Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Smythe, Liz"
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The adjustment of African women living in New Zealand: a narrative study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Migration has been a recurrent phenomenon since the beginning of human existence and involves a major life transition. In recent times, migration has been identified as a major factor for facilitating economic growth, ... -
Ageing at work: the phenomenon of being an older experienced health professional
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)This study explores the phenomenon of experienced health professionals ageing at work asking: What is the meaning of being an older experienced health professional. The aim was to open up the taken for granted aspects of ... -
Ankle sprains: an investigation into patient perceptions and performance of physical tasks following acute ankle sprains using a mixed methods approach
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)Introduction: Ankle injuries are among the most prevalent acute musculoskeletal injuries, and are a significant burden on any health system. The interaction of the physiotherapist with the patient and their mutual understanding ... -
An Appreciative Inquiry: The Living Pedagogies of a Team of Counsellor Educators
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)In higher education, pedagogy has tended to be the domain of individual educators. The possibilities for engaging collectively in relation to pedagogies have been underutilised (Kahn, Goodhew, Murphy & Walsh, 2013). This ... -
Being a facilitator: Debriefing after simulation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This study aimed to gain insight into what it is like to facilitate debriefing following an experience of simulated learning. A simulated learning experience is most often structured in three stages: prebrief, the simulation ... -
A Bridge Over Troubled Water: Insights From Aid Workers Seeking to Reduce Maternal Mortality in the Developing World
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Each year, hundreds of thousands of women are dying needlessly in their efforts to bring a child into the world. It is a continuing tragedy on an international scale, and is at the forefront of the world’s global health ... -
Children and Young Person’s Encounters With the Family Court: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The research question that guides this study is ‘what are the lived experiences of children and young peoples who encounter professionals in the family court?’ Qualitative research studies in the literature have partially ... -
The consequences of using advanced assessment skills in medical and surgical nursing: keeping patients safe
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)My aim in this study was to explore the consequences of advanced assessment skill use by nurses through their stories of using the skills with patients on medical and surgical wards. Appropriate, accurate and timely patient ... -
Development, Implementation and Evaluation of an In-service Training Programme for Critical Care Nurses in Malawi
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Background: Critical care nursing is a specialty which deals with the care of critically ill patients with potential or actual life-threatening illness. The critical illness of the patients and the extensive use of technology ... -
Facilitating Health Professional Wellbeing Following Critical Incidents: An Action Research Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The impact of critical incidents on health professionals and the lack of subsequent support is a concern for me, my colleagues, and the wider service we work in. The aim of this study was to explore how the development and ... -
How Are Post-birth Reflective Conversations Experienced by Those Involved?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This hermeneutic phenomenological study seeks to uncover the lived experiences of post-birth reflective conversations as experienced by midwives and women. Fourteen Lead Maternity Care (LMC) midwives along with twenty women ... -
Implementing a narrative-centred curriculum in an undergraduate midwifery programme: a hermeneutic study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)The impetus for this study was to explore the experience of using a narrative pedagogical approach in undergraduate midwifery education. A narrative-centred curriculum was implemented with the goal of facilitating midwifery ... -
It’s Always With You: The Experience of Being a 1970s Hospital Trained General Nursing Student
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This qualitative study articulates the meaning of being a general student nurse, trained within the 1970s apprenticeship system in New Zealand. It informs the present understandings of self, forty years hence . ... -
Mental health consumer participation: a technical action research project
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Located in a context of dynamic evolving change, this research project specifically targeted mental health social, recreational and prevocational services established to support people with mental health issues living in ... -
Midwives’ and Obstetricians’ Experience of Place in Relation to Supporting Physiological Birth: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)National and international evidence shows that ‘place’ influences birth outcomes, but evidence is limited as to ‘how’. In New Zealand, there are significant differences in the rates of spontaneous vaginal births by ‘place’, ... -
Physiotherapy clinical education: power interplay examined through the lens of Bourdieu
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Clinical education is pivotal to professional socialisation and mandatory registration of physiotherapy students. Traditionally, responsibility for student learning in the clinical environment resides with experienced ... -
Recovery As the Re-fabrication of Everyday Life: Exploring the Meaning of Doing for People Recovering From Mental Illness
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)The notion of recovery from mental illness has become a significant force in mental health policy, practice and literature. As a process, recovery can been described as the lived experience of personal growth and search ... -
Resituating the meaning of occupation in the context of living
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)This study explores the meaning of occupation, defined as a “conceptual entity… [which] includes all the things that people do in their everyday life” (Sundkvist & Zingmark, 2003, p. 40). Using a phenomenological hermeneutic ... -
Sacred joy at birth: a hermeneutic phenomenology study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)There is an increasing secularisation of birth and reliance on technology in the western maternity context. Growing from a concern that something of significance at birth was being hidden or lost, this study explores the ... -
Teaching and Learning As Relating: A Transformational Experience
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This study aims to add to the knowledge base for teachers of psychotherapy and other helping professions through the lens of the teacher’s subjectivity. The thesis cites research that indicates that the teacher’s way of ...