• Reversing ABCC2-Mediated Oxaliplatin Resistance in Human PANC-1 Cells Using the CRISPR_cas9 System 

  Cullen, Camren (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is considered to be a highly aggressive malignancy that often shows minimal symptoms, early signs of the disease are difficult and often impossible to identify until the later stages ...

• Stolen Moments: Rest, Spatial Choreography and Wheel-Throwing 

  Sung, En Torng (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  In a society where time is valued highly, rest is forsaken daily. Rest must be stolen, for it is too often forgotten and has become an unreasonable source of guilt. Stolen Moments addresses societal-centred rest through ...

• Reliability and Validity of Kinetic Variables Collected on a Knee Extension Isometric Contraction, Using Load Cell Technology in a Healthy Population 

  Juneau, Christopher (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  Objective, data-driven assessments, specifically assessments which measure an individual’s capacity or potential, are of increasing interest within the realms of physical medicine and performance. In physical medicine, ...

• Playground of Failure, Bad Jokes and Other Forms of Resistance 

  Sutherland, Sophie (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  This practice-led project explores the lengths that failure can be used as a sculptural tactic. The modalities of failure and success are positioned as examples of dualistic norms that create prejudice and competitive ...

• Instagram Beauty Influencers Communication Strategies and the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  Breeze, Candice (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  This research explores the communication strategies of Instagram beauty influencers during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States of America. Four Instagram beauty influencers posts were analysed from February 2020 to ...

• PEEP: Antigone, An Exploration of Performing Live Theatre During a Pandemic, Using Sophocles’ Antigone 

  Luton, Holly Charlotte (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  Employing the dramaturgical methodology of Pandemic/Epidemic Embodied Performance (‘PEEP’), this practice-led research project staged a live theatre production of the ancient Greek tragedy Antigone, by Sophocles, in Auckland, ...

• Management of Pressure Injury Prevention in Two New Zealand Residential Aged Care Facilities: A Case Study 

  Grinlinton, Anne (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  The purpose of this study was to explore how pressure injury prevention is managed in residential aged care in New Zealand. Pressure injuries are costly and have negative physical, social and psychological consequences ...

• Pasifika Academics with Adversity in Childhood: Stories of Resilience 

  Helms, Bonny (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  This research concerns the stories of resilience from adverse childhood experiences as told by eight Pasifika academics. Studies pertaining to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the phenomenon of resilience have ...

• Creative Projects Towards Nuclear Disarmament: Revisiting Oceanian Nuclear Weapons Testing Through Indigenous Hawaiian Epistemology 

  Kodama, Kaoru (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  Nuclear weapons testing is one of the most defining aspects of the postwar history of Oceania. Conducted by US and French military in the Marshall Islands and French-occupied Polynesia, respectively, the repercussion of ...

• Conversational Artefacts: Critical Design and Exhibition as Tools for Creative Research 

  Tang, Alyssa (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  This design-led research explored how critical design and public exhibition can be incorporated into a qualitative creative research method inquiring how people in Auckland City conceptualised community. Past literature ...

• Designing Airway Management Equipment To Optimise Paramedic Performance 

  Chetty, T'heniel (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  Paramedics respond to stressful and unpredictable cardiac arrest emergencies filled with information they need to process. During cardiac arrest resuscitations, Paramedics use various types of Airway Management equipment ...

• I Sea a Vessel Filled With Tea: A Sculptural Practice Exploring Day-to-day Wāhine Ways Through Whakapapa Layers 

  Matthews, Chantel (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  This thesis engages in a sculptural practice to explore concepts of wāhine and whakapapa and the complexities these concepts bring to lived realities of wāhine. It is upheld by a scaffold of Māori and Indigenous academics, ...

• Safety Screening of Auckland's Harbour Bridge Movable Concrete Barrier 

  Rathee, Munish (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  A moveable concrete barrier on the Auckland Harbour Bridge facilitates traffic flow control and optimisation. The concrete barrier's block segments are inter-connected with metal pins, which sometimes can pop out of their ...

• Communicating a Healing Environment: From a Clinical to a Graphical Stroke Ward Experience 

  Twisleton, Katie (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  The physical environment of a hospital caters to the technological advancements in medicine, focused on curing illness rather than supporting the wellbeing of people. This project explored how graphic design might be used ...

• They Are Us, but Who Are We? Individual Versus Structural Constructions of White Supremacy in the New Zealand Mainstream News Media Following the Christchurch Killings 

  Moore, Ben Thomas (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  On March 15, 2019, 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, NZ were killed by a white supremacist extremist. This thesis applies content analysis and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to a sample of articles from two New ...

• Meanwhile, Rehearsals 

  Cheng, Samantha (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  This practice-based research examines the role of failure in art making through a series of art works that attempt to fail by: never beginning, self-censoring, pursuing purposelessness, never being ready, or devising ways ...

• The W[ ]rth of Objects 

  Johnson, Charles (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  This research focuses upon de-centering the notion of the ‘human’ from an ontological standpoint through the creative exploration and interrogation of found objects. Traditionally ‘non-human’ matter is viewed as passive ...

• Risk Prediction of Chronic Disease Using Machine Learning and Rebalancing Methods 

  Li, Cheng (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  Chronic diseases cause damage to important organs such as the brain, heart, and liver, which can easily cause disability, affect labor ability and quality of life, and the medical expenses are extremely high, which increases ...

• OPIVA Refined - a Human-Centred Approach to Outpatient Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment 

  Weatherly, Kate (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  Since its inception in America during the early 1970s, outpatient intravenous antibiotic (OPIVA) therapies have provided patients with live-saving intravenous antibiotics at home rather than in hospitals (Williams et al., ...

• A Sense of Play 

  Hutchinson, Levon (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

  A child needs to feel happy for them to thrive in a school environment. Children have personal and complex needs that should be well understood to help them feel happy, comfortable and ready for learning. This study aimed ...

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