Welcome to STORRE: Stirling Online Research Repository
STORRE holds a continually growing collection of the full text of the research outputs of University of Stirling authors. It includes published journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, working papers, etc. As a result of the University policy encouraging open access, the repository will continue to develop as an important source of free full text access to Stirling's research.
STORRE also holds the full text of all University of Stirling research theses from September 2006 onwards; covering PhDs, Masters of Philosophy and Masters by Research plus Professional Higher Degrees by Research. A small collection of our older theses is also included, and is continually added to, due to our involvement in the British Library's EThOS service.
Recent Submissions
Shapira M (2026) Beyond Material Disadvantage: Living Conditions, Immigrant optimism, Aspirations and Attainment among Immigrant and non-Immigrant Pupils in Scotland.
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This article examines the living experiences, aspirations and attainment of immigrant and non-immigrant pupils in Scotland. Drawing on immigrant optimism theory, the study uses the Scottish subset of PISA 2022, which includes measures of young people’s aspirations and attainment, to explore the relative roles of family socio-economic background, housing circumstances, educational and cultural resources, family and school support, and student dispositions in shaping aspirations and attainment,...
Wright J, McDougall M & Fullerton C (2026) Beyond the Team Talk: Half-Time as a Coaching Environment in Elite Women's Field Hockey. <i>8th International Cluster for Research into Coaching Conference</i>, University of Stirling, 08.06.2026-12.06.2026.
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Half-time represents one of coaching’s most compressed and constrained environments. Beyond tactical instruction, coaches must make sense of an evolving match situation while working with players and support staff to shape the conditions for a coordinated second-half performance. Guided by a social-relational perspective, this qualitative study explored half-time experiences in an elite women’s national field hockey team. Data were generated through observations, interviews and focus groups ...
Blair K (2026) 'A Miner's Wife': Women Working-Class Poets and the Mining Industry. <i>Philological Quarterly</i>, 104 (3/4). https://english.uiowa.edu/publications-and-research/philological-quarterly
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The article examines the contributions of women working-class poets connected to the mining industry. Topics include working-class literature, women's poetry, and mining communities, highlighting how female poets used verse to express the experiences, hardships, and perspectives of mining families, while demonstrating the often-overlooked literary voices of working-class women in the nineteenth century.
Dovhoshliubnyi l, Soroush N, Sami A & Brownlee A (2026) What Do AI Agents Actually Change? An Empirical Taxonomy of Mutation Patterns in Performance-Improving Pull Requests Anonymous Anonymous Institution. In: <i>Search-Based Software Engineering</i>. 18th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering 2026 (SSBSE 2026) Challenge Track, Montreal, Canada, 05.07.2026-06.07.2026. https://doi.org/1...
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AI coding agents are black boxes: we cannot inspect how they generate code, but we can inspect what they change. This distinction matters for search-based software engineering (SBSE), where techniques such as genetic improvement depend on mutation operators that reflect how code is actually transformed. Of the 33,596 agent PRs in the AIDev dataset, less than 400 target performance (fewer than 1%), making each successful case a valuable window into otherwise opaque agent behaviour. We classify...
Taylor A, Iyawa G, Maltinsky W, Henton S, Lake D, Medina-Lombardero S, Casson A & Crichton M (2026) A participatory study of information and presentation priorities for a digital interface for bowel self-management. <i>DIGITAL HEALTH</i>, 12. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076261491823
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Background Difficulty controlling or emptying the bowel is a common issue with devastating physical and mental health impacts. Digital technologies supporting bowel self-management remain limited. We are exploring a system combining an implanted sensor with a digital interface to support bowel self-management. This paper reports on the digital interface. Objectives To identify the information most valuable to adults living with bowel problems and the best ways to present it on the digital int...
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