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Navigating Moral Practice Online: A qualitative study of New Zealand social media users after the Christchurch mosque attacks
Social media figured strongly in many people’s experiences of, and responses to, the Christchurch mosque attack on 15th March 2019. This study aimed to examine the online moral practices of some New Zealand citizens and ... -
Stories of Kelso: Experiences of relocation and lessons for planned retreat
This report has been produced as part of a research project funded by the Otago Regional Council (ORC) and the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago. Many communities around Aotearoa may face the possibility ... -
Stretched Kinship: Parental Rejection and Acceptance of Queer Youth in Chinese Families
Kinship has been the primary concern among young queer people in today’s China and other parts of Asia under the strong and ongoing familism, who often find it challenging to come out and negotiate their sexuality with ... -
Midwives, Medicalization and Testing for Down Syndrome
This qualitative study is based on interviews with eighteen Aotearoa New Zealand based midwives conducted during 2014 on the topic of how they incorporated providing information about genetic testing for Down syndrome into ... -
The Narrative Shaping of the Human World
Galen Strawson poses a dilemma for those who give narrative a central role in shaping our experience. Either an account of narrativity requires narrative self-experience, or it does not. If our account requires narrative ... -
Double Vision: Comparing Community Aspirations to Council Objectives for the Future of New Plymouth
This thesis explores the alignment of community aspirations for long-term built environment objectives with the vision set out by Council officers through district planning documents. It looks in detail at the aspects of ... -
Medieval Light, Robert Grosseteste, and the Architecture of Lincoln Cathedral
The focus of this thesis is whether or not the scientific writings of Robert Grosseteste, specifically his treatise on light entitled De Luce, had any influence on the architecture and design of the rebuild of Lincoln ... -
Art, Liminality and Healing: an ethnographic study of artistic identity in the Taranaki region of New Zealand.
Art in its practice and in its appreciation is a way of expressing one’s background, social distinction, political point of view, sense of beauty and personal struggles. It is also considered a way to relax and become ... -
Local Government Planning for Sustainable Home Technologies in Aotearoa New Zealand
Sustainable home technologies are widely regarded as being a responsive tool to the increase in awareness of the warming climate and detrimental impact of fossil fuels. As more homeowners are beginning to shift away from ... -
Heritage Buildings: A Tool for Supporting the Revitalisation of Central Business Districts in Aotearoa New Zealand?
Aside from a few landmark buildings, the bulk of Aotearoa New Zealand’s built heritage is made up of commercial and industrial heritage buildings which pepper the country’s central business district (CBD) streetscapes. ... -
Women and the New Zealand office, 1945 - 1972: Keystrokes to a rewarding life?
The period from 1945 to 1972 in New Zealand was one of subtle social revolutions that shifted women’s understandings of what constituted a ‘rewarding life’. This thesis investigates the way in which the working lives of ... -
Interpreting Isaiah from Isaiah: Intratextual translation in old Greek Isaiah
The translator of Old Greek (OG) Isaiah created many new intratextual links within his text, engaging in “intratextual translation.” Scholars argue that it was a method he used to actualise his text, to solve problems he ... -
Performing prison: How is life on the inside portrayed to the outside world?
This thesis explores how the theatre can highlight the discrepancies between the representations of women’s prison in television and film and the day to day experiences of women incarcerated in New Zealand. Using ... -
Magic, Marriage and the Maiden: Love Magic in the 5th and 4th Centuries B.C.E.
This thesis examines several types of erotic magic in classical Greece from a cognitive perspective as well as in relation to gender. The first of these is the Iynx wheel, which is examined with regard to the agency ... -
Hydrodynamics on a fringing reef system with Spurs and Grooves structures
Spurs and grooves (SAG) are coral structures of the fore reef slopes that can be found worldwide. SAG are composed by a series of shore-normal ridges (spurs) covered by coral that are separated by channels (grooves) covered ... -
On becoming a Dunedin rock musician
Over the last forty years, Dunedin—a small city with a population of 120,000 in the South Island of New Zealand—has become a metonym for New Zealand rock music. Scholars have identified the disproportionate national and ... -
From Peter Wagner to Bill Johnson: The history and epistemology of the “New Apostolic Reformation”
The factors that persuade people into their spiritual perspectives and beliefs are not necessarily based on gaining a full understanding of or conviction about the set of ideas to which they subscribe. The popular appeal ... -
Nepalese Chadparva in Singapore: Music and identity in transcultural settings amongst Nepalese in Singapore
This thesis explores the Nepalese chadparva in Singapore through the examination of musical presentations at festivals, and how it impacts on the Nepalese identity and culture in diaspora. The Nepalese word chadparva, ... -
Planning for Wellbeing in a Compact Central Christchurch
Residential intensification and compacting of cities are now popular planning policies in New Zealand and global cities. In New Zealand, this policy must ensure it is aiding the wellbeing of its population - a significant ...