Browsing Doctoral Theses by Title
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Gay Men Coming Out Later in Life: A Phenomenological Inquiry Into Disclosing Sexual Orientation in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Despite the passing of significant legislation in the late 20th century ("Homosexual Law Reform Act, 1986," ; "Human Rights Amendment Act, 1993") homonegativity remains an issue in Aotearoa New Zealand. For example, in the ... -
Gender and the social construction of occupations: the case of Clinical Coders
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Labour market position is socially constructed through the complex and intertwined relationships embedded in gender, skill, power and occupational status. These interactions are located in the social structures of patriarchy ... -
Gendered embodiment and critical tourism - exploring Italian women's sensuality
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)This thesis is a study of Italian women’s sensual embodiment in leisure and tourism experiences (involving beautifying in the city and tanning at the beach) in, and around, the city of Rome. The central link in this thesis ... -
A Generalised Model for Assessing the Large-scale Deployment of Residential Energy Management Systems
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Large-scale deployment of effective and suitable demand-side management technologies such as residential energy management systems can bring significant technical, social, and economic advantages for households, and ... -
Generating Value in Alliance Contracts Through the Lean Concept
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)The construction industry has recognised alliancing as a means to increase construction efficiency. Despite the potential benefits attributed to alliancing, the true performance enhancements have not been fully gained in ... -
Geospatial process modelling for land use cover change
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Human activities and effects of global warming are increasingly changing the physical landscape. In view of this researchers have developed models to investigate the cause and effect of such variations. Most of these models ... -
German speakers' migration to New Zealand: consequences across three generations
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This research explored consequences of contemporary immigration to New Zealand from German-speaking Europe over time and across three generations through Nexus Analysis (Scollon & Scollon 2004), the methodological strategy ... -
Getting Old and Forgetting Things: Design Anthropology and the Medicalisation of Ageing
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a relatively new diagnosis that describes the grey area between ‘normal’ age-related decline and dementia. Following increased interest in the developmental stages of Alzheimer’s Disease ... -
Goal-oriented dynamic test generation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Automated software testing is increasingly being seen as an important means of improving the quality and reliability of software in industry. It mitigates the hardship of manual testing, which is labour-intensive and ... -
Good Vibrations: Real-time Haptic Feedback Gait Retraining to Reduce Tibial Acceleration in Runners
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Overuse injuries are common in runners, with tibial fatigue fractures (TFF) being particularly severe in nature and challenging to manage. Acceleration of the tibia at foot-ground contact, measured from accelerometers ... -
Goodwill Accounting Under the IFRS Impairment-only Approach? An Asia-Pacific Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)-based goodwill impairment approach is implemented, and to evaluate the role of national enforcement arrangements in this ... -
Gossip and the Informal Organization: How Gossiping Shapes Emergent Social Structures at Work
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Broadly speaking, this thesis explores how workplace gossip shapes the informal organization. It comprises three papers—a review paper, an empirical paper, and a theory development paper. The review paper is the most broadly ... -
GPU accelerated feature algorithms for mobile devices
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Mobile devices offer many new avenues for computer vision and in particular mobile augmented reality applications that have not been feasible with desktop computers. The motivation for this research is to improve mobile ... -
A Grounded Theory of Radio Listening as Company Among Older Listeners
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Despite the ubiquity of the idea that radio listening provides company, there is little understanding of the mechanisms by which this is achieved. This study aims to understand how older radio listeners experience the radio ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Haunting Minnie Dean: A Heuristic Inquiry Into Baby Farming, Psychological Infanticide and Closed Stranger Adoption
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)In this study I use the methodology of heuristic inquiry and methods from imaginal psychology to explore the relationship between 19th century baby farming, and my experience of psychological infanticide through closed ... -
He iwi rangatira anō tātou i mua, kia pai te whakahaere o ngā tikanga mō te iwi. Kia mangu ki waho kia mā i roto
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)This thesis contends that tapu (spiritual and physical boundaries), mana (power and authority), utu (reciprosity) and rūnanga (debate and decision-making) were the four pou (guiding principles) which delegated power and ... -
He kupu tuku iho mō tēnei reanga: a critical analysis of Waiata and Haka as commentaries and archives of Māori political history
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)Prior to the arrival of Pākehā to Aotearoa/New Zealand, the Māori language was exclusively oral. However, this did not in any way impede the archiving of knowledge and history deemed important by tīpuna Māori. In fact, ...