This thesis developed a speculative design process that sits between two streams of contemporary discourse. On one side lies ‘projective’ architecture—characterised by the elevation of performance and rejection of ...

Introduced in response to several high profile US corporate collapses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 has proven to be a gold mine for academic researchers: after only five years no less than 528 studies of SOX appear ...

The majority of studies concerning Saudisation policy as a solution to decrease the unemployment of nationals and reduce the reliance on expatriate. However, this study looks at Saudisation as a tool to empower Saudi women ...

Kevin Counsell presented Save it for a Sunny Day: The Value of Water Storage at an ISCR Seminar.

To ascribe the word ‘virtuosity’ to a single and absolute definition is an impossible task. It is a term that is multifaceted in its meaning and which is understood differently in a variety of contexts. This thesis ...

Tourism is affected by growing transformations of social change, globalisation and wealth creation. Uncertainty surrounding the development of the factors makes it difficult to predict and provide contingency for the future. ...

Basic science is becoming ever more computationally intensive, increasing the need for large-scale compute and storage resources, be they within a High-Performance Computer cluster, or more recently, within the cloud. ...

Providing the right incentives for investment continues to be a major source of concern in the New Zealand electricity sector. This seminar outlines a decentralised incentive mechanism designed to encourage transmission ...

The role of the principal in transforming a school is a core theme within the education literature on leadership. However, such work is mostly developed in a "Western" cultural environment, representing a particular set ...