Browsing Doctoral Theses by Title
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What is the role of joint coupling variability and joint stiffness in lower limb injury?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Netball requires direction changes whilst sprinting, which predisposes netballers to risk of injury. The main question this thesis addressed was “What is the role of joint coupling variability and joint stiffness during ... -
What makes a successful hospitality graduate in New Zealand? Key stakeholder perspectives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)This thesis explores the range of skills, qualities, competencies and intelligences that establish predictors of success for the hospitality industry. The study adopts a constructivist-interpretivist approach to the ... -
What Undergraduate Nurse Education Actually Teaches Student Nurses About People Named as Older: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)People are living longer and gerontology knowledge, or knowledge of the person named as older, is part of the learning required in undergraduate nurse education. Older age is considered, in Aotearoa New Zealand, to begin ... -
What's Be Happen? A Bakhtinian Analysis of Aotearoa New Zealand's First Pacific Reggae Album
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This thesis presents an analysis of Herbs’ record album What’s Be Happen? The album has been recognised in Aotearoa New Zealand for being at the forefront of Pacific reggae, for its ground-breaking social commentary on ... -
When we stand together as one. Improving health outcomes in Samoa. A study of New Zealand Health Aid in Samoa 2002-2012
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Despite more than $1 billion disbursed in health aid regionally over the last decade, the poor health of people in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) remains deeply concerning. This has included significant ... -
Which Rice and Why? A Healthier Choice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Rice has been a staple grain of the human diet for 9,000 years. Currently, more than half of the world’s population derives one-third of their total daily dietary energy intake from rice. The most popular rice product, ... -
"Whose culture has capital?": Chinese skilled migrant mothers raising their children in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)This thesis is concerned with a group of Chinese skilled migrant mothers’ experiences in relation to their children’s early childhood care and education in New Zealand. Utilising Bourdieu’s concept of capital, habitus and ... -
Whose game are we playing? a study of the effects of adult involvement on children participating in organised team sports
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)There are clearly identified social, physical, and mental health benefits of physical activity in primary aged children. With an unequivocal link between sport and physical activity, it would appear to be fundamentally ... -
Whose News? Investigating Power Relations Between Journalists and Public Relations Practitioners
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The interactions between journalists and public relations practitioners directly and indirectly influence the news that citizens consume. In fact, this thesis finds the interdependence between public relations and journalism ... -
Why rock the boat? Non-reporting of intimate partner violence
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)This study critically examines the reasons for non-reporting of intimate partner violence (IPV). It explores the thesis that the use of restorative justice processes could impact on the rate of reporting and victims seeking ... -
Wind Induced Heat Losses from Solar Dish-receiver Systems
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Parabolic dish-receiver concentrating solar power (CSP) plants are a promising technology for the generation of renewable electricity. However, the high operating temperatures of the cavity receivers mean the performance ... -
Wisdom to act: the paedagogical and philosophical theory and practice for the education of practical theologians as commuunity leaders for social transformation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)This study engages retrospectively with three theological education projects in which the researcher participated over a 30 year time span. From these projects the study identifies markers in theological education that ... -
Within the web: the family/practitioner relationship in the context of chronic childhood illness
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)This study explores the phenomenon of the relationships between practitioners and families who have a child with a chronic illness. Using a heremeneutic phenomenological method informed by the writings of Martin Heidegger ... -
Women councillors' stories of effectiveness in New Zealand local government: a feminist hermeneutic inquiry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This thesis asks: ‘What are women councillors’ stories of effectiveness in New Zealand local government?’ Guided by a constructivist epistemology, the experience of the women councillors in this study was situated ... -
Women's Experiences of Looking and Being Looked At
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This thesis seeks to better understand women’s lived experiences of looking and being looked at. Unstructured interviews with 14 women were used to gather data. A hermeneutic-phenomenological methodology provided the ... -
Women's Identity in Management: A Qualitative Study on Non-academic Women in New Zealand Universities
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Neoliberal reforms in the 1990s have changed the way universities are managed. A more corporatised structure has impacted on the professional identity of both academic and non-academic staff. Boundaries between administration ... -
Women’s experience of pregnancy and early motherhood following repeated IVF treatment: a phenomenological study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This study explored the phenomena of being pregnant and becoming a mother for the first time following repeated in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments (≥3). Readings of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer provided the ... -
The work-life balance of the case-loading midwife: a cooperative inquiry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Case-loading midwives have a demanding role with an unpredictable workday in which they juggle their professional, social, and personal demands. They often work long hours at a time and may choose to stay on-call without ... -
Working collaboratively in Hospice and palliative care - Sharing TIme
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Palliative care is the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual care of people with a life-limiting illness (Palliative Care Subcommittee, 2007). As a health care service, palliative care advocates for a holistic ... -
Working in a blurred domain: The health care assistant in aged residential care
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The world population is ageing, and as the years increase so to do the consequences for the older people, with this population often experiencing longevity combined with comorbidities. Correspondingly those able to provide ...