• Involution : For Flute, Erbane, Live Electronics : Score in C 

  De Lautour R (2018)

  Involution is an attempt to fuse two very different sound worlds: that of the Kurdish Erbane (a type of traditional frame drum fitted with metallic rings), and concert Flute. In order to tease out the timbral character of ...

• ”Yeah nah, she’ll be right” : an attitudinal study of ‘yeah nah’ in New Zealand English. 

  Manhire, Laura (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This thesis is a study into ‘yeah nah’ in a New Zealand English context and how linguistic items become part of a culture and identity. ‘Yeah nah’ appears frequently within New Zealand media and is pegged as ‘distinctly ...

• India, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific: Economic–Security Strategic Partnership and Expected Utility Theory 

  Vanvari N; Tan, Alex (SAGE Publications, 2021)

  The China–India border dispute has witnessed escalations recently with China making fresh claims along the disputed border and deaths of Indian military personnel. This study examines the likelihood of a strategic partnership ...

• Solving the collective action problem: New Zealand, Taiwan and the COVID-19 battle 

  Tan A (2020)

  How have NZ and Taiwan been able to manage the COVID-19 crisis while others have done poorly? In this paper, I argue that the adroit pandemic crisis response and management of Taiwan and New Zealand can be attributed to ...

• Mapping Theory–Practice Integration: A Model from Aotearoa New Zealand 

  Maidment, Jane (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021)

  The successful integration of theory and practice is at the heart of developing professionally accountable social work practice. Despite integration being central to the development of professional practice, multiple ...

• The epistemology of live blogging 

  Matheson D; Wahl-Jorgensen K (SAGE Publications, 2020)

  This article proposes a typology of the epistemology of live blogging through an analysis of two live news blogs: Radio New Zealand (RNZ) News’ live blog of a significant earthquake in Aotearoa New Zealand in November 2016 ...

• Phonetics and phonology of Idi 

  Gast V; Evans N; Döhler C; Schokkin, Dineke (University of Hawai'i Press, 2021)

  This paper provides a first description of the phonetics and phonology of Idi (Pahoturi River; ISO 639-3: idi, glottocode: idii1243) as spoken by about 1,000 people in the villages of Dimsisi and Sibidiri, located in the ...

• Jean Monnet Chair Dr Milenko Petrovic, Policy Briefs Series: Developments in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Partnership Countries, Brief No 2/2019-20 

  Mtchedlishvili D; Wilson G; Petrovic, Milenko (2020)

  The two policy briefs that this Jean Monnet Chair will issue annually for the period September 2017 – September 2020 will cover the following aspects of the contemporary developments of the Balkan States and the Eastern ...

• Policing through parody with Wellington Paranormal 

  Harrington, Erin (2019)

  In late 2018, the New Zealand Police released a series of paranormal-themed road safety videos hosted by fictional Officers Minogue and O’Leary, the bumbling comic double act who helm the deadpan mockumentary series ...

• Remembering Helen Macmillan Brown. 

  Fordyce, Phoebe (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  This research paper examines the life and memory of Helen Macmillan Brown (née Connon). Helen was the first woman in the British Empire to earn a master’s degree in 1881 as an early graduate of Canterbury College. She was ...

• ‘Whither shall I send my son?’ : Remittance Men in New Zealand ‘ 

  Leggatt, Helen (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  This is the study of British gentlemen exiled by family to the colonies in the nineteenth century, known as Remittance Men. Despite being a small but consistent migrant type to British settler societies and the subject of ...

• Thy grace on ever flowing tide : everyday life on the voyage out in the shipboard accounts of migrant women to Canterbury, c. 1850-1885. 

  Rosevear, Emily (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  This dissertation examines the experiences of migrant women on the voyage out to Canterbury between 1850 and 1885. The experiences of these women have not been explored in great depth. It is only recently that scholars ...

• Virtues, vices and place attachment 

  Mason, Carolyn (2021)

  There is a virtue associated with forming and maintaining relationships to places. This virtue has not been recognised by philosophers, but it plays a role in indigenous cultures across the world. Hence, place attachment ...

• Language attitudes, accentedness and comprehensibility: a sociolinguistic study of Arabic and Arabic-accented English. 

  Gwasmeh, Muneir (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This thesis investigates attitudes towards varieties of Arabic. A key characteristic of the sociolinguistics of the Arab world is that Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and Modern Standard Arabic co-exist in a diglossic ...

• Jean Monnet Chair Dr Milenko Petrovic, Policy Briefs Series: Developments in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Partnership Countries, Brief No 1/2019-20 

  Wang X; Wilson G; Petrovic, Milenko (2020)

  The two policy briefs that this Jean Monnet Chair will issue annually for the period September 2017 – September 2020 will cover the following aspects of the contemporary developments of the Balkan States and the Eastern ...

• Isolation, identity, and gender : an investigation of vowel variation in the Gloriavale Christian Community. 

  Hurring, Gia (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This thesis explores the Gloriavale Christian Community, an isolated religious community currently living on the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand. The social structure of the community differs significantly to ...

• Jean Monnet Chair Dr Milenko Petrovic, Policy Briefs Series: Developments in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Partnership Countries, Brief No 2/2018-19 (Socio-Political Conditions and Developments) 

  Mtchedlishvili D; Wilson G; Petrovic, Milenko (National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, 2019)

  The two policy briefs that this Jean Monnet Chair will issue annually for the period September 2017 – September 2020 will cover the following aspects of the contemporary developments of the Balkan States and the Eastern ...

• Jean Monnet Chair Dr Milenko Petrovic, Policy Briefs Series: Developments in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Partnership Countries, Brief No 1/2018-19 (General socio-economic trends and relations with New Zealand) 

  Wang X; Wilson G; Petrovic, Milenko (National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, 2019)

  The two policy briefs that this Jean Monnet Chair will issue annually for the period September 2017 – September 2020 will cover the following aspects of the contemporary developments of the Balkan States and the Eastern ...

• Production vs Perception: The Role of Individuality in Usage-Based Grammar Induction 

  Nini A; Dunn, Jonathan (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021)

  This paper asks whether a distinction between production-based and perception-based grammar induction influences either (i) the growth curve of grammars and lexicons or (ii) the similarity between representations learned ...

• Subversion of enlightenment discourse in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. 

  Prendergast, Harriet (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  The Enlightenment era saw the rise in popularity of an epistemology that valued fact and reason due, largely, to the evolution of scientific knowledge. This resulted in an epistemological shift that emphasised reason and ...

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