Browsing Masters Dissertations by Date
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The Journey of a Migrant in the Hospitality Industry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)People move for different reasons which affect the overall migration process. The conditions under which a migrant enters and their experiences in a host country can have broad implications for multiple stakeholders but ... -
Chinese Immigrant Fathers’ Participation in Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Exploration of Roles, Experiences, and Attitudes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Family and community play an indispensable role in children’s learning and development. Parental/paternal participation is considered vital and a precondition to establishing teacher-parent/father partnerships. This research ... -
Critically Examine the Readiness of Tonga’s Legislative Framework for e-Crimes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Governments and private organisations are heavily reliant on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to conduct daily businesses. We are living in a connected digital age, and the rapid growths and advancements ... -
Understanding the Longing for Merger - A Heuristic Self-Search Inquiry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In this dissertation, I address a question that I had been trying to answer for a long time: What is my understanding of the longing for merger? I chose Moustakas’ (1990) heuristic research methodology and methods to ... -
Scrutinizing Justice Issues in Australia’s Policy of Detaining Asylum Seekers: Public Opinion and Ethical Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)As the number of refugees displaced from their home countries has grown in recent years, the debate has grown over what policies liberal countries should pursue to address this crisis. This dissertation conducts a qualitative ... -
Intergenerational Communication in the Workplace: A Critical Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)As we have entered the 21st century, the demographics of the workplace now consists of four distinct generations (Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y). As a result, intergenerational communication ... -
Transmission of Trauma Across the Generations: The Impact on the Mother-Child Relationship
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)This dissertation explores how the mother-child relationship is impacted by the transmission of trauma across generations. This topic was birthed out of my experience of working in Aotearoa New Zealand with women who suffer ... -
Provision of Empathy: Challenges Experienced by Psychotherapists in Cross-Cultural Dyads
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In relational and other humanistic psychotherapies, empathy is an integral part of the therapeutic relationship. Through the experience of empathy, clients gain insight into conscious and unconscious processes regarding ... -
Understanding Government and Firm Responses to Global Disruption: A Case of Fiji’s Hotel Industry During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In the past, global disruptions such as natural disasters and man-made crises posed major economic disruptions. Despite these past challenges, the tourism sector continued to grow, and the industries within the sector ... -
Skin Deep: Client Tattoos in Psychotherapy
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Historically, within psychological fields including psychotherapy, tattoos have often been written about as an indicator of deviance, psychopathology, or personality disorder, and have been viewed as a form of self-harm ... -
Organisational Change: The Future of Community Football Organisational Capacity Within New Zealand’s Northern Region
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In recent years, within New Zealand, there has been growing expectations of Community Sport Organisations (CSO’s) to professionalise their governance and operations (New Zealand Football, 2021; Sport New Zealand, 2021). ... -
Coach Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Sport Injury Prevention in Youth Basketball
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)There is a large number of youth sport participants internationally and in recent years, there has been an increasing concern regarding increased injuries. Specifically, basketball is a fast-growing youth sport in New ... -
Underlying Factors That Influence Competitive Sport Withdrawal Among Youth Athletes: A Qualitative Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Competitive sport withdrawal among youth athletes in New Zealand is prevalent, so it is therefore important to better understand it. The purpose of this study was to (1) identify withdrawal factors and (2) explore how those ... -
A Coloured South African Teacher in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)This dissertation investigates my personal identity and how it has been shaped by large historical and social forces, including racism, colonialism and patriarchy. I am an immigrant South African teacher in Aotearoa New ... -
Beyond the Hook: A New Zealand Food Story
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)The dissertation is a narrative interpretation, utilising a gastronomic lens, of an Italian fishing family living in Taputeranga Bay (Island Bay) Wellington, New Zealand. This study explores how the privatisation of the ... -
Sitting With Unknowns When Working With Chronicity
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)This dissertation employed a hermeneutic literature review to seek to understand how Bion’s interpretation of negative capability could support an understanding of the complexity of chronicity when working with the whole ... -
Implicit Gender Bias in Music Technology Education
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Implicit bias is a contributing factor to how we make decisions based on first impressions and prior experiences. Perception of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality (among other factors) informs our impressions and influences ... -
Tourists’ Experience of the Palace Museum in Beijing: An Analysis of Online Reviews
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In this study, by studying the tourist experience of cultural heritage tourism as reviewed on Trip Advisor and C-trip, the factors influencing tourists' experiences at the Palace Museum were analysed from the point of view ... -
The Ethics of Global Vaccine Distribution in Public Health Emergencies: A Case Study on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic is a considerable challenge to global public health. With the introduction of apparently reliable and effective vaccines against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the ethical argument has switched ... -
Physical Characteristics of Professional, Semi-Professional and Amateur Male Rugby Union Players
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Rugby union is a game that requires athletes to have well-developed anaerobic and aerobic capacity. However, it is unclear whether specific physical qualities can be used to distinguish between athletes of higher or lower ...