recovery

Legal Place-making in Europe’s Seas Laying the Foundations for a Human Rights-based Approach to Maritime Spatial Planning in the EU

Evaluating the Mentors in Violence Prevention programme: A theoretical, longitudinal, and implementation approach

Feeling Sad, Angry, or Scared: An Investigation of Gender Differences in the Regulation of Specific Emotions, and their Relationship with Mental Health

Exploratory study of the integration of Fitbit data into existing diabetes healthcare platforms

Sometimes Reality Enters the Room” Spatial In/Justice and the In/Visibilisation of Local Actors within International Biodiversity Negotiations

Bereavement and Imprisonment: A descriptive phenomenological exploration of prisoners’ experiences of bereavement in carceral contexts

A Tripartite Investigation Into Narratives of Sexuality, Gender, and the Role of Fiction for Children and Young People in Shaping LGBT+ Exclusion and Inclusion

Impacts of trait anxiety on attention and feature binding in visual working memory

Thanyanuch Tantikul PhD Law

Amy

Tucker PhD Social Work

Eva Louise Ward PhD History

Kate

Wilson PhD English

Jasmine Wood PhD History Criminal Justice, Sentencing and the Reality of the Fine in Thailand

“Stigma is a Weird Amoeba of a Word”: Exploring mental health stigma as a multilevel concept through the experiences and conceptualisations of young people and staff members from stakeholder organisations in Scotland

Drug Wars Before Duterte: ‘Illicit’ Substances and the American Colonial Experiment in the Philippines

Current living places and future utopias: community writing in Glasgow, 1967 – 1990

‘I shall have to learn to live all over again’: Injury, Disability and Relationships in the lives of Second World War Servicemen

Congratulations to all students and their supervisors, especially as many of these examinations took place online!

Up-and-Coming Wikipedian of the Year!

Dr Kirsty Ross (School of Education) was recently awarded the Up-and-Coming Wikipedian of the Year by Wikimedia UK at Wikimania, the annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. This was in recognition of her efforts in training new editors and raising awareness via the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in Open Knowledge Network (IDEA Network) that she co-founded at the University of St Andrews. Feel free to get in touch with Kirsty (kirsty.ross@strath.ac.uk) if you are interested in incorporating Wikipedia and her sister projects into your research, teaching, or knowledge exchange efforts.