Browsing Open Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Joining the Dots: Threads of Connection in Cam and the Bird-people (The Author’s Journey)
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Exegesis Joining the Dots: Threads of Connection in Cam and the Bird-people (The Author’s Journey), discusses the author’s motivation for writing a middle-grade fantasy novel and examines selected elements of connection ... -
Jouissance & the sexual reality of the (two) unconscious
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The topic of jouissance and the sexual reality of the unconscious has been a key concern of mine from my initial years of practicing psychoanalysis in both its clinical and critical frameworks. For my PhD research, this ... -
Jouissance: a Cixousian encounter of the song of songs; Jouissance: living-reading
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)This thesis, Jouissance, emerges at a distension of disciplinary borders, engaging the hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible’s Song of Songs. In the milieu of exegetical readings, Jouissance asks “can she be read?” Jouissance ... -
Journalism and Everyday Trauma: A Grounded Theory of the Impact From Death-knocks and Court Reporting
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)News is an emotional business (Richards, 2009, p. 308) Journalists are now often carrying out death-knock interviews early in their careers, whereby they are expected to interview the family or friends of a victim immediately ... -
The Journey
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Jacirama is a native Amazonian Indian who lives with his isolated tribe of Ibiajara in the Amazon rainforest. He is a young shaman’s apprentice and is fascinated with plant lore and medicinal cures, an innate ability he ... -
A Journey From Sympathy to Empathy
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Ava is a happy, healthy child living in a middle-class family in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. However, as she grows up, she becomes increasingly aware of her mother’s irrational behaviour that stems from the emotional trauma ... -
Journeys into Caring Community
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)There is a lack of literature specific to the longitudinal experiences of participants in socially-inclusive faith-based caring communities. Such communities often have participants who have suffered experiences of exclusion ... -
Junctures for knowing what you know: installation, site, process, material and object
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Junctures for knowing what you know: Installation, site, process, material and object is a reflexive studio based project that embraces human experiences of familiarity, anxiety, and awkwardness in an attempt to seduce the ... -
Juxtapose: An Exploration of the Technical and Aesthetic Potential of Print-based Augmented Reality Design
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This practice-led research project examines how the technological and aesthetic components of augmented reality (AR) serve to extend, enhance and disrupt print-based design. The outcome of the project is a conceptual ... -
K Girl Vacant: Ethnic Identity Manufactured
(Auckland University of Technology, 2006)K GIRL VACANT is an exploration of the nature of culture, identity, and ethnicity. The project sets out to create a virtual ethnic entity and to develop a set of visual associations operating as signs of a proto-ethnic ... -
Ka tangi te tītī, ka tangi te kākā, ka tangi hoki ahau: The creative potential of contemporary Māori music in promoting te reo Māori
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Ever since the advent of European colonization of New Zealand, Māori musicians and performers have adopted and interpreted many of the imported Western musical styles, often informed by and in combination with traditional ... -
Ka tipu mai nga taiohi Māori: a study of taiohi Māori leaving care in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)The main purpose of this qualitative study is to identify the problems for young Māori people who have transitioned out of foster care at some stage in their lives. The study has involved interviews with eight Māori care ... -
Kaitiakitanga: Ki Runga Ki Raro
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Nga Whenua: Maori ki tona ake ao Landscape: Documenting and developing a Maori World View The kaupapa of this project is to reconsider landscape from a Maori worldview. This project seeks to unveil nga whenua through the ... -
Kali, Shiva, and Psychotherapy: a Hermeneutic Literature Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Myths are widely understood as having contributed significantly to the field of psychotherapy. This research examines psychoanalytic and other relevant literature that refers to the Vedic Hindu mythological couple, Kali ... -
Kapa Kōrero - Te Reo i Waho i te Akoranga
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)He mātaitanga te rangahau nei o te rōpū e kīia nei ko Kapa Kōrero, he rōpū ā-hapori tēnei kia tautoko i te whakaoranga o te reo Māori. I whakatūria te rōpū nei e ētahi tauira pakeke o te reo i a rātou i te whare wānanga ... -
Karanga Mai Karanga Mai: An Exploration of Photographic Sovereignty
(Auckland University of Technology, 2006)Since the advent of the Kodak Instamatic, photography has become increasingly disposable and lost archival qualities have been lost. During that time, Maori have revitalised their culture resulting in a new generation who ... -
Kawea mai te wā o mua, hei konei, hei āpōpō Bring the past to the present for the future
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This project examines how composing contemporary waiata (song) both musically and lyrically, provides a vehicle to explore and express cultural identity. The expression of cultural identity relates to the composer and her ... -
Keep Sunday free: social engineering through shop trading hours in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)The purpose of this thesis is to explore Social Engineering and how marketing communications may be able to affect it. This research takes a step back from other research in the area and considers the decision makers behind ... -
Keeping birth normal: midwives experiences in a secondary care setting: a qualitative study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)It has been said that within a secondary care setting, surrounded by medical influences, it is difficult for midwives to keep birth normal. This qualitative study has been conducted to answer the question: "What are midwives' ... -
Key Competencies of Financial Sales Professionals in the Digital Age - New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The nature of selling has altered enormously in recent times due to automation, advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other technological progression, permitting companies to automate various skilled positions, ...