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Public Opinion on Space Research & Exploration in New Zealand
The thesis conducts a pilot survey of New Zealander's interest in Space research and exploration, attempting to gauge how much support there is nationally. Furthermore, the second half of the thesis is a Creative Component ...
Crowdsourcing vs. Citizen Science: A matter of terminology?
Businesses have sought to create real dialogue with their customers and gain new insights from them through this dialogue. Outsourcing some of their processes to their consumer base is one way they can form a stronger ...
Imagining Fact: Imaginative Literature as a Medium of Science Communicaiton
This dissertation brings to attention the main objectives of the field of Science Communication: that of making scientific information accessible to the general public in a way that also encourages in them “a willingness ...
The Problems And Challenges Of Communicating Science In Wildlife Films On Television
This thesis discusses the challenges inherent in the communication of science through wildlife films screened on television. The work is prefaced with a broad literature review that establishes why it is useful to communicate ...
Commercialising Conservation: Communicating interdisciplinary strategies to reduce the conservation research implementation gap.
Agricultural and economic stability are of primary concern in this environmentally unstable and financially challenging global climate. Until recently their dependence on biodiversity has been overlooked. For New Zealand, ...
Fight like a Physicist: Teaching Basic Physics Through the Medium of Karate
The practice of martial arts, particularly karate, is passed down from teacher to student. The largely relationship-focused, kinaesthetic nature of teaching karate is meaningfully different from the standard transmission ...
Framing Conservation in New Zealand: Between Scientists and Journalists
This thesis comprises of two components: an academic-based research component and a creative-based component. The creative component, a book on New Zealand conservation, draws from the research component, utilising from ...
Finding Hope on a Planet in Crisis: Combining Citizen Science and Tourism
This thesis is produced in conjunction with the documentary film Whale Chasers (a copy of this film is included in the back cover of this thesis). The film follows the progress of the annual Cook Strait Whale Project, a ...
Communicating Science Through Poetry from 1780 to the Present
This thesis is a part academic, part creative study of poetry about science: specifically, how poetry can be used as an avenue for science communication. A brief literature review has been prepared and a wide variety of ...
Ethics in Wildlife Filmmaking
The creative component of this thesis is Trials of the Takahe, a 25-minute film my film partner and I were involved in making. It chronicles the history of conservation of the takahe, an endemic flightless bird in New ...