Archive of GMI Research
PhD Maritime Studies
2008-2009
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
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Dr Brian Arthur |
The Royal Navy and Economic Warfare in North America, 1812-1815 |
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Dr Virginia Preston |
Constructing Communities: Living and Working in the Royal Navy, c.1830-1860 |
2007-2008
| Dr Sabirin Ja'afar |
International Law of the Sea and National Legislation in Piracy and Terrorism in the Straits of Malacca. A Study in Law and Policy |
| Dr Peter Widd | The Seafarer Piracy and the Law: A Human Rights Approach |
2006-2007
| Dr Robert Forrester | The General Steam Navigation Company c.1850-1920: A Business History |
| Dr Cathryn Pearce | 'So barbarous a practice'. Cornish Wrecking c.1700-1860 and its Survival as Popular Myth |
MA Maritime Policy
* Awarded the degree with MA distinction
2008-2009
| Student Name | Dissertation Title |
| Argyrios Aliprantis | Maritime Education and Training in Greece |
| Rebecca Chapman | Is International and National Legislation Sufficient to Combat Illegal Migration on the High Seas? |
| Michael Rodopoulos | The Globalisation of Maritime Policy. An analysis of three impending Directives. |
| Andrew Tate | Should the United Kingdom Declare an Exclusive Economic Zone? A Study of the Implications, Benefits and Challenges |
| Viktor Todorov | Are we ready for multimodal transport? Discrepancies between legislation and its implementation for the Ro-Ro maritime transport in Bulgaria |
2007-2008
| Abdulrahman Almansoori |
Pleasure Craft Safety: A Case Study of the Pleasure Craft Sector in Abu Dhabi |
| Sofia Illiogrammenou | An Assessment of International Maritime Organisations' Openness to Cooperation for the Benefitting of Seafarers Through the Experience of the International Seafarers' Assistance Network (ISAN) |
| Raja Maitra | Irish Fishing Policy: The Impact of Common Fisheries Policies on the Irish Fishing Industry and the Socio-Economic Effects on Howth 1990 to 2006 |
| James Shaw | The Importance of Flag (Registration) for Obtaining Ship Finance |
2006-2007
| William Azuh |
ISPS Code Implication & Concerns for Developing Countries: The Nigerian Experience |
| Tony Caldwell | Substandard Shipping Entering the 21st Century |
| Yili He | Containerization and its Industry Impact |
2005 - 2006
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Saleh Alaidarous |
The Impact of ISM Code on Ship Management Business |
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Christopher Lambert |
The Criminalisation of Seafarers |
| Christopher Parry | The Maritime Defence of UK PLC: A Current Terrorist Threat and Vulnerability Analysis to Shipping within UK Territorial Waters, in Particular the Problems and Some Potential Solutions Concerning Non-SOLAS Vessles and Shipping not Under Lawful Command. |
2004 - 2005
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Nicky Kuo |
International Shipping and Port Security Code: Implementation and Impacts |
2003 - 2004
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Robert Cook |
The Combined Use of Naval Power: Problems, Possibilities and Implications of International Naval Co-operation |
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Esther Copete |
The Importance of Ports in Economic Development: A Study of Latin American Ports |
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Kun (Jerry) Fan |
China ’s Oil Trade and Tanker Shipping |
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Despina Karagianni |
Privatisation: Analysis of Port Privatisation According to the Level of Development of a State |
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Felipe Moronto Poleo |
A Model of Sustainable Development for Port Management |
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Armena Richards |
The Role of Seafarers in Open Registry: A Case Study of the Liberian Registry |
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Laraine Soliman |
Passenger Transport on the Thames 1980 - 2003 |
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Aikaterini Vassiliou |
European Union Port Policy and How It Has Affected Greek Port Policy – The Case of Piraeus |
2002 - 2003
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Martin Garside |
The Evolution of the Present Safety Regime in the Dover Strait |
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Andreas Kontizas |
The Economic Trends in the Shipbuilding Industry in the Second Half of the 20th Century |
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John (Jock) Mawson * |
Issues Arising from the Development in Design and Operation of Container Ships: the impact on the safe carriage of goods and crew |
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Francis Owoo |
Flags of Convenience: A study of open registry conditions with special reference to chemical tankers |
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Tao Zeng |
Shipping Industry Development in China since the 1980s |
2001 - 2002
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Stavros Arvantis |
The ISM Code: Issues of implementation and impacts |
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Gilberto Asuque |
Seafarer Skills v Remuneration: A study linking quality and safety standards to a global wage rate |
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Peter Boyle |
Inland waterways were a popular method of transporting goods and throughout Europe . Why has their use declined or at best remained static? |
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Ian Harrison * |
The enforcement of technical regulation in shipping |
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Teguh Isgunanto |
Evaluation of Indonesian and archipelagic sea lane policy and its implementation |
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Shinji Matsuo |
Japanese shipping policy: A study of the decline of Japanese flag ships and seafarers |
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James Spencer |
The shipmaster-pilot relationship |
2000 - 2001
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Tilemahos Benetatos |
The Battle Against Substandard Shipping: Port State Control and the Memorandum of Understanding |
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Mohamed Latheef |
Maritime transport problems and development prospects of the Maldives |
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William Moses |
The Commercial and Operational Evolution of the Short Sea Ferry Industry 1980-2000 |
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Kenneth Peters |
Seafarers and their Access to Justice |
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Joseph Thuillier |
A One World Registry |
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Tim Watson |
The Environment and the Decommissioning of Offshore Installations |
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Peter Widd |
The Law of Piracy: An Alternative View |
MA Maritime History
* Awarded the degree with MA distinction
2008-2009
| Student Name | Dissertation Title |
| Peter Blake | The Siege of Flushing, 1809: A Success Within the Failure of the Walcheren Expedition? |
| Kate Coughlan | Drawing and Seafarers in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century: An Insight into the 'Wooden World' |
| Suzanne Davis | Sir Brook Watson and His Networks - A Study in C18th Transatlantic Trade, 1735 to 1810 |
| John Johnson-Allen | Rochdale Before and After: British Masters and Mates c.1960-1980. An Oral Investigation. |
2007-2008
| Jamie Buntin | The 1925 Reduction of HM Dockyard Rosyth to 'Care and Maintenance' |
| Martino Ferrari Bravo | British Technological Influence on the Venetian Armata 1763-1786 |
| Alison Parr | The Changing Role of British Aircraft Carriers in the Early Part of the Second World War |
| Bill Paxton | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Shipbuilders, 1903 to 1939 |
| Fred Williams | The Importance of Malta to Economic Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1800-1815 |
| Jon Wise * | Building for the 'Atomic Age'. The Royal Navy and Innovation in Technology and Design, 1948-1957: The Carrier, The Fast Submarine and the Guided Missile Ship |
2006-2007
| Tito Benady | The Role of Gibraltar as a Base During the Campaign Against the French and Spanish Fleets 1796-1808 |
| Brian James * | The End of the Russian War, 1855-1856 |
| Anne Byrne McLeod | The Life and Times of Captain Herbert Huntington Brown a Bluenose Skipper out of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. 1843-1892 |
| David Johnston * | Sea Power at the Crossroads: The Admiralty's Post-War Offensive for Recommencing Capital Ships Construction, 1919-1921 |
| Patrick Johnston * | The Impact of Submarine War on Britain's Fishing Fleet in the First World War |
| Robert Sutcliffe * | The Threat from Napoleon: The Strength of the British Fleet 1801-1805 |
| Trevor Ware | Steam and the "Short Blue" Fishing Fleet, 1850-1890 |
2005 - 2006
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Michael Clark |
Bound Out for Callao! The Pacific Coal Trade 1876-86: Selling Coal or Selling Lives |
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Coriann Convertito |
Tattooing in the Victorian Navy |
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Politics, Patronage and Profit: A Case Study of Three 18th Century London Merchants |
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The Training of Marine Society Boys 1820-1880 | |
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John Francis |
The Origins and Construction of St Katherine's Dock 1820-30. Myths and Mysteries Amongst the Legends |
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Geoffrey Vale |
James Nourse Ltd: From India to the West Indies 1861-1930 |
2004 - 2005
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David Elvin |
The Founding and Development of the Victualling Yard at Deptford in the 1740s |
2003 - 2004
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Richard Richards |
Henry Jackson and the Development of the Marine Radio |
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John Swinfield |
The Sky Sailors: The Role of the Armed Services in the Development of the Airship from 1900 - 1930 |
2002 - 2003
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Charles Consolvo |
A Career in the Royal Navy in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Progress, Promotion and Interest. Based upon a sample of officers. |
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Patrick Fairplay |
The Pacific Telegraph Cable 1920: Technological, commercial and political effects |
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Ian Johnston |
TSMV Agamemnon: A ship of its time? |
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Arthur Kilgore * |
Strategic Controversy, Alliance-Building and the Admiralty: The bureaucratic origins of the Anglo-American Naval Alliance, 1934 - 1939 |
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Terence Lilley |
The Trent ’s Affairs: Activities of a British contract mail steamer |
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Janet Macdonald |
Victualling the British Mediterranean Fleet, May 1803 to June 1804 |
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Donald Parkin |
The Geddes Report and its Impact on the North-East Shipbuilding Industry |
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Terrence Tarrant |
St. Andrew’s Waterside Mission, 1864 - 1900 |
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Brian Tracey |
Lascar Seamen in the British Merchant Navy, 1920 - 1950 |
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Kenneth Wilcox |
Quaker Shipowning in the Port of Shoreham, 1824 - 1880 |
2001 - 2002
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Brian Arthur |
The role of the blockade in the Anglo-American naval war of 1812 - 1814 |
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Richard Bateman |
Emblems of national greatness: The promotion of ocean liner travel on the North Atlantic in the Inter-War years |
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Sheila Bransfield |
The role of Edward Bransfield in the discovery of Antarctica |
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Victoria Carolan |
Voicing the silent service: The image of the Royal Navy, 1939 - 1945 |
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Emma Dunn * |
“The cement of mediocrity”: The experience of the transport service during the siege of Sevastopol , 1854 - 1855 |
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Susan Howarth-Reading |
Cold Cargoes: An investigation into challenges faced by the maritime refrigerated transport sector and the responses to those challenges that took place in the last decades of the twentieth century |
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Christopher Ware |
Government policy towards the tramp shipping industry, 1934 - 1939 |
2000 - 2001
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Leonardis Argyros |
Crewing the Great Liners: The Experience of P&O, 1890 - 1910 |
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Robert Forrester |
Management Decisions in Shipping 1945 - 1965: A Study of the Royal Mail Lines Ltd |
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Emma Laird * |
The Victualling of the Channel Fleet in 1800 |
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Hugh O’Neill |
Alexander Carnegie Kirk: An Engineer of His Time? |
|
Stephen New |
The Development and Operational Use of Coastal Motor Boats, 1904 - 1919 |
MBA Maritime Management
* Awarded the degree with MBA distinction
2009-2010
| Student Name | Dissertation Title |
| Sunil Varughese | The Tanker Charter Market: An Effective Analysis |
2008-2009
| MaryAnne Adams | Promoting the Marine Industry as a Viable Career Choice: Case Study of UK Deck Officer Training |
| David Adomako | Port Privatisation: The Case of the Ghanaian Ports |
| Xiaoyu Kang | The Impact of Freight Market of Dry Bulk Carriers by Forward Freight Agreement |
| Radhika Kapoor * | The Contribution of Private Sector Investment to the Financial Performance of Major Ports in India |
| Stamatis Katsimis | Greek Shipping Companies: New or Older Vessels in the Dry Bulk Sector |
| Emmanuel Kwarteng | Effect of Changes in the World Economy on the Proposal for Development of an Inland Port at Boankra, Ghana |
| Melvin Mathews * | Strategy and Diversification: A Shipping Industry Case Study |
| Neeraj Sareen * | Benefits and Risks of Hybrid Outsourcing: A Shipping Industry Case Study |
2007-2008
| Paul Albert | Economic Reform of Indian Ports Looking at the New Millennium |
| Ashwin Date | Test of the Weak Form Efficiency of the Baltic Freight Market |
| David Khundadze | The Managerial Approach to Motivation of Crew on Eastern and Western European Ships |
| Kashif Mehmood | Job Satisfaction at Wighlink Ltd |
| Mamoon Ur Rasheed | Port Operation in 21 Century: How Will Gwadar Port Face the Challenge? |
2006-2007
| Jayabrata Ghosh | Socio-economic Issues in the Global Seafaring Labour Market: A Contemporary Study |
| Nigel Jose Luis Moniz | Factors and Methods in Shipping Investment |
2005 - 2006
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Sanjeev Bhandari * |
The Inter-Relationship Between Bunker Hedging and Freight Derivatives Market |
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Rahul Kulkarni * |
Analysis of Vulnerability and Resilience in the Midstream of Liquefied Natural Gas Supply Chains |
2004 - 2005
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Om Bajpai * |
Co-operation and Freight Rate Stability in Trans-Atlantic Liner Shipping |
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Paul Martin * |
The EU Commission and the Directive for Access to Port Services. Is it appropriate to introduce competition in marine pilotage? |
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Irina Wahlstrom |
Business Strategies on the Early 21st Century Finnish Ferry/Liner Industry. “Challenges and Implications of Intensified Competition, EU Enlargement and Subsequent Tax Free Abolition” |