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What are the factors that have influenced individual music therapists' professional identity and have those factors impacted on their practice and the field as a whole in New Zealand?

Warren, Penny (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The purpose of this research project is to investigate the factors that influence individual music therapists’ professional identities in New Zealand over time and whether these factors impacted on their practice and the ...
What are the Implications for Public Policy in New Zealand regarding Biochar as a Climate Change Mitigation Tool?

Quade, Dorothee (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The past years have seen biochar appearing on the political radar as a potential greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation tool. Biochar is a charcoal-like substance that is produced from smouldering biomass in oxygen-starved ...
What are the perceptions of stakeholders of an online ESOL programme?: The case of one intermediate school in New Zealand

Tate, Annette (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Online teaching for English language learners in New Zealand schools is a recent phenomenon. Increasingly complex technologies allow expanding and far reaching options in the teaching practices of English, particularly to ...
What are the perspectives of a Ngāti Rākau community towards a potential digital repository for urupā records?

Kauri, Caroline (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Research problem: Little is known about management of urupā records. The objective of this research was to explore the need for a digital repository. This research project explored how Ngāti Rākau urupā records are currently ...
What are young Pacific peoples understandings of leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand?

Faletutulu, Grace (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis is an exploration of the way leadership is understood by young Pacific peoples. It looks at the possible relationship between leadership and education outcomes for young Pacific peoples. It is located in an ...
What Can I Understand about Children with Special Needs from the Musical Offerings that Emerge in the Music Therapy Process?

Cammell, Shane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This arts-based research thesis sought to understand two children with special needs, through their musical offerings within the context of their music therapy sessions. The process of understanding the children came through ...
What Counts in the Development of Teachers' Learning Conversations?: a Case Study of a Group of New Zealand Educators Working Together to Improve Learning Outcomes for Students in Year 9 Classes

Grundy, Jeannette (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This research was undertaken in a New Zealand secondary school. Using case study methodology, it examines teachers' learning conversations as they work together in a group to improve outcomes for underachieving students ...
What Does a Foot Path Do?

Lowe, Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

In New Zealand pedestrian infrastructure is not a robust area of transport planning. As a funding class it receives minimal monetary allocation. This thesis argues design interventions in the pedestrian environment need ...
What Does It Mean to Be a Lecturer in the Field of Nursing Education?

Kingston, Mark Allen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This thesis presents findings from a New Zealand phenomenological study that investigated the lived experience of lecturers in nursing education. I decided that this was a relevant research topic as little was known about ...
What do young people think of development?: An exploration into the meanings young people make from NGO media

Tallon, Rachel Alexa Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Young people are not passive, homogenous audiences of media that is produced by international humanitarian and development organisations (NGOs). They actively read and engage with the messages cognitively and emotionally ...
What Dreams May Come - Ambient Suite for Jazz Orchestra

Williamson, Louisa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

What Dreams May Come is a five-movement suite for jazz orchestra, intended to create a calm and relaxing listening experience. The project is inspired by the mystery of dreaming, and it attempts to communicate musical ideas ...
What educational and other experiences assist recently qualified nurses to understand and deal with clinical risk and patient safety?

Hawes, Philip Charles (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This research was undertaken to investigate how newly graduated nurses recognise and develop skills relating to clinical risk and patient safety. I set out to understand how and where new graduates learn those skills and ...
What forms of communication did a music therapy student use in her work with high school students who have special needs, and why?

Curtain, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This research project is aimed at answering the question: What forms of communication did a music therapy student use in her work with high school students who have special needs, and why? As communication is one of the ...
What Influences how New Zealanders use Information Displays? An Analysis of Electronic Gaming Machine Records

Garland Duignan, Shannon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Electronic gaming machines (slot machines) contribute to problem gambling in New Zealand and worldwide. Information displays are one harm minimisation feature of New Zealand electronic gaming machines that has been ...
What is Mental Disorder? Developing an Embodied, Embedded, and Enactive Psychopathology

Nielsen, Kristopher (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

What we take mental disorder to be has implications for how researchers classify, explain, and treat mental disorders. It also shapes how the public treat those who are experiencing mental disorder. This is the ...
What is Right? What is Wrong? and Does the Answer Tell Something about Culture? - an Investigation into Culture and Morality Using the Values Concept

Vauclair, Christin-Melanie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Morality, or what is considered right or wrong, varies seemingly across cultures. However, the literature shows that moral psychologists have mainly investigated moral reasoning assuming a universal morality. Cross-cultural ...
"What is the Influence of Communication Quality Between the Business and IT Project Team on ERP Implementation Project Success?"

Schnepel, Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

Communication between the information systems (IS) specialist and the user has long been recognised in the IS literature as an important aspect of successful information system development projects. Since the 1970s IS ...
What is the I that I am? An Enquiry into the Self

Gosnell, Jennifer Leigh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This dissertation is an elucidation of the nature of the self. It consists of two major parts. The first part is an investigation of the necessary and sufficient conditions of the self, appealing to four theses: the ...
What is the Relationship between Science and Spatial Conflict in Aquaculture? A New Zealand Case Study in Environmental Controversy

Collins, Meghan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Aquaculture development in New Zealand (NZ) is a politically controversial topic that is reliant on science for decision-making. Aquaculture causes conflict over use of marine space because the ecosystem is rich with ...
What Is the Role of A Student Music Therapist in a Community Music Setting?

Pagad, Sidharth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This qualitative research project set out to explore my role as a student music therapist within a community music setting. I am a student music therapist, working with a community music company involved in a variety of ...