• The Nose Knows; Chemical Scent Detection By a Protected Species Conservation Dog 

  Murrell, Tegan

  We are in the midst of an ongoing sixth mass extinction, where thousands of critically endangered species have been lost in the last century. This rapid collapse of biodiversity is predominantly driven by a dramatic increase ...

• Planning public spaces with Māori children 

  Kelly, Hannah Iris Ani

  This project explored ways to facilitate Māori children’s participation in planning public spaces, using St Clair (Whakahekerau) and St Kilda (Rakiātea) coastal management as a case study. The prevailing colonial planning ...

• The information content of the implied volatility surface 

  Jia, Xiaolan

  This thesis studies the information content of the implied volatility surface in options markets. In Chapter 2, we study the implied volatility curves in four commodity markets by adopting a quadratic function on a ...

• Vitamin C and mental health in healthy young adults 

  Fletcher, Benjamin Daniel

  Nutritional psychology is a young but rapidly expanding field that has provided evidence that diet influences mental health. For example, fruit and vegetable intake has shown a positive dose-dependent relationship with ...

• Insect Play: Transforming multispecies stories with unloved creatures, comics, and children 

  Claessen, Suzanne Agnes Reinoutje

  In light of extinctions and exclusions of uncharismatic beings from ethical regard and conservation efforts, this study contributes to the challenges of (re)situating humans ecologically and nonhumans ethically (Plumwood ...

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