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Mending by Design: Making Bags to Ideate Mending Excess Waste in the Ecological Environment Through the Aesthetic Lens in Design
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Using a design-based ideation process, I have paid attention to how sensory aesthetics can communicate ecological narratives. This research project considers ways design can creatively raise awareness of product and material ... -
Supporting Older Adults to Access Healthcare Services to Enable Them to Age-in-place: A Literature Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The world is experiencing unprecedented growth among older adults (World Health Organisation (WHO), 2005). New Zealand is also seeing an increase in older adults. New Zealand government policy favours the notion that ... -
Chaoxianzu’s Traditions of Dress: An Exploration of Identity Within Contemporary Fashion Contexts
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This practice-based research uses a personal narrative, that of a member of the Chaoxianzu people from an independent province in China, to interrogate the complexities of the historic local clothing in which is embedded ... -
Mixed Ownership in Sport: The Case of Super Rugby in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Research on the evolution of amateur sporting organisations into business entities, has used sport governance as an effective lens through which to examine change. These studies have illustrated the progress sport has made ... -
Metabolomics Applications in Immunological Studies of Marine Molluscs
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Molluscs form an important group in aquaculture as well as in coastal wild systems. However, high mortalities in molluscan species, specifically marine bivalves, have been encountered in the wild during summer times (summer ... -
Sensitive Bodies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Sensitive Bodies is a practice-led research project investigating how a work of art emerges from the mediation between stimulus and response. It focuses on how the physical properties that are external to a sensitive body ... -
Toward an Operational Definition of an Informal Mindfulness Practice: A Scoping Review and Stakeholder Consultation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The current definitions of informal mindfulness practice proposed in the literature are inconsistent and obscure. It has been described by several studies yet, there has been no effort to establish the defining principles ... -
Breathing and Relating: Exploring a Therapist's Heuristic Experience
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)What is my experience of consciously breathing while in sessions with clients? This research question sparked a year of exploration into breathing and relating as a beginning psychotherapist. Following a heuristic self-search ... -
The WAIS Coding Subtest As an Embedded Performance Validity Measure in Cases of Traumatic Brain Injury
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Most recent estimates have indicated that around 69 million people worldwide sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI) every year. Often following TBI, a neuropsychological assessment is conducted in order to determine the ... -
Encountering Gesturing Bodies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Encountering Gesturing Bodies seeks to explore the unconscious/psyche manifesting itself through the gesturing body. The project focuses on the materialisation of anxiety expressed through the gesturing body, drawing ... -
Rupture and Reparation: In Painting
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This practice-led project explores rupture and reparation in the process of painting whereby material interventions are influenced by the intuitive decisions, or inclinations, arising from the artist’s perception of what ... -
From the Same World: Re-making Self, With a Camera
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This project investigates personal lived experience and the construction of identity through exploring photo-filmic methods both analogue and digital. Being with particular photo-filmic processes and the natural phenomena ... -
The Narrative Potential of Videogames: How Designing Mechanics Impacts Storytelling
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This research started with the development of four preliminary videogame prototypes, these prototypes were then reflected on and synthesized into four key points used to direct the development of a final prototype focused ... -
Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Influence Motor Learning
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Stroke is a widespread health-care problem that causes impairments of neural structure and function, and often limits the ability to move. Despite some spontaneous recovery and rehabilitative efforts, recovery is often ... -
Change Through Stillness: Qualitative Explorations of Heterosexual Men As They Utilise Meditation As an Intervention for Self-perceived Problematic Pornography Use
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This project fills significant research gaps in current literature related to adult heterosexual men who identify with a problematic relationship with pornography, including qualitative research examining the experiences ... -
Unraveling Lalava: Uncovering the Cultural Knowledge Embodied in Lalava
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Unravelling lalava is a metaphoric expression I use as a means of uncovering the Tongan cultural knowledge embodied in lalava. The research project undertakes an auto-ethnographic approach as I intend to seek a cultural ... -
Estimating the Normal and Reference aortic Pulse Wave Velocity for the New Zealand Population: Improving Stroke and Cardiovascular Risk Prediction
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Arterial stiffness is expressed as the reduced capability of physiological expansion and contraction of arteries during changes in blood pressure (BP). It is measured as carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) and is ... -
Factors Influencing Recovery from Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR) in High-Performance Athletes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) is a common occurrence in sport, with high-performance athletes at particular risk. Current research in this area has focused mainly on the outcomes of ACLR, with little ... -
Closed-loop Control of a Soft Robotic XY-table to Manipulate Delicate Objects
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)At present, soft robotic engineering is rapidly emerging as a significant part of the robotics. Recent research concerns a range of potential applications in terms of manipulating and transporting delicate work-pieces in ... -
Synchronous Reality: Place and Memory in Virtual Installation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This practice-led research reanimates my own place-based memories; placing participants in an immersive installation to conjure sensorial recollections, both physical and virtual. Visual, aural, kinesthetic, tactile and ...