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Creative Solutions : how Students With Occupational Overuse Syndrome (OOS) Conditions Manage Their Studies at Victoria University of Wellington

Talboys, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 1999)

The barriers that prevent people with disabilities from accessing and succeeding in post-compulsory education are well documented, as are the accommodations that tertiary institutions provide for students with disabilities. ...
Crippling the Will of a People: Morphostatic Structures of Violence and the Crawl-Space of Agency in the Lives of Eritrean Refugees

Commerer, Jared (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

In conjunction with an exposition of the larger historical and political context of the nation of Eritrea, this thesis examines the life narratives of five refugees hailing from the Horn of Africa. In doing so, certain ...
A critical exploration of professional perceptions of harm reduction policy and practice in Vietnam

Truong, Tuan Dung (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Throughout the 1990s, Vietnam experienced a dramatic rise in the prevalence of HIV among people who use drugs. In response, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health implemented several legal and policy interventions in the name of ...
Critical Perspectives on Gender Norms and Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

Trotter-Simons, Bonnie-Estelle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Binary and hierarchical enforcements of gender norms may contribute to unhealthy relationships, sexual violence and continued oppression of marginalised groups. Drawing on a critical feminist research approach, I consider ...
The Cycle of Female Prisoner (Re)Integration: Pathways, criminal justice and imprisonment

Bentley, Hannah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

With increasing rates of female imprisonment, and female prisoner re-imprisonment rates of 33% for first time prisoners and 48% for recidivist prisoners within four years, women’s experiences of (re)integration are in need ...
"Deaf is best": Exploring the sexuality experiences and knowledge of Deaf women in New Zealand

Prior, April Sunshine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This study has two primary purposes. Initially, it explores the accounts of sexuality-related experiences and knowledge of a group of Deaf women in New Zealand. The limited international literature available has primarily ...
Dehumanisation and attitudes toward the punishment and rehabilitation of child sex offenders: A New Zealand study

Dixson, Charis Elizabeth Lister (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Child sex offenders are a group often regarded as dangerous and high risk, leading to increased support for offender registration policies which monitor the whereabouts of offenders after release. These policies have the ...
Determining the Dynamics of HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing Uptake among the Rural and Urban Communities of Nakuru District, Kenya

Muchiri, Joseph (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Globally, it is estimated that over 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS with 67% of these coming from Sub Sahara Africa. While the epidemic has been receiving increasing attention towards and more emphasis placed ...
Difficult Conversations: The Dynamics Surrounding New Zealand Women's Disclosure of Intimate Partner Violence to Family and Friends

Walton, Jared Reid (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

One in three New Zealand women has experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) at some stage in their lives, with the vast majority of these women disclosing to a family member or friend at some stage during or after the ...
Digesting Stigma: Exploring the Illness Experience of New Zealanders with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (‘It’s just shitty’)

Cunningham-Pow, Bryony (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis is an anthropological exploration of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and the first ethnographic study of people with IBS in New Zealand. It explores the illness experience of people with IBS and whether stigma ...
Discourses of Neo-Liberalisation in New Zealand: From the ‘Managed Economy’ to the ‘Mum and Dad Investor’, Prime Ministers’ Speeches of 1987-2011 (a Critical Discourse Analysis)

Hughes, Owen William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

In this project I aim to challenge the conception of neo-liberalism as a monolithic ideology and theory of state practice. To achieve this, I use Norman Fairclough’s ‘order of discourse’ model of critical discourse analysis ...
The Disrupted and Realigned Self: Exploring the Narratives of New Zealanders with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

Bell, Lara Joyce Milka (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) causes pronounced, debilitating fatigue that is not alleviated by rest, along with muscle and joint weakness, pain, cognitive difficulties and can be worsened through ...
Diversity or Polarisation? The Growth in Work-Rich and Work-Poor Individuals, Families and Communities between 1986 and 1996

Callister, Paul (Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)

Despite a period of dramatic job loss from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, long-term employment data do not support the view that paid work has been disappearing from the New Zealand economy. However, the distribution ...
Doing gender as an offender: A criminological analysis of offender narratives, and the interrelationship between masculinities and child sexual abuse

Ranger, Laura (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Masculinity is a powerful construct that transcends other aspects of male existence and dictates codes of conduct accordingly. Masculinity describes a plurality of roles, norms and expectations that regulate the behaviour ...
DoorWOmen & Gendering the Door: An Explorative Study of Women's Experiences of the Bouncer Occupation within New Zealand's Night-Time Economy.

Sargison, Ashliegh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Patriarchal norms and misogynistic attitudes often result in women’s exclusion from positions of power in institutional structures through the use of sexual harassment, discriminatory recruitment methods and exclusion from ...
The Drama‐Free Performance of Authentic Friends: Exploring how New Zealand men make sense of their friendships

Martinussen, Maree Harete (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

In contemporary New Zealand, the cultural tropes surrounding the ‘good kiwi bloke’ and his ‘mates’ might seem as solid and steadfast as conceptions of kiwi mateship itself. However, the stability of masculinities and ...
Drugs on the internet: Mapping the terrain of engagement with darknet drug cryptomarkets in New Zealand

Moss-Mason, Lucy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This thesis explores the experiences of New Zealanders who order illicit drugs from cryptomarkets, with particular attention to their perspectives on New Zealand’s conventional illicit drug market, the negatives and positives ...
E hine, ngā whāea: Teen mothering in the gaze

Adcock, Anna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

In Aotearoa New Zealand, teen pregnancy is associated with social disadvantage and being ‘Māori’. Research on teen motherhood typically focuses on ‘risks’ and ‘dangers’, such as lower educational attainment and welfare ...
Employment and the Post-Release Puzzle: The Lived Experience of Securing Legitimate Work among Women Released from Prison in New Zealand

Kale, Jasmin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

As incarceration rates continue to rise in New Zealand (The Department of Corrections, 2019b), the number of people being released from prison will also rise. Life sentences are rare and therefore, the majority of people ...
The Ethics and Dilemmas of Preventive Detention

Bhim, Geetanjali (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

There has been a considerable increase in the use of preventive sentencing in New Zealand since the mid-1980s. It has become widely accepted across Western society that preventive sentencing and supervision regimes are ...