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Laying down foundations: reflecting on disaster management planning in museums in Christchurch after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis looks at the protocols museums and galleries adopt for the safeguarding of art, artefacts and cultural heritage. In particular, it analyses these procedures in relation to the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in ... -
The ORS and SRS: utility in a sexual offending treatment context and relationship with risk and treatment outcomes
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The impact of sexual abuse has been associated with a multitude of adverse consequences. As newer understandings on effective treatment methods emerge, treatment models are constantly being developed to adhere to best ... -
Language, Ethnicity, and Belonging for the Children of Migrants in New Zealand
(2018)The children of migrants grow up with influence from at least two cultures, and they must negotiate their path to adulthood through one or more ethnicities and one or more language varieties that may set them apart from ... -
Effects of manipulating antecedent traits on conspicuous consumption tendencies
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This study examines the impact of depletion and reinforcement of antecedent traits on two distinct types of conspicuous consumption, bandwagon and snob. This was achieved by undertaking a memory task designed to instill ... -
Ending Taiwan’s Economic Stagnation: The Implications of the Elections of Presidents Tsai and Trump
(2017)Taiwan’s economy has slowed down significantly since the late 1990s (Clark and Tan, 2012; Copper, 2016; Lin, 2016). Not surprisingly, growing economic stagnation has become a salient political issue in the early 2000s ... -
Was 2016 a Realigning Election?
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The Impact of Issues on the 2016 Presidential Election in Taiwan
(2017)The dramatic DPP victory suggested that fundamental change may have commenced in the nature of Taiwan politics, particularly in the partisan balance (Clark, Ho, and Tan, 2016; Hsieh, 2016; Templeman, 2016). Another area ... -
“Is It Art?” : A Social Genealogy of Cinema, Photography, and Sound Reproduction
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Land utilisation in the Marlborough Sounds
(University of Canterbury, 1963)This study of Land Utilisation in the Marlborough Sounds has four aims : (a) to map and describe the pattern of location and distribution of land utilisation; (b) to investigate the relationships between the ... -
The nature and sources of the nonsense of Edward Lear
(University of Canterbury, 1980)The purpose pf the thesis is to examine the distinctive nature of what Lear referred to as his “nonsense”, that is the whole of his writings for children, with particular reference to the longer verses, which I shall refer ... -
An Exception To The Rule: Journalism And Research Ethics
(Sage, 2018)This chapter argues that journalism’s ethical frameworks, particularly at moments when it is making its grandest claims to value, collide with those prevalent within universities and particularly with ethical review ... -
A mirror for princesses : the portrayal of queenship in three French vernacular chronicles, c. 1260 - c. 1310.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)France in the thirteenth century offers a significant example of the changing role of queens in government: power was centralised and the queen’s political role was reduced. The transformation of French government in ... -
The organization of character : a study in the psychology of the moral self
(University of Canterbury, 1927)This essay embodies the results of an investigation into the nature of character or the moral self as an organized system. It strives to give, in broad outline, an answer to the question: what are the psychological elements ... -
Margaret S. Munro, architect.
(University of Canterbury, 1993)Margaret Munro is an architect who practised in Christchurch, New Zealand, officially between 1931 and 1963. Her involvement in the architectural profession was low-key but on-going, yet she is, unlike most of her male ... -
Escapism, normality and domesticity in Vietnam: A re-examination of women’s lives in the Vietnam War
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This thesis explores the experiences of military nurses and Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) volunteers, also known as “Donut Dollies,” who served in Vietnam. By examining both their working ... -
Priming as a Motivating Factor in Sociophonetic Variation and Change
(2018)Understanding how and why pronunciations vary and change has been a dominant theme in variationist sociolinguistics (Labov 1966, 2001). Linguistic variability has also been an area of focus in psychology and cognitive ... -
I am illiterate, they are educated; what can I say to them?: A playful exploration of the impact of performative presentation of case study data.
(2017)How will data change if it is presented not only simply in written text but through dramatic presentation? The data for this exploration comes from a doctoral project investigating rural parents’ engagement in education ... -
A constant magic: explorations of magic and polyphasic consciousness in recent theatre and film
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis explores what can be considered magical in contemporary theatre and film in an arguably post-magical age. I have taken an exploratory and interdisciplinary approach that brings together two diverse strands: ... -
The stars are out of service…..until further notice
(2014)Spoken word poem. Performed at the Caribbean Philosophical Association Conference, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 2015.
