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Performance Test Labour
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)
Performance: Test: Labour is a practice-led PhD research project that systematically engages the fields of performance art and dance choreography. The research aims to offer new perspectives on the international field of ...
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 ...
Migrant maternity
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)
Maternity is central to the development of healthy populations (biopower), capitalism, nation building, imperialism and globalisation. Liberal feminist discourses have mobilised concepts such as empowerment, choice and ...
Re-working disability: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of vocational rehabilitation in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)
Vocational rehabilitation is a social practice that is focused on enabling people to overcome disability so that they can work. It involves many, sometimes diverse, strategies and programmes to achieve this aim, which ...
Toilet training: A Foucauldian discourse analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)
Toilet training is a process in which a child learns to independently manage their excretory functions in a way that fits with society’s norms. Within my practice as an occupational therapist I wished to problematise why ...
Filimānaia: A Samoan Critique of Standardised Reading Assessment in New Zealand Primary Schools
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)
In 2010, I was seconded from my classroom teaching position to work as a facilitator in the implementation of the newly-established National Standards. In this role, I ran in-depth Literacy and Assessment workshops in ...
Artful Dynamics: How a Visual Arts Distance Learning Environment Might Matter for Notions of Artist-self
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)
This research explores how notions of artist-self are enacted in a postgraduate visual arts learning and teaching environment that relies substantially on an online platform and distance delivery. Tertiary institutions ...
Anxious times: a discourse analysis of women's and health professionals' constructions of the experience of breast cancer
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)
Every day up to seven women in Aotearoa New Zealand are diagnosed with breast cancer. One in eight women will develop it at some time in their lives, and over 600 die each year, almost two a day (New Zealand Ministry of ...
A Poststructural Analysis of the Health and Wellbeing of Young Lesbian Identified Women in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)
New Zealand is regarded internationally as a forerunner in the recognition of gay rights. Despite the wide circulation of discourses of gay rights and equality, research shows that young women who identify as lesbian ...
Practices of Use
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)
Practices of Use develops self-forming practices of performative and disciplinary body acts, at home and in wider social contexts. Body/subject positionings are explored in these practices as a process of constant ‘becoming’. ...