Browsing Masters Theses by Title
Now showing items 517-536 of 2955
-
Creating Elkwood: building an alternate history
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This practice-led research project is concerned with ‘world creation’. I use the term to describe the construction of a fictional universe that is internally coherent. The project is specifically interested in the role of ... -
Creating Healthy Food, Building Healthy Families: An Evaluation of a Healthy Cooking Healthy Lifestyle Programme in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Obesity has become an increasingly significant challenge as it continues to defeat public health sectors within developed and developing countries. The New Zealand Health Survey 2016/17 reported the prevalence for overweight ... -
Creating the Economics Digital Classroom in a New Zealand Secondary School – a Case Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Secondary schools in New Zealand are incorporating the use of digital technologies, and reflecting this implementation in their school’s statements of vision, mission and strategic intent. As this initiative is widely ... -
The creation of competitive advantage: a Māori learning organisation's marketing strategy
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This thesis examines the application of the disciplines of the learning organisation to inform a marketing strategy inspired by creativity and innovation that fosters lifelong learning in a Māori organisational setting, ... -
A creative consideration of climate adaptation as a social and ecological palimpsest
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)This research project is an artistic response to the idea of climate change as a social and ecological palimpsest. Here, conceptually, land has been “written on,” erased and reused / rewritten on, but each layer of use ... -
Creative Projects Towards Nuclear Disarmament: Revisiting Oceanian Nuclear Weapons Testing Through Indigenous Hawaiian Epistemology
(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 ... -
Creative Reportage (story-making from the social terrain of the everyday)
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)Creative Reportage refers to a theorised arts practice methodology of making installation artworks from everyday story subject matter. I coined the name story-making to neatly encompass the ideals of this practice that ... -
Crime Prediction from Digital Videos Using Deep Learning
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In the surge of intelligent surveillance, surveillance alarming has been demanded never before, which makes people aware of their ordinary security. Traditional surveillance models are relatively simple, which cannot be ... -
Crip-time Architectures
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This project explores the relationship between architecture and its possible relationship found in two very opposed notion of creation and evolution. This project considers issue of design in general to identify whether ... -
A crisis of reputation in a Social Media environment: a comparative analysis of the crisis communication strategies employed by Jetstar and Air New Zealand in a severe weather event
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)The significance of social media technologies for the practice of crisis communication cannot be understated. Developments in social media and Web 2.0 technologies have created an unprecedented media environment that enables ... -
A Critical Analysis of Self-regulated Learning and Strategy Use: SRL in NZ Schools' Policies, and Some Implications for Students With Learning Difficulties
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is an extraordinary umbrella that includes various aspects of learning like cognition, metacognition, behaviour, emotions and motivation. It has become an important topic of research because ... -
A critical analysis of the impact of colonisation on the Māori language through an examination of political theory
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)This thesis consists of two sections. In the first section the thesis will critically analyse the impact of colonisation on te reo Māori (The Māori Language). This will be achieved, in part, through an examination of the ... -
Critical Care Nurses' involvement in end-of-life decision-making: a grounded theory study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)In critical care end-of-life care is a process that occurs in stages, which can vary in duration. It is the domain of nurses, while involvement in decision-making is less defined and based more on the individual nurse ... -
Critical Discourse Analysis for Policy Documents: A Case Study of the Adult ESOL Strategy, a New Zealand Government Language and Education Policy
(Auckland University of Technology, 2023)The study’s theoretical framework is underpinned by Critical Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), including Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FCDA), and Foucault’s concept of Genealogy. Foucaultian critical discourse ... -
A critical examination of a positive youth development programme’s individual self-assessment tool
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)This research investigates the overarching question of ‘How do we know if young people in a positive youth development (PYD) programme have developed?’ The specific focus is on a particular PYD self-assessment measurement ... -
A Critical Examination of the Relationship Between Cultural Heritage and Local Economic Development
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The role of cultural heritage is an integral component to the overall economic landscape of New Zealand. Integral to this lie a number of questions related to the social, cultural, economic and environmental well-being of ... -
Critical factors that influence staff retention in an acute perioperative environment
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)There are a number of factors recognised as significant for nursing staff retention. These include, a lack of organisational care, bullying (commonly referred to as horizontal violence), and high workload acuity. However, ... -
The Critically Reflective Practice of Online Educators: Constructing a Dialogic Pedagogy in Virtual Learning Environments
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Freire’s notion of dialogical pedagogy, where the student and teacher mutually grow and learn together and provide opportunities for personal and social gains, assumes the development of deep and meaningful dialogue in the ... -
Cross + Change
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This design research project rethinks the ecologies of public space in order to foster alternate cultures of food trade, consumption and production in urban settings. The project focuses on a vacant site which was once the ... -
Cross models for twin recognition
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Nowadays, biometrics has become a popular tool in personal identification as it utilizes physiological or behavioral characteristics to identify individuals. Recent advancement in computer science has increased the accuracy ...