Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Payne, Deborah"
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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 ... -
Being Muslim and doing Islam: narratives that shape the physical activity of Muslim women in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Muslim women in New Zealand form an ethnic and religious minority. Research related to the physical activity levels of these women and their health status is sparse, particularly in the New Zealand context. International ... -
Contradictory Heterosexuality: The Construction of Extra-relational Sexual Involvement
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The behaviour generally referred to as ‘infidelity’ seems to occupy a contradictory site within current Western culture – it is both widespread, yet seen as unacceptable. The un/acceptability of this act, and its social ... -
Experiences of the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003: a discourse analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003 (IDCCRA) was passed in order to better meet the care and rehabilitative needs of intellectually disabled offenders. This legislation represents a ... -
“A Fine Race of Girls”: Occupational Therapy and Clinical Governance in the District Health Boards of Aotearoa New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Clinical governance frameworks were constructed in New Zealand District Health Boards (DHBs) to address increasingly visible problems in the delivery of a high quality, value for money, safe and client-focussed publicly-funded ... -
A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study Into the Midwife-Woman Relationship
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Research shows that the midwife-woman relationship is important. Taking a hermeneutic phenomenological approach this study drew on the work of Heidegger and Gadamer to uncover understandings of the professional relationship ... -
Mappings of the Interior: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Emotional Competence
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Discourses of emotional competence (EC) have proliferated over recent decades and increasingly are incorporated in staff training, staff selection and personal improvement endeavours throughout Western society. In the field ... -
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 ... -
Out of the Darkroom and Into the Dark: The Experiences of Medical Imaging Technologists Regarding the Introduction and Ongoing Use of New Technology
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Medical imaging is undergoing constant change, which has accelerated with the advent of digital imaging technology. Commonly cited benefits of digital systems include: reduced repeat examinations, image manipulation, and ... -
Pacific Women Navigating Colposcopy Services: A Concurrent Transformative Mixed Methods Approach Utilising Talanoa
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Colposcopy is the diagnostic and treatment arm in the cervical screening programme and plays an essential role in reducing the incidence and mortality of cervical cancer. Timely assessment at colposcopy clinics for Pacific ... -
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 ... -
So Close, Too Far: Co-designing Meaningful Mothering Experiences Through Products With Mothers Living With SCI
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)There is a significant gap in the current literature to investigate the construction of meaningful mothering experiences with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). This research applied co-design practice to explore the construction ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...