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Time to Learn: The Influence of Innovative Learning Environments on School Organisational Practices in a Secondary School Context
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Educational futures discourse challenges the rigid organisational structures of traditional schooling models. Traditionally, time within schools is maintained and distributed through western approaches to administration ... -
The Experience and Wellbeing of Donor-Conceived Adults
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Gamete donation and conception has become increasingly more common both internationally and locally. Although New Zealand’s current policy and practice support openness, donor- conception has historically been shrouded in ... -
Using the Modified Wingate Test to Assess Unilateral Lower Limb Muscle Power in a Healthy and Knee Injury Population: An Exploratory Pilot Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Objective The primary objective of this study was to explore the use of the modified unilateral Wingate anaerobic cycle test to assess unilateral lower limb power in a healthy population; and to determine if ... -
Beef Hydrolysis by Tamarillo Fruit
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Meat is an excellent source of nutrients, it contains a high amount of protein and more essential amino acids than plants and other vitamins and minerals required in humans. It has been recommended that protein hydrolysates ... -
Food Practices and Diabetes Management: The Lived Experience of Tongan People With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is an alarming and growing global epidemic that is particularly prevalent throughout the Pacific region. T2DM disproportionately affects Pacific, Asian and Māori peoples here in Aotearoa New ... -
Critically Examine the Readiness of Tonga’s Legislative Framework for e-Crimes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Governments and private organisations are heavily reliant on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to conduct daily businesses. We are living in a connected digital age, and the rapid growths and advancements ... -
Understanding the Longing for Merger - A Heuristic Self-Search Inquiry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In this dissertation, I address a question that I had been trying to answer for a long time: What is my understanding of the longing for merger? I chose Moustakas’ (1990) heuristic research methodology and methods to ... -
Scrutinizing Justice Issues in Australia’s Policy of Detaining Asylum Seekers: Public Opinion and Ethical Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)As the number of refugees displaced from their home countries has grown in recent years, the debate has grown over what policies liberal countries should pursue to address this crisis. This dissertation conducts a qualitative ... -
The Heart is a Poet
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)When We Meet Heart to Face is a memoir focused on my journey of heart failure, heart transplant, recovery and acceptance. It is a bricolage or suturing of poetry and prose that examines the physical and psychic dimensions ... -
Intergenerational Communication in the Workplace: A Critical Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)As we have entered the 21st century, the demographics of the workplace now consists of four distinct generations (Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y). As a result, intergenerational communication ... -
Transmission of Trauma Across the Generations: The Impact on the Mother-Child Relationship
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)This dissertation explores how the mother-child relationship is impacted by the transmission of trauma across generations. This topic was birthed out of my experience of working in Aotearoa New Zealand with women who suffer ... -
Does Parental Attachment or Sibling Attachment Influence the Quality of Later Life Romantic Relationships?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Social relationships are of great importance across the lifespan, particularly during the formative years bracketing childhood. Various studies have researched the impact of peers and parent-child alliances on romantic ... -
Provision of Empathy: Challenges Experienced by Psychotherapists in Cross-Cultural Dyads
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In relational and other humanistic psychotherapies, empathy is an integral part of the therapeutic relationship. Through the experience of empathy, clients gain insight into conscious and unconscious processes regarding ... -
The Cockroach That Died
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)There’s Something Wrong With Him is the draft of a creative non-fiction memoir, which is the creative component required for the Master of Creative Writing. It’s accompanied by the exegesis The Cockroach That Died. The ... -
Developing a Clinical Referral Pathway for the Management of Difficult Venous Access for Ward Nurses at North Shore Hospital
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Peripheral Intravenous (IV) access is a commonly performed clinical procedure in hospitals, used to obtain blood samples or administer medications and fluids by the IV route. Various circumstances such as patients with ... -
Understanding Government and Firm Responses to Global Disruption: A Case of Fiji’s Hotel Industry During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In the past, global disruptions such as natural disasters and man-made crises posed major economic disruptions. Despite these past challenges, the tourism sector continued to grow, and the industries within the sector ... -
Skin Deep: Client Tattoos in Psychotherapy
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Historically, within psychological fields including psychotherapy, tattoos have often been written about as an indicator of deviance, psychopathology, or personality disorder, and have been viewed as a form of self-harm ... -
Permaculture and Community Garden-Farming for Urban Food Production
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)This research project explored whether permaculture can be applied to community garden-farming for food production in urban environments. The research included a review of the local and international literature and interviews ... -
Addressing the Problem of ‘Big Data’ in Sports: A Framework for Performance Analysts
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)An explosion of data producing technologies has changed the requirements of the modern performance analyst. It has been claimed that in 2020 approximately 50 billion ‘connected devices’ existed, signalling that the ‘era ... -
Organisational Change: The Future of Community Football Organisational Capacity Within New Zealand’s Northern Region
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In recent years, within New Zealand, there has been growing expectations of Community Sport Organisations (CSO’s) to professionalise their governance and operations (New Zealand Football, 2021; Sport New Zealand, 2021). ...