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Accessible Portfolios: Making it Happen in My Centre: an Action Research Study

Steele, Lynne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

This thesis explores how I improved my portfolios assessment practices by making children s portfolios freely available to children, their parents and whānau in the early childhood care and education centre where I worked. ...
Accident Compensation in Swiss and New Zealand Law: Some Selected Issues That Undermine the Purpose in Both Schemes

Wampfler Rohrer, Yvonne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This dissertation analyses selected issues that undermine the coherence and the purposes of the Swiss and New Zealand accident compensation schemes. Unlike other European states the Swiss accident compensation provides ...
Accommodating ~9 m of dextral slip on the Kekerengu Fault through ground deformation during the Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake, November 2016

Morris, Philippa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake of November 14th 2016 provided unprecedented opportunities to understand how the ground deforms during large magnitude strike-slip earthquakes. The re-excavation and extension of both halves ...
The Accountability of Cambodian NGOs in Climate Change Projects: The impacts on local communities

Toch, Sothiary (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The accountability of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is important to development work. Judging the performance of an NGO in providing social services and whether it has fulfilled its responsibilities with a set of ...
Acculturating Architectural Sublimity: Experimenting with themes of Japanese experientiality within New Zealand housing

Picot, Rachael Elisabeth Victoria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

It has been argued that domestic architecture within New Zealand is increasingly dominated by international styles since the rise of modernism. According to Bill Wilson (the Group’s leader), there is a lack of understanding ...
Acculturation within New Zealand Pacific communities: how does this influence diet and health?

Skudder, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The aim of this qualitative study was to examine eating related values, principles and practices of individuals of Pacific ethnicity who are living in New Zealand and how this influenced their diet and health. The study ...
Acculturative stress, religious coping and wellbeing amongst New Zealand Muslims

Adam, Zeenah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Situated within a wider context of Islamophobia, this study explored the role of religious coping in influencing the relationship between acculturative stress and wellbeing amongst 167 New Zealand Muslims. A Muslim Religious ...
Achieving a ‘Delicate Equilibrium:’ Are Southeast Asia’s Maritime States Indonesia and the Philippines Hedging China?

Sousa-Santos, Jose (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

One of the prescient questions within international relations today concerns the rise of China and what strategies states should deploy in response. This is particularly pertinent in the Asia Pacific neighbourhood. Southeast ...
Achieving Urban Sustainability: The consideration of sustainable transport in strategic spatial planning

Reid, Pattern (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

In recent decades there has been growing recognition of the adverse effects that dispersed urban form has on the environment and wellbeing of urban residents. In response to growing urban populations and a global call for ...
An Acoustic Analysis of New Zealand English Vowels in Auckland

Ross, Brooke (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This study presents an acoustic analysis looking at phonetic diversity in Auckland. New Zealand English is often characterized by a lack of regional variation; however, this claim has been made without considering Auckland, ...
Acquisition of a Learned Operant and Critical Flicker-Fusion Rate in the Tuatara (Sphenodon spp.)

Woo, Kevin Lawrence (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

Scientific investigation of the sensory world and behavior of the tuatara is limited. This study incorporates both ecological and psychological perspectives to test learning and visual perception using a novel operant ...
Action Research: An Exploration of a Music Therapy Student's Journey of Establishing a Therapeutic Relationship with a Child with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Music Therapy

Gang, Na-Hyun (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This action research project examines the researcher's journey of establishing a therapeutic relationship with a child with autism spectrum disorder during her practicum. Children with ASD present difficulty in communication ...
Action Research: Improving My Music Therapy Practice with Hospitalised Adolescents through Building Relationships and Meeting their Developmental Needs

Wang, Tzu-ya (Lisa) (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This study examines the researcher's music therapy intervention with hospitalised adolescents within a paediatric hospital The hospital is located in a New Zealand city serving a broad multicultural population of mainly ...
Activating Intangible Heritage

Keats, Jasper (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Laurajane Smith argues that traditional approaches to heritage tend to conform to ideas of preservation; privileging tangible and physical connections between past and present. This thesis explores heritage as an experience ...
Activating the edge: Investigating landscape architectures potential to utilise transport infrastructures public life generating ability

Kuiti, Jordan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Transport infrastructure is a key aspect of any city. The ability to move large groups of people into and through the city can positively or negatively affect the public life associated with that city. With this in mind ...
Active Coastlines: Implementing a sustainable transport scheme for Evans Bay, Wellington

Richmond, Elliot (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

With the rise of popularity in cars and the decrease of public open space in our urban centres, there is an increasing pressure to find alternative modes of transportation. Human powered transport in New Zealand is becoming ...
Active Investment: Evaluating the Benefits and Costs of Investing in Active Travel in the Urban New Zealand Context

Grams, Mark (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Increased uptake of active travel is widely acknowledged to promote improved health, environmental and community outcomes. Although active travel participation rates in New Zealand compare favourably to other Anglo-Saxon ...
Active Shift Attention Based Object Tracking System

Ajmal, Aisha (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The human vision system (HVS) collects a huge amount of information and performs a variety of biological mechanisms to select relevant information. Computational models based on these biological mechanisms are used in ...
Activity-Based Costing and Inter-District Flows in the New Zealand Public Health Sector

van Kesteren, Matthew Peter (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Changes in the New Zealand public health sector in recent years, such as heightened political, economic and social pressures to manage and reduce costs while improving the quality of care in conjunction with stringent ...
Actors and Aliens: Representations of Teenage Protagonists in Bestselling YA Fiction

Ball, Rebecca (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This project explores the representation of teenagers in some of the most popular Young Adult Fiction (YA) books of the early 2010s. A dominant assumption within the scholarly discussion of YA is that YA books are books ...