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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 ... -
Hand Therapists’ Experiences and Perspectives of Support in Hand Therapy Training
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Hand therapy is a clinical area of practice for occupational therapists (OTs) and physiotherapists (PTs) undertaking rehabilitation of the upper limb. Occupational therapists and PTs start as associate hand therapists ... -
The Handbook Project
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The Handbook Project is an exploration of an “unhelpful guide” for navigating arts academia and art spaces as a person of colour through a tactile and social “art practice”. This project is an intuitive and reflective ... -
A Handful of Seconds
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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 ... -
Hanging Out for Real: Enacting Improvisations With Audio-Visual Materials to Create Installational Amplifications in Social City Sites I Inhabit
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Directed by my audio-visual drawing installation practice, this research is concerned with the potential of materials and being in city spaces. This project is situated in Tāmaki Makaurau, most closely within the neighbourhoods ... -
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 ... -
Happy Birthday Suit: An Exploration of Erotic Poetry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Happy Birthday Suit is a collection of contemporary poetry addressing erotic themes. It is preceded by an exegesis, Beyond Skin Deep: Towards a Whakapapa of a Literary Erotic Poetry in New Zealand. The exegesis provides ... -
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 ...