Acknowledgements
A sincere thank you to the Keele University teaching staff and Student Services teams for their individual and joint efforts to support and help me navigate a path to completing this course of study. This support allows me to accomplish a life goal; putting my voice on paper wraps up a very old goal.
By no accident, I have relied on the support of hundreds if not thousands of unnamed individuals - their efforts shouldered by the named few I had the pleasure to work with. We thank you for your effort in dedicating time every day to ensure students make progress on their chosen path.
I also want to thank my family—Jana Jantova-Patel MRSC and our three children, Zanaleigh-Naerne, Serafaena-Rozalind, and Augustus-Graent—for their love and support over gruelling months and years. I hope to repay that favour with the abundance I had from my mother, who raised us single-handedly to see with clarity, never shying from hard work that benefits from focus, where ending a chapter means starting a new one.