Browsing Open Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Habitus, Ontology and Misrecognition: Addressing the Issue of Structural Injustice Within the University Context
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This thesis is grounded in the philosophy of education, and is first and foremost an issue-based body of research intended to explore how those of us within the university context can work towards combatting the structural ... -
haerenga kōrerorero - choreographing sensing relations
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Two significant worlds here coincide and correspond: whanaukataka and somatic choreographic knowing. Activated through spatial design questioning, this thesis interrogates storytelling as an ethics of performance and as ... -
Haiti and Christchurch earthquakes - viewed through a resilience lens
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Two powerful earthquakes of similar magnitude struck the Canterbury region of New Zealand as well as the Caribbean nation of Haiti within the space of a few months. Indeed, the experts maintain that the quake felt within ... -
The Hand of the Cloth: An Ontological and Aesthetic Unfolding Through Digital and Virtual Materiality
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This research unfolds an ontology and aesthetics of cloth through physical, digital and virtual states. Material structure and cloth dynamics are investigated through the use of the technology of motion capture. The context ... -
Hands across the sea: situating an Edwardian greetings postcard practice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The Edwardian postcard has been described as the Twitter of its age. Earlier regarded as an insignificant pop-cultural trifle, it has, over the last two decades, begun to receive serious academic attention. This attention ... -
Hanging out Eggshells
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Hanging Our Eggshells is a New Zealand historical literary fiction novel, detailing the lives of three generations of New Zealand rural women, each woman carries the scars of a war that they never fought directly. A gripping ... -
Happily Ever After? A Critical Examination of the Gothic in Disney Fairy Tale Films
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This thesis critically examines four Disney fairy tale films across the 20th and 21st centuries to assess the changes in the representation of Gothic tone and intent. I have taken a qualitative approach and deployed a close ... -
Happiness and health: associations with cardiovascular disease risk factors
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Chronic disease is the biggest health issue of our time and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is predicted to be the leading cause of death worldwide by 2030 (World Health Organisation; WHO, 2008). Positive psychology is a ... -
Happiness Apps: reinforcing happiness-promoting behaviour through software
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)People now spend more time on mobile phones than watching television. This mode shift creates an opportunity to reach a large market on a powerful and flexible digital platform that is integrated into users’ lives. The ... -
Harden Up! Analysing Soft News in New Zealand’s Prime-time Television News Bulletins
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)New Zealand television news programming is an area of media research that has been widely explored in previous decades. Studies have determined that in the wake of deregulation in 1989, One Network News adopted a more ... -
Harmonisation of Australia and New Zealand tax systems under a single economic market
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Australia and New Zealand have an ambitious intention of driving towards a trans-Tasman Single Economic Market (SEM) based on common regulatory frameworks. Tax harmonisation is a key part in the process of becoming a SEM. ... -
Harmonization of financial reporting practices: Evidence from the airline industry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2005)Increasing internationalization of capital markets has created an unprecedented demand for greater similarities in financial reporting practices. The need to compare financial information across international borders has ... -
Has the expectation for Environmental Sustainability in Delhi hotels by business travelers changed since 2007?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The objective of this study is to identify the change in business travelers’ attitude towards environmental sustainability (ES) in Delhi’s premium hotel (4 and 5 star) since 2007. This research also aims to establish whether ... -
A hash based technique for the identification of objectionable imagery
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)The Internet has been one of the greatest man made achievements of the 20th century. It has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and ... -
Hau Rongo: the Breath of Rongo
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This project is underpinned by a Taranaki genealogical worldview informing a series of knowledge exchanges that establishes the concept of ‘Ora ki te Whakatupua’, ‘sustaining life knowledge anew’. From a cosmological ... -
Haunting Minnie Dean: A Heuristic Inquiry Into Baby Farming, Psychological Infanticide and Closed Stranger Adoption
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)In this study I use the methodology of heuristic inquiry and methods from imaginal psychology to explore the relationship between 19th century baby farming, and my experience of psychological infanticide through closed ... -
Havoc in Heaven: a Digital Picture Book Experiment
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)To find the new expression of digital book illustrations, this research project used an experiment of a digital picture book, Havoc in Heaven. With the development of digital technology, digital books have exerted a crucial ... -
HC:N:CP Hybrid Culture, Nonlinearity And Creative Practice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The aim of this project is to integrate hybrid culture and nonlinearity into a dynamic artwork that is one multiplicity. This exegesis lays out the foundation of the project and has three sections: one section discusses ... -
He ia anō ta te Takatāpui i te Ao Māori: Takatāpui; Being of the Māori World
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Being takatāpui comes with a sense of disconnection about our place among whānau, hapū, and iwi. It is envisaged that this research, which is made up of an exegesis and a creative output (documentary) will engender an ... -
He iti te manu he nui te kōrero - The bird is small - the story is epic
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This thesis* explores storytelling as cultural expression, and creatively considers the concept of bowdlerisation, and its role in sanitising Māori stories, as an aspect of colonisation. It is formatted as a creative output ...