Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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haerenga kōrerorero - choreographing sensing relations
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Two significant worlds here coincide and correspond: whanaukataka and somatic choreographic knowing. Activated through spatial design questioning, this thesis interrogates storytelling as an ethics of performance and as ... -
Hand Therapists’ Experiences and Perspectives of Support in Hand Therapy Training
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Hand therapy is a clinical area of practice for occupational therapists (OTs) and physiotherapists (PTs) undertaking rehabilitation of the upper limb. Occupational therapists and PTs start as associate hand therapists ... -
The Handbook Project
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The Handbook Project is an exploration of an “unhelpful guide” for navigating arts academia and art spaces as a person of colour through a tactile and social “art practice”. This project is an intuitive and reflective ... -
A Handful of Seconds
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Hanging out Eggshells
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Hanging Our Eggshells is a New Zealand historical literary fiction novel, detailing the lives of three generations of New Zealand rural women, each woman carries the scars of a war that they never fought directly. A gripping ... -
Hanging Out for Real: Enacting Improvisations With Audio-Visual Materials to Create Installational Amplifications in Social City Sites I Inhabit
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Directed by my audio-visual drawing installation practice, this research is concerned with the potential of materials and being in city spaces. This project is situated in Tāmaki Makaurau, most closely within the neighbourhoods ... -
Happily Ever After? A Critical Examination of the Gothic in Disney Fairy Tale Films
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This thesis critically examines four Disney fairy tale films across the 20th and 21st centuries to assess the changes in the representation of Gothic tone and intent. I have taken a qualitative approach and deployed a close ... -
Happiness and health: associations with cardiovascular disease risk factors
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Chronic disease is the biggest health issue of our time and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is predicted to be the leading cause of death worldwide by 2030 (World Health Organisation; WHO, 2008). Positive psychology is a ... -
Happiness Apps: reinforcing happiness-promoting behaviour through software
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)People now spend more time on mobile phones than watching television. This mode shift creates an opportunity to reach a large market on a powerful and flexible digital platform that is integrated into users’ lives. The ... -
Happy Birthday Suit: An Exploration of Erotic Poetry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Happy Birthday Suit is a collection of contemporary poetry addressing erotic themes. It is preceded by an exegesis, Beyond Skin Deep: Towards a Whakapapa of a Literary Erotic Poetry in New Zealand. The exegesis provides ... -
Harden Up! Analysing Soft News in New Zealand’s Prime-time Television News Bulletins
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)New Zealand television news programming is an area of media research that has been widely explored in previous decades. Studies have determined that in the wake of deregulation in 1989, One Network News adopted a more ... -
A hash based technique for the identification of objectionable imagery
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)The Internet has been one of the greatest man made achievements of the 20th century. It has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and ... -
Hau Rongo: the Breath of Rongo
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This project is underpinned by a Taranaki genealogical worldview informing a series of knowledge exchanges that establishes the concept of ‘Ora ki te Whakatupua’, ‘sustaining life knowledge anew’. From a cosmological ... -
HC:N:CP Hybrid Culture, Nonlinearity And Creative Practice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The aim of this project is to integrate hybrid culture and nonlinearity into a dynamic artwork that is one multiplicity. This exegesis lays out the foundation of the project and has three sections: one section discusses ... -
He ia anō ta te Takatāpui i te Ao Māori: Takatāpui; Being of the Māori World
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Being takatāpui comes with a sense of disconnection about our place among whānau, hapū, and iwi. It is envisaged that this research, which is made up of an exegesis and a creative output (documentary) will engender an ... -
He iti te manu he nui te kōrero - The bird is small - the story is epic
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This thesis* explores storytelling as cultural expression, and creatively considers the concept of bowdlerisation, and its role in sanitising Māori stories, as an aspect of colonisation. It is formatted as a creative output ... -
He Kanohi Kitea Ka Hoki Ngā Mahara: Ngāti Porou kuia tell the stories encompassing their childbirth experiences
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)The purpose of this study was to give voice to the unique experiences of Māori during their childbirth journey. The context of childbirth within Aotearoa has largely been constructed through the ethnocentric worldview of ... -
He kākahu, he korowai, he kaitaka, he aha atu anō? The significance of the transmission of Māori knowledge relating to raranga and whatu muka in the survival of korowai in Ngāti Maniapoto in a contemporary context
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)The art of raranga (weaving) and whatu muka (finger weaving) as traditional Māori arts originate from Te Ao Māori (the Māori world). Such art forms are more than merely quaint artefacts from the past associated with an ... -
He Korowai: The Integration of Māori Cultural Practices and Knowledge Within the New Zealand Defence Force: A Case Study of Te Taua Moana, the Royal New Zealand Navy
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Māori people are significant contributors to the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF). However, Māori knowledge was not formally introduced into the military curricula until 2004. At the cost of sacrificing their indigenous ... -
He Kōrero Paki nō Tawhiti mai: Narratives from Distant Past
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)He Kōrero Paki nō Tawhiti mai: Narratives from Distant Past Te Wai Ka Tō hia He Wai Mā Ū; Caught by the drag of the water Kei roto i ngā waiata tuku iho, ko ngā reo whakapapa, ko ngā reo whakatauki me ngā reo pūrākau. ...