Browsing Doctoral Theses by Title
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Walking for wellbeing after stroke: Building a treatment theory to improve real-world walking
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This thesis explored ways to enable people with stroke to walk more in the real-world. The starting point for this work was the lack of sustained change in real-world walking following clinic-based interventions after ... -
Wavelet based OFDM with V-BLAST Virtual MIMO for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are finding their place in many real life applications because low power and small-size sensor nodes can be inexpensively and easily deployed in the areas of interest for different applications. ... -
A Way to Understand Interpreters Working With Refugees in New Zealand. Exploring the Meaning of Doing Interpreting
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This study seeks to understand the ‘lived’ experience of interpreters and clinicians working with clients who are refugees. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method, informed by Heidegger [1889-1976] and Gadamer ... -
Wellbeing Across Occupations and in the Emergency Services: a Mixed Methods Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Background: Evidence indicates that emergency service work can compromise first responders’ and their families’ wellbeing. Traditionally, first responder wellbeing has been organisationally supported from a deficit perspective ... -
Whakaaro Papa: Anthropos Design and Decolonising Metaphysics
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Seemingly each week, or even every day, headlines draw attention to the incremental yet radical changes occurring as a result of cultural practices that bear witness to the Anthropocene, as a time in which human activity ... -
Whakapiri tātou, hei manaaki tangata, hei manaaki whenua. Effective governance for urban sustainability
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)This thesis examines the role of local government elected members to progress urban sustainability, and the views of Māori leaders’ on governance and sustainability. It is set within a wider context of local government ... -
Whakawātea Te Huarahi Whāia Te Mātauranga: Legitimising Space for Meaningful Academic Careers for Māori in Business Schools
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Māori are currently underrepresented as academic staff in universities, but consistently defined as a national strategic priority for academic staff recruitment in New Zealand tertiary education strategy (Hall, 2014; Kidman, ... -
What Children are Eating and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is an insidious, intergenerational disease. Although T2DM presents most often in adults, it is starting to present in childhood. In New Zealand (NZ), the overall prevalence of diagnosed T2DM ... -
What Enables Safeguards and Sustains Midwives Who Provide Labour Care in Primary Units in Aotearoa - New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Primary maternity units hold an important place in contemporary Aotearoa-New Zealand and other high-income countries. Despite research evidence revealing that low-risk women have a greater chance of normal birth with fewer ... -
What Is Mental Toughness and How Does It Work?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Withstanding inevitable periods of stress and strain is a vital component of human survival. On this basis, fostering invulnerabilities through the study and promotion of individual protective factors needs to be a fundamental ... -
What is shaping the practice of health professionals and the understanding of the public in relation to increasing intervention in childbirth?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)The increasing rates of intervention in childbirth are an issue for women, their families, health professionals, and society across much of the Western World. This study is a response to these increasing rates of intervention, ... -
What is the experience of providing, receiving and using short-term loan equipment?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The question at the heart of this thesis is “What is the experience of providing, receiving and using short-term loan equipment?” The study sought to explore the lived experience of occupational therapists and patients ... -
What is the role of joint coupling variability and joint stiffness in lower limb injury?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Netball requires direction changes whilst sprinting, which predisposes netballers to risk of injury. The main question this thesis addressed was “What is the role of joint coupling variability and joint stiffness during ... -
What makes a successful hospitality graduate in New Zealand? Key stakeholder perspectives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)This thesis explores the range of skills, qualities, competencies and intelligences that establish predictors of success for the hospitality industry. The study adopts a constructivist-interpretivist approach to the ... -
What's Be Happen? A Bakhtinian Analysis of Aotearoa New Zealand's First Pacific Reggae Album
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This thesis presents an analysis of Herbs’ record album What’s Be Happen? The album has been recognised in Aotearoa New Zealand for being at the forefront of Pacific reggae, for its ground-breaking social commentary on ... -
When we stand together as one. Improving health outcomes in Samoa. A study of New Zealand Health Aid in Samoa 2002-2012
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Despite more than $1 billion disbursed in health aid regionally over the last decade, the poor health of people in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) remains deeply concerning. This has included significant ... -
Which Rice and Why? A Healthier Choice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Rice has been a staple grain of the human diet for 9,000 years. Currently, more than half of the world’s population derives one-third of their total daily dietary energy intake from rice. The most popular rice product, ... -
"Whose culture has capital?": Chinese skilled migrant mothers raising their children in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)This thesis is concerned with a group of Chinese skilled migrant mothers’ experiences in relation to their children’s early childhood care and education in New Zealand. Utilising Bourdieu’s concept of capital, habitus and ... -
Whose game are we playing? a study of the effects of adult involvement on children participating in organised team sports
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)There are clearly identified social, physical, and mental health benefits of physical activity in primary aged children. With an unequivocal link between sport and physical activity, it would appear to be fundamentally ... -
Whose News? Investigating Power Relations Between Journalists and Public Relations Practitioners
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The interactions between journalists and public relations practitioners directly and indirectly influence the news that citizens consume. In fact, this thesis finds the interdependence between public relations and journalism ...