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Tama Samoa Tama Aotearoa
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This project takes the Samoan practice of Fāgogo (storytelling) as a central approach and frames it using the contexts of Talanoa (conversation),Vā (relational space) and photographic self-portraiture. My research questions ... -
A Contestable Professional Development Fund: Interpretations of the Applicant Experience
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This research was undertaken to understand health workers lived experience of applying for contestable professional development funding in the health sector. It responds to the World Health Organizations’ (WHO) call for ... -
Leadership Practices That Raise the Achievement of Māori Learners: an Examination of Practices
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This dissertation aims to inquire into the practices of educational leaders that seek to raise the achievement outcomes of Māori learners. Despite the efforts of policy makers and educators, Māori learners achieve below ... -
'Birthplace - Your Choice' A Smartphone Application Designed to Aid Informed Decision Making on Birthplaces for Primigravida Women in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Birthplace choices influence maternal and neonatal outcomes. Despite popular belief, International, New Zealand and local research confirms that birthing in an obstetric hospital does not improve maternal or neonatal ... -
Second-generation Chinese New Zealanders’ Experience of Negotiating Between Two Cultures: a Qualitative Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This practice research project examines the lived experiences of second-generation Chinese New Zealanders by focusing on their experiences of navigating between two cultural worlds. It is the first in New Zealand to examine ... -
Towards Greater Understanding of the Role of Eating and Moving Behaviours in Wellbeing
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)New Zealand’s public health system is primarily deficit-based; that is, the focus is mainly on disease prevention and treatment. Increasing levels of morbidity (time spent in poor health) and the failure of the current ... -
Implementation of the Common ASEAN Tourism Curriculum and its Effects on Cambodian Hospitality Training Programmes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The Common ASEAN Tourism Curriculum (CATC) was developed as an essential mechanism to facilitate the inter-governmental tourism collaboration amongst ASEAN members. In Cambodia, the implementation of CATC has been promoted ... -
The Process of Immersive Photography: Beyond the Cognitive and the Physical
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This thesis constitutes a practice-led, artistic research project that asks: What are the issues that must be addressed when photographing land, such that one might express an immersive, embodied, spiritually-attuned ... -
Role of Human Resources in Developing Organizational Trust in Public Sector Organizations of India
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Global economy has given rise to strategic human resource management (SHRM) in recent times. On account of this, the HRM systems have been identified as one of the crucial aspects of any organization since last few decades ... -
The Potential of Mobile-based and Pattern-oriented Concordancing for Assisting Upper-intermediate ESL Students in Their Academic Writing
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This research was an attempt to investigate whether (and how) mobile technology and a pattern-based concordancing method, Patterns in Context (PIC), could enhance ESL students’ positive experience and uptake of DDL ... -
Single Mothers With Children Traveling: How Hard Can It Be?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This dissertation considers single parents, especially single mothers’ perspectives of a holiday trip with their children. Currently the tourist industry is looking at this phenomenon. The traditional nuclear family with ... -
A New Face of Tourism: Understanding Travel Experiences of New Zealand Inbound Generation Z
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Any successful tourism industry player requires not only the ability to recognize change, but to also effectively respond to this change. Generational change is one such occurrence, offering both opportunities and challenges ... -
Community Integration in Long Term Stroke Survivors
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The aim of the current study is to examine the level of community integration in a cohort of long-term four-year stroke survivors with the objective of understanding what factors at baseline can affect low levels of community ... -
A Daunting Journey: Accessing a Lead Maternity Care Midwife
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)One outcome measure of quality maternity care is the rate of stillbirth and neonatal death. To enhance health outcomes for women and babies in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health and the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality ... -
Neighbourhoods for Healthy Kids: A Child-centred Investigation Into the Role of the Built Environment on Child Body Size
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)A summary for this thesis is in the form of a short, fun, online video. To view please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXXlVeEQ_IE Or put “Neighbouhoods for healthy kids” into the search box on YouTube. ... -
The Complexity of Change for Heads of Department in New Zealand Universities
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The aims of the study were to investigate two research questions. First, how Heads of Department (HoDs) in New Zealand universities perceived they could influence change and second, how they approached change. The research ... -
Development of Spiking Neural Network Methods for Spatio-temporal Brain Data Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This thesis proposes methods employing an evolving Spiking Neural Network (SNN) architecture for the analysis of spatio-temporal neuroimaging data. Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Brain Data (STBD) is intrinsically complex ... -
Automated Knowledge Enrichment for Semantic Web Data
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The Semantic Web is an effort to interchange unstructured data over the Web into a structured format that is processable not only by human beings but also computers. The Semantic Web creates a distributed framework to ... -
Detail Design of Prototype Portable Cordless Reinforcing Steel Combination Cutter and Bender
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This project was commissioned by Bill Ross, owner of Bay of Plenty Gear Cutters, to design a prototype portable handheld reinforced steel-rod combination bender and cutter for use on construction sites; where access to a ... -
The Place of Trees in Our Psyche
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The novel (for children aged 8-12 years (middle grade)), is set in contemporary Aotearoa, weaves threads of Māori and Greek mythology, with current ecological and social concerns and explores the universal themes of family ...