This thesis revolves around the contestation of global food culture and offers a contribution towards reframing popular understandings of food and food provisioning. The global demand for ethically produced, quality and ...

This research project investigates the factors that influence the communication of bad news within a hospital setting in New Zealand. Essentially, it is a power discussion that draws on the work of Opie (2000) and ...

This thesis explores the inherent challenges refugees and migrants face when immigrating to New Zealand. This exploration is undertaken alongside an examination of the concept of ‘demoralisation.’ The main focus of the ...

While abortion discourses are often understood in terms of the opposing poles of pro-choice and pro-life, these labels belie the complexity of substantive understandings of abortion. This thesis examines dominant discourses ...

The idea of ‘exiting’ the sex industry plays a powerful symbolic role in the feminist debates around the morality, legitimacy and regulation of sex work. Drawing on interviews with 39 women sex workers in Australia and ...

This article explores sex workers’ experiences of work conditions and job mobility in the indoor sectors of the Australian sex industry: brothel work, escort work and small cooperative work. Drawing from 14 in-depth ...

My thesis explores the medicalisation of male and female bodies in respect of sexuality and reproduction. I investigate the complex interaction of gender and sexuality in relation to health technologies such as Viagra, ...

This study explores the challenges that young mothers face and the support systems they access along the way. The format that it adopted was to have semi structured interviews with ten young mothers who reside in Southland, ...

In tracing the interconnections of place and people in James Cowan's writing, this article argues that his widely-disseminated body of work complicates current orthodoxies and warrants more consideration in the study of ...